Chapter 44: The Youthful Hero

“Tap~”

“Tap~”

“Tap~”

In the kitchen, a boy and a girl stood close together, and the sound of “tap, tap, tap” kept coming out.

“Can you go a bit faster?”

“It’s already fast, you know?”

“Ah~ here it comes, here it comes, yes, come on, come on, huff~~”

Mo Xiaobai was seen holding a bundle of grass down, blowing air into it non-stop.

After two or three seconds, the tiny sparks of fire inside the grass bundle ignited from the airflow. Mo Xiaobai quickly put the grass down and started adding small wooden strips.

“Your master is really a scammer; he just gave you two broken stones to start a fire.”

“Yeah, I get so tired of doing this task every time. It takes me most of the morning. If not for the high experience points, I would have crashed by now.” Xiao Bai put down the two broken stones in her hands, watched the small wooden strips catch fire one by one, and remembered the scene of her first time starting a fire.

It was so pitiful that she, a girl who never went into the kitchen at home, had learned the skill of striking a fire to make fire in the Lord Plane, and she wasn’t even using the most common flint stone.

“How much experience do you actually get from doing these tasks?” Mo Xiaobai added the firewood to the stove, then turned to look at the girl beside him and asked curiously.

“The first time I chopped wood, I got 20,000 experience. After that, I get 2,000 every day. The first time I started a fire, I got 40,000 experience. After that, I get 4,000 every day. Also, when I went to the river to fetch water, filling the water jar for the first time gave me 30,000…”

Xiao Bai counted on her fingers, and Mo Xiaobai grew more and more speechless.

What kind of tasks are these?

Did the Intellect Brain make a mistake? Daily tasks give such high experience points.

“No, in this Lord Plane world, everything that seems unreasonable must have factors we can’t see or ignore subconsciously.”

Mo Xiaobai added the firewood into the stove, then looked at the fire starter stone beside it.

The stone was very ordinary, no different from picking one up randomly by the roadside.

Eh?

“A stone that almost cannot spark, and a smooth, flat surface of a wooden cut. These are not the usual difficulty requirements for daily life tasks.”

A guess flashed through his mind, so Mo Xiaobai asked, “What do you usually use to fetch water?”

“There, the two small wooden buckets hanging over there are it.”

As the girl nodded her chin, Mo Xiaobai finally noticed the wooden buckets hanging on the wall.

The buckets were nothing special, just a bit small. He guessed they wouldn’t weigh more than ten jin even when full, which suited a girl well.

But then he thought of the two water jars outside that were as tall as him, and he knew exactly where the problem lay.

How many trips would it take to fill those water jars with these small buckets?

“Chopping wood tests blade technique and strength. Lighting a fire tests nerve reaction speed and agility. Fetching water tests physical strength and endurance. There might be other tasks, but they all relate to these basics.”

“First, we can confirm this is a Class Transfer leaning towards martial arts.”

“This is the Great Han Dynasty. There aren’t many martial arts Class Transfer types. Since there are no tasks involving command or battlefield strategy, the General path can be completely ignored. Among the remaining Class Transfers, the most likely one is none other than that one, right?”

Information kept flashing through Mo Xiaobai’s mind, and he suddenly smiled in understanding. “Now I finally get it.”

“Great God, what do you understand?”

“Hah~ You’re lucky. These tasks have great prospects. They really do.”

Mo Xiaobai clicked his tongue twice. Among the first batch of players who got their Class Transfer in the early game, the Class Transfer direction the girl in front of him had opened was definitely one of the most promising.

As for why he had no impression of the girl, Mo Xiaobai was not surprised.

There were over a billion players in the Huaxia Region. He wasn’t a know-it-all, so how could he recognize everyone? Besides, if she chose this path, she would have little in common with ordinary Lord players.

“I also think it has great prospects, but my master is sometimes very stingy. He refuses to teach me his exclusive secret moves.” Xiao Bai pursed her lips, looking quite depressed after saying this.

“Your master has exclusive secret moves?”

“Of course! You haven’t seen my master practice swordplay. It was so fun. He could carve characters with his sword, just like people write with a pen. Anyway, he was so cool.”

The girl spoke proudly, but Mo Xiaobai twitched his lips.

At this age, of course, looking cool was more attractive to a girl than the “Renxia Sword Method.”

Renxia!

That’s right. It was a special group originating from the Mohist School during the Spring and Autumn period, which gradually grew stronger.

In the entire Huaxia Region, stories of Rangers had deep roots, and the Rangers of the Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties were even more active throughout the entire river of history.

In this era, being a youthful hero was as common as young people in later generations loved playing mobile games.

With fifteen years of memories from his past life, Mo Xiaobai knew that all the Rangers of the Great Han Dynasty shared a common trait: they could all perform a few moves of the “Renxia Sword Method.”

Without the Renxia Sword at hand, they would feel too ashamed to go out and greet people while calling themselves heroes.

Carve words with a sword, carve flowers with a sword.

For some experienced Rangers, this was no difficulty at all.

Mo Xiaobai had seen the “Renxia Sword Method” in his past life, but it was hard to judge its power. In the hands of ordinary people, it showed no special characteristics. But in the entire Huaxia Region, there were a few players who made the Renxia Sword look miraculous. They often fought against multiple enemies at once and won.

“But a female Heroine is really rare.”

Mo Xiaobai rested his chin on his hand, thinking. Since Xiao Bai’s tasks were still ongoing, it meant that in her master’s eyes, the girl by his side was not yet qualified to become a Ranger, so he didn’t reveal the truth.

However, even though Mo Xiaobai said nothing, Xiao Bai looked very enthusiastic: “Great God, look at my master. He can look cool, act cool, play the part of a cold-faced man, and cook delicious food. Are you not moved at all?”

“So you are, selling your master?”

“Yes, that’s exactly it. I want to sell him.” Xiao Bai nodded without hiding anything: “Who asked him not to teach me his secret moves and be so lazy? He makes me do all the work. I have long wanted to sell him. Great God, take him away. Then you can order him to do this and that, and he can even teach me his secret moves.”

“You better save that talk for tricking ghosts. If you don’t tell the truth, I definitely won’t be fooled.” Mo Xiaobai was not a three-year-old child; he wouldn’t listen to her nonsense.

“Eh, Great God, how do you know I wasn’t telling the truth?”

“Do I look like a fool to you?”

“Okay, the truth is, I think my master is so powerful, but he stays at home all day. No matter how powerful he is, he will become a useless otaku. Great God, you don’t know. Every time I went to buy him wine and meat at the East Market, everyone there laughed at him. Even his own brother was angry at his lack of ambition and never entered this house.”

As the girl spoke, some anger appeared in her eyes.

It was unknown whether she was angry at those who mocked her master or angry that her master had skills but absolutely no ambition.

Even she, a small salted fish, had the wish to earn one Gold Coin.

“That’s because you don’t know the Cheng Family has been ruined by the Intellect Brain. The Cheng Family of the Great Han is currently at the lowest point of its low point. It will have to wait until Cheng Yu appears many years later for the family to have a chance to rise high.”

Thinking of the huge sensation that appeared in the Wang City of the Great Han Dynasty in his past life, Mo Xiaobai’s mind turned.

Inviting Cheng Liya into Daming Village might really bring many benefits.