Chapter 15: Grab the ball (ask for monthly tickets at the end of the month)
"Hello, President Nitro."
The eye of insight quietly closed, Ji Xing looked as usual and asked: "What are the necessary assessments?"
Nitro gently stroked his beard and said with a smile: "It's just a formality. The identity of the Sky Arena owner and Yun Gu's description can already confirm your strength, but seeing is believing. The Hunter Association needs certain assessments.
Record."
"Let's do it." He seemed to have just remembered, and took out a small volleyball from his feet, saying: "Just play a little game, no matter what method you use, as long as you can snatch this volleyball from me within fifteen minutes.
Ball, even if you pass the assessment."
Ji Xing looked at the ball, looked at Nitro's expression, and said with a smile: "Here?"
"Of course not." Nitro spun the volleyball with his fingertips: "We will make a mess here. Come to the rooftop with me. Doumian, it seems that I have to be a little busy with other things. You can work here first.
Please help me deal with it."
The bean-faced man, Mung Bean, looked like he was sweating, watching Nitro and Ji Xing leave, and it was hard to complain.
When Nitro walked to the door, he took off his coat and hung it on the hanger. He was only wearing smart clothes, showing his strong muscles that were not suitable for his age. He let the ball bounce on his body while walking, doing warm-up.
"Oh, I haven't moved my body for a long time. Don't you need to do some warm-up? Ji Xing."
"No, I exercise every day." Ji Xing replied, "I'm always warming up."
"Oh~"
Nitro made a long sound and stopped talking. There was a little expectancy in his narrowed eyes.
Shingenryu was created by him when he was invincible 70 years ago. Over the years, outstanding juniors have emerged one after another, but to be honest, none of them can reach the level that makes him shine.
Yun Gu is an okay junior. Although he was polite and did not describe too many details to himself without Ji Xing's permission when describing Ji Xing, he used the words "unprecedented" and "unimaginable" many times.
, adjectives similar to 'terrifying talent'.
That attitude of looking up at a mountain is more than a shame!
'Don't let me down, haha.'
The two climbed onto the rooftop one after the other, facing each other at an altitude of about 400 meters above the ground.
Nitro switched to his left hand and turned the ball again: "Are you ready? The timer is about to start."
Ji Xing smiled: "Is it okay to rob it in any way? President Netero."
"Yes, there are no restrictions on attacks. Of course, I will also defend and fight back." Nitro smiled.
"I'm ready if I'm ready, but to be honest, my height, arms, length, and age are a bit bullying. How about switching over, I'll hold the ball, and you, President Nitro, will grab it," Ji Xing said.
"Oh?" Nitro raised his eyebrows with interest: "Are you sure? If you fail, there will be no second chance. You can only wait for next year's hunter exam."
Ji Xing nodded and stretched out his hand.
Nitro flicked his finger to spin the ball, and the volleyball landed accurately in Ji Xing's hand.
"If you are so confident..."
"I grabbed the ball." Ji Xing said with a smile.
"...?"
Nitro was stunned.
His rich life experience means that he should not have fallen for such a trick. The key is that he did not expect it. He did not expect that this young martial artist whom he had just met would use this method to deceive his old comrade!
I am the president of the Hunter Association! You little comrade, how dare you not practice martial ethics?!
Looking at Ji Xing spinning the ball with his fingertips, Nitro chose to turn his face and said: "This is not okay."
He said it in any way. At this moment, he was ready to cheat, but before he could cheat, Ji Xing bounced the volleyball back, smiled and said: "Okay, then it's really a steal."
He walked aside, took off his coat, took off his weight-bearing vest with both hands, and gently placed it with the package on the ground next to him.
Then he put on his coat again and jumped a few times on tiptoes. Feeling the lightness he had not seen for a long time, he stood opposite Nitro and said, "I'm ready. You can call start at any time."
Oh? A weight-bearing object? The shallow layer of Qi was used to prevent abrasions and bone damage, so it must be a very heavy weight-bearing object.
Moreover, with just one feint, his verbal prowess had naturally taken the initiative, and he had already seen through the real reason why I wanted to play ball with him.
interesting.
Nitro smiled: "Then let's get started."
Peng——
There was a muffled sound at the end of the words, and cracks exploded on the ground under Ji Xing's feet, turning his figure into an afterimage!
So fast! Nitro's smile faded, and he turned his gaze to Ji Xing, who instantly came to his right. The ball that stayed in his right hand bounced to the left, and his right arm was enveloped with tempered energy, and he raised his arm to block.
Bang--
The dull sound of flesh colliding echoed. When Ji Xing retracted his left leg after kicking it horizontally, his right hand followed up and made a motion like fishing for the moon, touching the falling volleyball. Nitro punched it with his left fist to change its direction.
Just when the two were about to collide again, Ji Xing's right arm suddenly drew a circle and made a feint move, hanging from the top like a giant bird dropping its beak, withering away at Nitro's face!
Nitro blocked again and counterattacked with a kick, hitting Ji Xing's abdomen with a left kick.
The volleyball collided with the force and spun with the two people's friction before flying high into the air. On the way to the fall, the two people had exchanged more than a dozen moves at high speed.
Different from before the game started, Nitro's old face has been replaced by a look of astonishment and tenseness, and the smile on his face has long been transferred to Ji Xing's face.
Ye Gangli whirlwind.
With a bang, Nitro's feet lifted off the ground and he shot backwards. After 10 meters, his center of gravity sank back to the ground. He was not shaking or injured, but the volleyball in his sight was already spinning on Ji Xing's fingertips!
