The atmosphere in the alley turned silent. Xu Nan completed his mission and was musing on how to send Qin Lele away. But he was worried that he might accidentally expose something.
After some time, Qin Lele stared at him warily. "You investigated me?"
Xu Nan heaved a sigh of relief. He lowered his head and looked at her. "No. Earlier when you fell from the tree, your student card dropped down. Isn't your name just there?"
Qin Lele lowered her head, indeed, there was a student card lying on the ground.
She hurriedly picked that up and felt a little incredulous. "I didn't expect your vision to be so great."
"Haha, my eyes are both 5.3!" Xu Nan laughed insincerely. It was a pity that Qin Lele interjected, "Don't think of changing the topic. My perception is always very sharp. Earlier, were you trying to hide something?"
"Confessing to me? What would you do if I really accepted?"
Xu Nan had an embarrassed look on his face, and he shifted the roses to his back.
Qin Lele stared at Xu Nan straight for two minutes. All of a sudden, she took out her fruit knife and pointed it at Xu Nan. "Are you planning to take this bunch of roses and confess to whichever girl you met?
"Could it be that you belong to some jobs too? Are you also gaining experience just like what I'm doing?"
Xu Nan was badly shocked. This young girl seemed to be a little silly from her appearance, so he didn't expect her to have such an intelligent side.
He decisively spoke, "Impossible, what does confession have to do with increasing the proficiency of a skill?"
Qin Lele contemplated and discovered that this was indeed the case. She could only snort coldly. "I will never fall for you!"
"Take the flowers away. Let me ask you one last time, are you willing to help me or not?"
"Help, help, help!!!"
Xu Nan immediately agreed. In any case, his mission had been completed, and Qin Lele's Pilfering skill must have dropped quite a lot due to his obstruction. He naturally had to help her regain the experience points.
He immediately spread his hands wide and presented a look that said, 'I'm willing to allow you to steal.'
Qin Lele immediately acted.
Swish~
Without Xu Nan obstructing her, her speed was even quicker. She stole a phone, keys, and some loose change from Xu Nan's pocket.
"Wait, I will place these items on the ground. You go and pick them up yourself." Qin Lele explained, "Only then would the system judge that my thieving skill is effective."
Xu Nan was very cooperative, as he was a good guy anyway. After cheating Qin Lele a few times, he felt guilty in his heart. Naturally, he was happy to help her.
The two of them simply stayed in the corner of this alley and played a game of thievery and return.
Xu Nan was more relaxed. In any case, he was the one being stolen from.
It was more strenuous for Qin Lele; perspiration dotted her forehead. From the looks of things, her pilfering technique wasn't that good. Compared to a normal thief, she was considered more inferior, let alone a grandmaster thief.
However, not too long later, after Qin Lele executed her pilfering technique, Xu Nan suddenly felt a gentle breeze down in his privates.
"What?"
He was dumbstruck as he stared at the winnie-the-pooh underwear in Qin Lele's hands.
Qin Lele was also stunned. "You are already a grown man, why are you wearing such a piece of underwear?"
Xu Nan raged, "Didn't you say that you would only steal money? Why did you steal my underwear…? No, this is not my underwear…"
Xu Nan was such a manly man. How could he possibly wear a winnie-the-pooh underwear?
After carefully thinking about it, he must have accidentally taken Xin`er's underwear after keeping the clothes yesterday. In a dazed state after waking up in the morning, no wonder he had felt strangely tight when he was wearing it.
"You like to wear other people's underwear?"
Qin Lele felt even more shocked.
Xu Nan didn't know how to explain. He could only angrily say, "Quickly return it to me."
Qin Lele hurriedly spoke, "This is an unexpected effect of my pilfering technique. Sometimes, I might accidentally steal things I have no plans to. I also don't know how to explain."
"I'll just help you wear it back. My hands are pretty nimble. One of my specialties is [Nimble Hands], so you definitely won't feel anything."
At the next second, Xu Nan only felt his crotch area tightening. He lowered his head and discovered that the winnie-the-pooh underwear was truly on him now. But...it was worn outside his pants.
"Do you think that I'm a superman?" Xu Nan stared at her, a numb and helpless expression on his face.
She blushed and pulled the underwear down. But who knew that her strength was too great. A tearing sound rang out and the underwear was torn.
The atmosphere froze slightly.
Xu Nan trembled and took the fragments of the underwear. He stared at Qin Lele. "How about just letting it go today?"
Qin Lele checked her pilfering proficiency and nodded. "In the future, try to wear something tighter so when I practice, I can gain experience faster."
"..."
"I'm leaving now, you better be careful." He didn't even want to stay for a minute longer before this little female thief.
Qin Lele shook her phone. "Let's add each other on Wechat; I still have to introduce a great beauty to you."
"It's fine," Xu Nan rejected.
"Ding ding ding." The sound of a QR code being scanned rang out. Xu Nan's phone was stolen again. As an honest person, he naturally didn't set a password, but his 'honesty' blew back today. She had already used his phone's WeChat account to add herself!
"See you next time!" Qin Lele mischievously stuck her tongue out. She suddenly leaped, and her entire person began running up the wall at a 90-degree angle.
"My agility is at 20 points. This is the specialty [Vaulting Walls and Roofs] generated from [Supreme Agility]!"
