Chapter 18: The Soul Warrior (Part II)

No matter how difficult the world is, life must go on.

The headache of the first hangover, the weakness of the soul that can be drained, made Jiang Shang have a splitting headache, nausea and vomiting, and he got up and walked two steps slightly, which was a severe dizziness and headache.

"Fortunately, it's Sunday, otherwise, my full attendance would be in vain."

It's only a matter of time before the strings that are forever taut break, and with a rest day that represents the end of a busy week, there is a new beginning.

However, compared to the past, two days off a week is too luxurious, and one day has been shortened, and today, it happens to be the only day off this week.

But for a self-reliant child like Jiang Shang, a rest day does not mean that he can really rest.

If it's a good old day, hurry up and work all day at a Red Lips bar or restaurant to make life less stressful for the week ahead.

But now that the restaurant job has been quit and the bar has been largely destroyed, it is not easy to find a new place to work.

It's a pity to waste a rare rest day at home, and it just so happens that the family's food reserves are almost finished, so it is natural to go out and buy it.

At this time, Jiang Shang walked on the street with a helpless face, and Hongling behind him couldn't help but look at him, covering her mouth and snickering.

No, Hong Ling didn't hide from Jiang Shang's field of vision, she was sneering blatantly.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Jiang Shang reluctantly turned his attention to the ground.

Did you fail to learn soul skills? No, at least not a failure.

Did it work? I'm afraid, no, even Jiang Shang himself, can't tell whether it is a success or a failure.

And such a result, theoretically, is indeed a matter of course, but it is even more laughable.

At the beginning, it was smooth.

Just through Hong Ling's demonstration, he successfully mastered the light technique and light strike technique, and while making Hong Ling shout incredible, he got a surprise - he engraved the two soul skills from the blank sage card into the soul skill card.

Learning soul skills is not achieved overnight, gradually becoming familiar with the position of soul power running in the body, the skills of exerting force, and allowing the body to instinctively memorize soul skills, it takes a process.

Even the most basic one-star soul skill, from initial learning and mastery to proficient use, often takes more than half a month, and by then, this soul skill will even reach the first-order basic stage.

And starting from the basic level, after two or three months, when the soul skill can be activated as if it were a physical instinct, and it can be activated with a single gesture, you can try to engrave the soul skill with the sage tablet and master it thoroughly.

After that, it is often a quantitative increase rather than a qualitative change, and the burden on the body of higher-level soul skills is too great, and not all soul skills have the value of entering the third-order soul embodiment.

And Jiang Shang actually just learned and successfully engraved it!

If this is all there is, Hong Ling will only regard him as another genius who is extremely talented in the gloss system, although in these years, geniuses are really not very valuable, Jiang Shang himself will only be happy, not so depressed.

But what happened next was an unusually speechless development.

Originally, it was supposed to be a soul skill card with an orange-red background, but it was like an old photo with insufficient ink, and the patterns on it were a little blurry.

And the most speechless thing is the number in the lower left corner that indicates the level of soul skills.

Under normal circumstances, since he had reached the second-order control, the soul skill level was at least two or three, but on Jiang Shang's soul skill card, that number was something Hong Ling had never seen before-zero!

Yes, 0, zero eggs, represents a number that has nothing.

And when it comes to using it, it's frustrating.

Under normal circumstances, the ball of light summoned by the Light Technique could illuminate more than thirty square meters and last for more than half an hour, while the one summoned by Jiang Shang was like an old flashlight, with a lighting range of less than ten square meters and a duration of ...... Two minutes!

The use of the light attack technique is even more speechless, the standard summon is a small ball of light with a radius of 30 centimeters, but what he summons is a small firefly-like small bright spot.......

Under normal circumstances, the light strike technique with a range of 20 meters, but in Jiang Shang's expectations, his little firefly flew three meters, and a gust of wind blew, emitting a wisp of black smoke, which suddenly went out.

On the spot, Jiang Shang's eyes were dull and his face was full of shock, but Hong Ling held her stomach mercilessly and laughed.

Even now, a few hours have passed, but Hong Ling still smiles from ear to ear.

In fact, such a result is unexpected, those who practice soul skills normally are at least colored rough stones, and those who can deduce soul skills to second-order card inscriptions are often strong people with third-level gem-level soul stones.

According to the mastery level of soul skills, the basic-level soul skills can just be used, and the specialization-level soul skills can be inscribed, which is already a second-order soul skill, and it takes a lot of time to learn and master.

