Chapter 12: Math LV1, Entry [Super-Speed Calculation]!

Lu Mingfei had a dream.

He dreamed that the Schedule was fake, and he could rest in peace.

【Warning, it is time to 【Get Up】, please execute immediately】

"It's fake, it's fake..."

【Warning, electric shock countdown...】

Lu Mingfei subconsciously opened his eyes wide and sprang out of the warm quilt like a piece of toast just popped from a toaster.

The suddenly encroaching cold enveloped him, and a still-dazed Lu Mingfei shivered; just as he subconsciously wanted to crawl back, he saw a line of characters refresh before his eyes—

【Warning, it is time for the 【Dress and Wash】 plan...】

Lu Mingfei sighed, fully woke up, picked up his clothes, and began to put them on.

January 12, 2009, 6:00 AM.

The second day had begun.

After a brief Dress and Wash as usual, when the warning sounded, Lu Mingfei set off, Running toward Shilan Middle School.

He was not wearing the long trench coat set that Chen Shu had prepared for him yesterday.

Although it looked good, in a situation where he had to go for a three-kilometer Morning Run, wearing it again would be self-torture; whether to choose image or comfort, Lu Mingfei naturally chose the latter!

Moreover, a boy's wardrobe must always have one or two sets of clothes kept at the bottom of the chest, the kind that wouldn't be worn for years and would only be taken out for certain important occasions.

Before this, Lu Mingfei didn't have such clothes, and he felt that that set was quite good.

Learning from yesterday's lesson, today Lu Mingfei specifically brought a change of clothes—he couldn't always take what Brother Chu gave him; if he asked for them himself, it wouldn't be appropriate.

Besides, Lu Mingfei still didn't know the real reason why Brother Chu was so good to him, so he was still feeling a bit suspicious in his heart.

While running, Lu Mingfei pondered.

The Schedule still allocated time based on Lu Mingfei's physical fitness and real-time state, but as his Proficiency increased, Lu Mingfei's understanding of Running was also rising.

Nasal inhalation and oral exhalation, a three-to-two ratio, running posture, stride length... without having checked any relevant information, Lu Mingfei had mastered it without a teacher!

This made him much more relaxed during the run, and he even had the spare energy to think about other things.

"I don't know what's going on... my body doesn't hurt everywhere like Chen Shu told me yesterday?"

Lu Mingfei felt his body, which was far lighter and more comfortable than yesterday, and was a bit puzzled for a moment.

According to Chen Shu, three full hours of high-intensity strength training, for someone who didn't exercise much, definitely fell into the category of strenuous exercise.

It was already quite strange that Lu Mingfei hadn't developed rhabdomyolysis and been sent to the hospital on the spot.

Even if rhabdomyolysis didn't occur, after that amount of exercise, severe lactic acid accumulation leading to soreness and swelling of the whole body's muscles was absolutely unavoidable.

Listening to what Chen Shu meant, it would be impressive if Lu Mingfei could even get out of bed today!

Yet Lu Mingfei was not only able to get out of bed now, but he was also out for a Morning Run as if nothing had happened.

"Could it be... because of the entry 【Physical Recovery】 obtained after 【Fitness】 reached LV1?"

Lu Mingfei rummaged through the not-so-abundant Biology knowledge in his mind.

"The human body's stamina and strength come from the muscles all over the body, and could Physical Recovery be strengthening and repairing my muscle cells?

No wonder I don't feel any pain or itchiness now; after a whole night of Physical Recovery, even the heaviest lactic acid accumulation should have been completely cleared away!"

【Through diligent Morning Run, your 【Running】 level has improved, gaining 4 points of Proficiency】

【Through...】

The cold wind blew against his face, but it no longer felt like a cutting blade as it did in the past, and the three-kilometer distance no longer felt like a chasm!

Progress, growth, becoming stronger!

In the past seventeen years, Lu Mingfei had never felt such a sensation so personally and clearly.

Although the process was quite torturous... but, it was indeed a bit exhilarating!

The rhythmic sound of footsteps repeated over and over; that life which had been stagnant or even subtly declining finally halted its downward trend, broke free from the control of the invisible hands around him, and began to climb upward, step by step!

When Lu Mingfei ran to the gate of Shilan Middle School, the sky was still pitch black.

The hot air he exhaled turned into clouds, smudging the frost-covered glass of the security booth.

Accompanied by a "knock-knock-knock" on the window, the window was quickly slid open, and the security guard from yesterday, Lao Zhang, looked at Lu Mingfei in surprise, "You again? I wanted to ask yesterday, why do you come to school so early?"

"Uh... if not for Learning, then for work?"

Lu Mingfei put his hands on his hips, steadying his rapid breathing, and even had some energy left to crack a joke.

"Heh, you've got a sharp tongue." Lao Zhang muttered, opened the school gate, and let Lu Mingfei in.

However, just as Lu Mingfei walked into the school gate and headed straight for his classroom...

