Six days later

Late at night, on the outskirts of the forest

Cha!

A waist-high tree was cut off by Aaron's sword, and the sharp blade of the sword was like a lumberjack that brought up sawdust in the sky, and the sour and harsh friction sound made people frown. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Then, the half-cut of the tree that suddenly fell smashed into a cloud of dust, causing the birds and insects in the forest to flee in terror.

Aaron flicked his cross-sword in his hand, and there was a stirring whistling sound in the air, showing the user's incredible wrist strength and mastery of the sword.

Aaron wiped the hot sweat from his forehead with his hand, and kept inhaling heavy white gas in his mouth, soothing the physical fatigue caused by running a breathing method. At this moment, the white muscles on his body became red, and hot air continued to gush out from his body, which was the effect of improving the breathing method - exercising the muscles of the whole body, and there was no dead angle for exercise.

"Zero, show me my current body data. ”

"Drop, the host's current physical attributes are as follows-Host: AaronStrength: 1.8Sensitivity: 1.9Physique: 1.8"

A satisfied smile appeared on the corner of Aaron's mouth, "Are you approaching the quasi-knight stage?" It seems that after tonight's practice, if you count tomorrow night, it is estimated that I will be able to break through to the quasi-knight stage!"

In the past few days, under the hidden pressure of survival, Aaron has been practicing the 'Reverse Cross Breathing Method' desperately and frantically, coupled with constantly looking for plants that can enhance physical fitness, in just a few days, he has raised his physical fitness as a whole to the threshold of approaching the quasi-knight!

If those ordinary city guards were to know, I'm afraid they would be completely shocked and crazy.

A guy who has no foundation at all has approached the threshold of quasi-knights in just six days, and most of them have practiced the knight breathing method for five or six years, and they have not yet entered the stage of quasi-knights!

And Aaron is only in his early 14s this year, and he has a lot of youth to impact higher realms, and his future prospects are simply limitless - let alone official knights, maybe the realm above knights can try to touch it!

Like George, Simon, Ella and others are all around 16~18 years old, and their physical attributes are in the range of 1.5~1.7, if you want to reach about 1.9 like Aaron, who is close to a quasi-knight, I'm afraid it will take at least two or three years!

Aaron secretly judged the strength he currently had: "Now I, alone to hang Ella, Simon and they have absolutely no problem, it's just ......."

Aaron's gaze became a little deeper, because of the existence of the 'exception' - Bruce!

He hadn't forgotten that when chip zero scanned Bruce's body, the attribute data in his vision was obviously not in the normal range!

"To this day, I still don't know exactly how I was poisoned, but there is absolutely no doubt that someone wants to harm me! But why would 'he' want to harm me?"

Aaron muttered to himself as he speculated about the poisoner's motives, "What's the good of killing me, or is it going to help the poisoner if I die?"

"Bruce has been acting very unimpressed with me lately, but he's never shown his true strength in front of others, and everyone has always thought that he is still hovering before the threshold of a quasi-knight at best........"

"That cheap adoptive father, Bert, with half a large group of men, suddenly disappeared in the farthest village from the castle, and was thought to have died in the mouth of the monster while hunting........"

"Viscount Steve will take turns to send guards out on duty every week, and a total of more than 200 city guards, at least half of them will be in a state of external duty, and the remaining half will be in the Viscount's castle to recuperate........."

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed through Aaron's mind, giving him a vague idea of possibility—

"Hey~, looks like things might be getting interesting......."

Aaron muttered to himself inexplicably, saw a ray of morning light faintly emerging on the eastern horizon, hurriedly packed up his things, quietly left the forest, and returned to his house without alarming anyone.

Early the next morning

Aaron yawned and walked out of the room, looking sleepy, and walked to the village chief's table with swaying steps, and sat down lazily, causing Bruce, Simon and others to frown.

This is not the first time.

