Black Knight

Chapter 40: Sirius and the Mercenaries are being tested

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When Wu Qi passed by a unique portrait of a celebrity, he took a closer look. The portrait showed a capable old man in his early sixties with a wrinkled face but no age spots. The old man faces left, wearing a loose white coat. He has long, smooth and shiny silver hair, and a short silver-white beard. He wore a pair of black square-framed glasses. The eyes behind the glasses were clouded by the years, but they could not hide the wisdom of the stars.

Different from the previous portraits of celebrities, the end of the bar with the year of birth and death under the portrait of this celebrity is a "?", which means that this is a celebrity who is still alive. The old man's experience spans the civilized era and the dark night era, and he currently serves as the branch dean of the Western Branch of the Academia Sinica. He used the active cells of pioneers as the main material, combined with countless chemical and biological materials for more than 30,000 experiments, and finally invented the "gene enhancement agent" for pure human injection. He is an epoch-making top biological scientist - Meng with the "Doomsday Era" Greg Moses, also known as Del.

"Pure human beings are by no means a race abandoned by this evolutionary era." Wu Qimo read Greg's famous quote. This plain words combined with the portrait of the silver-haired old man had a particularly strong spiritual impact, because it was contrary to the The logic of the entire era impressed him deeply.

Wu Qi withdrew his gaze and continued to follow Wang Sheng and Zhang Xiang towards the front of the corridor. After walking for another ten meters, the corridor finally reached the end. On the left half was an upward staircase, and on the right half was a gray high-tech identification door.

Zhang Yang took out his work ID card and swiped it on the identifier. After a beep sound, the gray door opened with a click, revealing a staircase leading underground. The light in the passage was dim, and as the door opened, pure white light lit up inside.

The three of them walked all the way down and soon reached the underground level. There are stairs below the ground floor, but they don't have to go down. Their destination is the multi-functional training ground on the underground floor, which is also the examination venue for this registration test.

Walking into the underground multi-functional training ground illuminated by incandescent lamps, the space here is extremely wide. There are white partition walls with excellent sound insulation capabilities between areas A to F. Each area has an area of at least two hundred square meters, and the ceiling is The height is about five meters. The floor is entirely made of special black iron and can withstand the impact of the third level of strength enhancement without being damaged. Each area has different equipment and roads for users to train. Complete facilities are provided here for common training directions such as close combat, firearms practice, mobile skills, and ability testing.

Wu Qi and others walked into Area B of the underground training ground. There was no one in the wide training area. There are four blue C-level physical puppet targets set up in the melee training area with a black floor. The chassis of the puppet targets are locked to the mechanism on the floor. They are permanent models that cannot be dismantled. The strength of a C-level puppet target is equivalent to the defense power of the first-level ability "Skin Hardening" or the two-level defense enhancement. The cost is 1,000 yuan. If a mercenary damages the puppet target during training, the full amount will be charged. paid, and if rented out, the price is as low as 10% of the construction cost.

Zhang Xiang stood in the center of the training ground and said, "Boy, without further ado, let's get started."

"The first item is a strength test. The simplest way is to swing your strongest fist to test your punching power." Zhang Xiang took out a half-palm-sized device for recording data from the jacket pocket of his uniform. Tablet computer, the other hand pointed at the blue puppet target two meters away, and said to Wu Qi.

Wang Sheng patted Wu Qi's shoulder with his thick palm and said beside him: "Go ahead and use your full strength as much as possible. The higher the ability level you get in the test, the higher your mercenary level will be after you register." high."

Wu Qi hummed softly, and slowly placed the long knife wrapped in animal skin on the ground. His beautiful and deep black pupils exuded a serious aura, and he locked tightly on the ring bullseye of the puppet target. Wearing solid combat boots, he shook his shoulders as he walked into the close combat training ground. At the same time, the plump back muscles hidden under the black cloth were like countless swimming fish, with regular rhythms and slight movements. The sound of dense bone friction spreads through the muscles, with a hint of penetration.

Wu Qi walked to a distance of one meter from the puppet target, stretched his shoulders and feet apart, stabilized his center of gravity, put his left hand forward and placed his right jaw guard in a very standard melee fighting posture. The next second, his back heel and the muscles in his waist suddenly exerted force, and he slammed his right fist towards the bullseye of the puppet target. In an instant, Wu Qi's right arm turned into an afterimage, penetrated the stable air, and let out a A sharp scream. Then Wang Sheng and Zhang Xiang heard a loud "pop" sound coming from the center of the puppet target, like the sound of a balloon deflating after being punctured by a needle.

In the blink of an eye, Wu Qi retracted his right arm and returned his posture to its original state of preparation. In the center of the ring of the puppet target in front of him, there appeared a sunken fist mark that perfectly matched the size of Wu Qi's right fist. The index and middle fingers of the fist mark were curved and deeper than the depression of the fist mark. There were even three holes in the center. The tiny cracks that spread out the radiation. It means that Wu Qi raised his index and middle fingers at the moment of punching, simulating the attack mode of a finger tiger, cracking the target and filling the center of the crack with gas, which is why there was a sound similar to the deflation of a balloon just now.

Zhang Xiang was shocked by Wu Qi's novel way of attacking the puppet target. This is a puppet target with the same defense power as "skin hardening". This young man is not afraid of breaking his hand bones using this attack method. It actually shattered the surface of the target.

Zhang Xiang lowered his head and glanced at the pressure recorder on the chassis of the puppet target. The bold black characters on the white and flood-lit interface read 985 pounds. Although Wu Qi used his fists and fingers to attack to increase the pressure, but he could exert such power with his fists and fingers, and the power of his pure fists was definitely between 700 and 800 kilograms.

Zhang Xiang silently entered the data of 985 kilograms into the strength data record column on the tablet computer. The feedback displayed behind the data column was level 2+. He continued: "Next item, speed test."

Afterwards, Wu Qi ran an instant burst speed of 125 kilometers per hour and a top speed of 132 kilometers per hour on the exclusive track track for the speed test. This kind of running speed is close to the average top speed of cross-country motorcycles in the civilized era, which is enough to easily escape the pursuit of dire wolves and gain a slight advantage in the speed game with shark lizards.

When Wu Qi stepped down from the black track that gradually stopped moving, a moderate amount of sweat had been secreted on the skin of his upper body. The sweat soaked into the black fabric that wrapped his body, and sweat stains oozed out. The surface of his legs was extremely hot, and the temperature between the muscles was beyond the normal human body temperature range. Wu Qi's cheeks turned slightly red and his breathing quickened a little.