Lao Zhang pulled a pure black Nokia N96 from his pocket, pushed it open with some lack of familiarity, aimed it at Lu Mingfei's back, and after confirming the flash was off, pressed the shutter repeatedly.

He looked left and right with a guilty conscience, and after confirming no one was around, he closed the glass window of the security booth and sent a multimedia message to the person saved as "Boss," attaching the photos he had just taken along with the exact words Lu Mingfei had just said.

The Nokia N96 mobile phone, a high-end device that sold for over four thousand yuan for a parallel import and over five thousand for a licensed one in 2009, was clearly not something that Lao Zhang, a security guard, should have been able to afford.

And that was indeed the case; this N96 hadn't been in Lao Zhang's hands for long—to be precise, less than a few hours.

Lao Zhang didn't know who that person was; the person was very cautious, shrouded in a black robe, and the voice was clearly processed by a voice changer, indistinguishable as male or female, neither tall nor short.

He only knew that the person was called "Boss," and upon arriving, they had tossed over a stack of non-sequential hundred-yuan bills, as well as the N96 he now held, which looked brand new.

The "Boss" had indicated that for a small favor, he would be paid this much every month, and this phone would also be his.

Even excluding the N96, this was already three or four months' worth of Lao Zhang's salary!

Lao Zhang was not a man of firm professional integrity; he had done some petty theft in the past, and after getting out, he used connections and fake documents to get this job as a security guard to drift through life, just acting like a monk tolling the bell for the day he was on duty.

Not to mention, with such a heavy sum of money thrown at him?

Lao Zhang had immediately slapped the table and said that if the boss had this kind of money, things would be easy to handle; what did he want him to do? Killing or arson might be a stretch, but scratching a car or smashing a window was no problem!

"Boss," he chuckled, "there's no need to be that extreme. Do you remember that kid who ran to school first thing yesterday morning?"

"Once he arrives at school and goes in, just find an opportunity to snap a few photos, and then casually chat him up to ask why he came so early."

Upon hearing this, Lao Zhang felt a bit suspicious; were there really such pies falling from the sky in this day and age?

He still had a bit of street smarts, otherwise he would have ended up a petty thief instead of finding a chance to go straight and become a security guard here. He pondered that this couldn't possibly be a kidnapping plot, could it? That kind of money wouldn't be worth the risk.

Then the "Boss" said, "Oh, that's my young master. I don't know why he suddenly started working hard, even coming to school for a Morning Run so early. I want to find out the reason clearly but don't want the young master to find out, so I can only entrust you, Lao Zhang, to handle this."

Lao Zhang thought to himself, "Are you trying to fool a ghost? Anyone can see that kid is an ordinary person, a 'young master'? Though he did indeed run to school early in the morning..."

But then he thought, this wasn't bad either. Anyway, with this excuse, even if something happened later, he could explain himself. Isn't there a saying in law about "the ignorant are not guilty"?

Besides, it's just taking a photo; how much information could that provide!

"That's quite a lot of information..."

A girl curled up in a large sofa, wearing black-rimmed glasses, her chestnut-dyed long hair tied up messily. After glancing at the content of the multimedia message received on her phone, she muttered and tossed it aside.

This was an extremely luxurious office, but at this moment, she had made it as sloppy as a female college student's dormitory. Various ordinary or extraordinary electronic devices were piled up randomly on the side, while the main seat was occupied by what was almost a small mountain of potato chips.

The price of any single electronic device she picked up would be enough to buy this mountain of potato chips twice over, but for this casually dressed girl, this pile of potato chips seemed to be just that important.

The girl tore open a bag of potato chips, casually pinched one and stuffed it into her mouth. Amidst a "Crunch!" sound, she closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, a golden light like an incandescent bulb flickered in them!

But this radiance quickly dissipated, and the girl's breathing became slightly rapid, as if the action just now had consumed quite a bit of physical strength.

She lazily turned over, picked up another phone, and without even looking, she pressed the buttons to open the contact list, searched, and dialed.

The call was connected quickly, and from it came a lazy voice that carried an irrepressible brightness, which likely belonged to the standard "mature woman voice" in the Japanese two-dimensional industry; if she went to be a voice actor, she should be able to command a very good price.

But if one were to see this woman's figure and appearance, they would know that forget about being a voice actor, even being a celebrity would be a waste of her talents.

She possessed a nearly perfect appearance and a figure so good that it probably couldn't be hidden even in an Arabian robe, and a pair of legs half-hidden beneath the water surface appeared breathtakingly long.

"Do you know what time it is, Potato Chip Girl? I am enjoying my hot spring vacation time, so if it's not something very urgent..."

"Vacation is over, Long-legged Girl," Potato Chip Girl crunched, "there's a big deal."

"What deal? Is the Earth about to be destroyed?"

The originally lazy Long-legged Girl suddenly became serious, her bright face now like a blade unsheathed!

A big deal?

