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The sky was clear and the sun was warm. The tide rose and fell on the golden beach, and a fiddler crab scurried across it with its charming little steps. Suddenly, it stopped and waved its right claw, a common tactic for attracting females.
Not far from the beach, there are houses.
In front of a two-story villa, the space was suddenly distorted by a mysterious force, and a man and a woman walked out of the dark vortex.
Mountain breeze and Shen Yi.
Shen Yi pressed the doorbell and waited respectfully. Two minutes later, the lock of the iron gate moved slightly. He bowed to the camera, then pushed the door open and walked in.
Feng followed him. She wasn't wearing a gi today, her hair hanging loose, and she was wearing a plain beige sweatshirt, jeans, and flat canvas shoes. She walked with a slight limp, clearly still recovering from her previous injury.
The two of them walked one in front and one behind, and were guided by the servant to an umbrella on the lawn in the backyard.
There was a chessboard inside, with black and white pieces scattered on the board. Two men sat on either side, playing chess.
"Mr. Liu, Mr. Li, good morning." Shen Yi nodded and greeted them one by one.
Feng also nodded and saluted.
Liu He turned his head and glanced at them casually. He picked up the porcelain cup and took a sip of tea. Then he spoke calmly, "I heard Xiaolin is gone?"
"Yes, Mr. Liu," Shen Yi said with a look of regret. "We've been planning this for a long time, taking every aspect into consideration. We could have obtained an S-rank skill this time, but... Xiaolin-kun underestimated the enemy."
"How stupid." Liu He commented expressionlessly.
With a click, Li Xian'an landed the white piece on the chessboard. It was a big leap. He looked up and said, "Old Liu, it's your turn."
Liu He's gaze shifted back to the chessboard. After seeing the placement of the white piece, he shook his head slightly. He was completely pessimistic about his opponent's move. "So, they say that thinking too long can lead to bad moves. You're confused. Believe it or not, if there were an AI analyzing the game, your chances of winning would drop by at least 30 percentage points with this move."
Li Xian'an frowned, his chin in his hand, his face serious and thoughtful, but he didn't find any mistakes: "I think it's pretty good."
Liu He smiled and calmly placed his black piece, "Your big dragon is in danger."
The black pieces flew towards the white chess territory, the white pieces leaned in, the black pieces pulled back, the white pieces grew, the black pieces were tigers, defending and attacking at the same time, and the white pieces were embarrassed to block. Liu He planned to kill the dragon and fell into a long deliberation.
Shen Yi and Feng stood quietly by, motionless, like two statues. Because chess players hate to be interrupted when they are thinking deeply.
After ten minutes of long thinking, Liu He finally made his move.
Li Xian'an's eyes widened in disbelief. He pointed at the chessboard excitedly and said, "Old Liu, you really did think long and hard to make a bad move, but you won't regret it."
Liu He rolled his eyes at him and said, "Look how happy you are. I'll just give in to you. If I kill your dragon, you'll lose twenty points."
Li Xian: "Thank you."
Next, it was Li Xi'an's turn to think for a long time. Liu He turned his head and glanced at Feng and Shen Yi outside the umbrella.
"I just want to ask you a question, when can we get the magical skills?" Liu He asked.
"Mr. Liu," Shen Yi said with a troubled look on his face, "the situation is a bit tricky now. We need support."
After about ten seconds of silence, Liu He's hand landed on the table, the force causing the pieces on the board to shift slightly. His expression turned grim. "Really? Your district is the worst. It's bad enough that you couldn't make it to the top of [Season 1], but after all this time, you only got one amazing skill, and you were fooled around by others."
Hearing this, Li Xianan raised his head and said, "Old Liu, this isn't right. The Nordic region is even worse off than them. They're almost being wiped out."
Liu He turned his head speechlessly and glared at him angrily: "I'm scolding someone, and you have to go against me, right?"
Li Xian smiled, clasped his hands together, apologized guiltily, then lowered his head to look at the chessboard and continued his long thinking.
Liu He was too lazy to pay attention to him. He came back to his senses and thought for a few seconds: "Okay, I'll send someone to your district. I want to see the results in ten days. Okay?"
"Yes!" Shen Yi and Feng responded in unison.
"Then go back and don't hang around here."
Shen Yi didn't move. He raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand. He said, "Mr. Liu, there's one more thing—that woman in our district is too arrogant. She made a statement on the world channel."
"What did you say?" Liu He looked back at the chessboard and asked casually.
"She said, 'I don't like to endure, and I don't have the good temper to repay evil with kindness. From today on, I will collect your coordinates.' At the end of the game, she even received a smiling emoticon." Shen Yi told the truth.
