Doctor, I'm really strong!

((～￣▽￣)～, Update delivered)

How strong is the fighting force this year?

Anyway, the game won't let you instantly clear the entire map, otherwise how would the designers of the RUA Bull level manage? But those three skills are indeed very useful, and they can always help you gain a few more seconds at crucial moments.

Whether you can continue after a few seconds is your problem; anyway, they did their best.

So how strong is the fighting ability of middle-aged people in reality?

Anyway, Ling led the two directly to the wilderness outside Steelgrad, implying: don't cause trouble for the poor city.

That's right, it's one of the fragments of the giant beast Sui, so it must have at least one-twelfth of the Sui beast's combat power. Moreover, it can grow after birth, and if it has a good foundation, it can improve. If twelve brothers and sisters were to combine into one Sui beast, how terrifying would its combat power be?

Just as Liu Jiuli was thinking about this, Nian couldn't wait to take out his weapon.

A giant sword that appears broken but is actually brimming with energy.

In the game it's a greatsword, but in reality it's a giant sword. Liu Jiuli swears that the sword looks as big as the Greatsword of Ga Zi from Dark Souls. Since Nian certainly doesn't have Ga Zi's tall stature, the giant sword appears even more exaggerated.

A giant sword-wielding beauty, right? I'm in love!

Nian deliberately teased, "Hey, little brother, watch out for your big sword, okay?"

Liu Jiuli shrugged, then realized that he didn't seem to have any weapons.

Indeed, no. The previous enemies could be dealt with bare-handed, and now it seems that bare-handed is no problem either. So Liu Jiuli directly adopted a Wing Chun stance that was neither fish nor fowl.

Anyway, as long as you beat the opponent down with a flurry of punches, even if it's just random, overpowering punches, it can still be translated as "Xia Ji Ba Da" (a play on words, implying a violent or chaotic attack).

Nian looked at him in disbelief: "Hey, are you serious? You're going to fight me bare-handed?"

Liu Jiuli simply smiled and replied, "It's alright, the result is the same."

Nian narrowed her eyes. She saw confidence in Liu Jiuli's face that came from his strength, so she decided to test him first.

"Then I'll go first, get ready!"

Nian swung his giant sword toward Liu Jiuli, and the fiery strike instantly hit Liu Jiuli.

The latter did not react at all.

It wasn't that Liu Jiuli didn't react, but rather that he really didn't need to. If the attack couldn't break through his defenses, he could just hold on.

Nian blinked, asking incredulously, "Are you alright?"

Liu Jiuli snapped his fingers and said, "You didn't penetrate my armor."

Nian laughed, a very happy laugh: "Hey~ It's been a long time since anyone dared to provoke me like this, little brother, you're the first. Well then, I won't hold back anymore, take this!"

In this attack, Nian swung her greatsword directly at Liu Jiuli, who caught it with one hand and was then slammed into the ground in shock.

The situation was quite awkward. Liu Jiuli's defenses were indeed impenetrable, but the ground couldn't withstand them.

Think about why those heavy artillery pieces need to be pre-positioned, or even specially laid out, before they can be fired. Then think about what it would be like to hammer nails into the ground with a hammer.

In shonen manga, of course, you need to be cool and show off, but in reality, if you dare to challenge Newton, Newton will dare to make you lie on the board.

This was the first time she had encountered such a situation, and she didn't know what to do for a moment. After all, she had never met an opponent who dared to be so stubborn.

Fortunately, the embarrassment was short-lived, and Liu Jiuli quickly emerged from the ground. However, the embarrassment he had just experienced was met with merciless ridicule from Nian, who laughed heartily.

"Hahahaha, this is the first time I've ever seen something like this, you... hahahahahaha."

Liu Jiuli shrugged nonchalantly: "What does it matter? You can't break my defense anyway, so it's an ineffective attack."

Nian wiped away the tears of laughter and said between laughs, "That's true. How did you train your defense?"

Everyone knows what an incredibly powerful defense means: it means you have more opportunities to counterattack than your enemy, it means your enemy is quickly worn down while you can lie in wait. Defense is more difficult than offense. If one side's defense is impenetrable to the other, then it means...

"It seems you're stronger than me. That's strange. We're both part of the Year Beast, so why are you so powerful?"

