The weapon refiner is not doing her job properly

Chapter 20 Spiritual Anchor

After receiving Xing Yuan's promise, Charlie stopped crying, blew out some snot bubbles, and said goodbye to Su Ninglong with a smile.

"Brother Yuan, thank you for your hard work. This kid will be a big trouble."

Su Ninglong shook her head and spoke in a mature tone, only to be slapped lightly by Xing Yuan. "Stop making sarcastic remarks."

Things change, and if you do something wrong, it will always come back to you somewhere. Xing Yuan swore that he would never show off in front of his peers again.

In a blink of an eye, it was Friday morning. Suninglong was busy with his homework last night and finished it at three in the morning.

Fanny, who teaches interstellar history, is crazy about assigning homework. After the first interstellar history class, she assigned five homework assignments.

One part was to copy and the other to recite, to find out the number and names of human races before the interstellar fusion, and any significant cultural changes before and after the interstellar fusion. Finally, the students were asked to visit an ancient site on Saturday and Sunday, and after returning, they should take time to come to her to share their impressions.

Xingyuan served a sumptuous breakfast.

Su Ninglong sat at the dining table with a dazed look in her eyes.

Xing Yuan saw the dark circles under her eyes and asked, "Did you stay up late last night? Can't you sleep?"

For the past week, Su Ninglong went to bed on time and Xing Yuan never thought of urging her to do so.

As a result, she stayed up late without realizing it.

Su Ninglong: "I'm rushing to finish my homework. I suspect Teacher Funi wears such thick glasses just to hide her shrewd and cunning eyes."

"Were you so engrossed in your book that you didn't hear Funi's final request? You only need to hand in one copy today. The recitation will be assessed in class next Thursday. As for the remaining three assignments, you only need to complete them under our guidance this school year. Children your age can't even read yet. How could she possibly ask you to complete so many complex assignments on your own?"

Su Ninglong was shocked. Aren’t homeworks supposed to be done on the same day they are assigned?

Xing Yuan: "Are you done?"

"The only thing left is the trip to the historical sites on Saturday and Sunday." Su Ninglong stuffed a fried egg into his mouth and said vaguely, "I'm a very straightforward person."

"Can you show me your homework?" Xing Yuan was afraid that the homework she completed alone was of too low quality, which would cause Funi to mistakenly think that he, as her guide, was not doing his job well.

Su Ninglong showed him her homework, "The copy is handwritten, and mine looks really nice. The others are from StarNet files."

Xingyuan picked up her copybook doubtfully.

Interstellar Universal Language is also hieroglyphic and has many forms of calligraphy.

Su Ninglong's handwriting is round and full, just like the person she is, adorable. The end of the handwriting has a sharp edge, but it is restrained. Just like her handwriting, it can be seen that Su Ninglong is a little girl with a temper.

It is indeed as she said, beautifully written.

Maybe because my hands are still small and lack some strength, the overall look is a little floating, but it’s not a big problem.

After breakfast, Xingyuan had finished looking through all her homework. He couldn't believe that this was the homework of a four-year-old. The reference books and where the information was found were clearly marked without any perfunctory work.

No similar documents can be found online to prove that these assignments were completed entirely independently by Suninglong.

"Ning Long, you make me proud, but also sad. My job as a guide doesn't seem that important to you." Xing Yuan chose to confide instead of keeping it in his heart.

"Brother Xingyuan, what should I do without you? Without you, I will have to eat pig food again. Food is my motivation to live." Su Ninglong made an exaggerated Xizi heart-holding gesture, not noticing that there was a cylindrical part thrown away by her under her feet.

At an age when he couldn't fully control his body, Su Ninglong's face hit the wall and knocked out his teeth.

Xingyuan hurried forward to check.

The little girl's nose was red, but there didn't seem to be anything serious.

But only the person involved knows whether it is harmful or not. Su Ninglong rubbed his nose, opened his mouth, and lightly touched his front teeth, which could be shaken.

My hand was itching, so I pulled it and it fell off.

Blood was pouring out, and her saliva tasted like rust. Su Ninglong was stunned. "My teeth."

"Don't panic, it's normal for children to change their teeth." Xing Yuan rummaged through the drawer, took out the medicine box, and helped her stop the bleeding.

Seeing that blood was still oozing out, Xingyuan quickly put on clothes and carried her to the infirmary.

When I rushed to the medical room, it was the female doctor's turn to come on duty.

The medical room is very large, with more than ten beds and two critical care cabins.

The floor-to-ceiling windows leading to the roof cut the sunlight into diamond-shaped spots of light, which sprinkled on the spotless floor and refracted into star-like specks of light.

