Chapter 18

[Knife Skill lv.3 (Speed +1): 2/40,000]

There was no change in proficiency after reaching level three, but the cap doubled again to forty thousand.

But below that line of proficiency, another line of text appeared.

[Please choose direction]

[Butcher’s Sword Technique (Accuracy +1, Speed +1)]]

[Five Tiger Gate Breaking Sword (Accuracy +1, Strength +1)]

Zhou An: “?”

He didn’t remember that he had this kind of design when he was designing the game in the first place.

How did the Life Skill turn into something like this?

Zhou An did not rush to choose, but recalled his memories from his previous life and carefully rationalized.

After a while, he realized what went wrong.

When he first made this life skill mini-game, he made a lot of money when it caught fire once.

But the maintenance behind this game was very hurtful.

So a college student fresh out of school was found to help.

Some of the patches and updates in the back were all done by this college student.

Most of the time, he just scanned the game and let the college student do it.

This kind of game was initially on fire, but slowly became weak.

So he himself didn’t care about it later, and let this college student be in charge of all of it.

“This thing, it should have been added by that guy.” Zhou An thought.

He had seen it before, and gradually, he now had an impression.

One of the updates designed by that college student back then was that there was a huge change in proficiency every time it reached the third level.

Now, it seemed that this situation was the update from back then.

“Who is good to choose?”

Zhou An was caught in a choice dilemma.

He tried hard to think back, and eventually thought of what that college student had said to him.

-The attributes that increase at the very beginning are the basic ones, but they are also the ones that are good at them, and choosing based on that is the most correct.

“That is to say, I started out with the speed aspect, so I should choose the speed aspect now as well.”

After Zhou An figured it out, he didn’t continue to think about it in detail.

It was not possible to think in detail about something like Difficulty in Choosing.

The more one thought about it, the more entangled one would become.

He gritted his teeth, hardened his heart, and chose the Planarizing Blade Technique.

With such a thought in his mind, the text in front of him changed.

[Butcher’s Blade Technique lv.3 (Speed +2, Accuracy +1): 2/40,000]

After the text in front of him surfaced and disappeared again, a large amount of information flooded into his mind.

Zhou An closed his eyes and felt the turning of his mind.

It was probably after a period of nearly two minutes that he reopened his eyes.

The Qi flow in his body changed from a thumb-thin to two thumbs-thin.

But it did not transform into the air mass of a second-rate expert.

Zhou An raised his hand and picked up the kitchen knife on the table.

In the next moment, he swung out the chopper and slashed towards the chopping board.

The chopper transformed into a residual shadow as white light flowed over the blade.

When the blade light landed on the chopping board, nothing happened.

The kitchen knife was a hair’s breadth away from the chopping board, but it never fell.

This was precision!

Zhou An also finally understood the benefits of Precision +1.

“Lift the weight, not a hair’s breadth away.”

If it was before, his sword was fast, but as fast as it was, he could not manage to put it away with each slash.

To use a very simple analogy.

After a slash, if the opponent dodged out of the way, his own center door would be wide open.

Because he didn’t have the precision, nor did he have the ability to lift the weight, so after each chop, he couldn’t take it back.

And now it was different.

Precision made his saber technique virtual and real, taking it to the next level.

“Good good good, worthy of a planing ox.”

With the increase in proficiency, Zhou An was naturally happy.

He put the chopper back on the chopping board, and put on the constable’s zizi, before carrying the long knife out the door.

This forced shift was still necessary.

Today is his street patrol.

After the dawn, Zhou An didn’t stay too long, crossed the knife and went out the door.

Coincidentally, the area for this street patrol was Poplar Lane where the first incident happened.

Zhou An still remembered that the first body found there was gutted.

Before leaving, Yu Hang also urged him to be careful.

Leaving the courthouse, Zhou An slipped and slipped and slipped, arriving at Hu Yang Alley.

The alley was still relatively lively, although something had happened a while ago, the people had to live.

It was also calm for more than ten days, so the sound of vendors shouting and selling along the street was getting more and more prosperous.

Zhou An straddled his long sword and skipped through the streets.

The common people saw that he was wearing a zizi and hastily averted their eyes.

Just so patrolling the streets at noon, casually ate something at the roadside vendors, Zhou An rested for a while and continued patrolling the streets.

During this time, also handled two quarrels in passing.

Until it was almost afternoon, the wind was calm.

Thinking that nothing had happened today, he could go back to loose his values.

Just as he passed by an alleyway, a commotion came from within.

“Fighting sounds?”

Sporadic sounds of fighting came from inside the alleyway. If an ordinary person had passed by, they wouldn’t have been able to hear it.

Zhou An had air in his body and heard it clearly.

Constables patrolled the streets and did this.

Zhou An thought for a moment, gripped the long knife on his waist and walked towards the alley.

The alley was narrow and could only allow two people to pass through.

On both sides were fences and there were no houses.

The ground was very dirty and littered with rubble and garbage.

There were many other abandoned alleys like this one in Anding County.

Even the most lively places had these abandoned alleys.

The further Zhou An walked inside, the louder the noisy fighting sounds became.

There was a corner in front of him, so he couldn’t see what was behind the corner, but the sounds of fighting were coming from behind the corner.

“Weapons?”

The sound of gold and iron clashing came from the alley.

At first, being far away, he thought it was the people fighting here.

But when weapons were moved, it was different.

Zhou An slowly became serious and drew the long knife at his waist, carefully approaching.

When he came to the corner of the alley, he poked his head out and surveyed the situation behind the corner.

The alley was already narrow and could be seen at a glance.

There were two people inside, to be precise, one of them was not human.

A black robe and hands with nails half a foot long.

The mouth protruded, sharp incisors, sticking out from the mouth.

This look, Zhou An had encountered before.

Beast Cult!

Only people from the Beast Cult would appear in this state after drawing on the power of beasts.

The other person was wearing the costume of the Zhen Gui Si, holding a long sword in his hand.

The two sides seemed to be facing each other, but Zhou An saw that there were dozens of wounds, large and small, on the members of the Zhen Gui Si.

“This is at a disadvantage.” Zhou An thought to himself.

While he was thinking this, the Zhen Gui Division member spoke.

“Surrender, you are already at the end of your strength, any further recalcitrance is just a death sentence.”

The voice was hoarse, accompanied by violent coughing, obviously not lightly injured.

The person from the Beast Sect let out a loud laugh, “In more than ten days, your Zhen Gui Si killed dozens of people from my Beast Sect, and now you’re telling me to surrender?”

“As the Protector, I’m going to take your life today and sacrifice it to the heavens!”