At this moment, the cadets of Grantis Military Academy realized that the gentler people are, the more terrifying they are when they get serious.
Admiral Shen's teaching continues.
For one afternoon, the training ground was filled with simulated Zergs used for practice. Every corner that was safely separated was filled with screams. Just by listening to the sounds, one could imagine how miserable the trainees were.
Everyone originally came to Shen Tingyu's class with the most relaxed attitude, but after a day, half of the students in the class were scolded by him mercilessly and cried. Even Ni Xiaoyuan, who has always been competitive, was scolded so hard that her eyes turned red and she reflected stubbornly. The gentle classmate Lin Qianmu was no exception.
When Shen Tingyu gets down to business, he really doesn't care about his relatives.
Including his little niece-in-law Xu Qingran, there was no special treatment.
Xu Qingran was very calm, but the speed of holding the gun to attack the target was far less than the minimum standard set by Shen Tingyu. For a novice like him, the mental control of shifting the target while holding the gun in hand was as difficult as dragging a thousand-pound object, at least now he couldn't speed up at all.
Shen Tingyu stood beside him, not saying anything.
But the silence, which was slightly oppressive, said it all.
Shen Tingyu said that today they were practicing with very low-level Zergs that were very easy to deal with. In the Star Sea battlefield, fighting against foreign races, keeping up with their speed was only the most basic requirement. If you couldn't even do this, you would just die in vain.
The top students who had been praised for a few days finally realized that what they thought was great was just a bunch of weaklings in the eyes of real military personnel. The top students were a group of people who refused to admit defeat. They did not get discouraged after being scolded, but corrected their attitude and took it more seriously, and voluntarily stayed to practice until late.
The last one to leave was still Xu Qingran.
He stayed to continue practicing, and Shen Tingyu, as a special instructor, continued to watch. Later, Chen Bin, who was responsible for operating the instrument, also went off work, and Xu Qingran was still fighting with the small insects generated by the system.
Perhaps because he had consumed a lot of mental energy, his forehead was already covered with sweat.
Seeing him fail again, Shen Tingyu asked him, "Xu Qingran, is this all you can do?"
Xu Qingran did not reply, but he was able to concentrate again. At least he could shoot two Zergs before they crossed the warning zone. His hand holding the gun was shaking slightly, but he was still unwilling to give up.
He took a few breaths and wanted to put his hand down, but Shen Tingyu beside him said, "Continue."
At this moment, those beautiful blue eyes were as calm as an icy abyss with no bottom.
He said, "I will watch you here until you can hit three in a row. If you can't do that, you will have to practice until dawn."
Hearing this, Xu Qingran laughed and said in a cool tone: "That's exactly what I want."
The two of them practiced like this until ten or eleven o'clock in the evening, and Xu Qingran barely achieved the three-hit goal required by Shen Tingyu. He was so tired that his head was buzzing, and his spirit pool and all the spirit meridians in his body were slightly tingling, so he could only sit on the ground to rest.
But he felt as if he had broken through the limits of his body and completed a difficult sports task, feeling refreshed and refreshed. He looked down at the palm of his hand wearing the special military bracelet, clenched it slightly, and enjoyed the extreme stimulation under his skin.
Sure enough, this kind of self-abuse training can bring him both physical and spiritual satisfaction.
The dark gold boots suddenly appeared in his sight.
The golden patterns on it are very beautiful, and look very much like the tail feathers of a flying bird.
Without even raising his head, Xu Qingran stretched out a hand and ordered in a cold tone, "Pull me up."
Shen Tingyu raised his eyebrows, and his face no longer had the look of a strict instructor just now, and he did as he was told. However, Xu Qingran was too exhausted, and his legs weakened when he stood up, and he was accidentally knocked into Shen Tingyu's arms by force.
Xu Qingran's chin hurt from the collision.
Shen Tingyu paused, subconsciously helped him up, and said jokingly: "Xu Qingran, you are really not good enough."
After Xu Qingran stood firm, he pushed the man away like he was throwing away a used tool: "Stop making fun of me. Look at how old you were when you started training your body, and when did I start training?"
Shen Tingyu smiled but said nothing.
It was late at night and the cafeteria at the Linglong City base had already been closed.
Xu Qingran was about to go back and eat some cookies, but Shen Tingyu asked him, "Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat."
