If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 860: An unexpected surprise, Wukong's stealing core technology
Without the secret surveillance of the crocodile uncle and nephew, Xi Juan felt much more relaxed and cheerful when pulling the cart.

Moreover, since that night, Xiaoyu's teaching content has also changed.

In fact, after Xi Juan formally became Xiaoyu's apprentice, the content of Xiaoyu's teaching changed.

Before, she only taught him cultural subjects and the words of saints, without bringing in personal opinions or expressing her own views.

Even when he was instructing him in martial arts, he only followed the contents of the secret book "Yellow River Sword Art".

She would not mention anything other than the secret book unless he asked. At that time, Xi Juan was also very well-behaved and did not ask any questions.

Now Xiaoyu begins to "shape" his values ​​and martial arts style.

For example, in terms of internal strength, she began to cooperate with his "Four Symbols Golden Body" to improve the Dahe Qi.

At night, while teaching him the "Dream Magic", he also taught him the art of war.

Xiaoyu can weave the dream scene at will. She has the wisdom of Kunpeng, the CPU and graphics card have fast enough computing speed, and the memory is large enough, so she can weave a "Hollywood blockbuster landscape" with thousands of troops in her dream.

In the dream, Xi Juan became a general, leading 100,000 troops to set up camp and march.

The effect is good, but Xi Juan’s talent is a bit “ordinary”.

The number of soldiers increased to 100,000, but as the commander, he couldn't even manage to set up camp for the soldiers.

Being in a hurry, you lose sight of the big picture.

"Teacher, can we do it step by step? First let the disciple be a squad leader, leading a team of ten people, and then be promoted step by step to a captain of a hundred or a thousand men." Xi Juan was sweating profusely from the effort.

Xiao Yu shook her head and said, "If you are a pure wild person, after entering the army, of course you will be promoted step by step.

But now you are learning the art of war, you should learn it the other way around, from top to bottom.

First learn how to be a general, then put yourself in the shoes of the lower-level soldiers to feel their difficulties, and finally share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. "

This means that Xi Juan is currently attending a "higher military academy". Will the academy teach him how to be an ordinary soldier?
"But I don't even know a lot of military common sense. For example, I don't know how many meals a soldier eats a day, and how much food and grass is consumed for each meal.

Grain transport vehicles have different losses when traveling on different roads. How should we arrange the escort? Alas, I have never experienced it myself, so I can't imagine it!" Xi Juan sighed.

How many meals should you eat a day? This question sounds a bit ridiculous.

Especially for modern people, isn’t it common sense to eat three meals a day?
But in this era, poor people can't even afford a meal.

In the army, if there is no training, or the training level is relatively light, they only eat two meals.

If you are on the march, you not only have to eat three meals, but even four meals, and the meals will be different.

On weekdays they ate bean rice, but during war they ate white rice, white flour buns, meat, and stews.

How to ensure the lowest consumption of food and grass without affecting the morale and physical condition of the soldiers requires the commander of the army to make a decision.

"Just learn slowly. Who can know everything when they are born?"

In fact, Teacher Xiaoyu is only a half-baked person in military strategy.

When she was in Xishu and exterminating the Demon Dragon Palace, she did lead tens of thousands of "monster-human coalition forces". But at that time, she was only responsible for giving orders, and the logistics, transportation, and deployment of troops were all left to her younger brothers, such as Li Xianzhi and the Black Turtle River God.

I studied with Li Xin and Meng Yi at the Great Wall for half a month, but it was just theory.

Even the word "bragging" seems a bit forced.

But she had a good memory, and she remembered Bai Qi's military books and Li Xin's experiences.

Now, while repeating what was in the book, she was also figuring things out on her own.

Bai Qi himself did climb up from the bottom and eventually became a general. But his military books did not talk about what the generals were good at or what they should do, but only about what the commander should do.

To put it bluntly, military books only teach people how to be a good commander, but not how to be a good squadron leader. In fact, Xiaoyu knows how to be a good squadron leader without reading military books: don't be afraid of death, and charge forward.

A fearless cannon fodder is a good soldier; if he leads nine younger brothers as cannon fodder, he is a good squad leader.

That night, Xiaoyu taught Xi Juan the "Military Arithmetic" and "Military Geometry and Drawing" that she had written herself.

Xi Juan was so overwhelmed by the trouble that he said he was tired and went to bed half an hour earlier than usual.

Xiaoyu was a little tired from talking and planned to go to bed early.

After she practiced the Dream Magic, she could fall asleep whenever she wanted and sleep as deeply as she wanted.

In order to improve sleep efficiency and sleep more comfortably, she often chooses "unconscious sleep".

That is, she gave up her conscious will and actively sank into a "dream without a dream".

A "dream without a dream" is a dream without a specific dream scene, which is what people often call a "dreamland".

