Chapter 3 The so-called talent
For thousands of years, competition has been the nature of all living things, trees compete with each other for nutrients in the soil, grow tall and lush in order to get more sunlight, and animals inevitably devour other species and fight for reproduction.
The essence of life is competition, and in the final analysis, competition is only for the continuation of life. The alarm clock pulled out a dagger for this, and the vine swung his fist at it.
The daggers of the two kept colliding in the air, rubbing little by little sparks. Every time the dagger clashed, Alarm Clock's body couldn't help but slam back, and the left arm that resisted the tree vine's fist already had a slight bone crack.
Within five minutes, the alarm clock began to wheezing violently.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? That's not going to work? β
The tree vine looked as usual, still chasing and fighting, not giving the alarm clock the slightest chance to relax.
The alarm clock's eyes tightened, and taking advantage of the gap between the next confrontation, the dagger tossed up and down between his fingers, rotating at high speed, and was thrown out by the alarm clock's miraculous skills, and quickly turned to the neck of the tree vine with an arc-shaped trajectory.
The left leg of the vine that was about to exert force forward changed direction in an instant, and the figure suddenly stopped leaning forward, and the dagger only left a scratch on the skin of the neck.
At this moment, the alarm clock stepped forward, grabbed the right wrist of the vine, used it as the point of force, took his feet into the air, and with the help of the inertia of the half-turned body, threw the blade at the end of the hair to the head of the vine.
Shu Teng sneered, his left hand suddenly retracted, and at an incredible speed he grasped the blade that was rapidly stabbing at the eye, and at the same time, his center of gravity shifted to the right, and he raised his left leg and kicked the alarm clock away.
The alarm clock spat out a mouthful of blood in mid-air, rolled for several weeks before stopping, and struggled to get up, the flesh and blood of both palms blurred.
Sleeve pin!
Shu Teng playfully grabbed a strand of hair in his hand and shook the blade up, and there was a small piece of scalp that had just been torn off at the end of the hair.
"I've got this armpin for you, how does it feel? Do you feel numb and itchy in both palms? β
The vine threw down his hair and rolled up the bloody sleeve, revealing the armpin on his wrist, which was crawling with a dense network of short thorns, with barbs at the tips that were what made the alarm clock's hands bloody and blurry.
"This was taken from the instructor I killed three years ago, and it was only used for the first time today because it was not the right size. I also smeared a little bit of stuff on it before I came, don't worry, it's not fatal, I just don't know if you like it or not. β
"You think you'll win?"
"Isn't it?" The vine kicked the dagger in front of the alarm clock.
"You can't even hold the dagger now, how can you fight? It's all at this time, and I'm still hard-mouthed, don't you take out the same three-shot crossbow machine as I was on my back? β
The alarm clock took a deep breath, did not lean over to take the dagger in front of him, his body quickly retreated, a backward flip to the back of the previous stone, the moment he landed, one hand picked up the crossbow machine, the other hand pressed on the gravel ground, regardless of the pain, the body turned 180 degrees, and when he got up, he shot three bamboo crossbow arrows in one breath.
Shu Teng's reaction was faster, and the moment the alarm clock flipped back, he took off the crossbow machine behind him and buckled it three times in a row. For these two people, this distance, aiming and then launching, is just a matter of a moment.
However, Tree Vine started faster, and although she couldn't lock her head due to the alarm clock's backward flip, the three crossbow arrows hit her in the abdomen when the alarm clock raised her hand to shoot.
And at the moment when the three bolts were fired, the vine let go of the bolt and began to move laterally, dodging the three bolts on the opposite side.
The first grazed his shoulder, forcing him to move to the left, so the second missed, and the third, which he dodged with his head. But a third bolt struck a rope in the woods behind him, and the last trap of the alarm clock, a huge trunk of a tree, crashed into the vines.
The vine couldn't dodge, and lunged sideways, and the green tendons of the entire right hand burst up, standing in front of him, and blocked the impact of the trunk with great strength.
However, the attack of the alarm clock is not over yet, and the sound of crossbow arrows piercing the air is heard in the air, the fourth crossbow arrow! Thinner and shorter than the other six, but also faster!
Shu Teng sneered in anticipation, his left hand crossed behind him, between the crossbow arrow and his neck, and the arrow stopped less than a centimeter into his arm.
In the face of the muscle density of the vines, the strength of the bamboo is obviously not enough.
At this time, the alarm clock pressed the left hand on the right arm, and in the hole in the clothes in the chest and abdomen, blood stained sand and gravel flowed out. The gravel that had been prepared in the middle of her clothes in the morning blocked the impact of the arrows for her, and the piercing into her abdomen was not very deep.
Two palms, three wounds, and a lot of physical strength were consumed, but they only replaced a hole less than a centimeter in the opponent's arm.
Everything that happens here is broadcast to the training camp's control center by surveillance all over the field.
In the control center, there is a man in his forties sitting on the main seat, he is the supreme person in charge of the camp, and he has the power to kill and kill the entire training camp, and a few people in suits around him are the leaders of each sub-camp, and the person on the left is in charge of the training camp where the tree vine and the alarm clock are located.
