Mystery: Emerging From Knowledge Moor

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"So, this is the reason you interrupted my beauty sleep and brought me to this remote place for a private rendezvous?" Sia said in a languid and slightly seductive tone.

That afternoon, after Leyton obtained the guns and daggers from the captain, he sought out Sia, requesting her assistance in training him, hoping to quickly master the use of firearms and daggers, as well as simple combat skills.

"Um, Madam, this is just a training ground," Leyton couldn't help but retort.

"Now it's 'Madam'? Isn't this when you need something from me? And doesn't a training ground count as a remote place? Or do you prefer the wilderness, big boy?" Sia suddenly moved closer to Leyton's face as she spoke.

"Sister Sia, can you have some pity on me? That crazy clown in the hospital might just be trying to get up close and personal with me tonight. If something goes wrong, you won't see me tomorrow," Leyton said, knowing he was under someone else's roof and had no choice but to swallow his pride and feign helplessness.

"You're really skilled at this!" Sia was rendered speechless by Leyton's practiced act of admitting defeat and playing the victim.

Sia didn't mind too much; she actually found Leyton, like this, more amusing to tease than the others in the squad, whose book smarts left their emotional intelligence wanting.

"Alright, but combat skills can't be mastered with just a little practice. It requires real life-or-death experience. And since time is short, I can only teach you how to use firearms and daggers, and how to avoid vital spots on your body during a fight. This won't help you much; at most, it'll only delay your death by a few seconds. The abilities of a Marauder pathway Beyonder are too bizarre," Sia warned Leyton, lest this little guy think he was invincible after learning a few tricks and charge headfirst into a fight.

"I'm not that stupid. I've already personally experienced the weirdness of the Marauder pathway Beyonders. I just want to be able to struggle a bit more when facing them, so I don't go down too quickly," Leyton explained.

Sia stared at Leyton for a good while, confirming that he truly meant what he said, before speaking, "Your idea is really simple and unadorned! Alright, let's hurry up and seize the time. You have to feel it properly with your big sister!"

Sia, who couldn't be serious for more than a sentence, reverted to her true nature. Afterward, Sia personally demonstrated the techniques for using firearms and the process of loading and cocking them.

"A novice's shooting accuracy is definitely not guaranteed. I can only teach you some usage techniques. During a real battle, you can use Reasoning to assist yourself, which can greatly increase your shooting level. Of course, this is also greatly related to how much relevant knowledge you have and your physical fitness," Sia explained before letting Leyton go to the side to practice his shooting.

Sia herself went to the side, dragged over two chairs, sat down, and then took out a pile of strange materials from a personal black leather shoulder bag, placed them on the other chair, and began to concentrate on preparing potions.

Leyton only glanced at it once before ignoring it. In his mind, he recalled Sia's posture just now, holding the pistol with both hands, aiming at the pile of targets, and began to shoot.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Three consecutive gunshots rang out, all three shots missing the target.

Continue loading, cocking, and repeatedly practicing shooting.

It wasn't until Sia came over and called a halt that Leyton realized his hand was already aching.

"Ouch!"

"Boys need to be restrained! Not too many times a day, or your hand won't be able to take it!" Sia started driving without even trying.

"My accuracy is too poor. Only one out of every three or four shots hits the target," Leyton was not affected by Sia's driving skills at all. As a social networking expert of the 21st century, who isn't an experienced driver?

"Tsk, tsk! Your accuracy is indeed very poor. You need to practice more, or what will you do when you have a girlfriend in the future! But you can't be too anxious, or your body won't be able to handle it!" Sia's rhetoric was very skillful, managing to make a normal sentence sound suggestive.

Leyton stared at Sia speechlessly. Sia met his gaze with a loving look, which ended with Leyton unable to withstand it and averting his eyes.

"Is your potion ready?" Leyton awkwardly changed the subject.

"Tsk, tsk! Of course, it's just some ordinary healing potion. I can concoct it with my eyes closed," Sia said as she handed Leyton two bottles of potion.

"For me?" Leyton said in surprise.

"Rather than using firearms and combat skills, taking medicine is more suitable for a newbie like you! The effects of these two bottles of potion aren't too strong, but as long as you're not dead, they can help you catch your breath and let you live a few more minutes. Both external application and internal consumption are fine," Sia said casually before explaining how to use the two healing potions.

"Thank you!" Leyton took the potions from Sia and bowed sincerely to express his gratitude.

This was Sia's personal assistance. As someone who had only met a few times and been teammates for less than two days, this was a very heavy gift. Although Sia said it casually, the fact that it could keep him alive even if he wasn't dead indicated that these two bottles of potion were not as simple as Sia said.

"Don't rush to thank me yet. We should proceed to the next step of instruction: how to use a dagger and avoid vital spots on your body. I won't hold back!" Sia smiled flamboyantly.

