Chapter 36: The Blonde Swordsman

Out of curiosity, Shi Shaoying couldn't help but follow the flow of people and walked in the direction of the strange man's existence.

When Shi Shaoying and Peter followed the flow of people to the entrance of Elle City, it was almost impassable, and Shi Shaoying soon realized that he had misjudged.

The man with the katana was not necessarily Japanese, but stood in the middle of the crowd a young man who appeared to be about twenty-three or four years old, with beautiful blue eyes and blond hair that stood out in the sun and was brilliant. But the most eye-catching thing is the Japanese samurai uniform on his body, and the two katana swords he inserts in his waist, one long and one short!

If he didn't know about the current situation in Somalia, Shi Shaoying would really think that there was some Hollywood film crew here filming a commercial film about how Westerners became Japanese samurai.

After a few more careful observations, the disapproving smile on Shi Shaoying's face was disappearing little by little.

This young man is like those Japanese samurai in the TV series, with his hands wrapped in wide sleeves, and he is watched by thousands of people like a gorilla, but he is still calm and idle, and he is not a little cramped.

In Somalia, which is extremely hostile to Westerners, a European with blond hair and blue eyes, maybe a US passport in his pocket, can cross Somalia alone, all the way to the city of Elle, and it seems that there is not a single part missing on his body, which in itself is enough to show that he is by no means simple!

"Huh?"

Shi Shaoying let out an exclamation from his mouth as he noticed that beside the blonde young man, there was also a metal tripod with a camera mounted on it. The data cable of this camera is connected to a laptop that is placed on the ground.

From the camera's point of view, it can capture every movement of the blonde young man and record it in the notebook connected to it. What is playing on the laptop display is not just the image captured by the camera, it uses a set of software to directly convert the image transmitted by the camera into a three-dimensional version of the moment analysis demonstration.

In the three-dimensional picture, there are more than thirty points on the young man's entire body, which represent human joints, and there is a series of constantly beating numbers next to it, apparently the computer has calculated the speed, angle, and acceleration of the blonde young man when swinging the knife, and came up with a string of perfect data for comparison.

This kind of software engineer Shaoying is no stranger. Some countries, led by the United States, have long applied this set of software, including physics, physiology and chemistry, to sports.

When an athlete or martial artist is trained, their every movement is captured and analyzed by the computer to help them correct the details of the movement, so that they can make the movements more perfect and the power more precise.

At a time when Chinese martial artists are still playing mysteries every day, still talking about "national martial arts only kill people, not martial arts", and what light functions can be used to raise qi and jump two or three feet high, scientists in Western countries have perfectly deciphered the three elements of martial arts through computers, and applied them to the daily training of their top martial artists.

There are 1.4 billion people in China, and Chinese martial arts have a long history, but so far, only Bruce Lee has been able to bring Chinese kung fu to the world and participate in the Okinawa Karate Tournament in Japan and win the championship. This sad phenomenon is inevitably related to the "mysticism" of Chinese martial artists, coupled with the inability to keep pace with the times and improve martial arts.

Otherwise, why don't those worldly masters who can jump two or three feet high not participate in the Olympic high jump and long jump competitions and win a few gold medals for China? Why don't you go to Okinawa, Japan to participate in karate competitions and kill a few karate masters to raise the prestige of the country? It turns out that the masters of national martial arts can also say that boxing gloves restrict their play, and there are always no boxing gloves to stumble you in karate competitions, right?!

Suddenly, Shi Shaoying began to believe that it was really possible for this young man to successfully chop the bullet with a katana.

No matter how fast the katana is wielded, it is impossible to be faster than a bullet, but if this young man can successfully control this time difference through a computer program to simulate swinging the knife again and again, and then maintain the best mentality, he can play perfectly on the spot without a trace of deviation, carefully observe the details of the opponent's body, and swing the katana in advance when the opponent's hand muscles are tightening and about to pull the trigger, it is really possible to use the blade to split the bullet that shoots head-on and has a fixed trajectory!

But Shi Shaoying really didn't understand that in the era of thermal weapons, he had to use a katana to chop the oncoming bullets, even if he succeeded, what could he prove. You know, an automatic rifle can shoot thirty rounds at a time, and he can only shoot the first of them at most! Even if he practiced swordsmanship for ten years and could really chop bullets, he would be easily shot by a scout on the battlefield.

