I Just Want To Retire Quietly

Chapter 15: The Abyss (III)

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Liang Xian did what he said and was about to walk out of the protective shield immediately.

The nameless special forces soldier quickly stopped him and said, "Wait, it's dark now and most of the environment can't be seen clearly. At least wait until daytime to observe the surrounding situation."

"What's your name? I know you're not a bad person. You're our instructor. I was really rude to you before." Liang Xian said politely.

His attitude towards different people is different. In front of his familiar classmates and instructors, he acts like "I am the best in the world"; in front of Tan Yan, who is a stranger but in the same camp, he restrains his arrogance and is a little more careful; but when facing the unknown special forces who are not familiar to him and have a different stance, he is polite.

"My code name this time is 'Jackal No. 3', you can call me Ah San."

As the Asan special forces soldier introduced himself, he pulled Liang Xian aside and said in a very low voice: "There's something wrong with your classmate."

Logically speaking, his voice should only be heard by Liang Xian, but Tan Yan's hearing...

Liang Xian glanced at Tan Yan, who was about 2 meters away from him with an unchanged expression, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Look at my hands." Ah San stretched out his arms. "We are all trained. Under what circumstances would you drop the weapon in your hand?"

"Unless my hand is broken." Liang Xian answered after imagining the situation.

"I felt like my tendons were broken at the time," Ah San rubbed his wrist, "but look now, there's not even a wound."

Liang Xian: “…”

He saw it clearly at the time. Given the distance between Tan Yan and Ah San, half of the blade had penetrated deeply into Ah San's arm. Liang Xian was still wondering whether Tan Yan had controlled the force well, and hoped that Ah San only had superficial injuries.

But now he didn't even have any skin injuries.

Knowing that Tan Yan had heard everything, Liang Xian looked at Tan Yan: "How do you explain it?"

Ah San: “…?”

When they received the request to help a group of students with military training, someone gave them all the information. It was recorded that Liang Xian was smart, witty, adaptable, seemingly arrogant but actually calm, and could put aside emotional factors in times of crisis. Therefore, after Ah San noticed Tan Yan's problem, he chose Liang Xian to discuss. In Ah San's mind, Tan Yan must have concealed something, and he couldn't completely believe that he and Liang Xian were a pair. After all, according to the intelligence, Tan Yan just joined the class yesterday, and the relationship between the two should be almost like strangers. How could he sell himself out

"Are you not injured?" Tan Yan immediately came over to check Ah San's wrist. Seeing that it was really intact, he breathed a sigh of relief. "I was thinking at the time that we are all comrades, even if it is just a superficial injury, it is not a big deal. It's great that you are okay."

Hearing what he said, Liang Xian frowned and said, "Based on your actions at that time, he should be seriously injured. I know you hope he is okay, but this is impossible. Why don't you find it strange at all?"

"… "

Tan Yan did not answer. He showed an obviously confused expression, as if even he himself did not understand why.

"You didn't realize it..." Liang Xian touched his chin, "Then what were you thinking when this protective shield appeared?"

"This is different," Tan Yan tried to explain. "There are some things in the world after the 'void'... I can't say what they are. I can't see them, but I can feel them. I just gathered these things together to form a protective shield. These things cannot be felt in our world. Your so-called superpowers are just..."

He thought for a long time but didn't know how to express it, so he remained silent.

Liang Xian tried to understand his words and analyzed them in his own way: "Something like air that cannot be seen or touched, but can be gathered and used. You think that it is just using the original things in this world, like using tools, right?"

"That's what I mean. You are really smart." Tan Yan was very satisfied with Liang Xian's explanation.

He had told these things countless times to the void phenomenon research group, but the people in the research group just didn't understand. They repeatedly asked Tan Yan what that invisible thing looked like and how to use it. However, Tan Yan himself didn't understand, so there was no way to answer their questions.

Qin Li, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked, "Is it something like the magic element or aura described in the novel?"

"What is that?" Tan Yan was puzzled.

Liang Xianqinli: "…"

Even if you haven't eaten pork, you should have seen pigs run, right? Even if Tan Yan is old-fashioned and doesn't like to read online novels, at least he has heard people around him mention it...

"You've never read online novels?" Even Asan found it strange.

“… I’ve read Romance of the Three Kingdoms.” Tan Yan seemed a little overwhelmed under the gaze of three pairs of eyes. This kind of situation had happened before in his workplace, where the young people were discussing something enthusiastically. He was very curious and couldn’t help but ask a question, but everyone looked at him with a look that said “You don’t even know this?” He felt that he was not sociable and gradually stopped asking questions.

Seeing that he was quite embarrassed, Liang Xian reached out and put his arm around Tan Yan's shoulders. He turned around and glared at Qin Li: "Does it make sense to read idle books? It's okay. Since you said we can go back, I will take you to read novels after we return to Earth."

Qin Li: “…”

Qin Li thought back and forth for a long time between his own "reading idle books is nonsense" and Liang Xian's intention to teach Tan Yan how to read idle books, but he still couldn't figure out what was wrong with reading novels.

"Thank you." Tan Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

He has always been out of tune with other people, whether old or young. There seems to be an invisible protective shield between people. Tan Yan cannot see through others, and others cannot understand Tan Yan.

