A Single Person's Infinite Wonderful Life

It took Shinobu Houki herself almost a year to master the lightweight shojin, and Li Wei was using a heavy shojin. This thing is very heavy and the center of gravity is not easy to control. If you can handle this thing, you can easily handle the weight of most swords.

To put four kilograms into perspective, the weight of a typical German two-handed greatsword in actual combat is mostly under three kilograms, and the weight of a Japanese horse-slaying sword is roughly the same, with slight variations. Someone capable of wielding a four-kilogram club possesses the strength to handle not only two-handed greatswords, but also spiked clubs and flails.

Li Wei said, "It's a little too light, it feels too floaty when I swing it. I remember that the Yagyu Shinkage-ryu school has techniques for using a nodachi, right?"

Li Wei loves swords, and among all the swords in Japan, his favorite is the nodachi. This kind of large sword is something that ordinary people can't handle at all, but those who can handle the nodachi are all masters.

Sephiroth from Final Fantasy and the Sword Saint from the Samurai faction in For Honor are both users of the nodachi. If you play it well, both the basic moves and the ultimate techniques are very flashy.

Shinonono Houki said, "Junior brother, do you want to learn the nodachi? The dojo does have a lineage in this area, but Father is limited by his height and reach, so he is not very proficient in the nodachi."

Li Wei said, "Hou, please just call me Li Wei-kun. Calling me 'Junior Brother' feels a bit strange. I really do want to learn how to use the nodachi; it's a personal obsession of mine."

Shinonono Houki hesitated for a moment and said, "Li... Li Wei-kun, with your height, reach, and strength, it shouldn't be too difficult for you to control a nodachi. However, the dojo can only provide you with limited guidance in this regard. At most, it can only provide you with a place to practice. Historically, very few people have been able to wield a nodachi. Most of the time, it is a ceremonial sword, more for show than for practicality."

Li Wei simply smiled. With his height and wingspan, he could easily handle even the "ruler sword" of the nodachi. As for the nodachi, he was just learning to play around with it; it was purely for showing off, like instantly picking Yasuo in League of Legends—just for fun.

Li Wei laughed and said, "As for the nodachi, I'd say it's a side project. My main focus is on learning the standard Yagyu Shinkage-ryu style. As for the nodachi, I'll learn it if I can, and if I can't, then so be it."

Shinonono Houki said, "Is that so? It's good not to force yourself. I just looked at your stance, Li Weijun. Because of your other martial arts, your stance is mainly stable. This kind of stance is suitable for a balance of strength and power. It is quite different from the stance of Yagyu Shinkage-ryu. The stance of Yagyu Shinkage-ryu is more relaxed and more suitable for movement. After all, the Japanese swordsmanship is limited by the characteristics of the weapon itself and is not suitable for pure frontal attacks. It is easy to damage the sword. Therefore, it is very important to use footwork to find the enemy's weakness."

Shinonono Houki observed Li Wei's performance and pointed out what she thought were the problems.

Li Wei's fighting style was all a facade; he was just using it as an excuse to stay at the kendo dojo so he could win over the girl in front of him. His somewhat clumsy fighting style was his disguise.

Li Wei said, "I learned various martial arts out of interest. I used to fight BOTN, which is the kind of fight where people wear dozens of kilograms of armor and fight each other. So my fighting style is more about steady and solid. But I felt the limitations of this fighting style. I want to change myself and become more flexible."

Of course, this is just Li Wei talking nonsense. If you really want to be flexible, isn't the Wudang Gua Dao (a type of martial arts sword) better? Why bother coming here to learn the Yagyu Shinkage-ryu (another style of martial arts)? But some things always need to be justified.

Shinobu Houki nodded. She knew a little about BOTN. It was a special sport in Europe, a rare stage for traditional martial arts to showcase themselves in modern times, where one could openly use cold weapons without breaking the law.

