Xu Ran is also very cautious about the battle with the bandit leader, he has never tried to fight with others before, although he has seen the battle between players and NPCs in the game, but those players are not human beings who belong to the same world as him, he doesn't know how he will react after being attacked by the spirit thorn, in case someone can bear it, and his system happens to be unable to bear it; He regretted it a little now, he should have asked Kong Xiuying to try to give himself a spirit thorn before, so that he could be mentally prepared for his physical reaction after being attacked by a spirit thorn; This is indeed a mistake.

However, there is no place to buy this regret medicine, and since it has reached this situation, it can only rise to the challenge.

Xu Ran's current mental power value has reached 17, that is to say, he can issue spiritual power commands or spiritual thorn attacks to characters within 6.5 meters of him, Xu Ran deliberately arranged the NPC sword and shield soldiers behind him to be 5 meters away from him, just in case he was attacked by the bandit's spiritual thorn and had no power to fight back, he could summon his sword and shield soldiers to come over and interfere with the bandit leader, so that he could get out of trouble.

Xu Ran didn't think about it because he was worried about the pain of being beaten and injured, but because he was worried that if he was not defeated by the other party's mental thorn, he might be canceled by the other party in the game. So in order not to lose this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I have to be extra cautious.

As for whether to consider whether the bandit leader might hurt the sword and shield soldiers by the way, Xu Ran felt that it was impossible, he judged that a self-respecting character like the bandit leader disdained to do that kind of thing that damaged the image, according to the bandit leader's behavior, the other party should appreciate doing it in a dignified manner.

The battle between the two sides began, and neither had used the Spirit Thorn at first; The height of this bandit leader is close to 1.9, and his body is one size larger than Xu Ran, which makes him very strong and strong. However, Xu Ran is still very confident that he has reached 18 power value, at least among the gamers he knows, this power value is also among the best.

As soon as Xu Ran came up, he had a tough confrontation with the opponent, and he wanted to confirm the opponent's strength, which was of guiding significance for the future combat methods; After several competitions of strength, Xu Ran confirmed that his strength was indeed slightly better than that of the other party, so that he had an advantage in strength, although this advantage was not very big.

Xu Ran, who was in the war, was a little proud in his heart, and he felt that his head suddenly "boomed", his brain was like being knocked by a hammer, and his brain was shocked by hatred, and his brain was suddenly blank, and his feeling for the things around him was also blank, as if he had entered a white vacuum, even if he was still open, his eyes were full of white vacuum.

Although Xu Ran knew in his heart that this was a spiritual stinger, he could only know that his brain seemed to have been cut off from the whole body; Immediately, Xu Ran regained his visual and physical sense, he didn't know how long his brain had been broken just now, he only saw that the other party's fist was hitting his face, and it was probably too late to dodge.

Xu Ran reflexively launched a spiritual stab at the other party, and then saw that the other party stopped his movements as if he was holding down the pause button, Xu Ran was also in a state of losing balance and about to fall, and he didn't care about hitting the other party, so he hurriedly moved his feet to gain a firm foothold. After Xu Ran stood firm, the other party had just woken up from the spirit thorn attack, and he also began to move his feet quickly to keep his body stable.

This first round of spiritual thorn collision ended like this, Xu Ran didn't know if he had been hit by the other party when he fainted just now, and after checking his blood volume information, he found that he had not lost blood, which was relieved. Xu Ran also had a bottom in his heart about his ability to withstand the attack of the spirit thorn.

As for the fact that as soon as he woke up after being hit by the spirit thorn, he could launch the spirit thorn so quickly, Xu Ran analyzed that it should be that after he was hit by the spirit thorn, the brain automatically accumulated the spirit thorn energy that could be used to fight back, maybe this is a conditioned reflex ability of the brain to the spirit thorn attack.

In the next battle, Xu Ran already felt relaxed psychologically, and he could let it go; Xu Ran participated in the battle between "Blowing Snow" and his opponent using spirit thorns in his dream, and he can be regarded as having some combat experience in this area; After being attacked by a spirit thorn, how to deal with it so that he could more effectively wait for the opportunity to hurt the enemy, he often pondered it when he was idle and had nothing to do, except that he had not yet put himself in the shoes of the real feeling when he was attacked by the spirit thorn.

