Chapter 23: Muscle Memory

Xia Jie's hands were stretched apart suddenly, and the two black knives crossed and lifted upward, and with a piercing friction sound, Kato's knife was pushed to the highest point, and after a while, the hands that were thrown away were like a big scissors, closing and strangling towards the middle.

The moment his knife was pushed open, Kato frowned, and almost when Xia Jie's two knives were closed, he had fully activated the reinforcement suit, and his legs kicked on the ground and exploded away a few meters away.

"Huh!"

As Kato jumped away, the black knives in Xia Jie's hands were wrung into the air.

This is the difference between living and dead things, at the moment when the other party burst back, Xia Jie almost immediately reacted that this knife should go a little further, but unfortunately his body couldn't keep up, his hands were already crossed together, and it was too late to change his moves, so he could only watch Kato withdraw from his attack range.

"Bang! Wow! ”

Kato kicked the ground suddenly, and with this backlash, he not only stopped the figure from continuing to retreat, but also had the strength to launch a counterattack. His black knife was clenched in both hands, and he slashed it off his left shoulder with a loud sound.

Looking at this powerful and menacing knife, Xia Jie's eyes were bright, and he secretly said in his heart: "It's good to come!" ”

Just now he missed a blow, Kato instantly seized this fleeting opportunity to launch a counterattack, this is what he can't train alone, I believe that if I encounter this situation in the future, my reaction will be faster, and I can even predict this situation, and prepare for defense before attacking!

said that it was too late, and then quickly, Xia Jie's mind flashed like lightning, even if all kinds of thoughts were only instantaneous, in the face of Kato's attack, his body also took advantage of the situation and made a backward evasion.

For newcomers like him and Kato, the dodging moves are too immature, and only retreating and exiting the opponent's attack range will be successful.

And like a real master, they can grasp the rhythm of the enemy's attack, they can dance on the tip of the knife, and they can dodge the sharp blade between square inches, but for them, thinking about this now is tantamount to a fool's dream, maybe there may be such a day in the future, but it will never be now.

Jumping out of the coverage of the blade in one step, Xia Jie did not retreat much, but also maintained the safe range of arm length.

At this distance, in this case, he and Kato maintained a mysterious balance with each other, he had just stood up, and Kato's knife had just been cut to the end, and he was in the stage where the new force was not alive and the move was dead.

In this situation, Xia Jie had an illusion, as if he was standing in the capsule room again, holding a knife, chopping a candle, he was still him, and the candle was Kato.

"Huh."

Before he knew it, the knife in his hand had been swung out.

The bland knife made Kato Katsu's pupils constrict, his heart was cold, a cold sweat floated on his forehead, and a voice flashed madly in his heart, danger! Dangerous!

Kato tried his best to tilt his head back, but the shadow of the knife was like a poisonous snake kissing his neck, persevering.

"Click!"

Even though there was a dislocation of bones in his neck, Kato still gritted his teeth and tried to lean back, his spine had stretched to the limit, but the knife was still getting closer and closer!

Fortunately, this knife did not cut his throat after all!

Because Xia Jie finally reacted, his hand tightened, forcibly restrained the movement of the knife blade, retracted his arm, and subconsciously wanted to move forward.

"Are you alright?"

Xia Jie withdrew the knife and saw that it had not been harmed, so he was relieved.

Kato shook his head silently, "No, it's okay." It seems that his aftershock has not yet dissipated, and the whole person is a little distracted.

"I'm sorry, I was doing it completely subconsciously." Xia Jie stepped forward and said apologetically, then patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "Forget it, that's the end of today, I'll buy some training wooden knives tomorrow, and we won't use black knives next time we practice, otherwise it's too dangerous to stop it." ”

It wasn't that the two of them didn't expect danger before they practiced, but they thought to themselves, after all, the reinforcement suit was on their bodies, and they returned to the room to recover, even if they would be injured a little during training, so they didn't take this matter to heart.

But with the knife just now, not only Kato was frightened, but even Xia Jie himself was shocked into a cold sweat.

Terrible muscle memory, if he really continued to swing just now, even if he couldn't cut off Kato's head, at least he could cut more than half of his neck! This kind of injury, unless you return to the room immediately, is doomed to death.

Almost! I'm almost going to have to increase the difficulty of my own rescue mission!

"You take a break for a while, let's practice on our own today."

"Yes."

Kato nodded with palpitations, indicating that he understood.

Xia Jie only looked apologetic, and then walked away by himself, silently returning to the camphor forest.

He felt that the training method he had formulated now was correct, and that it was entirely his own problem that such an uncontrollable accident occurred!

The knife just now was purely an instinctive reflex of my body! The muscles and arms all slashed out naturally.

In layman's terms, this situation is muscle memory, when the environmental conditions in which you are in the same situation as when you are training, you don't need to think with your brain, you don't have to control subjectively, the body muscles will automatically contract and pull, so that the limbs can respond accordingly, just like normal training.

