Urban Sims

Chapter 594 Desire to Advance

Red Mopan Street.

In independent apartment No. 66, Zhou Ming settled down the two siblings.

There are seven rooms in the apartment, one on the first floor and three on the second and third floors. Zhou Ming lives on the third floor, with one bedroom, one laboratory, and a utility room.

None of the three rooms on the second floor were occupied, so Zhou Ming asked Henry to choose a room as his living room.

Lina chose the bunk room for servants next to the kitchen on the first floor. Except for a big bed that can sleep three or four people, there is nothing else, and it is dark and damp, and the conditions are very average.

Zhou Ming asked Lina to choose a room on the second floor... There are two vacant rooms left on the second floor, she can choose one.

But Lina refused. She was just a servant, and servants were not qualified to live in upstairs rooms, not to mention she had to cook, so it was more convenient to live on the first floor.

Seeing her insistence, Zhou Ming could only let her go.

Of course, for Lina, although the servant's room was a bit damp and dark, it was at least ten times stronger than the previous house in the slums.

Lying in the warm quilt at night, Lina even experienced the feeling of being at home for an hour, and she couldn't help but shed tears.

She immediately reminded herself: "Lina, you have met the most noble person in the world, so don't forget your duty."

On the other side, Henry also suffered from insomnia because the bed was too soft and uncomfortable. He felt that he was living in a dream, which felt unreal... Years of suffering had made him dare not have extravagant hopes.

But when he thought that he became the assistant of the lord magician and might become a noble magician in the future, his mind was full of thoughts of getting ahead.

……

After having two more people in the family, Zhou Ming immediately realized all kinds of benefits.

As an assistant, Henry did all the work of serving tea and water, getting materials, and recording experimental data, which saved Zhou Ming a lot of time.

Even Henry became an "experiment subject". After Zhou Ming took the bottle of [Healing Potion] worth 1000 gold coins, a miraculous scene appeared: In just a few minutes, Henry's internal and external injuries were all healed. It's clean... the effect is visible to the naked eye.

Zhou Ming was surprised, it was too exaggerated.

"Thank you, teacher!"

Henry, who had completely disappeared from his body, was very grateful. Although he didn't know the price of the [Healing Potion], before it was used, this potion was something that poor people like him would never be able to touch. Never heard of it.

Today, the teacher used it for him casually.

Zhou Ming didn't say anything, he just wanted to do an experiment.

In addition, Zhou Ming is willing to take a little time to teach Henry some things when he has nothing to do.

Henry is very hungry, very serious, and has a very fast grasp of it, and even draws inferences about other cases from one instance.

Zhou Ming nodded in satisfaction.

……

"Lina, I'm very satisfied with the sandwich I made today, it's much better than yesterday."

"Lina, you have learned [-]% of my cooking skills."

"Lina, the chicken burger you made can be launched as a new product of the Magic Cake Shop. I will take you to the Magic Cake Shop tomorrow."

In less than a week, Lina's performance refreshed Zhou Ming's perception of her time and time again.

Two words to describe her are: truer.

Very serious.

If Zhou Ming pointed out that she did not do well or needed improvement, she would improve that day and demand that she do better.

Even if Zhou Ming said "not bad", she would ask him to find out some shortcomings, and she would improve immediately.

Especially in terms of cooking skills, Lina really can't accept the fact that Zhou Ming's cooking skills are far better than hers. The master's cooking skills are better than that of the servants. What is the value of her existence as a servant?
She can't accept herself who is useless, she must reflect her own value!
Zhou Ming had to spend some time to teach Lina how to cook.

In just a few days, Lina's cooking skills have improved rapidly, and gradually Zhou Ming can't find any faults.

In addition, due to spending a lot of time in the kitchen every day studying cooking skills, in order not to waste food, most of the experimental dishes went into Lina's stomach, which made Lina, who was originally skinny, lose her body in a few days. It swelled up like inflated air, and after gaining seven or eight catties of flesh, the natural beauty that could not be concealed was gradually revealed.

Only then did Zhou Ming understand why the Blood Ax Gang wanted to take her away.

Furthermore, regarding the life experiences of the pair of siblings, Zhou Ming also got to know a little bit, and found out that their biological mother was actually "Royal Rose" Bellemona—a woman with a famous reputation in the Royal Capital.

Unexpectedly, this woman is attached to power and has a heart like a snake and a scorpion. In order to climb up, she will do whatever she can to get ahead, and she can even abandon her own children without bothering about it at all.

"Such a woman has become a slave to money and desire, and is no longer worthy of being called a 'human'."

But Zhou Ming didn't think it was unusual. He had seen too many women similar to Bellemona, had dealt with them a lot, and killed a lot of them. Use, but if anyone just wants to use him simply, or wants to use him as a stepping stone, then sorry, he will let the other party die.

Zhou Ming also asked Lina and Henry, what would they do if they had the chance to meet their mother?
"I...I might kill her, she killed my father!" Henry clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

"Henry, don't have such thoughts, she gave us life after all."

Lina pulled her brother, and then said: "If it was me, I would throw a pile of shit on her at most, and never see her again... She is not our mother."

Zhou Ming nodded, Lina's thinking was more mature, Henry looked too young.

Of course, his attitude towards women like Bellemona was to keep them at arm's length.

If the contact was really due to some "choice of fate", he hoped that this woman had better not hinder him, otherwise...

