Published: February 19, 2025
CHAPTER 2: Blow, Blow with All Your Might!
The process was similar to when Chen Chu and the others arrived. After getting off the plane, the new students lined up to collect their weapons and suitcases containing battle armor.
At this time, Chen Chu and his group also walked over.
Chen Chu politely said, “Hello, teachers. My name is Chen Chu, and these are my classmates. We all come from Southern Heaven Martial High.”
“Since Teacher Liu and General Zhang of the garrison had urgent matters to attend to, I was assigned to welcome you and take you back to the base hotel.”
At this moment, Chen Chu wasn't wearing a helmet, and his handsome face, coupled with his polite demeanor, instantly made the two teachers feel very favorable towards him.
The elegant male teacher smiled and said, “Hello, Chen and everyone. I am Zhao Zhilong, a teacher from Crane Mountain Martial High.”
The other teacher, who was tall and sturdy like a sports coach, also politely introduced himself, “I am Xiao Hai, the lead teacher from Lin Chuan Martial High. I apologize for the trouble.”
While Chen Chu was greeting the teachers, the new students were curiously observing them.
Or rather, these new students were mainly looking at Xia Youhui and the others' exaggerated battle armor, which sparkled with golden light, had magnificent wings, and was full of a second-rate aura.
Faced with those gazes, Xia Youhui and his group felt no shame at all. Instead, with their helmets tucked under their arms, they held their heads high and looked quite proud.
“Pfft!”
Among the new students, a handsome boy couldn't help but scoff, “These guys are too funny! They actually modified their battle armor haphazardly.”
“Don’t they know that this set of battle armor was designed based on data concerning weight, defense, speed, and flexibility?”
“Now, with so many metal wings added and the armor thickened, the load will be too heavy, significantly affecting both flexibility and speed. It’s not worth it.”
As soon as the boy finished speaking, Xia Youhui was unhappy: “Hey, brother over there, you’re being shallow. On the battlefield, if the armor isn’t thickened, it won’t even stop a sniper bullet. One shot and you’re dead.”
“At that point, what good is flexibility or speed? Staying alive is the only truth.”
Li Meng chimed in, “Exactly! These newbies don’t know anything; they’ve never seen what it’s like to charge through thousands of rebel gunfire.”
“Yeah, I remember charging straight through the enemy’s heavy machine gun fire, cutting down both people and bunkers with one sword.” Yuan Chenghuang also boasted unceremoniously.
The ridiculed Bai Mu pointed to the dent in his chest armor, coldly saying, “Look here, I was ambushed by a blood disciple and got hit in the chest by a sniper bullet.”
“According to normal armor defense, this area would have been blown out with a blood hole as big as a fist. Now you’re talking to me about flexibility and defense. Is that useful?”
“And that’s just a bullet. On the battlefield, various shells and fragments fly everywhere. Look at the back of my armor; I got hit by shrapnel from a heavy artillery shell.”
“If I had your current light armor back then, I wouldn’t just have muscle soreness; my spine would have been smashed through…”
Seeing that the earlier students were either talking about heavy machine gun fire or the gunfire from thousands of rebels, the new students were immediately awed.
However, not everyone was that gullible. A boy pointed at Chen Chu and said, “Wait a minute, if thickening the armor is so useful, why hasn’t that guy modified his battle armor?”
“You’re talking about A Chu? He’s not someone ordinary people can compare to,” Xia Youhui replied with a strange look.
Liu Feng nodded, “That’s right. Chen Chu is different from us. He’s a genius from Southern Heaven Martial High. He has already killed several third-level blood disciples.”
“Besides, he once single-handedly infiltrated a rebel camp, killing many rebel cultivators, and then he slashed down a third-level mutated black bull with one strike.”