Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

Benning was amused by Wei'er's silly expression. Only then did he change his tone and say, "No, I was just kidding. Wei'er is the most tidy girl I've ever seen at home."

In just a few seconds, Wei'er's mood went through a roller coaster. This was the first time she'd been praised by Benning, and her face immediately turned red. Wei'er turned away sheepishly, mumbling hesitantly, "It's not that good... Come on, come inside..."

Wei'er and Banning are still standing at the door. If the villagers see her and Banning entering the house together, Wei'er will be so ashamed that she will crawl into the ground.

The silly young woman enjoying the VIP first-person perspective was truly stunned by Jiang Ran's tricks. These seemingly simple sentences embodied the essence of the art of pulling and shoving, employing the principle of first undermining and then praising, making the compliment, which might have been merely polite, have a profound effect.

(Benni: Jiang Yan, you are such a heinous criminal...)

(Jiang Ran: Thank you for your compliment.)

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After entering Wei'er's house, Wei'er asked Banning to sit down for a while and went into the room to get needle and thread. After temporarily "separating" from Banning, Wei'er was relieved. If she continued to be alone with Banning like this, her heart would really explode.

Wei'er kept hinting and reminding herself, telling herself that Banning was just here to mend clothes, and there was nothing to be nervous about. Hadn't many teenagers and uncles in the village come to her house to mend clothes before? This was a very common thing!

(Yes, that's right, don't worry, it's no big deal!)

(I want to talk to Benning naturally and openly, not looking at the floor all the time!)

(Benning isn't nervous at all. If I keep acting like this, wouldn't it seem like I'm really into him...!)

Wei'er took a deep breath, picked up her sewing box and a bag of leftover fabric for patching, and walked out of the room. She felt that she was feeling much better now.

However, the naive and ignorant Wei'er did not know what kind of opponent she was facing.

As soon as she entered the hall, Wei'er saw Banning taking off his clothes.

Yes, it was exactly the perfect moment when the clothes were half taken off, and the strong waist and a small part of the muscular back muscles were just revealed.

Wei'er was so stimulated by her well-defined muscles and fair skin that she almost died on the spot.

With a scream of "Ah--!", the things in Wei'er's hand fell to the ground. She didn't bother to pick them up, and quickly turned her head and faced Banning. She didn't know what to do for a moment. Anyway, she apologized to Banning first.

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry! I didn't know you were taking off..."

"Uh, what's wrong, Wei'er? Don't you want to mend your clothes?"

Fortunately, Banning's calm yet slightly confused tone cooled down Wei'er's emotions in time, otherwise her ever-heated little head would have been about to crash.

(Yeah, how can I mend the clothes if I don’t take them off?)

(Besides, the guys in the village often work shirtless. I'm used to seeing men's bodies. Why should I be shy now?)

Although she told herself so in her heart, Wei'er still couldn't look directly at Banning's body. She always felt that Banning was different. At this time, Banning came over with his upper body naked and picked up the needles and thread on the ground and handed them to Wei'er. Wei'er hadn't calmed down yet, and this sudden super close stimulation made Wei'er feel that she would faint if she didn't escape. In a hurry, Wei'er grabbed the tools and the clothes in Banning's hand, sprinted to the corner of the living room, squatted with her back to Banning, gasping for breath, her mind was blank.

"Weier, are you... okay?"

"I'm fine! I'm fine! Sit down for a moment, yes, sit down for a moment, just sit down and I'll be fine!"

Wei'er was so excited that she almost broke her voice. If she had known that mending Banning's clothes was so exciting, she would not have invited him to her home.

"Haha, okay, take your time."

Banning was amused by Wei'er's cute reaction. He sat down obediently at the table, sometimes looking at the scenery outside the window, and sometimes turning his head to watch Wei'er mending clothes from a distance.

After creating some distance, Wei'er was finally able to relax a little. If she wasn't allowed to rest, her little heart would have jumped out of her chest.

Wei Er felt much calmer after entering the working state. She first thoroughly checked Banning's clothes and found that there were not only holes in the clothes, but also bloodstains. Wei Er gently touched the bloodstains, as if she could see the scene of Banning fighting with the bandits.

Wei'er's heart tightened unconsciously. It had been a long time since she'd felt this kind of compassion for someone else. The last time she'd felt that was when she was wandering with her sister. Now that her sister was gone, she had no one else to care for, until she met Banning.

(Why do I care so much about Benning? We've only known each other for less than three days...)