He stared at those blue eyes for a long time and asked doubtfully, "General Shen, are you apologizing for your cold and rude attitude towards me just now?"
Shen Tingyu smiled: "Isn't it obvious enough?"
"I accept it." Xu Qingran showed the same gratitude to all those who were willing to give him food. "Then you still have many people to apologize to."
Shen Tingyu shook his shoulders: "If they can stay as late as you."
Therefore, Xu Qingran did not return to his temporary small room, but followed Shen Tingyu to his temporary residence. Only then did he know that Shen Tingyu even had an exclusive single-family villa in the base of Linglong City, so that he could always have a place to live.
Xu Qingran was very jealous.
There's even a large bathroom in the villa!
Xu Qingran asked the system: "Is there really no way for me to exchange souls with Shen Tingyu?"
It also allows him to test this fragile body.
System: “No!”
I can’t give it to you even if I have it!
After returning to his room, Shen Tingyu took off his heavy coat and casually unbuttoned the two buttons around his neck.
As if she could always sense his thoughts by chance, she asked, "Do I need to borrow your bathroom?"
Xu Qingran never said anything polite to anyone: "That would be the best."
There is a cooking robot in Shen Tingyu’s villa.
But it was no use. When Xu Qingran came downstairs after taking a shower, he happened to be carrying some simple grilled fish and meat on the dining table.
Xu Qingran was a little surprised: "Can you cook?"
Shen Tingyu asked back: "Don't I look like I can do it?"
Not only can he do it, but his skills are also very good, and he is in no way inferior to the professional Mrs. Song.
Xu Qingran sat opposite Shen Tingyu, lowering his head and eating attentively.
When the incident happened, he didn't bring any spare clothes with him and was still wearing the old cotton-padded clothes he dug out from Shen Tingyu's closet.
Shen Tingyu looked at him quietly.
He can cook, but he rarely cooks for anyone other than himself. Seeing Xu Qingran eat so carefully, even the small beans in the sauce, makes the person feeding him feel strangely satisfied.
Shen Tingyu was actually quite hesitant.
Intellectually, he should reduce his contact with Xu Qingran, but he seemed like a person wandering on the edge of a dangerous circle. He couldn't help but stir up crises, confidently pulling against them, and enjoying the excitement that could collapse at any time.
While he was daydreaming, Xu Qingran suddenly called out to him, "My amiable future uncle."
Shen Tingyu came back to his senses and raised his eyes slightly.
Suddenly I felt that this name was not particularly pleasant to the ear.
"You've already treated me to a meal and lent me your bathroom." Xu Qingran wiped his mouth with a tissue and said in a serious tone, "Would you like to lend me your bed as well?"
Shen Tingyu was silent.
Then he made me laugh again.
In the end, Xu Qingran was sent back to the temporary dormitory in Linglong City.
In the following week, the students in Shen Tingyu's class went through devilish training.
He was still the same. Outside of training, he was good-tempered and could joke around. If you were not serious during training, he would punish you until you collapsed. Although it was hard work, this kind of pressure was very effective for students of their class, and they made rapid progress.
After a week, everyone had caught up with the speed of the low-level Zerg, and the combo attack was at least five. At least the minimum goal required by Shen Tingyu could be barely achieved.
Only Xu Qingran had double the training time and tasks compared to others.
When the minimum number of consecutive hits of the class group reached 5, Shen Tingyu asked him to do 9 after class. When he could barely reach 10, Shen Tingyu personally operated the instrument and increased the difficulty of the species he attacked.
It’s not that Shen Tingyu was deliberately making things difficult for him. Strictly speaking, it was Xu Qingran’s own choice.
Because on the second day of training, Shen Tingyu asked him a question.
"Do you want to be the student who just keeps up with the class, or do you want to be the one who can put everyone under your feet?"
Xu Qingran would definitely choose the latter. Shen Tingyu drew up a more rigorous improvement plan for him during his extra training time, and told him clearly: "Okay, if you can't reach the goal I set for you, you will have to take the make-up exam."
Xu Qingran is also very competitive.
For the time being, Shen Tingyu has not found an opportunity to look down on him.
After a month, the students' strength improved by leaps and bounds under the guidance of Shen Tingyu and Lu Cheng. The mental force light waves of the thick and wide channels can be controlled to be half the width, which can easily break through the defense of the mid-level Zerg.
