Star Sea Throne

Chapter 20. Progress by leaps and bounds

"Ding" basic skills, hand-to-hand combat upgrades.

The prompt sound from the sea of consciousness woke up Xu Youran, who was immersed in the battle of selflessness, and his consciousness probed into the sea of consciousness and quickly investigated.

Basic Skills:

[1. Run away. (Not upgradeable)]

[2. Hand-to-hand combat, black iron quality LV2. (Upgradeable)]

Yes, in less than a week, I improved my hand-to-hand combat skills completely by my own efforts, and it seems that actual combat is the best way to learn.

Although it is only a small level of improvement, it makes his skills more flexible, and his movements are more rapid and powerful.

He looked around, and before he knew it, he had left the city wall for more than a thousand meters.

More than a dozen various mutant beasts were surrounding him, biting and howling wildly.

Although it is protected by ice armor, it will not be injured, but its physical strength is consumed a lot.

Xu Youran was about to go back and take a break, when a spinning kick swept away several wild dogs in the way, and ran wildly towards the city wall.

Daytime was not a period of high incidence of mutant beast activity, and most of the surrounding areas were small black iron-level mutant beasts.

Xu Youran's ferocity also frightened these mutant beasts, although they still chased after him and bit him, they didn't dare to get too close.

When rushing up the gentle slope, a row of machine gun bullets swept over above the city wall, beating several mutant beasts that were chasing behind them into a sieve.

Xu Youran, who rushed to the city wall, removed his ice armor and slumped on the ground panting heavily.

A soldier next to him handed over a military water bottle, and he took it and filled it with cold water.

Although it took less than an hour to rush down and fight, this hour spent almost every second fighting desperately in the mutant beast herd, and the consumption of physical strength was undoubtedly very huge.

After calming his mind for a while, he began to carefully reflect on some of his gains and losses in the battle with the mutant beast.

How to punch more directly and effectively, how to make side kicks faster and more accurate.

Xu Youran not only has to fight, but also accumulates experience in battle, summarizes lessons and grows.

He himself knew very well that if it weren't for the fact that he was an awakened person with ice armor to protect his body.

I'm afraid that if my hand-to-hand combat skills are improved a few more levels, I will definitely have no bones left in five minutes at most.

He began to operate the natural sutra to recover his physical strength, and in the battle, others may only be fighting with pure physical strength, but he is fighting with physical strength and true qi.

After about two hours, the natural nine-turn operation was completed, and his physical strength was almost restored.

Xu Youran stood up and looked at the soldiers around him who were looking at him with concern.

Jumping up, the ice armor in the air protected his whole body with a "kala" sound, and flew under the city wall again.

The people around him, including those awakened people, were all in an uproar.

"This kid is so crazy, this is deadly training." Zhang Haiyang muttered.

"Shall we go down and exercise too?" Yu Yue was a little moved.

"If you want to go, I don't have armor and protection, if I go down, I will die......" Zhang Haiyang was frightened by Yu Yue's terrible thought.

Platoon Leader Yang also helplessly said to the soldiers under his subordinates: "Prepare fire support, and you must do your best to ensure his safety when he retreats." ”

A new round of practical training began, and Xu Youran could feel that he was making progress almost every second.

However, his battle was indeed too low for the lethality of the mutant beasts.

He himself is a defensive awakening technique, and hand-to-hand combat can only be regarded as a barely introductory technique.

Very few mutant beasts from all directions were actually killed by his own hands, most of them were eaten by their companions after being injured by him.

But such a battle under heavy siege made his hand-to-hand combat skills improve rapidly.

Finally, when it was time to change the guard at night, Xu Youran rushed down twice that day, and the battle deep into the mutant beast group made him gain a lot.

In the second day's combat training, he had already begun to fight with Liu Erkui.

Although he was still not Liu Erkui's opponent without using the awakening technique, he could barely fight for a few rounds.

After just over a week of studying, he was already able to play against experienced veterans, and such rapid progress made the soldiers who participated in the training can't help but be impressed.

Instructor Meng Wenxing couldn't help but sigh, "In another week, in a simple sanda competition, Liu Erkui should not be an opponent." ”

Xu Youran's terrifying growth rate is really breathtaking.

Xu Youran broke into the mutant animal group for actual combat training when he was on duty during the day, and participated in special combat training during the rotation, and his hand-to-hand combat ability improved by leaps and bounds.

In less than two weeks, Liu Erkui was no longer Xu Youran's opponent in a simple sanda battle.

Xu Youran began to learn further hand-to-hand combat techniques, and the second type of boxing technique with very important practical significance: Muay Thai.

The essence of Muay Thai is to mobilize all parts of the body that can form lethality to attack the enemy.

Attacking movements such as head, elbows, shoulders, and knees that do not appear in Sanda techniques are commonly used in Muay Thai.

The fierce Muay Thai has more lethality, and this fighting style is more suitable for Xu Youran, who is armed to the teeth.

Instructor Meng Wenxing changed him to a sparring partner to guide him in Muay Thai learning.

After learning Muay Thai, Xu Youran's fighting style is even more fierce and ferocious.

When rushing into the battle of the mutant beast group, the lethality began to increase significantly.

Punches, elbows, knee bumps, leg sweeping, and the beaten mutant beasts wailed again and again, but he also bullied ordinary mutant beasts, and there were not many black iron beasts.

When he really encountered a group of black iron-level mutant beasts, he either used hand-to-hand combat with earth thorns to strangle them, or there were too many of them, which frightened him into fleeing.

The combat duration of rushing into the mutant beast group during the day is slowly increasing.

His physical strength and fighting skills are also rapidly increasing until one day he encounters two mutant dingos of the bronze rank.