Except for the first day, for the next five days, Aaron looked lazy and sleepy every morning, as if he hadn't slept at all, yawning and eating breakfast, and after eating, he patted his ass and got up, and went back to his room to continue sleeping.

Totally a living 'sloth'.

In fact, you can't blame Aaron, who told him to sneak out every night to practice the knight's breathing method, as well as pick beneficial plants to take, which is basically equivalent to not sleeping for most of the night, and the sleep time is naturally very lacking.

Even though the chip zero is very powerful, it can assist Aaron to directly enter a state of 'deep sleep' and carry out high-efficiency and high-quality sleep - in short, it is a state of 'deep sleep' in the true sense.

However, 'deep sleep' alone is not enough, but 'light sleep' is also indispensable, because 'light sleep' is to some extent a self-recuperation of the brain that 'deep sleep' does not have.

Even if Aaron has the assistance of Zero, he can enter 'deep sleep' more quickly and reduce the proportion of 'light sleep' that is too much, and sleep by one or two hours less than the average person at most. Moreover, practicing the knight's breathing method is not only a great physical exertion, but also a lot of mental consumption, causing Aaron to sleep a few hours more than the average person recently—at least 10 hours of sleep, so that he can have enough energy to practice the knight's breathing method at night.

In this way, Aaron can only take advantage of the daytime to 'catch up on sleep', but in the eyes of several others, Aaron goes back to sleep every day - and sleeps all day.

"Hmph~!"

Seeing Aaron's lazy appearance, Ella couldn't help but snort heavily, although she didn't say much, but with her disdainful expression, it was obvious that the implication was conveyed-

'Useless waste'

Simon also had a bad expression, and said in a weird manner: "Yo~, Young Master Yada finally woke up, I thought you would sleep so much that you couldn't even eat breakfast!Heh, it turns out that you are still quite a 'punctual' person~!"

Now he has completely torn his face, clearly showing his dissatisfaction, if usual, although everyone feels disdain for Aaron in their hearts, but they will not say such things to their faces.

Obviously, Aaron's actions these days have touched the bottom line of their hearts, making them completely lose confidence in this titular 'team leader'.

However, Aaron, as if he had not heard the sarcasm at all, took the black bread to himself, and ate it with the freshly squeezed milk, and gulped it - after a few days of adaptation, he no longer had the same aversion to the black bread as he had been, and he had freshly squeezed milk to moisten his throat, and swallowed it without the slightest resistance.

Aaron still didn't pay any attention to them.

At this time, even Bob felt a little unbearable, and couldn't help but sneer: "Heh, if I were you, I would resign now, and why would I still be in the city guards?" After practicing the breathing method for so many years, I haven't even grown at all, and I can beat three people like you by myself......."

"Alright, don't talk nonsense with this kind of moth who eats white food, let him go. Bruce interjected, then got up and leaned in front of Aaron, who was eating in large chunks, and said coldly:

"You'd better eat more now, you won't have this chance later. When I return from this mission, I will report to Commander Willy and ask for you to be kicked out of the City Guard, we don't need a waste like you who has no strength. ”

Willy is one of the other two official knights in addition to Viscount Steve, and has a high status in the Viscount's domain, himself the captain of the first brigade of the City Guard, and is also responsible for commanding the entire City Guard, and is respectfully known as Willy's Commander.

Seeing this, George on the side pursed his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but under Bruce's cold gaze, he didn't say anything after all, sighed, and let them go.

Simon, Bob, and Ella were silent, but the expressions on their faces had clearly conveyed the meaning of 'approval and support', and at this moment, the title of 'team leader' that was originally draped on Aaron was also wiped out.

This is a real tearing of the skin, it seems that without Bert's protection, these people under his hands have completely disagreed with Aaron, and they have to put on a posture to draw their swords against each other.

Aaron still turned a deaf ear to this, unhurriedly finished the black bread in his hand, poured a large mouthful of fresh milk, completely ignored the people who looked at him coldly, and slowly got up and walked back to his room.

Syllable~!

