Chapter 561 Chapter 558 Speeding Past
From the first day he became a mercenary, the concept that high speed and high explosion equals strength has taken root in Zhuang Xuteng's mind. ɱHe will never forget the first time he witnessed high-speed and high-explosion in actual combat: Cassandra's heavy punch against King Kong of the Wild Monkey Gang.
Today, high-speed and high-explosion implants have been installed in his legs, and the postoperative recovery has been completed early with the help of the vast number of good citizens who are heavy users of Safety Blue in Constitution City, the capital. Zhuang Xuteng is already eager to try.
The high-speed and high-explosion implant also adopts the command-controlled "charge-explosion" mode, which does not require complicated operations. It does not rely on the intervention of an integrated transaction processor - this is very beneficial to Zhuang Xuteng, eliminating the cost of finding a company's encoding and encryption operating system. The user can initiate the "accumulation-explosion" process through nervous system commands or by pressing the relevant parts of the implant using specific gestures.
Implants taken from cadavers do not come with an operating manual, so there is no "gesture press" control. In order to better control the implant, during the implantation surgery, Zhuang Xuteng asked Dr. Doku to connect it to the driving assistance suit implant to share a control system.
The "charge-jump" command of the driving assistance suit can control the intensity of the charge. The same control ability can also have an effect on high-speed and high-explosion implants, which is very important to Zhuang Xuteng. For this set of implants, Zhuang Xuteng could only learn to use it gropingly, so experimenting with the smallest amount of energy at the beginning would definitely have the smallest threat of damage to his body.
"Start...stop!" Zhuang Xuteng felt that his heels were hot, so he quickly took off his shoes and touched them. In just one second of accumulation, the skin on the back of his feet had reached a high temperature of about 40 degrees. Obviously, high-speed and high-explosive functions will place a significant burden on the body. High temperature is just the beginning, and it is the easiest to overcome of all burdens and damages.
Zhuang Xuteng squatted at the foot of the mountain. Directly in front of him was an uphill road without obstacles, which was perfect for an acceleration test. He opened the tentacles of the resentful spirit, raised the resentful spirit jelly and super-computing martial arts to their strongest state, and then issued the "break out" command. The power accumulated in the implant exploded in an instant. Zhuang Xuteng felt his legs weaken and he rushed out.
In an instant, Zhuang Xuteng urgently activated his levitating technique, coupled with the support of the resentful spirit tentacles and the quick reaction of Eight Flashes, he was able to avoid being hit by the oncoming earth. Even so, he could only launch himself into the air and jump to a height of about fifteen meters. Only then did he complete the buffer and regain control of his body posture. When he landed, his feet were so painful that he had to quickly lower his buttocks and use two pieces of soft flesh to support his body weight.
"It's more difficult than expected. This moment of acceleration is so exciting." Zhuang Xuteng slowly rubbed his legs and found that the pain in his legs quickly reduced and disappeared after a few seconds. In terms of muscle feel, he felt that his legs were fine and he could continue to use them normally.
"Hiss... interesting, really interesting. It stands to reason that such a large explosive force should cause lacerations to the muscles and skin, but in fact no wounds were seen at all. At first, I thought that after kicking on the ground, if the surgical wounds were not treated, Okay, maybe the implant will fly out on its own..."
Zhuang Xuteng suddenly discovered that the high-speed and high-explosion implant was quite strange. Its explosive ability was completely different from the charged jump of the driving assistance suit. The power-charged jump mainly uses physical principles. It simply concentrates the force and provides the body with a greater initial velocity through the conversion of potential energy and kinetic energy. But high-speed and high-explosion is not a stronger, horizontal charge jump. The physical effect is only part of it, maybe not even 30%.
"Based solely on the principle of force rising from the ground, with such a high acceleration, my legs and feet will rush out first, and then my upper body will be flattened, passively following me in a lying position. But in fact, my body is The whole body, even the upper body, was faster - I saw the ground coming towards me first, and then I had other reactions."
"There must be some kind of force that helped me stabilize my body posture. When I tried it the first time, I leaned too far forward. It was actually because I expected that my upper body would fall backwards and I made 'compensation' in advance. The next time I tried it, I used my normal posture. Running posture, let’s see if I’m right.”
This time, Zhuang Xuteng started from a standing position, still giving the high-speed and high-explosion implant a minimum charge. With a cry, he rushed out. Judging from his posture, it was obviously much better than the last time. His upper body leaned back slightly—presumably due to wind resistance—but not enough to cause him to roll. After enduring the pain in his feet for more than ten steps, Zhuang Xuteng successfully stopped. The distance of this charge was about twenty meters.
