Gatewalker: Remnant of the Tang Clan Chapter 2: Chapter 1 - Chengdu

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Chapter 1 - Chengdu One moment Blue was holding onto a bench for dear life. The next he woke up to two men and a woman standing over him. Blue opened his eyes. "Ahhhh." He screamed. "Be still child." The woman said. "You've been out for a few days." "Where am I?" Blue asked. One of the men answered. "Just outside Chengdu, about a days walk. Half a day with an ox." "Your must've hit your head hard kid." The man's brother added. "Wait... did you say Chengdu? As in Murim?" Blue sat up. The two men looked at each other confused. "Yes Murim, where else would chengdu be?" The men laughed. The woman, their mother, ordered them out. She handed Blue a bowl of noodles. "Here, you need to eat." "I... i don't have time to eat." Blue tried to stand up. The woman forced him back down. "See, if my little old self can keep you down, means your body is weak. Eat, then we can talk." Blue nodded and started to eat. The old woman smiled and left the room. As he ate his noodles it appeared. The system. Blue spit out the noodles all over the bed. [SYSTEM INITIALIZING...] [Welcome back, Tang Jiung] [22 hours until synchronization.] He stared at the screen longer than he cared to admit. He tied to touch it, he couldn't. His arm simply moved through the golden screen in front of him. He laid back on the pillow and laughed. "Holy shit, I'm back in murim, and now I have a system. This has to be a dream." He closed his eyes and let himself rest a little more. The revelation of everything had exhausted him. While he rested, he thought of Earth. David and Mary, even Eve. He had spent years trying to forget Murim. His father and mother's tragic deaths, his grandfathers passing. The blade that cut his head clean off. Those three made it easier to do that. The doctors told David and Mary that Blue may act like a toddler again due to the coma. Little did they know, their son passed due to pneumonia and Blue had taken his place. They never made him feel wierd or out of place. If anything, they gave Blue the things he never had in Murim. Mary is freaking out right now, I guarantee it. He said to himself. He sat up once again and shook his head. "I was doing just fine on Earth, why in the hell did I get brought back here." More memories flashed before his eyes. This time of his past life in Murim. After his mother and father died, Blue became the only dad his younger siblings knew. He worked, he cleaned, cooked. So-yeon, the 2nd oldest, would train at a martial arts academy in chengdu. At night, she put the younger ones to bed, while Jiung would meet with Yoryeon at night to train the Tang family techniques. Blue shook the memories loose and stood. He walked toward the window, and looked to the sky. "If you brought me back here, they had best be alive, or I'm going right back to Earth." The old woman came back in the room as he stared out the window. "Seems you're feeling better after the noodles. There's some salted pork out here if you want some." Blue smiled and nodded. Blue spent the night with the women and her two sons. Blue asked questions hoping they wouldn't ask him any. The men spent the night drinking telling stories about the new Martial Alliance. How the Heavnly Demon Cult, the unorthodox sects, even Mt. Hua all converged into Chengdu. "Murim is a mess, but Namgung Hyeon, is doing his best to maintain order. I'll give him that." Hiccup. "He's not doing shit, he's just controlling everything. You know, I hear he keeps those system users who went to Thalorin locked up in the basement of the Alliance headquarters." "That's just a rumor. Probably spread by the Demonic Cult, I still dont trust those bastards." Blue listened as the two men rambled on for hours about the state of Murim. "By the way, what's with your outfit?" One asked. "Yeah, did the courtesans come up with a new fashion trend or something?" Both men laughed. Nearly falling over themselves from the liqour. "I made them, my outfit got ruined." Blue smiled. Ahh, so you are a tailor. A damn fi