It was not until now, when Liang Xian took the initiative to stretch out his hand, that he felt some fresh air coming in through the protective shield.

"If that's the case, then we must also feel this," Liang Xian said, "Otherwise, if the three of us drag down Tan Yan, he won't be able to protect us even if he has great power."

Tan Yan wanted to say that he could protect it, but when he saw Liang Xian and the other three were eager to try, he kept silent.

Ever since Qin Li mentioned "magical elements" and "aura", an unusually fanatical light flashed in the eyes of the other three people, and Asan, who had just opposed going out, also became active.

Tan Yan didn't understand that kind of enthusiasm, but that didn't affect his desire to silently protect the next generation of the motherland.

Liang Xian and Qin Li are both students, and Asan looks to be only twenty-four or twenty-five years old. They are both future pillars of the motherland!

He couldn't stop the baby birds from jumping out of the nest and learning to fly. All Tan Yan could do was protect them.

Liang Xian suddenly felt a chill on his back. He turned around and saw Tan Yan looking at the three of them with an unusually tolerant look, which was quite kind, like an old hen.

Liang Xian: “…”

"Open the protective shield." He said with difficulty.

"Well, just go ahead, I'm here." Tan Yan's expression became confident, as if he had found the meaning of life. He was radiant and became even more dazzling.

He is handsome enough, but why is he so awkward... Liang Xian covered his heart which was beating wildly for no reason and turned his eyes away from Tan Yan. He was really not used to such domineering attitude.

Tan Yan opened the protective shield, and a cold breath immediately hit him in the face. Liang Xian shivered violently and took a few steps forward with difficulty.

"Um..." Ah San shivered in the cold wind, "Let me ask you, how do you feel those special things? Or how do you communicate with heaven and earth? Do you have any formula?"

Tan Yan: “… naturally…”

"Okay, I know, it all depends on your comprehension, right?" Asan was shivering with cold, and finally understood that the difference between his and Tan Yan's qualifications might be the difference between useless spiritual roots and heavenly spiritual roots.

"Do you have a special affinity for energy from other worlds?" Qin Li thought it was because his magic affinity was only 0, while Tan Yan's was at least 10.

Tan Yan: “…”

He could only look helplessly at Liang Xian, who could understand him, and the domineering attitude he had just shown disappeared without a trace.

"Shut up, you guys!"

Liang Xian received the request for help, so he had to endure his frantic heartbeat, walked to Tan Yan, and patiently asked: "Do you remember how you felt this power for the first time and how you used it?"

"The first time..." With the guidance, Tan Yan's thoughts became clearer. He tried hard to recall what happened in the past forty years, and finally came up with some clues. "I remember that I was dying at that time, but I didn't want to die. Even if I died, I wanted to die at home."

Then he felt some lively and familiar forces beating at his fingertips. They had no definite state. Only when Tan Yan noticed them, these forces took real form and could be driven by his consciousness.

It's consciousness again. This feeling is a bit like...

An idea flashed through Liang Xian's mind, but it was of no help to the current situation. He decided not to go into it in detail. The most important thing at the moment was to try it according to what Tan Yan said.

He shared Tan Yan's experience with two companions who were equally confused.

“… I understand the breakthrough before death, but those who are not savvy enough just died directly.” Qin Li, whose mind was still in the novel, asked while rubbing his body.

It's really not that he is fanciful, always relying on the explanation of novels to explain the current situation. But the current situation really cannot be explained by scientific theory!

Ah San accepted it better than Qin Li: "This is the nature of our mission. Those who are unlucky and not strong enough will die. It makes no difference."

There is no other way at the moment, the three of them can only continue to comprehend according to Tan Yan's instructions.

However, the external environment was too harsh. In less than five minutes, they were severely deprived of oxygen and their limbs became stiff.

To make matters worse, there was a meteor shower.

Or it could be said that it was a meteorite falling from the sky. Liang Xian had always wondered where the big pits around them came from, and now he had an explanation.

There is no atmosphere here, so the gas is thin, the temperature is extremely low, and it cannot protect the planet from meteorite attacks.

But this epiphany came too late. The three of them were so cold that they could not move. The meteorite flew down from the sky, and without the protection of the atmosphere, its speed was much faster than a normal free fall.

Wait, free fall? Liang Xian paused.

Why didn't they realize such a simple thing? After they came here, apart from feeling cold and lack of oxygen, they didn't feel any difference in gravity at all. This means that the gravity environment of this planet is the same as the one they are familiar with!

This is simply the Earth without the protection of its atmosphere!

In a flash, countless meteorites fell. They were so dense that it was impossible to dodge them.

The three of them desperately tried to run, but someone patted their shoulders gently, and a voice rang in their ears at the same time: "Don't be afraid."

The next moment, they saw Tan Yan punch a meteorite that was more than three meters high, and the meteorite flew into the distance like a golf ball.

He almost stood still in the air, punching and kicking, and in just a few tenths of a second, all the meteorites fell far away from them.

Three points doesn't hurt.

Tan Yan descended from a height of nearly ten meters and said gently to the three people: "It's okay, I won't let anything get in your way."