Zhuang Xuteng felt that he had grasped a key point, so he continued to try after the break. With the help of Ba Shan's high-speed neural reactions, he gradually revealed the secret of high-speed and high-explosion: He was not wrong, the high-speed and high-explosion power is only 30% of its overall strength, and the remaining 70% is the shadow. Spell effects.
Even though Zhuang Xuteng uses martial arts all day long, his main power is actually shadow energy. He is different from Go Gongdao, he is different from the Lich Master, he is more like a shadow follower mage - you only need to think about this carefully to know this.
Resentment, Zhuang Xuteng uses resentment to drive necromancy, including constructing various summons of the resentful spirit system, and letting the resentful spirit tentacles do things to him. The resentment he uses is no longer the same as the resentment used by the Lich Master. The Lich Master's undead resentment comes from corpses, from the resentment of the dead before their death and other curse effects. Most of Zhuang Xuteng's resentment comes from the side effects of implants, which come from living people. Even if he collects resentment from the dead, its essence is not death, but the side effects of implants.
The implant is a kind of shadow slave, which is driven by energy and converts energy into effects. In most cases, the energy comes from the shadow slave energy block, which is commonly known as the shadow slave "battery". This kind of shadow slave energy has long been spread all over the world with the power system.
Another source of energy is the user himself. Zhuang Xuteng used it when he used the Shadow Slave Gun Ring, and he also used it when he drove the Eye of Kaho. If the body's shadow slave energy is not enough, it will cause fatigue, mental weakness, nausea and dizziness, and it needs to rest well and replenish nutrition to recover. This method of use is more flexible, more personalized, and more suitable for forming unique effects, so it is also widely adopted by shadow wizards. When Zhuang Xuteng performed the bone spear technique, he had already used shadow energy completely.
Zhuang Xuteng has never subdivided shadow energy and resentment, and he has always used them together. Due to the difference in world rules between the shadow world and the corporate world, the necromancy of the lich master has undergone "localized transformation" here in Zhuang Xuteng, which is actually a mixed use. Therefore, it is the most correct choice for Zhuang Xuteng not to subdivide the two energies. His resentment can drive his necromancy, and in fact, it can only drive his own necromancy. His resentment can also drive shadow equipment, and only his resentment among necromancers can do so.
Rather than saying that Zhuang Xuteng is a necromancer, it is better to say that he is a shadow wizard who uses necromancy skills. Long-term training has allowed him to accumulate a lot of resentment, that is, shadow energy, and now it has shown its benefits: high-speed and high-explosive implants require a considerable amount of shadow energy to drive, and the impact generated by its explosion requires strong physical fitness and body control level to withstand.
In terms of the demand for shadow energy, shadow mages can take on the demand relatively easily, but in comparison, they need other types of shadow devices, especially shadow casting equipment. From the perspective of physical endurance, it is definitely no problem to strengthen people, but their own shadow energy manufacturing ability is relatively limited. Considering the side effects of the exhaustion of shadow energy, they can only continue to select the best from the best, and find those who have outstanding shadow physique to bear the consumption. After layers of selection, cultivation and training, this kind of people have become the main combat force of important departments such as the company's business development department and internal security, that is, strengthened people.
Back to Zhuang Xuteng, his physical fitness is okay, his body control ability is super first-class, and his "shadow energy" reserves are also first-class, and they can continue to be strengthened. He has become a very rare person: a shadow caster and a physically strengthened warrior.
Every time a high-speed and high-explosive implant is activated, resentment will flow. This does not require Zhuang Xuteng's command. Providing energy for spells has long become his natural reaction. Subsequently, the implant will produce three effects: physically accumulating potential energy for the implant, accumulating explosive energy in spells, and providing posture protection for the body.
The first two parts are to compress energy in preparation for the explosion, and the third part is interesting. After Zhuang Xuteng gave the order, in a very short time of tens of milliseconds, the shadow energy flowed rapidly in his body, spread all over his body, and formed a protective and supporting shield. Then, he was pushed out by the strong explosive force and entered the "flying" state. In this short time when the explosive force takes effect, the protective and supporting shield protects him from inertial damage.
High-speed and high-explosion will not throw out the internal organs, will not squeeze blood out of the wound, and will not cause unbearable impact on the bladder and sphincter. The shadow spell that comes with the implant temporarily cuts the inertia, thereby discarding the most dangerous acceleration part. The rest is basically the physical and mental discomfort after the sudden change in speed.
