Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 28 Theory and Combat

Yuanze quite likes this place, there is more than just fighting here.

"Today we will be explaining the last chapter of Fluid Mechanics I."

A middle-aged professor wearing black-rimmed glasses was explaining the knowledge points about fluid mechanics on the holographic blackboard. It was rumored that this professor was once a technician in the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau.

"Professor Sun, I mean, it's been almost two months. What's there to talk about?"

As the get out of class was about to end, Rick seemed very impatient. He crossed his legs and looked at him with a smile, and the others followed suit and made a noise.

"Listen carefully." Professor Sun pushed up his glasses. "The opportunity to study here is precious."

"Tsk, I've learned these things a long time ago."

Professor Sun heard his disdainful voice
"That's normal. I understand your desire to improve your combat power, but combat power is not the only factor. If you don't know enough about the enemy's capabilities and don't know how to target them, it's easy to fall into a disadvantage or even lose your life."

“Watch this video.”

Professor Sun typed the four words "fight across levels" on the blackboard and carefully selected a video that popped up.

"A supernatural source beast with special abilities, leapt over three small realms and directly killed this strong man head-on. You must know that this is a strong man who has surpassed the Nirvana realm. The life levels of the two are not on the same level."

At the end of the video, Professor Sun asked a soul-searching question: "Do you understand the ability of this source beast?"

Everyone shook their heads, with varying degrees of embarrassment on their faces.

Only two people raised their hands.

"Ji Xuefeng."

"It's fluid mechanics. It reduces the viscosity of the mud on the ground, making it impossible for this strong man to break free and resist." The little fat man raised his head, looking very proud.

Professor Sun nodded in approval, then called Yuanze out to answer.

"This source beast is equivalent to creating a ground environment similar to quicksand, which mainly involves the characteristics of non-Newtonian fluids, especially the shear thinning phenomenon."

"When a person falls into quicksand, if he struggles violently, the viscosity of the quicksand will decrease, causing the person to sink further. This is the key to the final fall of this strong man. He should..."

Yuanze talked about this phenomenon very seriously, methodically and with solid reasons.

"This student said it very well. This is also something we have learned before. I am not trying to make things difficult for you. Moreover, source beasts with fluid mechanics abilities are not rare."

"Hmph, you conspicuous bastard, it's no big deal that you have a little knowledge." A thin male student with a gloomy face behind Yuanze whispered to himself.

"So, we have to go into the assessment tower this afternoon to take an assessment on the knowledge points we have learned during this period."

"Dingle bell bell~"

"get out of class is over."

In the afternoon, the students followed Professor Sun to a white assessment tower.

"This white assessment tower is one of the most advanced technological buildings in the training camp." Professor Sun's voice was full of pride. "It integrates the most advanced technology and has a powerful intelligent system. On its first floor, I only need to input the content of this assessment, and it can generate challenges that are exactly the same as in reality."

"So, the Assessment Tower will randomly select all the content you have learned this month from the textbook. Everyone will have three identical challenges. In the end, the Assessment Tower will give all of you a score based on your performance as the assessment result for this month."

The students were immediately excited. Professor Sun had never mentioned the format of the monthly assessment before, and everyone thought it was just a simple test. They didn't expect it to be in the form of a practical assessment.

Professor Sun entered his iris information and assessment scope, and the tower door slowly opened, revealing an interior space full of technology.

The students walked into the tower, put on the assessment helmets, and entered the virtual space.

"Question 1: Air combat."

A larger eagle appeared in the sky. It was a high-level awakening source beast, and only this level had special abilities.

Yuanze looked ahead carefully. Its body was a translucent blue-green color, as if it was made of liquid, with tiny whirlpools constantly rolling on its surface.

Its head retains the features of an eagle, its sharp eyes staring at Yuanze, its wings are broad and thin, like the span of a stream of water, leaving a series of vortices as it glides through the air.

The eagle immediately attacked Yuanze, but to Yuanze's surprise, it circled around Yuanze and returned to the air, flapping its wings and looking at Yuanze.

Yuan Ze's "flow" suddenly felt a subtle change in the space around him. An elusive force seemed to be approaching quietly, but he could not see anything with his naked eyes. He did not rush to use external objects, but calmly thought about how to deal with this invisible threat. Suddenly, he picked up the leaves that fell on the ground, crushed them into powder with his hands, and sprinkled them around his body.

