Romance of Dragons and Snakes

Chapter 59: Secret preparation

“Hammer, Hammer! Quick, go get the cooling spray!”

After having Wang Chao break Hammer’s arm, he had fallen to the ground. His face contorted in pain as sweat began form all around as he held his useless arm.

But true to his training as a soldier, Hammer had only gritted his teeth and refrained from shouting in pain.

Wang Chao moved backwards without another word.

When the soldiers nearby heard Hammer’s arm snap, they immediately surrounded Wang Chao while a few others tended to Hammer’s arm. In a moment, they had taken out something similar to a fire extinguisher.

Opening the item, a white mist could be spraying out of it. Even from far away, Wang Chao could feel the cold feeling of it.

The white mist continued to be sprayed on Hammer’s arm, allowing him to look a little bit more alleviated from the pain.

On the other side, Wang Chao was surrounded by five soldiers.

That interaction with Hammer just now was a test to see how god they were. There was not much difference between them and the bodyguards of Zhang Tong, but there was a considerable difference between Zhao Xinglong and the soldiers.

Fighting just five of these soldiers would have been difficult for him in the past. But now that he was a practitioner at the Hidden Jin level, it was a simple matter now.

But with general Zhou here, Wang Chao was confident these soldiers wouldn’t act too rashly.

While the five soldiers had caged him in, they remained several feet away from him with paranoia. Not a single one of them had wanted to be the first one to make a move.

This reason why they were so far away from Wang Chao was simple–they had been surprised by how strong Wang Chao was.

In just three moves.

It was just three moves to decide the fight. Wang Chao had been extremely fast and had even let the general Zhou standing behind him to drop his jaws open in amazement.

A punch at the median, a fist to strike the leg, and a chopping of the arm! These three movements had gone by remarkably fast and smooth with deadly precision.

What was more terrifying was the cracking sound whenever Wang Chao’s fist traveled through the sky. It was like the sound of thunder that could make anyone surprised.

“This…this was just supposed to be a test, not to injure them or frighten them. This is…truly terrifying.”

In the eyes of general Zhou, Wang Chao had transformed into a ferocious tiger.

General Zhou wasn’t the only one that shared that sentiment, the other soldiers had begun to think, “Just how could such a person have such explosive force?”

General Zhou knew that when Cao Yi had asked for a capable group of personnel from the organization this time, these soldiers were strong enough to beat several militiamen themselves.

The soldiers in here had essentially trained their bodies to become steel like with their hands like bricks. They could kick apart wooden planks without a problem and were several times stronger than their civilian counterparts.

It could even be said that if a civilian were to bring down an iron rod over their arms, those arms would not even come close to breaking.

“Take Hammer to get some medical treatment!” One of the higher ranking soldiers barked out, waving two of the soldiers to take him. Turning around, he glared at the other soldiers surrounding Wang Chao and spoke, “This is a competition, and Hammer was the loser, just what are you doing surrounding the winner so hostilely for?”

As if noticing their bad actions, the five soldiers gave one final glare at Wang Chao before backing away.

“You’re an expert, let us fight against each other! If you win, then no matter the mission, I will obey your command!” The leading soldier spoke seriously as he got into a fighting stance, “I am called Sun Lei, but my comrades call me Boulder!”

“I am Wang Chao.” Wang Chao realized how straightforward this person was and made a relaxed posture in response.”

“What, are you unwilling to fight me?” Boulder’s eyes narrowed into angry slits.

Wang Chao shook his head and walked towards the steel plate before looking up at the measuring device on top of it.

The soldiers followed his movements, unsure of what he was planning to do.

Wang Chao readied himself as his muscles and bones began to shake slightly, causing a thunderous sound to rumble.

In an instant, his foot sent him flying forward with his fist suddenly smashing against the steel plate.

Buzz! Bzzzzz! As if a bell had chimed, the steel plate began to reverberate with sound. It’s ringing echo could be heard throughout the barracks and forced everyone to hear a ringing sound in their ears.

The measuring device began to rapidly calculate numbers before finally landing upon a four digit number.

The spring behind the steel plate began to expand and shrink rapidly as if trying to get loose.

There was a single impression from where Wang Chao’s fist had landed against the plate, and inside the impression were several damp spots from his sweat.

Boulder was the first to run up to inspect the steel plate only to realize that the impression had almost been like a seal had been stamped in it.

The steel plate was extremely strong, but under Wang Chao’s fist, it was like clay.

“My Hidden Jin cannot be controlled when I use it still. You are all soldiers born from the people’s army, I have no wish to use you.”

This one strike of Hidden Jin had been completely satisfactory to him. In his entire life, this had been the strongest strike he had ever accomplished. The Clear and Hidden Jin were of two separate levels. In a single strike, he had been able to leave an impression with ease.

Despite the impression being quite shallow, it was made within a steel plate. A result like this had made everyone feel that this was a freak incident.

These soldiers weren’t his enemy. But they were arrogant, which was as to be expected from human nature.

Although Cao Yi had said that there would be a risk for impairment or death, it was fine to injure or even kill the enemy. But still, Wang Chao had no wish to offend these soldiers.

“Cao Yi that fox. He had told me that I was to show them my superiority. But that clearly meant offending these soldiers so that in the future, it would be easy to control them. I definitely cannot share his mindset.”

Wang Chao was exceptionally smart and so he had immediately guessed Cao Yi’s intentions. Naturally, he wouldn’t go along with him recklessly.

“Did he manage to bribe someone in order to pull this off?” Wang Chao couldn’t help but think.

“You’re amazing!” Twenty soldiers suddenly surrounded the steel plate and looked up at the four digit numbers. Boulder pointed at the impression on the plating, “This is some strong martial arts, Hammer did not lose unfairly! You can hold back as well, I will remember this.”

“Good!’ General Zhou gave a pleased look to Wang Chao before announcing, “Stay at the guest rooms for the night and drink! We’ll celebrate your organization’s endeavor and its completion!”

“This is your certificate, safeguard it well. Wherever you go, you can use this proof to ask for assistance from the military.”

At night after the wine had been drunk, Cao Yi had Boulder and the others called forward to say a few words. Wang Chao had no idea what had been said as he was not called up with them.

After a while, Cao Yi returned with a blue passport and tossed it to him.

Opening it, Wang Chao could see the steel insignia of the Military Commision on it. There was no photograph nor name or registered birthplace. The only thing on there was a fingerprint identification and a codename.

“You are a secret member with me as your immediate superior and my charge. Off the records, you are currently undergoing development. In the future, if there’s anyone you think is suitable to join us, then send me an application. As long as the organization gives the go ahead, they may be able to join.”

Cao Yi was unnaturally serious.

“Off the book development? How is it that I feel this is something illegal.” Wang Chao thought, but he didn’t say anything out loud.

“Good, come with me.”

“To do what?”

“To make a vow!” Cao Yi spoke.