Quick Travel: Card Destroyer

Chapter 394: Fragment: No Dreams for Five Hundred Years (VI)

Liang Bo just ran away on his own, leaving Su Sheng confused for a long time.

The new settlement retains the custom of eating around the bonfire. After eating, the young and strong people gather around to sing and dance. Although they are not in tune most of the time, they still sing happily. The elderly people bring a few stools and chat while doing needlework.

"Hey, isn't this our little Liang Bo?" An old man noticed Liang Bo who was still sulking and habitually joked, "What, did you get rejected by your nerdy teacher again?"

After getting to know each other, everyone discovered that Su Sheng's favorite thing to do besides working on a few experimental plots was reading books. The books were densely covered with various characters that were difficult to understand, and some of the characters in the books were even obviously not in the same style. Su Sheng was often obsessed with reading and forgot to eat and sleep, so the elders nicknamed her "nerd". Liang Bo was obsessed with Su Sheng and wanted to be his teacher, which was no secret in the settlement.

However, today he was really talking about something irrelevant. When Liang Bo heard that name, he stomped his feet like an angry little rabbit: "Don't mention that stingy guy to me! If you don't want to teach me martial arts and find me troublesome, just say so directly. Don't use the physique compatibility issue to beat me around the bush!"

"Hmm." The old man did his needlework non-stop, and listened to the words just for fun.

Liang Bo was a precocious child. After a few words, she realized that the other party didn't listen to her seriously at all. She became even more annoyed and shouted angrily: "Can you please listen to me? You are a bunch of hateful adults! I will ignore you!"

After shouting, her inner resentment seemed to be vented, or maybe she was simply tired of shouting. Liang Bo stopped where she was and took several breaths without moving.

Another old man looked up from among several balls of wool, waved at Liang Bo, and said, "Child, don't be angry. Go cut two branches for your sisters. They need some bows and arrows. You will calm down after that."

Liang Bo had never been able to get angry with this kind old woman, but this time he obeyed her orders. When she asked her to cut branches to make arrows, she actually took out the dagger she carried with her.

"Miserable, stingy! I will never ask her questions again!" But he still couldn't stop talking. It was the nerd Su Sheng's fault for not considering the child's feelings!

This time, Liang Bo approached the sisters who were responsible for hunting exotic beasts on a daily basis. They were talking about what they saw and heard during hunting a few days ago, and Liang Bo listened with great interest.

Suddenly, someone mentioned the name she hated the most: "Are you talking about Senior Su Sheng? Last time we encountered a very troublesome deer-shaped monster. If it weren't for Senior Su Sheng's help, we would probably never be able to leave the illusion again. She is really amazing. She can flatten a mountain with just two fingers. If she was willing to raise her head from those pieces of land and help us make a few arrows, we wouldn't have to work so hard..."

"How can you say she's lazy?" Another person heard the hidden meaning and couldn't help but refute, "Didn't she say a long time ago that the thing grown in the experimental field is called Fairy Papyrus. She said that if we can grow it, we will have more powerful weapons in the future, more powerful than the black iron bow in your hand!"

"We have to plant them first..."

Liang Bo peeled off a piece of bark from the selected branch. As he listened to his sisters' quarrel, his hands unconsciously slowed down.

Yes, Su Sheng is so amazing, he can easily do things that they may not be able to do after working for a long time, why must he go into several fields? She is busy observing the growth of plants in the experimental fields every day, which is busy enough, not to mention that the beast tide trampled on the experimental fields that had finally produced some results a few days ago.

Is that thing called "card" really that powerful?

Obviously, Liang Bo's little brain, which was not even ten years old, was incapable of thinking about such a complicated problem, but she was smart. When she couldn't figure it out, she asked adults. So she went to find Su Sheng again, even though she had just sworn to never talk to him again.

Su Sheng probably didn't take the child's angry words to heart. Liang Bo dared to ask her and she answered: "My inherent ability can only promote the birth of existing plant species. It can only play a very limited role in cultivating a new species."

She held Liang Bo's hand and came to the experimental field. She placed a lush green leaf in Liang Bo's hand and said, "In fact, my research speed is already very fast. If nothing goes wrong, you will be able to see the first fairy papyrus in two months. If you give me a few more years, I should be able to cultivate a variety that can reproduce stably. By then, you can go to Si Bai and let them teach you how to make cards."

"How powerful are the cards?" Liang Bo couldn't help but ask.

"Si Bai demonstrated it to me before," Su Sheng recalled the true power of the card. "With the card in her hand, it's easy to kill someone with one strike as long as you can find the right angle. In fact, the real power of the card is not the power itself, but the low threshold for use. You can use your inherent ability to activate it, or you can use other energy cards to activate it. Do you understand what this means?"

Although Liang Bo was young, he was smart enough to quickly understand what Su Sheng meant: "You mean, even if we don't have strong inherent abilities or mental strength, as long as we have a card and enough energy cards, we can still beat back all the bad guys?"

Su Sheng nodded.

"Oh, I suddenly remembered," Liang Bo was stunned for a long time, and suddenly remembered another question, and quickly asked it, "Can you use your inherent ability to cut branches?"

Su Sheng was stunned: "Of course I can, but... my ability can obviously be used for more things. Don't you think it's a bit of a waste to just cut a few branches to make a bow and arrow? Can't you use tools like daggers to make bows and arrows?"

Liang Bo didn't quite understand what he said. She couldn't tell how much Su Sheng's words inspired her. The only thing she understood was that it was not that easy to cut branches with the inherent ability, and it was a bit like using a cannon to kill a mosquito. However, using carpenter's tools only required diligent practice, and the inherent ability itself was not required.

In other words, they should study how to strengthen bows and arrows so that they, the weak ones, can kill powerful monsters, instead of seeking help from people with inherent strong abilities like Su Sheng.

When she told Su Sheng her idea, she was surprised to find that Su Sheng was smiling brightly.

"You are indeed a very smart child." This was the first time that Su Sheng praised her from the bottom of his heart since they met. "Do you know? The reason why humans are different from other animals is that humans can not only use existing tools, but also develop more and more powerful tools based on them, thereby creating a more brilliant civilization than ever before."

From then on, the master-disciple relationship between the two was officially established, and Su Sheng began to teach him all the knowledge he had acquired during his past wanderings.