The battle continued at night, in the dim light of the campfire.

After more than a dozen battles, the most obvious improvement was Shina, who was no longer frightened by Wang Shui's false attacks, and could simply judge what attacks could be blocked and what attacks needed to be dodged.

And Wang Shui also adapted to the feel of the short sword (dagger).

"Yes, if you attack in a straight line, you should move the position where you are expected to hit back, because retreat is the most common way for the enemy to dodge."

As Wang Shui leaned back to dodge, Shiina's short sword chased after his eyebrows, forcing him to bend down first and then twist his body to the right.

At this time, the short sword in Shina's hand rotated one hundred and eighty degrees under the plucking of his fingers, and the reverse grip became a positive grip, and the sword technique was pressed forward with his footsteps, and a shot of [Piercing Armor] ran towards Wang Shui, who turned his back to her because he turned around.

The damage number burst out, and this kidney blow in the back hit perfectly, Shina, who caused damage to Wang Shui for the first time, naturally rejoiced in her heart, but she didn't stop the rhythm of the attack.

Shino raised her short sword and immediately judged her sword skills, ready to make up for the damage with the posture she put out from behind.

And Wang Shui twisted his body in a low posture to drive her legs, and a small whip kick kicked Shina's right arm, not only breaking Shina's body balance, but also interrupting her sword skills.

"I didn't expect that with my skills, I could survive until now before I was injured, I was too strong."

After Wang Shui stood firm, he immediately praised himself, glad in his heart that it was just a game, otherwise he would not have the strength to twist and kick back with the kidney blow just now.

Shino didn't speak, but he held a short sword in his right hand, his arms naturally drooped, his body was straight and slightly swaying back and forth, and his arms were naturally frozen like wicker, making people unable to figure out his movements.

This is the style of a calm assassin.

This standing posture is naturally taught by Wang Shui, and Wang Shui is seen from the information, but that information is not a professional dagger attack tutorial, but teaches ordinary people who exercise with daggers how to look handsome.

But Wang Shui feels that this kind of action is quite practical in the game, because the game does not particularly emphasize the force posture, as long as you can use the sword technique, the power of the attack will not be small, so this kind of good-looking and impractical skill can cover up the intention of the shot in the game.

And Shino, who has short ice blue hair and eyes, is even more handsome when she poses like this.

In the shaking, Shino leaned over and took steps, the short sword in his hand still drooping but inexplicably palpitating.

Facing the rush of Shi Nai without using sword skills, Wang Shui was also holding a dagger and stepping up to greet him, and at the moment of contact, Shi Nai suddenly condensed his sword skills and turned his wrist to bite.

It stands to reason that with the blessing of sword skills, the power will become very strong when attacking, and the skills of charging and stabbing can even take people out, but Wang Shui still used his wrist to support Shi Nai's offensive wrist, and it was on the shelf with both hands, and he progressed into a horse under his feet and took root on the ground.

The huge force came along the arms, and Wang Shui stabilized his body and parried with all his might, the muscles of his whole body felt soreness and exhaustion, and his bones seemed to be broken.

But, he resisted!

The light effect of the sword technique slowly dimmed, and Shi Nao's arm was weak in surprise, Wang Shui took the opportunity to wrap Shi Nai's right arm with his left hand, pinning her attack, and at the same time handed the short sword to Shi Nai's collarbone with his right hand.

The blade stopped, Shino was let go, and then said a faint word to continue, then turned around and prepared to open the distance.

At this time, Wang Shui spoke:

"That's the end of tonight, fighting is something you need to think about, not just muscle memory."

After saying that, Wang Shui walked back to the fire, re-placed the meat on the stone slab that had been burned, and took out a pile of scattered manuscript papers while roasting the meat, and looked at the contents by the firelight.

"What is this?" Shi Nai walked behind Wang Shui and stood still, seeing that Wang Shui did not stop him, he looked over his shoulder and looked at the manuscript paper.

"This is some boxing books, as well as a compendium of boxing techniques, just now I suddenly had an inspiration, I always feel that all the fighting techniques seem to be like boxing, especially the use of short swords, the closer the attack distance, the more like the logic of boxing."

Shi Nai didn't understand it, and she didn't understand it, because the manuscript paper in Wang Shui's hand was full of Chinese characters, and she could still recognize a lot of single characters, but the pure Chinese characters were coherent and much worse than she thought they were.