However, Japanese kendo isn't suited to head-on confrontations, so none of the teams participating in BOTN are Japanese. This is a regret for the Japanese, but traditional Japanese martial artists know the limitations of their skills and don't intend to join the fray. BOTN is essentially a head-on brawl between heavily armored fighters, and neither Japanese katana nor traditional samurai armor is suitable for such small-scale battles unless the arena is expanded three to four times and a scoring system is added. After all, the armor-piercing ability of the katana is too weak against heavy armor.

In her view, Li Wei's ability to play BOTN, even at an amateur level, is something that ordinary people cannot match, which means that Li Wei has at least physically surpassed ordinary people.

After Li Wei showed off his skills, the girls in the kendo club were very curious about him. However, under the supervision of Shinonono Houki, they all obediently practiced the gorgeous sword style. But their eyes would occasionally glance at Li Wei, because Li Wei, when he was truly practicing Sujin, had a unique charm.

Chapter 1. Each Has Its Advantages and Disadvantages

Li Wei didn't train for long before saying goodbye to Shinonono Houki and leaving the kendo dojo.

After all, he had already achieved his initial goal. After making a good impression on Shinonono Houki, he decisively left the kendo dojo.

The other girls in the kendo club practiced at the kendo dojo until around 1 p.m. Now they would stay on the training field for a while. After Li Wei left, they immediately stopped training, gathered together, and started chattering.

"Wow, that Chinese guy named Li Wei was so handsome! He's like a real-life Prince Charming!"

"No! He's a handsome black knight! He's not some vulgar prince charming!"

The girls started arguing because of Li Wei.

Houki Shinobu said, "Alright, all of you stop arguing. We'll see each other plenty of times in the future, won't we? Look how excited you all are. Why didn't you dare say anything when they were here?"

"She's a girl, how could she possibly say such embarrassing things on her own initiative!"

"That's right, that's right! The minister is actually siding with him!"

The girls loved to tease her. Houki was usually quite strict with them, which earned her the nickname "Devil Minister." Now that they had a chance to make fun of Houki, they naturally wouldn't let it pass.

Shinobu Houki felt somewhat helpless. Li Wei was a student at the dojo, and for a considerable period of time to come, they would see each other all the time. She also felt it would be troublesome if any bad news were to spread.

Looking at the jeering crowd, Shinonono Houki said helplessly, "You guys who are always stirring up trouble, if you like Li Weijun, then go for it yourself. I really want to practice kendo, I haven't thought about anything else."

"Really? Minister? Don't cry when we snatch Li Weijun away!"

Shinonono Houki was already used to the teasing from her club members. People have a quirky sense of humor. Because she was usually quite serious, the members of the kendo club all wanted to see her "break down." However, as the daughter of a professional swordsman, her mentality was much stronger than that of ordinary people her age. So, she was hardly affected by the teasing.

However, she did imagine what her future partner would be like. The world had become a mess because of her sister, and she could sense the growing divide between men and women. The rivalry between male and female students at school was quite sharp. She didn't expect to meet a man like her father, but she also didn't want her future partner to be a coward or someone who was hostile to women.

Li Wei was an excessively handsome man, but she was well aware that the more handsome a man was, the more dangerous he was. Therefore, when she was not familiar with Li Wei, she would consciously keep her distance from him to avoid any embarrassing misunderstandings.

Xiao Zhizhi Hou said, "You brats, if you want to go, go by yourselves. Don't hold me back. I'm a Xin Jian Dao practitioner, and I'm going to fight the Jade Dragon Flag from a high place."

Because of her older sister, Shinonono Tsukasa, their family is currently under surveillance, which is very troublesome and prevents them from doing most of their work. Although the Japanese government provides them with a certain amount of subsidies, the family's basic needs, such as food, drink, and shelter, still require money, and the government's meager subsidies are simply not enough to cover their expenses.

Therefore, she will most likely follow in her father's footsteps and become a kendo coach after graduating from high school.

