Chapter 18: Attraction and Coercion (1/2)
Chapter 18: Attraction and Coercion
Translator: OneshotwonderEditor: Tehrn
Wang Tong had already gotten bored with the game, but Mr. Wannabe was still thrilled by it. ”Nice, nice! It was so much fun! However, your punch was too weak, if it had been me, I wouldn’t even need to evade the strike in the first place, one blow would settle the matter.”
”B*lls, this game is about skill, not brute force.”
”Skill my a**, if you had stepped left instead of right, you could have saved half of the maneuver time.”
”B*lls, the right side was more intuitive.”
”How dare you question me? You wanna bet? Stepping left would have saved you 0.03 seconds of time.”
”Yea I’m down for the bet, I know I’m right.” Wang Tong had learned these techniques from battles with the Zergs; therefore, he was very confident to enter the bet.
”Alright, here we go.”
Mr. Wannabe quickly performed two sets of moves, and stepping left was indeed quicker and more efficient than stepping right. Wang Tong felt dejected as he conceded his defeat. He felt like he could never be right in front of Mr. Wannabe as he always nipped away Wang Tong's newly sprouted confidence.
”Fine, a bet is a bet, what do you want, I don't have money.”
”You piteous miser! Fine, let's play another round of the game tomorrow, the noob we fought today was a piece of cake, tomorrow, we will find someone tougher. ”
”No, I don't have time, I need to focus on my studies.”
”How about the day after tomorrow?”
”No.”
”Oh.. for f*ck sake, don't you want to be stronger? These fights are your greatest opportunities. Haven't you seen those sleek moves of the Windward Consecutive Strikes? Why don't you learn from others?”
”Looking sleek would mean nothing when he had become a morsel in a Zerg's mouth.” Wang Tong had been tired with these set moves that were taught at schools as if they were being manufactured from a production line. He knew that they would be useless on a battlefield where even the Zergs knew to change their moves from time to time.
”Yea, yea, I know you are disappointed, but your last opponent had been too weak, more powerful fighters, like myself, of course, know to strike unpredictably.” Wannabe digressed as he realized that he had overrated Stock's moves which in truth were only fit for impressing girls. The principal of Capth might not react kindly if he had heard what these two had said about their student's training.
Wang Tong shook his head once again, unmoved by what Mr. Wannabe had said.
”Well, sc*ew you! When then?” Mr. Wannabe started huffing and puffing again. ”You little sh*t, don't you know that being trustworthy is the number one merit of a man? A bet is a bet!”
Driven speechless by Mr. Wannabe’s words, Wang Tong pulled his hair in frustration and finally said, ”This weekend!”
”Haha, that's more like it! Make sure that this time you find a worthy opponent, not some freak with a METAL suit fetish. A man, ought to fight with his bare fist!” Mr. Wannabe said as he squeezed his fists and raised them high up to pose like in one of his vague memories of some warrior’s statue.
Wang Tong hurried off to shut the crystal as he cringed at Mr. Wannabe's gross ostentatious posture. He didn't agree with what Mr. Wannabe had said; it was because of the METAL suit that humans stood a chance with the Zergs on the battlefield. If he had the chance to use one on Norton, he would have taken it in no time. Fighting in the game was nothing like fighting in a real war when soldiers act together as a group, which had given the Zergs a natural advantage due to their larger numbers.
”Stock! Stock!”
Stock's friends closed in on him in a circle around the computer. Capth had plenty of resources, it had installed a computer in every single classroom, although they were only allowed to be used for ATP training.
”This guy is suspicious, we should report him.”