Volume 2 Chapter 31: Combat Model

Although Qin Lun was sent flying by the Troll’s slap, he had already grabbed hold of a section of the Troll’s small intestine that slid out from its abdomen. As the doctor tumbled and flew several meters away, he pulled out all of the Troll’s intestines from the abdominal wound, causing almost all of its internal organs to slip out of its body.

As a strange Evil Creature, the Troll possessed strong natural recovery abilities. However, with such severe injuries, death was only a matter of time.

“Roar!” The Troll roared in agony towards the sky, grabbing the intestines outside its body with both hands, actually trying to snatch its internal organs back from Qin Lun.

Qin Lun, who had woken from his hypnotic state, gave a slight cold smile and issued another command to the big black bear BEN behind the Troll. The black bear immediately bit down hard on the Troll’s neck and greedily began drinking the Troll’s blood.

“Roar!” Finally feeling the shadow of death enveloping it, the Troll went into a mad frenzy. It stopped caring about the internal organs that had been pulled far out, twisted its body around, and its two large hands tightly gripped the black bear BEN’s claws, then violently tore them apart.

“Roar!” This time, the roar of pain came from the black bear. One of its front legs was torn off completely from the shoulder, and its other front paw was twisted and broken. In an instant, it suffered heavy injuries at the hands of the enraged Troll.

However, the big black bear BEN, being a summoned creature, did not have the emotion of fearing death. Instead, the pain provoked its wild, beastly nature, and it bit down hard again on the Troll’s neck. The two giant beasts rolled into a ball on the ground and soon fell still, having destroyed each other.

“Apostle 70053, your summoned creature has died. Its spirit has returned to the Summoning Space. Current remaining Stamina/Energy Points: 35. You can consume Soul Power Crystals and Fragment Crystals to revive it. The cooldown time for re-summoning is three natural days.”

A cold light flashed in Qin Lun’s eyes. That combat method was useful!

For a long time, Qin Lun’s safety had relied on Joey. But these two different personalities did not share control of the body; it was more like a shareholding system.

Qin Lun currently held the majority of the shares, while Joey had far fewer. In the later years at Handan Prison, because the prison placed him in solitary confinement, Qin Lun was no longer in life-threatening danger, and Joey’s appearances had become fewer and fewer.

However, after Qin Lun entered the Shattered Starry Sky, he noticed that Joey was becoming active again, appearing more and more easily, and even starting to fight with him for control of the body at times.

Qin Lun felt a deep sense of crisis. He and Joey shared the same life and body. Although when Joey appeared, Qin Lun could still sense the outside situation, after completely handing over the body to Joey, he didn’t know if he would still exist.

He couldn’t leave all the fighting to Joey! Qin Lun quickly realized this within the Shattered Starry Sky.

Qin Lun did not have Joey’s cold, merciless cruelty, but he was more rational than Joey and better at using this body’s own mind and knowledge. He used the Death Notice, which was originally a simple computer, to create a Combat Model.

After the Death Notice became special equipment, although it lost the specific functions of a computer, it still retained some computer characteristics. The Death Notice’s data-ization of the Law Body gave Qin Lun an inspiration.

Through various tests, he recorded his various physical attributes with data. Then he input all the external visual physical data, such as wind force, terrain, enemy strength, speed, agility, etc., into the Death Notice, turning it into a database.

Based on this database, Qin Lun established a Combat Model within the Death Notice.

The Combat Model was divided into three main parts. The first part was combat prediction. Qin Lun, through battlefield observation, would predict in advance what combat actions the enemy would take under certain circumstances.

Once the prediction was successful, the Combat Model automatically entered the second part: combat calculation. Combat calculation, based on the database, derived the best combat plan. After obtaining the plan, the Combat Model entered the final part and began directing the body to fight automatically.

This kind of Combat Model was actually not an unprecedented physical behavior; many intelligent robots operate based on this principle. However, to replicate this Combat Model onto a human, three conditions that normal people cannot achieve must be met.

The first condition was data-ization. Here, Qin Lun perfectly combined the Death Notice and the human brain, creating a data calculation mode that relied entirely on his own observation and judgment, with considerable margin for error.

The second condition was master-level psychological analysis. Predicting enemy actions heavily relied on psychological analysis. If the prediction was wrong, the Combat Model could not proceed.

The third condition was self-hypnosis unaffected by any psychological emotions, injuries, or pain.

If the first two basic conditions—the special equipment for data-ification and being a psychology master—were not too difficult to meet, then ensuring the hypnotic state remained unaffected by any external influences was something even a psychology master could not achieve.

Only two types of people could remain completely unaffected by external influences during self-hypnosis: one was a genius with unwavering determination towards their goal, abandoning all external matters; the other was a madman constantly immersed in illusions.

