Chapter 44
Self-Cultivation Pavilion And Practice
Sheilor sat on one side of the long table in the restaurant private room, looked at the like carpet stretched out white table cloth in front of him, lowered his head slightly, somewhat didn’t understand why the rich people of the Federation would be this waste just having a meal. A glass of water was put in front of him, the dishes were still not served yet, because the host who invited him for the dinner was still not coming yet.
Two waiters stood waiting by the side calmly, Sheilor didn’t find anyone to talk to, and he also didn’t have any interest to talk, lowered his head, picked up the made of the silver fork and knife, and acted on the white table cloth. After a night, the pains on his body had already been well a lot, he began to recall the fat captain that coming with whistle leg, the more he thought, the more horrible then he felt about that leg. He lied in the bed and thought for a long time, found out that at that moment, even he could allow the muscle to tremble freely, released the magical power of the body, he was afraid that he still couldn’t block that leg completely.
Because of this one leg, Sheilor thought of the problem for two aspects.
The first problem was how on earth he should handle the magical power in his body? Once he launched it with all his strength, he could break the military special plastic handcuffs, this was not the thing that the normal people could do, but that kind of tremble body characteristic was too obviously, it’s too easy to let people to associate it with uncle mechanic… Could he find a way to let this kind of tremble just to move within the body, but wouldn’t let people tell it out by the look?
The second problem was how to block the ruthless swinging leg like the fat captain’s? That one leg was obviously the super-strong grapple skill of the army, with downward thirty degree swept coming over directly, smooth and clean, brought with the great strength, looked simply to the extreme, no matter the speed, the angle or the anticipated withdraw, all calculated accurately to the extreme, didn’t have any loophole. If at that moment he was standing, maybe he still could get close to him, hit the elbow on him and kneed him on his private parts, even his leg was swept broken, but he still could let the opponent to have some hidden losses. But the problem was that he was sitting, and how could he deal with it when he was sitting?
He took the silver-shiny knife and fork and racked them on the white table cloth, simulated the opponent’s kicking legs and his own possible dealing ways. His boss taught him ten postures, these postures were the very severe skills without any doubt, otherwise it’s impossible for him to knock down five top students of the West Forest military school at a time. But these ten postures were all attack skills, didn’t have one for defense, although heroic and intrepid to the extreme, but they were too stiff as well… No other way, they were the stiff dance originally.
Sheilor scratched on his head painfully, fell in the thinking about the fighting and couldn’t extricate himself. For the skill about fighting, he didn’t have too much interest. In his view, the present Federation was no more the battlefield for the individualistic heroism-- But uncle Fengyu persuaded him with the first machine parlance. Later on these days of thrilling experience, let him knew that it’s what kind of important thing for the increase of the individual strength. The most important thing was, he was a man like to compete and like to study intensively, he was like that when he was following uncle Fengyu to study the knowledge about the machine maintenance, he was also like that when he was thinking about fighting, always easily indulged inside but not knowing himself, of course this was a kind of very god-given study potential…
“Only obsessed in something, then you could train these things well. Now I probably somewhat understand, how you could knock down those proud shit. I think in these two years when you were having the military service in the mine of the East Forest, probably you placed the postures of the grappling skill all the time.” Didn’t know when the fat captain had already walked into the private room of the restaurant, looked at him with a kind of strange eyes.
Several clear and crisp sounds rippled in the empty room, the racked in together silver fork and knife fell down on the table, Sheilor was keeping to practice the postures, his fingers were frozen in the air. He looked at the fat captain that still having bloodlines face, scratched his head and had a smile, the other party seemed to misunderstand something, but it would be alright this way, lest he didn’t know how to explain yesterday that scenery.
The fat captain walked to his side and sat down, made a satisfied sigh, it seemed that the lazy him hated to walk very much. How could a man such like him give out a quick and forceful leg like that? At this time Sheilor of course wouldn’t believe this surface expression, but he did have the good impression for this fat captain, so he kept the polite silence.
“The army had buried many talents, there are many like you this kind of studying fighting all the time people. The yesterday surveillance video I had already watched, the grappling skill you used is very strange, probably it’s the result of that you simplified the military boxing, I don’t know whether it’s good or not, but it’s too staunch a bit anyway, doesn’t leave yourself any route of retreat.” The fat captain was out of breath to take over the water in front of Sheilor and drank it down, he said, “this kind self-developed way, couldn’t learn the deeper things even you stay in the army, if you have the interest in this aspect, after the spacecraft arrive the Capital, I can introduce you to several relatively famous self-cultivation pavilions to take a look.”
“Self-cultivation pavilion?” Sheilor didn’t understand why the captain would suddenly remove the guard outside of the room today, and even this formally invited him to come here to have dinner, he was ready to keep the silence carefully, but when he heard this strange nouns, he still couldn’t help asking curiously, “what kind of place is that? Does it mean that there are the places especially for people to study the fighting in the Federation?”
