The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 142 Meng

The next few days were naturally filled with the same monotonous and tedious shooting training.

After all, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and even the most skilled marksman or mech warrior must accumulate experience little by little every day.

Jiang Hui thought they would probably continue this kind of static shooting training until the end of the training program. Because for beginners, static shooting is the most suitable way to build a foundation. Although the form is a bit rigid, the effect is more stable.

Actually, she would prefer to try the moving target training method, but since Nie Erqi wouldn't teach her, there was nothing she could do but wait until the start of the school year to practice in the simulation training room.

However, even in such ordinary and monotonous training, there was something slightly unusual, or rather, she felt something was off.

Whether it was her imagination or she was just being narcissistic, she felt that... the practice environment had changed.

How should I put it? She felt like she had been lifted up.

Her shooting skills improved at a rate that was visible to the naked eye, and sometimes her accuracy was so good that it surprised even herself.

Although it is currently only a static target, it is quite outstanding among a group of beginners, and even shows a tendency to stand out.

What made Jiang Hui feel that the atmosphere was not right was not only the envious, jealous, or eager and unconvinced expressions of her classmates, nor the increasingly anxious Clarence who looked at her with eyes that were becoming more and more like a rival, but also the pressure from the two instructors.

Okay, she knows that saying this might sound a bit boastful. But to be fair, she's never been one to be the center of attention, or rather, in her short twenty-odd years of life, she's always played a relatively ordinary role. After her parents passed away, even fewer people looked at her with expectation.

She was used to wearing a thick, mediocre protective shield in society and blending into the crowd to get by, thinking that her life would pass by like this. Who would have thought that she could live another life, a life that was destined to be completely different from her previous life?

But now everything has suddenly changed. She has arrived in a wonderful future world with infinite possibilities, with a broader platform and resources than in her previous life. In fact, in a world where resources are almost entirely determined by talent, she had excellent resources from the very beginning.

These are all blessings left to her by the original owner of this body, and she is very grateful.

Having been an ordinary person for a long time, she naturally couldn't adapt to this sudden feeling of being focused and was at a loss. She didn't know how to adapt, and this feeling had already affected her mindset and normal training, leaving her feeling helpless.

She thought... maybe, perhaps she still needed to adjust. Jiang Hui was somewhat unable to control her thoughts, but her hands kept moving, and she once again focused and fired a shot.

The intense gaze fixed on her back deepened, sending a chill down Jiang Hui's spine. "Brother, are you getting worse?" she thought. While she didn't need to fear a harmless young man, it didn't mean she enjoyed being seen as a real adversary. Jiang Hui didn't think this near-paranoia was a good thing, because, to be honest, that Mr. Karl who received a red card and was expelled had a similar mentality. It's just that the other party clearly transformed it into deep malice and acted on it.

Alas, this Clarence was truly arrogant—unwilling to be inferior to anyone, no matter where he was. Little did he know that no one in this world is perfect, and the more one pursues perfection, the more easily one is broken, because one simply cannot accept one's own flaws.

However, this kind of thing had nothing to do with her, and she had no power to care. Jiang Hui simply didn't want to create another enemy for herself for no reason.

Jiang Hui could only pretend she hadn't noticed anything and retreated to the back to change wheels without looking to the side. She didn't see that it was precisely because of her nonchalant attitude that the people in the back row became more agitated, and their faces showed some unpleasant expressions.

The undercurrent between the two, or rather, the undercurrent on one side of the two, was noticed by Nie Erqi, who had been secretly observing them, and he couldn't help but find it a little interesting.

The young master of the Clarence family is easy to talk to; he's sharp and arrogant, but he certainly has the ability. With some training, he'll be a natural-born leader. Such people are as numerous as stars in the stars in every generation of the interstellar world, but they are also the most indispensable and rarest.

But the strangest one was the female student named Jiang Hui. She was indeed talented, and seemed to have a truly good temperament, remaining composed both on the shooting range and in daily life. While not all such people are arrogant, it's rare to find someone so accustomed to concealing their brilliance and deliberately ignoring their own strengths to blend into the crowd.

Nie Erqi felt that the other person was really contradictory, lacking the youthful spirit that most people have, and possessing a deliberate sense of worldly wisdom and dullness. It was precisely this latter quality that affected the light emanating from her, making her own radiance less bright.

He had observed the other person for the past two days and realized that his initial assessment of Jiang Hui might have been too conservative. The other person was not only a potential marksman, but could even be described as a born hunter.

She possessed an extremely strong sensitivity to changes in her surroundings, whether people or objects. This set her apart from everyone else present, who treated the moment as a training exercise—a harmless activity that could be changed or a platform to improve their skills. Only Jiang Hui focused intently on each shot—each strike as a desperate gamble, like a hunter ambush its prey.

She was obsessed with every shot, even from a laser gun that looked realistic but had no real lethality. She was also immersed in the simple process of finding a target, aiming, and pulling the trigger, striving to make the process smoother and smoother, until it became a memory ingrained in her muscles and even her bones.

Immersion and obsession are qualities a qualified "hunter" should possess. Nie Erqi only gradually understood this after entering university, under the guidance of his mentor. But when did the other party grasp this point?

Therefore, although Jiang Hui is actually not as good as Clarence in terms of stable conditions and cumulative accuracy, Nielch is obviously more optimistic about the former than the latter.

As for Clarence's character, he's currently too far removed from the Hunter; he's more suited to other roles. That kid clearly grew up using the best of everything, and he'd probably see even the slightest setback in life as a disgrace and a hardship. Unless he experiences enough, such a person is destined to suffer in the struggle for survival—it's easy to look down from a high place, but difficult to climb upwards.

I'm so sorry everyone. After finishing my exams, my family suddenly had a funeral, and I've been feeling really down. I haven't been able to find time to write these past few days, and I feel really bad about taking a two-day break. I should be able to resume writing tomorrow. Thank you all so much for your understanding.

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