"Ha!"
"Sweeping swing and smash!"
"Sweeping strike to the ribs!"
"Sweeping overhead chop to the neck!"
A tall, upright figure swung a thick, long wooden staff in the forest. A closer look revealed a handsome man with black hair and black eyes wielding the staff. The wolf corpses around him and the traces of blood on his staff made him look all the more valiant.
Though the man had killed several wild wolves, his expression remained stern as he watched the movements of the pack surrounding him.
Then the young man suddenly swept his staff back, a streak of blood arcing through the air from one end of it. He knocked a wolf to the ground just as it was about to sneak up on him.
The wolf convulsed on the ground where the staff had struck it, blood pouring from its head like cola from an opened bottle lying on its side. The blow also forced back the other wolves preparing to surround and attack him.
After another moment of silent confrontation, the man suddenly thrust his staff upward again. It struck a wolf in the belly as it leaped through the air, sending it flying to the side of the pack leader at the rear.
As the saying went, the first burst of energy was strongest, the second weaker, and the third spent.
The man quickly adjusted his footwork and position, letting out a roar of "Ahhh!" to raise his momentum.
After intimidating the wolves, he charged forward and brought his staff down in a vertical chop, striking the skull of a wolf near the front of the pack. The blow killed it instantly, and its dying whimpers and convulsions dealt another heavy blow to the pack's morale.
Less than a minute had passed since the wolves began their attack, yet the man named Li Xing had made three kills and built up his momentum. After each kill, he had also quickly adjusted his position, keeping the wolves at a distance that was safe for him but still allowed him to strike.
Li Xing then followed the flow of the fight, using the moves of the Emergency Baton Technique and combining them with the corresponding footwork to kill or drive back the wolves preparing to attack him, one by one.
In the blink of an eye, a quarter of an hour had passed, and the pack had lost a third of its numbers.
The whole pack began to hesitate, afraid to advance.
At the rear, the pack leader watched its companion, which had been knocked to the ground at its feet and was still convulsing from time to time. It watched the tall human before it kill another wolf in the flow of the fight. Realizing that the opponent before it could not be overcome by force, it let out a long howl and led the pack in retreat into the wooded hills beside the road.
Li Xing watched the wolves retreat swiftly and in an orderly fashion, but he maintained the defensive stance of the Emergency Baton Technique all the while.
Feeling the surge of blood through his body and the excitement in his brain and muscles, Li Xing knew that, for the first time in his life, he was this sensitive to the presence of things around him.
After about five minutes, the excitement in Li Xing's body gradually subsided, and he returned to his usual resting state.
Once he realized the wolves had truly withdrawn, he dropped his defensive stance. He leaned against a tree on the other side of the road and plopped down.
As he took deep breaths to steady himself, he finally noticed that sweat had soaked his back.
Looking at the wolf corpses on the ground, Li Xing felt grateful that he had once sought out an instructor for private lessons!
"Thank you for your careful instruction, instructor, and thank you to my past self! Otherwise, I would've been in serious trouble today."
After a few words of reflection, Li Xing looked at the wolves lying on the ground before him and at the unfamiliar surroundings.
"Where the hell am I?~~~"
Looking at the forest before him, Li Xing murmured the question to himself.
Unfortunately, Li Xing wasn't an American soldier, and there was no Viet Cong in this forest to answer his question!
As an outstanding young man of the Republic who loved novels and supported the development of the nation's culture and entertainment, he had enough self-awareness to recognize and accept the fact that he had transmigrated.
However, while Li Xing knew he had transmigrated, he hadn't figured out which world he had come to. So, for Li Xing, identifying the world he was in was his first priority.
"Looks like I'll have to find a local household and ask."
He looked at the results of his battle on the ground. After reflecting for a while and confirming that the wolves were truly dead, he found a slightly thicker, longer branch along the path and tied his spoils together. He hung them on the branch for display like the anglers on the internet, hoisted the branch laden with prey over his shoulder, and continued down the road!
Along the way, he would see whether he could meet any local residents he could communicate with.
When he had first come to this world,
even without looking in a mirror, Li Xing had been awake and aware enough to realize that his body had changed.
He had first noticed something unusual when he got up and started walking.
The moment he took his first step, something had felt slightly unnatural in his head!
Yes, he had clearly grown taller!
He had especially noticed it when he looked down at his loose jeans, whose legs he had previously needed to roll up. Now, even with the legs fully unrolled, some of the socks on his calves still showed.
This had made Li Xing hurry to check his body.
Shocked and delighted, he had looked down at the eight unfamiliar, well-defined abs on his stomach and made the first humblebrag of his life.
"Fuck! Where did the abs I worked so hard to train into one big pack go?!"
He had then given himself a thorough examination.
His conclusion was that this body really was his own! The traces of his daily life before transmigrating were all still there. In particular, his habit of clipping his big toenails into triangular points had made Li Xing even more certain that he was the kind of transmigrator who had crossed over in his own body!
After confirming that it was his own body,
Li Xing had felt the restless emotions stirring within him. Looking down at his long legs, he knew without measuring that he was over 18... 180 centimeters tall.
In particular, before the battle, his whole body had been filled with strength and vigor, making him shout involuntarily, "I can take on ten!"
Then, as he walked along the forest road,
Li Xing had excitedly swung a wooden staff just over two meters long that he had found in the woods.
As the saying went, there was a boy living in every man's heart. No man walking down a road could resist a straight, long stick; if there was one, it meant he had a better stick "in his hand"!
At the time, Li Xing had felt no sense of danger. Feeling the stick he liked in his hand, a smile had curled at the corner of his mouth. As he swung it, he recalled practicing the Emergency Baton Technique during his university military training.
"Back during military training, I was even a squad leader in the emergency baton formation. Seven or eight years have passed in the blink of an eye. How did I go from a hot-blooded young man who dared to fight and give it his all to an unemployed, jobless burden on society?!"
"Fuck. I'd already decided to quit back then, so why didn't I dare have it out with the director?"
As soon as he said that, an image of his grandmother appeared in his mind.
"Forget it, forget it. No point thinking about it. We're all miserable working stiffs, so why make things difficult for each other?"
With his spoils over his shoulder, Li Xing walked along the road, shuddering with fear as he recalled the battle.
When he first transmigrated to this world, he hadn't been fully prepared for a fight.
He had subconsciously mistaken the wolves for stray dogs, which kept him from recognizing the danger in advance.
Only after the pack appeared did he realize that the snarling canines before him weren't so simple.
After realizing that his earlier attitude had been too careless, he silently reproached himself.
The battle had also made him realize that he had won entirely thanks to the changes in his body after transmigrating.
It also made Li Xing believe that the state of his body wasn't as simple as he had imagined. In particular, he clearly remembered that his suboptimal health before transmigrating would have made it impossible for him to use the staff techniques he had once practiced with such proficiency.
Even when his body had been at its peak before transmigrating, he couldn't have done it as easily and casually as he had today.
"Looks like there's still a lot to explore about this transmigration!"