Chapter 318 Get over here and help me!
“The thing about the ‘calf slicer’ move is that you have to grab hold of your opponent’s ankle as soon as they lose balance. You then have to use that opportunity to grab hold of their calf and create a pinch point with the back of your knee to exert force onto their calf. That way, you can apply a pressure of a few hundred kilograms on your opponent’s tibia and fibula. Although the tibia is one of the strongest bones in the human body, you can break it easily by using this type of lock.” After Lu Yuan spoke, he called for an instructor to spar with Ren Xiaosu.
Such a technique would have to be tried out in actual combat. Ren Xiaosu couldn’t grasp the concept by just looking at it.
The instructor looked at the scrawny Ren Xiaosu in front of him and felt that he should be rather weak. As such, he said with a smile, “Let’s go through the motions.”
He thought Ren Xiaosu must have been sent here by some family member of the Yang Consortium. Why else would the owner offer to train him personally? So it would be better not to injure someone like him. If his parents came to seek answers, he would be in deep trouble for sure.
Lu Yuan said to Ren Xiaosu, “Although it’s only practice, it’s still necessary to make you understand that even though you might have an idea of how to execute a move, if you’re not fast and steady enough, the idea will just remain an idea.”
Then Lu Yuan said to the instructor, “Do your best and don’t allow him to immobilize you.”
“Alright,” the instructor responded.
After the two of them got in position, Lu Yuan suddenly told them to start. The instructor was just about to turn around to put Ren Xiaosu in a lock, but he found out that Ren Xiaosu had already grappled his leg!
Before the instructor could react, he felt his entire body being shoved to the ground and his leg being firmly locked in Ren Xiaosu’s arms. Not only that, after Ren Xiaosu had him immobilized, he unconsciously tried to strike the instructor’s ribs with his free hand. Ren Xiaosu was going to terminate his opponent’s ability to fight.
The instructor started sweating. It was as though he was about to experience something terrifying.
Lu Yuan hurriedly shouted, “Stop, stop, stop!”
Everything happened so quickly that the instructor could not react. He had nearly died from Ren Xiaosu’s punch.
Only Lu Yuan had seen it clearly. If Ren Xiaosu landed his punch, the instructor would probably become disabled. That punch might have even caused his organs to rupture and lead to his death.
The instructor got back up on his feet in a daze and heard Lu Yuan say seriously to Ren Xiaosu, “Why were you trying to kill him?”
When the instructor heard that, sweat started rolling down his back.
Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and said, “Actually, I wouldn’t have punched him for real. But I thought that if I only immobilized my enemy, I would appear weak.”
“You’re saying it’s a sign of weakness if you just make your opponent vulnerable but not kill him?” Lu Yuan had a strange look on his face.
“Well, it’s not that.” Ren Xiaosu said, “The enemies that I encountered in the wilderness would all fight to their deaths. There’s no other outcome. So I thought that it wouldn’t be enough to just break one leg. What if the opponent has a gun in his hand and fires it at me? I’ll definitely die!”
Lu Yuan went silent for a while. As he had grown up in the stronghold, the civilization here had taught him to show mercy to others and resolve conflicts peacefully.
However, the philosophy of life that Ren Xiaosu had gained from living in the wilderness was that kindness was the same as weakness.
Next to them, the instructor suddenly felt a little ashamed that he got beaten to the point of no retaliation by such a scrawny young man. “Sir, I—”
“It’s alright.” Lu Yuan smiled and waved it off. “It’s not your fault. Let me train with him instead. That way, everything will be fine. You can also take the opportunity to observe from the sidelines and witness the power of supernatural beings.”
After he said that, Lu Yuan went to spar with Ren Xiaosu. After all, normal instructors would just be like toys in the face of Ren Xiaosu. They were not qualified to spar with him at all.
The instructor finally heaved a sigh of relief. So this young man was a supernatural being. It was no wonder he was not his match. It looked like he could only let the owner spar with him personally.
Ten minutes later, Lu Yuan slapped the floor. “Let go, let go! I lost, I lost! That hurts, that really hurts!”
The instructor was dumbfounded. When Lu Yuan got up from the ground, he said to Ren Xiaosu in seriousness, “You need to learn how to control your strength. Remember, we’re just helping you fully understand the weaknesses of the human body’s joints by showing you these techniques. There’s no need for you to exert so much strength.”
Lu Yuan had thought that since he was a supernatural being too, his strength should be more or less equal to Ren Xiaosu’s. But to his surprise, he had overestimated himself and underestimated Ren Xiaosu.
Ren Xiaosu nodded and said, “Alright, I won’t exert too much strength.”
“Alright, we’ll end today’s lesson here then.” Lu Yuan said, “Remember to come every night. If you have something else to do, call me and tell me. Little Li, please jot down our phone number for him.”
After Ren Xiaosu left, Lu Yuan grabbed his own waist and said, “Get over here and help me.”
The instructor asked softly, “Sir, who is that young man?”
After thinking about it for a while, Lu Yuan did not know how he should describe Ren Xiaosu’s identity.
It was still quite early when Ren Xiaosu went home at night. The sound of people playing mahjong could still be heard on the streets. It seemed like the stronghold residents were not bothered by the war outside since they had already won.
Along the way, he also saw some workers who had just knocked off from work. Although the stronghold stipulated they could only work eight hours a day, no one ever oversaw or upheld this rule at the factories. As a result, many of the stronghold residents did not lead a happy life.
The social circle of these stronghold residents was similar to a city structure, and most of them had never ventured outside either. Ren Xiaosu felt that these people were more like a higher class of refugee, as everyone still had to serve the organization in some way and led busy lives every day. It was just that one group had to earn a living in the wilderness while the other had to do so within the stronghold.
Ren Xiaosu used to think that people living in the stronghold would leave their doors open at night and no one would steal their belongings as everyone trusted one another. But after getting into the stronghold, he found that it was not true.
Suddenly, Ren Xiaosu heard a familiar voice coming from a small alley. “Nine bamboo!”
When Ren Xiaosu walked into the alley, he found An Yuqian seated inside a small yard. He was playing mahjong with two old ladies and an old man, and they were all completely absorbed in the game.
Ren Xiaosu was a little confused. He had thought that An Yuqian might have been scammed by someone in a gambling den, so he could not win even with his master-level mahjong playing. However, that wasn’t the case at all.
After observing them from a distance for a while, he noticed the old man and the old ladies were secretly switching tiles under the table. But it didn’t look like An Yuqian had noticed anything.
Just how stupid could he get?
If anyone were to switch tiles like this when playing mahjong with Ren Xiaosu, he would flip the table in his opponent’s face.
An Yuqian was stunned when he saw Ren Xiaosu. He said to the old man and the old ladies, “Please wait for me a little. My friend is looking for me.”
Then An Yuqian stood up and went over to Ren Xiaosu. “What are you doing here?”
“With that loud voice of yours,” Ren Xiaosu said, “I could hear you shouting ‘nine bamboo’ even from two streets away!”