The more Edith and the other three listened, the more incredible it sounded. How could he be so incredibly strong?
He sounded no less impressive than the heroes in biographical novels.
No wonder so many bandits still ambushed him.
A glimmer of hope involuntarily rose in the hearts of Edith, Madeline, and Richard—hope that Henry could counter-kill these bandits and rescue them unharmed.
Although this hope was very slim, hope was hope, and it invigorated the three of them.
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Henry spent about an hour climbing to the top of the right mountain peak.
He did not exert himself unnecessarily, but maintained a normal pace.
Of course, if it were an ordinary person, the time might double, and some sections of the path were indeed very difficult to traverse.
Ordinary people might even be eaten by wild wolves, Black Bears, or Cougars before they could even make it up.
He encountered some along the way, but he paid no attention to them, who were dozens of meters away, and simply continued on his own path.
Perhaps due to Henry's nonchalant attitude, or because he had released too many creatures recently and was full of killing intent, the wild wolves, Black Bears, and Cougars did not attack him.
Animals often have stronger Intuition than humans, and a greater ability to seek good fortune and avoid disaster.
Several wild deer, silver foxes, and badgers were also startled and ran away when they saw Henry.
He took out his water skin from his space, drank a few mouthfuls, put the water skin back, and then walked about half a mile along the mountain ridge towards the other end.
The path ahead was broken, and there was a white fir tree nearly fifty meters tall with a main trunk two meters thick on the mountain wall here.
On the sturdy trunk of this white fir, about two meters above the ground, there was a branch about half a meter thick, slanting upwards at an angle of about ten degrees from the ground, and about fifteen or sixteen meters long.
The end of the branch was about twenty centimeters thick, and most of its leaves had been cut away.
Less than three meters past the end was a square stone platform on the opposite mountain wall, protruding about three meters in length and width.
The stone platform was about twenty centimeters lower than the end of the white fir branch.
This natural passage was told to Henry by Charles, who learned about it from a Native American friend.
First, one needed the courage to make this jump, and it was certainly harder to exert force on a tree branch than on the ground.
Jumping from this side to the opposite side was fine, but jumping from the opposite side required gripping the end of the white fir branch with both hands.
On flat ground, one hundred percent of men would dare to make this jump.
But performing an aerial jump at several hundred meters high, perhaps only one percent would dare, because an ordinary man's standing long jump is about 2.5 meters, and they could fall into the abyss in a minute.
If it was still a charge on a tree branch, then no one would jump unless it was a matter of life and death.
However, none of this was a problem for Henry.
He had once tested his standing long jump at 4.22 meters, and that was before he acquired his Super Speed Talent.
So even if it was difficult to exert force on the branch, he felt that jumping to the opposite side, about 2.8 meters away, was completely fine, and with a bit more courage, he could even try a running start on the branch.
After all, his Constitution far exceeded that of ordinary people, and he had an additional 20% Agility bonus.
There was no reason why Native Americans could do it and he could not.
Even if he accidentally fell, he had a dozen lassos in his space, and with his Lasso LV4 skill, he could easily lasso the branch, and his Super Reaction Talent could be activated, making it basically foolproof.
Moreover, Henry was originally looking for a place to test his reaction speed, agility, and so on.
But before that, he had to deal with another problem.
A Western Diamondback Rattlesnake was coiled beneath the white fir tree, with over 20 grade separation dorsal spots on its grayish-brown body.
It was coiled up, its head raised and bent, and its tail was upright in the center, vibrating, seemingly trying to drive Henry away.
This creature is highly venomous, and its predatory reaction speed is very fast, about 0.05 seconds.
The reaction speed of an ordinary person is 0.3 seconds, athletes can reach 0.2 seconds, and table tennis players can sometimes even reach 0.1 seconds instantly.
Henry did not know his own speed, but he was confident that he would at least not be worse than a table tennis player, and with the additional 20% Agility bonus, it might even be 0.08 seconds.
And he also had the Super Reaction Talent, which could increase his reaction speed by 10 times, so theoretically, could it reach 0.008 seconds?
Of course, reaction speed is one thing, and execution speed is another.
It was rare to encounter such good experimental material, so Henry decided to meet the challenge head-on.
Henry took out his 1.2-meter-long Swift Sword from his Storage Space and approached the rattlesnake.
This Western Diamondback Rattlesnake was as thick as an adult man's wrist, and its tail was rattling even more fiercely now.
This snake should be about 2.5 meters long, and its attack range is about two-thirds of its body length, which is about 1.7 meters.
"Rattle, rattle..." The rattlesnake vibrated its tail, constantly issuing warnings.
When Henry unhesitatingly stepped into its attack range, the snake suddenly sprang up like a bullet, launching itself with lightning speed towards Henry's protruding right wrist. The snake's head split open at a terrifying 130 degrees, and its two long fangs gleamed coldly.
At this moment, Henry was fully focused, and instantly the rattlesnake's lightning-fast movements became sluggish, as if it were a trembling eighty-year-old woman.
Henry felt that if he had been holding a dagger, he could have even precisely inserted the dagger into the snake's mouth, pulled it out, and then dodged away.
At this point, he merely casually adjusted the Swift Sword slightly, and the sharp tip of the sword met the snake's neck at its "seven-inch" vital spot in a mutual rush.
He even perfectly utilized the snake's forward lunge, easily impaling it about 20 centimeters from the tip of the sword.
It looked as if the rattlesnake was tired of living and directly slammed its heart area onto Henry's sword tip, just to get impaled and onto the grill sooner.
Henry slightly rotated his wrist, neutralizing the snake's body's momentum, and felt that the snake weighed about 20 pounds—quite fat.
This type of rattlesnake's nervous reflex system can bypass the brain, meaning even dead rattlesnakes can still spring up and bite.
So Henry unhesitatingly swung and shook his right hand violently, flinging it into the air, where it fell into the valley hundreds of meters below.
After putting away his Swift Sword, Henry carefully inspected the white fir tree to ensure there were no other insects or venomous snakes on it.
After the inspection, Henry focused his thoughts on the panel.
[Health: 95%]
The feedback indicated: over 90% were in a minor abnormal state, which the body could automatically recover from over time, but Henry could not use his Overlimit Talent until it recovered to 99%. This time it would take 1 hour to recover to 99%, and 24 hours to recover to 100%.
This felt to Henry like Pinduoduo in his university group before he transmigrated, where the last 1% could drive one crazy.
Henry's thought moved, and he used a gray bead to eliminate the slight abnormal state of his body.
A gray bead instantly projected a dull gray light towards him.
Henry's entire body immediately felt warm.
In less than half a second, the warm sensation disappeared.
[Health: 100%]
Henry became a lively hero again.
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