Leyton had a bad premonition: "Sister Sia, you're not going to spar with me personally, are you?"

"Of course not."

Sia denied the statement.

"Phew!" Leyton breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could speak, Sia continued.

"You're just unilaterally dodging my attacks. You don't actually think you have the ability to fight back, do you?" Sia's voice was full of teasing.

Leyton swallowed hard, feeling like he might have to crawl out of the training ground today.

Sia didn't give Leyton a chance to back out. After dragging Leyton onto the field, she kicked him to the ground without a word.

"Hiss~ Ah! What's with the sneak attack?!" Leyton said indignantly.

"Do you think enemies will agree to a countdown before attacking?" Sia retorted, then drew a dagger from her waist and stabbed it towards Leyton's heart.

Sia's decisiveness made Leyton's scalp tingle. Without time to think, he rolled his body to avoid the stab.

"Not bad, your reaction is quite quick. Keep up the effort and try to let big sister have her fun." Sia said, holding the dagger and walking towards Leyton with extreme elegance.

"You let it slip! You're just doing this for fun!" Leyton shouted in exasperation.

The gratitude he felt earlier vanished at that moment. Sia ignored Leyton's shouts, approaching him step by step. With each step Sia took forward, Leyton took a step back.

The pressure Sia brought to Leyton now was greater than ever before. If the Joker from last night brought Leyton a fear and eeriness that seeped into his bones, then Sia was now displaying a chillingly calm and inescapable bloodlust. At this moment, Leyton truly understood the kind of presence Sia had when she slaughtered an entire pirate crew.

There was no avoiding, no escaping. In a flash of cold light, Leyton didn't have time to dodge. A chill ran down his arm, followed by a spreading tingling.

Leyton felt a blur before his eyes. Sia had already appeared in front of him, kicking him to the ground, causing his body to roll continuously. Dazed, Leyton hurriedly steadied himself, preventing himself from rolling all the way to the wall. Before he could get up from the ground, a dagger flashed with cold light and stuck into the ground about an inch in front of Leyton's neck.

At this moment, Leyton's mind was still muddled. Although he knew that the gap between himself and Sia was huge, it was too much. Moreover, Sia, as a Beyonder of the Reader pathway, looked more like an Assassin or Hunter.

"What a delicate and easily pushed-over boy!" Sia put away the dagger she had stuck into the ground and returned to her usual lazy, seductive, and quick-to-drive manner.

"Hiss~ Big sister Sia, you're too ruthless. I feel like you almost broke my ribs." Leyton flipped over and lay on the ground like a salted fish without dreams.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I know roughly how much of an attack you can withstand, and I avoided the vital points. You should understand something now, right?" Sia said, flipping her hair.

"Understand what?" Leyton asked, puzzled.

"Of course, it's that boys can't be so weak and easily pushed over when they're out and about, or they'll be taken advantage of by bad women!" Sia leaned over and said, getting close to Leyton.

Her crimson hair fell onto Leyton's face, and a faint scent of evening primrose lingered at the tip of Leyton's nose.

"Ah! I was listening so intently, and that's what you say!" Leyton was speechless.

"Am I not being serious?" Sia said, pulling Leyton up from the ground.

"Ah! Ah! Hiss~ Ouch!" Leyton's body was forcibly pulled up from the ground, and he couldn't help but grit his teeth as the wounds on his body were pulled.

"You'll get used to it. When enemies attack you in the future, you'll be able to endure the pain to counterattack and escape." Sia even pinched the wound on his arm where the dagger had cut, causing Leyton to grit his teeth again.

Sia didn't care about Leyton's protests and continued to torment other injured areas on Leyton's body. Leyton's eyes were almost watering from the pain before Sia finally stopped. Taking a step back, Sia's eyes flashed with a blue-white light. Before Leyton could figure out what was going on, he saw green spots of light floating from Sia's hand, pushed towards Leyton as if they were tangible. These fluorescent lights slowly merged into Leyton's body.

It was as if he had returned to his mother's embrace. A warm, reassuring feeling permeated Leyton's entire body, and he subconsciously closed his eyes. Before long, Leyton discovered that the pain in his body had dissipated, and the stinging sensation in his left arm had also disappeared.

After Leyton opened his eyes, he first looked at the wound on his arm. As expected, the original wound had healed, leaving only some blood stains and torn clothes, proving that he had been injured here just now.

"So magical!" Leyton couldn't help but exclaim.

"I learned this healing ability from a Harvest Priestess from the Church of the Earth Mother. Now that the injuries on your body have healed, let's start the next round of practice." Sia revealed a clear, devilish smile.

"Ah?" Leyton wanted to say something, but suddenly stopped and quickly retreated.

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