Although they had a day off, Xiao Qiong and the others' lessons became more intensive in the following period. Dai Ruitis was completely worthy of her reward. Not only did she teach them a variety of techniques, but she also provided intensive training specifically targeting their weaknesses.
Even Xiao Qiong could hardly breathe under such high-intensity training every day, and he didn't remember Grove at all.
Of course, the cards didn't escape either.
Gu Xingmian almost fainted when he looked at the series of tasks assigned to him by Dai Ruitis.
But these seemingly impossible tasks are actually designed to meet their limits. Dai Ruitis has a sharp eye and is definitely the best in the world in terms of squeezing their potential.
As Gu Xingmian collects more and more star patterns, his physical fitness, reaction speed and fighting ability will also improve. Therefore, he is also the person who modifies the training plan most frequently.
In the training field.
Gu Xingmian is running forward . The scenery on both sides flew by quickly, and the speed was almost as fast as the world champion of sprinting before the time travel. If it was Gu Xingmian who had just traveled through time, he would not even dare to think about it. At
this moment, a strong wind hit him from behind.
Gu Xingmian swayed like a slippery fish and dodged, but he didn't expect that the other party was already prepared and blocked his way, reaching out to grab him.
Gu Xingmian was already prepared and rushed to He turned and narrowly avoided the hand that was trying to grab him.
Eric, who was watching the game, couldn't help but applaud: "Come on Xingmian! It's already two minutes!"
Gu Xingmian seemed to hear nothing and just dodged and moved around to avoid being caught.
His moves looked simple, but Very neat, not giving the opponent any chance.
Nina propped up her chin: "Why do these moves of Xingmian look familiar?"
Fu Fenglin chuckled: "I learned it from the boss, although there are some changes, but the essence is mastered. "
Nina suddenly realized and secretly glanced at Xiao Qiong who was standing on the sidelines like them.
Xiao Qiong followed Gu Xingmian with his eyes, as if he didn't hear what they were saying.
At this time, Gu Xingmian made another wonderful dodge. Nina secretly exclaimed, "How long did it take?"
Eric said happily, "Five minutes, which has exceeded the previous record!
" Na was surprised: "Xingmian is improving so fast!" The senior student who was in charge of catching Gu Xingmian was their sparring partner. When Gu Xingmian first started training, he couldn't even dodge for ten seconds, but now he can last five
minutes.
The distance seems very short, but because the venue is small, speed alone is useless. Gu Xingmian has to run at full speed while constantly calculating the next route and maintaining a quick reaction. It is not only a test of his physical strength.
Gu Xingmian's forehead was already covered with sweat. He knew he had reached his limit, but he was still unwilling to give up.
Just when everyone thought he would just hide, he suddenly turned around and bumped into the other party, who was stunned. For a moment, I thought he had run too fast and walked into the trap, but Gu Xingmian suddenly squatted down and tried to knock him down with a sweeping kick.
The opponent was caught off guard and was hit in the ankle. His body was shaken, but Finally, he managed to stabilize himself and caught Gu Xingmian, who had no time to run.
Eric immediately called out the final time: "Five minutes and nineteen seconds!"
It was nineteen seconds faster than the previous record.
The senior student wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I was really scared by your last move. You almost succeeded!" Unfortunately, Gu Xingmian was exhausted and didn't have enough strength, otherwise the record
would have been improved by more than one minute.
The training goal given by Reitis is to dodge for eight minutes. At Gu Xingmian's speed, he will probably finish it soon.
Gu Xingmian wanted to laugh, but he didn't even have the strength to pull the corners of his mouth. He could only breathe heavily. He rolled over and lay on the ground, sweat dripping down his body, leaving a human figure on the ground.
Xiao Qiong walked over and took his spiritual body back.
The other team members sighed and went back to continue their devilish training.