"Maybe it's because I do 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10-kilometer run every day, and I don't turn on the air conditioning to test my willpower, that's why I'm so strong."

Nian waved his hand: "You're kidding me. If you don't want to tell me, then forget it. Besides, even if you did tell me, I might not be able to learn it. Although we are all one, everyone's essence is different. However, I still want to test it."

Seeing Nian's eager expression, Liu Jiuli was speechless: "Knowing you can't win, why are you still fighting?"

Nian Yi tilted her head back and said, "Anyway, you definitely won't kill me. It's rare to have a good fight. If it were any other stranger, I would have run away long ago. Let your sister have some fun. You won't lose out."

Liu Jiuli shook his head: "I feel like I've been cheated, since you've already lost anyway."

Nian immediately replied, "How about I increase it to helping you for a whole year?"

Liu Jiuli's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "Deal!"

Nian immediately shouldered her greatsword and said happily, "Then it's sister's turn to go!"

How terrifying is a year when everything is going full throttle?

If you were an ordinary person, the recent outburst was like a salvo of Katyusha rockets followed by dozens of Mother of All Bombs, and finally, a small-yield tactical nuclear bomb that gave you a friendly greeting.

The existence of such extraordinary individuals has raised the cost of war for an individual to an unimaginable level. Just like the appearance of Godzilla on Earth, victory requires the sacrifice of human lives, even high-quality human lives. Considering that the fragments of the Year Beast, represented by Nian, also have the option of fusion, it is understandable that Yan Kingdom would set up a special platform to prepare for them.

The only difference is that Yan has a slightly broader perspective. As long as something can be used for our purposes, we can accept anything else, which shows the spirit of "those who enter our China are Chinese."

Of course, this spirit is built on the foundation of strength; spirit without strength is just lying down.

The outcome of the battle was obvious. Even if Liu Jiuli were to take the attack head-on with his bare hands, he would still find it difficult to break through Nian's defenses. Even special attacks would be impossible, such as Ling's "Entering Dreams," which is similar to "I like to kill people in my dreams."

The main reason was that watching the two fight so fiercely, and seeing the fate of Ling Ye's adopted child, I realized that her ability to enter dreams was indeed powerful. She could easily make people lose themselves in the dream world by blurring the lines between reality and illusion.

But in Liu Jiuli's view, Ling's world is just lines made up of countless energies, like program code. He can change the skin to make it look real, but it is still just playing a game through a computer screen, separating reality from illusion.

When the truth and falsehood are obvious, the power of dreams is greatly weakened. Most importantly, Liu Jiuli can violently dismantle them, shatter dreams in another world, and switch the battlefield in the dream to reality.

As a former general who once guarded a region, Ling's combat power is naturally not bad. It can be seen that Liu Jiuli's actual attack moves are similar to a turtle punch. But if it is a series of turtle punches, even Dio cannot withstand it.

Liu Jiuli has not yet used his mental power in battle. If he does, the battle will become even more one-sided.

"I'm not playing anymore, your skills are too unfair!"

Sitting atop the suspended giant sword, his face showed nothing but helplessness and annoyance.

She had just tried every attack method she could think of, but Liu Jiuli just stood there and she couldn't get any effective damage. The series of ricocheting bullets was driving her crazy.

For those who don't understand, imagine yourself aiming at a Cricket when you're playing Yamaguchi-cho. Normally, you'd be able to penetrate it with one shot, but the feedback you get after the shell flies out is "it bounced off".

Did you feel like you were about to have a meltdown?

“If we are fragments of the Year Beast, then you are the original body, no, you should be even more terrifying than the original body.”

This is her evaluation of Liu Jiuli in the year, and then she decisively admits defeat and agrees to help Liu Jiuli for a year.

Liu Jiuli has gained a high-end worker qualification, has a job, and has united his family. We all have a bright future.

Chapter 124: If the leader is the Demon King

(Surprised? Second update! (～￣▽￣)～)

Liu Jiuli's joining in 2010 meant she had a metallurgical genius, and she was then assigned to work at the research institute.

Don't forget the ultimate black technology of the all-powerful factory. As long as the laboratory can produce something, Liu Jiuli can mass-produce it (purely in terms of matter and energy, the soul is no match for it). No intermediate process is needed. The success of the laboratory is the clarion call for mass production and moving towards reality.