What exactly does he want to prove with this behavior that is infinitely close to suicide and extremely boring?

Staring at the blonde young man who was still calm and relaxed, and then looking at his hands that were still impeccable even if they were placed on his sleeves, Shi Shaoying thought for a long time before finally reluctantly squeezing out a sentence in English that even if he was a first-grade elementary school student now, he could probably blurt out: "www.xstxt.orge?" (What's your name?) The blonde young man replied, "Swordsmani! "(Swordsman) This is a man who has given up his real name in order to practice swordsmanship!

Shi Shaoying stared at the swordsman's eyes, he was surprised to find that the eyes of the two people touched each other in the air, and with his knowledge of behavioral psychology, he couldn't read the slightest emotional fluctuation in the eyes of the swordsman in front of him. If the eyes of ordinary people are the windows of the soul, then the eyes of this young swordsman are covered with a thick metal curtain, which directly cuts off eye contact with everyone.

Even a highly trained professional agent would not do any better than the young swordsman in front of him.

No, Shi Shaoying overturned his judgment in his heart, because he had a feeling...... The swordsman in front of him is not good at hiding his emotions, but he has no emotions at all!

Shi Shaoying groaned slightly, and suddenly asked, "Have you ever suffered from mild autism?" ”

The swordsman nodded.

Shi Shaoying slowly let out a long breath, and he finally understood why this young swordsman dared to use a katana to chop bullets.

People with mild autism have, to put it simply, little emotional response.

Even if their mother is burned while cooking in front of them, they will be indifferent nine out of nine, because they don't know what it means to care; When they encounter difficulties, even if they encounter mortal danger, they will not help others, let alone use their eyes to convey messages such as begging to others, because death is nothing to fear for them.

The people in their group are not afraid of pain when they fall, they don't like brightly colored toys, they don't like football, they never attach themselves to their parents, and they don't feel scared when they see strangers. If playing with peers, more than a third of them like to do the most is to follow their peers and suddenly reach out and push them down, for a strange reason...... They love to see the blood coming out of someone else's body after they have fallen.

Such a person is destined to not be able to get along with others, and he does not care about the attitude of others towards him. They sit there, don't look at anything, and sit for more than ten hours without thinking about anything, which is a normal condition for people with mild autism.

This swordsman is willing to answer Shi Shaoying's question, which means that his mild autism has at least been cured, otherwise Shi Shaoying will not arouse the slightest interest of the swordsman even if he sets off firecrackers in his ears or dances a striptease in front of his eyes.

Such a person is like a katana stuck in his waist, cold, ruthless, sharp, and seeks to achieve his goal in the simplest way.

"Can you tell me why you want to chop bullets with a katana?"

The swordsman's answer was very simple: "I want to prove that the katana has not been eliminated, and that it can still kill on the battlefield!" ”

Shi Shaoying looked at the other two katana, one long and one short, on the samurai belt, and asked again: "Two sword streams?" ”

The so-called two-knife flow refers to the ability to fight with both hands at the same time.

Throughout the history of Japan, various schools of swordsmanship have emerged, and today, in terms of modern kendo, holding the sword with both hands in the middle position has become the most basic mainstream form. This branch of swordsmanship, Erdaoliu, has been regarded as a heretical "evil sword" by martial artists, both historically and in modern times.

The Japanese katana is a weapon that is particularly sharp, slashing and slashing, and is particularly easy to break even if it is hit hard. If you hold a knife with one hand, it is definitely not as fast as holding a knife with both hands when chopping, and when you hold a knife with both hands in battle, you must be distracted and used for two purposes, and if you are negligent in life and death fighting, you will be defeated on the spot. Therefore, for the vast majority of swordsmen, the second sword flow is a kind of weird and unreasonable evil sword that jokes with their own lives!

But the paradox is that Miyamoto Musashi, who was regarded as a "martial saint" by countless swordsmen in later generations, used the second sword stream in his later years! It can be said that the swordsman who can use the second sword stream is either a showman who likes to be unconventional but vulnerable, or a super swordsman who is rare to see in a hundred years, and uses talent and perseverance to work harder than ordinary people in exchange for a super swordsman whose combat effectiveness far exceeds that of ordinary people!

The swordsman in front of him, who has even given up his name for the sake of kendo, is he a fragile showman, or a paranoid man with both talent and hard work?!

(To be continued)