After the baby fell asleep, Maine carried him to the stroller and pushed it to the door. Standing at the door, Xie Sen and Long Teng were sparring in the yard.
The two stood still, and Bai Jiao shouted from the side: "Begin."
Instantly, Long Teng rushed towards Xie Sen like a gust of wind. Xie Sen stepped back, summoning vines to trip Long Teng's feet, while countless thin, needle-like grains of rice shot towards Long Teng.
Long Teng reacted very quickly. He jumped up lightly, crossed the vines, and turned to the right to avoid the rain of pear blossom rice. Just as he was about to move forward, a dragon claw locust tree that could be hugged by a person appeared in front of him, blocking his way.
"Wow, so handsome!" he shouted, moved to the left and passed the obstruction of the locust tree. Before he could make any other move, he was tied up by the suddenly extended locust tree branches.
Xie Sen summoned plants to fight while retreating to create distance between them, still maintaining the same distance as at the beginning.
"Awesome, let's do it again!" Long Teng said excitedly.
Xie Sen knew that Long Teng deliberately slowed down his movements, otherwise he would not have been able to tie him up so easily.
He ordered Long Zhuahuai to release Long Teng and recalled Long Zhuahuai: "Speed up your attack. I will try various methods to stop your attack."
Long Teng nodded: "Okay."
The second time, as Bai Jiao finished speaking, Long Teng appeared like a phantom and appeared two meters away from Xie Sen. Xie Sen quickly summoned vines and retreated at the same time. Long Teng jumped up, landed on the ground, and put his hand on Xie Sen's neck.
Xie Sen was stunned: "You are so fast!"
Long Teng chuckled: "I'm awesome, right? If you had just used the tree to block and retreated faster, it wouldn't have been so easy to run into you."
Xie Sen nodded, and the two sparred several more times. By the last time, Xie Sen was able to summon three plants at the same time, taking into account both defense and attack. He was very careful, and Da Mi released his strength when he touched Long Teng, so Long Teng was not hurt.
After Long Teng was released by the locust tree, he reached out and touched the branch, feeling its toughness, his eyes shining: "Plants are really super powerful! You have so many plants, if you can use them all quickly, I can't beat you, even if Dahei is here, it will be difficult to win."
Xie Sen spread his hands: "It's not easy to use it quickly, and we need more training. The more plants there are, the easier it is for the command to go wrong. We have to find the best combination, use the least amount of plants, and create an effect that can both attack and defend."
Long Teng laughed and said, "My reaction speed in fights was slower than it is now. I just need more practice to get better."
Xie Sen: "Well, I'll go to the training hall to spar with someone when I'm free."
The four of them had lunch together. While they were eating, the baby woke up and amused himself by biting his chubby hands. Long Teng stretched his head to look while he was eating. Bai Jiao also liked it very much and couldn't help but look at it while he was eating.
After dinner, Long Teng thought about the restaurant design, chatted with Xie Sen about the dishes for a while, and then stood up to say goodbye.
Bai Jiao knew that Xie Sen had the habit of taking a nap, so he didn't stay long and left with Long Teng.
Xie Sen was clearing the dishes. Maine wanted to reach out but he stopped him: "I'll do it, you watch the baby."
When Xie Sen came out of the kitchen, Maine was pushing a stroller towards the bedroom. Xie Sen followed him into the bedroom, put the sleeping baby to bed, and they sat side by side on the sofa beside the bed.
Xie Sen opened his bracelet and checked the specific location of the training hall introduced by Long Teng. He discussed with Maine: "Is it better for me to go there in the morning or afternoon every day?"
Maine: "Neither is good. The baby is still young and not suitable for going to the training ground. I am worried about you going alone."
Maine is almost bound to the baby now. He won't go anywhere the baby can't go.
Xie Sen pointed at the screen and said, "Why worry about this? There is one very close to home, and the environment inside the museum is also very good."
Maine looked at him and said, "The training ground is full of mixed people. It's easy for something to go wrong." Seeing him frown, Maine said, "If you want to spar with someone, call him home!"
