Chapter 8 Exercises
After accepting the power of Frem, Zhou Lie had the idea of being able to do his part for his country here, and in order to hide himself during the period, then mastering this power became the first task.
Frem's approach to teaching is special.
"I'll teach you when you're asleep. ”
In response to Zhou Lie's request, he replied, although he wondered why he had to fall asleep by himself, but since the other party said so, he couldn't fool himself, and believed that the other party didn't want to be caught by the empire again, and then put it in the box.
He returned to his dormitory, washed up, then put medicine on his right hand, sat down at the table and began to write letters, and every month, he would send a letter, which he would bring to Xia for him by a well-known Oriental merchant, and then pass it on to his mother.
After doing this, Zhou Lie lay down directly on the bed, and it didn't take long for him to fall asleep.
A snow-white patch, is it fog?
Zhou Lie stretched out his right hand and shook it, and found that his red and swollen right hand, which should have been wrapped in bandages, was now intact.
Although the soles of your feet feel like you are stepping on the ground, it looks like there is no ground under your feet at all, and you feel as if you are in the air.
"This is your consciousness, which is your world. A familiar voice came, Zhou Lie looked ahead, and a familiar figure appeared, which was his appearance, his face was full of lazy and casual.
"How did you become me?"
"It's not me who I become, but what you look like in your eyes. "Now you can imagine an environment at will, and you need a suitable stage to practice. ”
It turned out that Frem was going to teach himself how to control his power in a dream.
"You can teach me how to control in reality. Zhou Lie said.
"Although there are many skills in manipulating the fire element, in the end, you still need to temper your mental power, and this kind of practice is the most effective in dreams. ”
It makes sense to go back to it like that.
As soon as their minds moved, the surrounding environment began to change, and within a while, the two of them were in a garden.
This is the imperial garden where Zhou Lie played with his brothers and sisters when he was a child.
"Yes, it's a great place to practice. Frem, who was exactly the same as Zhou Lie on the side, nodded, "Then let's start practicing, first you have to learn to only condense flames, not explode." ”
"It's like gathering those fire elements into your eyes, soft, but not so soft, try to find that balance. ”
Before, Zhou Lie had let the red turbulence in his eyes surge rapidly, so every time there would be an explosion, but he hadn't tried what it would be like when they gathered together.
Be gentle and then gather these things to a point.
The eyes looked at the turbulence in the air formed by countless red dots, imagining them coming together.
"At first, you can use something to help you orient yourself, such as your own hands. Frem reminded from the side.
"I don't need to say it, I know it. For Frem, who talked a lot on the side, Zhou Lie expressed a little dissatisfaction.
Using his fingertips as a reference, the consciousness began to try to control the turbulent currents, which Frem called the "soft" gathering of the fire elementals.
It obviously didn't belong to his own body, but when Zhou Lie began to manipulate these fire elements, it felt like he was controlling his extra hands and feet.
The first attempt, with the experience of successfully sending the fire element into his eyes, Zhou Lie first slowed down the speed of these turbulences, and then they revealed their original particle shapes, and then Zhou Lie controlled and starved them, floating towards his fingertips.
It's too slow.
I don't know how long it will take to condense into flames at this speed, so since the speed is not enough, then accelerate.
However, just thinking of speeding up the gathering of the fire element, the originally slowly fluttering fire element rushed to his fingertips like crazy, and then, with a loud bang, the pillar of fire that soared into the sky erupted from Zhou Lie's fingertips, and then dissipated.
It's still an explosion.
The blast wind emanated from the fingertips and dispersed in all directions, with Zhou Lie as the center, a large number of trees in the garden were blown off by the blast wind and fell to the ground, and the explosion had an impact area of at least 300 meters.
Zhou Lie looked around with an ugly face, this was the first time he had encountered a dilemma in his studies, and he didn't expect that he couldn't even do something as simple as condensing flames.
On the contrary, Frem was very excited, as if he was satisfied with the power of the explosion.
Since it doesn't work once, let's do it again.
Anyway, in the dream world, if you can't control your ability well, and use an explosion of such power in the real world, then you can be regarded as a natural disaster for your actions, and it's hard not to be noticed.
Restore the trees around you, then start practicing again, fail, recover again, contact again, time passes slowly in the dream, and I don't know the tiredness and pain, at first Frem will come up and say a few precautions, and finally run away without a trace.
This is the first time he has practiced, Zhou Lie can't remember clearly, controlling the speed of the fire elemental gathering again and again, so that they don't gather in such a violent way, and now, although there will still be an explosion, the power is much smaller.
After so many failures, Zhou Lie has mastered how to control explosions of various degrees, watching the flames rising into the sky, and the surrounding trees breaking outward in a radial shape because of the explosion, there is an inexplicable sense of exaltation in his heart, how to look at it, how to feel that the broken trees have an inexplicable sense of beauty after being baptized by the explosion.
It's just dead art.
"Ahh ”
Sensing the change in his mentality, Zhou Lie withdrew his gaze and focused on his fingers again.
Then the familiar bell rang in my ears, it was the sound of the bell of the Santa Fes Academy.
When I opened my eyes, the sky was already slightly bright, and the bell pulled Zhou Lie back to reality in the dream, but for Zhou Lie, this night did not play a role in resting, at first I could stay awake by cold water, and when it was close to noon, I gradually couldn't support it, and I fell asleep directly in class.
