Urban Sims

Hongmopan Street.

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

There are seven rooms in the apartment, one on the first floor, 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 the servants next to the kitchen on the first floor. It had nothing but a large bed that could sleep three or four people. It was relatively dark and damp, and the conditions were very average.

Zhou Ming asked Lina to choose a room on the second floor... There were two vacant rooms on the second floor, and she could choose one.

But Lina refused. She was just a servant, and a servant was not qualified to live in the room upstairs. What's more, she had to cook, so it was more convenient to live on the first floor.

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

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

Lying in the warm quilt at night, Lina even experienced the feeling of being at home when she was a child, and she couldn't help but shed tears.

She immediately reminded herself: "Lina, you have met the best noble person in the world, never forget your duty."

Henry on the other side also suffered from insomnia because the bed was too soft to adapt to. He felt that he was living in a dream and had an unreal feeling... Years of suffering had prevented him from having extravagant hopes.

But when he thought that he had become the assistant of the magician, and that he might also become a noble magician in the future, he was filled with thoughts of getting ahead.

…

After two more people were added to the family, Zhou Ming immediately realized the benefits.

As an assistant, Henry did all the work such as serving tea and water, obtaining information, and recording experimental data, saving Zhou Ming a lot of time.

Henry even became an "experimental subject". After Zhou Ming gave him a bottle of [healing potion] worth 1,000 gold coins, a miraculous scene appeared: in just a few minutes, all the external and internal injuries on Henry's body were healed. It's clean...the effect is visible to the naked eye.

Zhou Ming was surprised, this was too exaggerated.

"Thank you, teacher!"

Henry was extremely grateful that all the pain in his body was gone. Although he didn't know the price of [Healing Potion], in the past, this kind of potion was something that a poor class like him would never be able to touch, and he would never dare to dream about it. It even had a name. Never heard of it.

Today, the teacher casually gave it to him.

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

In addition, Zhou Ming was also willing to take some time to teach Henry something when he had nothing to do.

Henry is hungry, very serious, masters things very quickly, and can even draw inferences from one instance to another.

Zhou Ming nodded with satisfaction.

…

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

"Lina, you have learned 80% 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 understanding of her again and again.

Two words to describe her are: serious.

Very serious.

If Zhou Ming points out that she is not doing well or needs improvement, she will make improvements that day and ask herself to do better.

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

Especially in terms of cooking skills, Lina really couldn't accept the fact that Zhou Ming's cooking skills were far better than hers. The master's cooking skills were better than those of the servants. What was the value of her existence as a servant?

She cannot accept herself as being useless, she must reflect her own value!

Zhou Ming had no choice but to spend some time coaching Lina on her cooking skills.

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

In addition, since she spends 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 belly. This made Lina, who was originally skinny, lose her body in a few days. It swelled up like air. After gaining seven or eight pounds of meat, 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.

As for the life experiences of these siblings, Zhou Ming also learned a little bit about them and discovered that their biological mother was actually the "Rose of the Royal Capital" Belemona - a woman with the most famous reputation in the Royal Capital.

But I didn't expect that this woman was clinging to power and had a heart like a snake. In order to climb up, she would do whatever it took to get up, and she would even abandon her own children without questioning her at all.

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

But Zhou Ming doesn't think it's unusual. He has seen too many women similar to Belemona, dealt with many, and killed many - his philosophy is: he can use others, and he can also use each other. Use him, but if anyone just wants to use him or use him as a stepping stone, then I'm sorry, he will let the other person die.

Zhou Ming also asked Lina and Henry what they would do if they had the chance to see their mother.

"I...I might kill her. She killed her 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 were me, the most I would do is throw a piece of shit at her and never see her again... She is not our mother."

Zhou Ming nodded, Lina's thoughts were more mature, and Henry looked too young.

Of course, he stayed away from women like Bellemona.

If they really came into contact because of some "fateful choice", he hoped that this woman had better not get in his way, otherwise...