Gu Xingmian was obviously exhausted, Still couldn't help but complain: [These people are going too far! Do you think I'm a recreational activity? 】
In fact, it's not their fault. The training plan arranged by Deritis is too abnormal. They live a life worse than death every day. Watching Gu Xingmian escape is their only remaining fun.
The senior students who were their sparring partners were originally somewhat envious and jealous of them, but after seeing their horrific training volume, they now only felt sympathy and relief. They felt sorry for them for having such a devilish teacher like Deritis . , and was glad that it was not him who was trained by the devil teacher.
After staying in the spiritual body for a while, Gu Xingmian felt much more comfortable and could not help asking Xiao Qiong: [How did I perform today?] Xiao
Qiong: [Very good.] Gu Xingmian
: Is this a real review? Xiao Qiong paused: [
At the first minute and four seconds, you were slow to turn around, and your rhythm started to go wrong from here. The crisis you encountered at one minute and thirty seconds could have been avoided. , there are still two minutes and six seconds left...】
Gu Xingmian: [...]
Is this a straight man?
He never wants to hear the real evaluation next time!
Gu Xingmian rested well in his spiritual body and slowly Come out and start the next training.
For Gu Xingmian now, the most important thing is his ability to control auxiliary cards.
In the past few days, he has obtained several more star patterns. As the number of star patterns he has obtained increases, His control over this skill became more and more natural.
At the beginning, he could only slightly shift the auxiliary card's skill by moving the star pattern. The second time, he could control the skill to stop. The third time, he could counterattack. The more he controls the card, the easier it is to do whatever he wants.
More importantly, whether it is a basic auxiliary card or a powerful auxiliary card, it makes no difference when it falls into his hands. After all, what Gu Xingmian sees is the star pattern. , as long as he can turn it, he can control it.
Although he can't control auxiliary cards, it's no different from controlling auxiliary cards himself, except that the number of times this skill is really less.
However, as he has more Star Patterns, the auxiliary cards accumulated each time he uses a skill are also gradually decreasing. Now he can use a skill once with four auxiliary cards. Later on, he may be able to use one. You can use a skill once with an auxiliary card, or even use a skill without using an auxiliary card!
Gu Xingmian is still full of hope for this.
After he finished eating today's auxiliary cards, Xiao Qiong stood opposite him and asked, "Which auxiliary card do you want to try today?"
Gu Xingmian was about to speak when something suddenly flashed through his mind: "How about we try the treatment card?"
Xiao Qiong: "?"
They are currently testing attack auxiliary cards, but there are more types of auxiliary cards than these. Maybe if we try other auxiliary cards, we will find something different?
The more Gu Xingmian thought about it, the more he thought it was feasible, and he urged Xiao Qiong to start.
Xiao Qiong could only find a new treatment card and use it on Gu Xingmian.
Gu Xingmian concentrated and felt it, but nothing happened.
Gu Xingmian looked up at Xiao Qiong: "Did you use it?"
Xiao Qiong nodded.
Gu Xingmian wondered, "Can't the treatment card be used?"
He tried again, but it still didn't work. He tried to let Xiao Qiong use the treatment card on himself, but after trying many methods, he couldn't show the star pattern of the treatment card. Instead, he used up all his accumulated energy.
How could this happen?
Gu Xingmian looked at the treatment card in his hand.
As he came into contact with more star patterns these days, he slowly found some rules. For example, the more complex the star pattern, the higher the price of the auxiliary card, while the star pattern of the basic auxiliary card is generally simpler, cheaper, and more circulated in the market.
Therefore, Gu Xingmian simply separated the auxiliary cards according to their prices.
Compared with basic auxiliary cards, treatment cards are more frequently used and cheaper. If that's the case, the star patterns on treatment cards should be simpler than those on basic auxiliary cards. Why can't he see them?
It doesn't make sense!
Xiao Qiong guessed, "Maybe there's something we overlooked?"
But after a lot of discussion, the two of them didn't come to any conclusion.
Gu Xingmian scratched his hair and felt sick.
