Xu Ran was still working in the blacksmith shop every afternoon in the first week of October, and when he was working in the blacksmith shop on Monday afternoon, Xu Ran asked the boss if he could increase the workload, and the boss said that his physical strength was still a little low, and when his physical strength reached 14, he could consider increasing his workload.

This week, Xu Ran still chooses to graze sheep in the pasture at night.

Xu Ran felt that he could easily cope with the herding of 6 sheep now. He wants to practice herding 7 sheep from this week; Although according to the rules in the dream game: when the mental power value is 10, the upper limit of grazing is 6 sheep, Xu Ran wants to try to improve his mental power quickly by increasing the pressure and difficulty of himself.

When Xu Ran proposed to the owner of the ranch on Monday night to graze 7 sheep, although the boss reminded him that with his mental strength he was only suitable for grazing 6 sheep now, Xu Ran still insisted on trying to herd 7 sheep, and the boss did not persuade him anymore and agreed to let him take the 7 sheep to graze.

After driving 7 sheep on the road, Xu Ran began to realize the difficulty of grazing 7 sheep, he can now only issue six commands in a row within the effective time interval of a mental power command, and the 7th sheep will move around at will without receiving instructions, although the effective range of his current mental power instructions is already 3 meters, but because there are more sheep grazing, the sheep can easily get out of the control range of his mental power, so he has to run back and forth to give instructions to the sheep beyond the control range.

Originally, he thought that herding an extra sheep should be similar to the situation that had occurred before, at most, at first, he ran a few more steps by himself, and it was a little harder, and then it should be that the time interval between his own mental power instructions could gradually keep up with the requirements of grazing; But in fact, this is not the case, due to the limitation of his mental power, the time interval between the mental power commands he sends can only allow him to take care of 6 sheep at the same time, and he can no longer compress the time for grazing the 7th sheep.

When the seventh sheep is running around, even if he runs to the sheep, he can't immediately give the necessary commands, he can only use the stick in his hand to stop the sheep from running around, and then the sheep will turn back to him and make him scramble. This situation caused him to be highly nervous, and he had no leisure to pay attention to anything else, and he did not dare to drive the sheep to the grass with bushes to graze this time, and he was also powerless to let him drive the sheep to the bushes to graze, because he could not control the direction of the sheep well.

Xu Ran only thinks about letting the sheep eat their stomachs and not make a fuss.

When Xu Ran was running around in a hurry, he suddenly received a message from the system: "The player's mental power has reached the lower limit, and he needs to go offline to rest." After thinking about it for a few seconds, Xu Ran immediately called up the control panel and chose to go offline. Even the grazing sheep are not taken care of. After Xu Ran woke up the next morning, he entered another dream game and checked his personal information: mental power 7 (normal is 10); Strength: 13; Stamina: 13; HP: 70. He had also observed before that when he woke up in the morning, his mental power value was at most one value lower than the normal value, but this time it was directly reduced by three values, which showed the consumption of mental power when grazing at night.

When you log in to the dream game again in the afternoon, your mental power and HP will return to normal values.

When he went to the ranch again on Tuesday night, the ranch owner told him that because he had not returned the seven sheep he had grazed yesterday, he would be deducted five copper coins for each sheep according to the death of the sheep. Xu Ran didn't dare to ask for 7 sheep to be grazed this time, so he still honestly went to herd the 6 sheep that his mental strength could bear normally. He didn't know if the lower limit of mental power in the game would have an impact on his body, and he didn't want to take this risk. If herding 7 sheep would not cause damage to his body if he could quickly increase his mental strength, he could afford to be deducted 3.5 silver coins a day for the time being.

When Xu Ran logged in to the game on Saturday afternoon, his personal information changed again: mental power 10; Strength: 14 (original 13); Stamina: 13; HP: 100.

As of Sunday (that is, October 4), Xu Ran's personal game currency has accumulated: 9 gold coins, 3 silver coins and 9 bronze coins.

Xu Ran is responsible for the decoration construction during the National Day construction as usual, as a construction unit, in addition to the New Year period will be all holidays, that is, the busy farming season may be because the construction personnel want to go home to farm will be on holiday, usually there is no rest day; The workers are out to earn money, and he doesn't want to let him rest.

Xu Ran routinely went to the construction site every morning to manage it, and entered the dream game at home in the afternoon.

The script for Xu Ran's cartoon "Zhou Dynasty" was written this week, and on Sunday night Xu Ran sent the electronic version of the script to Kong Xiuying, and he will start preparing to write the script for the cartoon of the Spring and Autumn Period from the next week. There are a lot of things that happen in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it takes a lot of effort to intersperse them well.

After buying the 100-kilogram dumbbells, Xu Ran began to do strength exercises every day, and the methods of practice are downloaded from the Internet and are easy to master.

Now he uses 100 kg to practice directly, Xu Ran also feels a little difficult, but the dumbbell pieces he bought are combined, Xu Ran chose the combination of 70 kg at the beginning, and he feels that it is just right for him to practice.

On September 30, Xu Ran received 572,000 yuan in cash transferred from Kong Xiuying's animation website to his bank card, which was his after-tax manuscript fee income for VIP cartoons during this period. "Five Emperors" has a total of 10 episodes, and the last nine episodes are all included in VIP, and the number of subscriptions has exceeded 3 million people/episode, and the website temporarily settles with him according to 3 million people/episode. (9 x 3 million x 0.04 yuan = 1.08 million yuan, after deducting the pre-tax manuscript fee of 200,000 yuan last month, Xu Ran should be paid 880,000 yuan before tax this month, and the animation website temporarily withheld 35% of the personal income tax reserve for Xu Ran, and Xu Ran should be paid 880,000 yuan x 65% = 572,000 yuan in September.) The rest of the withheld part will be settled by the animation website for him after a full year. ）

As for the other works created by Xu Ran, due to the lack of clicks for the time being, the website will not settle after discussing with Xu Ran.

Since the members of the "Dream Walker" group discussed in the group that Kong Xiuying's cartoon website can develop and promote cartoons with historical themes, Li Xin has been struggling with whether he should also write cartoon scripts, to put it bluntly, Li Xin also wants to write some cartoon scripts with historical themes, he himself agrees with Xu Ran's point of view, Chinese civilization should be well promoted, and he is still a liberal arts student, and he thinks that he still has a certain level of writing. However, considering that his working time is mainly in front of the computer, if he uses his spare time to write scripts, it is very likely that the people in the unit will think that he is faking public affairs and personal interests, and the impact is not good, and he forcibly suppresses his desire to write.

When he saw Xu Ran earn 130,000 yuan by writing scripts last month, he was already a little itchy; Seeing Xu Ran earn another 572,000 yuan this month, he really couldn't help it, after all, a person's economic income directly reflects the person's career achievements, and he also wants to be able to get ahead;

The reason why Li Xin knows the income of Xu Ran's writing is because every time she transfers money, Kong Xiuying will inform Xu Ran in QQ private chat. Li Xin can still receive chat monitoring records of several of them every week.