"Hey, is this Xibebi Toy Factory? Can you guys customize toy guns?"
Zhang Xiaoman was feeding the two dogs and one cat at home while talking on the phone.
"Yes, that’s right, I want to customize a water bullet gun... Well, there are mainly two requirements: easy to carry and with a long shooting range. Ideally, it should be small enough to fit into a pocket and have a range of over 25 meters. Of course, the magazine capacity should be no less than ten rounds..."
"What? The requirements are too high and you can’t make it? Uh... is there really no other way? I really want it..."
"Of course, money is not a problem! I’ll start with an order of ten guns, as long as you can make them, we can negotiate the price... Okay, give it a try, I’ll transfer the deposit to your company account right away. What’s the number? Let me jot it down..."
After ending the call, Zhang Xiaoman put down his newly bought phone today, then looked worriedly at Dahei in front of him. He had fed it its favorite chicken bone crumbs, but it didn’t seem to react anymore.
From the information he had found online, it seemed that Master Liu’s Dahei was truly getting old and probably didn’t have much time left.
"Sigh, I’ll talk to Master Liu later and give you some good food to strengthen your body... After all, we have known each other for so long, and I really don’t feel ready to let you go..."
Zhang Xiaoman stroked its dog head, and seeing it immediately stick out its tongue with an expression of enjoyment, he felt a bit choked up.
Ever since he obtained the System, he had drawn a dozen or so skills and items, but the thing he most anticipated and desired had yet to appear, which left him somewhat disappointed.
That thing was naturally "lifespan."
For life, immortality is the greatest desire, an ultimate need.
Although Zhang Xiaoman, being young, wasn’t too anxious about this, deep down, he still cared a lot about it.
However, such things could not be rushed, and Zhang Xiaoman believed that as long as he had the System, even though the lottery draw was once a day, he would eventually gain that ability.
He looked at the phone’s contacts list, which had been updated from the cloud backup, and added a bunch of people including Xiao Shun, Brother Hero, and others to the Star Alliance group. These were the minions he had tentatively decided on for now.
These people still thought he would spend a month going back and forth at sea, so they hadn’t been calling lately to check in.
And Zhang Xiaoman had no intention of contacting them proactively for the time being; he needed to take advantage of this time to prepare the materials for the Enlightenment Array.
Today was the second day since he returned from the Cultivation Convention. Zhang Xiaoman planned to do nothing today, just to give himself a proper break, and he had an invitation to honor tomorrow from Old Mister Ye Cang from Dragon Sleep Mountain.
After all, he was very interested in the Dragon Sleep Stone that the other party had.
Lying dead at home all day, Zhang Xiaoman also fired up his long-unused computer and played a few rounds of the competitive games he used to battle through the night.
It was just too bad that due to not touching it for so long, he lost all night and was "greeted" by his teammates all night. By the time it was past midnight, he still hadn’t managed to take a first win.
"Man, I’m the guy who’s going to save you all, and this is how you treat me! Sigh... Loyalty is hard to come by these days!"
Zhang Xiaoman grumpily tossed the mouse aside and decided not to play anymore.
"Forget it, I’m old, games are no longer suitable for me. I’d better go save the world."
He then took out his hearthstone, completed the pattern with Dark Energy, and instantly appeared in the Original Realm.
He accessed the System interface and drew the lottery.
Nowadays, when Zhang Xiaoman performed this daily routine, he felt virtually no excitement at all.
"Ding, congratulations, you’ve obtained the white skill—One Flash."
"One Flash? What the heck... why does that name sound so familiar?"
Immediately following, as space twisted, a white Skill Light Ball fell in front of him, making Zhang Xiaoman, whose mind was a bit dazed, come back to his senses.
——A skill that fuses counterattack and offense into one.
This was the attribute description of the Light Ball.
"This... this thing couldn’t be that, could it..."
Seeing this skill introduction, Zhang Xiaoman immediately recalled where it might have originated.
If he wasn’t mistaken, the ability known as One Flash appeared in two places.
One was from an old game’s block skill, which according to the game’s setting, was a Divine Skill.
As long as one could grasp the timing to use it, it would result in an invincible and burst damage effect.
If the skill he drew was this one, then he was sure to make a killing.
"But, this skill is white..."
Looking at the level of the Skill Light Ball in his hand, Zhang Xiaoman immediately felt that the likelihood of the former possibility was very low. Therefore, there was only one possibility left...
With a slight squeeze, he crushed the Skill Light Ball in his hand, and as the white light points, similar to stars, surged into his body, a new skill also appeared on Zhang Xiaoman’s personal attribute panel.
Launch a powerful finger jab to strike the target, with the option to activate passive mode, under which an automatic counterattack will be launched.
Usage consumption: 20 points of Physical Strength, 1 point of Dark Energy
——A signature Divine Skill of 3601 Town.
"Just as I thought, it really is from that TV series..."
Zhang Xiaoman covered his face, feeling utterly thrown off.
"I, a dashing ranged-output mage, why did I get such a skill, I never planned to go round swinging my arms like the white-bearded grandpa and the bald female mage, risking my life in melee..."
Zhang Xiaoman looked helplessly at the skill on his attribute panel and couldn’t help but complain:
"And even if it’s melee, what in the world is this One Flash? Isn’t this just messing about? Can this thing even kill monsters..."
Complaints aside, Zhang Xiaoman couldn’t help but want to try out what its effects were actually like.
After all, it was also a "Divine Skill" from a TV series he used to love a lot, at worst, he could just consider this draw a waste.
As for the skill’s consumption of 20 points of Physical Strength, Zhang Xiaoman was still a bit confused since he didn’t have an option for Physical Strength in his attributes so far, could it be a hidden attribute?
Regarding that 1 point of Dark Energy, it was basically negligible.
Finding a stone about half the height of a person in the space as a target, Zhang Xiaoman approached and unleashed his newly acquired skill.
He said it in quite a chunibyo manner, and Zhang Xiaoman felt his fingers move involuntarily, with his middle finger quickly bending for flick, it struck directly on the stone.
The stone, almost half his height, cracked on the surface where it was hit, then it rolled over and stopped after moving four or five meters away.
"Eh? The power is not bad; such a big stone was actually flung that far? It seems worthy of the first sister of the apartment’s special skill, quite interesting..."