Xie Sen sighed, realizing that the situation was serious. He turned off the bracelet, turned sideways and sat cross-legged on the sofa, facing Maine.
"I think we need to talk about this," he grabbed Maine's hand, "I know you love me very much and are worried that I might get hurt, but I'm not a baby. I'm an adult and I have the ability to protect myself."
"Think about it, since I became pregnant and stopped working at Gold Medal, you've been able to watch over me almost all the time, right? We've been almost inseparable."
Maine pursed her beautiful lips and said, "You don't like it?"
"Of course not," Xie Sen kissed the back of his hand, "I like us to be together, but not all the time. We have our own things to deal with. It's okay to be apart for a few hours during the day."
He sighed and said, "You are too nervous. Huo Feng talked to you a few days ago. Logically, you should go to the company, but because you were worried about me, Huo Feng had to come in person."
"This is not normal. You have to relax. Think about it. Most couples go to work in the morning and meet in the evening. We spend more time together than they do. At some point, we can separate and do what we want to do."
He lifted his foot and shook it gently, and a crisp bell rang out: "Look, even if we are separated temporarily, you can always know my location, you don't have to worry at all."
Maine held his foot, rubbed his ankle gently with his thumb, stared at the anklet for a long time, looked up at him and said, "Have you been wanting to say it for a long time, but you are unhappy but hold it in?"
Xie Sen pulled his foot out and raised his hand to hug him: "No, after I got pregnant, before the baby was a month old, I knew the seriousness of the matter. I can understand that you are worried, so I don't think it's bad for you to stay at home."
"But now that I've recovered, I think I should do something else. Don't forget, we've only graduated for a year, and we're still very young." He wrinkled his nose, "I don't want to live an old life so early."
Maine hugged him and said, "I'm sorry, I... I can't help but worry about you. I'm afraid you'll get hurt. Go to the training hall every morning, but don't stay too long. Contact me if you have any problems."
He kissed Xie Sen's forehead: "If I do something that makes you unhappy, don't keep it in your heart, just tell me directly."
Xie Sen held his face and kissed him on both sides, then smiled: "You are so kind, I love you!"
Maine's eyes were filled with smiles, and she put her arms around the back of his neck and kissed him deeply.
The next morning, after finishing his breakfast, Xie Sen took a walk to see the contracted beasts, then walked back to the apartment. He accompanied Maine to feed the baby and change diapers, and played with the baby for a long time. It was almost ten o'clock when the baby fell asleep.
He changed into a set of sportswear, holding a baseball cap with a large and long brim in his hand, spinning it with his fingers, and smiled at Maine: "How about it, handsome, right?"
Maine glanced at him and said, "Very handsome, have you grown taller?"
Xie Sen smiled even more deeply, and threw himself on him and kissed him: "You've grown three centimeters taller." He used his hand to measure the height difference between the two of them, and said depressedly, "The difference is even greater than before."
Maine smiled and said, "I've grown five centimeters taller." He took the hat from Xie Sen's hand and put it on him, pressing it down slightly to cover most of Xie Sen's face. "Wear the hat properly, choose the VIP area indoors, don't spar with others in public."
Xie Sen: “Yeah.”
Maine took out another black mask and handed it to him. Xie Sen took it and said with a smile: "When I went in, the staff in the museum didn't think I was going to challenge the museum!"
Maine: "It's totally fine for you to kick the club."
Xie Sen's mouth curled up: "Are you so confident in me? I don't dare to be so confident. Let me practice for a few days to see the effect."
"Come back for lunch," Maine reminded him before he left.
Xie Sen drove the shuttle at a safe speed for the elderly and arrived at the nearest training hall in less than twenty minutes.
The training hall was very large, and from the outside it looked like a modern large gymnasium. When he approached, the transparent door opened automatically to both sides, and a staff member in black sportswear came over and asked, "What sport do you want to learn?"
Xie Sen said: "No, I'm looking for someone to learn from."
