Learn one small skill every day

Bai Miao's phone kept receiving text messages, all of them work-related.

Working behind the scenes, Bai Miao personally formulated the business strategies for many shops.

Bai Miao only glanced at it briefly, but he estimated that he had earned around 100,000 yuan during the summer vacation.

I sent a confirmation message to the other party, and now all I have to do is wait for the money to arrive in my bank account.

At this time, transferring money was still quite troublesome, and it couldn't be done in minutes, but these were not things that Bai Miao was concerned about right now.

Bai Miao took a semester off to focus his energy on dealing with his first-year past.

Although the homeroom teacher didn't understand why Bai Miao wanted to take leave, he had already been admitted to the No. 3 Middle School of the city, so she had no reason to refuse him. She just reminded him to remember to attend the final and graduation exams.

For the next month, Bai Miao moved to a farmhouse in the suburbs. Apart from having someone deliver food and other necessary materials to him every week, Bai Miao never left the farmhouse.

He transformed his farmhouse into a grand courtyard, surrounded by countless formations and traps. Even the feng shui was rebuilt by Bai Miao himself, who hired an excavator to cut through mountains and fill in water.

It can be said that as long as a malevolent ghost enters this place, it can be exorcised and sent to the afterlife.

As the general manager once said, memories of first year will come knocking on your door before graduation.

Bai Miao also considered actively seeking out relevant clues, but this would easily trigger the flashback plot prematurely.

It's possible that you haven't made any preparations or found any clues.

Rather than facing the risk of triggering plot events at any time, it's better to set up a trap yourself, lure the enemy into it, and use the waiting time to hone your skills.

The first to reach LV10 is the sandbag toss.

After this skill reached LV10, Bai Miao seemed to feel something new inside his body.

To test his skill, Bai Miao made some automatic catapults. The principle was simple: wrap pebbles in cloth, attach a rubber band, and cut the rubber band short, and the contents would be launched out immediately.

Bai Miao chose a distance of about one meter, a distance from which it would be impossible for a normal person to dodge completely.

However, the LV10 sandbag throwing skill caused all the pebbles and sand to stop right in front of Bai Miao.

Upon closer inspection, these little creatures weren't completely still; rather, their speed decreased as they got closer to Bai Miao, making them easy for Bai Miao to catch or dodge.

Level 10 beanbag toss doesn't grant Bai Miao any extra physical abilities, but it allows him to complete the game in his normal physical condition.

No matter how many things fly in or how much kinetic energy they have, we can handle them.

However, it's not without its costs; activating the LV10 sandbag throwing skill requires consuming Bai Miao's mental energy.

However, Bai Miao estimated that fixing all these stones around his body would consume about 1 point of mental energy every half hour.

Perhaps in the future, when encountering something with high firepower, I will expend more energy, but if I only freeze for 1 second, giving myself ample opportunity to dodge, then in the end, there is no energy expenditure at all.

Bai Miao once again experienced the feeling of being cheated by a max-level action skill.

These uneventful days continued until one night, Bai Miao suddenly felt palpitations for no apparent reason.

Sitting up in bed, Bai Miao did some quick calculations and realized that his time was probably almost up.

However, this trip was not a loss. A total of four skills, namely throwing sandbags, rolling iron hoops, hopscotch, and playing marbles, were upgraded to LV10. In addition, there were a lot of skills above LV5. Although they could not reach the level of directly distorting the laws of reality like LV10, they were still very fierce.

At LV10, the iron hoop can be rolled by simply giving it initial kinetic energy. Even if Bai Miao lets go of it, the hoop will continue to roll. Furthermore, Bai Miao can control the direction of the rolling hoop with his mind.

No quantity limit.

LV10 hopscotch returns to its original form, becoming a skill that Bai Miao dares not use carelessly.

If there are many hopscotch squares drawn on the ground, normally it is impossible for two feet to step into these squares at the same time. In order to win, this skill will cause Bai Miao to grow extra limbs.

It could be a hand or a foot, but it needs to be to the point where you can step on all the squares you're supposed to step on in one go.

Getting rid of limb hyperplasia is quite simple; just jump to the two-square level and it will recover.

Even so, Bai Miao was quite shocked when he first discovered the LV10 hopscotch skill.

And decided that LV9 hopscotch would be sufficient unless absolutely necessary.

At LV10, when shooting marbles, physical distance and obstacles are ignored; if you want to shoot, you can.

Bai Miao has also developed the ability to shoot marbles with a slingshot.

Bai Miao later speculated that by covering the bullets with marbles, he might be able to achieve the effect of hitting the target with certainty.

In short, in the remote farmhouse, Bai Miao was busy developing his various skills every day.

"Boom!"

A thunderclap boomed in the sky, and the flash of lightning illuminated the dark courtyard outside.