The contrast between the speed before and after creates a strong sense of dizziness, which has a kind of effect that catches people off guard. Zhuang Xuteng now understands why the company's enhanced people have to pose before high-speed and high-explosion, just to find the benchmark before and after the speed change, and adjust the body based on the familiar posture, so as to reduce the rate of body out of control.
Zhuang Xuteng didn't want to follow the company's path of strengthening people. He always believed that determining a baseline posture was equivalent to exposing his combat intentions. As soon as the opponent saw his movements, he knew that a high-speed high-burst was coming, and he could calculate the approximate direction of the impact. Zhuang Xuteng used the prediction of posture and impact direction to use the armor-piercing hammer to deal a fatal blow to Kaho. He didn't want this to happen to him.
"So I have to find a way to adapt to the speed difference, and I have to be able to do it in any posture and any situation."
How do people who are seasick practice not to get seasick - vomit. Zhuang Xuteng heard that in order to avoid seasickness as soon as possible, some people specifically find a small boat and go out in windy and rough weather. In extreme situations, they vomit and survive. After a few times, as long as they don't die and as long as they are determined to hold on, their body's ability to withstand bumps will increase. In the field of high-speed and high-burst, Zhuang Xuteng is also prepared to do the same. The only difference is: he will not use the maximum burst right away, but start from the most basic.
Thanks to the long-term training to accumulate mana, and the relatively small consumption of minimum energy storage, Zhuang Xuteng can activate the high-speed and high-explosion implant more times than the company's enhanced people. In the constant struggle, despite many mistakes such as falling and tumbling, he also slowly figured out some tricks: anticipating the environmental state after the explosion in advance can effectively reduce the dizziness caused by speed contrast.
"Isn't this when the Wraith Jelly should come into play? The same goes for sensing tentacles. Others can only use themselves as observation points, but I am different! Whichever location I want to use as an observation point, I just need to put the Wraith Jelly or Perception Just stretch out your tentacles!"
Even the best predictions are not as accurate as on-the-ground perception. Zhuang Xuteng only needs to understand the impact distance under different charging states and spread out the jelly or tentacles with the ability to sense in advance, which means he has mastered the environmental information after the explosion in advance. Taking this information as the basis and adding the sense of speed, doesn't this mean a complete contrast between all the states before and after?
Now that you have an idea, train in this direction. The high-speed and high-explosion implant was activated again and again, pushing him continuously into a high-speed impact state, and his familiarity with this state continued to strengthen with the amount of practice. The side effects of the implant were converted into energy by him in the form of resentment - he actually recycled energy, thus greatly increasing the number of times the high-speed and high-burst implant could be used.
There are some things that Zhuang Xuteng doesn't know: the amount of training he does in one day is greater than the amount of training for a strengthened person in two weeks. As for finding a feeling, the longer it takes, the worse it gets. The more frequent, high-density, and multiple times of training, the easier it is to achieve results. By the third day, Zhuang Xuteng had overcome the contrast dizziness in the lowest charged state, and had mastered the impact distance of this charged state. As long as both of his feet touch a solid surface at the same time and his body posture is not too weird, he can launch himself while controlling all body movements, including offensive and defensive movements.
On this basis, he immediately increased his energy storage to further increase the difficulty and pressure on himself. During high-intensity and frequent training, the inertial protective shield of tens of milliseconds at the moment of explosion becomes more and more clear: the shadow follows how the energy flows in the body, then expands and bursts out of the body, and then forms the whole process of supporting and protecting. The effect of the spell was repeated over and over again, and he gradually came up with an idea: Can I follow suit?
Without learning the basics of magic and the principles of magic, there are certain risks in directly imitating the trajectory of mana flow. If it were Master Lich, he would definitely not do this, but Zhuang Xuteng was completely different. He felt that he had super-calculated martial arts and extremely fast reaction speed. He just had to pay attention to the flow of resentment at all times. After all: imitating the flow of mana is the same as imitating someone else's punches and kicks.
Therefore, Zhuang Xuteng practiced high-speed and high-explosion when he had enough mana, and when he didn't have enough mana, he used the little mana he had accumulated to practice "wandering". In the beginning, this was very difficult. The regular flow of mana was much more difficult than controlling the body with muscles. If he was not careful, he would turn into a wild dog running wild inside his body. However, he has a bone shield technique to protect his internal organs, and his bones are no match for titanium alloys. In addition, his reaction speed is extremely fast, so these random spell accidents failed to cause actual damage, and they all became his experience.
After a week, his perseverance finally resulted in something new.