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The Card Apprentice

This is both a work of science fiction and an exploration of the meaning of life, love, literature and art. Brainpower is no longer the main ingredient for being human in this far distant future world. Spirituality, physical balance, and diligence all come together as integrity for Chen Mu, the Card Apprentice. The cards which Chen Mu masters in his own scrappy way, distill all the powers of the cosmos – human and nonhuman – into something that is not a book, not technology, and neither art nor magic, but is these and more. Learn about these strange cards, which can embody everything you might imagine for the future of technology, but also a future beyond technology which promotes the best, and sometimes the worst, from mankind’s past.

Fang Xiang · sci-fi
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611 Chs

Resistance Training

Redakteur: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Chen Mu devoted all his strength throughout a week to the breath control training. He tried to repress the powerful side effects during the seven-day training process. But because of the continuous vomiting, his physiological functions continued to drop, until he looked entirely emaciated. Although he hadn't ever looked obviously robust, that kind of emaciation gave the sense of being frail. When Mark Victor saw Chen Mu's sickened state he wouldn't continue. After giving him some words of comfort, he took a commission for himself. That would require probably three days before he could return.

During that week, Chen Mu would regularly vomit upwards of seven times each day, sometimes to the point of collapse. Then he would grit his teeth and continue on. Time was too important for him, and the more he dragged things out, the smaller his chances for success became.