There was a faint smell of disinfectant in the air, which was not pungent.

Xing Yuan put Su Ninglong down and explained the incident to the doctor, "Doctor Lena, please check if she's okay. She's bleeding non-stop. I've changed the cotton three times."

Lena's round, white fingertips lifted Su Ninglong's lips and examined them carefully. "Little friend, when you get ruthless, you won't even let yourself go."

There is still a little bit of fresh gum left on the tooth, which shows that the tooth fell out not long ago.

"The wound is quite large, and since we just had breakfast, there's a lot of blood and qi, so it's going to be hard to heal. Just some healing agent will do the trick."

Lena softly instructed, "The medicine is a bit bitter. Keep it in your mouth and don't swallow it. Spit it out after one minute. Do you understand?"

Su Ninglong is in good health. This is his first time to come to the hospital and also his first time to try StarCraft's medicine.

She nodded and held the potion in her mouth as instructed.

This bite is extremely bitter.

Su Ninglong was so miserable that her face was wrinkled like a pug, and her eyes were filled with a spoonful of small pearls that were about to fall out and couldn't fall out. She looked so pitiful.

Lena smiled, like a witch in human skin, "Don't spit it out."

A minute later, Su Ninglong spit out the healing agent and rinsed his mouth with water.

Her mouth felt dry and astringent. She touched the tip of her tongue and said, "Ugh."

He didn't vomit after eating Zou Shuyi's pig food, nor did he vomit after riding on the shuttle, but he vomited after taking the medicine.

"You are so brave, kid, but you can't eat the candy. You have to wait two hours."

The candy in Su Ninglong's hand was taken away by Lena.

Su Ninglong was shocked: "It's murder for money."

"Hahaha." Lena tapped Su Ninglong's nose, "Little boy with a lisp, the doctor is just concerned about you. You should go to class."

The corners of Xingyuan's mouth were always raised and never came down.

"One candy, just treat it to a doctor. Watch your step next time."

Su Ninglong was depressed, "When you go back, remember to help me clean up."

"Yeah, I help you clean up every day. You just throw things around every day."

It's even more miserable because the blame is mine and I can't get rid of it.

Taking Su Ninglong out of the infirmary, Xing Yuan and her trotted to the rescue class.

After Su Ninglong's tooth-breaking incident, Xing Yuan stopped talking about his useless role as a guide. He knocked on the classroom door for her, and the teacher standing at the podium was Yun Fei.

"Teacher Yun, I'm sorry, I'm late. Because of this." Su Ninglong bared his teeth.

Yun Fei said in a familiar tone: "Where have you been? I haven't seen you for a few days, and you've turned into a gap-toothed girl."

The teenagers all looked at her in surprise, not understanding why such a young child appeared in the youth class.

Su Ninglong sat down in the seat reserved for her at the front. This was a class for twelve-year-olds, and the chairs were relatively high, so her short legs couldn't reach the ground.

"Teacher Yun, please hurry up and start the class. You've wasted two minutes."

Yun Fei raised his eyebrows and stopped talking nonsense. There was a lot of content in today's class.

Xing Yuan turned and left. Yun Fei picked up two ominous signs and said, "I believe you all know that this thing is called the Secret Token, one of the indispensable tools for containing secret spirits."

Su Ninglong wanted to say that she didn't know, but she didn't interrupt Yun Fei's lecture.

Yun Fei seemed to understand Su Ninglong's situation and deliberately repeated some of the content the teenagers had learned to make the course easier to understand. "After containing a monster, the Secret Order can cause the holder to become insane, polluting their mind and body, eventually becoming one of them, or even dying completely. The more people are polluted, the stronger the Secret Spirit group becomes."

"So relying solely on the Secret Token isn't enough to effectively carry out containment. You'll also need auxiliary items to help complete the containment." Yun Fei once again took out a black ear-hanging tool and demonstrated it. "The Mind Anchor. Once activated, it will temporarily implant nano-nerves to help stabilize your cognition and escape visual confusion. Wearing it, you'll also be able to tell the difference between the two Secret Tokens."

"Anyone want to give it a try?"

"Teacher, among the two secret tokens in your hand, does one of them contain a secret spirit?" a student asked.

"Yes."

"Teacher, how did you manage to remain unaffected by it? Didn't you say that the Secret Order after containing the Secret Spirit could cause the holder to become insane?"

Yun Fei seemed to have anticipated this question and responded with experience, "I will only answer your question if you can distinguish the differences between the Secret Orders."

Suninglong expressed his desire to experience this novelty immediately and raised his hands high.

