Chapter 10 (1/2)

I just accidentally completed my training!

His mind was still running wild. He hadn't regained his composure yet, and he still had no idea how he had managed to fulfil the requirements.

Ye Zhong tried to perform again with the Black Bird, and it was all successful. Ye Zhong tried to figure out how but failed.

After thinking through half a day, Ye Zhong gave up. The explanation wasn't his top priority; capability was all that mattered. More importantly, he didn't have to swallow the organic liquid food the following week.

Ye Zhong paused his training and left the virtual network, as he still had the steel ball training to complete. After Wen Ni was broken, Mu had put it on the schedule again.

However, after this training, it had dawned on Ye Zhong that speed wasn't everything.

Sun Xuelin gently comforted her cousin Xu, whose face was colorless from the fright. She felt deeply grateful towards YC. Luckily he had managed to catch cousin Xu, otherwise no one could tell what consequences could have happened. Thinking back, she realised that he was much further than her, but faster than her. And it alarmed her. However, her worries were soon overshadowed by her curiosity. How could he have improved so fast? Maybe he was hiding his true abilities last time.

With fear flashed in her eyes, a pretty face with fair skin, shoulder-length black hair that appeared a bit messy, and trembling slender body, A Xiu was like a flower bud fluttering in the cold wind. Those that saw her wouldn't help but feel pity.

Feeling bad for A Xiu, Sun Xuelin fixed A Xiu's fair. A Xiu couldn't take it any longer, she buried her face in Sun Xuelin's arms, m.u.f.fling her cry. Sun Xuelin, like a big sister, quietly rubbed A Xiu's shoulders. Although A Xiu was only a dozen days younger than Sun Xuelin, due to her fragile nature, she always followed Sun Xuelin closely. Sun Xuelin also adored this cousin of hers. She had always been fearless, together with her father's guidance, no one had ever dared to provoke her. Thus, she became A Xiu's guardian angel. Two years ago, her aunt had moved away, A Xiu and Sun Xuelin were separated, but A Xiu was still dependent on this big sister of her.

Sun Xuelin softly consoled ”A Xiu, don't cry, don't cry. We will head home, alright? Let's go home first”

A Xiu obediently nodded.

Sun Xuelin hugged A Xiu whose face was dripping with tears and left the network. She still glanced back at the training room before departing.

Did he recognise me? Did he nod in greeting me?

Sun Xuelin couldn't help but felt bothered by it.

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The next day, Ye Zhong started his new training regime: different kinds of training and locations. Because it was the first day, his movements was still awkward, but he was highly focused. Burying himself in practicing, he didn't notice the arrival of the two uninvited guests. They had been standing aside observing him for a while.

Sun Xuelin was so stunned that her jaw dropped. A duck egg could have fit into her mouth. She looked at the inept person at the training ground in a daze. Was that the YC that had awed her the day before? If seeing him at a basic training base was a surprise, watching him earnestly practicing the movements she had done since the age of 8 or 9, clumsily as if he just learnt it recently, shocked her to the core.

He had never learned the basics? If he did, why would he be here? Moreover, how could his movements be so inept? If he had never done it, how could he have finished the highly complex Chaos Arching Track Leap? Luck?

The only thing Sun Xuelin could be sure was that he was a strange one!

A Xiu was staring at the mecha Black Bird that was practicing like he was in a trance. Her eyes twinkled that it could have confused the others as to what she was thinking about.

The two fixated on the figure that was practicing carefully on the training ground.

After a while, Sun Xuelin was back to her usual self and saw that A Xu still standing motionless beside her. She was surprised, and asked ”A Xiu, why are you still standing here? You are not practicing today?” and made fun of her ”Don't tell me you are still scared from yesterday? So you don't dare to practice today?”

A Xiu came back to her senses, blushed and answered with embarra.s.sment ”Ah …. Uhmm… I'll …. I'll go now”

And staggeringly controlled Black Bird to fly down.

Looking at A Xiu's Black Bird wiggling in midair, as if it could plunge down at any moment, made Sun Xuelin anxious. She was dripping cold sweat but still comforted A Xiu ”Don't be afraid, it's alright, I'm standing right here”