As she sewed, Wei'er's eyes began to wander unconsciously to Benning's body. Benning's skin was very fair, and under the sunlight, it shone with a warm and soft glow, much more beautiful than the rough and dark skin of the uncles in the village. Benning's muscles were not as large and fat as those of the uncles in the village. They were firm and well-defined, with a sense of agile strength.

Following his waist and abdomen to his back, Wei'er's gaze came to the profile of Banning. The wound near his ear had not healed yet, and was covered with scars and blood scabs, but these scars made the young man look more mature.

Looking at Banning's profile, Wei'er was accidentally mesmerized. Then, when Banning turned his head to look at her, Wei'er had no time to avoid and met Banning's gaze.

The air solidified at this moment.

Wei'er only felt her heartbeat accelerating.

The temperature on her face was getting higher and higher, almost smoking.

"Well, well, well, if you don't mind, you can walk around the house!... Although, although there's nothing good to see... that's it..."

Wei'er was so excited that she didn't know what she was saying. Fortunately, Banning was easy to get along with and he accepted Wei'er's suggestions with understanding.

"Okay, I'll bother you for a moment then."

"Yeah, y-you can do whatever you want... Oh, by the way, there's a locked room at the end of the corridor. Don't go in there."

"Ok."

Jiang Ran didn't say anything, but he felt Wei'er's final instructions were a bit strange. Since the room was already locked, why did she need to explain it again? This actually made him very concerned.

Through the power of the super-dimensional divine eye, Jiang Ran checked Wei'er's inner thoughts. What Wei'er was thinking was:

(Oh, I've been so nosy. How could someone as polite as Benning force his way into a locked room...)

(But…what’s in that locked room? If I find the key someday, I’ll go in and take a look.)

Jiang Ran was somewhat surprised that even Wei'er, the owner of the house, didn't know what was in the locked room. There must be some reason for this. However, judging by Wei'er's inner thoughts, the room was probably just her sister's personal belongings. Jiang Ran thought it had nothing to do with him and didn't think about it any further.

2.19 - Hunting in the Forest

While Wei'er was helping him mend the clothes, Jiang Ran strolled around the house.

The house Wei'er lived in was a single-story log cabin. The entrance led to the living room and dining room, and then a hallway led to the three bedrooms. Two of the three bedrooms had wooden signs engraved with "Wei'er" and "Ai'er" on their doors, but Jiang Ran didn't go in. The other room was the locked room Wei'er had mentioned earlier, and the door itself didn't seem to have anything special about it.

Jiang Ran returned to the living room. Wei'er's home was littered with sewing tools: needles of varying sizes, balls of thread of various colors and materials, scissors of varying sizes, and organized fabrics. Jiang Ran remembered Grandma Kana saying that Wei'er's older sister was also a skilled sewer, so the abundance of these tools and materials wasn't surprising.

What really concerned Jiang Ran was Wei'er's job level: Tailor - Lv4. Village Chief Woodall was 48 years old, with over 16 years of hunting experience, yet his Hunter rank was only Level . Wei'er, on the other hand, was only . How could she be so much more skilled than the village chief?

Last night in the underground cave of Ella Forest, Jiang Ran had confirmed that the way to upgrade combat professions was "killing with certain limited conditions." Assuming that the upgrade method for production and manufacturing professions really relies on perseverance as the village chief said, then the contradiction between the level difference and age difference between the village chief and Wei'er cannot be explained by this theory.

(...The rules hidden behind this world are definitely not that simple.)

Jiang Ran clearly realized that the "true rules of the world" might be an extremely important secret in this Prison Star world, and cracking and mastering the rules would be the key to completing that impossible task.

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An hour later, Jiang Ran put on his repaired clothes and left Wei'er's house. Before leaving, Wei'er quietly stretched out her hand towards Jiang Ran but dropped it mid-air, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.

Jiang Ran saw it all. He knew that Wei'er wanted to keep him for lunch. He knew that Wei'er wanted to thank him for saving her before and apologize for her bad temper last night, but Jiang Ran had his own strategy and he deliberately did not give Wei'er this opportunity, because at this time, leaving a little regret was Jiang Ran's "correct approach".

The reason is actually very simple. If you don’t eat enough delicious food, you will want to eat it again in a short time. If you are full or even stuffed, no matter how delicious the food is, you will definitely not want to eat it again in a short time. This is also one of Jiang Ran’s theories on love: no matter how smoothly the relationship progresses, you must leave a little regret and a thought for the other person at the right time.