Liu He picked up the teacup, but didn't drink it after listening. Suddenly, he became interested.
Shen Yi said tremblingly, "Mr. Liu, I think she probably knows about your existence."
Liu He sneered, "You're just a bunch of idiots. You're more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything, and you keep stumbling over and over again."
"Old Liu, from what I heard from her, she might be planning a counterattack, right?" Li Xian interrupted his long thought again and interrupted.
"It's just some harsh words," Liu He said silently. He raised his hand and flicked his finger outwards. "I'll arrange for some support in a moment. You guys go ahead."
"Yes, Mr. Liu." Shen Yi nodded respectfully, took two steps back, and left sideways.
Feng Ye nodded silently and said goodbye.
Just after they walked a few meters away, Liu He called them.
"Wait," he suddenly had a bad feeling. Actually, it didn't matter, but it was better to be safe than sorry. The teachings of our ancestors were always right. "The coordinates of Paradise Island are well hidden. If they leak out, you'll be dead."
During the three-day voyage, Hailou's fleet - four fourth-level refuge ships sailed from north to south, across the blue waves, and into the vast South China Sea.
Tang Yingxue and Shi Jiahui's refuge ships both met the requirements for upgrading to level four. Previously, they were busy with personal matters and were worried that the level four ships would be inconvenient to move, so they postponed the upgrade. Now that they have entered the sea, of course they have been upgraded.
After careful consideration, He Zhaonian and his crew decided to temporarily anchor the refugee ship on a small island near the coastline to resupply fresh water and repairs. Three days without any abnormalities, they should have escaped Jiange's pursuit.
Over the past three days, Tao Sai's injuries have healed rapidly, thanks to his 50 resistance points and the skills [Super Healing] and [Super Recovery]. The internal injuries from the kicks to his internal organs aren't serious, and the occasional abdominal pain he'd experienced is now much better. The close combat that night also resulted in fractured bones and soft tissue contusions across his body, but these have miraculously recovered.
Of course, the most important thing is that her two legs, which had undergone reconnection surgery, can now move normally in the ankle and toe joints. However, Liang Yuanzhou has not removed the splints for her. The reconnection of large bones such as the tibia and fibula requires a long recovery period.
Tao Sai wasn't in a rush. He knew it wouldn't be too late to move once he'd recovered. It was a rare opportunity to rest in bed all day. These days, besides eating and sleeping as normal, Tao Sai's movies tended to be action-packed.
At the beginning, she and Zhou Ning did not cache and download videos of fighting competitions and training instructions, and could only learn moves from some martial arts movies.
Whenever she sees an exciting battle scene, Tao Sai speeds it up to 0.5x, sometimes pausing it repeatedly to try to mimic the actors' movements frame by frame. Undeterred by the complex movements, numerous techniques, and frequent scene changes, Tao Sai has increased her intelligence by five points to improve her memory and grasp more knowledge.
What’s even more amazing is that Tao Sai discovered that the PSP game console that Lin Kang gave her actually contained the fighting games "Street Fighter" and "The King of Fighters".
She had only heard of the names before, and vaguely knew that these were two of the most popular and enduring fighting games. Countless boys in their school days were fascinated by them, and would imitate the moves of the characters in them in a very childish way during class breaks. Among them, Mai Shiranui from "The King of Fighters" even became popular on the national mobile game "Honor of Kings".
In short—
She loves fighting games so much!
She felt that she could practice many of the characters' combos, and if she could apply them to her own actual combat, she would surely be able to achieve a surprise victory.
She wanted to play these two games crazily, memorize all the moves, digest them, and master them.
Tao Sai rubbed her hands together, loosened her knuckles, and started another round. She tapped the keys so fast that sparks flew.
In this round, she used Kyo Kusanagi's cyborg, K′. I have to say, this guy is really handsome.
Lin Kang, who had good intentions at first and only wanted to let her play the game console for an hour before returning it to him, ended up never getting it back: 6
Of course, He Zhaonian and the others had been following the training plan they had drawn up over the past few days. Physical training, agility training, and strength training were essential.
In addition, the three of them would gather on the deck of the Deep Sea Fish, where Feng Tao, one of the commandos, would pull them into a fantasy world and begin to "ravage" them over and over again. As the three entered the illusory Deep Sea Fish, they gradually transitioned from their initial scattered escape to a collaborative effort against the enhanced Feng Tao.
It has to be said that they were really determined this time. No matter how hard they were beaten in the illusion, how miserable they were, how painful their wounds were, or how tragic their death was, they would still complete the training plan without fail, and sometimes they would even take the initiative to ask for extra training.
Tao Sai was half-sitting on the bed, with several soft pillows behind her. She worked frantically with her hands and finally used K' to kill the game.