The day before the project assessment was a preparation day. Everyone wanted to gather their energy and be in the best condition for the assessment, so the training time was concentrated from morning to noon. Lu Cheng and Shen Tingyu were rarely together again, but this time their goals were very clear, just for the students, so they tacitly ignored each other.
Xu Qingran was still the last one to arrive.
Ni Xiaoyuan was the second to last to leave, and said frankly that she couldn't beat him. Before leaving, she kindly reminded him: "Xu Qingran, don't practice too late today. Be careful that your mental strength won't recover tomorrow, which will affect the evaluation."
Xu Qingran nodded: "Thank you, you should do your best too."
Ni Xiaoyuan waved to them, turned and walked out of the training ground.
At six o'clock in the evening, he and Shen Tingyu were the only ones left in the field.
Lu Cheng left five minutes ago without coming to say hello. The young instructor had also finished get off work. Chen Bin pulled a chair and sat beside the control console, drowsy. Shen Tingyu walked over and summoned a high-level Zerg that Xu Qingran had not fought last night in the training ground without disturbing Chen Bin.
The Zerg had very hard armor, so we had to aim at the weak spot near its abdomen. There were several pieces of brittle armor, with relatively wide gaps between each piece. We had to aim at those gaps and strike with enough destructive force to cause damage to it.
"Let's start." Shen Tingyu said.
Then he leaned against the training ground and watched Xu Qingran's operations with focused eyes.
Xu Qingran went back home last night and obviously reviewed it in his mind again. Today's performance was much more proficient than last night, including the mental attack that could be compressed to the thickness of the index finger. His starting point may be the lowest compared to other top students, but he is definitely the one who improves the fastest and has the highest talent among all of them.
As a general in the military, putting aside other thoughts, he wanted to bring this man to the level he deserved.
The rest will be discussed when the time comes.
This time, Xu Qingran only took fifteen minutes to defeat the high-level Zerg.
He stood there, staring at the place where the Zerg figure disappeared, with satisfaction and happiness in his eyes. He obviously enjoyed the sense of accomplishment after killing.
"Okay, that's all the guidance I can give you on this project." Shen Tingyu walked towards him.
"Tomorrow I will work with other instructors to evaluate your assessment. As long as you don't get mad, you should be able to give yourself an excellent answer sheet."
Xu Qingran put the guns that the academy had lent them for class back into the storage room connected to the training room.
Shen Tingyu followed him and said nothing more.
Xu Qingran noticed that there were small knives for close combat in the storage room, and asked, "I remember that you and Lu Cheng have been teaching close combat part-time recently. My next project is this. Will you continue to take turns teaching?"
Shen Tingyu smiled and said, "Lu Cheng doesn't know, but I don't."
Admiral Shen stayed in the academy for a month, and the Golden Wing Headquarters began to call him again.
Seeing that Xu Qingran's eyes were still on the short swords, Shen Tingyu asked again: "Do you want me to practice with you now?"
Xu Qingran turned around and walked out of the storage room.
"No need." He said confidently, "I know how to do this."
"I just wonder, after being in this academy for almost half a year, do you want to fight with me?"
Shen Tingyu agreed readily.
Perhaps such thoughts have been buried in the hearts of the two for a long time.
In order to have a fair fight, Shen Tingyu suppressed his spiritual power to around SA level. When Lu Cheng returned to the training ground with the rice bowl packed from the cafeteria, he saw the two fighting each other.
It was the first time he saw Xu Qingran fight.
His reaction and skills were as skillful as a martial artist. Facing an opponent like Shen Tingyu, he was not the least bit cowardly. His determined eyes were mixed with crazy cruelty, which was enough to suppress the opponent who entered his field.
Most importantly, he looked like he was enjoying it.
Lu Cheng looked at Shen Tingyu who was fighting with Xu Qingran, and he could clearly see that he was immersed in the fight. Even though he was facing Xu Qingran who was much weaker than him, he did not show any sign of letting up. The two of them punched each other with great force.
He suddenly remembered Shen Tingyu's question that day.
—Does he understand Xu Qingran now
Until today, Lu Cheng was very confident.
