First Volume: Reborn from the Fire Chapter 22: Human Body Limit

  "How did you split it open?"

  "How did I split it open?"

  The next day, after breakfast, I and Peng Zhuo, Xie Jian used the short time after breakfast, holding a green brick in my hand, looking at it with some confusion, but involuntarily asked the same question as Peng Zhuo.

  "I don't know either! That perverted 'Jiao Wang'! Did he cast some kind of spell on me?"

  I looked at Peng Zhuo with a sullen expression, and then glanced at "Qiao Yan Wang" who was laughing loudly with the old soldier in the distance. This guy was giggling and smiling in front of the old soldier, but when he was in front of us new recruits, he put on a ferocious and sinister face, as if he were two different people. I really don't know what kind of thing he is made of, could he be a real monster?

  "Why don't we go ask him?"

  Peng Zhuo and I were both in a state of extreme confusion, to the point where after we finished dinner yesterday, the two of us quickly rushed out of the cafeteria. The little devil hastily picked up a green brick and hit it, but unexpectedly ended up hugging his slightly swollen hand in pain, wailing for half the night, regretting it so much that he was about to collapse, and hurting so badly that tears were almost streaming down his face.

  It was the same with me, thinking that I could easily split it open, so I took over Peng Zuo's green brick and chopped down with great expectation. However, the result left us stunned, except for bringing intense pain to my palm, I got nothing, the green brick in my hand didn't move at all, as if it was mocking me with a hint of sarcasm, leaving both of us speechless.

  "If you want to ask, go ask yourself, I won't go lose face for that!"

  Ask him? My eyes immediately turned white, isn't that going to invite humiliation myself? I'm not so perverted, going to be a 'Jiang Wang' who delivers himself.

  "I heard my father say that if a person is trained to the limit, it's easy to tap into their potential. Like your situation yesterday, was it because of this reason that you unleashed all your potential under intense training and performed beyond your level?"

  We were all under the command of 'Qiao Yan Wang', but actually, because we had just enlisted and didn't have much time to interact with each other, everyone didn't understand each other. Whether it was being a city soldier or coming from the same region as old friends, if they could find some common ground, the relationships between these soldiers would be much better. As for our entire new recruit battalion, I and Xie Jian, Peng Zheng were from City X, so we definitely spent most of our time together. And Xie Jian often received teachings from his father, who was a regimental commander, so he seemed to know more about internal military affairs than us.

  "Didn't I reach my training limit yesterday too? Why couldn't I split it open yesterday?"

  Peng Zhuo gave me a jealous glance, having suffered so much, I had split the brick open with a magnificent palm yesterday, majestic and powerful, but he got nothing. His current state of mind was as if the woman he fancied had fallen into my arms, filled with envy and despair.

  "After intense exercise is over, after a period of rest, your muscles have all relaxed, how can they still exert their greatest power?"

  Xie Jian looked at the green brick in my hand thoughtfully, and then said clearly: "Moreover, after you have made a strong movement, 'Qiao Yan Wang' also asks you to tighten your muscles all over your body and then relax. I think it's just using extreme exercise to strengthen your muscle training, that is, triggering the maximum energy of your muscles, which can also make the muscles on your body stronger faster."

  "But it's strange, why now I chop bricks not only does it have no reaction, but my palm also hurts extremely, at that time there was no feeling at all, my palm didn't suffer any injury, what's the reason for this?"

  Thinking of what Xie Jian said to me, I felt that it made a lot of sense, but after thinking about it again, I looked at him with doubt.

  "When your physical load reaches a certain extreme limit, the neuromuscular system will enter a state of extreme excitement, and your pain nerves will be suppressed by this boiling blood feeling, so you won't feel any pain."

  It is said that Xie Jian's father used to lead a branch of the Chinese Navy Marine Corps, and he answered these physical questions with great authority.

  "I've heard that when a person is electrocuted or in extreme pain, they can exert superhuman strength and not feel any pain at all. Is this the principle behind it?"

  Peng Zhuo must have thought of some abnormal scenes in movies and TV shows, his eyes shining with excitement as he asked Xie Jian.

  "That's also some stimulating physical function, the human body is a mysterious and wonderful world, once the body or life encounters extreme danger, it can burst out incredible power!"

  Xie Jian looked at me and Peng Ze with a hint of envy, saying: "Actually, as long as you two wear these leg bindings to train, although it will be tough for now, but if you persist for a period of time, every time after reaching the limit in training, use the 'Qiao Yan Wang' method to tighten and relax your muscles, your body will become more solid, filled with explosive power. I think your strength will increase quickly!"

  "You can be like us too, or I'll ask Huang Lianchang for another set of equipment and you can train with us?"

  Seeing the envy in his eyes, I couldn't help but move, and then suggested to him.

  "Not everyone can bear the kind of suffering you're going through, let alone my goals are different from yours. I don't like army life, training for a few years is fine, but staying in the army forever is not my dream."

  Xie Jian's eyes were filled with seriousness, as if he had thought deeply about this. He thought for a moment and then looked at me with a smile, saying: "To be honest, I really admire you guys. You can endure such hardship, which is basically similar to the training of the Marine Corps that my father often told me about in the past. I believe you will have a bright future in the army."

  "What's prospects? I ask, what is that thing?"

  I couldn't help but feel extremely disheartened, yet I ended up laughing instead. I shook my head and said with a bitter smile: "To be honest, I never really thought about what the future held. The truth is, I just didn't want to be looked down upon. When I saw 'Qiao Wang', I got angry. My goal was simply to defeat him using my own true strength."

  This is really a psychological talk, in fact at that time I was really simple-minded and didn't think too much about long-term things. Maybe thinking about such long-term things is too much for a 16-year-old kid.

  "Haha, with your temper, I really admire you?"

  Xie Jian looked at me with a smile that was not quite a smile, and his eyes flashed with an unusual light as he said: "But you'd better be mentally prepared, I heard that the third month will have emergency assembly and intensified training, you guys are in for a tough time."

  "Come on, if I don't die then I'll make it, I just don't believe they can really get me killed?"

  It's already been tortured like this, I didn't take Xie Jian's words to heart, and my gaze fell back onto the green brick in my hand. I asked absent-mindedly:

  "You always talk about human limits, but where are those limits exactly? Will I be able to split this green brick again?"

  Xie Jian smiled and said calmly: "I don't know about this either, but I do know that in the training below, you may understand more than me..."