Chef Zac
Chef Zac said: "When encountering Carl's Westwind, many people will choose to stay and perform their duties on board." He paused: "Should you hand over the chips in your pocket?" He smiled and looked at Tark, "It's useless if you keep it, you can't cash them at the casino on the boat. The English abbreviation of the chips is everyone's name. Person who won chips with other people's name on it, the person who loses will do winner's job for payment. You're not gonna staying on the boat, so it's useless to you."
Tark touched his head and obediently took the chips out of his pocket and put them on the table, "I... I picked it up in the casino, so I thought it was strange..."
"The reason why everyone is reluctant to keep this woman on the ship is because she has a Sea King background of the Neptunese..." Carl continued, "The Sea King is called Sea Dragon King in the East, with the surname Ao; in the West, Sea King Poseidon is so called, but this is just a difference in appellation.The Sea King's race should not be shorter than human beings on this planet. It is said that the Sea King family has the same ancestor with human beings but evolved into different residing habitat, they are aquatic. Like part of humans' diet, they live on marine products, totally. The difference is that we humans need to dive to prey on marine products, and they need to float up, because the Neptunese live in the ocean depths below 1,000 meters. It is said that they create huge sea waves, making humans regards Neptunese as a nightmare at sea. When this woman was rescued, she was trapped in a fish cage at the stern of a large ship we encountered. At that time, someone saw her with a fish tail, but after leaving the ship, she was just like us. Everyone thinks she is an unknown person of ominous and did not want to keep her on the boat. But I think since she is trapped in a fish cage and we rescued her, we should treat her equally."
"Oh? She might be a mermaid? What's her name?" Yvonne couldn't help asking.
"Well," Carl said, "She hasn't said anything since she got on the boat. She kept her eyebrows low and kept silence all the time. After a while, everyone didn't care about her 'cause we were all too busy. Until that night when Queenie witnessed her in my bed, the mermaid disappeared from the boat... I couldn't refute for myself, Queenie left me and Evelyn angrily without even a word, and returned to the Nine Realms. Since then, she have been avoiding seeing me. My skills have been barely enough to reach the Third Realm, seeing her is like reaching for the stars." Carl said with a wry smile.
"Well, this woman mermaid has always been mysterious, nobody knows her name. We only know that her surname is Guihai (meaning returning to the sea), a very old surname in the Central Plains. Because the necklace on her neck with the letters. There is a pink heart mark between her brows." Chef Zac said, "Brother Tark, If you have the opportunity to see Queenie, could you try explain for Carl please?"
"I don't think there is much to explain," The speaker came in from the door, a beautiful girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, with long brown hair, delicate features, a tall nose, and a pair of clear blue eyes, showing Eastern and Western appearance, she seems to be a mixed race, "She has been away from us for more than ten years, I am afraid it is her who has the problem?!"
Carl said: "Evelyn, don't talk nonsense, come and meet these two friends from the Central Plain Aquarines, Tark Yuan and Yvonne Lo."
Evelyn nodded slightly towards Tark and Yvonne, "Hello, my name is Evelyn Carlson."
"Hello." Tark and Yvonne smiled at Evelyn, Tark's eyes hadn't been removed from Evelyn since she entered the door. Yvonne was a little unhappy that she watched him in disgust.
"Evelyn, stay with your two new friends," Carl said. "You grew up on the sea, haven't you always been interested in things about Middle Earth?"
"Okay." Evelyn replied, walking over and taking Tark and Yvonne out, "Let's go to the deck, it's very boring here."
In the following days, three of the similar age, Tark, Yvonne and Evelyn, got along well on the boat and discussed many interesting topics. Evelyn didn't have many peers on the boat, so it was very easy to talk to the two new friends, and there was no end to the words. After a few days, the three of them became familiar.
"Uh, you haven't told me what happened to you two that night..." Evelyn asked curiously.
"They realized I am a girl not long after entering the room," Yvonne said, "So nothing happened to me. While I am not sure what had happened to Tark 'cause I was out" .
"Hey, I knew you were a girl at the first sight, and deliberately dressed up like a boy." Evelyn smiled.
"How did you know that?" Yvonne asked.
"Hehe, we are all girls, intuitive." Evelyn said with a smile.
When they were talking, Tark remembered what happened that night, because he was wearing a the Fish Armor, which was a secret that could not be exposed, so he blocked it again and again though he was a little drunk, and nothing really happened. But this is really hard to talk to two girls, so he was in a daze for a while...
"Tark, what about you?" Evelyn looked at him in a daze, and asked, Yvonne also fixed her big eyes on Tark's face.
"Me? Hehe...nothing..." Tark smiled mysteriously.
"Quickly talk about it, what happened!" Yvonne was anxious, yelling at him, winking at Evelyn, and the two girls rushed to hold Tark.