In the later battle, Xu Ran waited for the opponent to attack him with spirit thorns at first, and then used spirit thorns to counterattack, and at the same time explored how to effectively inflict damage on the other party in this state; When suffering the opponent's 5th spirit stab attack, Xu Ran's timely counterattack was already able to cause a loss of 20 HP to the opponent while ensuring that he was not damaged.

The next two spiritual stab attacks, Xu Ran attacked first, he began to explore how to make the other party suffer more losses than himself when striking first, although these two mutual attacks did not hurt each other, but also made Xu Ran familiar with and master the actual combat experience in this area.

When both sides finished using the spirit thorn, Xu Ran's flexible and changeable technical and tactical abilities were originally slightly better than the opponent, and Xu Ran's strength value was higher than that of the opponent, which allowed him to use the method of power suppression to fight hard and attack, after the two sides fought for 5 minutes, Xu Ran destroyed the opponent, and his blood volume remained 80.

On the way to escort the caravan on the next journey, the merchant boss chattered even more happily, not caring at all about Xu Ran's few words; For a while, he praised Xu Ran's martial arts, and then talked about the country's governance and people's livelihood in the society at that time, which also showed that the business boss was well-informed.

Xu Ran actually likes to listen to the business boss talk about the background of the times in the game, and sometimes when the business boss is happy to talk to himself, he will ask a word or two by the way, so that the business boss can continue to talk deeper. The reason why Xu Ran said little was that he didn't understand the entire game system, so he didn't want to ask random questions, so he didn't have to cause trouble when he didn't ask the right question.

From the narrative of the business boss, Xu Ran felt that the background of their life era was somewhat similar to the feudal era of Huaxia, and the situation at that time was Guotai and Min'an, except that there would be some bandits and bandits in remote places.

Because the time of the battle with the bandits just now was not long, Xu Ran now felt that the time to walk along the way took a long time, although the scenery along the way was very beautiful, and its scenery was a little different from that on the earth, and it was completely possible to walk all the way with the mentality of travel, but Xu Ran's mind was not here, and he was thinking about whether the remaining time was enough to send the business boss to their destination, and if they didn't send it to the destination, they would go offline, and what should happen to them later. The county seat has already appeared not far ahead.

After Xu Ran sent the business boss to the county seat, he returned to Freedom Township through the transmission array in the county seat; When parting, the boss of the merchant repeatedly said: I hope that next time I can invite Xu Ran to give him the caravan bodyguard.

After Xu Ran returned to Freedom Township, he first went to store 10 sword and shield soldiers in the barracks, and there was no need to pay for the sword and shield soldiers to be stored in the barracks, which can be regarded as a benefit from the game.

Although Xu Ran had a blood recovery pill on his body this time, he didn't use it, he was thinking about it from a careful budget, wanting to see if the NPC soldiers could also recover their own blood like the players, if it was feasible, it would be a saving expense.

When he was walking on the mountain road just now, he was observing the changes in the blood volume of the soldiers, and found that the blood volume of the NPCs was already rising, and by the time he deposited the NPCs in the barracks, the blood volume of the soldiers had recovered, and the less had recovered 1 HP, and the more had recovered 2 HP. And when he deposited the soldiers who were not strong enough in the barracks, the officers on duty in the barracks did not have any objections to this.

Xu Ran then went to the mercenary to take on a personal C-level task, he thought about exploring it step by step, and he felt that it was still very difficult for the novice A-level task that he had just completed. Xu Ran was considering that if possible, he still needed to team up with other players, so that he could better exercise his mental strength through the complex scenes of team combination, and secondly, he would not be helpless when he encountered the attack of a ranged unit, or he would not have a chance to encounter an opponent with a ranged attack at all.

For the feeling of being hammered in the brain after being stabbed by the spirit thorn before, Xu Ran was quite puzzled after thinking about it, why is this attack skill not called the spirit hammer, but called the spirit thorn, what he doesn't know is that when the brain is attacked by the spirit thorn, it will spontaneously gather the ability to resist to consume the spirit thorn, just like the relationship between action and reaction force, because he is on par with the bandit's mental power value, so he feels like a hammer, if its mental power value is much lower than the other party, Then he will feel like being pierced by a sharp weapon, that is because his mental power resistance is weak, and he can't stop the opponent's spiritual thorn from directly attacking into the brain.