Now he found that a year or so had indeed made the boy he once knew become a stranger. But it also brought him closer to the beautiful wish he had imagined countless nights, to fight side by side.
Lu Cheng felt inexplicably unwilling.
Obviously, the person who can happily practice with Xu Qingran should be him.
When Xu Qingran and Shen Tingyu's fists collided with each other, it was so intense that it caused a wave of mental power fluctuations in the space. Because the power of mental power was controlled, the fluctuations were relatively mild, and only caused a breeze-like movement.
It feels so good.
Xu Qingran thought.
He found that their ideas were often in sync.
Therefore, even if they excluded the mental power and competed purely in skills, it would be difficult for them to get the upper hand over each other, and they would need to think of more tricky ways to attack each other. At the same time, they would be quickly resolved by the other side.
The apocalypse also combines the use of supernatural powers. For him, every moment of action is a life-and-death battle. It is rare for him to have such a satisfying competition with a well-matched opponent.
Suddenly I felt that it would be great if I could make Shen Tingyu a friend.
The collision of fists was like a signal that the two of them had tacitly ended their sparring. Xu Qingran did not continue, but saw that Shen Tingyu in front of him had a slightly different expression, his eyes were distracted as if he was in a trance, and he did not even retract his fist immediately after throwing it out.
"Shen Tingyu?"
It was not until he expressed his doubts that the black-haired, blue-eyed man reacted. After a few seconds, he said affirmatively: "Not bad, your overall physical fitness and defensive skills have improved significantly."
Xu Qingran replied without any modesty: "I think so too."
Lu Cheng led Donburi to his side, trying to keep a straight face and pretend not to care: "You have been practicing very late recently, and the cafeteria has closed every time you finish practicing. Tomorrow is such an important day, don't go hungry."
Xu Qingran gladly took it, but said, "It's okay, I'm not that hungry."
Then he pointed to another person next to him and said, "I go to his villa for dinner every day."
After Shen Tingyu's first week of teaching, he finished his practice the next day and still knocked on the door. As expected, the people in the room prepared a double dinner and did not refuse his visit.
So Xu Qingran had dinner at his place this month, and not only did he not feel hungry, he even felt that he had fattened her up a little.
After listening to this, Lu Cheng looked a little dumbfounded.
I don’t know what I’m thinking.
"But since you brought it all to me, let's not waste it." Xu Qingran thanked him, and then urged Shen Tingyu to go back and cook, muttering confidently, "I'll share this rice bowl with you when the time comes, don't be polite."
On the way back to the villa, Shen Tingyu was unusually quiet.
He was a little absent-minded.
His mind was filled with the scene of his final fight with Xu Qingran that suddenly popped into his mind.
It was a dilapidated city.
The backward style is very similar to the legendary ancient city.
A young man stood on the ruins.
His attire blended in well with the dark night, and his bottomless eyes were filled with boredom and sadness towards the world. The full moon behind him was dark and dim, and the group of people below looked up at him, as if they were looking up at an unattainable god.
They thought they had him surrounded.
Until the person looking down at them moved his fingers and summoned countless lightning bolts.
In an instant, everything was shattered.
In the fleeting scene, Shen Tingyu met those dark eyes. The familiar arrogance and loneliness gradually overlapped with the person who was sparring with him in the training ground.
Shen Tingyu was in a trance again.
When the energy of two souls collide, there is a chance that soul memory reading will be triggered. The energy that merges into the other party's spiritual pool in a breath will carry the past memories of the soul of the collider, and accidentally present a picture of memory fragments in the spiritual sea of the person being collided.
It's not a fantasy, but a real experience in the past.
The face Shen Tingyu saw in the picture was unfamiliar, and it was very different from Xu Qingran's current weak and innocent appearance. But as soon as he looked into those eyes, he knew in an instant that it was indeed Xu Qingran.
It would be better to say that it was the Xu Qingran he knew.
"Shen Tingyu, you don't still expect me to unlock the door of your villa, do you?"
The voice of Xu Qingran's body is clear and soft, but perhaps because of a speaking habit of the "core" inside, he always subconsciously suppresses the voice slightly. When he gets a little excited, the ending tone will be a little erratic, like deliberately tickling people's hearts.
Shen Tingyu smiled inconspicuously and raised his hand to unlock it: "You can try it."