The staff quickly looked him over and said, "Sorry, the competition is not open to minors."
Xie Sen pursed his lips. He knew this, otherwise Long Teng would not have started looking for people to compete with in training grounds all over the place after graduation.
He said, "I'm an adult, so arrange an indoor arena for me and play against novice opponents." He had to take it slow, start with a novice, and adapt to his opponent's abilities.
The staff obviously didn't believe it. All those who came to compete were males. If a male of the same height as Xie Sen grew up, it would be a tragedy.
"Please provide your identification information."
Xie Sen adjusted the brim of his hat, thought for a moment, opened the bracelet, and blurred out the name, gender, and partner columns, leaving only the age column visible to the staff.
The staff member showed a surprised look on his face, and Xie Sen asked, "Is it OK?"
"Sure." The staff took him to the front desk to go through the VIP procedures, and then took him to VIP Room 888: "In order to ensure the safety of the guests, the entire competition process will be monitored, and the video will be simultaneously uploaded to the official website. At the same time, I will watch the whole process."
Xie Sen expressed his understanding and nodded.
The staff member looked at his height and couldn't help but whispered, "Sir, you are a female, right? It's easy to get hurt in a sparring match. We have many training programs suitable for females. Would you like to switch?"
Xie Sen had a better impression of the training hall. It had principles and allowed guests to keep their identities confidential. It was quite considerate. However, his purpose was to spar with others. He smiled and said, "Thank you, I won't change."
At this time, another staff member walked in from the door with a tall and thin male teenager.
The staff member looked at the bracelet and explained to him: "He is a new guest who has just arrived in the hall. He is a D-level contract beast master. As long as one of you admits defeat, the competition will end."
Xie Sen nodded and walked to the large platform in the middle.
The tall and thin male was very young. When he saw Xie Sen, he tilted his head and asked the staff, "Didn't you say that minors can't play sparring?"
The staff member explained: "He is an adult."
The tall and thin male was very surprised. He walked onto the stage and gave Xie Sen an embarrassed smile: "I'm sorry, I just think you're too short... No, I just think you're full of youthful vibes, haha... I definitely don't mean to laugh at your poor development!"
Xie Sen raised the brim of his hat and turned it to the right back. The mask covered most of his face, leaving only his eyebrows and eyes exposed. It was a very handsome look and also ensured that it did not block his vision: "You might as well not explain."
The staff asked if they were ready. After both of them said yes, the staff raised the flag in his hand and waved it down vigorously: "Start."
The tall and thin male hesitated for a moment, then rushed towards Xie Sen. Only then did Xie Sen realize how fast Long Teng's attack speed and reaction speed were.
There is no harm without comparison.
The lanky male only took one step before he was tripped by the vines he had summoned and fell hard on his face.
The male lay on the ground and looked up in a daze. The two staff members were also stunned: "What did he just do?"
Xie Sen called back the vines: "You use your weapons and contracted beasts." He had the ability to defend himself and was not afraid of others using knives. He was only afraid that the other party would not use knives and would lose their combat effectiveness if they were tied up, and this fight would be useless.
The tall and thin male got up from the ground, his eyes gleaming with a bright light: "You you you...you are..."
Xie Sen raised his hand and waved. He was not surprised to be recognized. After all, his attack method was too recognizable.
The male was still very excited, but he understood what he meant and did not continue to speak. Instead, he said excitedly: "Senior, I am from Star City University, a fresh graduate this year, but I am in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, so my combat ability is not strong."
He smiled sheepishly: "Senior, I have a friend who is a combat major in the A-level sparring area. Are you willing to spar with him?"
Xie Sen felt that his opponent was too weak and it would be boring to spar with him. He thought for a moment and said, "Okay." He looked at the staff, "Can I spar with someone else?"
"Okay." The tall and thin male's words made the staff realize who he was, and they both nodded repeatedly.
After a while, the tall and thin male's friend came. He was a bronze-skinned boy with a lean figure and strong muscles. He was obviously a master.
"Tsk, you asked me to come here just to fight him?" The bronze-colored boy frowned.
