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"Bah—"

There was a loud sound of something heavy falling to the ground.

The humanoid object that was thrown out struggled to prop up its body on the spot and stood up again.

This is the 180th time Cheng Zhen has been thrown out by Yasai since he came to Storm Fortress.Every time when fighting each other, Yasai always caught Cheng Zhen's flaws mercilessly, and then threw him far away.Even with the specially made training ground, the body couldn't withstand such a fall.

However, as the best fighter in the shadow team, Ya Sai never showed mercy to Cheng Zhen.

"I escaped eleven attacks, but I showed my flaws when I hit No. 12." Ya Sai, a serious member of the shadow, commented. "Overall, it's a bit of an improvement compared to the previous few times."

Cheng Zhen rubbed his sore waist and smiled wryly. "Only eleven hits, still far from reaching the standard."

Yasai was silent.

When Leiber and Cheng Zhen were training just now, this member of the Shadow Squad, who had just returned from the mission, also came to the training room.He didn't know how long he had been watching the fight between the two young people outside before he walked in silently.

And Cheng Zhen, of course, was the first to conduct today's training and testing with Yasai, although the result still ended in failure.

"What's wrong? When he attacked with that attack just now, I shouldn't have dodged to the right..." Standing on the spot with his chin propped up and thinking for himself, Cheng Zhen was completely immersed in his personal post-war introspection.

"Please accept my challenge too."

Leiber, who stood watching the battle for a long time, suddenly spoke.

"Leber..." Unlike ordinary Bertutan non-commissioned officers, members of the Shadow Squad don't need to address Leiber, but call him by his first name.

Yasai looked at the young Chief of the Golden Clan, puzzled. "If you want to get revenge on Captain Randall for deliberately teasing you a few times ago, you can fight against him himself. That matter has nothing to do with me, I'm just his nominal subordinate." I don't know what came to mind, Uncharacteristically, Yasai quickly freed himself.

Leiber was taken aback for a moment, then his face darkened, and he also remembered what happened in Storm Fortress last year.

At that time, Leiber hadn't met the shadow people and didn't know their identities.And the shadow captain Randall didn't know what kind of thoughts he had, but he pretended to be an ordinary non-commissioned officer and went to the ordinary training room to play.

Knowing that Leiber was still a junior college student who hadn't entered the top ten colleges, Randall, who concealed his identity, deliberately provoked Leiber, who was so angry that he took the initiative to invite him to fight.The result, of course, was appalling.

At that time, Leiber, who was still young and unwilling to admit defeat, challenged more than a dozen rounds in a row, losing streak in a row.All of a sudden, the young Leiber's self-esteem was completely shattered.He even fought against an "ordinary" mech pilot without a single victory.The young genius of the Bertutan tribe couldn't help but have deep self-doubt.

Later, if Rhine hadn't appeared in time, I don't know how long this unilateral teasing duel will last, and Leiber's self-esteem doesn't know how long it will be trampled.

Although Randall was later sent by the Rhine Gazette to perform a super-difficult task in the fringe star field for a whole year, it can be regarded as revenge for Leiber.But every time he thinks of this incident, Leiber is still ashamed and annoyed, and his teeth itch.

From then on, he had another motivation to fight—to completely defeat the shadow captain who made fun of him at that time.

In fact, Leiber deliberately forgot about this old event, and did not recall it again for a long time.Unexpectedly, Yasai mentioned it again in this way now.

Leiber was secretly depressed, and Yasai, who had no eyesight, continued. "And even if you seek revenge from me, it will only increase the number of times you are defeated in vain. Please don't do useless work."

"...You misunderstood." Leiber almost ground his teeth, looking at Yasai who naturally possessed mocking skills in front of him. "I just want to challenge you like Cheng Zhen. It's just to test my ability. If you find it troublesome, you don't have to accept it."

"Ah, the test." Yasai finally understood, and looked at the arrogant Leiber in front of him. "If any damage is caused during the test, it is completely within the normal range, please do not report personal revenge."

"I, no, yes! Please rest assured!" Leiber gritted his teeth.

You can't, but Master Rhine will definitely.Thinking about it, Yasai looked towards the door of the training room.It was empty and looked safe.So he replied. "Can."

Taking advantage of this opportunity, it is a once-in-a-century opportunity to ravage Lord Rhine's younger brother openly.Moreover, if you flatten that face with a similarity of 60.00%, will it feel like you are also ravaging Mrs. Rhine?Thinking about it, Yasai became inexplicably excited.

At this moment, he finally realized why Randall would be idle and bored to do that kind of thing last year.The members of the Shadow Squad, who are usually oppressed and beaten by Rhine in various ways, have found an unobtrusive way of venting - bullying Lord Rhine's younger brother.

Although it would be miserable to be discovered, but compared with the feeling of beating up Leiber who has a similar face, compared with the usual scene where Lord Rhine beat them up with condescension and sarcasm, the pleasure of revenge arises spontaneously.

At this time, Yasai was eager to try, and hooked his hands at Leiber. "No matter how many rounds are available, let's fight."

