Chapter 25: Before the Pass

Because of the large number of children and villagers in tow, the convoy traveled slowly, only 3 or 40 miles a day. Obviously, more than half of the journey has been walked, but the rest seems to be never finished, which inevitably makes people anxious. In particular, the southern exit of the Penlin Mountains is ahead, and it is one of the two main passages leading out of the Penlin Mountains from north to south. In order to cross this mountain range, almost all the caravans and travelers traveling south from the upper Penglin country had to gather here.

At that point, this strangely constituted team will become unusually conspicuous. It is believed that the relevant news will soon reach the upper Penlin, and if Milton is recognized, the news will be transmitted even faster - a third of the people who have taken this road are part-time spies in various cities and cities, and the remaining two-thirds do not mind exchanging the information they know for a little money - there is no news to hide.

The only good news was that, because there was no threat from a powerful force in the south, the kingdom of Upper Penlin did not garrison the mountain pass during the war, and the only tax collector stood a few hundred miles behind him.

Shen Yan summarized the rumors heard in the team and outlined the situation he was going to encounter. However, to Shen Yan's surprise, it seemed that both Milton and Ozcama were indifferent to this.

In that case, he didn't have much to do. People who bring bad news are always treated like crows.

Now there is less of a group of children and a few more adults next to Shen Yan's car. Since the disappearance of the "dead man", no child dares to approach the car, and there is no telling of strange rumors among the children. However, countless "little spies" are quietly staring here, and if Shen Yan makes the slightest move, these children will rush to tell Milton. In addition, after two meals a day, Kesling and Omar would show up at Shen Yan's car on time.

Catherine asked Shen Yan to help check whether there were any errors or omissions in the calculation of logistics data, and asked him to correct his homework by the way; The other is Ozmat, who also holds a notebook and memorizes new words as he walks, which is comparable to Shen Yan's English level 4 or 6 when he took the exam.

In the first 40 years of his career, Lizard Ranger has always had a desire to read and write. It's a pity that the world's first does not need to train a large number of industrial workers, and the second does not need to fight against a family that is too big to lose. The aristocratic system is quite stubborn, the king is the biggest nobleman, and the ruling class is bent on blocking the channels for the rise of commoners - "blocking is better than slackening" is always an afterthought when it cannot be blocked.

Therefore, there is absolutely no such thing as a public college in the kingdom that provides education on the peninsula. If you want to teach the younger generations of the family to read, even ordinary nobles have to pay a great price. More than half of the people standing in the kingdom's court were illiterate, and some generals who had led the army for more than ten years were not worthy of secretaries, and they could not even write a letter well.

Civilians who want to be literate have nothing but to be an experiment for magicians, and there is only one option left to hit the luck. In this era, the correct way for commoners to rise is not to study, run, find a job (usually with little salary), become an official, be knighted, and become a big man; Just happened to grab a sum of money, happened to fall into an ancient ruin to gain power, and happened to ...... Then you can enter the rhythm of management, job hunting, and so on. In other words, everything is premised on existing adventures, and nothing else!

Therefore, Shen Yan taught Omar to read, in a sense, it was really a great favor. But just as Omar saved him, he would not henceforth be a cow or a horse for Omar; He taught Omar to read and write, and the reward was two pots of arrows and training with him.

Interestingly, Milton was cheeky enough to join in. He originally knew dozens of words, and he could usually make do with helping soldiers write letters to their families. Now that he is listening to Omar in class, Shen Yan and Omar didn't say anything, except that Omar quietly apologized to Shen Yan.

And Milton not only listened, it seemed that his enthusiasm for learning was still very high, Omar kept memorizing alone after class, and Milton often asked Shen Yan about some new words, such as "psyllium", "quarter", "pint" and other words to ask Shen Yan for advice. What's even more interesting is that the words he asked the day before, he will ask them again the next day with other questions, it seems that he wants to verify it. Shen Yan deliberately explained a slight change from yesterday, but Milton showed a flustered expression, not knowing what to do.

In an era when the literacy rate is so low, you are very lucky to find someone who is willing to explain to you, and you dare not question him if you kill him! I can only figure it out by myself!

Verification is tantamount to lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot, but it is even more confused.

Whenever this happens, Shen Yan snickers.

From the time Milton asked him the first question, he guessed that Milton had taken out the text on a certain book or a certain recipe and asked him one by one, trying to solve the mystery of the recipe by himself - really thinking about reading the book Too young, too simple Tucson broken. Let's not talk about the language in addition to vocabulary and grammar, context, etc., he first has to be glad that this world is like English alphabet words, change to Chinese "Angelica Chaihu", do you ask "Angelica" "Chai", or ask "Angelica Chai" "Hu", or ask "Guichai" what is, guaranteed to get a big surprise!

That's right, it's already so difficult to know words, and it's almost an impossible task for Shen Yan to get in touch with the knowledge of "magic" and "alchemy" in this world! This was known from Shen Yan's first week in the team. And what Milton had in his pocket was his first door to the mysterious world.

*****

The world of the mind is a boring place—empty and boring, majestic and boring, bright and boring, and I'm sorry for its name at all.

