"I didn't expect you to be able to swim here."
He thought Om would drown in the water outside.
The Om before him seemed different from the one he had seen yesterday. His pale, weak face seemed to have gained a lot of vitality, and even his dull, lifeless eyes, which were like those of a rat in a sewer, were radiating a light that was almost impossible for him to look directly at.
It only took one night.
Luo Lin thought she was overthinking it.
"I'm here, you can leave now."
Without uttering a single unnecessary word, Jin Shu stepped outside and jumped into the water. She heard Luo Lin angrily pounding the wall inside.
To prevent Jin Shu from taking advantage of him, he left the training room at 2 a.m. and came back at 6 or 7 a.m. In between, he probably spent some time overthinking during that short break.
It's clear that the Frant family is quite petty.
The next day, Jin Shu went to the training room as usual.
This time, Luo Lin stayed even longer than yesterday, not coming out until 2:40 in the morning.
This was clearly the limit of his training, because he triggered the alarm when he swam out, and was eventually pulled up by others.
Jin Shu remained unaffected and continued to focus on her own work.
Yesterday, she had already challenged all the dozen or so virtual coaches in the training room, and there was nothing new to learn. So when the system warned her three times, "Confirm entry into the combat simulation training room?", she confirmed each time.
Here, the mechs that Luo Lin and Pei Ya usually use for training stand quietly in the center.
Once the mech is activated and awakened, the previously dark and enclosed space suddenly transforms into a vast universe.
Jin Shu tried to actively connect to the mecha many times, but each attempt ended in failure.
She has no mental energy, so it seems too early to try to activate the mecha.
Just as Jin Shu deactivated her mecha and stepped out, the surrounding virtual scenery suddenly changed again, with everything shifting and time and space transforming. Suddenly, everything before her eyes froze in a still image.
Jin Shu looked around and found herself in a huge boxing ring. Around the ring were rows of seats arranged in a circle, and the seats were full of people. Their eyes were excited and their expressions were frenzied. In the blink of an eye, the shouts and roars that surged up like a tidal wave made her lose her senses for a moment.
The still image came to life.
At this moment, she was truly in this underground dueling arena. Her clothes had changed into a black bodysuit, with boots pulled up to her thighs. Tattoos were visible on her two bare arms. Her hands were empty, and the moment she looked up, a two-meter-tall humanoid combat mech suddenly appeared in front of her.
Before Jin Shu could even get a good look at the humanoid mecha's equipment, it charged straight at her, its steel fist slamming down in her direction.
There was no time to think anymore. Jin Shu jumped up and nimbly dodged the opponent's attack. Just as she regained her footing, the opponent didn't give her any chance to catch her breath and rushed over at lightning speed.
In the instant their fists clashed, Jin Shu could clearly feel the stinging pain as her finger bones cracked.
In close combat, with flesh and blood against steel and iron, she could not possibly be a match.
Especially since she lacked mental strength and her body had not been strengthened, she was even less able to confront its attack head-on.
The opponent's fists came down one after another, and Jin Shu dodged frantically, using her agility to launch counterattacks.
Her lower abdomen, back, upper arm, and shoulder were all injured by the opponent's fists. Jin Shu gritted her teeth and watched the humanoid mecha's movements. When it once again leaped high into the air, preparing to swoop down and deliver a fatal blow, Jin Shu did not dodge immediately as before. Instead, she stood silently in place until the mechanical fist was only a few centimeters away from her. Then, she suddenly moved a few centimeters to the left, quickly turned around, grabbed the humanoid mecha's arm, and used the force of its swooping motion to twist it hard.
With a "click".
At first, small pieces of parts appeared, followed by large chunks of armor, and finally the entire mechanical arm shattered into pieces.
The humanoid mech without arms is obviously much less powerful than before.
When Jin Shu realized that her right arm was severely fractured, she used the mechanical arm in the weapon attribute box. With her entire arm mechanically armed, she used her best fist technique.
When steel strikes steel, sparks fly.
Finally, Jin Shu slammed her fist into the chest of the humanoid mecha. The mechanical arm spread its five fingers and pulled hard. With a crackling sound of electricity, the humanoid mecha in front of her instantly lost all mobility and collapsed into a puddle.
Jin Shu looked at the crystal that had just been pulled from the chest of the humanoid mecha—a power-enhancing crystal, and it was black.
This is a valuable item. On this little blue planet, black crystals are already considered national treasures. Their purpose is to provide energy to mechs, allowing them to move freely even without fuel.
Jin Shu put the crystal away without hesitation, then limped back to the medical station for treatment.
This time, her injuries were much more severe than before. There wasn't a single uninjured spot on her body, and only her eyes could vaguely see the road ahead.
Fortunately, technology is advanced enough that as long as you don't die, even the most severe superficial injuries can heal within two hours.
Soon, Jin Shu emerged from the medical room, looking refreshed, and headed straight for the space simulator.
Any mecha warrior is very familiar with the term "space simulation".
In this place where the air pressure is close to zero, the warrior's body must undergo years of strengthening until it can adapt to the air pressure of outer space, so that even if the mech is damaged in battle, it can jump out of the pod to survive.
The original owner's longest simulation time inside the pressurized space capsule was four hours.
Although it wasn't the most outstanding achievement among all military academies, it was still something that ordinary students could only look up to for a lifetime.
Most humans on Little Blue Star wouldn't last a second in such an environment, but a small number of exceptionally gifted new humans are able to hone their survival skills in this environment.
Another well-known fact is that the stronger one's mental strength, the longer one can persist in space.
The reverse is also true.
The longer one can endure the zero-pressure state of space, the more one's mental strength will naturally increase.
Therefore, this project is the most common way for military academies to improve students' mental strength.
However, mental strength can only grow when the body is on the verge of collapse and explosion.
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