"Sa...... Tianshujun, this is a Chinese character? ”

"No, it's Chinese characters."

Although the advanced vocabulary of kanji used in Japanese is also called kanji, the pronunciation and meaning have changed to a greater or lesser extent, and the grammar is completely different, so people who have not studied it cannot guess the meaning of the words they know.

Seeing that Wang Shui didn't have the desire to explain too much, Shi Nai was just a little strange, and then sat down by the fire to recuperate, and the dozen or so battles just now still had a great mental drain on her.

"Practice fists and feet first and then grab, and the weapon is five in one. So that's it! ”

In an exclamation, Wang Shui finally found a sense of déjà vu that made him shine, and he always remembered where he had experienced this kind of thinking.

He has indeed memorized all the words, but this does not mean that he has eaten all the contents, he can only write silently and does not understand the meaning and coherence, and he is not even a little close to comprehending it.

Just like memorizing thousands of ancient poems, in the face of similar beauty, you can only vaguely feel the poetry, at most you remember the original sentence, and it is even more difficult to imitate one by yourself.

Looks like you're really going to have to learn from scratch......

However, Wang Shui's interest was being aroused, and he hurriedly rearranged all the information on the combat techniques at hand, and then separated the basic fists and feet to read it, of course, this did not affect his barbecue.

For more than an hour, the two of them finished eating two rounds silently, and Wang Shui read the text illustrations several times before he put away the manuscript paper.

Then Wang Shui, under the incomprehensible gaze of Shi Nai, walked to the open space in front of the camp and kicked his crotch seriously.

[Martial arts foundation, stretching muscles and pulling bones]

It's simpler than expected, Wang Shui made a word horse very easily, and it was not too laborious to press the legs and fold the body, but there would be resistance and a strange feeling in the extreme position, Wang Shui felt that it was SAO's system that weakened the pain of this big action.

Wang Shui didn't know if this was a good thing, but he could feel that as he continued to stretch and twist, the strange feeling would slowly become lighter, but after standing quietly for a while, the strange feeling would rebound when he stretched again.

It seems to take time to get through, but in terms of strength and agility, with Wang Shui's current ability, even if he doesn't train, his physical fitness far surpasses that of martial arts masters in the ordinary world.

With the blessing of the unreasonable core power, there is no difficulty in moving the static pile, so it does not bring any special experience, just when the aqua regia is more confused, there is a strange heat in the muscles.

Oh! Yes!

The muscles don't hurt, but they get tired, and when this state reaches its limit, it will also make the senses very clear and the body will also make memories!

A faint feeling of soreness came, and Wang Shui held on to the static pile for a while, but the effect was not obvious, even if he changed into the heaviest equipment, it was still not obvious.

There was really no way, he went to find a big stone more than one meter high, and laboriously held it in his arms and tied a four-level horse, and sure enough, this time he soon had a feeling of soreness and fever, and it became more and more obvious.

Wang Shui was calm and calm without saying a word, carefully feeling the consumption of every bit of strength in his body, the change of soreness in every part of his body, controlling his continuous rapid breathing, and at the same time suppressing the continuous abandonment of his brain.

He wanted to know the limits of this body.

A few hours passed, and Shino, who was next to the fire, picked up the wooden cup on the stone slab and drank the warm water quietly, and watched the royal water exercise without saying a word.

Every once in a while, aqua regia would stop and rest for a while, and then start squatting again. At first, it was a few minutes, and as the trial continued, the time that Aqua Wang was able to hold on gradually became longer.

Shino didn't know what Wang Shui had discovered, but she could understand that Wang Shui was looking for a way to become stronger. If Wang Shui wants to tell her, he will naturally show off his ability at length; If Wang Shui didn't want to tell her, she wouldn't bother to ask.

As the night deepened, Wang Shui put down the stone and returned to the fire. This is the first time he has been so weak in the nearly month since he played SAO, and his whole body is weak.

Unlike the negative state of [Part Destruction], Wang Shui is now very clean in the status bar and has no negative effects, but he almost doesn't even have the strength to lift his arms, and his whole body is sore, soft and swollen.

