Chapter 16: The Problem of Cultivation

"Good casting materials, come and take a look. ”

"A pill for healing is on sale, don't miss it when you pass by. ”

"A rock turtle hatchling, come and see if you need it. ”

Hai Yao walked around curiously, and found that there were about three types of things that everyone was selling, one was the finished product or herb material of the elixir, the other was the finished product or material of weapons and equipment, and the other was the spirit beast and the things related to the spirit beast.

Hai Yao suddenly realized that pills, equipment, and spirit beasts are probably the three ways to improve combat ability in addition to exercises, so everyone is so keen to do the corresponding business.

After understanding this, Haiyao didn't plan to go any further, so he arranged accommodation as soon as possible.

But Hai Yao, who came back to his senses, found that he couldn't find the way Nie Yuanhua pointed out, and the surrounding area of this square was a ring-shaped building that looked the same in any direction, and he couldn't tell the direction at all.

In desperation, Haiyao had no choice but to ask the little brother who was setting up a stall next to him for directions.

"Hello, may I ask which way to go in the accommodation area. ”

The little brother who set up the stall was stunned for a moment, raised his head to look at Hai Yao, and the black feather beside him who was a little taller than Hai Yao, and said with a smile: "You are a freshman, right?"

Hai Yao nodded: "Well, yes, I'm a freshman. ”

"Freshmen are going to get lost for a while. ”

The little brother laughed: "The accommodation area is directly behind you, on the other side of the ring building, but you have to walk out from the left or right before you can go to the accommodation area, and the side of the ring building that touches the accommodation area is not passable." ”

Hai Yao smiled bitterly: "Then don't I have to go around in a big circle?"

The little brother shrugged: "There is no way, young people should walk more." ”

"Is there a ban on flying here?"

"There is no prohibition on flying, but human beings do not have the ability to fly in the sky until the ninth level, and generally only the teachers of the academy are flying, you ...... I'll go, flying spirit beast, it's amazing!"

Hai Yao, who was already flying by the black feather feet, waved his hand at the little brother and said, "Thank you, goodbye." ”

The little brother waved his hand dumbly: "Uh, goodbye." ”

"Black Feather, fly over there. ”

Hai Yao pointed in the direction of the accommodation area, and Hei Yu shouted excitedly, and flew high with Hai Yao.

"I'll go, the man is flying with the eagle on his head!"

"I'm handsome, I want a flying spirit beast too!"

In the accommodation area, a young man heard the familiar sound of an eagle crying and was immediately pleasantly surprised: "This guy is finally here!"

"Where's House Fifty-Nine?"

After flying over the ring building, Hai Yao saw the independent houses, and immediately understood that this was the accommodation area, but he didn't know where the No. 59 house was.

"Looks like we'll have to go down and ask someone. ”

Hai Yao was about to let Black Feather land, when suddenly a fiery red fireball shot out from below and exploded a little far in front of Hai Yao.

"Huh?"

Black Feather stopped in the air, Hai Yao looked at a person standing on the roof below who had just put down the staff in his hand, and when he saw Hai Yao looking over, the man hurriedly waved his hand to Hai Yao.

"Who is it? Black Feather, let's go over and see. ”

Hei Yu immediately flew towards the man, Hai Yao gradually got closer, and finally saw the appearance of the person on the roof, and then shouted in surprise: "Xu Xiaofan!"

"Haiyao!"

Standing on the roof was Xu Xiaofan, who disappeared after recruiting talents.

"Why are you here?"

Hai Yao let go of Black Feather's foot, jumped on the roof, and asked curiously, "That day, Yui and I went to your house to look for you, and your family said that your father didn't know where to go with you, and I thought you didn't come with us." ”

Xu Xiaofan said with a bitter face: "It's all my father, as soon as I heard that I wanted to come to the Alliance Academy, I was very happy, and then remembered that my relatives who were teachers in the Alliance Academy were preparing to celebrate their birthdays, so they hurriedly took me over and walked through the back door." ”

"Huh?"

Hai Yao said with a smile: "Don't you have advanced spiritual power qualifications, there is no problem in joining the Alliance Academy." ”

Xu Xiaofan held his forehead: "My father feels that it is more secure to go through the back door." ”

Hai Yao pointed to the staff in his hand: "Aren't you going to be a martial artist?"

Xu Xiaofan said with a sad face: "My relative is a magician......

Hai Yao took a deep breath, trying to keep himself from laughing: "Actually, the magician is quite good......"

"Get out!"