The door was slammed shut, and Aaron continued to 'sleep' in a grand manner, ignoring Bruce and the others.

"Hmph~!" Bruce snorted coldly, and said with a hint of anger in his tone: "Let you be proud for the last day, and let you get out of the city guard when you return to the castle tomorrow." ”

Ella also sneered: "This waste still dares to put up a fight in front of us? If it weren't for the fact that this Aaron was still wearing the skin of the leader of the city guard, I wouldn't be able to beat him for the time being, he thought he could live so proudly?"

As he spoke, Ella puffed out her fists and let out a crisp snap of her fingers: "This kind of goods, I promise that I can beat him all over the ground with one hand, and when I return to the castle tomorrow, we will jointly apply to the commander to clean up this moth from our group, so that he will occupy the group seat every time, and if something happens, it will drag us back." ”

"That's right, we'll join forces at that time to let this dragging waste out of our group. ”

Simon happily took a bite of the black bread, only to be stuck in his throat by the dry bread cube, and coughed a few times before swallowing the bread smoothly-

"Damn black bread, I really don't want to stay in this bird place for a moment. ”

Simon angrily put the remaining black bread in his hand directly on the ground, this action made the village chief Macaulay, who was silently eating breakfast and pretending to be deaf and dumb about everything in front of him, the movement of his hand was fierce, and a trace of resentment flashed in his eyes irrepressibly.

However, this anger was randomly suppressed by Macaulay, he forcibly held back the anger in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Guard, this kind of black bread is already the best food we have here, I don't know how much effort it took the villagers to make, please don't waste it at will........"

At the same time, several pauper children who were standing in the distance peeking at the sight of the black bread that Simon had thrown on the ground immediately rushed up and tore each other and snatched it, because it was already a very delicious high-end food in their opinion.

"Hmph~, the best food? Who knows if you, the old horseman, have hidden something else?"

Simon didn't save any face for Macaulay, in the past, their group went to other villages, and even the more prosperous town of Dolon, and the worst they ate was fragrant white bread, where is this small village ranked last in the territory, and the coarse black bread provided can be compared?

What's more, these soldiers stationed in them represent the lord - Viscount Steve, and the administrators of those villages dare not disrespect them at all, because they are the viscount's personal soldiers, the symbol of the viscount's right to govern the land.

"You!"

Macaulay couldn't help but spit out a word, but when he saw Simon put his hand on the cross sword at his waist as if he didn't seem to be absent, he couldn't help but swallow the words that came to his lips, and continued to bow his head and become a 'deaf and dumb' -

He finally managed to become a village chief, but he didn't want to be replaced by the lord because of this, at least being a village chief could indeed intercept a lot of private goods, such as some expensive macaroni........

As for offending the garrison soldiers for the sake of those villagers, and turning back and letting the soldiers hit their own little reports?

No kidding, it doesn't matter how many of these villagers die, as long as they don't get in their way.

Seeing Macaulay's performance, Simon nodded in satisfaction, a hint of disdain flashed in his eyes, and continued to eat and drink with his head down.

Bob on the side saw the poor children who were snatching the black bread, and seemed to be thoughtful, and quietly picked up two pieces of black bread and stuffed them into his arms...........

In the distance, many onlookers watched the end of a morning farce, and most of the villagers had a hint of hatred in their eyes, but they could only turn away and continue to do their hard work.

If they didn't work, they couldn't afford to pay the heavy taxes every month, and they would take turns to feed the soldiers who came to the village every week to show off their might, and eat and drink for nothing.

Only Bruce seemed to sense something, frowned and drank a mouthful of fresh milk, and whispered in a voice that only he could hear: "Lord Viscount's taxes are indeed a bit heavy compared to the territories of other nobles........."

.................

Late that night

Aaron quietly pushed open the door as usual, but he had just left the house, his eyebrows furrowed slightly, and his gaze involuntarily swept towards a house on the east side of the village.

The house was brightly lit, and there seemed to be a faint sound.........