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That afternoon, the village chief found Jiang Ran and invited him to go hunting wild boars in Ella Forest. With summer approaching, the influx of wild boars would cause great damage to farmland and orchards.

Jiang Ran, through his ability to read minds, noticed a change in the village chief's mindset and readily agreed. After the incident with the Scarlet Cloud Bandits, the village chief had let down his guard against Jiang Ran and decided to teach him everything he knew, a gesture of courtesy from Ella Village to its benefactors.

"Banning, I thought you ran away overnight yesterday morning, hahaha!" The village chief mentioned yesterday's incident half-jokingly. Jiang Ran replied that he left in a hurry because he found traces of bandits. He cleverly avoided the question that the village chief really wanted to ask Jiang Ran - whether he would live in Ella Village permanently.

"Hey, in the past three years, there have been about a dozen people who have suddenly left the village overnight. I know this is a village of wanderers, so it's normal for this to happen, but I always feel that after all, even if we're leaving, we should at least say goodbye properly, right?"

"Indeed, I think so too."

Neither the village chief nor Jiang Ran brought up the issue directly, but after this conversation, they were truly opening up to each other.

After that, the village chief's hunting teaching was unreserved. He taught Jiang Ran all his experience and skills of more than 20 years in detail.

Jiang Ran still wanted to master the production class, Hunter. Although he had already mastered the combat class, Junior Assassin, neither the improved physical abilities nor the skill of Trickster would be of much use in direct combat. On the other hand, the production class, Hunter, would greatly benefit Jiang Ran in both combat and survival.

"See? There are wild boar footprints on the ground over there. The unnatural tilt of the bushes over there must have been caused by them. The bark that was scraped off the tree trunk over here is also their masterpiece."

Frankly, Jiang Ran still couldn't distinguish the footprints of different animals, and he couldn't quite discern the subtlest clues in the forest like the village chief. However, the identification ability of his super-dimensional divine eye was truly useful, and it enabled Jiang Ran to keep up with the village chief's instruction. Following the village chief's personal demonstration, Jiang Ran set a trap near the animal trail, and then the two of them hid in the treetops, waiting for the wild boar to appear.

The village chief told Jiang Ran that large, adult wild boars were not only thick-skinned and aggressive, but also extremely aggressive. If struck by their massive tusks, they would most likely be pierced and killed instantly. Therefore, for large wild boars estimated to weigh over 400 kilograms, the village chief would only throw torches to scare them away. His real hunting targets were small and medium-sized wild boars.

"As long as the competition for food in the forest is not so fierce, large wild boars will not harm the village."

Jiang Ran and the village chief waited on the tree for two hours, during which time they drove away three large wild boars. Then, with a terrible pig cry coming from not far away, Jiang Ran and his friends finally encountered a small or medium-sized wild boar that could be hunted!

However, the hunting process was completely different from what Jiang Ran had imagined. The village chief displayed a very shameless hunting method. Facing the wild boar that had stepped on the iron nail trap, the village chief used trees as cover to keep his distance and only used his hunting bow to shoot arrows at the relatively soft parts of the wild boar such as its flanks and chrysanthemums, forcing the wild boar to run continuously in the woods and consume its physical strength. On the other hand, due to the excessive running, the wild boar's wounds were completely unable to heal, and it continued to bleed profusely. Just like that, after being tortured for more than an hour, the wild boar, which looked to weigh nearly 200 kilograms, collapsed to the ground.

Even so, the experienced village chief didn't go straight up. He found a suitable angle, drew the bowstring, and the sacred light of the past shone again. Then he shot the arrow with a sharp arrow, hitting the wild boar's forehead. The wild boar tilted its head and died.

"It's not over yet. If you are careless now, you will suffer a lot."

The village chief asked Jiang Ran to stay where he was, while he crouched down, nimbly cut the blood vessels in the pig's neck with a short knife, and then quickly retreated. The "dead" wild boar suddenly screamed again when it felt the pain, and its struggling body knocked the surroundings into a mess. After a few minutes, the blood in its body gradually drained out, and the wild boar's cry gradually weakened, and finally it really passed away.

Jiang Ran now understood why the village chief had not suffered any serious injuries in hunting for more than 20 years. This old man was truly steady and reliable.

Afterwards, under the guidance of the village chief, Jiang Ran hunted a wild boar alone. Although the whole process was not as experienced as the village chief, it could be said to be quite smooth.

"Great, Banning! I didn't expect you to be so good at hunting. Do you have any hunting experience before? Most young people wouldn't be able to do what you do."

"Well, a little bit."