Xu Xiaofan glanced at Haiyao: "Let's go, come down with me, and I'll arrange a room for you." I'll introduce you when the other two roommates come back in the evening. ”

"Huh?"

Hai Yao was stunned and said, "But the fifty-ninth house that the academy arranged for me to live in......"

"We're in house fifty-nine, and I just heard Black Feather's call, so I'm going out to pick you up. ”

"Huh, is it such a coincidence?"

Haiyao was a little confused.

Xu Xiaofan smiled mysteriously: "There are still benefits to going through the back door." ”

"Oh~"

Haiyao suddenly realized, laughed, and then put his arm around Xu Xiaofan's shoulder and asked, "Your relatives are so powerful, why don't you directly arrange for you to live in the girls' dormitory, that's your dream." ”

"Get out!"

Xu Xiaofan said seriously: "Dreams are realized by your own efforts!"

The two of them fought and went downstairs through the small window on the roof, leaving Hei Yu looking at the small window, tentatively stretching out his head and feet, but because of his body structure, he was never able to get in.

After tossing for a long time, Hei Yu sat on the roof in frustration, and at this moment, Hai Yao's shout came from downstairs: "Hei Yu, this way!"

Black Feather looked at it, and Hai Yao opened the door of the house and was waving to it.

In the evening, two other occupants of House 59 also returned.

Xu Xiaofan put his arm on the shoulder of one of the sturdy roommates and introduced: "This is Li Dehua, who takes the route of an earth-based martial artist, and the type of cultivation or strengthening the body, you can call him Dehua, or call him a big guy." ”

After speaking, Xu Xiaofan grabbed the hair of another roommate and introduced, "This is Sima Liang, he takes the route of a wood magician, and his cultivation is a type that focuses on control and protection. ”

In the end, Xu Xiaofan put his arm around Hai Yao's neck: "This is the good brother Hai Yao I have always told you, the innate golden spirit body, who takes the route of a golden martial artist, and usually likes to ponder the affairs of spirit beasts, I decided to give him the title of 'Beast Emperor', and since then the three musketeers of our alliance have become the four musketeers of the alliance!"

"Oh yes!"

Li Dehua shouted excitedly.

Watching Xu Xiaofan and Andy Li cheer and dance, Hai Yao and Sima Liang on the side had black lines on their faces.

Hai Yao looked at Sima Liang on the side with a wry smile and asked, "How did you accept the title he gave you?"

Sima Liang blinked and replied, "Do you think he will consider whether you accept it or not?"

The two sighed in unison.

At this time, Black Feather screamed dissatisfiedly on the side.

"That's right, I forgot to introduce you, this handsome black eagle is Haiyao's spirit beast, and his name is Black Feather. ”

Xu Xiaofan shouted happily: "Then we are the Five Musketeers of the Alliance!"

Then Andy Li, Xu Xiaofan and Hei Yu held hands (wings?) and danced together.

Sima Liang and Hai Yao once again had black lines on their faces.

Sima Liang asked, "Did you drink before we came back?"

Hai Yao smiled bitterly: "Do you think they need to drink when they are drunk?"

After getting to know each other, Xu Xiaofan took Haiyao and them to a large restaurant in the academy for dinner, and also opened a private room extravagantly and ordered a lot of dishes.

"Xiaofan, Teacher Nie didn't tell me what to do after coming to the academy, he said let me come to you, so what are we going to do next?"

Hai Yao said and took another bite of the chicken leg.

Xu Xiaofan swallowed the food in his mouth hard, and then said: "First of all, the first four months we entered the academy, that is, in the first semester of the academy, we basically studied completely independently, that is, we practiced the exercises by ourselves, prepared spirit beasts, equipment and pills by ourselves, and the academy didn't care about you at all. ”

"After four months, the college will hold a freshman competition, according to everyone's combat performance to arrange learning, good qualifications, there will be special instructors to guide learning, general performance will be arranged into the class for collective learning, too poor performance will leave the college, can not stay in the academy to study. ”

"As for the start of the second semester, it was arranged by the teacher in charge of teaching. ”

Xu Xiaofan said: "The most important thing for us at present is to deal with the problems in the first semester in front of us. ”

Hai Yao asked suspiciously: "What's the problem, isn't it completely independent?"

"The problem is to ask for money independently. ”

Xu Xiaofan said: "The house has to be rented, and it costs money to eat and drink, not to mention pills, spirit beasts, and equipment, which is not a high-consumption thing, a few of us go out early and return late, all of us are working for the seniors to earn some wages." ”

"Part-time job, wage earning?"

Hai Yao was stunned.

