In the end, Butcher and Gun King happily drew the longest sticks, winning without a hitch.
Gun King owed Butcher a life, so he could only give Qin Fen's first experience to him.
"Come, kid! Let's get to know each other!"
Butcher took off his military uniform, revealing ten scars, criss-crossed, on his upper body. Each scar was shocking to the heart and eyes.
Naturally, getting to know the teacher who would teach him how to kill people meant that they were going to spar.
Qin Fen was unafraid and filled with battle intent these days. He immediately entered the combat ring when he heard that someone wanted to fight.
The sole of his foot had just barely stepped inside the combat ring when an after shadow was already rushing upon him. The fierce and cold aura immediately caused all the hairs on Qin Fen's back to stand on end.
Three-star!
This was the first time Qin Fen met an opponent on the same level that could make his hair stand on end. He strode half a step forward as he unleashed a Flowing Whipstrike that was so fierce to the point of exploding.
A single move could reveal whether or not the practitioner was skilled. Though the other soldiers weren't the strongest in terms of combat skills, they were all people who had been through life or death situations. Their eyes all instantly lit up, for Qin Fen had chosen the most correct move. However....
Qin Fen had observed thousands upon thousands of fights, but Butcher had personally slaughtered thousands upon thousands of opponents. There was a gigantic disparity between their experience levels.
A knife! Qin Fen's extraordinary martial senses suddenly produced this incomparably ridiculous thought the moment he struck with his whipstrike! Butcher, whose upper body was bare and lacked a place to conceal a blade, actually had a knife in his hand!
The whipstrike stopped just before Butcher, and the gale brought on by Qin Fen's fist caused Butcher's crew cut to sway slightly. One could see just how ferocious that fist was.
However, no matter how fierce the fist, it was useless if one couldn't land a hit! Within Butcher's hand was an ice-cold knife, appearing who knows when. And the knife was coldly pressed against Qin Fen's throat.
Fast! A speed that was suffocating!
The Butcher, whose upper body was bare and had no place to conceal a blade, had actually conjured out a knife in the middle of Qin Fen's move.
Qin Fen's martial senses were extraordinary, but he was still slow by half a beat when detecting the knife. He also wasn't fully proficient in combining the Dragon Guard with the Flowing Whipstrike yet. He still had been a bit slow when using them, so he could only stare at the blade pressed against his throat with eyes wide open.
A proud smile was etched in Butcher's face, and a beat of sweat trickled down from the back of his neck. In his mind, he was glad that he found out about Qin Fen's most proficient move from Squad Leader Hao. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been possible to subdue this recruit in a single move.
"You are already dead." Butcher withdrew his knife in a very cool action as he stood up straight.
A wrinkle of suspicion flashed on Qin Fen's forehead. He had a very strange feeling about the fight just now. It seemed like he had fallen into a trap prepared beforehand by the opponent from the very beginning.
"Your fighting style is very straightforward and direct. This is good." Butcher picked up his military uniform from the ground, "However, it is not enough. You just want to win, but you don't want to kill. On the battlefield, only killing the enemy counts as a win. Say that I didn't use my methods and you were able to beat me at three-star strength just now. On the battlefield, when faced with a group of enemies, my chances of living are greater than yours. This is because I will use the least strength as possible to kill the greatest number of people. You're unable to do this! But you can do one versus ones."
Qin Fen didn't retort. The thousands of fights he had seen were all one versus ones. He had grasped this late. This was the key element in his decision to participate in the three-star War God Arena. There, people fought one versus ones, one versus twos, and even chaotic battle situations.
"All right, all right! It's my turn!" Gun King carried a black case that was a man in length and half a man in width and tossed it down before Qin Fen. "Kid, choose what you like from inside here."
The case opened up, and Qin Fen's heart involuntarily pounded faster.
Gun King certainly was a gun king. There were only guns within the case!
Though this world was of the martial dao, what sort of man didn't love guns?
It would be strange if one never touched a gun when serving in the military. That would be a joke.
Qin Fen warmed up his hands as he controlled his impulse to pick a gun. "What's the goal?"
Gun King's eyes lit up along with the others. What a great kid! A typical person would have chosen a gun they liked early on when presented with this many guns. None would spare the time to be picky.
"Fight me!" Gun King smacked his own chest.
Qin Fen didn't go asking how his opponent wanted to fight. Since it was training, Qin Fen certainly had to use his head.
Qin Fen quickly scanned through the firearms within the case and naturally chose a pistol—The Nighthawk T3!
Qin Fen didn't know the model of this gun. He just felt that this gun had a compact design. It should be faster than other guns when it came to close-range shooting.
After grabbing the gun, Qin Fen did what he learned from Squad Leader Hao and Butcher, whose fighting styles were to move without warning. Qin Fen simply lifted his hand and pointed at Gun King and shot!
Even though it was the Gun King, Gun King should clearly have some skills since he told Qin Fen to shoot him. Qin Fen was also unconvinced that he would be able to to kill Gun King with a single shot. Qin Fen had never used a gun before, after all.
Kachink....
The firing pin let out a striking sound, but the gun in Qin Fen's hands didn't let out any sparks nor bullets.
Gun King nodded, beaming. With a light flick of his wrist, the same Nighthawk T3 model was drawn out from the holster on his waste. He locked onto his target, Qin Fen.
"Confused yet, kid?" Gun King smiled, "What I want to tell you today is, not all guns can be picked up and immediately used. Sometimes a gun may look like there aren't any problems with it on the outside, but the same gun may be broken on the inside. Do you want to learn how to shoot? Well, you first need to know how to get a gun. Then you will know whether what you have in your hand is scrap metal or a lethal weapon for killing."
He was played! Qin Fen took this in as he nodded. Sure enough, none of these seasoned soldiers were easy to deal with.
"There's still some time left today." Gun King looked at Butcher and said, "Clearly, there isn't enough time to learn killing, but there's still some time to learn guns."
Butcher didn't bicker with Gun King. Qin Fen's series of performances just now had pleased everyone present.
Although Qin Fen couldn't compare to Qin Zhan, an invincible heaven defying genius, he had some makings. Proper training might make him comparable to Qin Zhan.
These people had all been stifled by Qin Zhan's power. If they couldn't beat Qin Zhan themselves, they had to be able to teach and a produce a disciple that could surpass him.
Everyone dispersed, and Qin Fen followed Gun King to a small shooting range.
Gunner senses took out a training gun, "The way of martial arts has martial senses. One can rely on superhuman intuition in a fight and predict the movements of others in advance. It's like when you predicted Butcher's knife earlier. Its just unfortunate that Butcher has dealt with people with super powerful martial senses before. He possesses a unique energy field that counters martial senses. For you to be able too detect his knife midway is already quite amazing. As such, you don't need to feel bad for being defeated by him."
Qin Fen was a bit surprised. Gun King, who was teaching guns, was actually discussing the dao of martial arts.