Xiao Qiong could only comfort him, "Take a rest first and talk about it the next day."
The next day, Gu Xingmian was determined to try again, but this time, he didn't use treatment cards, but the simplest dream cards.
Dream cards are the simplest of all auxiliary cards, and even ordinary people can use them. According to Grof, the first auxiliary card they learn is the dream card, because the star pattern of the dream card is the simplest.
If the dream card cannot be seen, there are only two possibilities. One is that the simpler the star pattern, the harder it is to see. The other is like what Xiao Qiong said, they overlooked something. The star patterns of the treatment card and the dream card need to be seen by other methods.
Gu Xingmian and Xiao Qiong tried several times, and it was exactly the same as yesterday.
Afterwards, Gu Xingmian tried other non-attack auxiliary cards, including expensive and cheap ones. According to his simple classification method, there are both complex star patterns and simple star patterns. But the fact is that he still saw nothing.
The result was simple and clear. It was probably because he used the wrong method. The star pattern of this non-attack auxiliary card should be visible in other ways.
Although he had not seen any new star patterns during this period, he vaguely felt that he seemed to have touched the core of this skill.
Gu Xingmian was so excited that his heart was pounding. Just as he was about to continue to attack, he suddenly discovered something - his auxiliary cards were almost finished! !
Gu Xingmian's auxiliary cards were divided into two parts. One part was given by Grove. These auxiliary cards were more precious and were used for experiments. They could not be eaten.
What he usually eats are basically the auxiliary cards he robbed before, as well as the ones given by Xiao Qiong. Although these add up to a lot, if he eats one card a day, he can actually eat for a long time. However, for the sake of his skills, Gu Xingmian eats to the limit every day, and the result is that the auxiliary cards are consumed very quickly.
Gu Xingmian calculated according to the market price of the auxiliary cards, and then covered his chest and almost fainted.
If calculated according to the price before he crossed over, it is roughly that he has eaten up a house in the past two months.
And more importantly, auxiliary cards are not only related to skills, but also his daily rations.
He can't rob the warehouse of the black market boss again, right?
Xiao Qiong touched his chin and fell into deep thought.
Gu Xingmian: “!”
Gu Xingmian: “Stop thinking!”
They robbed Fulton’s warehouse for revenge and self-protection, but now Clement is almost unifying the black market. If they rob again, it will be like a flood that flushed the Dragon King Temple, and family members fighting against each other.
Xiao Qiong sighed, and his expression unconsciously revealed his disappointment.
Gu Xingmian: “?”
Good guy, you actually plan to rob!
Fortunately, they have received the bounties for catching wanted criminals in Quilmo City one after another, so they can hold on for a while, thanks to Deritris!
Daily needs are sufficient for the time being, but if they want to try out new skills like this again, they can only stop.
Just when they were worried, Eric found out about this from somewhere, and brought them both back to his dormitory in a mysterious way.
Gu Xingmian lay on the table, a little depressed.
Recently, in order to save auxiliary cards, he went back to the days of using one card a day.
Who knows that it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality? It is so uncomfortable to be on a diet suddenly after being used to eating big fish and meat. Not to mention that he has so many training tasks every day, which is even more terrible.
But the next second, Eric opened the cabinet, and Gu Xingmian sat up straight in an instant.
Eric's cabinet was filled with auxiliary cards. A rough count showed that there were hundreds of them. He just casually threw them in the cabinet. If you didn't look carefully, you would think they were just a deck of poker cards.
Eric pointed generously and said, "They are all brand new. Take whatever you want!"
Gu Xingmian & Xiao Qiong: "!!!"
In fact, they knew that Eric had a good family and was very generous. He never lacked star coins. When he first met Xiao Qiong, he gave him a few auxiliary cards. But the fact that he casually gave away a house still shocked Gu Xingmian and Xiao Qiong, two poor people.
Gu Xingmian moved away from the pile of auxiliary cards with difficulty: "Just, just consider it as me lending it to you, I will pay you back when I make money..."
