Chapter XVII Grain Reserves and Wages
The muscles of both arms are still a little shaky, especially the left arm, which is responsible for holding the shield, often suddenly loses strength, and each time it almost causes the rice bowl to fall out of the hand. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Soru chuckles every time he sees this scene, but Carl seems to ignore it, just eating his share of food quickly.
It seems that the training is a bit overdone, which is a sign that the muscles are about to hurt. He had never experienced special training before, he didn't know what his limit was, and he couldn't develop scientific training methods. The pain now is the price he must pay, so Zhao Mai was not discouraged, put the bowl on the table, lowered his head and sucked it directly with his mouth.
It's a somewhat unsightly gesture, but it's very practical. He ate for a while, and found that his trouser legs felt pulled, and when he looked down, he saw that it was indeed a good thing done by the little furry dog. It tugged at its pants with its little white teeth, its eyes wide open and it let out a whine. Zhao Mai thought about it, such a small dog might not be able to feed meat directly, so he held a little rice porridge in his hand and gave it to drink.
The little tongue licked the palms of the itchy palms, and the puppy quickly drank the porridge. Zhao Mai was about to fill it with some more, when Ranger Carl threw a piece of fat over. Seeing this, the puppy ran two steps excitedly, picked up the meat slices, and returned to Zhao Mai's feet triumphantly, eating on his stomach.
"This dog is yours from now on. Karl said to Zhao Mai: "Take care of it, and it will take care of you." ”
After an interval of two seconds, Zhao Mai understood the meaning of this sentence. He had wanted to adopt this puppy for a long time, but he didn't know how to speak. A bright smile bloomed, and while touching the dog's head, he asked, "What's the dog's name?" ”
"Jerky".
This name obviously did not satisfy Zhao Mai. The big dog is called dog meat, and the small dog is called jerky? Although it is easy to feed by a cheap name, this name is too easy to confuse, and it is not convenient to call it every day.
Ranger Carl gave his animals strange names, and Zhao Mai slowly understood the meaning of all the words. The white goose that guards the door is called a sausage, the squirrel that can deliver letters is called a cookie, and the rabbit that is kicked over by a python all day long is called a potato...... Zhao Mai wasn't sure if this was Carl's quirk or a ranger tradition, so after thinking about it for a while, he decided to change the name of the puppy to "Ah Liang".
"Ah Liang, Ah Liang. Zhao Mai called the name while scratching the puppy's chin. It looked very happy, sticking out its tongue and looking at Zhao Mai with flattering eyes, and snorted from time to time.
"From now on, your nickname will be Ah Liang, the grain of the grain reserve. ”
No one in this world understands Chinese, so the puppy doesn't know the meaning of his name, just indulges in inexplicable happiness and remembers that he is called Ah Liang of Reserve Grain.
It took a lot of effort to finish dinner, and Zhao Mai began to think of a way to solve the problem of soreness and weakness in his arms. He kept kneading his muscles to relax as much as he could. The techniques used are all from their own imagination and poor imitation, which is far from the skills of real therapists, but fortunately it is better than nothing. Before I fell asleep, my arms were in much better condition.
The reserve grain was still squeezed next to Zhao Mai's shoulder to sleep, and sometimes the hair would rub against Zhao Mai's ears, but he never woke up. When fatigue hit, Zhao Mai slept like a dead pig, completely unaware of the situation around him.
He didn't know why the puppy liked his shoulder, or how it behaved when he fell asleep. The angel old man who took him to the fantasy world once patted Zhao Mai on the shoulder a few times, saying that it was the fare left for him. Whenever Zhao Mai went to rest due to fatigue or injury, a pure and holy positive energy flowed out from the invisible palm print, secretly treating him.
This hidden energy goes unnoticed, not by Carl, by dog meat, or by worms. Only the reserve grain vaguely sniffed out something, so it seized the best position. When the positive energy is working, he will stick out his little tongue to lick it, and then show a satisfied expression, as if he is a bear that has stolen honey.
A taxi through time and space is not as simple as Zhao Mai thought. It uses Destiny Gold as fuel and tolls, but the fare is calculated separately, after all, you can't make a trip every time. Different worlds have different dangers, and these dangers are borne by the driver, so passengers need to pay a part of their ability to pay for the fare. This is a rule that belongs to the god of space, and no one can break it.
Most of the beings who are able to independently obtain the gold coins of fate are the darlings of fate, and their abilities are strange, but it is undeniable that many of them are unique and cannot be replicated. Long ago, in the days of magic ships, the ability to pay for the tickets was permanently lost, causing many powerful men to kill after completing their journeys to prevent their abilities from being studied, studied, and leaked to their enemies. This situation made dimensional travel a high-risk business for a time, until the sudden appearance of the Ring Alliance.
This organization harnesses the power of the gods of knowledge, magic, and prophecy to transform what would otherwise be a permanent transfer of power into a temporary one. As compensation, while this power is still in the driver's body, he has a certain chance of comprehending this power. There will be a difference between the perceived power and the original power, after all, the original user and the current user are different individuals. In the past, it was used directly, but now there is an opportunity to learn, and there are pros and cons for drivers.
At the same time, each time a crossing event occurs, the Ring Alliance will also receive a portion of the ability, which can be used to locate the identity and location of the traveler. If there is another incident of the passenger's mouth, the Ring Alliance will retaliate.
This is not a simple revenge, but the erasure of all cause and effect from the passenger, so that it "never" appeared in this world. The Ring Alliance then takes a portion of these erased causes and effects to reshape the slain drivers, and uses the rest as the surviving force for the Alliance's operations. This is what veteran drivers value the most.
The magical ships that crossed various planes and crystal walls joined this organization one after another, and then organized to form an "official" fleet, gradually monopolizing the crossing market. Some of the top management of the Ring Alliance, who believe that the excessive monopoly of the magic ship will lead to the decay and degeneration of the Ring Alliance, and will eventually bury the alliance in the graveyard. Therefore, they have limited support for some "part-time drivers", so that they can stimulate the competitiveness of the magic fleet.
These part-time drivers, such as Zhao Mai, do not enjoy the Ring Alliance's reshaping cause and effect services, but on the surface they seem to be no different from the abilities of the magic fleet, so they are still under the protection of deterrence. This is kept secret from part-time drivers, lest they turn around and join the magic fleet. The Ring Alliance gives part-time drivers more flexibility and hopes that they will grow up and operate independently after tasting the sweetness, and eventually become loose but strong competitors.
The power left by the old angel man is pure positive energy, a vast but domineering vitality. This power can be used to heal wounds and promote growth, but it can also have the effect of "pulling out the seedlings and helping them grow". Since the crossing, Zhao Mai's mental tension and physical fatigue have always existed. It's just that the positive energy is slowly released, and it has been comforting and healing. For an intact body, it may help to grow seedlings, but for an injured body, it is all for the sake of tonics.
The process of physical exercise is to create small wounds that the body can withstand, and then treat them quickly to maintain the sense of threat while replenishing nutrition. Zhao Mai doesn't understand the scientific method, his exercise is actually excessive, but what is even more excessive is the positive energy left by the angels.
The next morning, he was fully rewound......
He naively thought that the old ranger Carl had secretly cast a restorative spell on him in the middle of the night.