After Luo Yuan got rid of the evidence, the sky was still dark. He was not in a hurry to go back. He thought for a while and walked a few steps away. Then, he got into a stance and started practicing Tai Chi.
His Tai Chi was very different from ordinary Tai Chi. Not only was his speed a few times faster than an ordinary person's, but his style was also different. Every move and every style had a lot of ups and downs. He pursued the greatest lethality, but at the same time, there was an indescribable smoothness and elegance. His movements were like floating clouds and flowing water, full of a unique beauty.
However, it was obvious that an ordinary person's eyes would not be able to capture his movements.
When his attack speed reached its limit, Luo Yuan felt like the air around him had turned into a viscous liquid. Every punch consumed a few times the strength of the original. His vision started to blur, and the air was constantly twisting and boiling.
He gradually slowed down, and the air gradually returned to normal.
However, in less than a second, Luo Yuan made another violent attack. A circle of white cone clouds appeared around his fist. The air around him was turbulent, and the rock walls nearby were hit by the high-speed air, causing stone chips to fly everywhere.
His movements were sometimes fast and sometimes slow. When he was slow, he was like a boulder lying on the ground, with a hint of heaviness. When he was fast, he was like lightning, and there was a loud "Pa Pa" sound in the air.
A few dozen meters around Luo Yuan was almost covered in a thick layer of dust. Vaguely, he could only see a blurry figure moving at a high speed, and sometimes there was a terrifying sound.
Knife skills were an extension of fist skills, and the basic force exertion of both skills was similar. With Luo Yuan's level of knife skills, even if he did not practice much, he had gradually reached the level of proficiency. This meant that there was no point in practicing the skills of ordinary people. The next step would be to practice the will and aura.
However, this was not difficult for him. At least until he reached the expert level, there was basically no bottleneck in Tai Chi.
Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, Luo Yuan slowly stopped practicing. A large amount of fallen leaves and dust that were stirred up by Luo Yuan's practice fell to the ground, forming a dust-free forbidden area around him.
It did not form a perfect Tai Chi pattern like in the movies. Not to mention that it was not a movie, Luo Yuan's practice was very different from the traditional Tai Chi. He had only absorbed the shell of Tai Chi, and every move in it had been continuously improved beyond recognition.
With his current realm and strength, he had long since jumped out of the box and weeded through the old to bring forth the new.
To put it bluntly, any fist technique from before the apocalypse, in his eyes, had many flaws. Not to mention the actual combat effect, at least the force exertion was too childish, and it was not systematic at all.
As a product that surpassed Earth's civilization, the System's familiarity with the human body was not something that a few geniuses who fumbled around in the dark could compare to.
There was an obvious difference. Each of Luo Yuan's moves could utilize 80 to 90 percent of the muscles in his body (excluding the muscles on his face that were useless), while the rest of his punches could only utilize 40 to 50 percent of his muscles. Some were even lower.
… …
Luo Yuan wiped the sweat off his face and walked back to the cave feeling refreshed. Everyone had already woken up.
"You didn't sleep last night. Wipe your face. It's covered in sweat." Huang Jiahui walked over and handed him a towel.
"Yeah, I couldn't sleep so I went out to train. Did I wake you guys up?" Luo Yuan said casually while wiping his face.
"No wonder it was so noisy. I couldn't really sleep." Huang Jiahui said with a smile.
Luo Yuan was slightly stunned. He could not help but look at her. Seeing that she did not seem to notice anything strange, he felt relieved and said, "If I had known, I would have moved to a place further away."
"Give me the towel. I'll go and wash it."
Huang Jiahui smiled and took the towel. She turned around and walked a few steps, her smile fading.
After the apocalypse, she had been a light sleeper. Coupled with the unfamiliar environment, she did not sleep well the whole night. She had seen Zhao Yali and Luo Yuan go out, and then she had faintly and uncontrollably moaning. She tossed and turned until dawn, unable to fall asleep. No woman would feel good after such a thing happened.
She sighed slightly. Why should she care about it? It was not the first time they had done it anyway.
She had even pushed Zhao Yali to Luo Yuan. Why should she care about it? She might as well be more magnanimous. Perhaps he would get used to it after a while.
…
Due to the large amount of salt they had consumed, everyone looked much better. Coupled with a good night's sleep, everyone was in high spirits.
Early in the morning, there were already people practicing their knife skills in the corridor.
Luo Yuan watched them practice and occasionally gave them some pointers.
When he was near Zhao Yali, she seemed to have thought of something. Her face turned slightly red and her movements changed. She pretended not to see him and tried to act as if nothing had happened. She continued to practice as if nothing had happened.
As if she could feel his gaze, her movements became messy and her face turned red.