People like Jiang Shang who have successfully engraved as soon as they get started are often professional night watchmen who have already attained high attainments in other soul arts, and it is unheard of that they can be engraved even though they are white stones.

As a result, it is as if the No. 5 battery is used as a car power supply, although it is still an energy source and can still supply energy, but the car battery and the No. 5 battery are completely different specifications, and the power is obviously insufficient.

"It's bad luck. Hey, the one in the back, don't laugh, I've been laughing for more than half an hour, is the laugh so low? ”

has been ridiculed for so long, even Jiang Shang is a little impatient.

"Of course it's funny, by the way, I should have recorded it with engrams and showed them too."

"Them?"

"A group of stupid men with five big and three rough, my temporary comrades-in-arms, there is nothing to say."

Hearing this, Jiang Shang couldn't help but think that due to the high danger of the abandoned beasts and the old gods, most of the night watchmen were subordinate.

"Is it your companion of the Knights and Warbands?"

"No, I don't belong, I'm an independent night watchman. That's not my companion, just some hard-nosed fool. ”

Jiang Shang was a little surprised, even he knew how important it was for a strong organizational back-up to be in such a harsh environment from the outside world, and it was extremely rare for a night watchman like Hong Ling to not join any organization.

"It is said that most of the independent night watchmen either have a bad reputation and no organization is willing to accept them, or their original comrades are killed in battle."

Jiang Shang wanted to stop talking, he had already seen that Hongling's mood was not very high, and he seemed to be a little reluctant to mention this.

"By the way, what color do you like?"

"Weishenme asked this?"

"I'll buy you some utensils, toothbrushes, cups, quilts, I can't let you use the old ones that other people have used."

Jiang Shang's logic is very simple, since Hong Ling came to live in his house as his protector, he had to entertain her well, so he naturally had to prepare daily necessities for him.

"Since ancient times, the Tang people have paid attention to 'having friends from afar, and they are happy.'" You can't be sloppy in entertaining guests, otherwise, you will lose the face of the Jiang family. ”

Father's lesson seems to be still in his ears, and Jiang Shang did not hesitate to use the family reserve fund for the visit of this unexpected guest, although I am afraid that the future will be much sadder.

"Girls? I? ”

Hongling pointed at herself in disbelief, as if she couldn't believe it.

When I went to the battlefield at the age of eleven, I was treated as a monster a lot of times, and I was treated like an ordinary girl.

"Well, you should only be two or three years older than me, why aren't you a girl? If you're not sure about your idea, buy red**, your name is also 'red', and your soul color is also red, so you should like red very much."

Hong Ling interrupted Jiang Shang's words in one bite.

"No, I hate red the most, I want green, grass green!"

"Well, then pale green**. There was a supermarket nearby that was very cheap, and I remember that they had a lot of goods, even pajamas for sale. ”

As if thinking of something happy again, Hongling smiled.

"Go! Grass green pajamas, but also cartoon quilts. ”

said something that made Jiang Shang feel a little naΓ―ve, as if he couldn't wait, and pushed Jiang Shang to speed forward.

Not long after, Jiang Shang learned that a night watchman like Hongling habitually went from one battlefield to another, and the daily necessities were all uniformly purchased military supplies, not to mention the pattern, and he didn't even have to pick a color.

I'm afraid that at this time, she has long forgotten what it feels like to go shopping on a daily basis.

Of course, Jiang Shang didn't even find out that in fact, Hongling was only sixteen this year, only one year older than him, but her more mature makeup and development, and confident demeanor concealed her real age.

What's even more surprising is that this is the first time she has received a gift from someone else in the past three years, so it's no wonder she is so happy.

The funds are relatively sufficient, and Hongling is not picky, and she is satisfied with just a slightly cute animal pattern, and the shopping is smoother than expected.

"Towels, quilts, shampoo, soap, almost, don't have enough to buy more."

"Hmm. Well, this is like a good apprentice, wait for the teacher to teach you a few more tricks. ”

Maybe it's because they have little contact with the daily life of civilians, everyone is quietly queuing up to pay, but Hongling is still looking around with interest.

It's the weekend, and there are a lot of shoppers, and the checkout staff at the store is a bit understaffed, so the queue has been long.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, there were still three people in front, and suddenly, a big orc cut in front of Jiang Shang.

It was a tall sheep-headed orc, more than two meters tall, and his body was as fat as a hippopotamus.

