Chapter 424 He asked this question? 2 What exactly is he up to?
Su Tang's mind raced, but she remained outwardly calm. Following his lead, she replied in a half-joking tone, "Reporting to Squad Leader Jiang Yan, what else can we prepare for? Let's conserve our energy and try not to be defeated in the first round, so as not to embarrass our Class Four."
Her answer was straightforward and humble, neither revealing her true abilities nor allowing the other party to delve any further.
Jiang Yan seemed taken aback by her nonchalant, "laid-back" attitude. He had prepared a whole speech, but now he didn't know where to begin.
He remained silent for a moment before finally daring to raise his gaze and meet Su Tang's eyes.
"I saw your fight with Bai Wei." He seemed to have finally found a starting point, and his speech became smoother. "You didn't use the fighting techniques taught in the military."
This is not a question, but an affirmative statement.
Su Tang understood immediately. So this was what they were waiting for her. They were testing her.
"Squad Leader Jiang Yan has a good eye." Su Tang readily admitted, a sly smile on her face. "The skills taught in the army are for fighting on the battlefield. My mediocre skills were taught by my grandfather for physical fitness, nothing to be proud of."
She brought out her old "ancestral massage to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis" rhetoric again, only this time she said it more vaguely and convincingly.
"Promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis?" Jiang Yan chewed on these words, a hint of amusement flashing in his eyes. "To be able to make someone vomit blood and faint from 'promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis,' your family's method is truly domineering."
Su Tang blinked: "That was purely an accident. I was too nervous at the time. She punched me, and I was so scared that I almost jumped out of my skin. I just remembered my grandfather saying that there are some places on a person's body that you shouldn't press randomly, because if you do, they will become numb and painful. So I subconsciously pushed her like that... Who knew she was so fragile?"
Her words were half true and half false, three parts aggrieved and seven parts innocent, pushing all the responsibility onto "nervousness" and "accident," portraying herself as a weak woman who was powerless and relied entirely on luck to fight back.
Looking into her clear, innocent eyes that seemed to say "I know nothing," Jiang Yan couldn't tell for a moment which of her words were true and which were false.
This female soldier is like a mystery.
You might think she's weak and easy to bully, but she can score a perfect 100 with a broken gun, shocking everyone.
You might think she's simple-minded, but she managed to manipulate all the veterans during the mountain assessment.
You might think she's cold and heartless, but she'll resolutely choose to protect her teammates, especially the weakest one, Chen Xiaocao.
You might think she's just a good shot, but her understanding of combat techniques far exceeds everyone's expectations.
In his twenty years of life, Jiang Yan had never felt such intense, almost uncontrollable curiosity about a person.
He fell silent.
A subtle silence fell over the atmosphere once again.
The noise from the training field seemed to be shut out by an invisible wall, creating a world of its own under this small banyan tree.
Su Tang wasn't in a hurry. She watched him calmly, waiting for him to make another move. She could sense that the combat assessment was just a prelude; Jiang Yan hadn't yet asked what he really wanted to ask.
"How did you train your marksmanship?" Jiang Yan finally spoke again, asking another question that had been on his mind for a long time.
As the undisputed marksman of the Third Battalion, he possessed an almost obsessive love and confidence in firearms. However, Su Tang's perfect score of 100 rings that day, especially the 100 rings achieved with a faulty gun, completely shattered his pride.
He couldn't understand what kind of talent and training was needed to reach that state of perfect harmony between man and gun.
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