"Is this cool or not? Do you want to learn?"
Her voice gradually faded.
Xu Nan was stunned. As he watched Qin Lele's elegant movements, he involuntarily nodded.
However, at the next second, that figure fell back onto the ground with a thud.
"Damn, it's so slippery…"
Qin Lele then limped away, vanishing into the darkness.
Xu Nan's left hand held the roses, and his right hand held the remnants of Xin`er's underwear. His phone, which was half-sticking out of his pocket, still had the WeChat interface on it. His heart was filled with complex feelings.
….
Xu Nan's WeChat address book had an additional friend with a panda avatar.
The nickname of this young girl looked pretty plucky, [36D Qin Lele]
Xu Nan laughed when he saw it. 36D? He initially wanted to blacklist her, but this laugh caused him to put a remark next to her name instead. [Flat Qin Lele].
After that, he headed home peacefully.
He naturally couldn't bring the underwear home. If Xin`er saw it, he wouldn't be able to explain things. Xu Nan randomly found a rubbish bin and tossed it in.
His house was a joint-terrace house left behind by his stepfather and mother, with a tiny garden and a garage. The safety of the surrounding area was also quite solid.
Even so, Xu Nan still cast the spell, [Magical Alarm], he had learned yesterday in the garden and garage's surroundings. He cast it in a total of three locations.
If an abnormal lifeform approached, he would be able to sense it right away.
The duration of each alarm wasn't long, only 24 hours; thus, Xu Nan had to recast the spell every day. But as a novice spellcaster, he would gain experience each time he cast a spell. Xu Nan was more than happy to do this.
Only after settling everything did he open the door to his house and enter.
Turning the living room's light on, he then walked to the second floor and routinely placed his ear on the door.
In the room, a slightly hoarse and magnetic singing voice could be heard.
Xu Nan quietly listened for a while. His brother must be singing an ancient-style song, which was very popular recently.
"It's pretty nice to listen to. It seems like his mood isn't bad today."
He then kept the food tray on the cabinet. When he turned his phone on, he discovered that he was no longer blacklisted.
Xin`er's temper was very strange. Blacklisting him was a normal act, but he would soon add Xu Nan back. Although this child was a little weird, he knew that Xu Nan was his only kin now.
"It wasn't a waste taking care of him for so long."
Xu Nan happily smiled. He then cleaned the house a bit and went for a shower.
After he finished showering, it was already 10 p.m.
Returning to his room, he pulled the curtains closed and shut his door.
"It's time to check on that so-called secret art."
He sat at his bedside and opened up Ron Warlock's secret arts list. The majority of them were in a greyed-out state.
Only [Xu Nan's Workstation] could be activated.
If he wanted to learn other secret arts, the number of shameless points needed would be huge. They were much more expensive than ordinary spells. Before Xu Nan was clear about Ron Warlock's secret arts list, he was embarrassingly short on points and didn't wish to squander them.
He decided to click the [Xu Nan's Workstation].
A miraculous scene occurred. A sturdy oaken workstation appeared before him, and it was two times as large as the tables in a laboratory.
There were all sorts of tools on the workstation: lab flasks, spirit lamps, tweezers, basic processing tools, alchemical ingredients, and a technical manual.
[Technical manual: Every Ron Warlock is an innate alchemist. You who have unlocked the workstation will automatically receive the specialty [Craft Items] and a secondary job - alchemist. You can make a choice in basic material productions for item creation. However, as for alchemy, you will need to read many alchemy books before you can reach your goal.]
At the same time, on Xu Nan's character card, a new specialty [Item Creation] appeared.
Below it, there were four branches - Potions, Machinery, Enchantment, Basics. For the first three, they needed to be trained to the second-level (level 5 on character level) before they could be activated. Currently, only [Basics] was lit up.
Item creation was a specialty, but under the state where his workstation was open, Xu Nan automatically gained a secondary job as an alchemist. Hence, this specialty automatically got listed under the skill of the job - alchemist.
Now, he had a skill point for [Item Creation], but the basic materials he could choose from weren't much. There were only three: ring, scroll, single-cylinder binoculars.
He could ignore scrolls directly. Xu Nan was a warlock, and he could simply copy them manually. In any case, he also didn't have sufficient materials. As for the binoculars, it might be very useful in a western magical world. But this place was Earth, and he could simply buy one from Taobao (chinese Amazon).
Only the ring was left.
Xu Nan didn't hesitate and input the skill point into the [Ring]. A bunch of information immediately flooded into his mind.
[You have learned basic item creation: ring]
On the workstation, a few raw material cases appeared. This belonged to the newbie pack for Ron Warlocks. After he finished using them, he had to think of ways to purchase them from the various channels.
Xu Nan opened up the raw materials cases and discovered that according to his knowledge, the materials in each case could allow him to create a ring.
The most basic ring could provide him with a little increase in perception, but there were no other attributes.
Even so, he still experimented excitedly.
Through the night, he was learning how to polish and create a ring.
There were a total of six portions of materials, and he had already failed four times. In the end, he managed to create two rings.
One was the most basic ring that provided a little boost to perception.
However, the other ring could be considered an unexpected surprise.
[Ring (bloodline enchantment +1)]
[Description: Perception +1; you can cast 'Mist' three times a day]
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