The tall and thin boy put his arm around his neck and whispered a series of words. The bronze-haired boy nodded and walked to the middle of the field: "Senior, if you don't admit defeat, I won't stop."
Xie Sen raised his eyebrows: "If you don't have time to admit defeat, I will show mercy."
As the staff shouted "start", the two people on the field immediately took action. The bronze-haired boy rushed forward quickly, while Xie Sen immediately retreated, using vines to block the opponent while shooting out a torrential rain of pear blossom rice.
The young man jumped up to avoid the vines, and after landing, he rolled to the ground to avoid the needles. When the vines bent and were about to tie him up, a narrow-bladed knife as long as his arm suddenly appeared in his left hand. He stood up and raised his hand to cut the vines.
At this moment, a potato fell from the sky towards his wrist. He raised his arm but had no time to dodge, so he clenched his right fist and knocked the potato away.
Xie Sen secretly thought of how fast the speed was. Seeing that the boy was less than two meters away from him, he summoned the Dragon Claw Sophora tree to block the two of them, grabbed a branch and swung to the other side to create distance, and ordered the Sophora tree to tie up the boy with its branches.
As soon as the boy's waist was tied up, he reacted very quickly and cut off the branches with his backhand. He jumped up and grabbed a branch. When the branch bent and tried to wrap around him, his body twisted and bounced, landing towards Xie Sen's position.
A green leaf suddenly appeared under Xie Sen's feet and extended outward in an instant. Xie Sen's position changed accordingly, and he was just back to a place not far from the locust tree. In order to stabilize his body, he reached out and grabbed a branch that was extending towards him.
He looked back and saw that the blade where he was originally standing was scratched. He was shocked. Fortunately, he had a new way to move, otherwise the competition would have been over.
Although vines can also move quickly, they will cause additional damage.
This green leaf is from Victoria amazonica, a very large aquatic plant. The leaves have strong load-bearing capacity and the function of the plant is its extensibility. When he stands on it, when the leaves extend, he can move quickly and smoothly, a bit like a conveyor belt.
The young man was also stunned, his eyes filled with even more fighting spirit, and he attacked him again.
Xie Sen summoned potatoes and rice to attack. The boy jumped up to avoid the attack. Xie Sen immediately summoned a bunch of thorns and placed it where the boy stood.
The thorn branches are only one meter high, but the thorns on the branches are thin and long, like elongated sickles, and are very lethal.
The boy couldn't dodge in time and could only roll outwards, trying to touch the fewest thorns.
"Be careful!" the tall and thin boy couldn't help but shout.
At the moment when the boy was about to touch the thorns, Xie Sen called back the thorns, and the boy fell to the ground, pushed himself up with his hands and jumped up.
"You win." said the boy.
Xie Sen was very satisfied with his reaction. He thought of the thorns at the last minute. There were already five kinds of plants on the scene. He used six of them for the first time. There was no mistake in the command and the thorns were completed perfectly.
He smiled and said, "You are amazing. I used many kinds of plants, but you didn't even use a contracted beast."
The young man frowned, "I don't have a contracted beast. You have a lot of plants, but I need you to give orders. Your movement speed is very slow. If I attack faster and more fiercely and disrupt your speed, I can beat you."
He thought for a moment and said, "I'm not familiar with your attack methods. When I go back and study the video of today's sparring session, I will fight you again. I can win even without a contracted beast."
Xie Sen: “I’m looking forward to it.”
When he was fighting with the giant lynx beast master, he found that some of his attack methods could be targeted. He really hoped that someone could crack his attacks so that he could fix the loopholes based on the cracking methods.
In order to avoid the chili peppers, the giant lynx beast master wore a helmet, which also prevented him from using black fungus to affect the giant lynx beast master's breathing. When they fought, he immediately gave up these two plants.
But now think about it, he could use black fungus and let it stick to the eyes of the helmet to affect his vision.
Real battles are always changing rapidly, and there is no way to have so much time to think. When attacking and countering moves become a habit, he becomes a master.
