Chapter 142: You're a Bit Extreme

Chapter 142: You're a Bit Extreme

It's not just Fan Siwei who is reading *Flame Fist*; after all, Lin Qingshan personally distributed 10,000 copies of *Flame Fist*. Before this distribution, the manga volumes of *Flame Fist* were also available in major bookstores.

Some of Lin Qingshan's loyal fans, after finding out they missed out on getting a copy of *Flame Fist*, decided to buy the manga themselves.

They are all reading the story of *Flame Fist*.

But there are also a few people who are not Lin Qingshan's fans and bought *Flame Fist* with their own money.

For example... Yang Shuzhun, who is currently reading *Flame Fist* to see what kind of manga Lin Qingshan, whom he regards as a lifelong rival, has created this time.

He continued reading. Although Agni saved Sang and the villagers, it's clear that Agni didn't act to save them.

He sought revenge.

However, Sang, who was rescued in a desperate situation, views Agni as a savior and a deity and starts to follow him faithfully.

Yet Agni does not want Sang's devotion because he is not the god Sang sees him as.

He is just a pitiful avenger.

To avenge, he chose to live, and to live with purpose—can this not be pitiful?

So when Sang, about to be killed by the soldiers of Beshimderuk, pleaded, "If I die, please live on for me," Agni decisively saved Sang.

Because he does not want to live while carrying others' hopes.

He wants to kill Derma and then die.

Yang Shuzhun felt heavy-hearted reading this.

In fact, according to his values, death is the heaviest thing.

Because once a person dies, everything is gone, so living is the most important thing.

That's why the protagonist in *Gods* has a special word spirit called "Don't Die."

But now, whether watching *Edgewalker* or *Flame Fist*, Lin Qingshan's values expressed are quite the opposite.

In *Edgewalker*, David dies and Lucy survives; in *Flame Fist*, Luna dies and Agni survives.

The most painful person is always the one who survives, so in Lin Qingshan's view, death does not seem painful—living is the true suffering.

Yang Shuzhun couldn't agree with this, but he could still feel Agni's suffering in *Flame Fist*.

It was as if being burned by fire, consuming him from within.

Just as Agni and Sang thought they were safe...

The soldiers of Beshimderuk attacked again.

But Agni, caught off guard, had his head chopped off by one of Beshimderuk's soldiers!

Yet Agni did not die. His severed head still burned with flames,

And he saw... the person who chopped off his head, after removing their mask, was...

"Luna..."

Agni said in disbelief.

Indeed, the person who chopped off his head had the same face as his sister Luna!

But this person was not Luna resurrected; it was Beshimderuk's soldier—Yuda.

Then Agni and Sang were taken back to Beshimderuk's stronghold.

Since Sang had the rare blessing of emitting electricity, he was sent to a special place.

There, he met Nana, another slave girl.

This also revealed Beshimderuk's true nature.

It turned out that the Ice Witch was a lie fabricated by Beshimderuk. In reality, the world had entered an ice age.

This caused the world to fall into cold, hunger, and madness.

If things continued this way, human civilization would be doomed.

So the higher-ups of Beshimderuk created a lie—blaming the Ice Witch for the world's destruction.

And they summoned "blessed ones" to fight the Ice Witch.

However, when the blessed ones arrived at Beshimderuk, they found they weren't there to fight the Ice Witch.

They were the oppressed, and Sang and other blessed slaves had to contribute resources to Beshimderuk for 22 hours a day.

Sang and Nana did not intend to wait passively, so they planned to stun the guard, Jack.

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But unfortunately, Jack's brother, Ivan, came in at that moment. Ivan cut off Sang's legs with an axe, and the two brothers subdued them, deciding to make Sang into...

Beshimderuk's firewood.

What is firewood?

It means being fixed to a bed, forced to output electricity continuously until death.

"What a crazy world."

Yang Shuzhun frowned and said.

The worldview of *Flame Fist*... is really too crazy and dark.

The entire world is a huge lie, and the higher-ups feed on lies.

It's even crazier than the cyberpunk world of *Edgewalker*, because even though Night City is dark, it still maintains a glamorous surface.

Like a hypocritical suit-wearing thug versus a desperate outlaw.

Clearly, the outlaw seems more insane.

Lin Qingshan's current works, *Edgewalker*, *Chainsaw Man*, and now *Flame Fist*, all have very distinct personal features.

That is madness.

Madness beyond the ordinary.

Whether it's the setting of abandoning one's body for cybernetic enhancements, the sudden and bloody battles, or the opening scene of Agni losing an arm to save people in *Flame Fist*,

These are all extremely mad settings that are hard for ordinary people to imagine.

Or perhaps it's not that they can't imagine, but everyone seems to have limits and wouldn't design such plots.

In fact, when Yang Shuzhun was reading the plot of *Chainsaw Man*, he felt Lin Qingshan seemed to have toned down the madness compared to *Edgewalker*.

Now seeing *Flame Fist*, upon reflection...

Perhaps Lin Qingshan restrained himself while creating *Chainsaw Man*?

That might be why the current plot of *Chainsaw Man* is so bland.

In comparison to the worldview and story of *Flame Fist*, maybe *Edgewalker*'s setting isn't that extreme...

*Edgewalker*: You're a bit too extreme.jpeg

Yang Shuzhun became even more eager to continue reading *Flame Fist*.

He kept reading until a new and peculiar character appeared.

Her name was... Ri Hada. However, at the start, she seemed to be introducing herself to the camera, "I'm Ri Hada... My name is Ri Hada!"

"I like movies such as... Home Alone, Star Wars, The Dark Knight, Inception... Oh, I like quite a few!"

"Speaking of movies... movies, let's cut this part and re-record..."

"Movies are products left over from the era before the blessed ones..."

"...But my residence was burned down by Beshimderuk! All the films were destroyed, and now I can't watch movies anymore..."

"...I absolutely cannot endure not having movies to watch!"

It was clear that she was a heavy movie enthusiast.

However... in this ice age and the end of humanity, her character setting felt a bit out of place.

After she rambled on for a while and mentioned Agni, who was captured by Beshimderuk,

Ri Hada said exaggeratedly, "The guy they captured after that..."

"He's got a head but is still alive. Is he a blessed one with regenerative abilities?"

"With an incomprehensible appearance..."

"For example, he has eyes like those of a strange hero, his body like a human torch, and is completely naked with flames burning all over him!"

"Basically, a man who is always burning."

"In this world covered in white snow, such flames turn everything red. I've never seen such a blessing ability!"

"Why is he burning?"

"Why is he naked?"

"Why was he captured by Beshimderuk?"

In a series of self-dialogues, Ri Hada was full of excitement.

She finally said, "So I made a decision! Let him be the star of my movie! I'll be the director!"

"I'll make the movie myself, won't I?!"

"...And the movie's name... Mysterious Story... Truth in the Snow... Plan... Flame Plan..."

"Flame Snow... Crimson... Crimson Death Flame... Flame... Flame Fist..."

Finally, with a thrilled smile, Ri Hada decided on the movie's name.

"Alright... it's decided. It's called..."

"Flame Fist!"

*Flame Fist* has a lot of plot that I like, so I'll be writing the original plot for a long time. Those who have read it can skip ahead~ But it should only be a couple of days to finish the important parts of the original plot, then we'll directly start the "manga review" section!

(End of Chapter)