Chapter 62: Xiaocheng

With his eyes closed, he stood silently.

He's waiting, waiting for the wind to come......

Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you have ever seen each other. But when the leaves flutter, it means that the wind is blowing.

For a long time, the wind did not appear, and the forest was quiet......

The so-called silence is a kind of rest, but also a kind of practice. All troubles come from the hustle and bustle, and all the pain comes from restlessness. He still stood still, maintaining a side-standing posture, with his feet shoulder-width apart, his feet slightly abducted, his left arm holding the bow hanging low, his palm holding the bow handle without loosening or tightening, and there was no trace of impetuousness between his eyebrows, and time seemed to freeze on him.

"Wow-"

The empty head is off, and the wind is coming!

"Fluttering!"

Over there!

Tossing and turning, the bow was lifted horizontally, and an arrow had been caught on the bowstring at some point. The muscles of the shoulders and back work in unison, and the arch slowly pulls apart.

"Boom!"

The arrow was shot out before the string sounded, and it was flying straight towards a certain place.

"Tss …… Burst! ”

Not far away, the sound of birds screaming and heavy objects falling to the ground could be heard.

Hit? Sorachi tore off the black cloth covering his face and looked excitedly ahead, where an arrow with a Poké Ball on it lay quietly.

Without him having to do anything, the clever and well-behaved Nini had already pounced, and it was not long before she returned to her master with an arrow in her mouth, and wagged her tail happily.

"Thank you~" Sora gently touched her head, and she shook the ground even more happily.

"Babble!" Nana lay on her master's arrow and let out a dissatisfied cry, obviously she was the one behind the scenes.

"Nana was great too!" Sora said as he rubbed Nana's head with his cheek as if flattering, and was pushed away by the tsundere, but there was a happy expression on her face.

It was not wrong to say that Nana was a hero before, the empty [Heart Eye] has not yet practiced at home, and can only vaguely judge the direction of the object, as for whether the arrow shot can be hit depends on luck, it also depends on Nana's [telekinesis]. Adjusting the trajectory and calculating the landing point at the moment when the arrow leaves the string is definitely a technical task.

In this way, it is still the result of Sora's continuous tempering of his sense of hearing during his blindness. In fact, more than 80% of the various information received by human beings from the outside world is obtained through vision, and the so-called "heart eye" is not to let the trainer give up vision, but to strengthen the application of other senses while taking into account vision, and finally achieve the realm of "the heart is like an eye, and the insight into all things".

"Why is it Bobo again~" Sora took the arrow from Nini's mouth and pouted helplessly. In the Poké Ball, a bird Pokémon is whining, slamming left and right against the ball wall but never getting out. This is the 30th Bobo captured in two empty days, and it's no wonder he's frustrated. By the way, the number of catches of flaming sparrows is 13.

Sora's recovery was quicker than the hospital expected, and in less than a week, all of his injuries were healed. The most reassuring thing for him is that his eyesight has not been affected as Dr. Sakai said, but it is still not advisable to face bright light or use his eyes too much in the short term.

On the one hand, his own vitality was vigorous, but on the other hand, it showed that his grandfather had arrived really in time that night, and was only affected by the shock wave before the explosion spread, and was not affected by the flames and hot wind that accompanied it.

He put the Poké Ball containing Bobo in his pocket and looked at his watch, "It's half past eleven." Let's go home~"

"Wang!"

There is a difference between meow and wang. For example, now that Sora said that he was going home, the catty dog barked very seriously in response, and the sun elf just flicked his tail to tell him to go faster. But when he was about to get the storage bag, he found that Nana had already used [telekinesis] to help him get it first. So Sora put the Poke Ball, arrows, and bows in one by one, and then patted Nana's back with satisfaction, and sure enough, the cats were all tsundere.

"Let's go~" Nana took the bag, Nini opened the way, and one person and two pets walked towards the eagle division's house.

The place where Sora practiced archery was to the south of the ranch was actually an orchard opened by the Eagle Division's family. A fully functional farm must not only have animal husbandry, planting, but also forestry and fishery, which both Eagle Sihong and the Alliance will take into account.

Forestry in the vicinity of Tokiwa Forest has the unique advantage of having a rich variety of seeds, fertile soil, and climatic conditions suitable for the growth of these seeds. But at the same time, it also brings a disadvantage, that is, there are too many wild elves.

If you want to build an orchard near an elf gathering area, the first thing you need to do is not to raise money or recruit people, but to be prepared to be harassed by various elves for a long time. The elves don't care if the tree fruits are wild or domestic, they eat them when they catch them. They also learned to pack them up and share them with their companions, and when calculating the eventual loss, orchards often found that the elves damaged more fruit during picking than they were eaten.

