“But remember, if you are facing against iron puppets or Heavy Armor units while you yourself aren't equipped with armors - do not retreat. These units have a Ziliujin-powered mechanism at their feet, they will catch up to you the moment you step back. As you do so, both your mind and your body's focus point will fall backwards, and it will become difficult to regain strength in a short amount of time to fight back. Instead, your arms and legs will become clumsy, and you will end up falling into your opponent’s hands."

Chang Geng thought for a long time, and suddenly asked: "What yifu meant to say was, if facing with enemies which are much more powerful than oneself, direct confrontation will actually increase the odds of winning?"

Gu Yun raised his eyebrows, as this seemed rather strange: "Huh? How come you are calling ‘yifu’ today?"

Chang Geng was all good on all fronts, the only problem was that his mouth did not seem to understand manners, and always referred to him as “Shiliu”. Very annoying.

Gu Yun was born on the sixteenth of the first month - the childhood name ‘Shiliu’ also came from the First Princess. Except for the princess and the former Emperor, even the old marquis did not call him by this name. Although he did not mind much, having a little kid referring to him as ‘Shiliu this Shiliu that’ day in and day out could be quite frustrating.

According to his experience, Gu Yun felt that there were only two situations in which he could be called "yifu". One was if ‘the blind cat encountered a dead mouse’ - he accidentally delighted this little kid. The other was if ‘the cat stepped on the dog's tail’ - he accidentally provoked the brat.

Chang Geng looked at him deeply for a while, his expression complicated, then said: "I used to be ignorant in the past, I will not be this way anymore in the future."

He was finally aware of his own inexperience and incompetence, how could he dare to act as he pleased anymore.

Sometimes, it would only take one brief moment for a young adolescent to go from "believing that they had already grown into an adult" to really and truly growing into an adult.

Even for someone as careless as Gu Yun, he could also vaguely feel that there was something about Chang Geng that seemed to have changed.

Chapter 3: Reconnaisance

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