I didn’t have any dreams, but it felt like a good dream. I slept very soundly and comfortably.

Today, like every day, she fell asleep in a daze.

But at some point, she slept both uneasily and unusually soundly.

It was very contradictory, as if there were mosquitoes around her, buzzing all the time. But the buzzing of mosquitoes was like white noise, which made her sleep more peacefully: her body and soul were at peace, but she was worried about the mosquitoes buzzing around her, which made her feel uneasy.

"What's going on? Where did the mosquitoes come from?"

Xiaoyu did not "wake up" and was still in a dream, with his consciousness a little scattered.

A small part of my consciousness was thinking about the mosquito; the rest of my consciousness was still sleeping comfortably.

“Even in the summer, even if I camp by the water or in the woods, mosquitoes cannot get within three feet of me.

Even Xi Juan would not be bitten by mosquitoes, and his body-protecting Qi could even help the widow who was a few steps away to drive away mosquitoes."

"Buzz buzz buzz~~~" The sound of mosquitoes flying is more dense and louder.

She paid little attention to the mosquito and began to actively approach it. A faint sweet and rotten odor appeared at the tip of her nose.

It smells rancid, but kind of sweet.

"Is there something dead nearby, a dead mouse, a dead fish, or a dead piglet? It's hot in summer, and they must have all rotted." Another part of his consciousness regained consciousness.

Xiaoyu slowly opened her eyes in the dream dimension.

Once she woke up, she immediately woke up from her "dream".

She could enter a dream, but she could not awaken from it clearly.

In her dream, she shrugged her nose and indeed smelled a faint stench of decay, and there was also the buzzing sound of flies and mosquitoes in her ears.

"It's not the mosquitoes and stench from the real world, it's from the dream dimension, isn't it?"

Xiaoyu's eyes were bright and she felt a little excited.

Since the stench and mosquitoes are in the dream dimension, they must not be emitted naturally from other people's dreams.

It must be the “indigenous creatures” from the dream dimension!
That is, dream creatures.

Xiaoyu slowly approached the stench and the sound of mosquitoes, and her expression gradually became strange.

Following the stench and buzzing sound, she unexpectedly arrived at the edge of her dream.

It was her own dream, but she forgot it in a corner and ignored it for several days.

It was the small hill where Birch's "body" was placed.

"Birch's body is rotting, stinking, and infested with bugs?"

Xiaoyu stared at the scene in her dream, feeling amazed.

It was the first time she saw living "indigenous people" in her dream.

Although those bugs are small, they are real dream creatures.

They scurried in and out of Birch's "corpse" like flies to rotten meat.

The two little bugs crawled into the corpse, and when they came out they had turned into a group of little bugs.

They were indeed devouring Birch's blood and essence, laying eggs inside and hatching more small insects.

Xiaoyu watched from the side for a long time. They had multiplied from the original forty or fifty insects to a gray cloud with at least a thousand insects.

Burch's "corpse" was fine before she went to bed last night, and she didn't smell anything bad. Now, in front of her, Burch's flesh and skin had rotted away, revealing the bones inside.

"Strange, these bugs seem to be able to hypnotize people."

Xiaoyu just stood outside and watched, without entering into his own dream.

As the number of insects increased and the buzzing sound became more frequent and louder, she gradually felt sleepy.

If she was an ordinary person who had not practiced the "Dream Magic", she would have fallen asleep directly.

Even though her Dream Magic had already entered the fourth level, she still felt very tired and wanted to fall asleep.

Finally, the small dream world was filled with too many bugs, and some of them began to fly out, preparing to leave the dream.

"You ate my Birch meat and now you want to run away? No way!"

It literally means "no way".

Xiaoyu immediately used the "Broken Bridge" technique to completely cut off the connection between this dream and the outside dream dimension.

"Bang, bang, bang~~" The insect seemed to hit an invisible glass cover and couldn't fly out.

There is no road ahead, where to fly?

Xiaoyu stretched out his hand and grabbed a small insect from inside the dream while standing outside the dream.

"Buzz buzz buzz~~~" The insect struggled violently and opened its mouth to bite Xiaoyu's hand.

"It hurts so much!"

Xiaoyu was surprised and angry to see that there was a piece of flesh missing from her right index finger.

A piece of meat the size of a sesame seed is gone.

At this time, Xiaoyu is a dream spirit, the creator in the dream rather than a physical body, but the insect can still bite off a piece of flesh.

It is incredible that the insects in a dream can bite off a piece of flesh of the creator of the dream!
Before she could think of a good way to torture it, as soon as the insect swallowed her "dream meat", it retracted its legs and wings and lay motionless in her palm.

"Dead?" Xiaoyu picked up the insect with his fingers and held it in front of his eyes to look at it carefully.

It is much larger than a mosquito, and when curled up into a ball, it is as big as a soybean.