This is undoubtedly a headache, and it is also the reason why I come here to practice. It attracts a large number of delicious and lazy wild elves, among which the most common ones in the Guandu area, such as Bobo, Flaminee, Little Lada, and Monkey Monster, are also occasionally mixed with some spirits from other regions who wander here. And the task of the void is to disperse them.

The best of these are undoubtedly the insect elves, such as the green caterpillars, unicorns, and their evolutionary types. They don't come to eat tree fruits, but to suck tree sap, and the damage caused by a single person is not large, but it can't stand the large number of people.

Let's talk about the most difficult thing to deal with - monkey monsters. They are simply the main culprits of the destruction of the orchard, they are ugly to eat, and they eat a lot of food, and even when they are picked and picked, a good fruit tree is destroyed in an instant. Not only that, but they are also agile, vigilant by nature, and skilled in all kinds of fighting skills, and most importantly, they are social creatures, often dozens of them haunt together, led by the fiery monkey as the leader, which is difficult to guard. Hence becoming the primary goal of rangers.

So, in order to protect this orchard, the alliance issued a large number of commissioned tasks, but unfortunately it had little effect, because to be honest, the work of the rangers is very hard, and the pay is very small, most trainers are not interested in this, and only some fledgling newcomers will take this kind of task to practice. But if it's a ranger in the orchard, it's a different story if it's a forest ranger.

During these days, Sora felt that his proficiency in archery was increasing rapidly, and in addition to his own efforts and his grandfather's careful guidance, Bobo, Flamingo, and Bibi Bird, who were living targets, contributed a lot. From the beginning of Natsuhime's eight shots to the current eight or nine out of ten (without an eye patch), he has gradually broken away from the ranks of beginners.

Compared with the hit rate, in fact, the capture rate is more amazing, and it can basically reach the level of the ball must be won, of course, there is a trick, and it is written in the family study of the Eagle Division. This technique is not difficult to say, but it is not easy to say. The simplicity lies in the fact that it is divided into two parts, which are divided into [Pitching Timing] and [Target Position], which are easy to understand; The difficulty lies in the fact that the above two cannot be done without sufficient experience and strength, especially the [target position].

The book states that all living beings (including humans) have one or more acupuncture points on their bodies where their vital energy is concentrated, and when the Poké Ball hits this acupuncture point accurately, it can exert real power. The annotations on the margins of the book also have the words "Better Use with [Heart Eye]. Of course, Sora can't see the location of the energy acupuncture points at a glance, but Nana can. After reading what was written in the book, it was easy for her to have a strong perception, so Sora asked her to help her correct the trajectory, and judging from the results, this trick worked very well in the hands of them, who have always had a sense of tacit understanding.

The captured spirits are processed uniformly, the birds are processed into fresh chickens, and the insects are fried into tempura...... Just kidding. Most of them will be trained and sent to farm workers to help with labor, which can be regarded as rehabilitation. This is actually very good, the food source is stable and there is no need to worry about natural enemies, and the work is not very hard, it is all picking, carrying, sowing and other work. As for those who really do not obey discipline, please refer to the first sentence of this paragraph.

……

"Nana, how is your [Teleportation] practice?" On the way home, Sora suddenly asked the sun elf on his shoulder.

"Babbling~" Nana shook her head first, and then danced for a long time.

"You mean...... Can only move some items the size of a peach? "Sora really understands that the so-called heart-to-heart connection is not just talking, it is a kind of sensibility that can communicate with Pokémon.

"Bah-" Nana was satisfied that her master could understand what she meant, just by seeing how she kissed and licked the air.

"Speaking of which, I've been losing stuff for the past two days, socks, toothbrushes, underwear and stuff. You did it? Sora asked expressionlessly.

"Huh?" Nana froze, then looked around, but the cold sweat dripping from her forehead betrayed her.

"It's useless to play stupid! Go to Tickle Hell and repent! ”

"Babble!"

Sora unleashed a [Tickle] attack, and the effect was outstanding! There are some things that can't be changed even if they evolve.

(Note: According to the actual test, the catty dog is not afraid of tickling, and doing so will only make her feel very happy.) )

I went home in a fight, and in the living room, I saw my grandfather with a gloomy expression.

"Suzuko called today and asked you to go back." Before he could speak, my grandfather spoke first.

"Did Mom say why?" Sora asked, he has been in contact with his parents, and he calls every day or two, but usually at night.

"I forgot to ask, she said she would come to pick you up at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, you can get ready." Grandpa said angrily, it seems that he quarreled with his daughter?

"Oh." After living at his grandfather's house for so long, Sora almost forgot about the quarrel between his mother and grandparents, and he silently put the matter of mediating the conflict on the agenda in his heart.

……

Nothing was said all night.

The next day, Mother Kamio arrived as promised.