Seeing that Banning was unwilling to say more, the village chief did not ask any more questions. However, the village chief could not help but sigh in his heart that if Banning had come to Ella Village three years ago, Ai'er would not have died tragically in the forest.

2.20 - Production Occupation Hunter

Prigok Nissen, she hasn't appeared under this name for a long time.

Although Jiang Ran always calls her "Benni" and "Stupid Lolita", Prigok Nissen will not let her down at the critical moment... Well, she probably won't.

Last night in the underground cave of Ella Forest, Prigok Nissen witnessed Jiang Ran's assassination and execution of the Scarlet Cloud Mountain Bandits. Today, she saw Jiang Ran slaughtering a wild boar with a single blow of his knife. Putting aside the issues of justice and proper self-defense, Jiang Ran's ability to act on the spot was far too quick and decisive for an eighteen-year-old high school student.

In Prigok Nissen's opinion, most high school students on Earth wouldn't even know how to kill a dog, let alone kill someone. Some of them couldn't even beat a goose. On the other hand, Jiang Ran's every move was filled with the word "experienced", which made Prigok Nissen have a guess.

(…Could it be that Jiang Ran had killed someone in his previous world?)

(But... if he is a "dead person" of the lawful evil, neutral evil, or chaotic evil alignment, he will not be assigned to the good god's camp.)

(…What exactly happened in Jiang Ran’s past life?)

Prigok Nissen, she was kind of thinking about investigating Jiang Ran's background.

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"Oh my, I never thought we'd be able to harvest two wild boars today! But this is a bit of a headache. We can't carry them back in one trip..."

Looking at the two wild boars lying on the ground, the village chief Woodall was both happy and worried. Jiang Ran watched quietly from the side without saying a word, because he had his own exclusive harvest that needed to be "signed for and confirmed" in his mind first.

Just now, after Jiang Ran killed the wild boar alone, new text prompts appeared in his vision.

——『Successfully kill a "general wild animal" and assign you the production profession "Hunter" based on the killing method』

——『Successfully killed the "Wild Boar", career experience +100, current experience value 100/400』

Jiang Ran had acquired the Hunter class even easier than he'd expected, and the triggering condition was also easy to determine: "hunting wild animals alone." However, leveling up wasn't as simple as it appeared in the text. Otherwise, based on the boar experience points, Jiang Ran would have reached level 2, like the village chief, by hunting three more boars.

Upon mastering the production class "Hunter," Jiang Ran not only increased his maximum "Endurance" by 1 point, but also mastered a corresponding skill, "Focus." Production class skills are separate from combat class skills and do not occupy combat class skill slots. The specific content of "Focus" is as follows:

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Skill: Concentrated Heart - Lv1

Proficiency: 0/100

Skill description:

1. During the activation period, the chance of hitting any attack is increased, and the positive correction for hit determination is +1. During the activation period, 5 points of magic power are consumed per second, and any time less than one second is counted as one second.

2. Every second of use increases 1 point of proficiency.

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The function of 'Focus' was very similar to that of 'Trickster', but at least it could be used in combat, and could be used in both close-range and long-range combat. Another thing that caught Jiang Ran's attention was the mention of 'judgment' in the description of 'Focus'. Could it be that there was a judgment mechanism quietly running through his various activities?

The truth about this world seems to be hidden between the lines of these skill descriptions.

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Nearly an hour later, the village chief arrived on a wooden cart. While waiting, Jiang Ran used the hunting bow the chief had left him and his "Concentration" skill to shoot two giant long-tailed hamsters.

——『Successfully killed the "Long-tailed Hamster", career experience +20, current experience value 120/400』

When Jiang Ran shot the first big hamster, he saw a text prompt, but when he shot the second one, there was no prompt and the experience value did not change.

While the evidence wasn't conclusive, Jiang Ran could already make a bold guess. He believed that repeatedly hunting the same species likely wouldn't increase experience points. To advance in Hunter rank, one must continually hunt different animals. This reasoning made sense, explaining why the village chief had remained at Hunter rank level two for over twenty years.

In addition, when he was aiming just now, Jiang Ran activated the "Concentration" for a total of six seconds, which consumed a total of 30 points of magic power. However, by the time the village chief arrived, Jiang Ran's magic power had not recovered at all.

On the way back to the village, Jiang Ran asked the village chief about magic power indirectly, but unfortunately, the village chief knew nothing about it. People living in such a small place have very limited knowledge. Without the ability to identify, they don't even know whether they have magic power or how much magic power they have, let alone how to restore magic power.