The fat body swayed sideways all of a sudden, squeezing Jiang Shang, who was caught off guard, but the sheep man pretended not to know, and he didn't even turn his head.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Jiang Shang stood up by himself, but he didn't plan to think about it too much, and silently lined up again.

Just now, he was also a beast subhuman in front of him, and a gem-level soul powerhouse in the back, seeing that his white stone was queuing, he naturally planned to bully himself.

There are already too many things like this, Shiraishi is not bullied once or twice, if he has to get angry every time he is bullied, I'm afraid, he will have to fight every day.

As if he didn't see Jiang Shang who fell, the sheep-headed man squeezed into the line while smiling and making a phone call.

Unlike the old days, when almost everyone had a mobile phone, the current Soul Energy Communication Tower has a limited signal and can only be used in towns, which is effective and extremely expensive.

After all, the cost of erecting a signal tower has to come from the user, and a signal tower can only be used by a few thousand households.

While most people are re-using the communication bird for correspondence, some people are re-using their soul phones in public, which is undoubtedly a kind of show-off.

Such a person is used to being domineering, what is it to cut in line and bully a few white stones.

There were whispers in the back, and there were those who pointed at that guy, but no one was willing to help, after all, the natural body of this big orc was very scary, at least enough to clean up the low-level soul power.

It would be too embarrassing to be beaten up at the beginning, Jiang Shang himself was sure of victory, but he did not have the character to use force at will.

Jiang Shang wanted to calm things down, but some people were unhappy.

"Boy, I'll help you vent, just take it as a gift for you."

The words in his ears made Jiang Shang's face change greatly, he was not worried about Hong Ling, but worried that Hong Ling was too heavy.

But to Jiang Shang's surprise, Hong Ling didn't mean to use force, but winked at him and smiled weirdly.

"Wife, did you win mahjong? I'm shopping at the store......"

She leaned over to the orc who was on the phone.

"Guest officer, next time you come to play, remember to point out Xiaohong."

The sweet voice is not big, but it is daddy and sticky, as if he is leaning over to be coquettish, the voice is not loud, but it happens to be transmitted to the mobile phone.

The clawed orc was stunned for a moment, but the phone had already exploded, and all kinds of ugly scolding came at once.

"I didn't lie to you, it's really in the store, it's someone playing a prank!" ,

As he spoke, he also glared at Hong Ling fiercely, but when he saw the lantern bearer emblem on Hong Ling's chest, he trembled with fright, and hurriedly lowered his head and explained to his wife in a whisper.

Guessing what Hong Ling was going to do, Jiang Shang put his mind at ease, but Hong Ling immediately gave him a look, but the shape of his mouth was saying, 'Watch me do a good show'.

Then, Hong Ling roared:

"3rd floor Pink Paris Suite guest check out! It's the one where two men and women play together! ”

The sheep-headed orc was dumbfounded, and the phone seemed to explode and toss, and there was a loud and terrifying cry from it.

And Jiang Shang and the other guests were stunned at first, and then coaxed daxiao!

"Haha, that's amazing!"

"Look at the guys, they're all scared silly."

"A man and two women playing together? So creative! ”

And the big guy who reacted quickly cut off the mobile phone and glared fiercely, wanting to be annoyed, but he didn't dare to attack because of Hongling's identity as a night watchman.

The laughter wasn't over yet, and the laughter behind it was getting louder and louder.

The big sheep-headed man stomped his feet, had no face to stay, dropped the shopping basket, didn't even want the goods, and ran out directly.

Hongling took Jiang Shang's shopping basket and stood in the vacated position of the sheep-headed man, this time, no one complained, but someone applauded and welcomed.

As if she had won some great victory, the girl hugged her fists and cheered at Jiang Shang.

"It's xiexie."

"The thank you in your mouth is so insincere, it is said that you are a good cook, wait and report me with your cooking skills."

Unmodestly proud of her achievements, Hongling said with pride on her face.

"Of course, I'm curious, where did you know that?"

"Someone who knows you said."

"Know me? Is it the Night Watchman? ”

"Well, who knows. It's not a gentleman's behavior to ask a girl's secret. ”

Hongling carried a shopping bag and walked in front.

The breeze blew, the long hair fluttered in the wind, this strong woman, caressing her eyebrows, apricot eyes with a smile, with a little memory in her smile, but showing a rare daughterly appearance.