"His ability is qi!" A tall White man stepped forward and said, "And extremely profound qi at that. Don't fight him one-on-one. Send two up together!"
"Hm?" Bai Jing looked at the two burly men stepping onto the ring, and a surge of heroic spirit rose within him. He actually felt like Huo Yuanjia fighting foreign strongmen in the ring back then.
But times had changed. Back then, the nation had been weak and oppressed, and foreign strongmen had dared to swagger about on the land of the Celestial Empire. Defeating them had been a matter of restoring the people's national confidence.
But now, Bai Jing stood on foreign soil as the challenger!
He keenly sensed the rapid increase in the secretion of a certain substance within his body. It quickly circulated throughout him, making his entire body burn hot!
"So this is what they call adrenaline!" Bai Jing activated gravity, and the adrenaline secreted within his body was immediately devoured almost entirely!
Adrenaline accelerated breathing—supplying large amounts of oxygen—speeded up the heartbeat and blood flow, dilated the pupils, provided more energy for physical activity, and made reactions faster. Anyone could see that this substance was made specifically for battle!
But it also caused people to lose their perception of their surroundings, their judgment of the situation, and their rational judgment.
Simply put, this stuff turned people into reckless brutes!
Bai Jing had time acceleration and his own superhuman reaction speed. He had no need for adrenaline's minor boost and instead had to endure its side effects, so he might as well do without the hormone!
As the hormone was devoured, his mind rapidly calmed down. In an instant, he came up with quite a few more applications for black holes.
It could be said that most emotions were products of hormones—anger, love, terror, fear, sorrow, panic. If he could accurately identify these hormones and absorb them at the appropriate time, he could remain rational to the greatest extent possible. He would not be seduced by beauty, nor would he lose his judgment and reason because of anger.
Of course, if he truly had no emotions at all, he might not seem very human. But different people had different opinions.
Some people thought absolute rationality was cool. Sherlock Holmes and Colonel Chu Xuan, for example, had huge numbers of fans.
Others thought absolute rationality was cold and heartless. The public's dislike of Virgo mostly came from the latter view. They believed Virgos were rigid rule-followers who cared nothing for feelings, but Virgos were still several orders of magnitude below absolute rationality.
Bai Jing was only twenty-seven this year. With his life experience, he was not yet capable of judging whether absolute rationality or being a normal person was better. Nor did he need to make that judgment, since he could switch between them with a single thought whenever necessary.
"According to our research, qi is simply the use of bodily energy. Perhaps you have found a way to store that energy, but human strength is limited. The qi stored in one person's body might be enough to deal with one or two people, three or five people—but can it handle two hundred?" The lead instructor stared at Bai Jing with blazing eyes. They already had intelligence on Bai Jing internally, so of course he recognized him.
He did not know why Bai Jing had followed them into the company, but that was no longer important!
He was confident he could capture him!
This would be a tremendous achievement!
"Ha!"
The two burly men charged from the left and right, striking together as they grabbed for Bai Jing's arms!
Bai Jing spread his arms and bent his upper body backward. In an instant, he resembled a massive bow drawn taut, or Jesus bound to a cross, every muscle in his body knotted tight!!
Then he sprang up violently!
His arms shot toward the two burly men with the force of that rebound!
Before his arms arrived, the repulsive force did. The burly man on the left sensed that something was wrong and hurriedly pulled back his arm to block his chest, but he felt as though he had been struck by a savage bull. His thick arm was practically nonexistent before that impact!
Boom!
His entire body flew high into the air before slamming heavily into the wall. The camera installed in the corner had an intimate encounter with his head and was smashed to pieces!
The burly man on Bai Jing's right reacted a little too slowly. Under the impact, his entire chest caved in!
Boom!
The students sitting beneath the ring saw him hurled toward them and hurriedly tried to catch him, but four or five people rose to their feet only to be bowled over as well!
"That's it?"
Bai Jing looked at the instructor.
"Send up four more!" the instructor said coldly.
They were merely expendable soldiers. With good food and a few years of training, they could be mass-produced!
It was only a matter of money!
Would America lack money?
But people of the Celestial Empire with qi were exceedingly rare, and they basically never went abroad, making it impossible to obtain research specimens!
And someone like the one before them, whose qi was so surging that even a thrown metal tag could fly two kilometers—such a person was probably rare on the entire planet!
As long as they could capture him alive, any sacrifice would be worth it!
Once they thoroughly understood qi, one of China's major supernatural forces used to resist America would be directly crippled!
Four muscular men stepped onto the ring from four directions, staring coldly at Bai Jing.
"Trying to wear me down?" Bai Jing smiled.
If what he used really were qi, then he probably would have no answer to this tactic!
But what he used was gravity!
The gravity of a black hole was not some true-qi-like magical power with a limited mana pool. It was matter's distortion of the surrounding spacetime, a naturally existing field!
Unless the laws of the entire universe suddenly changed and spacetime shattered, gravity would always exist!
But this tactic was not entirely useless. It was indeed effective!
Because in order to conceal the existence of gravity, Bai Jing had to make movements himself to accompany its release!
And when facing an enemy's attacks, he had to think up an appropriate, stylish move that fit the logic of qi to counter them.
After all that, his mind was tired, and his body was tired too!
If this continued, Bai Jing could hold out for another twenty minutes at most?
The four burly men did not answer and rushed him together!
This time, however, Bai Jing did not stand still. Instead, he suddenly took two large steps forward!
He could clearly see the shock and panic in the burly man's eyes before him!
Even expendable soldiers had feelings. They could be afraid too!
But Bai Jing's heart was as still as water, without the slightest ripple!
Bai Jing accurately grabbed the wrist he had extended!
"Up!" Bai Jing shouted furiously. The burly man rose in response as Bai Jing gripped his arm, then Bai Jing swung him behind himself like a sack!
The three charging burly men could not dodge in time and were directly struck in the face and chest by the human sack, instantly collapsing in a heap!
"Off you go!" After turning in a circle, Bai Jing directly threw the burly man in his hand out, smashing another camera!
"Eight!" the instructor said coldly.
Silence filled the area below. Looking at the three bodies beneath Bai Jing's feet, unsure whether they were dead or not, everyone exchanged looks. This time, no one stood up!
"Didn't you hear my order?" the instructor said coldly. "First Squad!"
"You don't need to call them!!" Bai Jing bent down, grabbed someone by the belt, and lifted him up. Then he spun once in place and hurled him fiercely!
The last camera in the corner was smashed as well.
Hearing the sound of the camera hitting the ground, the instructor finally realized something was wrong!
"You didn't come here to compete with us at all. You're destroying the cameras!" Anger filled the instructor's voice, along with a trace of fear.
"That's right. After all, you do have some skills. If I didn't hide a few tricks, you might get me next time!" Bai Jing looked around. They won't have a record of me now, right?
"Use guns!" the instructor shouted.
Bai Jing turned around and sat on one of the bodies beneath his feet, then pretended to check the watch on his wrist.
Even though there was no watch on his wrist at all.
"Hurry up. I'm in a rush!" Bai Jing looked at the nearly two hundred people surrounding him, two hundred guns, and perhaps nearly four thousand Vibranium bullets.
Human fear came from harm.
But if one could be certain that something could not hurt them, then naturally they would no longer fear it.
"Fire!"
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