A sharp, wailing sound suddenly echoed from deep within his brain. Tao Sai's face was filled with pain. He immediately threw away his PSP, picked up the headset on the bedside table, changed the channel, and spoke to Zhang Jian inside, "Same as before, feed me a big rock."
She quickly equipped the magical skill [Collapse] on the character [Zhang Jian].
It's time to feed [collapse] again. She can't get out of bed these days, so this matter can only be handed over to someone else.
I have to feed it a big stone every day. Sometimes one stone is not enough, so I have to feed it twice. It is really troublesome, and it suddenly makes a noise in the brain, which makes me upset.
But there was no way around it, it was an S-level magical skill, and it was thanks to it that I was able to kill Kobayashi Nobukazu and escape successfully that night.
Tao Sai discovered one thing, that [Collapse] was becoming more and more picky about food. That night, it was particularly fascinated by the materials of the secret room. The stronger and denser the material, the more it liked it. Then, having seen the sea, it no longer felt comfortable with ordinary soft and fragile soil and rocks. It wanted to eat stones of at least the quality of granite and marble.
Fortunately, [Collapse] cannot transform into a human form, otherwise Tao Sai might use some corporal punishment to teach it not to be picky about food.
The island where the sea tower is anchored is marked on the cached map as Cricket Island. There are less than a hundred indigenous people on the island, and it is the size of a small village. The infrastructure is extremely backward, and of course there is no ferry between the island and the mainland.
Therefore, even now, if the survivors on land try every possible means to seek refuge, they will not come to such a deserted island.
He Zhaonian found a good anchorage point and then directed all the refugee boats to drop anchor at their respective locations. The anchorage point was in a wide bay, surrounded by a deserted area, which was a natural shelter.
Tao Sai called a few commandos and followed He Zhaonian and the others to the island to find fresh water.
Less than two hours later, they were back. They had found a clear spring in the mountains and filled it with 18.9L mineral water barrels. With only 20 barrels, they could only carry so much water per trip. The water source was too far from the beach, so pumps weren't available, so they had to carry it back and forth.
In addition to transporting water, He Zhaonian also excitedly climbed onto the "Deep Sea Fish" and took out a 99% new wheelchair from the [warehouse]. He exchanged supplies with the villagers on the island.
The wheelchair is electric. After it is fully charged, you can control the wheelchair to move forward, backward, left and right by operating the joystick on the armrest. It has three gears: slow, medium and high, which is very advanced.
Tao Sai: “…”
Of course she was grateful for his kindness, but she was adamant and refused to sit down! She could stand up, so what did she need this thing for?
After He Zhaonian left, the door of the room closed again. Tao Sai tilted his head slightly, glanced at the electric wheelchair in the corner of the room, and sighed softly.
After recuperating for the past few days and getting enough deep sleep every day, she is in excellent spirits, but it seems like something is missing.
Tao Sai struggled to overcome the discomfort caused by his various attributes, carefully and slowly moving his body, reaching out to pull the electric wheelchair to the bed. Then, after a full ten minutes of effort and numerous difficulties, he finally gained control of himself and sat in the wheelchair.
Open the electric valve, move the joystick forward, the motor starts working, the wheels under the wheelchair turn, and it slowly moves forward.
Her body swayed slightly under the influence of inertia. Tao Sai suddenly felt dizzy, and her soul was trying to leave her body with a "duangduangduang" sound. She could only lean her head on the backrest of the wheelchair and press her solar plexus with her other hand.
Having already taken this step, there is no reason to give up halfway - mainly because it would be quite troublesome for her to lie back in bed.
Tao Sai simply continued to push the joystick forward, opened the door when he reached it, and drove the electric wheelchair into the corridor.
Then I pulled the joystick to the left, completed a graceful turn, and drove all the way onto the deck.
As soon as she was on the deck, the sea breeze blew over her face. Tao Sai closed her eyes and leaned back on the chair. After a few days, she finally breathed the outside air again and felt relaxed.
She sat quietly for a while, enjoying the breeze. She wanted to access the system panel and uninstall [Collapse] from her character [Zhang Jian]. She was worried about being attacked or something, and the S-rank divine skill [Collapse] couldn't be compromised. It would be safest if it was placed in the player's skill list.
But just when she opened the homepage, her eyes suddenly flickered, and she suddenly discovered that the original [S1 Season] module position on the panel homepage has now been replaced by [S2 Season].
She tried to focus her eyes and click, but it still wouldn't open like before. It was just a preview. Then a small line of subtitles popped up in front of her.
[Season 2 is about to start, please stay tuned. ]
Tao Sai lowered his eyes and glanced at his legs which were still in splints. Okay, the new season is really good at choosing the time.
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