Shinonono Houki is self-aware. She is not a genius like her sister; she is just an ordinary person with average talent. Therefore, an ordinary person should have the awareness of an ordinary person and not think about nonsense all day long. Fantasy cannot put food on the table.

She should just graduate high school honestly. If she can get into university, that would be best. If not, she can just graduate and go home to inherit the kendo dojo. In order to make the kendo dojo famous, she must participate in the Jade Dragon Flag competition during her high school years, and she must achieve good results. This is a good opportunity to promote her family's kendo dojo, and she will not miss such an opportunity.

Unlike these young girls who showed no sense of crisis, Shinobu Houki had already planned her future path. She did not intend to deal with her romantic relationships until her life was stable, because if her life was not stable, she had no right to talk about romantic relationships.

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After returning to his apartment, Li Wei began to refine his Hundred Armor Crystal Armor Gender Lock. In fact, the Hundred Armor Crystal is more suitable for creating gender locks than a purely mechanical creation like the IS. Moreover, the power of the Hundred Armor Crystal is quite subjective. As long as the belief is strong enough, it can truly reach the level of "output relying on shouting". Furthermore, with enough belief, the crystal armor can be armored, with multiple layers of shields, and even made gigantic.

However, the Crystal Armed Forces are not perfect either. At least in the next few years, IS will see a leap forward, and there will be something like the "pseudo-perpetual motion machine" that the Crystal Armed Forces cannot match. But for now, the endurance of both sides is about the same.

The problem with crystal weapons is that once the user experiences significant negative mental fluctuations or becomes fatigued, the weapon's performance declines irreversibly. Therefore, users of crystal weapons are a classic case of the crystals being able to withstand the strain, but the person cannot. IS, on the other hand, doesn't have this problem. With its auxiliary AI and puppet-like amplification system, even if the pilot is extremely fatigued, their combat effectiveness won't experience a significant drop.

However, both sides have their advantages and disadvantages. IS is stable, while Crystal Armament has the possibility of "bursting". When the user of Crystal Armament is in a state of extreme anger or excitement, the performance of Crystal Armament itself will increase significantly, just like the OO series Gundam in the state of triple red. However, after the buff expires, the state will drop a bit quickly.

However, considering that crystal weapons are issued to male soldiers, and that armies are generally organized for combat, even if a unit experiences a decline in performance, friendly forces can provide support to ensure its safe return. Therefore, the mental strain caused by crystal weapons is acceptable.

After spending several hours, Li Wei finally managed to add the gender lock, but he encountered another problem: how to mass-produce Hundred Armor Crystals. This world doesn't have alien invaders like the "Barbarians," so the availability of the crystals is also a problem. If this problem isn't solved, Hundred Armor Crystals will be even rarer than IS, only available to a few people, which would diminish their significance.

Chapter 1. The Doppelganger in Action

The space inside the apartment was not large enough to fully utilize his abilities, so Li Wei modified the Hundred Armor Crystal in his own sea of ​​consciousness. As his strength increased, Li Wei discovered that his sea of ​​consciousness was gradually evolving into a "small world" in terms of scale and laws. Its internal rules were already close to those of the external world. In other words, in scientific terms, a "cosmological constant" similar to the external environment had appeared within his sea of ​​consciousness.

Over the next few days, Li Wei's life was quite fulfilling. During the day, he would stay in his apartment in the morning, using the time difference in his sea of ​​consciousness to study the mass production technology of the Hundred Armor Crystal. When he got tired of studying, he would run out to catch his breath, and then in the afternoon, he would go to the kendo dojo to make his presence felt.

Over the course of a few days, Li Wei had become quite familiar with the people at the kendo dojo. The entire dojo, including Li Wei, only had a handful of formal students. Furthermore, since everyone's training times were staggered, Li Wei had never seen all the disciples practicing together.

It took Li Wei about half a month outside and more than two months inside his sea of ​​consciousness to finally overcome the problem of mass production of the Hundred Armor Crystals, and find a technology that could be used to mass-produce them using the existing technology of this world.