This time he didn't enter the driving range that Frem had prepared for him, and fell asleep in the truest sense of the word.
"Stella, wake me up Zhou Lie!" The teacher on the podium said in a serious tone when he saw Zhou Lie's appearance.
Zhou Lie's head was pillowed on his arm, revealing half of his face, his back rose and fell slowly with his breathing, and his long eyelashes were countable, Stella's outstretched hand was placed in the air, reluctant to take a step forward, after all, Zhou Lie's lovely sleeping posture is too rare, if she can, Stella hopes that the current time will be frozen forever.
Seeing Stella there facing Zhou Lie's nymphomania, the teacher shook his head helplessly, and continued to lecture, for this kind of student who is in charge of the army itself, the teacher here usually only gives a chance to warn, he will not delay the time of all the students in the classroom in order to criticize a person.
But the teacher had secretly decided that in the next test, he would focus on writing the knowledge in this class into the paper, so that the sleeping student would show up in his office with the failing test paper and bow his head and admit his mistakes.
Seeing the teacher's face, the surrounding students knew that the teacher was really angry, and the lecture speed was so fast in the next time that they were stunned to finish the theory of the steam engine in one class, and all the students buried their heads in taking notes, and they didn't care about calling the guy who was still sleeping.
"So I slept like this for two classes in the morning?" Zhou Lie asked with a yawn.
"yes, and the teacher lectured super fast after you fell asleep, and I wrote a full ten pages of notes as the teacher progressed. Stella said with some concern, "Do you want my notes to make up for it?"
"No need, just look at the book for this little thing, and these teachers will follow the book, where are the streamers sold?"
At this time, Zhou Lie and Stella were in the market, preparing to purchase the items needed to welcome Master Wilson, although the funds would be given by the school, but the purchase of the needed items had to be purchased by the students themselves, so the four members of the student council were divided into two groups and prepared the things they needed.
"Streamers are generally available in the market in the old street, but recently it is said that it is not very safe over there, there was a brawl the day before yesterday, and now there are guards everywhere, and you have to check when you enter and exit the old street, so don't go to the old street today, take a look here." Stella said.
"It's actually a brawl. Zhou Lie sneered in his heart, but seeing that it was like this, no one around was talking about what was happening in the old street, and it seemed that the consul's information control was not bad.
"Where did you see this message, I don't see that the information board mentions it. Zhou Lie asked.
"It's not written on the information board, but a notice is posted in the central square, and I just passed by to take a look, and when I turned around, you went to the front. ”
It seems that he didn't notice this at all because of lack of sleep, and it seems that training in dreams at night requires a little moderation, although he slept for two classes in the morning, but now he still has a feeling of unclear brain.
Can't go to the old street, the next choice for the two is naturally the market on the noble street, although the quality of the goods there will be better, but the corresponding price will be a little higher than the old street.
Zhou Lie, who was still doing self-reflection, was pulled into a store selling decorations by Stella.
Seeing the store manager Zhou Zhoulie's eyebrows twitched, this is also a store with an underground casino that he frequents, unlike boxing the day before yesterday, basically playing cards and chess here.
"Take out all the streamers you have here and take a look. Stella said with a smile at the store manager.
The store manager glanced at the old customer Zhou Lie, confirmed that the other party had no intention of entering the underground this time, and instructed the waiter in the store to take the goods out of the counter and show them to Stella.
"Charles, go and show the ribbon in the cabinet to that young lady, I'll take care of it here. The boss took the copper plate that the waiter was counting, took over his work of receiving money, and made sure that the money in his hand was not missing one or two, and then sent the guest away in a good voice.
Charles, who was rushed to serve Stella, took out the key in a panic and took out a handful of colored paper from the cabinet, but it seemed that the action was too urgent, causing the ribbon to bring out the other goods inside, and the jingle bell fell to the ground.
"You idiot, why are you so stupid that you can give me anything to make a mess. ”
When the boss saw the scene here, he jumped to his feet angrily and was furious, walked over, whipped a waiter named Charles with a cane in his hand, and apologized to the two at the same time, probably because Zhou Lie came to patronize from time to time, and kept looking at Zhou Lie's face.
"Okay, just let him get it in order, there's no need for this. Zhou Lie said with a frown.
"I'm sorry to be a guest, I knew I wouldn't hire these Nanbans, if it weren't for his pitiful and honest appearance, and his low wages, ah no, I mean, it would be better to hire our Marston laborers. The boss still nodded there, but his hand stopped whapping.
Charles, who had been beaten, did not say a word, and after placing the ribbons on the table, he squatted down and began to pick up the goods that had been spilled all over the ground, and those delicate crystal beads were so small and so many that he had to bend over his waist to pick them up slowly.
The boss came to Stella's side and introduced her one by one.
From the product falling on the ground, to the boss beating people angrily, and now amiably introducing the product to herself, Stella's face is complicated, fortunately, there are many kinds of streamers, and the girl likes this kind of beautiful and cute thing the most, and under the boss's experienced sales, she successfully diverted Stella's attention.
After nearly an hour, I finally decided which ribbons to buy, and by the way, I discussed the decoration method with the store owner.
During this hour's struggle, the Nanban known as Charles finally packed up the trinkets scattered all over the ground, put them back in the cabinet, and then followed the boss to see the two away.
After the purchased goods were packed, they were carried by Zhou Lie, and the two left the store and prepared to return the same way.