Just Discharged From the Military and Got Tied Down by A Cold Beauty
Chapter 247: Four Years, 1460 Times

Chapter 247: Chapter 247: Four Years, 1460 Times

In Liuli Hong’s imagination, Lu Xiao’s combat experience should have been comparatively poor.

After all, Lu Xiao’s age was there for all to see.

years old, how many battles could he have experienced?

But now, Liuli Hong’s mind was full of question marks.

Lu Xiao’s combat ability was beyond imagination.

That calmness and the ability to exploit an opponent’s weakness to the extreme gave him goosebumps.

At least, he couldn’t do it.

Let alone at Lu Xiao’s age, even now he wouldn’t dare say his combat ability surpassed Lu Xiao’s.

Of course, besides these, there were some things he couldn’t understand.

"You... how did you hit Song Benxiong?" Liuli Hong asked.

The battle between Lu Xiao and the Left Island Army was perilous; the way Lu Xiao finally leapt up and finished off the Left Island Army with imagination was reasonable.

But when Lu Xiao began by shooting through the Inner Qi Barrier to kill Song Benxiong, he still couldn’t understand.

Lu Xiao was also a bit stunned.

He had thought it was only the mutants who didn’t understand; he didn’t expect that Liuli Hong hadn’t seen it clearly either.

"The issue with the bullet passing through the Inner Qi Barrier?"

"Yes."

"It’s about timing the opening and closing of the Inner Qi Barrier, so it neither affects defense nor the bullet’s passage," Lu Xiao explained roughly.

Liuli Hong: ⊙△⊙?

Lu Xiao, what nonsense are you talking about!

The Inner Qi Barrier isn’t a door, opening and closing that easily.

Even I can’t instantly retract it while the Inner Qi Barrier is active; it takes at least two seconds to reset.

Two seconds might seem short, but in a duel between experts, life and death are decided in an instant.

Two seconds is enough time to die several times over.

"You... How long does it take for you to open and close the Inner Qi Barrier?" Liuli Hong asked.

"I’m not exactly sure myself. Let me demonstrate," Lu Xiao said. And with a whoosh, he completed the release and retraction of the Inner Qi Barrier.

Liuli Hong was already feeling not so good.

It wasn’t even an issue of speed anymore.

If he hadn’t been so focused and his perceptive abilities so strong since reaching the Fourth Rank, he probably wouldn’t have been able to sense the barrier’s instantaneous opening and closing at all.

"How did you do it?" Liuli Hong’s gaze was somewhat excited. If this rapid toggling of the Inner Qi Barrier could become a universal technique, it would greatly enhance the combat power of a Heavenly Man.

From now on, every Heavenly Man could carry an assault rifle.

Operating a shield while firing, damn, that’s just brutal when you think about it.

Firearms, after all, still pose a considerable lethality whether facing a Heavenly Man or a mutant.

Unless it’s a mutant with a hardening ability—ordinary firearms are indeed useless against them.

"It’s just the release and retraction of Inner Qi. Do you guys need a long time?" Lu Xiao asked with a somewhat puzzled expression.

Hearing Lu Xiao’s description, Liuli Hong’s eyes began to roll upward.

He now understood that Lu Xiao meant there was no universality to it. It’s just that Lu Xiao was exceptionally gifted.

After entering the Heavenly Man Realm, a person’s body continuously absorbs external energy to strengthen Inner Qi, and the speed of this absorption to some extent represents a person’s talent.

If Liuli Hong’s rate of energy absorption was compared to the neck of a mineral water bottle, then Lu Xiao’s rate was akin to that of a vat.

That was why Lu Xiao could perform the instantaneous opening and closing of the Inner Qi Barrier.

"Forget it. Let’s not talk about this," Liuli Hong waved his hand. This technique was probably something only Lu Xiao could do; others shouldn’t even think about it.

"By the way, kid, have you experienced many life-or-death situations?" Liuli Hong changed the subject.

For someone his age, Lu Xiao’s terrifying combat abilities were a bit incomprehensible.

"Let me think." Lu Xiao nodded, then started to count on his fingers, "One, two, three, four."

"Four times, huh? That is indeed quite a bit. No wonder..." Liuli Hong exhaled. Four life-or-death experiences were quite substantial.

"Four years," Lu Xiao added.

Liuli Hong looked puzzled.

I asked you how many life-or-death situations you’ve been through, what do you mean by four years?

"Four years, if one year has three hundred sixty-five days, and on average there’s one life-or-death situation per day, that adds up to 1460 times, yeah, roughly that."