"Yes, the restaurant where we eat now, as well as the various shops on the ring floor of the central square, were all opened by the seniors of previous years, and the purpose was to make money and meet the expenses of cultivation. People like us who don't have any business acumen can only work for others to make money. ”

Sima Liang smiled bitterly: "I have the brain, but we don't have a famous project, the market for eating, drinking and playing has long been saturated, and we can't make a scale of pills, spirit beasts, and equipment, and we can't even set up a stall." ”

Xu Xiaofan patted Haiyao on the shoulder: "Life is difficult, so this meal is up to you." ”

"What!?"

Hai Yao's eyes widened, and then he looked at Li Dehua and Sima Liang in disbelief for verification, the two of them quickly lowered their heads and pretended not to see Hai Yao, and then Hai Yao looked at Hei Yu on the side of the table, Hei Yu was stunned for a moment, and then learned from Li Dehua and Sima Liang to bow their heads and fight with their barbecue.

“......”

Hai Yao recalled the extravagant menu, and wanted to cry without tears.

In the end, the three people who were full of food and drink walked out of the hotel satisfied, followed by Hai Yao, who was looking at his money bag in despair, and actually ate two gold directly for this meal, and he only brought a total of 100 gold! The terrifying price of goods made Hai Yao's mood become urgent, and it seemed that he would have to find a job to make money from tomorrow.

When he returned to No. 59, Xu Xiaofan was about to open the door, when suddenly a girl ran out of No. 58 next to him, looking around with six gods, and after seeing Haiyao and his party, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly ran over, stammering and shouting: "Help, help me, save, save Bao'er." ”

Several people were stunned for a moment, and then realized that something might have happened.

"Let's go, let's see. ”

Several people quickly ran into the house of No. 58 next door. Xu Xiaofan, who took the lead, ran at the front and rushed directly to the living room.

Then he froze.

Xu Xiaofan asked himself in his heart, the girl who looked like a fairy was sitting on a chair, holding a cat in her arms with a distressed face, and her slightly furrowed eyebrows did not affect her beauty at all, but made the girl less alienated from the fairy and more close to humanity.

"Guo'er, have you found someone to help?"

The girl sitting on the chair asked after hearing the footsteps, and subconsciously raised her head to look at the person who came after finding that there was no answer, only to see a strange teenager looking at herself blankly, and couldn't help asking, "Are you?"

Xu Xiaofan finally came back to his senses, blushed and hurriedly explained: "Ah, I am a classmate who lives next door to you, and your friend just asked us for help. ”

The girl nodded, and then asked, "Then will you heal spirit beasts?"

"Heal spirit animals?"

Xu Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, and then noticed that the cat 7 in the girl's arms seemed to have a painful expression.

"Uh, that...... I don't heal spirit animals. Oh, by the way, I have a friend who has a lot of research on spirit animals, maybe he knows how to treat them. ”

Xu Xiaofan was originally a little frustrated, but suddenly remembered that Hai Yao was a master of beast science, and hurriedly turned around and shouted: "Hai Yao, Hai Yao, come here!"

"What is it?"

Haiyao followed behind Xu Xiaofan, and Xu Xiaofan arrived as soon as he called him.

When he walked into the living room, he saw the golden-bearded cat in the girl's arms. The golden-bearded cat is a gold-based spirit animal with no special abilities, but because of its cute appearance, it is often kept as a pet.

At this time, the golden-bearded cat was constantly moaning, and its whole body was convulsing, and it seemed to be in great pain.

"You put it on the ground first. Hai Yao said. The girl glanced at Hai Yao, and then at Xu Xiaofan.

Xu Xiaofan hurriedly said: "Listen to him, it's absolutely no problem." ”

The girl then put the golden-bearded cat on the ground suspiciously, and then Hai Yao stroked the golden-bearded cat's body with his hand, and when he touched the swollen abdomen, he was already a little clear, and asked, "Did your cat just eat fish?"

The girl nodded and said, "I heard that the golden-bearded cat likes this fish very much, so I bought it for it today, and it ate a lot at once, but just now I didn't have anything to ask for, and suddenly I ......"

Haiyao asked, "Did you buy a small mud fish?"

The girl's eyes lit up: "Yes, yes, yes, it's a little mud fish." Is it a problem with the fish? Do you know how to save Bao'er?"

After Hai Yao got a definite answer, he hurriedly asked, "Do you have bitter mushrooms and flame mushrooms here?"

The girl was stunned for a moment, shook her head and said, "I don't have it here." ”

Haiyao looked at Xu Xiaofan, and Xu Xiaofan said, "I'll buy it." ”

With that, he ran out.