Luo Yuan was amused, but he knew that Zhao Yali was shy. She was obviously still guilty about what had happened to Ling Chen, so he did not say anything. He just walked past Zhao Yali and continued to walk forward.
"Boom!"
At that moment, a loud, sharp sound like a cannonball breaking through the air was heard from afar, followed by an earth-shattering bang.
Luo Yuan was shocked and quickly looked in the direction of the sound.
In the forest more than ten kilometers away, a huge mushroom cloud soared into the sky. Under the huge impact of the explosion, the giant trees collapsed and the soil rolled. Looking down from above, the entire forest had a hole that was nearly a hundred meters in diameter.
Hearing the noise, everyone stopped practicing and looked into the distance. They looked shocked and scared.
"Is that a missile?" Huo Dong looked terrible. He had experienced the mass escape in Donghu City, so he was traumatized by any kind of missile.
Commander Xia looked at it carefully and shook his head. "I have seen missile detonations many times. This is definitely not a missile. The smoke formed by gunpowder is not like this, and there is no fire. This is a bit strange. What is this thing?"
"It can't be a mutated creature, right?" Cao Lin suddenly said.
Everyone was shocked and the atmosphere was silent.
The area where the explosion happened was about five to six kilometers away. When the sound reached them, it had been more than 20 seconds. When Luo Yuan heard the whistling sound of a cannonball, the smoke was already rising into the sky. Even Luo Yuan did not know what had happened there.
Luo Yuan looked serious and stared at the empty area. If this was really the work of a mutated creature, its energy level would be much higher than that of a green level creature.
"I'll go and take a look!" Luo Yuan said after a while.
"No, you can't go. It's too dangerous." Huang Jiahui was shocked and quickly tried to dissuade him.
"Yeah, who knows what happened there. Why don't you stay here and observe the situation first? Maybe it's just an accident," Commander Xia said.
The others also tried to dissuade him. Luo Yuan was the pillar of the team, the absolute core. If anything happened to him, the whole team would fall into despair and collapse. No one was confident that they could survive in this dangerous forest. Therefore, no one dared to fall behind.
Luo Yuan's ears were buzzing. He quickly stopped them and said, "We're too close to the explosion. Ten kilometers is just a matter of minutes for those huge, high-level mutated beasts. How could I not be assured if I don't go and take a look? But this time, we're just checking out the situation. We won't take any risks. "
Huang Jiahui knew that it was useless to dissuade Luo Yuan when he insisted on going. She said worriedly, "Be careful. If anything goes wrong, come back immediately."
Luo Yuan nodded and said, "After I leave, all of you stay in the cave. Don't walk around. Make all the necessary preparations. Although it's calm now, I'll come back if anything goes wrong. We'll move immediately."
Everyone was shocked, as if there was a huge rock pressing on their hearts.
…
Luo Yuan walked down the long cliff and ran towards the scene of the explosion with his long knife in hand. At a speed of nearly 50 meters per second, the surrounding scenery flashed by quickly, forming a blurry line on both sides of his vision.
A few kilometers passed in the blink of an eye. Within a few minutes, he had crossed the grass and entered the forest.
After entering the forest, he did not run anymore. Instead, he used the dense branches and vines to jump quickly. As long as the distance was not more than seven to eight meters, he could usually jump over it in one leap. His jumping frequency was extremely fast. The moment he landed on the ground, he would immediately jump again. There was almost no pause or mistake.
His strong Dexterity allowed him to choose the most suitable branches and jump slowly. Occasionally, when the distance between branches was too far for him to jump, he would use the vines to fly in the air. His speed was not slow at all.
He tried his best to scan the surroundings with his Sensory Perception. A few times, Luo Yuan found hidden dangers and avoided them.
There were snake-like giant monsters disguised as vines, all kinds of carnivorous mutated trees, and a few colorful, seven-meter-long strange insects surrounded by poisonous fog. There were dangers everywhere in the forest.
Even Luo Yuan had to avoid some of them. He would not provoke them if he could.
However, he had already felt that his low Intelligence was hindered when it came to complicated terrain and emergency situations. Most of the time, his brain could not react in time, even though he had plenty of time. That was why he could not use his full speed.
In less than seven to eight minutes, Luo Yuan finally arrived at the scene of the explosion.
The place was a mess. A large number of trees had fallen to the ground. Even the weeds, shrubs, and dead leaves had been swept away, revealing a black humus on the ground. Only a few trees with a diameter of four to five meters were left standing alone in this area, still standing tall.
However, all of its branches and leaves had already been swept away, leaving only a bare tree trunk. Even one side of the bark seemed to have been filed away, with a large part of it gone.
Luo Yuan glanced at it and turned to look at the giant pit in front of him. His face was solemn.
PS: There's another chapter at night!
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