Ultimate Firepower
Chapter 256 - 243: What’s the Use

Chapter 256: Chapter 243: What’s the Use

Why crash into a tree.

This question was hard to answer. Gao Yi couldn’t just say it was to practice leaning on posts, then Marina would have asked why he needed to practice that.

They weren’t within the same system of thought, hard to explain indeed.

Gao Yi didn’t want to waste more words. He walked over to the punching bag, leaned on it with his weight, and the bag flew up. Demonstration complete.

Marina hardly reacted, but Sowa jumped up again, pointing at the punching bag and said hurriedly, "You saw it, you saw it! You all saw it! It’s true, he’s not human at all!"

Marina wasn’t skilled in fighting, one could even say she didn’t understand it, so she tilted her head and asked with puzzlement, "So what?"

"So what? It defies the laws of nature! Humans can’t do this! It’s unscientific! Boss, have you gone mad? Boss, are you stupid? Boss, do you lack basic knowledge of natural laws and scientific literacy?"

Sowa was genuinely frantic.

Marina frowned and said very seriously, "Are you personally attacking me?"

"Boss! I just can’t accept this huge..."

Turning his head to look at Gao Yi, Sowa found Gao Yi staring at him, and not knowing what to say initially, he was now even more at a loss for words.

All the words he had were scared back, choked back.

"This huge... huge..."

Sowa averted his gaze and looked at Marina again, "It’s already incredible, so incredible!"

"It seems you really are excited."

Marina sighed. She was still very familiar with her subordinate; not a direct-report, but she knew Sowa wasn’t normally this worked up, yet now he was excited enough to start attacking her.

But was it just because she hadn’t shown immediate amazement at Gao Yi making the punching bag fly? Just that?

Seeing Marina’s confusion, Sowa spread his hands, clutched his head, then said with a helpless face, "Am I the only one who finds this unbelievable? Such a miracle would have been considered divine in ancient times, oh think about it, he lifted his car with his bare hands..."

"My God!"

Marina finally let out a perfunctory exclamation, and then she looked at Gao Yi and said, "Can you really lift a car with your bare hands? Impossible, right?"

Gao Yi was just stunned, but Sowa collapsed, screaming, "It’s not about him lifting a car! It’s you! It’s about you being able to lift your own car!"

Marina looked innocent and said, "I can’t, what are you talking about?"

Sowa roared, "I mean, by analogy, he sent the punching bag flying like you lifting your own car! It’s as miraculous as him lifting a car with his bare hands, do you understand now!!"

"You shouldn’t get so worked up, Sowa, calm down."

Sowa was nearly crying. He turned to Gao Yi, seeking some comfort from him, "Isn’t it this hard to discuss science with women?"

Gao Yi whispered, "What you’re discussing isn’t science either."

Marina coughed lightly, then she said to Emily, "Is it really that difficult? Anyone could do it with enough strength, right?"

"Theoretically, yes, but the problem is that humans just aren’t that strong!"

Emily asked curiously, "Boss, have you really never trained in fighting?"

"I have a desk job, I don’t need to train in any fighting."

Marina exhaled and then said to Sowa, "Alright, I get it, something impossible happened, but there’s no need to be so excited. He made the punching bag fly, which is impressive, but what’s the use? What use does it have in actual combat?"

"What use..."

Sowa was left speechless, after a long thought, he finally said, "It means I would die if I got close to him, yes, die!"

"That’s a common understanding, isn’t it? Busan, unbeatable in close combat, ever since he assassinated Ditzel, to annihilating the Oak Mercenary Group yesterday, do we really need to emphasize that?"

Making a punching bag fly equals being unbeatable, but not making a punching bag fly is still being unbeatable, no difference, so why get excited?

Marina made a very logical argument.

Sowa was speechless again, and then he finally said, "I shouldn’t have let you witness this miracle, maybe I should call someone from the action office to see."

Marina raised her hand to stop Sowa from continuing and then said very seriously, "Enough, I transferred you from the action office to the Counterintelligence Department, not for you to pine after the action office."

She expressed her dissatisfaction with Sowa, glanced at Gao Yi, and then a puzzled Marina took out her mobile phone, not knowing what she was about to do.

Shortly afterward, Marina suddenly said, "The internet says it’s impossible for a person to punch a bag and make it fly in a circle, um, very impressive indeed..."

Sowa, in a state of collapse, said, "Not with punching it to fly, I can make the bag sway continuously, but to fly up into the air and spin around, impossible! And didn’t you see? He was right up against it with his shoulder, there was no room to gain momentum!"

Marina was looking things up online and finally, she gasped, stunned looking at Gao Yi and said, "It’s really that impressive? The internet says it’s impossible."

Sowa rushed to say, "What do you think I was talking about? Catch him... please take him to be studied, see if his structure is different from ours..."

Sowa’s voice got quieter and quieter because he realized Gao Yi was glaring at him.

Marina waved her hand and said to Gao Yi, "Of course it’s impossible to study you by slicing you up, but there are skills to it, right?"