He called back Victoria Victoria and Sophora japonica and checked the time. It had only been twenty minutes since he entered the training hall. Both battles were very quick, and he spent more time on handling formalities and talking.
"I'm going back first and will come back later." He waved his hand and left the backstage.
The remaining four people waited for him to go out, and immediately rushed to the sparring table, trying to grab potatoes and pick up rice.
The staff member grabbed the thin and tall boy's arm and said, "Don't grab it. Don't think I didn't see that you took away the potato that your friend knocked away."
"That's because I reacted quickly," the boy broke free from his hand, "This is what the senior used to attack my friend when he was fighting, so it should belong to my friend."
The bronze-skinned boy was already on the stage. He was very fast and picked up both potatoes on the stage in one go. Then he squatted down and used his palm as a small broom to gather the rice together.
Seeing this, the staff didn't bother to stop people and started grabbing the rice.
Xie Sen returned to the apartment in a happy mood. He was out for only an hour. When he got home, the baby was still sleeping and Maine was sitting beside him designing the program.
"How do you feel? Are you happy?" Maine looked at him.
Xie Sen nodded: "Yeah, I met two junior students, one of whom was quite skilled, but I still won, haha, even though he didn't have a contracted beast."
Maine laughed, "Long Teng's skills are top-notch. If you can dodge his attacks, few people will be your opponent. But you still have to be careful when there are contracted beasts."
Xie Sen nodded: "Yes, I know. I asked Da Hu and the others and found out the smells of many plants that the contracted beasts particularly hate. We can deal with them without using chili peppers."
In the afternoon, when Xie Sen was checking the news after a nap, he found out that the news of him going to the training ground for sparring had made the headlines.
The news was not spread by the staff or the junior students, but was related to the rules of the training ground. The official website of the training ground has videos of every competition, recording the wins and losses of each person, which also serves as learning material for customers.
Some people want to become famous overnight, so they challenge masters of higher levels. The video of the competition is evidence of this.
The bronze-colored junior had a high winning rate in the A-level competition. After the video of him and his junior was automatically uploaded, the A-level master lost the competition with the D-level novice, which immediately attracted the attention of others.
Then his identity was exposed and the video went viral instantly.
As Xie Sen was watching, he received a call from the owner of the training hall, who welcomed him to continue to come to the training hall for training, and promised to increase security so that he would not cause any trouble.
Xie Sen originally didn't want to end his training plan, so he listened to his boss and went to the training hall the next day.
I don’t know what tricks the boss used, but there was no one watching outside the training hall, but there were a lot more people inside. After he went in, he contacted yesterday’s staff and was soon taken to the VIP area.
Everything went smoothly, except that he was particularly depressed during the sparring.
The opponent is very capable and can successfully avoid the vines, but as long as he attacks with potatoes or other food, the opponent will not care and will risk getting the food in his hands, and will smile foolishly even if he falls to the ground.
Xie Sen realized that these people's purpose was food!
After two battles, he simply stopped using food and used inedible plants for all his attacks. He finally had a good fight. And because it was the first time that several plants were used in actual combat, he felt fresh and happy.
Compared with him, his opponent had a bitter face: "Thank God, why don't you use potatoes? Am I too bad to be worthy of potatoes?"
Xie Sen pouted: "If I were using potatoes, you would be thinking about cleaning up the battlefield before the sparring is over."
He thought for a moment, exchanged for a potato, and threw it to the other party: "You are very capable, and I had a great time playing with you. Thank you, this is a thank you gift."
The other party immediately laughed: "Thank you, thank God. Thank God, will you come again tomorrow? I will definitely perform better!"
Xie Sen looked at the energy +1 prompt in front of him and smiled even more: "Come on, but I don't know how they arrange their opponents. See you again if we are lucky."
When he returned to the apartment, he was still in a good mood. He played with the baby for a while, and when the baby fell asleep, he patted Maine on the shoulder and said, "Look after the baby. I'll go make lunch."
Maine said, "Let me do it."