Haiyao said to Sima Liang, who ran in behind: "Brother Liang, there is a transparent crystal bottle in the package in my room, please help me bring it." ”

"Good!"

Sima Liang answered and ran out.

"This girl ......"

Haiyao shouted, and the girl who had just come out to call them for help responded: "Yes, my name is Xie Guo'er, you can just call me Guo'er, if there is anything, just tell me." ”

"Okay, Guo'er, you go and boil a basin of hot water, it doesn't need to be too hot, you can put your hand in it and hold on to that heat for a while, Brother Hua, you go and help a bunch of Guo'er." ”

"Okay. ”

Li Dehua followed Xie Guoer to boil water.

The girl asked, "What am I going to do?"

Hai Yao smiled, "What's your name?"

"My name is Lancôme, you're a freshman, aren't you? ”

"Hello Lancôme, you don't have to do anything, just tell me where the bowl is, and then stay here with it. ”

Lancôme nodded and pointed to the kitchen, "There's a bowl over there." ”

Soon, Sima Liang came over with a crystal bottle, Xie Guoer and Li Dehua also boiled water and brought it, and after a while, Xu Xiaofan also ran back.

Haiyao hurriedly took the bitter mushroom, then quickly folded it into a ball, squeezed out a little juice into the bowl, and then handed the bowl to Lancôme: "Feed it and drink it." ”

Lancôme nodded and took the bowl.

Then Haiyao put the residue of the bitter branch grass into the hot water that had been prepared for a long time to soak, and after Bao'er drank the bitter branch grass juice, he motioned for Lancôme to put Bao'er in the water.

Not long after Bao'er was soaked in the water, there was a strange bulge on its belly, and the bulge kept moving, as if a living thing was frightened and moving in Bao'er's belly.

"Ahh

Xie Guoer and Lancôme exclaimed in unison when they saw this scene.

At this moment, Haiyao brought the crystal bottle containing the flame mushroom to Bao'er's mouth.

As if receiving some signal, the bulge of Bao'er's stomach froze for a moment, and then disappeared in an instant. In the next second, a long dark yellow insect rushed into the crystal bottle, and then Hai Yao quickly closed the lid.

"W-what is this?" Lancôme asked in shock.

Hai Yao said: "This is a rock worm, a very rare and precious bug. ”

"What is so precious about bugs. ”

Xie Guo'er had goosebumps all over her body.

"Meow~"

Bao'er seemed to have regained her spirits, Lancôme heard Bao'er's cry, and immediately picked it up and looked at it, seeing that its face was no longer painful, and it seemed that nothing was going on, so she was relieved, and said to Haiyao and them sincerely: "Thank you very much." ”

"You're welcome. ”

Hai Yao said, "Do you still want this bug?"

"No, no, no, I don't. ”

Lancôme hurriedly waved his hand. "You said that this bug is precious, so give it to you, as my thank you. ”

Hai Yao said: "You really don't want it. This kind of rock insect has a high nutritional value, and it can be used as medicine, which has great benefits for the skin. The market price of this worm is about 100 gold coins."

Lancôme shook his head vigorously and said, "No, I can't accept it if I eat this bug to take care of my skin." You saved Bao'er, and you deserve this. ”

"Alright then, I'll take it. ”

Haiyao said: "Since the matter is settled, let's go first." ”

"Well, okay, goodbye. ”

Lancôme said and waved his hand at Hai Yao.

Xu Xiaofan opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but after hearing Lancôme say goodbye, he held back.

The group then returned to House 59, and as soon as the door was closed, Xu Xiaofan grabbed Hai Yao's collar and shook wildly: "You bastard! I didn't even ask her name, you said you were leaving!?"

"What? Whose name do you want to know?"

Haiyao said: "The girl who came out to ask us for help is called Xie Guo'er, and the other one is called Lancôme, okay?"

Xu Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, and then shook Haiyao wildly: "You bastard, why did you know before me!?Why didn't you propose an activity like a friendship!?"

Haiyao grabbed Xu Xiaofan's hand and stopped: "You calm down! Our goal now is to make money first!

"Wait!"

Sima Liang separated Xu Xiaofan and Hai Yao, then looked at Hai Yao and asked, "You want to make money, right?"

Hai Yao nodded: "That's right." ”

Sima Liang looked at Xu Xiaofan again: "You want to get close to the girl in the next room, right?"

Xu Xiaofan nodded violently: "I want to pursue the goddess Lancôme." ”

"That's fine. ”

Sima Liang smiled slightly: "I have a good idea." ”