Leiber, who didn't know the dark psychology of these shadow members, dedicated himself fearlessly.

It can only be said that the Shadow Squad, which is usually mercilessly squeezed out of all the value of use by Rhine, has been oppressed to a certain extent, and its feelings for the Lord Rhine they respect have been distorted.It can be seen that long-term suppression will distort the normal psychology of subordinates, which will bring unpredictable consequences, which must be remembered.

From another angle, watching other people being thrown away by Yasai, Cheng Zhen suddenly found that he could learn a lot from it.

Therefore, for the situation where Leiber was thrown more than ten times, Cheng Zhen watched from the sidelines with great loyalty, gaining experience from the tragic failures of his comrades-in-arms.It's just that Cheng Zhen couldn't help but feel a dull pain in his waist as he watched Leiber dodge a few moves every time and then was thrown out the next second.

He has personally experienced Yasai's throwing technique, and it is definitely not pleasant.

Seeing how many times Leiber got up again, Cheng Zhen finally couldn't help but said. "Yasai, the practice with Leiber is enough. If this continues, he won't be able to get up tomorrow."

"Huh?" Yasai, who was playing to his heart's content, didn't even answer. "I threw you 180 times twice, and you are standing here well. Leiber has only been thrown [-] times by me now, how could something happen?"

Cheng Zhen was speechless, the more than 100 experiences were indeed unforgettable to him, and every time he was thrown into the air, it was not a good feeling.But he is different from Leiber, he has accumulated 180 times of being thrown into the air for many consecutive days, and Yasai will not plan to throw Leiber more than 100 times in one day today, right?

In that way, let alone tomorrow, whether Leiber can walk out of the training room standing up will become a problem.

"180 twice, remember correctly?"

"No, I remember it every time. I just fell you more than 100 times now." Continued to fight against Leiber without looking back, Ya track.

"How many more times?"

"Of course until you can dodge it, there is no limit to the number of times..." Halfway through the speech, Yasai suddenly felt something was wrong.From the very beginning, the voice of the conversation with him seemed to have changed, it wasn't Cheng Zhen's voice, but...

Quickly grabbing Leiber's attacking punch, Yasai drew back to look back, and froze in place at a glance.

Rhine did not know when he appeared in the training ground, and was standing not far away, looking at him coldly.Although the pair of strange-colored eyes are still hidden under the goggles, Yasai can be 100% sure with the intuition of the potential person that the look in those sharp eyes at this time is definitely not a good omen.

"Ka——" Shocked, Yasai's subordinates couldn't help breaking Leiber's right hand with a little force.

Rhine looked at the scene calmly and asked plainly. "How many times is this?"

"Eighteen." The man with a broken right hand, Leiber also said without changing his face, as if the pain of the fracture didn't stimulate him at all.

"This is just a normal match between Yasai and us." The implication is not to get in the way.

"A fight between two parties with equal strength is called a duel. A fight with disparity in strength is just a unilateral ravage."

The eyes under the goggles seemed to glance away, and Rhine, who spoke with a slight irony, ignored Leiber's suddenly pale expression, and said to his shadow team members.

"During the battle, you didn't notice that other people came in. You are slack. Go to the practice room, Yasai, and I will help you retrain your sense of vigilance."

"Yes! Master Rhine!"

Taking orders unequivocally, Yasai walked towards the door of the training room and left.

It's just that Cheng Zhen looked at his back and saw the tragic aura of a strong man gone forever.

But at this time, Yasai, who was going to "purgatory", was mentally preparing for being beaten unilaterally by Rhine, and at the same time, he couldn't help guessing in his heart.

Lord Rhine, this time, for which side is he avenging his personal revenge?Leiber?Still—Cheng Zhen.

In the training room, Rhein looked at Leiber, who had a broken right hand. "Go to the treatment room, don't delay tomorrow's training."

Leiber held his right hand in his left hand and left silently.As he was passing by, he seemed to glance at the black-haired boy with a little uneasiness.

Cheng Zhen smiled back at Leiber's worry.He was used to being alone with Rhine, and he believed that His Excellency the United Front Work Commander would be harmless to him, so there was no need for Leiber to be distracted and worried.

But for some reason, everyone else showed fear of Rhine.Even the members of Shadow still have lingering fears about this officer.

After Leiber left, there were only two people left in the training room.

Cheng Zhen is obviously used to being alone with Rhine.Therefore, before Rhine could speak first, he had already asked.

"Your Excellency is here this time, is there anything you need to inform me?"

Under the goggles, those light golden eyes seemed to be looking at the black-haired boy, Rhine said in an emotionless voice.

"Next week, the troops from Storm Fortress will leave for the Algar line of defense."

Cheng Zhenzhen was shocked, it was so much earlier than expected, could it be that there was another accident on the front line?

However, even if he is worried about the battle on the Algar defense line, Cheng Zhen also knows the confidential information, which is not yet within his reach.So he just listened quietly, waiting for Rhine's next words.

"So before leaving, I decided to spare time every day and train you myself."

Rhine's words were like throwing a boulder on a calm lake, causing ripples.