Chapter 4 Piercing the Sky Like a Crow
System prompt: Bai Yanfei is loading.
Once loaded, start importing the airspace.
The training ground [Guardian Airspace in the Midst of the World] is being introduced.
Time: 8 a.m.
Location, in the middle of the world.
Weather: Sunny.
Wind direction: No wind.
Number of machines, one.
Loaded.
Bai Yan began to observe his surroundings. It is an enclosed open ground, surrounded by neat walls, and a number of humanoid targets are neatly placed around the ground. The sky was blue, and the end of the airspace could not be seen from the outside, and it seemed that the range available for flight was very long.
Two men came out from the other end of the training ground, both of them were well-proportioned and powerful types, and their eyes were bright, obviously belonging to humans with some skills in their hands.
Bai Yan greeted them and stood across from them. When he looked at the two of them, the two of them also looked at him, and before Bai Yan could speak, one of the middle-aged men with a knife said, "Your name is Bai Yanfei?" ”
"Yes, yes?"
Another middle-aged man with a white crown replied, "We are the instructors of the headquarters of the Self-Police Force, and we are responsible for conducting some training for you. ”
Bai Yan glanced at the task panel, the mission requirements of [Fly to the Sky] have been updated to "Choose one of the two teachers as your learning object, and learn the way of flying and human air combat." ”
The man with the knife explained the situation to Bai Yan: "My name is Liu Ming, and I am good at melee weapons, including swords. His name is Ichihei Tanaka, and he specializes in long-range spells, including yin-yang techniques. ”
"The two of us are the offshoots of melee and ranged combat, the two main forms of aerial combat in this Gensokyo. You can choose one of them to study. Kazuhei Tanaka, who was wearing a high crown, said.
Liu Ming added: "But this is not a way to limit your future air combat, because everyone's opportunities are different, and the rules of air combat are naturally very different." It's like I'm different from Tanaka-kun's specialization, but I can also use a few spells, and Tanaka-kun's dagger kung fu is also very powerful. However, when you are still a newcomer, it is not good to learn too much, so you can only choose one or the other. ”
Bai Yan nodded in agreement, don't say that this is indeed true, just say that now he is thinking about the next flight, and they will answer no matter what Bai Yan says.
"Then please choose."
Bai Yan calmed down a little and began to make a choice.
When it came to judgment, a lot went through his mind.
The mural of human beings overcoming thorns and thorns in the tunnel, the arc cut by the wings of birds flying through the sky, the sharp eyes that lead the girl's soul to the demon dream, the child's guide zhì his infinite yearning for the sky A frightening glance Finally, his gaze stayed on the knife on Liu Ming's waist.
"Liu Ming teaches you, I want to learn swordsmanship from you." Bai Yan replied.
Tanaka showed a regretful look and spread his hands: "Liu Jun, I'll leave it to you." Then he turned and left.
Liu Ming nodded and said to Bai Yan: "Then without further ado, let's start now." What I can teach you is the most basic, in the sky, in battle, many things can only be understood but not spoken, you have to pay attention to yourself to understand. ”
"Well, the first thing we have to do is [fly]. This is also the foundation needed to survive in Gensokyo and protect the village as a member of the Self-Police Team. In Gensokyo, as long as you have the knowledge of "extraordinary knowledge", you can fly and have the conditions to learn various extraordinary skills. ”
"Strange?" Bai Yan frowned.
"If you put it another word, it's fantasy." Liu Ming explained, "Everything here is different from the 'common sense' that you have been exposed to before. Now all you have to do is to determine your fantasies. ”
Fantasy is something different from reality.
Although Bai Yan is an orphan, he has an independent personality, left the orphanage early to live alone, led social assistance, and went from the campus to the society step by step.
He is gifted and observant, so he can see through many things, and he is extremely disgusted with bondage, but due to the pressure of society and life, he has to be restrained and follow the rules. But even within the limit, he wanted to break free as much as possible, so he even gave up the convenience brought by graduating from a prestigious university, and only worked according to his own interests, and didn't mind whether his material life was rich or not.
He doesn't have many friends, he hasn't been in love, and his love life can almost be said to be a blank slate. Maybe subconsciously, he doesn't even want to have emotional bondage.
All of the above is the reality that the human beings named Baiyan have.
So what is fantasy?
I want to fly.
Something flashed through Bai Yan's mind.
At the age of seven, he was amazed, and since then he has begun to yearn for the boundless sky.
Because this world is full of bondage, I have fantasies, fantasies, flying into the sky, incarnating as the wind, floating freely, and the world suddenly opens up in front of me.
Freely.
This is the fantasy that a human being named Bai Yan possesses.
Bai Yan's body began to change as if it were nothing, and wisps of wind rolled around him.
System Prompt: Fantasy Load On, Crimson.
He floated off the ground.
A dark purple light flashed under Liu Ming's eyes, and he followed Bai Yan who was off the ground.
