Chapter 87 Golden Arthur

A green taxi stopped at a slightly busier shopping street in the rolling iron area. Chen Ke had shopped at Walmart here before, but this time he was not here to shop.

He took out his phone and clicked on the Google Map navigation. He found the HEMA Club on the side of Walmart, located on the fourth floor of a comprehensive shopping mall. A somewhat shabby sign read: Golden Arthur HEMA Club, Opportunity City Branch.

There was a shabby little elevator on one side of the mall that went directly to the fourth floor. Chen Ke pressed the up button and found that the elevator did not respond.

He pressed it again, but still did not respond. It must be broken. Chen Ke scratched the back of his head and simply walked up the stairs of the mall.

The mall seemed very noisy, but very clean. Countless small grid counters were scattered and divided up a layer of land in the entire mall.

The first floor was actually a place similar to a computer mall, but Chen Ke observed that it was basically a few second-hand vendors, selling second-hand laptops and desktop computers at the counter.

In the United States, most civilians buy complete computers instead of buying accessories and assembling them themselves. On the one hand, it is because individual computer accessories are very expensive in the United States, far less cheap than buying complete computers. On the other hand, most people have limited computer knowledge, and many people can't even tell the difference between graphics cards and memory sticks...

Each small grid counter is equivalent to an independent small storefront, and the shopkeepers sit inside waiting and doing business. However, it is difficult to do business in the rolling iron area of ​​Opportunity City, so many shopkeepers walk out of their small grids to chat with each other.

Passing through the small grids like a maze, Chen Ke finally found the stairs going up in the corner.

Climbing up all the way, he finally came to the Golden Arthur HEMA Club on the fourth floor. However, it was almost 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Looking through the glass door, it felt that there were no people inside.

"Brother, are you here to learn HEMA?" A voice suddenly came out from behind.

Chen Ke was startled and looked back. It was a fat white guy wearing a dark blue hat and dark blue cleaning clothes.

"Yes, but I see no one here? Are they resting today?" Chen Ke asked in confusion.

"You came at the wrong time, buddy. They closed the club a week ago." The fat guy laughed.

"Ah?" Chen Ke smiled awkwardly.

It seems that this trip was in vain.

"HEMA is an expensive sport. Iron rollers don't have so much spare money to play this. But you don't look like someone who is short of money, otherwise you wouldn't come." The fat guy said.

"Golden Arthur... How is this club? Have you heard about it?" Chen Ke chatted.

"Oh... You don't know Golden Arthur? I thought you did your homework before you came!" The fat guy was surprised.

"Is this club great? Tell me about it?" Chen Ke was interested.

"Golden Arthur HEMA Club! There are dozens of branches in the United Federation. It can be said that all sword masters are gathered here. They have tens of thousands of members and have seen most of the champions of the HEMA sword competition." The guy looked awesome.

"So great? Then their coaches must be good. It sounds like you can really learn a few skills." Chen Ke pinched his chin and was very satisfied with the strength of this HEMA club.

"Golden Arthur's coaches and curators are all legendary figures in the circle. They are all veterans who are proficient in various swordsmanship, such as Shi Jielian who uses a small shield, Malevi, a long sword expert, and Betty, the queen of two-handed swords... There is no end to them, and they also welcome students to challenge. It is said that every time you defeat a curator in charge of Golden Arthur, you can get a badge..." said the fat brother.

"So interesting? What will happen if you collect all the badges?" Chen Ke asked curiously.

"No one has done it, brother, but it seems that someone has revealed that if you can collect all the branch badges, you can challenge the founder of Golden Arthur." The fat brother smiled mysteriously.

"I bet that the founder must be very confident that no one can collect that badge." Chen Ke spread his hands.

"Maybe, but don't underestimate him. Although the boss of Golden Arthur is a white-haired old man over 60, no one questions his attainments in swordsmanship." The fat brother smiled.

"If possible, I'd like to meet him." Chen Ke laughed. If the coach of the HEMA club is very good, it would not be difficult for him to master this sport.

"Yeah, I want it too. Maybe I can beat him after two weeks of practice, hahaha!" The fat guy laughed. Obviously, he thought Chen Ke was joking.

"Well... do they have other gyms in Opportunity City?" Chen Ke asked.

"There is one on Lafite Road. There are more rich people there, but it is also relative. After all, there are no opportunities in Opportunity City." The fat guy said.

There is no opportunity in Opportunity City. This is the second time Chen Ke has heard this sentence. The one who said this before was a taxi driver.

"Thank you, I will go there to look for it... and then... who is their founder?" Chen Ke asked.

"Geralt." The fat guy replied.

"I thought he would be called Arthur..." Chen Ke hugged his chest.

"This is a flyer of theirs. I found it when I was sweeping the floor. The branch in the Rolling Iron District has been open for less than two years, and business is dismal, so they chose to close it. I left in a hurry a few days ago, and a lot of flyers were lost. It's a good opportunity for you to take a look." The fat boy took out a wrinkled flyer from the trash can and handed it to Chen Ke.

"I'll go back and take a look... Ah, there's a phone number on it... Thank you very much, it's very helpful." Chen Ke accepted the flyer.

Chen Ke walked out of the mall. Although he returned empty-handed this time, it was not in vain. If the Golden Arthur Club is really as powerful as the cleaning boy said, it must be great.

Although HEMA is just a sports event in modern times, those sword moves are still lethal. As long as you can learn from them in battle and transform them into pure cold weapon combat techniques, it is still feasible.

At least it is a hundred times better than using a two-handed sword as a fire stick now.

Chen Ke carefully considered the distance from the Rolling Iron District to the Lafite Road District. Uber was just established in 2009, and it will not be officially launched until October 2010. Chen Ke has no way of knowing how long it takes to take a taxi from Rolling Iron to Lafite Road.

He can only estimate the time through the driving navigation mode of Google Maps. If you exclude traffic jams and other situations, it only takes 1 hour to drive from the rental place to the Golden Arthur Club.

"Should I buy a car..." Chen Ke thought.

The United States is a country on wheels, and buying a car is not expensive. Moreover, he now has a set of fake documents and can trade directly through an offshore account, which is more convenient.

Don't worry, the car issue is not urgent. Chen Ke shook his head and decided to ask the postman to see if he could get a black car from the underground market, so that at least he would not be tracked by the authorities.