CHAPTER 58: CHAPTER 55: ANYA, HOW CAN YOU REST?

In an artificially simulated bamboo forest.

The tall, green bamboos stretched endlessly, with the black ceiling pressing down from above.

A clear spring flowed by the creek stones, a winding stream encircled the bamboo forest, with fine sand and pebbles laid at the clear waterbed, splashing and making a rushing sound, reflecting the shadow of a sword-wielding girl by the pond.

Before long, the girl sat on the lawn, staring blankly at the sword in her hand.

"This is strange, why doesn’t my proficiency seem to be improving?"

[Swordswoman Resonance Heart Eye (Beginner) 3753/10000]

As Xu Xiaoyou lay down holding her head, the surrounding scene began to change, flashing simulated images.

The bamboo forest finally transformed into a pure white space, with an ethereal mechanical female voice echoing above.

"Hello, Mr. Xu Nian, your simulation room time has expired."

"Extend it for another three hours."

"Kangpei Institution is happy to serve you. If you encounter any difficulties during the service, please consult the local Cleaner Association’s front desk..."

Seeing the notification of an automatic deduction of two hundred credits on her phone, Xu Xiaoyou sighed, thinking how effective the simulation room of the Kangpei Institution really was.

The surroundings morphed again into a simulated bamboo forest, deep and tranquil.

She had long heard that Kangtao Security Training Company mastered gravity singularity technology, which could alter the gravitational field over an area, not only applied in engineering fields but also used in such simulation rooms.

By adjusting the gravity, humidity, and various environmental indicators to the most comfortable level for an individual, the best training condition is achieved, leading to twice the result with half the effort.

Though for most lower-tier Cleaners in Nest City, this minute improvement is almost negligible.

Moreover, they simply cannot afford to rent such simulation rooms. A hundred credits an hour, for those who risk their lives to complete tasks and earn only a few thousand credits, barely enough for food, this is tantamount to robbery.

This sensory enhancement feels quite mysterious, a good training environment indeed allows one to relax more and focus better.

In one morning, she spent nearly eight hundred credits, almost improving her Swordswoman Resonance proficiency by two thousand points. At this rate, the resonance talent would soon reach the next proficiency level.

To know, a few days ago, no matter how focused she was on her sword practice, having one out of ten swings reach the proficiency increase criteria was already good.

Yet in this simulation room, just prior, almost every sword swing improved proficiency by one point; sometimes, with deeper understanding, a critical increase would trigger, boosting it by five to ten points at once.

More importantly, she didn’t feel tired while training in this simulation room; even if her whole body was sore, her spirit remained high, enabling her to keep swinging the sword.

"You get what you pay for; this money was well spent."

But as her proficiency reached 3700, it seemed the criteria for proficiency improvement standards grew higher, and the speed of gain slowed down again.

She hadn’t seen a proficiency increase prompt for over half an hour now.

A pair of fluffy ears brushed against her face.

[Character Anya has completed attack training; Power Attribute increased!]

[Character Anya has completed dodge training; Agility Attribute increased!]

[Character Anya has completed resistance training; Constitution Attribute increased!]

[Character Anya has mastered Rapid Pounce, Bite, Danger Perception!]

[Anya’s current Power, Agility, and Constitution attributes are 50, 65, and 50 respectively!]

Looking at the training report floating in front of her from the character card, Xu Xiaoyou nodded with satisfaction.

In recent days, during the full moon, she used all the experience cards on Anya, and now Anya’s attributes surpass the standard of a Two Tier Cleaner, with combat power quite impressive, dodging bullets without issue, and tearing apart a few short-sighted Low Tier Cleaners with ease.

Theoretically, as long as she took Anya to register with the association, the benefits of a Two Tier Cleaner would be available.

But the strange thing was, despite Anya’s various attributes fully meeting the Two Tier standard, she couldn’t form her mimicry weapon.

The association often determined whether a Cleaner reached Two Tier based on the ability to form mimicry, and without forming mimicry, registration was impossible.

Could it be that using those experience cards caused Anya’s growth to be over-accelerated, resulting in a negative effect?

Or is there some prerequisite condition not yet fulfilled?

Xu Xiaoyou fell into deep thought.

Her bafflement wasn’t limited to this alone.

After the affection level increased, Anya could currently share 20% of her attributes with her.

Looking at Anya’s affection level towards herself reaching the peak of [Dependency], with the next level being [Lover], Xu Xiaoyou’s mouth twitched slightly.

Anya’s age is probably not even eight yet...

The affection storyline button expected to unlock upon reaching [Familiarity] turned out to be unclickable even as it approached legality, remaining gray, locked.

[Anya Affection Storyline: Trial of Iron and Blood.]

[Cannot trigger. Reason: Prerequisite condition not fulfilled.]

Anya, after training all morning, was exhausted at this point, squatting down to hug Xu Xiaoyou’s leg pitifully, her eyes tearing up, tail flicking.

After becoming familiar with the girl, Anya often acted this way to Xu Xiaoyou, sometimes craving food or feeling neglected.

Xu Xiaoyou’s gaze softened.

The other party had already regarded her as family.

Indeed, family should be considerate of each other and understanding and tolerant.

Always empathetic, Xu Xiaoyou nodded.

Suddenly, she grinned, a bottle of Stamina Recovery Potion appeared in her hand: "Anya, acting cute won’t work! Want to rest without finishing training?"

Bloop.

The Stamina Recovery Potion card turned into a bottle glowing green, bubbling ominously, looking rather dubious in color.

Upon seeing the potion, Anya looked as if she saw something terrifying, her little face went pale, quickly covering her mouth.

"Not opening your mouth to drink won’t work either~"

Xu Xiaoyou directly selected Anya on the character card with the potion and used it!

Gulp, gulp—

The liquid in the potion bottle gradually decreased.

The green potion sprayed out from Anya’s mouth and nose.

[Character Anya’s stamina has been restored to 100%]

Seeing Anya in a corner, training with deep resentment on her little face, Xu Xiaoyou laughed like a baby just two hundred months old.

"What are you laughing at, Youyou, why so happy?"

Hearing a girl’s voice not far away, Xu Xiaoyou turned her head and, upon seeing her appearance, froze slightly.

Today, Bai Youyou was dressed differently than usual, not in her usual pure white investigator uniform.

She wore a dress, the elegant satin ribbon tied at the waist, the skirt’s edges finely embroidered, floating like a white flower.

The tied sandals showcased the girl’s long and beautiful leg lines, her figure light and slender, holding her shoulder bag at the door, the heat waves rolled in like a spirit of summer.

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