Xu Youran's bronze-level earth thorns could no longer easily break through the defenses of the bronze-level wild dogs, and his hand-to-hand combat skills were not enough to form a lore.

Although after a hard battle, he finally strangled the last wild dog with brute force, he was so exhausted that he almost fainted.

He endured his exhaustion, broke off the teeth of the two wild dogs, and collapsed directly after walking back to the city wall. The bronze-level mutant beast has some organs that can be recycled, and he had used a battle knife made from the horns of a bronze-level mad bull in previous battles.

These two bronze wild dog teeth have been given a nice name, called Tengu Teeth.

With human alloy technology, it can be made into weapons such as gloves, throwing knives, and daggers.

By handing in bronze-level materials, you can accumulate military achievements in the newly established merit system of the military department.

Xu Youran looked at the light curtain of his wrist mobile phone, which had a record of his military merit system.

Name: Xu Youran.

[Gender: Male

Age: 23 years old

Position: 00QG025 Special Operations Platoon Leader of the Human Base

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Military merits:

Bronze Merit +2

Silver Merit +1]

When he killed the silver-level demon ape, the military merit system had not yet been established, but the military department later made up for this merit for him.

When the government realized that fighting the mutant beasts would become a protracted war.

The combat weapons, supplies, and merits of the Awakened were quickly put on the agenda, and the military department reprocessed all the captured mutant beast materials.

These new equipment and original military equipment, even including some of the latest military technology research results that were previously top-secret, were put into the list of merit rewards.

No matter who is registered with the military department, he can exchange his or her merits with the military department for the items he needs.

As long as you have enough merit, some technological products from unknown civilizations, even the latest fourth-generation super bombs, can be exchanged for you.

But you have to use superbombs rationally under the supervision and guidance of the military department, rather than using them to carry out terrorist attacks on humans.

Of course, redeeming those mysterious equipment and technologies requires a large amount of merit, which is not a task that ordinary people can complete.

The merit system can also be used as currency for trading, which greatly facilitates communication between awakened people.

After Xu Youran crossed the basic threshold of hand-to-hand combat, his progress was by leaps and bounds.

In less than a month, he has completed the study of sanda, Muay Thai, kickboxing, Israeli martial arts, and the most important martial arts in the military.

The rest is how he practices on his own, so that these basic skills become muscle memory, form conditioned reflexes, and can be used reasonably in battle.

Every other day on duty has also become his actual combat training period, one day of study and one day of actual combat.

Regular life and training have made Xu Youran look very different from a month ago.

The originally thin body has begun to highlight its strong muscles.

The confidence and indifference brought by the long-term high-intensity battle in his eyes made him look even more heroic.

Paired with a black camouflage combat uniform, he looks like a fierce general in the army.

With the completion of the hand-to-hand combat sanda part, his basic skill: hand-to-hand combat has also been upgraded to black iron quality LV5.

But he was well aware that hand-to-hand combat was only one of the essential skills on the battlefield, not all.

If you want to increase the lethality of mutant beasts, the key is the use of weapons.

Thermal weapons have limited lethal effects on mutant beasts, and as the level of mutant beasts increases, the threat of thermal weapons will gradually decrease.

Mutant beasts that have reached the silver level are basically no longer afraid of the threat of conventional thermal weapons.

Mutant beasts that have reached the gold level are said to be able to resist most thermal weapons except for non-super bombs.

There was a battle in West Asia where ground-to-ground Scud C-type missiles were used to bomb gold-level mutant beasts.

The result was that the gold-level mutant beast was only injured and did not explode, which shocked the global military.

If one day a mutant beast that surpasses the gold level evolves and reaches the diamond level, how much equivalent super bomb will it take to destroy it?

The global military is frantically invested in the development and research of the Awakened Person's abilities, and the power of thermal weapons has an upper limit, while the Awakened People's combat power has no upper limit.

With the right weapons, the Awakened People's powerful lethality against individual mutant beasts is unquestionable.

Therefore, Xu Youran proposed to Instructor Meng Wenxing that while continuing to learn hand-to-hand combat, he should start learning the use of weapons.

Instructor Meng Wenxing found an instructor who was better at using weapons, Sun Yuyang.

Instructor Sun Yuyang is only about 170 centimeters tall, in his forties, and speaks a wide spectrum (Cantonese Mandarin), and is said to be from Fushan, the hometown of martial arts in southern Guangdong.

Regarding the choice of weapons, in order to improve his combat power as soon as possible and to cooperate with his earth shield awakening skills, Xu Youran chose a single knife.

Xu Youran adjusted his study schedule and continued to learn the content of the grappling part of hand-to-hand combat in the morning, starting with grappling fists, and then learning a series of hand-to-hand combat techniques with uniform as the main purpose such as wrestling, judo, grappling with dragon grapplers, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and MMA mixed martial arts.

In the afternoon, he began to learn the weapon use techniques of a single knife and an earth shield, and returned to the barracks in the evening to practice the Nature Sutra.

When on duty, he also rushed into the mutant animal herd in the morning to continue honing his hand-to-hand combat skills, and rushed into the herd with an earthen shield in the afternoon for single-handed practice.

Days are spent in intense, regular training and battles, and occasionally small beast tides will hit the city walls, but at most dozens of bronze-level mutant beasts will appear.

With the full cooperation of the garrison warriors and the awakened people, they easily repelled the beast tide.

More than two months have passed in a flash, and it is already early winter.

Xu Youran's basic skills have been improved again.

Basic Skills:

[1. Run away. (Not upgradeable)]

[2. Hand-to-hand combat, black iron quality LV9. (Upgradable)]

[3. Single knife, black iron quality LV5. (Upgradable)]

Xu Youran's wrist watch popped up a light curtain, and the long-awaited task finally came.