"The ninth day of the ninth lunar month... is suitable for sacrifices and demolishing houses... other matters should be avoided... it clashes with the Ox and is inauspicious in the south."

As the wall clock struck midnight, Bai Miao stopped calculating.

Today is not a good day.

"Crash!"

The rain poured down, raindrops pounding on the roof, and lightning flashed across the sky again, illuminating a dark shadow outside.

"So even with all those arrays and such intense lightning, nothing could stop you?"

"boom!!"

The strong wind blew the window open, bringing a lot of rain into the room. Just as Bai Miao was about to get up to close the window, the wide-open window suddenly closed.

Bai Miao noticed that water was seeping out of the floor beneath his feet. The water level was rising so fast that it reached Bai Miao's chest in just a breath or two.

"I'm not afraid of playing in the water."

Bai Miao simply plunged into the water, activating his underwater breathing, underwater vision, and swimming skills simultaneously. Instantly, the house, now submerged, became even more comfortable to live in than when it was dry.

But then another unexpected event occurred: a dazzling white light suddenly emerged from the water, filling Bai Miao's entire field of vision.

The surrounding water pressure was decreasing, and gradually Bai Miao could feel the air, which was becoming hot and humid. He also heard a series of annoying cicada chirps.

"Brother, wake up, are you still sleeping?"

A cool breeze came from above. Bai An opened his eyes and saw a short-haired girl sitting on the edge of the bed, fanning him gently with a palm-leaf fan.

"You're sweating so much. I told you if you feel hot, you can lift the blanket. Don't listen to Grandma's advice to cover yourself with a blanket while you sleep. It's so hot today, why would you need to cover yourself with a blanket?"

As she spoke, she yanked off the thin blanket covering Bai An and pulled him off the bed.

"Let's go catch cicadas before it gets too hot."

"Sis, I haven't washed up yet, and if I don't eat breakfast, Mom and Dad will scold me again."

"Then let's eat before we go up the mountain."

The girl, dressed in jeans and a thin shirt, didn't urge Bai An any further. Instead, she pulled him downstairs and went to the kitchen to heat up breakfast for him.

Where did Mom and the others go?

Bai An asked.

"My uncle invited them to play cards today."

The girl served Bai An a bowl of porridge and patiently peeled an egg for him.

"How about that? Isn't your sister's egg-peeling skill amazing? Look, the whole egg surface is smooth, without a single bump or dent."

"Well, thank you sister."

Bai An ate happily. Only her older sister would patiently peel eggs for her. Her parents would only complain that she was too demanding, insisting that the surface of an egg had to be smooth.

After finishing breakfast, the girl pulled Bai An out the door and ran towards the woods on the nearby mountain.

"These days are a good time to collect some cicada shells. I can sell them to the cicada shell collector tonight and get several dollars. I'll buy you ice cream then."

Hearing that there was ice cream, Bai An perked up and followed the girl through the woods, searching for the outer shells left behind by cicadas after they molted on the tree trunks.

The summer heat in the countryside was intense, and Bai An soon found himself out of breath and exhausted.

"Sister... I'm so tired."

"Let's rest for a while. Here, have some candy."

The girl took a White Rabbit candy out of her pocket, peeled off the wrapper, and stuffed it directly into Bai An's mouth.

"It's still so hot."

Bai An sat under the shade of a tree, no longer wanting to move.

"That's enough for this morning. We should have found enough."

Bai An looked at the girl and said, "Sister, I want to go play in the river."

"It's not safe in the river."

"The water in the ditch only came up to my thighs. It's not safe there. I want to catch crabs. It's so hot in the afternoon. It's perfect to play in the river."

Bai An kept saying he wanted to go to the river to catch fish and crabs.

The girl thought for a moment and said, "Okay, let's go to the river together this afternoon. Just remember not to go too far."

"Ok!"

Soon it was afternoon, and after lunch, the adults went off to play cards again.

Watching the adults walk away, the girl immediately rummaged through the house and found a crab trap and a straw hat: "Brother, let's go! While they're playing cards, let's hurry and catch crabs in the ditch."

She led the way and ran into the ditch, with Bai An close behind.

The ditch was located below the bamboo forest. The closer you got to the riverbank, the lower the temperature became. After hearing the sound of the water, Bai An took a quick step and ran ahead of her sister. Wearing sandals, she stepped into the ditch, startling the fish that scattered in all directions.

"So many fish! There are some here, and some there!"

"Slow down!"

The girl hurriedly chased after him, suddenly realizing that her younger brother was already running faster than her.

"The crab is under the rock. Let's move the rock together."

"Hey!"

The two worked together and happily caught crabs in the stream.

The harvest was quite substantial.

"Rumble..."

Suddenly, a series of surging sounds came from upstream. Bai An turned around and saw a huge, surging wave roaring down from upstream.