Qin Lun was not a unique genius, but he was a madman who had experienced countless absurd illusions, so he met the condition!

Of course, Qin Lun’s Combat Model had significant limitations. Before combat began, a lot of time was needed to observe the enemy. One Combat Model could only correspond to one enemy. Moreover, the combat prediction had to be very accurate; otherwise, he would immediately snap out of the self-hypnosis and could not enter the second stage of the Combat Model.

It could be said that Qin Lun’s ability to kill two Evil Creatures in a row was related to their low intelligence. Against highly intelligent beings, it would be very difficult to predict their behavior in complex combat. Even if the prediction was successful, once the body was damaged to a certain extent, combat actions could no longer continue, and the Combat Model would become useless.

However, no matter what, Qin Lun now possessed a combat method other than Joey’s. Looking at the corpses of the two giant beasts, he threw away the greasy Troll intestines in his hand, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

Seeing the combat situation begin to reverse, Bonnie felt greatly relieved. Qin Lun’s performance was somewhat unexpected. However, compared to when Qin Lun killed the first Harpy, the death of the second Evil Creature, the Troll, did not surprise him much.

After all, the Troll was already severely injured from its fight with the Werewolf, and its body was not very agile. Any other Demon Hunter, with the black bear BEN’s support, could have killed it. It was equivalent to the Demon Hunter side trading the Werewolf and the black bear BEN for one.

As for the Witch Maiar, who had lost two Evil Creatures in a row, she did not freeze up this time either. She just raised her assessment of Qin Lun by another level, no longer seeing him as the Demon Hunter’s burden.

Compared to their calmness, there was one person in the clearing who widened his eyes, looking at all this in disbelief.

Is this… Young Master Wellington?!

Watching Qin Lun charge towards the witch, the Hunchbacked Servant felt an overwhelming sense of unfamiliarity rise in his heart. He had felt this unfamiliarity once before on a certain night at Albert Castle. It was the night when Young Master Wellington stabbed his shoulder with a dagger, killing the Gargoyle.

The Hunchbacked Servant was not good at communicating with people, but he had grown up with Wellington Stan since childhood. He knew his young master far too well. Wellington Stan absolutely did not have this kind of courage and decisiveness. He was just a young man who aspired to become a doctor, inherit the family business, and was a bit concerned about face.

The unfamiliar feeling Frank had felt before was very brief and quickly faded away under Qin Lun’s deliberate care. But now, this feeling of unfamiliarity expanded countless times and surfaced in the Hunchbacked Servant’s heart, making him suddenly feel lost.

Deep in the Hunchbacked Servant’s heart, a devilish voice whispered to him, almost driving him mad.

“Your master is already dead. That person is absolutely not your Young Master Wellington!”

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The Witch Maiar had noticed Qin Lun’s approach from the corner of her eye. She felt intense hatred. Originally, the Demon Hunter swordsman in front of her, despite having excellent swordsmanship, was slowly being pushed to the brink due to his massive stamina consumption from dodging magic.

But now, with another person added, the space she could move in was greatly compressed, and she fell into a difficult situation again.

Thinking of this, the Witch Maiar felt helpless. If the Demon Hunter hadn’t cast a gravity spell on her, she could simply fly into the woods to escape. Now, jumping around, the forest with its many obstacles was actually less safe than the clearing.

She had to kill one person! Otherwise, once she got entangled, she didn’t have a spare Heart Core! The witch’s face, covered with white scales and cracks, twitched slightly. She flipped her right hand, and a small short tube engraved with dark red runes appeared in her palm.

His physical fitness didn’t seem very good. Compared to that swordsman, he was completely an ordinary person!

The Witch Maiar jumped violently, again increasing the distance from Bonnie. While in the air, she shook the small short tube, and a dark red fireball shot rapidly towards Qin Lun.

“Be careful!” Bonnie was shocked. He really hadn’t expected the witch to give up on him and use a magic item to attack Qin Lun. He knew the doctor’s physical condition well; he probably wouldn’t be able to dodge the witch’s fireball in time.

“Combat Model established. Lacking fireball information. Model may have significant errors… Lacking hypnosis time. Cannot enter Combat Model…”

“Damn it!” The reflection of the fireball grew larger in his pupils. Qin Lun had no choice but to raise his arms to block in front of his face. He pushed off hard with his feet, leaping sideways, hoping only to reduce the area of injury.

“Boom!” The huge flames swallowed Qin Lun like a monster.

“Kekeeke!” The witch let out a strange laugh. She knew the power of the fireball best; it was definitely no worse than a bomb. Except for the “Undying One,” even the most powerful Demon Hunter hit by one would certainly die!