Looking at Shina's gaze as if asking "Are you okay?", Wang Shui laboriously picked up his cup and drank some hot water before saying:

"I'm almost certain that it's going in the right direction, and even if it's wrong, it doesn't hurt me. I'm learning basic boxing, the foundation of martial arts from Huaxia, systematic techniques are very helpful for fighting in the game, if you want to learn, I can also teach you, but you have to be prepared to endure hardships. ”

After Wang Ping's recitation, Shi Nai just sat there with one hand on his chin, nodding seemingly casually.

She was originally a quiet and calm girl.

Wang Shui said this in his heart, and he nodded.

"If you come to keep watch in the middle of the night today, in fact, no one will come here, especially at night, you can just rest."

After speaking, Wang Shui stood up and quickly did a stretch, got into the sleeping bag, and finally added with a smile: "But if you want to sleep, you can only sleep on the ground." ”

Yes, there is only one sleeping bag for two people, and it was bought when Aqua regia was mining, and most players will not camp in the wild, so they will basically not bring camping items.

What replied to Wang Shui was Shi Nai's silent smile, and it seemed that she had lost interest in talking.

Wang Shui quickly fell asleep, I don't know if he was too tired or if he was assisted by SAO.

The night without the light pollution of the modern city was unusually quiet, and Shino leaned back on a large rock, looking at the unchanging darkness above her head.

The wind was cool, and there was real warmth coming from the fire. It's been more than 20 days since I've been in this game, and this is the first time Shino has completely calmed down, even quieter than when she's alone in reality.

I don't know if it's because of the death of her teammates and enemies, Shino feels as if she has grown in some places - she has always felt that she is very mature, but now she makes herself feel strange, like ......

Just like the guy next to her, Shino looked at the aqua regia with only one face in her sleeping bag.

This guy sometimes behaves unusually mature, with a cold mind that makes people fearful, and sometimes he shows the innocence and naivety of a middle school student, doing things recklessly, and immediately acting on the thought of it.

On the reckless side, Shino didn't think she had it, but the feeling of indifference, she seemed to have begun to grasp it a long time ago.

The sense of security he brought was so nihilistic that Shino wouldn't be surprised if he disappeared from her sight tomorrow.

But I don't crave your protection, you just need to help me get stronger.

Shi Nai said this to Wang Shui in his heart, and at the same time said this to himself.

……

……

In the dim morning of the next day, the two did not set off early to farm monsters.

"Your thighs are level with the ground, your back is straight, feel the action of sitting down with your buttocks, imagine that there is a low chair underneath, you want to sit down, but you have to use the strength of your legs and waist and abdomen to control that you can't sit down. Sink your shoulders, relax your arms, and feel your muscles flutter. ”

Wang Shui kept talking about the simple points of the Siping Horse, and also corrected Shinai's posture with a short wooden stick.

Shina's attribute value is not low, the hip leg and arm muscles under the game bonus are very powerful, and the core muscles are also very strong, so the horse step is not difficult for her.

Wang Shui's teaching was very fast, he first took Shi Nai to open the crotch and press the legs to pull the tendons and bones, and then began to teach the static pile moving pile and basic footwork, the problem of boxing and rhythm is more complicated, just wait until the evening while talking carefully about the information, after all, Wang Shui himself is also half-understood.

Wang Shui was also exercising with him, still holding a large rock, and he had removed all his equipment, leaving only the special jewel of [Supernatural Instinct].

The description of Jewelry Effect 2's [Self-Exercise Effect Doubled] is very vague, but Wang Shui guesses that it is a bonus to attribute training, and at most it counts skill proficiency.

Aqua regia is now in a high-weight state, and attaching gems can improve the effect of attribute training.

The two-hour morning exercise ended quickly, and the two of them took a short break before they went to attract monsters to brush, and now the effect of the workout is not obvious, but last night's PVP battle made Shina's offensive more flexible.

Calmly advancing and retreating, efficient dotting, when Shi Nai began to be confident in his skills, he was trained by Wang Shui for a while because of his greed for knives.

In general, the two of them were extremely silent today, Wang Shui's mind was full of all kinds of martial arts knowledge rolling back and forth, and Shi Nai was in a normal state, whether she was in reality or when she teamed up with five teammates before, she was so quiet.

In the continuous familiarity, another three days passed, and the buoy on the head of the two of them had returned to green under the high-intensity monster farming.

The evidence of killing three people was washed away, and life was horribly cheap.

According to Shi Nai's meaning, they can continue to enjoy this training ground where no one disturbs, but Wang Shui feels that the time for the strategy maze boss is almost up, even if he is not ready to go to it, there is a need to stare at it.