He finally understood why there was such a huge gap between the eldest son of the Xu family's personality and strength.
However, there is no plan to delve deeper.
To put it bluntly, he was always interested in the soul in the body. He didn't care about the life and death of others, or the reasons why all this happened, and it had nothing to do with him.
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A night passed.
The trainees finally welcomed the project assessment day. The assessment site was in the underground base, and the examiners would stand in the connected observation room to evaluate their performance. At the same time, they also needed to meet the passing standard data of the training ground system in order to pass the assessment.
The assessment is also conducted by many students at the same time in different corners.
In addition to observing the attack power of their psychic guns, we also assess their static bull's-eye hit rate and the dynamic Zerg killing speed and number.
During the rotation, Xu Qingran’s batch of reviews will soon be due.
He was holding the mental gun he used for training and had just stood in his assigned corner ready when Shen Tingyu suddenly walked out from the viewing room.
"Wait." Shen Tingyu stopped him, interrupting the start of Xu Qingran's evaluation.
The instructors in the observation room looked puzzled and craned their necks to check what was going on.
Lu Cheng also stood up, walked to the window and looked at him warily, as if he was worried that Shen Tingyu would do something unfavorable to Xu Qingran at the last minute.
Shen Tingyu came to Xu Qingran, took out his own customized spiritual power gun, handed it to him and said, "You, use this."
As he said this, he reached out to ask for the gun in his hand.
People who don't understand might think Xu Qingran is lucky to be favored by the general of the Golden Wing Battalion and borrow his precious personal weapon! But those who really understand him, such as Lu Cheng and other instructors, as well as some students, are all worried for him.
I thought to myself—Is General Shen going to mess with Xu Qingran? !
The more advanced and sophisticated the mental gun is, the more difficult it is to use.
They were just beginners who had just successfully started their journey. It was normal for them to fail the test if they changed their guns temporarily on the test day without any cooperation! Therefore, from the beginning of their project training, the guns they used were fixed, with the aim of ensuring that they could perform their best on the test day.
The referee who was supervising on the side couldn't bear it and tried to stop him: "General, during today's review, it might not be a good idea to temporarily change the gun..."
Shen Tingyu didn't even glance at him, his eyes were still fixed on Xu Qingran, and he ordered coldly: "Switch."
Xu Qingran raised his eyes and curled the corners of his lips almost imperceptibly.
Without refutation, he exchanged guns with him. Shen Tingyu took the gun he usually used for training and returned to the observation room. As soon as he entered, Lu Cheng rushed forward and grabbed his collar, his eyes bloodshot: "Shen Tingyu, you despicable villain!"
It seems like he is very restrained and his rationality is not broken.
At the same time, Xu Qingran's assessment also began.
The instructors in the room were all very concerned.
Lu Cheng was still questioning Shen Tingyu: "Why? Is it fun to play with people?"
"You pretended to be a good coach, watched Qingran prepare for so long, and yet you wanted to destroy him on the most important day!"
Lu Cheng's neck turned red with anger: "I really regret not having resisted the dean to the end and letting a cancer like you get close to him!"
Shen Tingyu didn't reply, but just grabbed his hand that was grabbing his collar and shook it off gently.
Then he turned his attention to the young man outside.
As expected, Xu Qingran's test scores were not as good as expected. But to everyone's surprise, his scores were barely in the top tier. It was a pity that if he had a handy gun, his scores might have been even better.
Xu Qingran's expression when he finished the exam was not a good one.
No one will be in a good mood if they are suddenly tricked.
Xu Qingran looked at the bad man who walked towards him again after the meeting, and thought that he should be grateful that he had prepared many meals for him during this period, otherwise he might have pointed the gun in his hand directly at his head and fired.
Shen Tingyu still had his usual gun in his hand: "I asked you to change your gun temporarily, are you angry?"
Xu Qingran stared at the handsome face in front of him and said calmly: "I just want an explanation."
Shen Tingyu nodded and gestured to the main monitoring officer at the control console.
Not long after, another Zerg appeared on the field where Xu Qingran had just finished the assessment.
"Move aside." Shen Tingyu reminded gently.
Xu Qingran followed the instructions and stepped aside, watching Shen Tingyu raise his training gun and attack the newly generated Zerg. The rest of the people on the field were also watching, and even the assessments in other corners were temporarily stopped.