15 minutes? No, less than 15 seconds!
At this moment, Nitro's mind went blank due to shock. His 120 years of life experience did not allow him to figure out what was going on. It was as if he had returned to the moment he first saw the dark continent, and something appeared that he could not understand.
, he gestured with his hands left and right twice, and the beard around his mouth straightened up.
Ji Xing smiled and said: "President Nitro, I should be considered to have passed the test this time, right?"
Nitro was silent for two seconds: "Of course."
His eyes narrowed again, and a smile appeared on his lips again: "What a formidable young man. Ji Xing, you are already a member of the Hunter Association, but...hehe, for the sake of me, an old man who is about to be buried, I am accompanying you to exercise. For the sake of two strikes, can you play three more games of grabbing the ball with me?"
Ji Xing had expected this.
If he is just grabbing the ball, there is no need for him to take off the weight.
He held the volleyball firmly in his palm with his broad left hand and said, "Then it's really you who will rob me this time, President Nitro."
Nitro's eyes that had accumulated over time radiated divine light, and it was like substantial Qi shrouding his body without the aura of fireworks. With the blessing of speed and power, his aura also changed a lot at the same time.
Although Ji Xing, who holds the ball with his feet separated, is not as good as Nitro in terms of accumulation of energy, his aura is calm and smooth to accommodate everything.
Nitro moves!
Just like Ji Xing said, height and long legs have advantages in the ball grabbing game. When Ji Xing holds the ball with his left hand high, Nitro has to jump if he wants to reach the ball, which will expose too many flaws.
So he chose to attack Ji Xing's lower body. He started with a powerful left whip kick, which hit the crook of Ji Xing's leg. Ji Xing sank his knee and blocked it.
The flow of 75% was very synchronized, and the advantage of gas volume made Nitro's attack more powerful, but Ji Xing immediately stepped back with a sliding step to release the force, and took advantage of the situation to lift his left leg and hit Nitro's head.
"Oh Kabuto~"
Letting out a grunt of enjoyment, Nitro slumped his shoulders. He rolled forward and somersaulted Ji Xing, and his right leg collided with Ji Xing's right fist.
Sliding backwards in both directions, his body bounced on the ground. The 120-year-old man burst out with agility that was not suitable for his age. He returned and launched a violent storm-like attack on Ji Xing.
Ji Xing saw the move, and the jacket he was wearing was caught in the wind of the fist, and his right hand and legs collided with Nitro.
Both of them had restrained their strength, otherwise they would have been beaten from the rooftop to the downstairs, but their energy was concentrated.
After a minute of fierce attack and defense, Nitro's volley hook finally hit the volleyball in Ji Xing's left hand, causing the volleyball to be thrown up. However, the next moment he was also hit in the chin by Ji Xing's hook!
As he flipped backwards, the long-lost pain filled his old face with joy.
'I was almost completely given my left hand, and my movement was greatly restricted. Am I still at a disadvantage in a martial arts confrontation?'
'After 70 years, I finally waited for a monster and could barely fight it as a challenger. It's really a happy thing.'
'Unfortunately...it's not quite enough yet.'
Ji Xingtongkong, who was standing there and reaching out to catch the ball, suddenly condensed and his energy expanded in a circular shape.
You can't see it clearly with your eyes, but you can feel it.
In an almost still time, Nitro, who turned backwards, made a gesture of joining his palms together, and a golden multi-handed Guanyin statue appeared behind him!
The speed of joining the palms together is over 10 times the speed of sound!
"I see, this kind of thing..."
Peng——
The next moment, a palm emitting golden light with a speed of more than three times the speed of sound was printed on Ji Xing's body, and the majestic force knocked him away!
It flipped upside down in the air for several weeks and flew more than 40 meters before Ji Xing spiraled down.
He stood firmly on the ground, unmoving and uninjured, but when he looked up at the health bar that appeared at the critical moment, he only had 93 points of blood left!
The volleyball spins on his fingertips.
"If you ask for the ball and don't specifically defend it, you will lose 7 blood points at a time. If you give up the volleyball and defend completely, you will lose 2 points. Will you die after 50 hits? It should be just a flat A."
"Although I should be able to completely find the path of the flaw within 10 hits, it's too fast. Even with my current strength and speed, I can't even find the flaw."
"No wonder, his body and strength are not much different from mine now. His energy is much better than mine, but his skills are also much inferior to mine. If it is just a simple enhancement system, no matter how you look at it, it will be a 50-50 split between me and him.
It turns out there is a trick to the Buddha."
"The threat level ratio of 5:8 after removing the weight is exactly the level where I can never win in a head-on battle. It is indeed basically accurate."
At the same time, Nitro on the opposite side also looked at the volleyball at Ji Xing's fingertips in surprise.
He had used all the Hundred Styles of Guanyin. He just wanted to win back the victory, knock Ji Xing away and get the ball, but the moment he made the move...
"A circle? No, it's not a circle. A simple circle cannot clearly see my preparations for closing my hands. At that moment, he seemed to have used an unknown technique that was similar to a circle but more precise than a circle..."
He looked up again and looked at the long health bar and 160 points of blood that appeared above his head, and couldn't help but whisper in his heart again: The future life is terrible.
Ji Xing stopped his hand, grabbed the ball, and said with a smile: "President Nitro, why can't you stop playing with it after playing with it? I won't play with this thing anymore."
Nitro chuckled twice, raised his hands and said, "I admit defeat, I admit defeat."