These powders did not show a trajectory of being blown away by the wind, but instead floated in the air, with their flow trajectories subtly distorted, as if being pulled by some invisible force.

Yuanze's heart trembled, and he immediately realized that this was a sign of vortex in the air.

He quickly adjusted his posture to prepare for the upcoming attack. Sure enough, several powerful vortexes suddenly attacked from all directions, but Yuanze was fully prepared. He used his agility to cleverly avoid the vortex attacks.

It seems that this eagle, by flapping its wings in the air, is manipulating the vortices in the air. It has no long-range means and can only passively take the beating.

Yuanze came up with an idea. He grabbed a stone from the ground and spun on one foot, disrupting the air flow around him, thus creating turbulence to counteract the vortex, and using the instability of the turbulence to disrupt the stable rhythm of the vortex.

Gradually, the eagle became more and more exhausted, and all the vortices it created were broken up. Just when it could no longer hold on, Yuanze threw stones at high speed with high kinetic energy, and defeated the eagle in just a few hits.

"Congratulations to the student for defeating the Whirlpool Eagle and moving on to the second question, seaside social creatures."

As the scene switched to the seaside, Yuanze felt his body return to its peak.

But before Yuanze could take a break, groups of crabs came out.

Yuanze thought this was just a test of endurance, so he rushed forward and killed many of the crabs with one slap.

But as the fight went on, he realized something was wrong. These guys were rushing up almost continuously, and most of his energy had been consumed.

Animals that live in groups are generally weak individually. These crabs are basically at the first awakening level, but if there are enough ants, they can kill an elephant.

Yuanze quickly moved away and activated the "Flow" state to carefully observe the group of crabs.

Their carapaces are dark blue, and the surface is covered with complex lines that seem to be a record of the flow of tides. Their small bodies have huge pincers, and inside there is a structure similar to a tidal power generator that can absorb and transform source power, and the pincers can also conduct source power through liquid.

Sure enough, as long as the crab on the beach still has one claw left, it can quickly convert the source energy of the environment into the source energy of other crabs, thereby quickly recovering its body. Moreover, the conversion speed of that claw is extremely dependent on the density of the fluid, and its efficiency can be greatly reduced by simply changing the temperature.

"It seems that the pliers are your weak spot." Yuanze laughed out loud. This assessment should have been easy to get points, but he didn't seize the opportunity to get full marks.

After knowing such an obvious weakness, these crabs no longer posed a threat and soon there was not a single one left.

"Congratulations on defeating the Tide Crab. Now we move on to the third question - the nature of ability."

This time, Yuanze did not fight rashly, but studied his opponent's abilities.

What’s more important is that this time the opponent is in human form, and he conceals his abilities very well, unlike those stupid low-level source beasts.

But after several battles, Yuan Ze only noticed the phenomenon of resonance, and did not figure out the essence of his ability, and even the "Flow" could not be seen through.

It was not until he was about to be defeated that Yuanze noticed that when he passed the chimney, both sides of his body periodically shed vortices that rotated in opposite directions and were arranged in a regular double row. Only then did he suddenly realize what was going on.

"Karman vortex street!"

"Yuan Ze, scored 86 points, ranking first."

Yuanze exited the assessment, took a long breath, and found that everyone was looking at him.

He then realized that everyone else had already withdrawn from the assessment, and he was the last one and also the one with the highest score.

"Dear students, do you understand?" Professor Sun looked at the students with a smile.

“I’m not a Source Warrior, and I don’t have a body as good as yours, but the special weapon I’m wearing can even lock onto and instantly kill a mid-level Body Tempering Source Warrior.

"Although my weapon is also quite rare and requires a license to wear, it also tells you that you cannot ignore every enemy you encounter, even if it is just an ordinary person."

"Not to mention the weapons of state operated by ordinary people, which can even kill strong men above the Nirvana level."

"So, knowledge is also your power."

"clear."

Especially the group of people who followed Rick in making trouble, all hung their heads in shame, and no one knew what they were thinking. Only Rick, who got the third place with 84 points, still held his head high.

(End of this chapter)