He was a little nervous, because the supreme person in charge had been staring at the tree vine and the alarm clock for a morning, and the two sides of this assessment were personally finalized by the supreme person. The top person in charge of the assessment of the other venues didn't even look at it, and he didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing.
Training camps usually don't place two top students in the same session, because a very high disability rate means the loss of future talent. However, this is only the usual case, and if there are exceptions, it is often referred to as a special case. As for why there are special circumstances, none of the leaders of the sub-battalions present are cerebral palsy, and the general person in charge personally finalizes the assessment of these two people, which means that one of these two people, for some reason, must die!
Shu Teng and his followers attacked and killed the instructor the most, a total of 7, but he had already stopped two years ago and got along very well with the instructor. The alarm clock killed the instructor three months before the assessment, which was the worst death, but the alarm clock proved his strength in single killing. So both of them have a reason to die, and they both have a reason not to die.
What really puzzled the heads of the sub-battalions was that these were not enough reasons for the extreme concern of the top leaders.
A sub-battalion leader said to the middle-aged man.
"Sir, the outcome of this assessment has been revealed, and there is no need to look any further. There are also some great matchups at other venues that won't disappoint. β
The middle-aged man clenched his hands weakly, and the index finger of his right hand kept tapping on the bone joint of his left hand, asking questions in an extremely calm tone.
"Do you remember what the first lesson was in the bootcamp?"
"Your life is in your own hands!" A sub-battalion leader replied, in a sonorous tone. It is enough to see his firmness!
"Since your life is in your own hands, as long as you are not dead, the outcome of this battle has not yet been decided."
Several people present frowned, what did the person in charge mean was that the girl called the alarm clock still had a chance to turn the tables?
"I didn't sit here just to watch a play, the training camp has provided a batch of talents for the organization since its establishment. At this stage, the knowledge and skills you taught in the training camp have been learned by those children, so why is there such an assessment? If the organization just wants a batch of killing tools, it doesn't have to be like this, this assessment is to test the talent of this group of children! β
Talent?
"Sir, you mean, this kid has a talent in him that we don't know about?"
The middle-aged man neither affirmed nor denied it, but calmly talked about another topic.
"The first time Alarm Clock killed someone was at the age of eight, do you know how she killed her?"
The person in charge of the camp where the alarm clock was located bowed slightly and said, "According to the archives, it was poisoning." β
The middle-aged man nodded.
"It was poisoning, but the poisoning at dinner was discovered by the opponent as soon as possible, but his opponent still died of poisoning because she also smeared another poison on the dishes. In your opinion, the technique is a bit naΓ―ve, but it is a novice who has just learned some rough and superficial poisoning. β
There was a hint of appreciation in the middle-aged man's words.
"It was true that Shuteng was the first to make a crossbow machine when teaching the equipment tools, but not a single student in the entire camp knew that she had also succeeded in making a crossbow machine until the alarm clock killed her opponent with a crossbow. The time she pierced her opponent's major artery, not to mention how she stepped on the point and how she predicted her opponent's movements, she buried herself in the soil for nearly three hours before her opponent passed through that position, almost suffocating herself. When she killed the instructor not long ago, her performance was still pleasing to the eye! β
"Sir," the camp leader of the alarm clock pondered for a moment and said respectfully, "Even so, isn't it too expensive to use an excellent talent like Shuteng as her whetstone?" β
He didn't dare to refute the judgment of the person in charge that the alarm clock could turn the tables, so he had to test the person in charge's attitude towards the life and death of the vine.
The middle-aged man gave him a cold look, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly lowered his head.
"I don't know how you got into this position, a child with good physical fitness and abnormal memory, not only was brought to the training camp, but also became your student, this kind of good thing happened to you?"
The entire command center was silent!
"Ten years ago, the institute privately started a human experiment, which was shut down by the higher-ups, and the vine was the remaining subject. The speed of cell division and renewal of this kind of experiment is much faster than that of ordinary people, and at the age of 16, at the peak of which he can even punch through the steel plate, but at the age of 18, he begins to age, and he does not live to be 25 years old at all. Is it necessary to leave him to graduate at the age of 15 and start his retirement after two or three years of mission? If the institute weren't fooled by a random report, it would send people to your turf? β
No one dared to speak at this time, the person was also scolded in a cold sweat, and he didn't dare to raise his head in fear, he couldn't imagine that the student he valued the most was just a failed experiment!
Each child in the camp will have a report on their origins, and these reports will be handed over to their leader. When there are abnormal children, the person in charge will verify their origin according to this report, because some children are likely to be abandoned because of some genetic diseases or birth defects, such as color blindness, such as congenital heart disease, etc., after the person in charge verifies according to the report, these children will be treated specially.
So the rest of the people invariably despise this one! An obviously abnormal child, not only did not verify the origin, but also held it in his hand as a baby! This kind of fool will probably be the first person in charge to die at the hands of the living in the future!
The middle-aged man paused, calmed down his emotions, and continued:
"Bold and original ideas, intelligent and meticulous minds, cautious and nuanced actions, tenacious and resolute will, sharp judgment of the situation, extremely calm and rational and almost presumptuous catharsis of inner emotions! Before this assessment, the alarm clock was already extremely smooth and gorgeous to show everything she learned in the training camp! Ladies and gentlemen! This is the so-called talent! β
And what I want to see is how far her talent can be used!