Sowa whispered, "Call in the people from the action office, scare the hell out of them!"

Gao Yi didn’t know whether Sowa was really on the side of the action office or if he hated it to death, but in response to Marina’s question, Gao Yi said helplessly, "As I said before, find a tree and start ramming it, starting with one as thick as this, and when you can ram one as thick as that, you will have trained successfully."

Gao Yi seriously demonstrated the thickness of the trees.

Such training really worked, but the only problem was, without the support of an actual method, if one were to find a tree and start training directly, it was hard to say whether the person or the tree would die first.

"Busan, do we really need to train from this thickness to that thickness? How many years would that take..."

Emily gestured with her hands and said with a worried face, "By the time the small tree grows up, people might be dead."

Emily was talking about the issue of time.

Gao Yi said nonchalantly, "It won’t happen because most people can’t keep it up for that long and should give up by then."

His remark was nonsensical, but it seemed flawless to the ear.

Marina took a deep breath. She thought seriously for a moment and suddenly said, "Busan, here’s the thing, I don’t really understand fighting because I’m a civilian officer, not a professional spy."

Gao Yi looked at Marina.

Marina said earnestly, "I know how important combat is for a spy, so I asked you to come for an exchange, but now I realize I might have still underestimated your value."

Gao Yi shook his head and said, "Not at all, I haven’t been underestimated. What’s the use of combat these days? When you carry out missions, how often do you rely on combat to complete them? Never, right? So what’s the use of combat?"

"It’s useless to us, but it’s different for the people in the action office. In fact, hand-to-hand combat still occurs frequently."

Gao Yi nodded and said, "Occasionally, I wouldn’t say frequently."

Marina continued very seriously, "Sowa is the fighting instructor at the action office, but he was transferred to the Counterintelligence Department. Do you know why?"

"I don’t know and, uh, I don’t want to know."

"Because the action office rarely solves problems with combat, but the Counterintelligence Department often needs unarmed combat; we need a strong fighter to solve problems."

"Sowa is good, very impressive."

"What kind of problems? The honor battles between us and Military Intelligence Sixth Department. Although we’re allies, there can only be one boss in Europe, and currently, it’s a competition between France and the UK."

Gao Yi spotted a problem.

Everyone has their own thoughts and demands, but when put together, it became like chickens talking with ducks—completely at odds.

Gao Yi regretted it; he should never have demonstrated his strength in an attempt to prove something to Sowa.

Marina continued lightly, "Although we’re allies, there’s still... you know, we’re definitely not friends, and the UK has now approved the bill to leave the European Union and has released the Brexit white paper. Now EU member states are gradually approving the draft agreement for the UK’s withdrawal. So, the British spy activity in Europe is extremely active right now."

Gao Yi furrowed his brow, not knowing what Marina wanted to say.

Brexit, what did it have to do with him?

Marina said earnestly, "British espionage is rampant, and as the leader of the EU, we naturally have to stop the British."

The French consider themselves the leaders of the EU, but that depends on whether the UK agrees and whether Germany agrees.

Gao Yi couldn’t help but say, "And then? What does this have to do with me?"

"But the UK is ultimately a North Atlantic Treaty Organization member and a French ally; as much as we detest the British, we can’t really arrest their spies before they truly leave the EU, especially not kill their spies. Therefore, fighting becomes the only viable option."

Sowa couldn’t help but say, "Not fighting! Boss, don’t make it sound so low-class."

Marina remained serious, "My most important job now is to identify active British spies, capture them without killing them—just capturing them. We also can’t deport them, because the UK is still an EU member state and they can travel freely to France. So usually, we break the leg of a British spy."

Gao Yi thought of something.

Marina spread her hands and said, "Up to this point, you must understand. That’s right, Sowa was the one I asked for help."

"Sowa is capable; he’s impressive, no problem."

Gao Yi continued to praise Sowa, but Marina was serious, "But Sowa has already failed because Military Intelligence Sixth Department sent Iron Fist George. They fought once, and in the end, we could only scare the British off with guns, and that’s how Sowa’s leg didn’t get broken."

Sowa said with a resigned look, "Is it necessary to tell him this?"

"Last month, three of our spies in the UK had their legs broken and were sent back. But equally last month, two British spies we found managed to escape."

Gao Yi understood. He said in a low voice, "Just tell me what you want to do. I’ve already started teaching your people."

Marina looked Gao Yi up and down, then said, "I was thinking, since you are so impressive, why not ask for your direct help instead? Why waste time letting them train themselves, especially since they may not be effective even after a long time of training?"

"I refuse. I’m currently entangled in trouble and injured."

Marina smiled slightly and said, "Don’t be in such a hurry to refuse. If I’m asking for your help, I can certainly offer you conditions you can’t refuse."

"What conditions?"

Marina said immediately, "Don’t be anxious. Perhaps we should go to my office and sit down. My office is spacious, and the sofa is comfortable. We can sit and talk slowly. As for what conditions, that depends on what you want. Come on, please follow me."