Li Wei himself doesn't have a personality that enjoys scientific research. After all, scientific research is quite a tedious thing. Compared to doing experiments, he prefers artistic activities such as painting and sculpture.

But some things, even if they are boring and tedious, must be done. These are things that ordinary people cannot do, so he has to do them himself.

After resolving the mass production issue of the Hundred Armor Crystal, Li Wei found an ordinary researcher in Chongguo who had committed suicide due to frustration and setbacks, and replaced him with this persona as his own.

From the very beginning, even when creating a false identity, there will always be flaws. Li Wei dared not underestimate the intelligence capabilities of the country, so he chose to replace the person with a local person. As long as he played the role well, there would be no problems.

Using his identity as a researcher, Li Wei organized a lottery in China, providing the researcher with legal start-up capital. Then, using this identity, he inadvertently produced the Hundred Armed Crystal.

The researcher's alter ego had resigned from the national research institution before committing suicide, but although he had left the official research institution, he still maintained a great deal of contact with it, such as the contact information of various key figures, which the researcher's alter ego had no shortage of.

After going through a series of strict procedures, the researcher handed over his research results, the Hundred Armed Crystal, to the research institution's superior unit, and in a very short time, it attracted the attention of the military.

Because of his research findings, the researcher's clone was taken to a secret base located deep in the mountains. As a result of his research achievements, he was directly awarded the rank of colonel, and a large sum of money was allocated to him to improve his creation.

The Hundred Armor Crystals submitted by the researcher's clone were deliberately flawed products with various problems, such as putting too much mental pressure on the user, easily causing the user to feel fatigued, and having issues with endurance and defense.

This was done intentionally by Li Wei. After all, the researcher's previous frustration stemmed from his limited research talent. The original owner of this identity was not a genius like Shinonono Tsukasa. In fact, most unknown researchers were like the original owner of this identity, purely intellectual laborers.

Because they are not geniuses, it is easy for people to doubt them if they present a finished product in a casual manner. This kind of "stumbling" half-finished product is more acceptable.

The biggest advantage of the semi-finished Hundred Armor Crystal compared to the IS is its lower cost.

The current mainstream third-generation IS fighter jets in the world cost around one billion RMB per unit, roughly equivalent to the cost of a Taiwanese J-10 fighter jet. However, the J-10 fighter jet in this world is truly pitiful. Just when the technology matured and mass production began, the White Knight incident occurred, and instantly, this top-generation fighter jet, the culmination of high technology, was swept into the dustbin of history and became an obsolete weapon.

The cost of a semi-finished Hundred Armor Crystal is approximately 20 million RMB. Compared to IS armor, it's not just a bargain price; it's like a cheap radish that farmers don't want, which you can just load onto a truck for a little money.

Twenty million RMB is a huge sum of money that many people could never earn in their lifetime, but for a behemoth like a country, it's really nothing.

Moreover, even a fool could do the math: the cost of the third-generation IS "Jialong" could produce seventy 100-piece weapon crystals. Even with these flawed, semi-finished weapon crystals, just a few of them would be enough to take down a third-generation IS Jialong. This matter has attracted the attention of higher authorities.

While Li Wei's main body was enjoying his daily interactions with the beautiful girl, his researcher clone had become the darling of the Chong Kingdom, his military rank promoted from colonel to senior colonel, and he was showered with benefits, even being assigned a wife. However, Li Wei's main body, controlling his clone, refused this arrangement. After all, he would eventually leave this world, and accepting such a thing would be like cheating the girl who was being arranged for him. Although he, Li Wei, wasn't a saint, he didn't like to cheat girls like this, especially since the girl introduced to him in this situation was a good girl, and he was even more unwilling to take advantage of her.

