Time slips away quietly.
The red glow of the setting sun painted the campus of No. 7 Middle School golden. After the peak dismissal period, the noise and crowds gradually subsided.
The physical testing center gradually quieted down, and the last few students left the campus complaining. They wondered which lunatic had been hogging the martial arts simulator and refusing to leave. Did he have a rich family or something?
That person spent at least three or four hours in the martial arts simulator, which cost two hundred yuan per session. It was utterly insane.
Inside the martial arts simulator, Shen Qian, who had just finished a test, sat cross-legged on the ground, panting heavily.
Sweat dripped from Chen Qian's body and onto the simulator floor, but the floor was made of a special material, and the water stains dissolved completely in no time.
Grandpa Xu had already squandered the two thousand yuan on his card within the first hour, and then deposited another ten thousand yuan before sinking.
He couldn't even remember how many times he had passed the checkpoints.
In his final attempt, he fell to the combined might of the fourteen bronze statues.
The Bronze Man Formation becomes increasingly monstrous as it progresses. Although the basic strength of each Bronze Man remains unchanged at the initial stage of martial arts, under the command of artificial intelligence, their combined attack technique is virtually flawless.
Beginner martial artists have not yet reached the stage of qualitative change in martial arts realm. Even a ninth-level beginner martial artist can be suppressed by a numerical advantage.
"I've tried seven times already, but I still can't get past the fourteenth hurdle."
As he pondered this, Chen Qian took out a Satiety Pill and popped it into his mouth.
Ouch, so spicy...
This "Full-Eat Pill" seems to be from a Sichuan hot pot restaurant, with an extremely high level of spiciness. However, after the spiciness subsides, there is indeed a feeling of exhilaration. As a native of the South, I quite enjoyed this feeling.
After eating his fill, Chen Qian's thoughts returned to the array of bronze figures before him.
His progress in that afternoon was remarkable. Both his proficiency in basic martial arts techniques and his control over his own strength had improved significantly compared to before.
Of course, it can't compare to a system.
Thinking of the system, Shen Qian's heart stirred.
Come to think of it, he had never tried to let the system try to break through this bronze statue formation.
He used to think it was meaningless, but at this moment he has reached his limit and can learn from the system.
A combat-oriented level system like this will definitely leave you with combat experience, which is a good opportunity to learn from it.
He acted on his thought immediately. After eating and drinking his fill and digesting for a while, he waited until his physical condition was almost back to its peak before opening the system's auto-play interface.
"Perfectly clear the Bronze Man Formation in the Martial Arts Simulator".
After thinking for a moment, Chen Qian entered a command that wasn't too excessive.
Well, from the system's perspective, this is by no means excessive.
"Task objective generated, system is parsing..."
"Analysis complete, system is automatically navigating..."
Upon hearing the final notification tone, Shen Qian knew that this was a sure thing. The next second, everything went black, and he lost consciousness.
...
When Shen Qian opened his eyes, he glanced at the sky and was surprised to find that it was completely dark.
"It took more than two hours?" Shen Qian checked the time and pondered, "Does even the system take this long?"
It seems that the later stages of this bronze statue formation are more difficult than I imagined before I went to work.
Before sinking, his consciousness entered the system's archives and opened the newly appeared folder.
"This AFK session includes training data and combat experience. The system will automatically activate performance mode to present the data in a perfect manner. Please click to [Load] the AFK session record."
Upon seeing the text prompt at the top, Chen Qian was taken aback. This was the first time he had ever seen a perfectly displayed AFK record, completely different from any time before.
Filled with curiosity, I clicked the "Load" button.
A glimmer of light seemed to bloom deep within his mind, then slowly spread to Shen Qian's nerves, blurring everything around him. When Shen Qian came to his senses, he realized something was wrong.
He was still himself, but he couldn't control his body.
No, the sky outside has turned to dusk. This was more than two hours ago, when he first started AFK.
At this moment, Shen Qian felt extremely strange. It was as if he had been dragged into the river of time and was reliving the things he had done. But unlike the memory loading he had done before, this method was more real.
He still has bodily sensation.
If it weren't for the faint, granular feeling in the surrounding air reminding him, Chen Qian would almost have thought that the past two hours were just a dream.
Chen Qian watched himself stand up, then swiped his card and reconnected to the simulator.
After setting the number of bronze figures to fourteen, "Sinking Before" entered the level.
On a high platform surrounded by white clouds, Chen Qian stood in the center with an indifferent expression. Around him were fourteen bronze figures whose positions implied some kind of mystery.
Unlike the initial, lifeless state of the single bronze figure, these fourteen bronze figures have lively eyes, their gazes seeming as if they were alive, and a chilling aura emanates from them.
Without giving Shen Qian any time to prepare, the fourteen bronze figures charged towards him in a three-three-four formation the moment they appeared.
The front is for charging, the back is for grappling, the left is for leaping strikes, and the right is for pouncing strikes.
The four formations, though different in posture, give the impression of an inescapable net.
Before sinking, he had tried seven times but had not found a way to break through, because the fourteen people were moving at the same speed, and no matter where he broke through, he would reveal a fatal flaw.
But Shen Qian and Shen Qian are clearly different.
At this moment, Shen's expression was indifferent. He stomped his right foot heavily on the ground, and his body shot out like a cannonball, crashing head-on into the four bronze figures in front of him.
Shen Qian realized that it wasn't that the four bronze figures in front of him were without flaws, but simply that his speed was not fast enough.
The fully unleashed "Sinking Forward" not only possesses greater strength but also surgical precision in controlling that force. After a headbutt that sent the first person flying, he stopped precisely in the middle of the remaining three.
The three bronze figures, still charging forward, appeared to be full of flaws in the eyes of "Shenqian".
One punch, one kick, and another punch!
Completely crushing everything in its path!
In an instant, all four bronze figures exploded and vanished into nothingness.
At that moment, the other ten bronze warriors rushed to the spot where Chen had just stood, and the encirclement was instantly broken.
The rest is simple. "Sinking forward" moves like a butterfly flitting among ten people's attacks, punching or kicking. Every move is a preparation, every hand gesture is a setup, and every action is a way to borrow strength.
The transitions between punches and kicks in "Sinking Forward" are seamless, sometimes thunderous, sometimes gentle as a spring breeze, blasting one person with a single step, and ten people with ten steps.
Swift as rain, beautiful as a painting.
He strolled leisurely, yet his murderous intent remained undiminished.
While Shen Qian was still immersed in the feeling of "how could I be so handsome", the battle was already over.
The statistics panel beeped, but Chenqian didn't even look at it. He simply logged out, selected the fifteen-player mode again, and entered the battle once more.
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