That night, after Xu Ran entered the dream game, he went directly to the barracks to get his sword and shield soldiers and began to complete the new mission. His sword and shield soldiers will have around 30 HP, and it seems that due to the short time, they can't fully recover. However, if he can recover to 30 HP, Xu Ran feels that it is not bad, at least he still has a certain amount of combat effectiveness.

During the afternoon battle, the leather armor of his sword and shield soldier was not seriously damaged, and it did not need to be repaired.

In Xu Ran's own personal information, the mental power value only recovered to 14, and the blood volume was 130.

Due to the fact that he was logging into the dream game twice a day, and the large loss of mental power lacked enough time to recover, Xu Ran was much more cautious when he played against the enemy's big boss in the game at night, no longer exchanging injuries with the opponent, but trying to choose to hurt the enemy with skills, and by the time the game ended that night, his HP residual value was still 85

In the afternoon of the next day, Xu Ran completed another personal B-level task. His general feeling is: the system will adjust the difficulty in the game according to the player's situation, like when he enters the game with a mental power value of 14, the boss in the game has a maximum mental power of 14, and will not arrange a boss with a mental power value of 17 according to his mental power full state of 17.

However, in this way, the cooldown time for Xu Ran to launch the spirit thorn is 3 seconds after the mental power value exceeds 15, while the boss who fights him needs to wait 20 seconds.

This B-level task already made Xu Ran feel quite struggling. When this quest is completed, his HP is only 70. The blood regeneration pill he had kept for the Sword and Shield Soldier was also forced to use it this time.

Although he successfully completed the C-level and B-level tasks, Xu Ran felt more and more that he needed to join a team, so that he could experience the cooperation between multiple arms.

When he entered the dream game again, Xu Ran deliberately went to the mercenary union hall first, wanting to see if there was a team recruiting new members, which happened to let him meet the newcomer he had met in the novice hall.

The other party also saw him at the same time, and immediately greeted him happily: "Friend, is your team recruiting?" Xu Ran also smiled and said, "I don't have a team, I also want to find a team to join." The other party looked at Xu Ran's blood volume (in the hall of the mercenary union, irrelevant people can also see each other's blood volume, out of the hall of the mercenary union, only those on the same team can see each other's blood volume.) Tentatively, he said, "Why don't we start a team of our own?" ”

Xu Ran said happily, "Okay, I'm the sword and shield soldier commanded, I don't know what kind of soldier you are?" The other party happily said, "I am a stick soldier." Xu Ran nodded and said, "It would be nice if we had one more ranged attack class in our team." When the man heard this, he hurriedly said, "There is a girl over there, who is the sword and shield soldier in command, wait for me." After saying that, he turned around and went to find someone.

Soon this person led a heroic young woman over, "She is 'Spring Breeze Warm', commanding archers, I am 'smiling in the sea', friend are you?" "Hello, I'm a 'camel in the desert,' just call me 'camel.'" Xu Ran smiled and said, the two people also smiled and said hello to Xu Ran, and the man said, "Just call me 'smile'." The woman also smiled and said, "It's good to call me 'Warm.'"

"Smile" went on to say: "'Camel' has high mental power, he is our boss, what do you think is the name of our team?" Xu Ran said: "Let's think about it together, I can't come up with a good name." A few people said a few, but they didn't feel that it was not grand enough, at this time, "Yixiao" said: "Why don't you call it this name, 'Camel's Warm Smile'" Seeing Xu Ran and "Hexu", they couldn't help but smile, and "Yixiao" said cautiously: "It won't be a name, it won't be too long, right?" ”

Xu Ran thought that the name of the team was a simple arrangement of the usernames of the three people, and he couldn't help but think it was a little funny, but then after thinking about it, the name was also neat and creative, so he smiled and said: "This name is very good." "Warm" also couldn't help but smile at this time and said, "It's good, good name"

The "Camel Smile" team was born, and there was no need to pay a fee when registering, and there was no team with the same name before, and they didn't need to think about having to choose another name.

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