……

Next.

Zhou Ming's life has become like three points and one line.

In the morning, he went to work in the magic cake shop, made magic cakes, trained the employees in the shop, and launched new products such as "hamburgers", "small cakes" and "pastry". The reputation of the capital is also growing.

It's just that he seldom shows up, his name is unknown, and only one nickname is widely circulated-Magic Cake Maker.

In the afternoon, I went back to the apartment, did various magic experiments, studied the physical, chemical, and optical properties of magic particles, and discovered many magical properties of magic particles. With the help of the system, I deduced a lot of mathematical properties. formula.

Some people may think that this is useless, but for Zhou Ming, it has a huge effect!
For example, by deriving the formula of the vibration law of magic particles, Zhou Ming can use the optimal soul frequency to achieve the minimum consumption and at the same time obtain the maximum increase in magic power.

Meditation needs to consume "energy". The time a magician can meditate every day is limited. How to achieve the maximum gain in this limited time requires the best meditation effect according to these formulas... Zhou Naruto calls this the "meditation ascension curve."

According to this curve, in Zhou Ming's recent meditation, the daily increase in magic power is in the early 1% range.

In addition, Zhou Ming also did a lot of experiments on the principle of magic particles to form magic.

Restricted by the low soul frequency, his current research is relatively thorough, mainly wind magic.

"The characteristic of wind magic is the 'spiral'. Under a certain soul frequency, the magic particles will enter a high-speed rotation state, release the force field, and drive the air molecules to flow together."

"The maximum speed of this kind of spiral is 11 meters per second, which can create a hurricane with huge destructive power, and can even blow away people and buildings, making it unstoppable."

"Wind magic also has the characteristic of 'permanence'. As long as the 'spiral force field' is formed, it will take at least 10 minutes to dissipate gradually, which consumes a lot of energy of the enemy."

"However, the disadvantage of wind magic is that its attack power is weak, and its armor-piercing and defense-breaking effects are poor. After all, what it drives is only air, which has low density, light weight, and insufficient lethality."

"But there is no way to improve it. If you reduce the diameter of the bottom surface of the wind cone, make the cone head sharper, and increase the attack speed, the wind can also have greater lethality."

Of course, all this depends on the fine manipulation ability of the magician.

Zhou Ming can do it by reducing the cone head of the first-level wind magic "Wind Pillar", making the diameter of the cylinder smaller, and then increasing the speed of the spiral to advance forward, so that the "Wind Pillar" with a thrust of only 100 kg is only ten meters away. Pillar" turned into a deadly "wind cone".

This improved operation made the first-level wind magic "Wind Pillar" have at least the lethality of a third-level wind magic.

But the consumption is also huge. To release such an improved version of the "Pillar of Wind" magic, Zhou Ming's magic power expenditure is three times that of the conventional "Pillar of Wind" magic.

Based on the total magic power in his body, he can only release 6 similarly improved "wind pillars".

After calculation, the system also said: "The magic particles in this dimension seem to have added a set of 'programming rules'. As long as the operating frequency reaches that level, they will release the 'standard version' of magic prescribed by this dimension. The standard version of magic It can release powerful magic with the least consumption and the fastest speed."

"Although the host's improved version of magic is more powerful, it consumes more magic power and is more complicated to operate. It requires a lot of research energy, and only a few people can master it... This is not good for the promotion of magic. The standard version of magic is There are some flaws, but for magicians, it is the fastest and most cost-effective choice.”

"The system means that being mediocre means being popular?" Zhou Ming said.

"Yes, if the system creates such a plane, it will also program a lot of mediocre magic in advance to facilitate the mastery of the magician... The higher the law, the more difficult it is to master. If the magic is more complicated, this plane magician The number is likely to be even less.”

Zhou Ming nodded, this is indeed the truth.

Of course, the system does not object to Zhou Ming's improvement of the "standard version" of magic. After all, Zhou Ming has the ability to increase the attack power of level-[-] magic to level-[-] magic. In the future, "leapfrog killing monsters" will play a key role.

At night, it was time for Zhou Ming to meditate.

After the day's meditation ended, Zhou Ming checked his various ability values ​​in the system panel:
Level: Apprentice Magician
Mana: 18.767 (20 next level)

Perception range: 45cm (next level 50)

Soul frequency: 1.07 (1.10 for the next level)

Energy value: 0 (insufficient brain power, unable to continue meditation)

Looking at these values, Zhou Ming shook his head.

"It will take at least two months before I can be promoted to a junior magician."

"This speed is too slow, the school has started, I am still a trainee magician, and I may be trampled and humiliated by Martin and the others!"

"If you want to stand up, you must be promoted to a junior magician before the start of the new semester!"

How can the promotion time be shortened?

Soothe the nerves potion!

Zhou Ming discovered that the calming potion can not only improve concentration, but also double the energy value from 100 to 200.

In other words, every time he takes a bottle of [Soothing Potion], he can obtain the effect of doubling his cultivation speed, and this state can last for 3 days.

If he had enough [Soothing Potion], within a month, he could be promoted to a junior magician.

But the price of this thing...

Of course, it's not that Zhou Ming can't afford it. The monthly expenses are only 1 gold coins, and his wallet can bear it.

He just suddenly felt that the profession of pharmacist seemed to have a bright future.

(End of this chapter)