Wings are tangible but intangible. You can see them but cannot touch them.

This tiny insect has three pairs of wings, eight legs, no eyes, and only a "small trumpet" on its head.

It was indeed motionless, as if it were really dead.

But Xiaoyu had a feeling that this thing was not dead and had established some kind of connection with her.

Xiaoyu caught another small insect, holding a piece of dream in his palm, and prevented it from touching his body.

It buzzed for a while, then curled up its body, folded its wings and legs, and shrank into the shape of a small bean, motionless.

Xiaoyu sensed it carefully and didn't feel the same mysterious connection as the previous one.

"Baji~~" Xiaoyu squeezed it hard, as if she was squeezing a flea to death, and the popping sound was very crisp.

The insect's body struggled for a few times and then finally died.

Xiaoyu placed the insect corpse next to the first insect that was "pretending to be dead", and then sensed it carefully.

It didn't react at all, and no emotion such as fear spread in the dream.

She caught a few more flying insects and put them together with the insect corpses.

The flying insects actually ate the corpses of their companions and ate them up completely in a few bites.

“No wisdom, just instinct”

Xiaoyu let the insects gnaw on her fingers. After one bite, they developed a mysterious connection with her, just like the first insect, and even curled up their bodies and "pretended to be dead."

The next moment, she woke up from her sleep.

In reality, she opened her eyes and looked down at her right hand, which was empty.

She clenched her palm into a fist and then opened it, and a few bugs as big as soybeans appeared in her palm.

"It can really be brought out from a dream."

Xiaoyu didn't know whether Birch could leave the dream dimension and survive in reality, as he had never seen it.

But she was sure that night wanderers and ghosts could freely travel between the dream dimension and the real world.

As she tried to bring the bugs out, she guessed they might be spirits, like ghosts.

Unexpectedly. "Bah!"

She squeezed it hard, but it exploded like a flea, a completely material form, not a spiritual body.

After staring at the insect corpse and hesitating for a moment, Xiaoyu opened his mouth and threw it into his mouth.

It was very strange. The insect corpse melted in her mouth and turned into drowsiness, which almost made her fall asleep with her head tilted.

"Pah, pah, pah!" She slapped her head hard and stared at the few remaining worm beans. Her eyes became brighter and brighter. "Could it be that I'm so lucky that I caught the legendary 'Sleepy Bug'?"

Xiaoyu looked around. It was still early in the morning and only Xi Juan and her son were around.

"Juan'er, wake up!" she called in a low voice.

After only two shouts, Xi Juan opened his eyes, and his confused look quickly became clear.

He gently got up and silently jumped to her side. "Teacher, are there any enemies approaching?"

"No, I just got something good in my dream, please come and taste it."

Xiaoyu opened her palm and handed the insect bean to him.

"Is this something from a dream? What is it?" Xi Juan asked curiously.

"It might be Sleepyhead, do you want to give it a try?"

Xiaoyu asked while picking up a worm bean in his hand and throwing it towards Xijuan's face.

"Pfft~~~"

The force was quite strong and Xi Juan's cheeks turned red.

The worm beans were like real soybeans and were bounced back by the cheek flesh.

Xiao Yu quickly caught it and asked curiously, "Does it require a spell or a method to control the sleepy bug?"

"The insect is motionless. Could it be dead?" Xi Juan asked suspiciously.

"Not dead, just pretending to be dead."

Xiao Yu recalled carefully that among the many "Taoism techniques of the small thousand worlds" that Madam Danhua used to redeem herself, there seemed to be the technique of controlling insects, but she looked down on it at the time and threw it into the treasury of the Daze Dragon Palace along with other rubbish techniques.

——When Wukong used the sleepy bug, it seemed that he did not recite any spells or perform any hand gestures to cast the spell.

"Juan'er, raise your chin." Xiaoyu said.

"What are you doing?" Xi Juan didn't understand what he meant, but still raised his chin and faced her with his nostrils.

She flicked her finger and a worm bean flew into his nostril.

Xi Juan sniffed subconsciously, and the bug bean sensed the "human energy" in her mouth and nose, and immediately turned into a wisp of air and merged into the "human energy".

Then Xi Juan's eyelids felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds, his body tilted, and he fell into a deep sleep on the muddy ground.

"Hehe, it really works. These bugs must really be sleepyheads." Xiaoyu smiled happily.

"There are tens of thousands of sleepy bugs in that dream. If we can fully control them, sleepy bugs are one of Wukong's core technologies for stealing and cheating!
Not to mention ordinary fairies, even an old-fashioned little earth fairy like Qingfeng Mingyue couldn't stand it.

Xi Juan also practiced the "Dream Magic", and was still knocked down by a worm bean, hehehe~~"

Xiaoyu's heart was burning with excitement. He held a bug bean in his hand and carefully sensed the connection between himself and the bug.

(End of this chapter)