The fat captain looked at him as like looking at a fool, “although you had been as ground mouse in the East Forest for two years, but you are still an upper Forest people, how could you don’t even know about the self-cultivation pavilion?”
Sheilor knew that he gave himself away a bit, shook his head and had a smile, didn’t say anything to explain. In the explain of the fat captain, he then knew what the self-cultivation meant-- In the present society, the hot weapons had already developed to the peak, the individual force seemed so insignificant in contrast, the ancient martial club developed to present this stage, the goal was not to teach people the grappling skill, but to excise the will with the skill, to calm the mood, and to cultivate the body and morality-- And also for this reason, the people exercised in the self-cultivation pavilion, didn’t have the desire to excel too much at all, and not attracted too many attentions as well.
“The self-cultivation class of the military academy have already changed into the grappling skill class, the young men now, are all too stupid, they don’t know what’s the really good stuff at all.” The fat captain shook his head in disdain and said, “if the self-cultivation pavilion doesn’t have anything good, why the Lee’s family would ask every descendent of every generation, when they are twelve years old, need to stay in the self-cultivation pavilion to study for two whole years and then allowed to come out?”
“Lee’s family?” Sheilor knew that he this born in the East Forest orphan was a bumpkin in most people’s eyes, he didn’t mind to tell his doubt frankly as well, “do you mean the Lee’s family of Philadelphia?”
The fat captain nodded his head, Sheilor was shocked, a glittering name appeared in his mind immediately, a sublime existence, a low-key but incomparably famous family, this family was not in the traditional seven big families of the Federation, but in the past decades, because of that old man, they had the collective respect of the federal citizens.
“Just let you to go to have a study, and what’s the good thing you are thinking about? Don’t you count on you
rself that you can kill an emperor as well?” The fat captain saw the expression on the youngster’s face, said with a mock.
Sheilor laughed “Ha Ha” a couple times, suddenly asked primly, Mr. captain, this thing is only a misunderstanding, presumably that you also make it clearly. I don’t know, what’s the reason why you ask me to come here for today?”
The fat captain piled the smile on his face very seriously, said with the gentle voice, “of course try to have a good relationship with you, and ask you to do me a little favor at the same time.”
Suddenly, the fat captain became so flattering, and so naturally, it really scared Sheilor, he was stupefied on the spot, didn’t know what to say.
Just right at this time, the cabin door of the room was opened to both sides slowly, held the hands by two wearing suits women, surrounded and protected by seven or eight service people, a wearing pink flower skirt, clipped a sky blue hairpin on the head, appearing very lovely little girl, walked into the room just like this.
The captain lowered his voice, said with please, “little brother, this is the thing I am requesting you, if you can let miss to have the meal, it’s no problem for the previous things, the future things… No problem as well.”
Sheilor couldn’t say anything, he had never expected the thing, which the captain requested him to do seriously, was actually this thing, but when he saw Little Watermelon, the face was from depressed to pleasantly surprised, saw the black hair swinging on the forehead of the little girl, he couldn’t help laughing up happily as well, shouted at that side, “Little Watermelon.”
“Brother Sheilor.” Little Watermelon got rid of the hands of the two female working staffs, in the helpless eyes of those people, ran to the front of Sheilor in small steps, sat down directly at his side, opened her curious eyes widely and asked, “brother, what do you come here for?”
“Come to have the dinner with you.” Sheilor said with a smile.
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In the next few days, Sheilor got rid of the identity of suspect, moved from the cleaning zone area 38, to the facilities were even more high-class upper level of the spacecraft, began to accompany with Little Watermelon to have meals, have fun and tell stories. He liked Little Watermelon this well-behaved little girl very much, didn’t feel it’s hard to deal with the little girl like what the captain said, so he didn’t feel there was any problem for this job, but… If Sheilor knew, it’s the prelude that he was going to bear the heavy responsibility two years later, would he still feel the same happiness like at this moment? Or said that he would do this period of practice work a bit better?
This afternoon, Little Watermelon began to have the afternoon nap tamely. Sheilor opened the cabin door, was ready to go back to his own room to study how he could hide the body tremble under the skin, thinking while walking, he didn’t expect that he met several somewhat familiar people at the corner of the corridor.
The knocked out and wounded by him petty officers of the West Forest military school, after the treatment by the on board clinic and these several days recuperation, were basically well. Colonel Lake that group of special mecha squad were still in the serious injuries, the escort job would still be handed to them. It’s also very intriguing come to speak of it, the most powerful two groups of forces of the Antique Bell, were all wounded by Fengyu and Sheilor this pair of teacher and student.
Sheilor stared blankly a bit, looked at the still red and swollen temple of that called Wham petty officer, silenced for a moment, nodded his head, walked pass over by his side, didn’t have any at swords’ points situation happened.
Standing next to the space porthole Jason looked at the back of that ordinary figure, had a touch on his own throat subconsciously, seemed that he still felt some dull pains.