Dawn of a New Era - Chapter 27

Chapter 27: Defense

Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
Chen Shouyi felt somewhat angered by her response. He glared at her.

The shell girl actually didn’t feel fear at all. Her hands were still on her hips as she continued shouting, “Beiqi, beiqi, beiqi…!”

Chen Shouyi was so angry that his teeth itched. This shell girl was getting increasingly naughty. Was it so hard to reply properly?

He initially wanted to scare her a little. But after thinking about it, he decided not to do so. These few days, the shell girl had been busy helping him to earn $110,000 and was already very exhausted. In addition, she was still tied up by him for over half a day. Therefore, he decided to allow her to relax for a little.

In any case, he wasn’t in a hurry.

He helplessly took up the remote control and on the television once more.

“Beiqi!” When the shell girl saw the familiar cartoon scene reappearing again, she instantly fell silent and sat in her original position.

Chen Shouyi continued to read. Right now, his intelligence was at 12.3, and this could already be considered the boundaries of geniuses. He was no longer the same as before. In a short one hour, he had already memorized over a hundred words and even learned a few short conversational sentences.

He even found the time to call his mother and exchanged a few texts with Zhang Shaoyue.

Due to him being extremely elusive during his training, there would always be a situation where he lost contact with Zhang Shaoyue for a while, resulting in the slowly progressed relationship between the two of them. Thus, it was in a state of neither warm or hot.

At this moment, the telephone in the room suddenly rang.

Chen Shouyi picked up the receiver and even before waiting for the other party to say something, he swiftly spoke, “I don’t need any service. Thanks!”

After speaking, he hung up. During these few days, every time he stayed in the room, there would be this type of phone call. At the start, he had thought it was room service and couldn’t help but ask a little more. In the end, the truth caused him to be flabbergasted.

He was still too young after all!

…

Chen Shouyi continued reading until 11 p.m. and then practiced the Thirty-six Stances of Body Training again. After he had showered, he discovered that the shell girl was still watching television. She even changed her location to sit down.

He immediately took the remote control and off the television. Seeing that the shell girl was so angry that she jumped up and down, he immediately showed her the rope in his hand. The expression of the shell girl instantly sank.

Chen Shouyi stretched out his little finger to her. The shell girl understood and stretched out her leg with tears flowing down her face.

Very soon, Chen Shouyi used the rope and tied her legs up. The other end of the rope was tied around his arm.

He then went to close the lights.

Pak! It instantly dimmed to darkness.

The shell girl heard the whistle-like sounds of the giant’s breathing and quietly lay down for a while.

Being sure that the giant was already asleep, she slowly stood up and crawled to the pillow, staring at that abominable face. She then put her pea-sized fists up and bared her teeth, silently expressing her resentment.

However, after venting her emotions, she stared at the rope around her leg and couldn’t help but sigh helplessly before going back to the corner of the bed to lie down. Very soon, drowsiness hit her, and weak-sounding snores began to ring out.

Chen Shouyi didn’t sleep but entered a deep level of meditation instead.

In his mind, countless lines like a network stretched out around his entire body. The scene was monotonous, without any extra details.

Ever since he had been training his entire body by ‘entering meditation’ seven to eight days ago, this scene had never changed. But today, there was actually something different.

As time passed, there was gradually a transformation of light and darkness between those lines. There was now some realism in them, like a two-dimensional drawing becoming three-dimensional.

…

On the second morning, while he was in a half-asleep state, he suddenly sensed a wondrous feeling springing up unbidden.

He didn’t open his eyes and silently contemplated everything.

After a while, he discovered that he could somewhat perceive the objects around him. There were no pictures or light, but there was a kind of intense intuition that allowed him to discern the surroundings. He was even aware of their shapes.

He could feel the shell girl lying half a meter away. Her body was curled up into a ball underneath the corner of the blanket. She was currently still asleep.

He could also feel inside the gap between the mattress and the bed. There seemed to be a $1 coin stuck there.

The only lacking thing was that this kind of sense had a very short distance, roughly only about one meter away. Beyond that, his senses would be extremely blurry.

Chen Shouyi opened his eyes in shock; he didn’t feel sleepy at all.

He glanced at the shell girl beside him and discovered that her sleeping posture was the same as what he had sensed earlier. He then hurriedly lifted the mattress and indeed, there was a $1 coin in the gap.

He vowed that he had no idea about this before, to think that there really was $1 coin here.

He opened up his attributes panel and discovered that his ‘entering meditation to train the body’ grade had already risen from (Proficient: 2) to (Proficient: 10)

His perception had also increased by 0.1, and in addition to the increment of 0.1 two days ago, it was now at 11 points.

Ever since the Book of Knowledge had started modifying his body, or maybe because his body had gotten stronger, the improvement speed of his perception had greatly increased. In a short three days, it had already increased by 0.2.

Amidst all the changes, the one causing the most doubt was none other than perception.

From his understanding, perception was the same as mental energy of the legends. It belonged to a category known as human intuition or the sixth sense.