Currently, the researcher's clone is gradually improving the performance of the Hundred Armor Crystal, like squeezing toothpaste, while also repairing the defects that were deliberately left behind. In at most six months, the researcher's clone will produce a mature and perfect Hundred Armor Crystal. Although the cost will increase to some extent, it is worth it.

In just over half a month, the researcher's clone had become an important cornerstone for the revival of Chongguo. All information about the researcher's clone was blocked and kept secret. From then on, there was no longer any person in the world whose original identity the researcher's clone was.

Now, the power of extreme feminists is growing, and if they were to learn of the existence of the researcher's clone, they would inevitably launch a series of conspiracies and schemes to eliminate it.

Aside from Li Wei himself, no one knows that the seemingly frail researcher clone is actually incredibly powerful and completely immune to assassination attempts. For security reasons, the higher-ups have completely sealed off the existence of the researcher clone to ensure its safety. Although Li Wei considers this unnecessary, it demonstrates the importance the higher-ups place on the researcher clone.

Chapter 1. The World Is Changing

Li Wei could understand why the researchers would keep their identities secret, because the extreme feminists in this world were extremely fanatical. They were already clamoring to kill all men, and aborting male fetuses was a routine operation for them. They were, in short, mentally unstable lunatics.

Now, extreme feminists have ISIS, a super weapon. Although it is unknown how these people obtained ISIS, they do possess ISIS, even if it is just a collection of replacement units.

However, the White Knight incident left an indelible psychological shadow on many people. When a supercomputer goes into overdrive, it can destroy a country single-handedly. Therefore, many major powers are hesitant to act against these extreme feminists and can only turn a blind eye and pretend not to see them.

These terrorists, who act without any moral bottom line, can be described as a cancer on human society as a whole, and also as a driving force behind the growing arrogance of women.

Many women now believe that the world is so peaceful because only women can control ISIS, so they feel a sense of pride deep down and think that men are now subservient to women and should be treated like slaves.

Originally, such extreme ideas were only held by a small group of extreme women, but as time went on, more and more women held such extreme ideas, which even affected the entire human society.

For example, in the workplace, some relatively high-end industries are monopolized by women, making it very difficult for men to enter these high-end industries. Some high-end majors in universities no longer even admit male students, cutting off the possibility for men to climb the social ladder at the root.

In modern human society, men do all sorts of dirty and tiring work, while women do respectable and high-paying jobs. There are instances of men protesting, but those who dare to speak out are "dealt with" by extreme feminist organizations. This stark reality makes men afraid to speak out easily, and the conflict between men and women is becoming increasingly acute. This is a factual reality in all countries.

Such an event inevitably affected Chongguo. Although the conflict was prevented from escalating due to the efforts of the authorities, and the internal social environment and atmosphere were relatively good compared to other countries, such control has its limits. In a few years, the situation will completely spiral out of control, and the country will become no different from other countries, turning the entire world into a hell for men.

And by then, it will truly be a case of "I'm sorry to have been born a man."

Therefore, the appearance of the researcher clone is a godsend for the bigwigs above. It is understandable that the researcher clone would be protected so secretly. After all, in the eyes of the bigwigs above, the researcher clone is now the guide for men to reclaim their lives and dignity from a hopeless future, and absolutely nothing can go wrong with it.

The existence of such a peculiar entity as Crystal Armed Forces is naturally difficult to keep absolutely secret. Therefore, the bigwigs at the top discussed and came up with a statement for the outside world: that it is a fourth-generation special IS unique to the Chong Kingdom.

In order to disguise the crystal weapon as IS, the researcher's clone also received a request: to make the standard version of the crystal weapon's deployment mode more feminine, while ensuring complete coverage of the pilot's body to ensure that the pilot's identity would not be exposed.

Meanwhile, the military also secretly convened a batch of pilots and tank crews for relevant training. Although the current crystal weapons still have various problems, the production department has obtained the blueprints and crystal formulas and has begun small-batch production of a hundred crystal weapons, preparing to produce a hundred as initial training aircraft.