In Long-legged Girl's impression, things that could be called a "big deal" by Potato Chip Girl could be counted on one hand.

Even during the 2007 US economic crisis, when she strategized and bit off enough money to buy a small country, she only said "small deal" lightly.

"Almost?" Potato Chip Girl tilted her head and thought, "Our little white rabbit has suddenly gone crazy."

"Little... white rabbit?"

Long-legged Girl was stunned, "I didn't know when you developed the hobby of keeping pets, but logically speaking, with the frequency at which you eat potato chips, even the crumbs that fall would be enough to feed quite a few..."

"It's not that little white rabbit," Potato Chip Girl interrupted helplessly, "I'm talking about the one the Boss asked us to keep an eye on."

"Oh... that legendary S-rank, he's still a high school student, right?"

Long-legged Girl suddenly realized, "Although I don't think he has a single bit of S-rank quality about him, but for you to say it like that... how did he go crazy?"

"Hmm, let me list for you what I've compiled, the things he's done from yesterday until now," Potato Chip Girl said.

"Got up at 6:00 AM, Morning Run for three kilometers to school, Learning until 3:00 PM, no lunch break.

After school, he refused the Literature Club activity invitation from the girl he has had a crush on for three years and is determined to marry, and went Running to the Basketball court to play for three hours.

Oh right, at the Basketball court, he also met the Cassel College A-rank Hybrid student Chu Zihang; the Boss also asked me to keep an eye on this person.

Then after that, he was sent by Chu Zihang's family driver to a private gym for three hours of strength training, and after being sent home, he did Self-study for two hours before sleeping.

Slept for six hours, and now he has Get Up again, Morning Run for three kilometers to school."

"What a healthy life!" Long-legged Girl exclaimed.

"Where is the health? For an ordinary person who has no exercise habits at all, this level of exercise intensity should have long since caused rhabdomyolysis, leaving him unable to move in bed!

But not only did he not, today he was able to climb up for a Morning Run again, and he ran even faster than last time."

Potato Chip Girl's eye twitched as she spoke.

"These things simply do not fit the past personality of the rotten and cowardly little white rabbit! He does Morning Run and Learning, plays Basketball and Fitness, and doesn't even play games or pay attention to his crush!

This is simply... like he's suddenly become a different person."

"But isn't he S-rank? It's reasonable for an S-rank to be able to do these things, right?" Long-legged Girl was a bit confused, "Bloodline Awakening or something..."

"If that were really the case, the Boss wouldn't have called to contact me," Potato Chip Girl said in a deep voice.

"The Boss said he shouldn't have a Bloodline Awakening. At least for now, it's absolutely impossible."

The phone fell into silence. To them, the Boss was a presence that was extremely mysterious and never made a mistake.

Anything that could make the Boss pay attention and say it was absolutely impossible could certainly be called a big deal.

If it wasn't a Bloodline Awakening, then what could have caused all of this?

"So, what do I need to do?" Long-legged Girl asked.

"I need you to come and investigate clearly what exactly happened. Currently, I can only obtain some messy information through bribery or hacking methods to make inferences, but it's far from enough for me to figure out the reason."

Potato Chip Girl bit down on a potato chip viciously.

"Do you know how excessive it is to ask me, an internal staff member, to go out for field work? I'm scared to death, and it's troublesome and tiring. This kind of thing still has to be left to you!

I have already bought you the nearest flight ticket..."

Because he ran faster than yesterday and felt much more relaxed, Lu Mingfei had even more time for 【Eat Breakfast】 than yesterday.

If it were the Lu Mingfei of the past, he would have taken the rare opportunity to rest a bit.

But now...

Lu Mingfei felt quite restless and eager.

Whether it was because the quality of his sleep was exceptionally good, or because 【Physical Recovery】 also applied to his brain, even though he had only slept for six hours, he unexpectedly didn't feel sleepy at all.

And the moment he thought about how the next plan was 【Morning Self-study】, and that he would be able to push Mathematics to LV1, he couldn't help himself.

It was just like when playing a game, being just a little bit away from leveling up.

Who could resist the temptation of leveling up!

Not to mention, there were also unknown powerful traits?

But the overall schedule could not be changed, so Lu Mingfei had no choice but to wait.

As he thought about it, he suddenly laughed out loud; who would have thought that he would actually have a day where he looked forward to Learning!

【Warning, the time for the 【Morning Self-study】 plan has arrived...】

Finally, the time had come.

Lu Mingfei couldn't wait to open the Mathematics "Five Three", and before long, he quite familiarly entered the "Flow State".

【Through diligent Learning, your 【Mathematics】 level has increased, gaining 3 points of Proficiency】

【Through...】

Time ticked by second by second, and the Proficiency rose steadily.

Finally—

【Congratulations! Through diligent Learning, your 【Mathematics】 level has increased to LV1】

【You have obtained the trait—【Super Speed Calculation】!】

【Trait: Super Speed Calculation

Effect: Your calculation speed is greatly increased】

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