But before this, this attribute showed no evident effects. Or maybe, the effect only had imperceptible influence and wasn’t obvious.

“Seems like 11 points in Willpower is the watershed.” He glanced at his attributes panel as he silently mused.

…

On the way to the bathroom, he sharply sensed that he now had an additional trace of control of his body. Even for casual walking, the muscles of his body were like precise gears turning together, coordinating perfectly. He didn’t need to control them intentionally; everything felt very natural.

This sort of feeling was very wondrous. He could sense that every part of his body was under his full control. It felt like his entire existence had changed beyond recognition. Moreover, he had an intense intuition that the speed of his sword techniques today would definitely be at least 5% faster compared to yesterday.

…

In the youth martial training center.

“Wa, Chen Shouyi, your change is so great!” Guo Qianqian who accompanied her boyfriend had a surprised look on her face after meeting Chen Shouyi. If it wasn’t for the fact that Chen Shouyi’s face was still his original face, she would have thought that it wasn’t him.

She already couldn’t find the bashful appearance of Chen Shouyi. The ‘him’ now had a sharp gaze and a heavy aura. In the crowd, he was like a crane among a flock of crows. Even for her handsome boyfriend, he would lose all his luster when compared, becoming someone as ordinary as a passer-by.

“Is that so? Maybe because I changed my attire.” Chen Shouyi smiled and changed the topic while not batting an eyelid. “Are you guys not going out to play on national holiday?”

“Initially, I wanted to go out with my parents the day before yesterday. But when we were driving halfway, the road suddenly got sealed. I heard that the army was mobilized and the roads had to be sealed for half a day. Hence, I returned.”

“Ah, that’s really unlucky.” Chen Shouyi sighed, but he didn’t think too much about it.

“That’s right. Oh yes, do you still remember that Zhu Shaoqiang from our class? That one that’s very tall.”

“Oh, the member of the sports committee? I naturally know of him. Why?” Chen Shouyi thought for a while and remembered who she was talking about.

“He went to join the army.”

Chen Shouyi was startled, but he didn’t feel it to be unexpected. Recently, the army recruitment drive had started again.

The huge screen hung up at a tall building near the cross-roads was advertising about the army recruitment drive before he came here.

Ever since the Otherworld had fused with Earth twenty years ago, the shadows of war hung suspended on the heads of humanity. Armies around the globe maintained their large-scale units for the long term. As for a large country like Daxia Country, the scale of its army was even more shocking.

The reserve force was numerous; it was around six million members. And even for a small city like Dongning, there was an entire regiment stationed nearby.

Actually, this was already considered a few due to the gradually diminishing number of soldiers. During the first few years after Earth had fused with the Otherworld, the entire number of soldiers in Daxia Country had once reached ten million, and they had been in a constant war-preparation state.

Luckily, in the end, it was a false alarm. The war between the two worlds had been controlled and fought in a small-scale boundary.

Maybe because of excitement, the moment Guo Qianqian spoke, she couldn’t stop talking. Chen Shouyi, seeing that he was quite free now, could only accompany her to chat idly.

The expression of Lin Feng who had been sitting there looking at his handphone grew darker by the second. He clenched his fists tightly and finally stood up with a bang. His calves banged against the chair and it was pushed back, creating a shrill sound.

Chen Shouyi instantly glanced over.

Lin Feng didn’t know why, but at this instant, he felt an immense pressure like a bone-chilling bowl of ice water, and his mind that was originally somewhat heated up from his anger rapidly cooled down. When he compared his strength to Chen Shouyi, the imposing manner he drummed up suddenly became lax.

“What’s wrong?” Guo Qianqian asked.

Lin Feng avoided Chen Shouyi’s eyes before he intimately hugged Guo Qianqian and spoke, “Earlier, I discovered a pair of platinum couple rings that’s extremely beautiful. I was too emotional. Let’s head over there to take a look later. If you like them, I will buy them for you.”

Guo Qianqian was clearly hooked. The two of them then huddled together and began to chat in low voices.

At this moment, the tuition teacher finally came.

“It’s a national holiday. I wonder if everyone practiced hard? If you have the ambition to walk on the martial path, the effort cannot be lacking.

“Let’s not waste time talking idly. Today, we will learn about some new content. And it will be how to defend.

“Defense can be divided into three types. Distance defense, body evasion defense and weapon defense.

“For distance defense, from the name, you should already know that this means to retreat to a distance outside the opponent’s attacking boundary. Your defense would naturally be completed then.”

Everyone felt it was very simple when they heard this. But in truth, there was some difficulty if one wanted to accomplish this. Because the speed of the opponent’s sword would be far faster compared to one’s retreating speed. Therefore, this not only required one’s basic steps to be nimble, but one also had to predict the attack in advance. It had very high requirements for one’s judgment ability.

As she spoke until here, the beautiful teacher suddenly glanced at Chen Shouyi. “Chen Shouyi, wear some protective attire and demonstrate this together with me.”