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At this moment, a rough voice came from outside the shack. It was directed to their new neighbor, Xiaoyu. ”Xiaoyu, I only found out you moved here when I went over to visit you just now. I brought you cigarettes.”
Ren Xiaosu and Yan Liuyuan looked at each other and frowned. They heard Xiaoyu say, ”I don't provide that kind of service anymore.”
”Haha!” It was as though that person with a rough voice had heard something funny. ”If you don't do that kind of thing anymore, how are you going to survive? Who will supply you with cigarettes in the future?”
”Let go of me!” Xiaoyu sounded angry. The two of them had apparently come to blows Something ripped. It sounded like someone's clothes had been torn.
When Yan Liuyuan turned to look at Ren Xiaosu, he saw that Ren Xiaosu was still frowning. Then he said in a whisper, ”Bro, go and help her.”
Ren Xiaosu stood up and untied the bone knife from his calf. Raising it aloft, he walked out of the shack.
Right at this moment, the keys of the brass typewriter within Ren Xiaosu's mind palace started typing words onto the leather parchment. The voice from the magnificent palace intoned at the same time, ”Quest: Help—”
He sneered in his mind and interrupted the voice from the palace. ”Even without this quest, I'll still help her.”
From the time that Ren Xiaosu came out of his shack holding the knife, it took just two seconds for him to rush up to that man.
Ren Xiaosu did not say any threatening words like ”let her go” or ”touch her again if you dare” because he knew that any unnecessary actions could lead to failure.
All he needed to do was to use the simplest solution to solve the simplest problem.
When Ren Xiaosu's slim but strong figure came sprinting over like a cheetah, the man promptly drew a knife from his waist and slashed at Ren Xiaosu. Everyone in town would carry a self-defense weapon on their person.
The man started to laugh mockingly in his mind because he was almost a head taller than Ren Xiaosu. Further, he was holding an actual metal weapon, not just some bone knife.
However, in the next moment, his ridiculing laughter halted.
It was common knowledge that a metal weapon would reign over a bone knife even though the wild beasts had gained a skeletal structure as strong as steel.
But being as strong as steel did not mean that it was steel.
Melee weapons were not banned in town, but it was almost impossible to obtain a good metal weapon. Even though some industries were slowly catching back up to the standards before The Cataclysm, they were still limited by a lack of resources at present.
Ren Xiaosu appeared before the man in a flash. His sprint had started off with his left leg hitting the ground while the muscles in his right leg tensed up and supported his body weight. Both of his feet now gripped the ground as he concentrated all of his strength there for maximum push off. Then, like an electric current, he let this strength surge through him from his waist up and into his arms.
Ren Xiaosu swung his knife diagonally upwards so hard that he almost slashed a crack right into the darkness of the night, cutting a gully across the land.
Clang! The bone knife and the metal weapon collided with each other. The onlookers who were secretly watching were astonished when they saw the two knives break in half at the same time. They had only expected the bone knife to break!
In that instant, Ren Xiaosu threw the bone knife aside without hesitation as the man was caught by surprise. This action of throwing the knife away was done in a swift motion after the swing. It was as though Ren Xiaosu had expected it to break. It was obvious he had other plans from the start.
He grabbed the man's wrist and punched him hard with his other hand right in his axillary nerve 1 .
The man tried to break free from his grasp but suddenly realized that the young man was much stronger than him!
How could this be? Wasn't his opponent young? This young man probably only stood as tall as his neck!
However, when the man noticed the tough muscles around Ren Xiaosu's neck, he realized that it was pure strength.
The axillary nerve ran about three centimeters around the upper arm and the armpit, but the punch did not need to land precisely because the size of the fist was enough to cover any deviation.
This area is one of the human body's weaknesses. When the axillary nerve receives heavy trauma 1 , neuropathy 2 can occur. Considering the nerve as an electrical cable, such a trauma can cause the axillary nerve to generate an uncontrolled release of electrical signals that can interfere with accurate signal transmission. When the brain gets overloaded by such signals, it will send out a pain signal. The signal overload also causes the limbs to receive a confused jumble of signals. The body then begins to secrete large amounts of calcium and potassium ions in reaction, and the resulting electrical overload is enough to paralyze the entire body for a second!
The man let out a scream as he fell to the ground, his limbs twitching uncontrollably. When he finally realized what was going on, he did not have any strength left to take on Ren Xiaosu.
Ren Xiaosu stood silently beside him and looked like he was thinking about something. The man panted for a while before begging for mercy. ”I won't bear a grudge. Please let me go. I'll forget about today's incident.”
Any smart person would know that their life was in the hands of Ren Xiaosu. So he shouldn't hoot and holler rudely and unreasonably, but to leave it for later instead.
Ren Xiaosu looked at Xiaoyu. ”Who is he?”
”He's a foreman of the coal mine. He was also the one who led the group that stabbed a person to death in town last night. Since he heard that man had a habit of saving money, he started getting ideas since he had gambling debts.” Xiaoyu revealed what the man had told her last night when he boasted about the incident to her.
Ren Xiaosu walked over to the road and picked up the man's metal weapon. Then he walked back next to the man. As he stared down at him in contempt, he estimated there to be at most four to five seconds before the man would regain his mobility.
Suddenly, the voice from the palace that had been silent for a while intoned again. ”Quest: Set your foe free.”
But just as the voice from the palace started trailing off, Ren Xiaosu crouched down and jabbed the metal weapon into the man's stomach. The sharp sound of the metal weapon tearing through leather and skin left every onlooker or anyone eavesdropping with a tingling sensation on their scalps. Then the man started bleeding profusely. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.