Leaning against a camphor tree, Xia Jie sat down and frowned and pondered, his usual composure could no longer be maintained, and he felt that something might not be right in his body.

This unknown change that occurred inside the body made him a little breathless!

"It shouldn't be! How long have you been practicing? Can you form such muscle memory?! ”

Xia Jie muttered, he knew that muscle memory is a muscle conditioning reflex formed by performing the same action for a long time, although this process is long and short, but it will definitely not be something that can be exercised by training like this for a day or two!

"Could it be that in the process of electrocution, or even crossing, my body has undergone changes that I don't know about?"

He frowned and thought carefully, from the time he crossed to the present, he had never felt the slightest abnormality, but the strange thing was that this process of muscle memory came so fiercely!

Suddenly, he thought of a possibility, the fortified suit!

"That's right! Wearing the strengthening suit, whether it is strength, physical strength, and even recovery speed has been greatly improved, although I only practiced for one day that day, but the number of times I swung the knife was definitely a lot, and the hands were alternately trained, almost non-stop to stimulate the muscles! There are no recuperation steps after training for ordinary people! ”

And every time I swing the knife until I am sore, the natural contraction of the strengthening suit is still relieving the fatigue and making the muscles recover faster, so the amount of training in a day is ten times that of ordinary people? Hundredfold?!

In addition, he has continued to swing his knife from morning to night in the past few days, and even killed two aliens, these should actually be the reasons for his muscle memory to develop so quickly, and then he was stimulated by the strengthening suit, which was naturally formed!

The more Xia Jie thought about it, the more he felt that the truth was like this, because he couldn't find any other reason other than this explanation at present.

"I didn't expect the reinforcement suit to have such an effect!"

felt that after figuring out the details, Xia Jie immediately raised his fighting spirit again, got up and continued to practice, with such an efficient training method, how could he sit back and waste time?

Xia Jie's figure flashed again in the camphor forest.

Horizontal slashing, vertical slashing, straight stabbing, light cutting, random chopping and many other moves were pinched and kneaded together by him, not sticking to the form, just whether it is applicable or not!

If it's a little farther, then stab it with a knife, or far? Then take two steps on the heel, after the distance is a little closer, and raise the left hand at the same time is a slash, if the opponent dodges, then turn the stab into a cut, and aim at the legs and feet is a random poke.

He doesn't have a fixed move, he doesn't set up a so-called routine, everything depends on his reaction at the time, and after the attack, he thinks about whether this move is useful or not, whether it can be improved, and then the next time he does it more perfectly, time is sharpened back and forth like this.

The trees around him were regarded by him as imaginary enemies, bearing his crazy output, swaying branches like the dying wails of the enemy, and splashing sap like the blood of the enemy.

It wasn't until the sun set that Xia Jie stopped, because the light around him had dimmed.

This abandoned zoo is not good at all, there is no electricity, and when it gets dark at night, you can't see anything, so everyone can only set up a pile of firewood and sit around waiting for it to be transmitted.

However, the food tonight is much better than yesterday's instant dough, and the cooked food they bought is simply baked, and it is steaming and fragrant, and with some delicious drinks, the meal is also delicious.

Under the moonlight, in this barren zoo, everyone roasted a small fire and sat in a circle relaxedly, relieving some of the fatigue of training during the day.

Of course, the small fires they built are also well protected from fire, if they are teleported away, when the firewood is burned out, it will be automatically extinguished, and there are no combustibles within a dozen meters around, even if the fire is blown away by the wind, it will not cause a fire.

The fourth mission, as Xia Jie's waist lit up with a blue light that split him in two, began!

In the room, there were no new arrivals unexpectedly.

"You, you! How can I ...... again?"

Nakamura Kuan trembled and pointed at Xia Jie and the others, he was wearing a golden robe, a Pilu hat, and a string of gilded Buddha beads hanging around his neck, it could be seen that he seemed to have taken out all the treasures of his temple and put them on his body, wanting to use this to defend against the call of the black ball!

After he went back last night, he found that the wound on his body that had been tied up did not exist at all, and the Zen courtyard where he was located should have been splashed with the blood of when he was killed last night, but when he got up, everything was the same as before, and he couldn't even see the slightest bit of blood.

Nakamura suddenly had an epiphany at that moment, he felt that all this was an illusion, a fantasy generated by his own lack of heart, including his own death, including the black ball room, including the two moving stone statues!

Therefore, he read the Buddhist scriptures thoroughly, blessed himself with solemn ritual instruments, and prepared to have a Dharma baptism to clear his bad luck, but he thought that he was chanting the scriptures in the Zen monastery at night, and suddenly came to this room again.

"Where the hell is this? Why am I still here? ”

The little white-faced Gong Qijun was about to cry, he was nervous, he slept well at home, why did he come to this ghost place again, did he have to be tied up as a worm again?

Osawa Hiratsu's explosive head was much calmer, but he was also a little uneasy, because he felt that what the man named Kato had said before was very likely to be true.