Shen Tingyu fired the gun.
But the Zerg that was generated was not destroyed, but was exploded without warning by the gun he was holding. The spiritual power infused in it became disordered after the collision, and finally exploded along with the disintegration of the gun.
The training ground was suddenly silent.
Everyone was stunned by the violent noise. Lu Cheng, who was angry about Shen Tingyu's inhumane behavior not long ago, also became stunned.
Shen Tingyu's hand holding the gun slowly dropped down, and bright red blood flowed down the wound, dripping onto the ground like water.
Soon, a dark red puddle of water formed on the ground.
Xu Qingran opened his eyes slightly.
The man who was being stared at by countless pairs of astonished eyes remained as calm and composed as usual.
It was as if the serious injury on his hand was just an ant bite.
Finally, he raised his eyebrows slightly towards Xu Qingran and said, "This is the reason."
Xu Qingran: “…”
Numb.
Met a crazy critic of equal stature.
A few seconds later, the officers in the observation room rushed out and surrounded Shen Tingyu: "Oh my God! General, you are injured!"
"It's over, it's over. Send the Admiral to the infirmary immediately! Such a precious hand, what if it is permanently damaged?!"
"What happened? How could such a mistake happen with the training guns used by students?!"
"Coach Liu, you are the one who usually oversees this class. I give you five days to find out what happened!"
Everyone was talking at once.
In the end, it was Xu Qingran who sent the person to the infirmary.
After the explosion of the mental force gun, the impact damage to Shen Tingyu was greater than expected. It was not until he took off his coat and rolled up the sleeves of his inner shirt that he found that the wound had directly torn half of his arm, and blood was oozing out.
Shen Tingyu was of noble status, and the medical staff's hands were shaking when they were treating his wounds.
The person involved was very calm and relaxed. He turned to Xu Qingran who was watching on the side and said, "I can't find any other replacement guns for the time being, so I can only lend you mine."
"You didn't disappoint me."
Xu Qingran stared at him and suddenly said seriously, "Thank you."
It's not just for today either.
The high-difficulty training that Shen Tingyu arranged for him seemed to be torture, but after a month, when he drove the power of his spiritual pool again, he found that the upper limit had been raised.
No one knows the importance of the depth of the spiritual pool better than Shen Tingyu, who is in a high position. Perhaps because he doesn't know what level his spiritual pool will eventually break through to, when he arranges training for him, he focuses on improving his basics.
Even if he stays at Class A, he will be the best among them.
He had originally planned to thank him properly after the assessment was over, but he didn't expect something like this to happen today.
Shen Tingyu was a little surprised by his solemn thanks. He paused and said, "Don't feel too guilty. This is just a superficial injury to me."
If it happened to Xu Qingran now, it would not be certain.
He still activated his own level of mental defense to minimize the damage. With Xu Qingran's current mental pool level, he couldn't withstand such an instantaneous explosion. Maybe his entire hand and the important mental meridians underneath would be destroyed.
Xu Qingran's eyes turned cold: "Guilt?"
"I just want to fucking kill you."
Xu Qingran felt that she had been in a bad temper recently, probably because of Shen Tingyu, that bastard.
"There are many ways to explain it, but you have to pick the craziest and most extreme one." Xu Qingran said fiercely, "If you are sick, don't bring me along. If you kill yourself, I will eat three big bowls of food at your table!"
The system nodded vigorously in agreement.
How can the target of the strategy die! If it dies, its host's ability will never be unlocked, and its KPI will not be completed!
I feel tired.
It would be fine if the host was just a big shot, but now even the target of the mission is a lunatic, making it live in fear every day.
Xu Qingran sent Shen Tingyu to the clinic. Seeing that he was still undetermined, the medical staff did a small examination for him. When the examination results came out, Xu Qingran was still arguing with Shen Tingyu.
Shen Tingyu was scolded, but he still had a gentle smile on his face and said in a soft tone: "So, I am an extremist."
Everyone couldn't help but praise him in their hearts - Admiral Shen has a really good temper, he is simply an outlier among Type E.
After receiving the data feedback from Xu Qingran's examination, the military doctor who was assisting them interrupted them in surprise: "Student Xu, your soul has shown signs of being formed."
(End of this chapter)