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Next.

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

In the morning, I went to work at the Magic Cake Shop, making magic cakes, training store employees, and successively launched new products such as "burgers", "small cakes", "pastry", etc., not only making one kind of cake, but also expanding the store. The reputation of the royal capital is also growing.

It's just that he rarely shows up and his name is unknown. Only one nickname is widely circulated - the magic cake maker.

In the afternoon, I returned to the apartment and did various magic experiments, studying the physical properties, chemical properties, optical properties of magic particles, etc., and discovered many magical properties of magic particles. With the help of the system, I derived a lot of mathematics. formula.

Some people may think this is useless, but for Zhou Ming, it has a huge effect!

For example, by deriving the vibration law formula of magic particles, Zhou Ming can use the optimal soul frequency to achieve maximum magic power growth while minimizing consumption.

Meditation requires "energy". The time a magician can meditate every day is limited. How to achieve the greatest gain within this limited time requires the best meditation effect according to these formulas... Zhou Ming calls this the "meditation improvement curve."

According to this curve, Zhou Ming's recent meditation has increased his magic power by just over 1% every day.

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

Due to the low soul frequency, he is currently researching more thoroughly, mainly wind magic.

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

"The maximum speed of this kind of spiral is 110,000 meters per second, which can create a hurricane with huge destructive power, and can even blow away people and buildings, making it impossible to stop it."

"Wind magic also has a 'lasting' characteristic. Once the 'spiral force field' is formed, it will take at least 10 minutes to gradually dissipate, which is very draining on the enemy's physical strength."

"However, the disadvantage of wind magic is that its attack power is weak and its armor-breaking and defense-breaking effect is poor. After all, it only moves air. Air has low density and weight, and its lethality is insufficient."

"But there are ways to improve it. If you reduce the diameter of the bottom 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 magician's fine operation ability.

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

This improved operation makes the first-level wind magic "Wind Pillar" at least as lethal as a third-level wind magic.

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

Based on the total magic power in his body, he can only release 6 similar improved versions of "Wind Pillars".

After calculation, the system also said: "The magic particles in this plane seem to have a set of 'programming rules' added. As long as the operating frequency is reached, the 'standard version' of magic prescribed by this plane will be released. The standard version of magic It can release powerful magic with minimal consumption and fastest speed."

"Although the host's improved version of magic is more powerful, it consumes more magic power and is more complex to operate. It requires a lot of research energy and can only be mastered by a few people... This is detrimental to the promotion of magic. The standard version of magic is It has some flaws, but for magicians, it is the fastest and most cost-effective option.”

"The system means that mediocrity means popularity?" Zhou Ming said.

"Yes, if the system is allowed to create such a plane, a large number of mediocre magics will be programmed in advance to facilitate the magician's mastery... The higher the laws, the more difficult it is to master. If the magic is more complicated, this surface magician will The number will probably be even less.”

Zhou Ming nodded, that was 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 first-level magic to third-level magic. This ability can help him improve his self-protection strength, and even "Leap-level killing of monsters" in the future will play a very critical role.

In the evening, it was Zhou Ming's time to meditate.

After the day's meditation, Zhou Ming checked his various ability values ​​in the system panel:

Level: Apprentice Magician

Magic value: 18.767 (20 for next level)

Sensing range: 45cm (next level 50)

Soul frequency: 1.07 (next level 1.10)

Energy value: 0 (not enough brainpower to continue meditating)

Looking at these values, Zhou Ming shook his head.

"It will take at least two months to advance to junior magician."

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

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

How can I shorten the promotion time?

Calming potion!

Zhou Ming discovered that the calming potion could 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 achieve the effect of doubling his cultivation speed, and this state can last for 3 days.

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

But the price of this thing...

Of course, it's not that Zhou Ming can't afford it. It only costs 10,000 gold coins a month, and his wallet can still bear it.

He just suddenly felt that the profession of pharmacist seemed to be very promising.