97 A New Round of Self-Torture (1/2)

The gravity installation within the research laboratory was originally used for testing Battle Mechas in a way such that their appearances would not change under the influence of gravity. Currently, Fatty was using it to train his control and hand speed. Most likely, in the entire Federation, it was only he alone who did this. Others might have thought of doing it, but they did not have such good conditions to casually train using the gravity installation.

During the mission when he was saving Russell, the battle with [King Kong] had let Fatty truly understand the inherent meaning behind Battle Mecha combat. Thus, after his hand speed reached a bottleneck, other than employing various despicable means during those battles, the real training was the repetitive use of basic instruction combinations as the main form of combat technique.

From Fatty’s perspective, despicable was his innate temperament and did not need to be trained at all, even from the start. It was just that he did not know how Milan would react after that life-changing arm was installed in that location on [Logic]—would it cause her to lose all colors from her face and instantly faint, or would she sweep a rifle on him till he died?

Since he wanted to merge his human body fighting training into his Battle Mecha combat techniques, Fatty had started reading the ancient Earth’s information on various schools of combat techniques.

These techniques that had survived and passed down were too few. After Milan helped him search for half a day, she had only found a set of research information regarding the ancient Earth military experiment done on human training from an ancient computer in Professor Boswell’s lab.

Seeing this information, Fatty felt as if he found a treasure. Hugging Milan and giving her a fierce kiss, he pouted out those lips of his, squirming them just like the nose of an elephant, but unknown whether it had been the sniffing or the kissing of that delicate face of Milan', Milan had reacted almost instantaneously with a kick and a beating in order to fend off against that demonic kiss of Fatty. In the end, she ran out while blushing.

It’s not surprising that Fatty was so excited. This set of information was research data obtained from the humans living on ancient Earth and dated back before the Federation had even been founded. Included in the information were grappling techniques, wrestling techniques, Hard Qigong, as well as other schools of martial arts that Fatty had not even seen or heard of before.

This information should have been slowly faded out as the human race had entered the era of Outer Space Age, in which there was a period of more than a thousand years where humans had no infantries at all. Concerning the matter of close combat, during that era, it was most likely treated as a joke. The extravagant humans had thrown in all their resources for war, and the majority of their battling techniques were of long-ranged attacks and happened in the skies.

Other than the transformation of battling techniques, the gradual loss of wrestling techniques were largely a result during the period between the Earth Age and the Outer Space Age. During the migration of the human race, many schools and clans had spread out, with the migration of the population heading out into space towards the vast cosmos. Without any form of interaction in addition to the pressure of survival, many schools of combat techniques were gradually lost.

Those that had barely been passed down to this era were merely some flowery techniques.

And there was another important reason, which was also the most important one for all these losses—racial discrimination. The difference in status between the upper class and lower class created a gulf in communication.

Thus, during that thousand years of period where wars had been waged mainly in outer space, the military wrestling techniques were completely given up. Those schools amidst the population had all been disbanded and died out in the end.

Thereafter, during the appearances of Battle Mechas and when tyrannical fighter aircrafts which could wrestle control over the surface battle, the way wars were fought once again returned to that of the past. Through the cooperation between the fully-mechanized infantries and the Battle Mecha troops, that eventually became the final foundation of determining the entire victory or defeat for surface battles. Even though it was still important for one to obtain an advantage in the battle of the skies, it could not be the sole factor of conquering everything under the heavens.

As for combat and training of soldiers, they were gradually becoming emphasized in the various armies of different nations. However, due to the abandonment of such training techniques for more than a thousand years, when they started piecing them together, there would certainly be changes. After many years of perfecting these techniques, the current military wrestling techniques were largely different from that of the ancient Earth Age; the current wrestling techniques were more direct and completely depended on strength and speed.

If one was to truly compare them, then the soldiers of ancient Earth would certainly not defeat the soldiers of today, and the reason for that was because of the great difference in technological standards. The soldiers of today could employ the use of specialized training rooms to begin a very targeted training, and when they were injured, they could also recover in the treatment cabin. After over-drafting their physique during training, all they needed to do was have a night’s sleep on a physiotherapy bed and their vitality would be fully recovered the next day. The soldiers of ancient Earth would not have such treatments, thus other than being talented, the current soldiers would hold an absolute advantage in terms of speed and strength.

But this did not mean that the wealth of combat techniques during the ancient Earth Age was useless! On the contrary, in the eyes of Fatty, these were treasures that money could not buy!