"No, no!" Eric waved his hands, "I don't need so much anyway, and besides, the four-school competition is coming soon, the more powerful your skills are, the greater our chances of winning!"
But in the end, he still couldn't beat Gu Xingmian and accepted Gu Xingmian's IOU.
Gu Xingmian walked out of Eric's dormitory, let out a long breath, and looked at Xiao Qiong.
Both of them had the same solemn expression.
It seems that we still have to think of ways to make money.
Speaking of which, the most profitable industry is card making. Before, Gu Xingmian used to eat auxiliary cards that were stolen. Although he knew that auxiliary cards were expensive, he had never really experienced it. Recently, he can only buy auxiliary cards with star coins, and then convert them to various items before the time travel.
This is much more profitable than real estate.
Thinking of this, Gu Xingmian suddenly asked: "Grov should be arriving in Denning City soon, right?"
Xiao Qiong was stunned, and found a letter from the depths of his memory. It seemed that he had arrived a month ago.
Gu Xingmian: "..."
So, after the training was completed that day, Xiao Qiong took Gu Xingmian over the wall and out of the academy.
Grove finished the work for the day, stretched his waist, and walked out of the studio to take a shower and go to bed.
He took a comfortable shower, touched the mask on his face, and made sure that there was no problem before coming out of the bathroom and preparing to go to bed.
As a result, when he passed the living room, he saw the red cross on the calendar, and he was immediately furious: "Damn Xiao Qiong!! He must have forgotten the letter I sent him!!"
Didn't he just say a few more words about his ancestors? !
Miser! !
Grove put his hands on his waist and scolded Xiao Qiong for a while, venting his resentment.
At this time, he heard a knock on the door.
Grove was immediately alert.
It was already midnight, who would knock on the door at this time?
He had just moved here, and the only person he knew was Clement whom Gu Xingmian recommended to him, but that guy looked very sensible and didn't seem like someone who would do such a thing as disturbing someone in the middle of the night.
Grove realized something in an instant, and he picked up a broom from the corner of the corridor, then tiptoed to the door.
The knocking on the door paused, then continued.
Grove suddenly opened the door, picked up the broom and smashed it down: "You little bastard! You finally remembered me!"
The moment he opened the door, Xiao Qiong had already dodged flexibly, leaving Grove with nothing to hit.
Grove became even angrier, and even though he knew he was no match for Xiao Qiong, he still chased after him bravely with the broom.
Gu Xingmian in the spirit body: [!!!]
Xiao Qiong was hiding while chatting with Gu Xingmian calmly: [I told you, sneaking into his house and knocking on the door will have the same result...]
Gu Xingmian: [...]
Grove chased him breathlessly, but he didn't even touch Xiao Qiong's hair.
Grove glared at him and wiped the sweat off his face: "Come in."
The house that Grove found was relatively remote, and there were not many people nearby, but the house was very large, which was very suitable for Grove's research.
The house was as messy as they had seen before, with all kinds of luggage opened and placed on the ground. The only thing that was cleaned up was his card making room.
Xiao Qiong didn't let Gu Xingmian out until he entered the card making room.
As soon as Grove saw Gu Xingmian, his expression changed 180 degrees: "Ancestor, I finally waited for you!"
Gu Xingmian was shocked by his call: "Don't call me ancestor!"
Grove: "Okay, ancestor!"
Gu Xingmian: "..."
Time was urgent, and he didn't care about arguing with Grove on this matter, and gave him the star pattern he had drawn in advance.
The star pattern is 3D, so a star pattern needs to be drawn on several sheets of paper. Because of the lack of time, Gu Xingmian did not draw all the star patterns, but picked a few that he thought were representative.
But this was enough for Grove to be so happy that he almost fainted again.
Of course, giving star patterns is only one of the purposes of their coming out this time, there is another more important one - making money.