I don't know what is surging in my body, flowing, slowly becoming lighter, floating from the ground little by little, floating in the sky. Bai Yan's horizon expanded, and the high walls couldn't trap him at all, and the countless houses and pavilions in the distance became dots and lines. He seemed to be really on the move.
"I... Flying? ”
"I... Flying?? The voice was still a little incredulous.
"I'm flying!!" His voice was full of irrepressible ecstasy.
Bai Yan suddenly opened his arms, looked around the airspace, and raised his head to the sky and roared, full of the pleasure of heaven and earth in my arms.
It's finally here! This place without any restraints and troubles. Although it was only a virtual game, Bai Yan felt that this was the real sky. Every breath made me tremble, the elements of the sky, the particles of the sky, washed over the body with the breath over and over again, and the body seemed to be covered with feathers, and finally gathered into wings that could propel themselves to fly. Infinite joy welled up in the deepest part of Bai Yan's heart.
Liu Ming reminded on the side at the right time: "Bai Yanfei, follow your intuition and try to find the initial flight action." ”
Bai Yan nodded, and his subtle talent unconsciously began to operate, and he couldn't help but want to control the inexplicable flow that pushed him to float in the air. Now I can only float in the air, I can't move, and I can't fly. But how do you drive that feeling?
He tried to take a small clumsy step, and he stumbled a little, indeed, this step did not stand firmly, and Bai Yan almost couldn't control it and fell. Liu Ming gave him a hand, and he stabilized in the air again.
It's dangerous, it's already four or five meters above the ground, and it must hurt if you fall. The pain setting of this game is very realistic, and although nothing will happen, the pain of falling from the sky is something that Bai Yan doesn't want to try.
Now it's just floating, complacent, what?
Bai Yan secretly gritted his teeth and continued to try to take a step in the air, but he always couldn't do it, but he didn't mention it at all, and let Bai Yan try.
It's an extremely difficult process, and it's not easy to keep a balance in the air, let alone use the impetus to move forward. And the higher you fly, the more you feel a kind of pressure and obstruction in the air, as if heaven and earth are suppressing you and preventing you from flying. And once you take a step, or move forward a little, at this time, the tendons and muscles of the whole body will feel indescribable stagnation, this stagnation from the outside in, from the inside and then feedback to the outside, people want to scream but can't scream, want to break free but can't break free, as if they are bound by something, extremely unbearable.
Bai Yan was trapped by this sluggishness, and he couldn't take a step.
Flying, it's not that simple.
Bai Yan took a deep breath and continued to try.
The third time, failed.
Fourth, failure.
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Thirtieth, failed.
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Fifty-fifth, failed.
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Dozens of attempts failed, and the strength in Bai Yan's body suddenly loosened, and the sense of flow that propelled him to fly was about to dry up, and the frustration and anxiety gnawed at his heart like a poisonous snake. He stubbornly continued to try, but his body suddenly lightened, this time he didn't feel the push at all, he hurriedly wanted to make amends, but when he wanted to do something, his body had already fallen straight from the air.
Bai Yan couldn't control his body at all, so he could only let it fall, Liu Ming didn't expect an accident, and immediately flew to save people, but Bai Yan was only about ten meters above the ground, and it would only take two or three seconds to hit the ground, Liu Ming couldn't do it anymore, so he could only watch Bai Yan fall to the ground.
Bai Yan looked at the sky helplessly, in the air, his body had no support, and he couldn't grasp any life-saving straw.
The wings are about to break before they open?
Fear produces anger, and repression ignites heat.
Bai Yan looked helplessly at the sky.
Why?!
Bai Yan pressed all emotions in an instant, and in his place, there was an extremely strong mood called unwillingness.
He can accept everything, the death of his parents, the difficulty of growing up, giving up his future, and living in poverty, this qiē reality he can accept.
But for the first time in his life, Bai Yan felt unwilling.
There is only this one thing, only this one fantasy! I've already touched the sky, and I'm going to fall again! I'm not reconciled!
At this moment, Bai Yan's mind flashed through countless marquee-like memories, and finally froze at a glimpse of the seven years old.
A pair of strangely long black wings, a strange posture, and a strange long knife.
She soared into the air, and the sky was cut through the raven's wings.
It was only a moment in my mind, and then the turbulent love snarled in my chest.
I'm absolutely, absolutely! Fly!
Bai Yan's will had never been as firm as this for a moment, and the flowing shadows in his body began to explode.
In the next moment, he spread his hands instead of his wings, slicing through the air, his eyes so persistent that they seemed to be able to carve out the marks of gold and stone in the air, accompanied by countless crow feathers scattered in the sky, rising from the ground in a figure that would never be imagined by humans.
"Tengu? How is this possible! ”
Liu Ming's eyes flashed with a dark purple light, revealing an incredible look.
Bai Yan's ears sounded the indifferent voice of the system.
System prompt: The posture module is turned on. The player flies in vain and comprehends the flying posture [Dark Crow Step] on his own.