Don't think this is simple. Look at the mass-produced industrial products around you. The process from their birth to mass production takes decades. What you take for granted is the result of countless people's hard work.

A good life begins with labor.

"Here, here, watch out, okay, put it down."

"Loading, loading, clear the passage."

"These are our goods, please take a count."

The port of Steelgrad is very busy, and the city has become an important economic city in the Far East of Ursus.

With its strong industrial capacity and advanced technology, Steelgrad has gained significant bargaining power over all surrounding cities during its development. These cities have all relied on Steelgrad's products for development and have developed a serious path dependence. They are now essentially Steelgrad's economic colonies.

Not long ago, the Red Guards purchased more than a dozen blocks from other cities in preparation for expanding Steel Grid. At the same time, during the bandit suppression, the Red Guards discovered a safe zone located on the southern border between Ursus and Yan Kingdom. The zone covers an area of ​​about 1,000 square kilometers and is mostly plains, with 80% of the land being very suitable for growing crops.

These safe zones free from natural disasters are quite rare on Terra. Don't the other Ursus cities around here have any interest in them? Don't tell me they don't know about this place; it's such a large area that even StarCraft players can see it.

That's true, but there's the issue of development costs.

First, you need to understand that traditional agriculture, which relies on intensive farming and manpower, is not very profitable. To make agriculture profitable, you need to build modern, large-scale, automated farms. This requires a large investment of capital and technical personnel. Given the current state of development in the Ursus Empire's Far East, it's already quite an achievement that they can figure out greenhouses in their own mobile cities. To expect them to have a complete modern agricultural system is like asking Mozi to build a 59-year-old machine—that's going too far.

However, Liu Jiuli did not have this concern; his only problem was that he lacked manpower.

As it turns out, even though Steelgrad has now swelled to more than 500,000 people (100,000 of whom are migrant workers, and some are disaster victims rescued from the disaster-stricken areas abandoned by Kharkiv), Liu Jiuli's obsession with covering every piece of land with farmland and infrastructure means that even playing Stellaris requires pressing "~" to solve the problem, let alone in reality.

So Liu Jiuli decisively assigned W a task.

"Among you Sarkaz, there must be many who also yearn for a peaceful life. Steelgrad welcomes them."

"Hey boss, are you serious? A bunch of Sarkaz coming here is going to cause a lot of trouble."

"What are you afraid of? If the sky falls, I'll fight it back. You just need to find people. Don't worry about the funding gap. The Red Guards are so poor right now that they only have money left."

Faced with such an outrageously extravagant act, W said he would comply.

What's really frustrating is that Liu Jiuli only agreed to provide financial support, not personnel support.

No, don't even think about it, it doesn't exist. You'll have to figure it out yourself.

There are many Sarkaz who have mastered special Originium Arts. Whether they are Infected or ordinary people, they are all excellent subjects for Originium Arts research. Currently, they are all technicians in the research institute. Liu Jiuli has put in a lot of effort to train them. Even though they used to be W's subordinates, Liu Jiuli will not send them back to be W's henchmen.

This was the first time W had encountered such a situation. In the past, the difficulties she faced were always that there were many people, but no money, no equipment, and she had to make the explosives herself.

We have plenty of equipment and money, and our warehouses are full of weapons and equipment, but we have no manpower.

It's not that we can't recruit anyone, but rather that all the trustworthy comrades have been transferred away by Liu Jiuli. These people are now living happy and fulfilling lives, and W even attended the weddings of several veterans last month.

Looking at their radiant smiles, W knew she shouldn't disturb them.

"Forget it, no one is here, at least there's enough money. Those flies will come in a swarm as soon as you pay them."

Mercenaries know mercenaries best. W quickly recruited a group of Sarkaz mercenaries from all over Ursus, as well as other mercenaries. After these mercenaries arrived at Steelgro, Liu Jiuli first tested them. The result of the test was that he single-handedly took them all down.

"No, no, your combat skills are all too low. You trash can't possibly complete the mission I assigned you. Here's what we'll do: I'll still pay you, but you have to undergo training according to my requirements. Any questions?"

"We're here to fight a war, not to go to school!"

"Five thousand Lungmen coins per person."

"Sir, this isn't about the money..."

"Ten thousand."