“The thing about the ‘calf slicer’ move is that you have to grab hold of your opponent’s ankle as soon as they lose balance. You then have to use that opportunity to grab hold of their calf and create a pinch point with the back of your knee to exert force onto their calf. That way, you can apply a pressure of a few hundred kilograms on your opponent’s tibia and fibula. Although the tibia is one of the strongest bones in the human body, you can break it easily by using this type of lock.” After Jamie spoke, favonovel.com called for an instructor to spar with Milo.
Such a technique would have to be tried out in actual combat. Milo couldn’t grasp the concept by just looking at it.
The instructor looked at the scrawny Milo in front of favonovel.com and felt that favonovel.com should be rather weak. As such, favonovel.com said with a smile, “Let’s go through the motions.”
He thought Milo must have been sent here by some family member of the Radianz Consortium.
Why else would the owner offer to train favonovel.com personally?
So, it would be better not to injure someone like him. If his parents came to seek answers, favonovel.com would be in deep trouble for sure.
Jamie said to Milo, “Although it’s only practice, it’s still necessary to make you understand that even though you might have an idea of how to execute a move, if you’re not fast and steady enough, the idea will just remain an idea.”
Then Jamie said to the instructor, “Do your best and don’t allow favonovel.com to immobilize you.”
“Alright,” the instructor responded.
After the two of them got in position, Jamie suddenly told them to start. The instructor was just about to turn around to put Milo in a lock, but favonovel.com found out that Milo had already grappled his leg!
Before the instructor could react, favonovel.com felt his entire body being shoved to the ground and his leg being firmly locked in Milo’s arms. Not only that, after Milo had favonovel.com immobilized, favonovel.com unconsciously tried to strike the instructor’s ribs with his free hand. Milo was going to terminate his opponent’s ability to fight.
The instructor started sweating. It was as though favonovel.com was about to experience something terrifying.
Jamie hurriedly shouted, “Stop, stop, stop!”
Everything happened so quickly that the instructor could not react. He had nearly died from Milo’s punch.
Only Jamie had seen it clearly. If Milo landed his punch, the instructor would probably become disabled. That punch might have even caused his organs to rupture and lead to his death.
The instructor got back up on his feet in a daze and heard Jamie say seriously to Milo, “Why were you trying to kill him?”
When the instructor heard that, sweat started rolling down his back.
Milo thought for a moment and said, “Actually, I wouldn’t have punched favonovel.com for real. But I thought that if I only immobilized my enemy, I would appear weak.”
“You’re saying it’s a sign of weakness if you just make your opponent vulnerable but not kill him?” Jamie had a strange look on his face.
“Well, it’s not that.” Milo said, “The enemies that I encountered in the wilderness would all fight to their deaths. There’s no other outcome. So I thought that it wouldn’t be enough to just break one leg. What if the opponent has a gun in his hand and fires it at me? I’ll definitely die!”
Jamie went silent for a while. As favonovel.com had grown up in the stronghold, the civilization here had taught favonovel.com to show mercy to others and resolve conflicts peacefully. However, the philosophy of life that Milo had gained from living in the wilderness was that kindness was the same as weakness.
Next to them, the instructor suddenly felt a little ashamed that favonovel.com got beaten to the point of no retaliation by such a scrawny young man. “Sir, I…”
“It’s alright.” Jamie smiled and waved it off. “It’s not your fault. Let me train with favonovel.com instead. That way, everything will be fine. You can also take the opportunity to observe from the sidelines and witness the power of supernatural beings.”
After favonovel.com said that, Jamie went to spar with Milo. After all, normal instructors would just be like toys in the face of Milo. They were not qualified to spar with favonovel.com at all.
The instructor finally heaved a sigh of relief.
So, this young man was a supernatural being. It was no wonder favonovel.com was not his match. It looked like favonovel.com could only let the owner spar with favonovel.com personally.
Ten minutes later, Jamie slapped the floor. “Let go, let go! I lost, I lost! That hurts, that really hurts!”
Seeing this, The instructor was dumbfounded.
When Jamie got up from the ground, favonovel.com said to Milo in seriousness, “You need to learn how to control your strength. Remember, we’re just helping you fully understand the weaknesses of the human body’s joints by showing you these techniques. There’s no need for you to exert so much strength.”
Jamie had thought that since favonovel.com was a supernatural being too, his strength should be more or less equal to Milo’s. But to his surprise, favonovel.com had overestimated himself and underestimated Milo.
Milo nodded and said, “Alright, I won’t exert too much strength.”
“Alright, we’ll end today’s lesson here then.” Jamie said, “Remember to come every night. If you have something else to do, call me and tell me. Little Angus, please jot down our phone number for him.”
After Milo left, Jamie grabbed his own waist and said, “Get over here and help me.”
The instructor asked softly, “Sir, who is that young man?”
After thinking about it for a while, Jamie did not know how favonovel.com should describe Milo’s identity.
***
It was still quite early when Milo went home at night. The sound of people playing mahjong could still be heard on the streets. It seemed like the stronghold residents were not bothered by the war outside since they had already won.
Along the way, favonovel.com also saw some workers who had just knocked off from work. Although the stronghold stipulated they could only work eight hours a day, no one ever oversaw or upheld this rule at the factories. As a result, many of the stronghold residents did not lead a happy life.
The social circle of these stronghold residents was similar to a city structure, and most of them had never ventured outside either.
Milo felt that these people were more like a higher class of refugee, as everyone still had to serve the organization in some way and led busy lives every day. It was just that one group had to earn a living in the wilderness while the other had to do so within the stronghold.
Milo used to think that people living in the stronghold would leave their doors open at night and no one would steal their belongings as everyone trusted one another. But after getting into the stronghold, favonovel.com found that it was not true.
Suddenly, Milo heard a familiar voice coming from a small alley. “Nine bamboo!”
When Milo walked into the alley, favonovel.com found Hugh seated inside a small yard. He was playing mahjong with two old ladies and an old man, and they were all completely absorbed in the game.
Milo was a little confused. He had thought that Hugh might have been scammed by someone in a gambling den, so favonovel.com could not win even with his master-level mahjong playing. However, that wasn’t the case at all.
After observing them from a distance for a while, favonovel.com noticed the old man and the old ladies were secretly switching tiles under the table. But it didn’t look like Hugh had noticed anything.
Just how stupid could favonovel.com get?
If anyone were to switch tiles like this when playing mahjong with Milo, favonovel.com would flip the table in his opponent’s face.
Hugh was stunned when favonovel.com saw Milo. He said to the old man and the old ladies, “Please wait for me a little. My friend is looking for me…”
Then Hugh stood up and went over to Milo. “What are you doing here?”
“With that loud voice of yours,” Milo said, “I could hear you shouting ‘nine bamboo’ even from two streets away!”