Xie Sen: "I'll do it. I'm going to make a new dish." During his pregnancy, he provided the ingredients and Bai Jiao did the research. He made all kinds of seasonings, such as vinegar, soy sauce, cooking wine, etc. With all the condiments, he could make any dish.
In addition to vegetables for lunch, he also made tomato beef brisket and sweet and sour pork ribs. He hadn't eaten meat for a long time. Both dishes were very filling. Maine also liked them very much and finished them all.
After dinner, he told Maine about today's sparring match. He couldn't help but go to the training hall's official website. The video of the last sparring match was flooded with comments like "Thank God, please spar with me. I will never let you win!"
Xie Sen smiled, very satisfied with the result.
After that, he practiced with his opponents every day, and they became stronger and stronger. Because their opponents were thinking about the thank-you gifts of fruits and vegetables, they were very serious during the practice. His reaction speed became faster and faster, and he could give orders to more plants at the same time, and the plants' reactions were also very accurate.
After more than a month, the opponent had to bring a contracted beast in every sparring match, the difficulty of the sparring increased a lot, and Xie Sen's combat effectiveness also increased rapidly.
When the baby was half a year old, Xie Sen had become the winning streak king in the sparring arena. People from other training halls also often challenged him to sparring, but none of them were his match.
Long Teng's restaurant also opened a branch. The name of his restaurant was chosen very casually, called "Haochi Restaurant", and the branch was even more casual, "Haochi Restaurant Branch 2".
Xie Sen and Maine brought their baby to the opening ceremony. The baby was held by Maine throughout the ceremony, covering his face and did not show up.
When the media asked Long Teng who was better between him and Xie Sen, Long Teng laughed and said, "I definitely can't beat him." He and Xie Sen had sparred before, and he was no match for them. Of course, he didn't summon a contracted beast.
Even if he summoned him, it would be useless because Dahei would not attack Xie Sen at all.
The sparring king Long Teng personally admitted that he could not beat Xie Sen, so Xie Sen won the title of sparring king that day. While congratulating him, netizens enthusiastically called him and asked the baby to show his face.
"Although I didn't see her face, I knew from her white and tender hands that she must be super cute!"
"Both parents are so handsome, they must be very cute. Kiss your little hand, muahmuah."
"Go away, the baby is mine, I won't let you kiss it."
Xie Sen sat on the sofa, looking at the baby crawling on the carpet for a while, and sent a private message to someone: "The son is mine and Maine's. If you want to take advantage of him, think about whether you have a strong fist first!"
"Thank God for the requirements for the baby's partner! I decided to start training every day from today!"
"Yes, start training immediately!"
The corners of Xie Sen's mouth twitched. He could no longer keep up with the netizens' train of thought. Was this what he meant?
He is warning!
He decided to ignore the netizens and waved to the baby: "Baby, come to daddy."
The baby looked up at him, crawled to his legs with a smile, and then climbed onto him, his chubby hands and feet showing special strength.
Xie Sen kissed his chubby face and said, "Let's go see your father."
After several months of adjustment, Maine is no longer too nervous about him and the baby. When dealing with things, he can stay in the office alone. If he needs to go out for something, he is very calm and goes out by himself without asking others to come to the apartment.
As soon as the baby saw Maine, he stretched out his chubby little hands and called out in a baby voice, "Ahhhh."
Maine looked up and saw Xie Sen walking towards him with the baby in his arms. His expression was very gentle and his eyes were filled with deep doting.
The sun shone into the room from the window and sprinkled behind Maine, as if it was a special effect, making his handsome face look a little distorted. Xie Sen walked closer, and when Maine reached out to take the baby, he lowered his head and kissed him on the cheek: "So handsome!"
The baby kicked his feet and followed suit, putting his face on Maine's face and moaning excitedly.
Maine chuckled and returned a kiss to both of them on the face.
The screen saver of the virtual screen on the desktop kept changing, all of them were photos of the three of them. In the upper left corner of each photo, there were beautiful colored printed words: Happiness.
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