The student sitting next to me had an expression that said, "You're so brave!"

"You are still young and cannot use the anchor." Yun Fei rejected her request.

Another girl, a Green Lin person, raised her hand.

"Sally, it has to be you. Come up."

Yun Fei handed her the anchor and instructed her on how to use it correctly. "Be gentle with your hands and describe how it feels when you use it. Do you understand?"

The Green Scale people are famous for their great strength, and Sally also has this attribute of great strength. They often forget this, resulting in many instruments in the school being damaged by them.

For the Green Lin people, the compensation for damaged equipment is a huge expense.

Yun Fei had to remind him specifically.

Sally nodded and carefully put on the anchor.

"I feel my temples are a little cold and painful." Sally looked painful.

The nano-nerves of the anchor were pressed against her skin and connecting with the nerves in her head. It was becoming increasingly difficult for Sally to control her expression.

“It’s normal to feel pain. If you don’t feel pain, you should start to wonder if you’re stuck in a world of distorted perception and can’t get out of it.”

Yun Fei was indifferent to Sally's pain, which is something every student has to go through.

"When the anchor device was first designed, the designers intended it to be painless, but later realized it wasn't working. It's very difficult to wear the device correctly when your perception is confused. The intense pain can make you briefly lucid. It sounds like masochism, but in reality, pain may be your only way to survive."

Sally endured the pain, her green skin turned pale blue, and her eyes became dazed.

"Sally, tell me how you feel."

After officially putting it on, Sally looked relaxed and felt good about herself.

"My body feels lighter and my eyes can see things more clearly."

Yun Fei suddenly swept a piece of particle book down from the podium. Sally saw it without thinking, and immediately reached out to catch it, and actually caught it steadily.

"That's the purpose of the anchor. It allows your nerve reaction speed to reach a state different from that of ordinary people. Wearing it periodically will allow you to gradually adapt to it."

The students exclaimed, “If you wear it periodically, you can become really powerful?”

"It's powerful, but it has side effects. If you can't be a hunter and can't hunt down secret spirits, it will shorten your lifespan by decades."

The students gasped. Putting aside super-intelligent beings, how long is the human lifespan? The maximum is three hundred years. For an ordinary person, living to one hundred and fifty is already amazing.

Improper use can shorten your lifespan by decades! Totally a rip-off.

Students concentrate more on listening to the lectures, for fear of missing even the slightest detail.

"This is the significance of the rescue course. If you want to enter the hunter industry, you must be familiar with the use of all auxiliary equipment. Overuse can lead to death." Yun Fei was not exaggerating. "To date, more than 5,000 hunters have died, of which over a hundred have died from over-reliance on auxiliary equipment, and thousands more have been seriously injured and unable to carry out rescue missions in the future."

"Okay, let's get to today's topic. Here, there's a Secret Order that houses a Secret Spirit, and there's also an empty Secret Order. After putting on the anchor, Sally can briefly touch it."

The students in the audience leaned forward, trying to get a closer look.

The moment Sally picked up the two signs.

There was an extra layer of intense pressure on her eardrums, as if they were pressed into the deep sea. Endless whispers were accompanied by the ticking sound of clock gears.

The classmates' exclamations and swallowing sounds turned into bubbling sounds.

A torn space appeared before my eyes. Half of the classroom was normal, while the other half was hatching phosphorescent spore-like fish eggs.

Because of her intrusion, the fish eggs turned in unison, and the eyes hidden under the membrane stared at her blankly.

Sally screamed in pain, she couldn't tell whether she was in reality or an illusion.

Looking at the fish eggs, fear arose, and then the anchor started to work.

Sally screamed as she felt a sharp pain in her temple and threw the Secret Order containing the Secret Spirit forward.

The secret master made the parabola fall on Su Ninglong's desk, and the students around Su Ninglong quickly dodged and stayed three meters away.

Sally recovered from her abnormality and knelt on the ground. Yun Fei handed her a cup of warm water.

She drank it all in one gulp, fear lingering in her eyes, "Is that the real secret spirit?"

"It could just be a part of the secret spirit." Yun Fei ruthlessly grabbed Sally and said, "Stand still. Be consistent in class and tell me what you just felt."

"It laid a lot of eggs with eyes... I felt so small, I don't know how to describe it." Sally shook her head, sad and confused, not understanding what was wrong with her.

"Go back to your seat. If you haven't recovered after class, remember to get a physical checkup and see a psychiatrist."

Sally wiped away her tears and nodded.

Yun Fei walked to Su Ninglong's desk and Su Ninglong handed him the secret order.

(End of this chapter)