Shi Nai is not an assertive person, the reason why she needs to leave, Wang Shui can only explain that they already have the ability to attack the monsters in the maze, and they have recovered their green name, there is no need to work hard here, this growth is too slow.

The reason passed, the two went directly into the valley, and it took a long time to return to the town of [Torbana], the last supply point before the labyrinth, and the largest town supply point on the first floor except for the initial town.

Back in the familiar and unfamiliar town, both of them were suddenly at a loss. Wang Shui had been mining before, and the place he was most familiar with was the blacksmith, oh yes, and there were batches of metal ingots that hadn't been recovered.

Shino had only been here for two days before the team was destroyed, but she was clearly a little better than Wang Shui.

"Before our squad ...... When we first arrived, the inn was already full, and the captain found a house for NPC rent on the outskirts of town, which was a little more expensive but had a lot of space to move around, and some of the houses had an unlimited supply of milk. ”

There was a faint nostalgia in Shino's voice.

Luckily they found a solitary cottage soon, and although it was on the outskirts of the town, it was almost out of the circle, but it was spacious, with a living room and three rooms with a bathroom, and nothing else that came with it.

The rent of 50 kl a day is five times higher than that of a cheap hotel, but it is much cheaper for two or more people to share a room.

Wang Shui paid ten days' rent, cleaned up in silence, changed into home clothes—a simple T-shirt and shorts—and began to prepare food in a state of lost soul.

Shi Nai also changed into thin and light home clothes, she leaned back on the comfortable sofa and watched Wang Shui busy with a smile.

I didn't expect this monster with a complicated mind and like to play tricks on people to be a single thread, and when he had one thing in his head, he would become so slow to respond to the outside world.

Peculiar contrasts and cuteness.

In this case, not to disturb is the best choice, Shino went to the bathroom for a long bath, and I have to admit that the feeling of being soaked in warm water is really decompressing.

By the time she came out, the small coffee table was already full of simple and hearty food, and aqua regia seemed to have finished eating, and he was standing on the side of the living room, with his legs slightly bent apart, and his hands in front of his lower abdomen, looking like he was exercising, but without his signature big stone.

After Shi Nai finished eating, she also began her standing pile and boxing training, unlike in the wild, she slowed down her movements in the limited space, and more to find the beginning and end points of her strength, of course, this is also taught by Wang Shui.

There was another single thread in the room, and when Shi Nai came back to his senses, he just saw Wang Shui coming out of the bathroom, and his eyes were a little more condensed this time.

"Let's rest, I won't level up tomorrow, I just asked from the intelligence dealer about the information of the strategy boss, and there will be a combat mobilization meeting at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the central fountain square, let's go and see it too."

Shi Nai didn't raise any objections this time, just waved her hand to say goodbye to Wang Shui and entered her room.

It's a very simple room, the main body is stone, the furniture is coarse logs, the only thing to be thankful for is that the rough wooden bed is stable enough and the quilt is very soft.

Much more comfortable than sleeping on the rocks.

Shi Nai remembered the time when she took turns keeping vigil with Wang Shui in the past few days, and also took turns using a sleeping bag, although every time she used the sleeping bag, it was a brand new state, and it would not leave any taste and temperature, but Shi Nai always felt a little strange.

Looking at the simple lights outside the window, Shino suddenly remembered some episodes from TV dramas: characters in a quiet environment often recite their feelings and send thoughts to their families or lovers in this kind of loneliness, but Shino is very confused.

After she fell into the death game, the grandparents in the countryside should be very sad, but the mother should not know what happened, after all, her spirit has regressed to elementary school - after experiencing her father's death in a car accident and seeing Shino shoot and kill, her spirit has been very poor.

Shino left her hometown strongly, and her former classmates knew that she had killed someone, some of them stayed away from her, and some of them directly began to call her a murderer. In the accumulation of pressure, the grandparents chose to let go, and Shino also rejected their proposal to move out together.

The last time I was homesick was a year ago, and for a long time after that, Shino's thinking gradually matured, and she even thought that she was used to being alone.

But now it seems that she does not, and the homesickness has faded from the many convenient homecomings, and now she is imprisoned in this fantasy cage, and may never see her only loved one again.

Loneliness and homesickness are mixed and fermented, and the little poem is asleep in the light of tears.