Grove was stunned when he heard that Gu Xingmian wanted to make money.
Card makers are all very rich. After all, the market is in a state of supply exceeding demand. As long as the card makers have hands and brains, they can make money anytime. Grove seemed to be a wolf on the way, but he never lacked money.
So when he heard what Gu Xingmian said, he wanted to take out all his savings immediately.
After all, the star patterns he got from Gu Xingmian were many times more valuable than star coins!
However, Gu Xingmian still rejected him.
Grove realized that he seemed to have an idea, so he stopped insisting and asked, "What are your plans?"
Gu Xingmian coughed lightly and said, "What do you think about selling the star pattern?"
Grove: "!!!"
If it were someone else, he would have scolded him for being a jerk!
But Gu Xingmian...
yes, these resources that are precious in the hands of other card makers are easily available in Gu Xingmian's hands.
Once this news gets out, all the card makers in the entire Saint Roberts continent will go crazy.
But...
Grove pursed his lips: "But if you do this, you will become a thorn in the eyes of all the card maker families."
"I know."
Gu Xingmian also thought about this problem. After all, they were all monopolistic before, and people like Grove who escaped would still be hunted down. Now he is directly cutting off their financial resources. It would be strange if they didn't hate him to death!
Grove shook his head: "You don't know how terrible they are."
If there are two things on the Saint Roberts continent that cannot be messed with, one is the temple and the other is the card maker family.
The former has terrible and loyal temple knights, and the latter, although they cannot control the cards, they have seized a lot of wealth, resources, and connections by monopolizing the star pattern. As long as they want, they can catch people back no matter where they escape to.
Grove was anxious and wanted to dispel Gu Xingmian's dangerous idea.
Gu Xingmian said, "But if the star pattern was not monopolized by the card maker family, the auxiliary cards would not be so expensive, right?"
Grove was stunned. Even though he kept telling him that it was too dangerous, he still couldn't help but be tempted.
As a person who defected from a card maker family, he was deeply aware of the distortion of the auxiliary card market. The cost of auxiliary cards is actually not that high. The market price of a basic auxiliary card is 6,000 to 8,000, but the actual cost is only 100 star coins at most.
Card makers don't really want to sell them so expensively, but the pricing power is in the hands of the card maker family. Not to mention the apprentices, who are basically free labor. Even independent card makers have to pay a large amount of usage fees every month, plus the high taxes levied by the temple, so they don't get much. Therefore, many card makers would rather sell them on the black market at a lower price, but if they are caught, they will be severely punished.
Grove has been to many places in recent years and met all kinds of people.
He had seen many poor card makers who had to save money for a long time before they could buy an auxiliary card.
But when the evil spirits invaded, they were the first to rush to the front. When they were injured, they could not afford to buy a treatment card, so they had to bear it by themselves.
Grove could help one or two people, but not everyone. But if the price of auxiliary cards could be much cheaper, wouldn't so many things happen?
But he couldn't help but laugh at himself. He couldn't even protect himself, so what was the point of thinking so much?
But Gu Xingmian's words gave him hope again.
If you can really buy the star pattern with money, who really wants to be a dog for a card maker family?
Those talented but suppressed card makers, with such an opportunity, might completely change the current abnormal situation!
Grove said in a harsh voice: "What are you going to do?"
Gu Xingmian had discussed this with Xiao Qiong before: "What do you think about selling it on the Star Network?"
Star patterns are not physical objects, and the Star Network is bound to communication numbers. If they prepare more communication numbers, they can still hide it.
Grove originally planned to sell it secretly on the black market, but he didn't expect Gu Xingmian to make such a big move. However, he thought that this way he would not meet the other party, which would be safer.
So he nodded, approved of Gu Xingmian's approach, and then asked: "How much do you plan to charge?"
Gu Xingmian thought for a while and said: "It's the first sale, and it's a big bonus for the opening, so let's make it cheaper."
He held up a finger: "One dollar."
Grove: "!!!"