Spy-x-War Showdown
Chapter 133 - 132 Weakness

Chapter 133: Chapter 132 Weakness

Everyone has their weaknesses.

It’s certain that people have weaknesses, it’s just a matter of more or less, bigger or smaller.

Zhang Yong’s weakness was that he valued loyalty too highly. With him, if you wanted to get something from him, you just had to play on his sense of loyalty, and you would surely succeed.

Yang Yi didn’t know what Danny’s personality weaknesses were, but he did know that Danny’s current biggest weakness was his family. He had a family and a business, and when a person of the underworld has both, it makes them a sitting target, no matter how powerful they become or how big their business grows, it can also become their vulnerability.

And Danny’s weakness had already been tested. The Destroyer had managed to force Danny to give up his resolve to fight to the death, and wasn’t it because he had a family and a business, which made him eventually give up the pursuit?

Kate had many weaknesses. She was too young; even though her parents were both commercial spies, Kate was still the apple of their eye who had been coddled from a young age. As such, she hadn’t experienced any real hardships. She might be worldly in some respects, but that was different from having weathered the storms in her belly.

Also, Kate was somewhat impulsive in her actions, which had a lot to do with her martial arts training from a young age. When someone’s fists are stronger than their brain, they naturally tend to solve problems with violence rather than with intellect.

As for Xiao Ran, what were her weaknesses?

Thinking this far, Yang Yi couldn’t help but hesitate.

Was it that she was too easily trusting? Otherwise, how could she have been deceived by a married man? But her situation was a bit different because she had just chatted with someone online and got carried away, then quickly realized the truth after meeting them, so this point might not be quite valid.

However, Yang Yi quickly discovered a problem: why was he thinking about Xiao Ran’s weaknesses?

Yang Yi went through all the people closely related to him, and then he started thinking about himself.

Reflecting on one’s own actions is a good habit, but Yang Yi didn’t know his own shortcomings.

It wasn’t that he thought he had no shortcomings; not knowing one’s shortcomings is different from believing one has none, and the difference is significant.

Yang Yi wanted to figure out his character flaws because they are weaknesses. Having weaknesses means you need to correct them, but having self-awareness is a strength, and if he couldn’t think of any shortcomings for himself, that meant he lacked self-awareness.

If he knew his character flaws, Yang Yi would change them, and once changed, they would no longer be weaknesses, but the problem was he didn’t know.

Lacking self-awareness could be considered a shortcoming, and Yang Yi decided to note this flaw down in his mental notebook. In the future, at critical moments when he had to make a decision, he would remind himself by consulting his notebook.

After summarizing the weaknesses of those close to him, Yang Yi began to think about what Wayne "Beast" might have as his weaknesses.

Beast Wayne was locked in a cell, and he was shackled. Even if one was not familiar with Beast Wayne at all, these two facts were undoubtedly his biggest weaknesses for now. It didn’t matter if he couldn’t find any other weaknesses for the time being, he could take his time. There was plenty of it, and he would eventually find a weakness to exploit against him.

The mental state of a person can also become a weakness, and those guards in the special sectors all shared a common weakness: they were bored.

At this thought, Yang Yi felt that he should add another one for Beast Wayne; after being locked up for a long time, Beast Wayne would also become bored, and perhaps there might be an opportunity to use that to his advantage.

After summarizing his observations in his mind, Yang Yi let out a sigh.

For now, the resources he could utilize were still too scarce; all he could do was wait and see, slowly and patiently.

Having reached his conclusion, Yang Yi also finished his handstand. He had begun to get used to thinking while exercising.

It was possible to think while working out the body, but not when boxing, because boxing required full concentration. Yang Yi would never allow himself to develop a habit of being distracted during a fight.

He practiced all the movements he knew, repetitively drilling various power-generating techniques until he could execute them without thinking. This was more exhausting than merely training muscles and strength, and it was also more effective. To become an expert, having a sharp mind was not enough, far from enough. Daily relentless practice was far more important than intellect.

Only after he had finished all the tasks for the day did Yang Yi sit on his bed, exhausted. Waiting until the sweat had dried, he washed himself with cold water and then immediately fell into a deep sleep.

By this time, it was already one o’clock in the morning.

Having a clever mind, he used to prefer cunning over using his real strength to solve problems; that was the judgment Yang Yi had made about himself in the past. Now, he thought he should no longer have this flaw.

But who knows.

A sleep until dawn, Yang Yi was awakened by the wake-up bell, hurriedly washed up, had breakfast, and then followed the shift-changing guard to the special cell block.

This time, Clint began chatting with Yang Yi outside.

After cleaning and finishing his duties, Yang Yi started chatting with Clint until noon. After having lunch with Clint, he would continue his work.

His noon task was to wait for Clint and Rubin to deliver meals to the inmates and then help them collect the meal trays, organize everything, and finally, during the guard shift change, take the utensils out for the inmates working in the cafeteria to clean.

So, Yang Yi was responsible for collecting but not washing the dishes.

The special cell block had an exercise yard, but unlike the yard for inmates with serious offenses, those in the special cell block could only exercise in a small courtyard of about a hundred square meters.

Unlike the serious offenders, the exercise area for the special cell block was enclosed by high walls made of bricks and cement. The circular walls were five meters tall, completely cutting off the view, meaning that even during exercise time, all the inmates could see was the small patch of sky overhead. Thus, this exercise area really resembled a well, or perhaps a chimney.

The guards and inmates actually referred to the exercise area as "the chimney." However, even with such limited conditions, inmates of the special cell block didn’t have many opportunities to use it—some could exercise daily, others every other day, while some could only get the chance once a week.

Furthermore, exercise time in the special cell block was not a group activity; it was staggered, with each inmate exercising alone.

Cleaning the exercise yard, even for a brief moment, made Yang Yi feel particularly stifled; he couldn’t imagine how those who had been locked up in the special cell block for years, or even decades, had endured it.

Today, Yang Yi was to clean the exercise yard. He waited at the entrance, and after the guard checked his watch, he opened the door above "the chimney" and shouted inside, "Time’s up, back to your cells!"

After shouting at the inmate, the guard turned to Yang Yi and said, "Move quickly, the next person is coming in ten minutes."