Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 70 Simulation Training
"Your instructor for this year is me, Instructor Jinghua."

She was dressed in military uniform, standing straight, heroic and radiant, showing the spirit of a woman who is as good as a man. However, Yuanze could not have the slightest respect for her. He guessed that He Can's disappearance and even the death of his parents were most likely inextricably linked to this instructor.

The clues provided by Halma showed that on the day He Can disappeared, Instructor Jinghua did not appear in the martial arts hall, let alone participate in the battle with the source beast. This almost confirmed that as one of the five capable men under the command of the white-robed old man, she played a leading role in the incident involving He Can's family.

This time, she condescended to serve as an instructor in person, and her purpose was obvious - to better monitor Yuan Ze's every move. Crowther had already revealed this to him in advance and hoped to gain his understanding. After all, Instructor Jinghua had personally arranged for him to monitor Yuan Ze, such as the battle video of him defeating the Phantom Bull, which she had obtained and reviewed.

At the beginning of the new school year, Jinghua, like other instructors, always put on a scolding posture. However, her eyes would occasionally glance at Yuanze who was a little absent-minded beside her. She obviously had a special concern for this key target.

"So, this year's assessment will be the biggest challenge you will ever face in your life. My only request is that you use all your skills to overcome it and stay in the training camp."

"From now on, you will spend the easiest three months of the year. During these three months, you will all receive extremely intensive simulation training in the training camp, and then you will repeatedly complete random tasks assigned by the training camp. If you do not have enough points for the month..."

Jinghua paused, and cast his sharp eyes at each student, watching everyone's reaction with interest. There was a slightly ferocious smile on his face, and he seemed to like the feeling of having the power of life and death over others.

"At the beginning of this year, the bottom 5% will be eliminated at the end of the month. At the end of the year, only % will be able to advance to the year-end assessment. Among these %, only % will be able to leave unscathed. If you want to stay, give it your all. Otherwise, get out!"

After that, Jinghua input the assessment requirements, and the students filed in, and each person was assigned to a virtual space.

"Ok?"

Instructor Jinghua's eyes suddenly froze. She stared at the video on the screen which gradually became blurred and eventually completely obscured Yuanze's figure. She frowned and slammed her fist heavily on the operating table.

“Hahaha, that guy must be pissed to death.”

Astra shrank and floated lightly in the air. He winked at Yuanze with a smug smile on his face. "I have cleverly deleted all your videos. Even from other people's perspectives, no one can see you."

Yuan Ze kept dodging the charge of a group of Tempered Wild Boars while saying to Astra, "This is not appropriate. When there is a conflict, they will be very wary. You should modify the content of the video and cover up some key scenes. For example, use the ancient boxing techniques of the Li family and change them to ordinary boxing techniques."

Astra lay in the sky, leisurely made an "OK" gesture to Yuanze, and then began to correct the video. After some operations, Yuanze's figure appeared in the picture again, but those key details had been cleverly covered up.

At the same time, Astra also cleverly learned Yuanze's style of doing things and destroyed the video recordings of several other people, pretending that there was a problem with the recording system itself to cover up her interference.

After doing all this, Astra turned his attention to Yuanze again. There were wild boar corpses all around him. He felt that these hardening-level wild boars were no longer difficult for him, and he could easily cut through their proud armor, so he lowered the difficulty to the high-level Fusion level.

There is a characteristic of the Fusion-level Source Beasts, that is, the abilities that appear at their awakening level can be well integrated with the body. For example, the previous Turritopsis dohrnii has strengthened its ability fusion.

What Yuanze was facing this time was a group of Fusion-level Phantom Lens Hounds. The most difficult part was not their speed or strength, but the efficient communication of their brain waves. Their movements were very coordinated, making it difficult to break their illusions, and it was also difficult to judge their number at the beginning.

In a flash, a hound pounced on him. Yuanze swung out his light blade, and the moment the illusion disappeared, another hound bit Yuanze's ankle.

He was about to kick to get rid of his bite when another one attacked his head. Its teeth collided violently with the light blade, producing a long streak of sparks.

Then several more hounds flew up from the sky, almost as realistic as holographic projections. Even the "Flow" could not tell whether they were real or fake. Yuanze was a little tired of parrying, because he didn't know whether they were real or fake, and could only deal with them one by one. Yuanze clearly felt some pain in his ankle, where the armor had been bitten through by the hound's sharp teeth. The oozing of blood activated their most primitive wildness.

They rushed up one by one, tearing off Yuanze's armor, removing a large piece in one bite, and then fled far away, leaving no chance for Yuanze to attack.

The round-robin battle was not friendly to Yuanze. He closed his eyes and released his mental power. He was no longer confused by the vision, but relied on his instinctive feeling to fight.

Yuan Ze silently thought in his heart, trying to find the pattern of the hounds' attacks. He felt that the hounds did not attack in a disorderly manner, but attacked according to a certain rhythm and pattern.

Yuan Ze discovered that they could not create illusions when they attacked, because the creation of this illusion was closer to the principle of mirage, and the quality of this illusion was higher than that of the phantom cow, but it could only create one illusion and could not be used freely in battle.

Often when a hound moves, his illusion will also make exactly the same movements to coordinate. So, there is one hound that pounces on him, one that provides cover, and two that create similar "mirages".

Yuanze opened his eyes and adjusted his strategy. He used his boxing skills to block the two hounds that were rushing towards him. He feinted and prepared to hit the one on the left, even exposing his vital points on the right.

"Bang Bang."

The sharp blade in his right hand pierced the chest of the hound on the right, and then the blade in his left hand also penetrated its abdomen. The moment the two fists touched its flesh, a dull sound was heard, and the internal force directly penetrated the flesh and blood and crushed its internal organs.

Yuanze made a strong slash with his left hand and delivered a second punch with his right hand. The hound flew backwards, and its blood drew a bright red arc in the air, falling down along with the fragments in its stomach.

When the other few saw this, they realized that the person in front had seen through their tactics, so they immediately jumped back, growling and baring their teeth, trying to show off their aura.

Then two more came up, and it was obvious that one was real and the other was fake.

But Yuanze easily saw through the disguise. There was a real one hidden inside the fake one.

He first knocked the undisguised one away, pretending to deliberately let the projection pass through his body to confuse the enemy, and just when he was about to bite it, Yuanze dodged behind it and grabbed its upper and lower jaws, tearing them apart and throwing them heavily to the ground.

In an instant, all the hunting dogs fell to the ground, piece by piece, with no complete body left.

"You defeated the Turritopsis last time. This is a bit too easy for you." Astra said to Yuan Ze with a smile, "Why don't we see if there are any students who want a real-life match."

"Let me help you take a look. It's her."

Yuanze leaned close to Astra's screen and saw the familiar name. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Before he could even utter the word "no", Astra clicked the confirmation button for Yuanze.

She gave Yuanze a sly smile and got back into her battle suit.

Let’s chat together.

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(End of this chapter)