Chapter 293 - 203: The Deterrence of a Top-tier Recon Martial Artist

Chapter 293: Chapter 203: The Deterrence of a Top-tier Recon Martial Artist

Kang Ming continued to give orders.

"From this moment on, Feng Hua is in charge of protecting the team. We will ensure we don’t lose any more members. Our target is the enemy’s base. We will force the lone wolf to show himself and fight us head-on!"

"The goal of this battle isn’t to annihilate the enemy, but to capture the base and achieve the basic victory condition."

Feng Hua was still a little worried, so Kang Ming continued to explain.

"The lone wolf is powerful, but his Inner Qi reserves are his critical weakness. We will force march, take the base first, and he will inevitably be in a hurry to recover his Inner Qi. We won’t get entangled with him!"

Kang Ming’s objective was simple. In field combat, a powerful sniper-type Martial Artist like Yu Fei was difficult to deal with. Moreover, his head-on combat ability was too strong. They couldn’t afford a protracted fight. They needed to establish a stronghold and launch a defensive counterattack, which made the military base crucial.

Feng Hua was right about one thing: it was impossible for every first-year student to be such a prodigy. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been just one person ambushing them.

After Kang Ming laid out the plan of action, the team’s morale rose again. They weren’t afraid of a strong opponent; they were afraid of having no hope. Taking a beating wasn’t scary, but continuously taking a beating was.

As the team’s "external brain," Kang Ming had always been reliable and trustworthy.

Feng Hua found Bayan and asked about Hengji’s condition.

"How is she?" The unconscious Hengji’s face was soft and pale, unlike her usual rough-and-tumble appearance.

Bayan had fashioned a simple brace for Hengji to prevent any further injury.

"That girl Heng is completely busted. Her ribs are shattered to bits. We gotta get her to medical quick, or she’ll be pushin’ up daisies!"

Feng Hua sighed and entered a command into his personal terminal. A moment later, a medium-sized Flying Device suddenly landed. Medical personnel carried away the ten injured members of the Salted Fish Assault Team for treatment.

Everyone watched the departing Flying Device, a sense of sadness in their hearts. Calling for medical evacuation during an exercise was tantamount to abandoning the bodies of your teammates on a real battlefield.

It meant they lacked the ability to fight while carrying their wounded.

In the dead of night, Kang Ming’s cold voice rang out through the mental network.

"Move out. For revenge!"

He had rarely added two extra words to his command. His heart was not as calm as his expression suggested.

The Salted Fish Assault Team moved out again, deploying in a full combat formation.

Seven scout-type Martial Artists with stealth abilities scattered and melted into the vast landscape. Defense-type and perception-type Martial Artists formed teams of two or three, maintaining a distance of about one kilometer from each other. Everyone was on high alert, ready to strike at a moment’s notice.

The Spirit Fox’s perception team was on full alert, and Feng Hua continuously scanned the surroundings to prevent any surprises.

They had never imagined they would need to deploy such a cautious defensive formation just to deal with a junior student. But it was necessary. Even if they had been careless before, the lone wolf had taken out ten of them. He was no ordinary enemy.

’Their chief scout-type Martial Artist, Chi Yu, was sniped before he even entered the battlefield. Their chief assault specialist, Hengji, was defeated head-on. Is that really a first-year student?’

In the night, Yu Fei departed like a ghost, heading for a marked location. He had asked Qin Hao to store some Red Mist Wind Dew there. With his Inner Qi at rock bottom, he needed to resupply.

While on the move, he contacted Jiang Nianwei.

Yu Fei: "Have you reached the target location?"

Jiang Nianwei: "Just got here. We’re setting up our position. What about you? Did you run into the upperclassmen?"

Yu Fei: "Just engaged them. My Inner Qi is depleted. I’m on the run..."

Jiang Nianwei: "Need support? I can bring people over..."

Yu Fei: "10-0... I don’t think the upperclassmen are in any mood to chase me right now."

Qin Hao: "Godly!"

Wuo Lingxue: "Godly!"

...

Jiang Nianwei: "Then be careful!"

Yu Fei landed on a pile of rubble. With a sweep of his Divine Sense, he found the Red Mist Wind Dew left by Qin Hao. He opened a bottle and chugged it down. It immediately transformed into wisps of pure Profound Primordial Qi, gathering in his Qi Sea.

The [All Things Return to Origin Scripture] had another hidden advantage: it indiscriminately absorbed the world’s primordial energy. This was especially true for the energy in medicinal liquids. He could down an entire bottle in a short time without any negative effects.

This was something other prodigy Martial Artists couldn’t do. He remembered that during the placement matches, Ren Feng and the others still had to sip slowly to recover their Inner Qi. Taking too much at once would damage their meridians.

One bottle of Red Mist Wind Dew restored thirty percent of his Inner Qi. He needed to hurry to the next location, but thankfully, it wasn’t too far.

As he ran, a possibility occurred to Yu Fei. His mind focused on the Fate Reversing Pearl for a moment before he made a decision.

When he had advanced his Inner Qi, he had devoured the Primordial Qi Sword Lotus and extinguished the lingering will of Sima. At that time, [Formless Sword Master] had advanced to [Infinite Sword Soul], and the [Primordial Qi] passive had been dismantled, granting him 200 Star Dust. He now had 248 Star Dust and one empty talent slot.

The sturdy woman only had a red-quality talent, so he hadn’t chosen to copy it. After all, he had only accumulated two copy chances so far and needed to save them for Martial Artists with silver-quality talents or higher.

As for the Martial Artist he had sniped from a distance, they were outside the Fate Reversing Pearl’s marking range. To copy a talent, he still needed to defeat an enemy in close combat.

The only unequipped talent stored in the Fate Reversing Pearl was the blue-quality [Super Strong Cervical Spine]. He originally thought this talent was useless and would just waste a slot if equipped, but during the pursuit, he had thought of a use for it.

After downing a third bottle of Red Mist Wind Dew, Yu Fei’s Inner Qi reserves were restored to ninety percent, which was basically a full tank.

He immediately equipped [Super Strong Cervical Spine] in the empty talent slot.

[Super Strong Cervical Spine]

Quality: Blue

Description: Immune to cervical spondylosis.

Effect: Your neck can rotate 360°. But remember to turn it back!