Unfortunately, the two masters she followed were all barren at heart. One of them is indifferent on the surface and the other is enthusiastic on the surface, and one is not close to the other is a parasitic flower, but their hearts are the same emptiness, because they have never let anyone in.

It's funny to say, the reason why Penny can move freely here is because Shen Yan has the deepest feelings for her, and the same is true for the former one. Although Penny is a weapon, she plays the most important role in their lives.

In addition to Penny, Shen Yan's world also broke into the shadow of a female elf - the beautiful performance of the moon elf at the moment before her death deeply captured Shen Yan's heart. This guy saw someone better than him for the first time, so he was amazed and fell in love with it - but unfortunately Shen Yan later thought that she was dead, became addicted to exercise, and became thinner and thinner, so this shadow dissipated by itself in a few days.

"Hoohoo! Penny, Penny see no, see no! Perception +1, I'm 5 now! This workout really works! Shen Yan's happy shout could be heard in every corner of the Soul Palace.

Penny put down the book in her hand, looked up at the scene of Shen Yan's exercise (suspended in the air of the hall like a holographic movie), and was so angry that she gritted her teeth a little, and she was even angry - watching Shen Yan blindfold and discern the direction of Omar's loss, she hated to add dubbing.

So the picture became: Omar threw a wooden stick to the left, Shen Yan's head turned to the left, dubbing "Wang~~"; Then throw to the right and turn to the right, dubbing "Wangwang~~~"

Ah, Penny is going to laugh like crazy! Laughing and rolling on the ground.

- Stupid, you deserve to be so stupid, stupid to death!

*****

Penny hacked Shen Yan's value, Shen Yan is a smart person, even if he doesn't know it at first, he will figure it out after a while. Anyway, the two of them don't care who hacks whom, it's like a game. As long as the unbreakable trust remains, none of this matters.

Shen Yan believed Penny, so even if Penny hacked his value, he thought that Penny was doing it for him, and instead reciprocated by exercising harder! Maybe it's because the value bottomed out after being depressed, and Shen Yan himself is not a person who only knows how to practice hard, he will often think and improve, so that the effect of exercise is a little amazing!

In less than a week, Shen Yan had achieved the bonus of [Agility +2], [Constitution +1], and [Spirit +1], and just now, his miserable perception had also made brilliant progress - [Perception +1]! Shen Yan's agility value after obtaining the blood of the Moon Elf was 10, which was already a relatively high among his various qualities. However, the agility of a normal Moon Elf is rarely lower than 15, so although his value is high, there is also a lot of room for improvement. As for the improvement of his physique and spirit, it was because of the strengthening effect of absorbing divine power, and his potential in both aspects was greater than the others.

After using Penny's yoga meditation training, her body and spirit have grown.

Unfortunately, this is not what Penny wanted to achieve when she hacked his stats - if you don't say that smart people are more likely to get into the horns than stupid people.

Biologically, when an organism loses a certain sense, it will actively replace it with another sense. For example, fish that live in underground rivers quickly evolve to be extremely sensitive to water vibrations after losing their vision. As snakes deteriorate their vision, their tongues become able to distinguish "tastes" in the air.

From a physiological point of view, in fact, it is simple and crude to express physical fitness with six attributes. Because it is clear to everyone that these six attributes are a whole that are related to each other.

What problems can arise in a person with a strength of 18 and a constitution of 8? He would break bones and dislocate himself all day long because of excessive force; And a man with strength 2 and agility 18 is like a dexterous gambler, who is clumsy except his fingers, because he has no strength to control his weight. Therefore, the difference between the relevant attributes should not be too large. Of course, there are also wonderful numbers of 5 strength, 5 agility, and 15 constitution - a dead house with a very good body but extremely inactive.

In fact, he can become an athlete with a little exercise.

And the attributes don't exist alone, strength + agility equals speed, agility + constitution equals coordination, and strength + constitution equals durability. In terms of spirit, perception + charm (bloodline) should be the intuition of creatures, spirit + charm is talent, and it is the root bone in the world of Xianxia...... In short, that's what Penny is for! She hoped that Shen Yan would seek other breakthroughs in the case of seriously weakening his attributes, so as to awaken the characteristics of actively making up for his shortcomings—such as using spirit to assist his damn perception 5!

When the lady was still very weak, it was the awakening of such a talent that she got through the most dangerous period. And the pinnacle of this feature is to calculate all attributes with the highest value of the six attributes.

However, Shen Yan, this guy actually practiced crookedly! He thought he was doing a good job...... Although it is really good. How could this not make Penny depressed.

If you practice like Shen Yan like this, as you improve the prompts from time to time, just like the game keeps prompting you to get rewards, he will become more and more motivated! In addition, his attributes were pressed very low before, and he practiced quickly. And anyone who plays the game knows that it is easy to estimate the time it takes to level up each level by practicing skills, and then you will enter a cycle of leveling and can't extricate yourself! In the end, I really got him to practice an extreme attribute!

"Xiao Yanyan really broke my heart!" Penny frowned.