While smiling, Tark stepped back, pushed to the side of the ship, turned over and disappeared from the side of the ship. Evelyn and Yvonne hurried to the ship's gunwale and looked down, Tark had already driven a fish a few feet away.
Evelyn opened her mouth widely, "Wow, that's awesome!"
In the next few days, Tark and Yvonne taught Evelyn the basic skills of riding a fish. The three were flying back and forth between the bow and the stern, and the people on the boat looked very envious. Tark is also very generous, Carl, Chef Zac and others have all learned the basic techniques of riding fish more or less, but due to the skills of flying Kungfu are uneven and limited, so just very basics. Only Chef Zac seems to be different. Although his flying skill is limited, he seems to have amazing hand power. No matter how big the fish he rides, it couldn't get off his grip, so it is much easier to control the fishes than others. The essence of fish riding is the unity of rider and the fish, psychic coordination, and controlled by the power of thought; but Chef Zac just uses his extraordinary arm strength to subdue the fishes and forced them to serve him.
One day, Tark and Yvonne bid farewell to everyone, along with Evelyn, Carl fulfilled her wish to get off the boat with them. Chef Zac made a table of sumptuous dishes for them to say goodbye. He drank several times during the banquet, and finally drank to a happy mood.
"Brother Tark, thanks for your being generous, I learned some of the Aquarine fish riding skills. You are about to go, I have nothing to give you. So I will hand you this set of '18 moves of cloud hand' Kungfu, here you are, as a souvenir." Chef Zac murmured.
When Tark heard this, he was surprised. He remembered that he had read a record in the Wind and Cloud Notes presented by Master Sam Goo when he was leaving the Nine Realms: The Central Plains Saturnese has inherited many traditional martial arts, among which there is one called "Cloud Hand". The power of the hand Kungfu is very powerful, and it is the unique martial arts mastered by the leaders of the Saturnese tribe.
"Chef Zac, are you from the Saturnese tribe? And only the patriarch knows..." Tark couldn't help asking.
"Hahaha,'who was me before I was born, who I was when I was born' (from a Chinese poem), each of us lives a life less than a hundred years, but it's just a few seconds in the long history, I am just the chef on this ship, so why my bother to ask." Chef Zac took a sip of wine Tao.
"Zac, oh no, brother Zac Shane," Carl answered, "are you really not going back?"
"I'm naturally casual, don't like the minutiae, and I am a foodie. I go with the flow on the boat, the sea is wide and the sky is endless, the fresh food in the sea is inexhaustible, and the food is inexhaustible. Wouldn't I be at ease? I won't go back for sure."
"This 18 moves of cloud hand originated from the Zen School of the Central Plains Buddhism. Back then, the second ancestor Hui Ke cut off one of his arms in the snowy filed to move the first ancestor Bodhidharma (a Chinese Buddhism story), and even moved the heaven and earth before he could enter the authentic Buddhism. Later ZEN martial arts masters originated from Hui Ke's sincerity and established this Kung Fu. Because Master Hui Ke only had one arm, Cloud Hand KungFu is performed only by one hand, and all the essentials of the methods are in this book."Zac said.
Tark thought to himself, isn't this cloud hand very suitable for Master Sam Goo to practice since he had only one arm too?
"Master Zac, I..." Tark was hesitating to make a resignation when Chef Zac waved his hand and said, " when I saw you on the boat with Carl, I saw that the fishes were at your disposal, and I knew you were not an ordinary person. So this set of cloud hand has found its true owner, no matter what your destiny is in the future, I hope this to help ya a little, hahaha..." Tark took the book and thanked him. "You have to practice hard to be worthy of my gift." Chef Zac said with smile.
Zac Shane Cheung's ancestor was a prominent family in Saturnese of the Central Plains, and his family business was spread all over the plains. It was all ruined at the catastrophe. When Zac was born, his family was poor, and he was bullied after he joined the Saturnese tribe. Later, his family sent him to study Kungfu at Shaolin temple, and he achieved great success at youth . By chances, he became the successor of the patriarch of the Saturnese tribe, he and his family returned to the top of power. However, Zac is by nature casual and unconstrained. Although he is able to take advantage of his skills, he is not used of with the interpersonal and society affairs. Therefore, he always encounters villains and lost now and then. He was never happy. Besides the vicissitudes of life in the world, the ebb and flow, the most valuable part of life is the happiness, others are just fetters.
The cloud hand Tark's got originated from Shaolin temple and belonged to exterior Kungfu. Although it is performed by one hand, which seemed with less power, it gathered the energy from all parts of the body and concentrated at one point, in this way the power is strengthened. And because Tark has long practiced the Taoist Meditation Method, the 18 moves of cloud hand could been able to performed super-normally on him, of course this is something to be addressed later.