Chapter 15: Basketball LV1, this is a hack, no way to wash it away!

"California Sunshine?"

Lu Mingfei blinked; for some reason, he felt this residential complex name was strangely familiar.

"Maybe I just heard it somewhere by accident; it's not a very special name anyway..."

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, so he didn't ask further, instead focusing his attention on practicing basketball.

Dusk was approaching; the slanted sunlight crossed the city skyline, weaving through the gaps between high-rise buildings, spreading all the way over to illuminate the basketball that kept bouncing up and falling down.

Sweat was shed, bringing with it accumulation and success.

【Through diligent practice, your 【Basketball】 level has increased, gaining 4 points of Proficiency】

【Through...】

Finally—

【Congratulations! Through diligent practice, your 【Basketball】 level has increased to LV1】

【You have obtained the trait—【Precision Hit】!】

【Trait: Precision Hit

Effect: Within a ten-meter range, any "throwing" action you perform will automatically aim at the target point】

"What the hell?"

Seeing the effect of the trait, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but blurt out a curse.

What does it mean that any "throwing" action will automatically aim at the target point?

Isn't this just an auto-aim hack from a game?

I've hacked it!

A ten-meter range doesn't look like much, but it already covers more than a third of the basketball court, and it's firmly beyond the three-point line!

This means that as long as he wants to, he can hit three-pointers at will now?

Lu Mingfei immediately started to experiment; he tried setting the target as the center of the hoop, then tossed it casually.

At the moment of release, Lu Mingfei felt as if he had a flash of inspiration.

His body subconsciously knew which direction to aim, what angle to use, and how much force to apply to hit the target.

And so, the basketball drifted out, tracing a perfect arc in the air, and swished into the net amidst the sunset outside the window!

Having just obtained a new skill, a single taste clearly couldn't satisfy Lu Mingfei; he immediately dragged over a cart of basketballs from the side (a flatbed cart with iron railings on four sides and no top, specifically for holding balls) and grabbed them to throw.

Without aiming, he would jump and shoot the moment he grabbed one; Lu Mingfei even tried playing around with fancy moves—fadeaway jump shots, 360-degree spins in the air, even covering his eyes with one hand while shooting with the other!

"Swish, swish, swish..."

The sound of basketballs swishing through the net almost blended into one; one basketball after another traced standard, perfect arcs from various angles to hit the target, the "thump-thump" sound of them hitting the ground accompanying Lu Mingfei's heavy breathing, which he couldn't bear to stop.

"Fancy moves" require stamina, and the fancier they are, the more they require. Despite the support of 【Physical Recovery】, Lu Mingfei only had fast mana regeneration, not an infinite mana bar, and he soon hit the bottom.

When the last basketball was about to be released, Lu Mingfei finally didn't have enough strength left; the ball slipped from his hand, tracing a deflected trajectory in the most incorrect direction, successfully hitting an "airball."

"Hoo, hoo..." Lu Mingfei gasped for air, barely managing to squeeze out some saliva to swallow and moisten his extremely dry throat, hands on his hips, his heart full of excitement.

He had already tested the effect of the 【Precision Hit】 trait—that is, as long as it was within a ten-meter range and his own stamina could support it, the thrown object would head toward the target, with absolutely no deviation!

Even if he couldn't see the target in his own field of vision, as long as he could construct the corresponding position in his mind... it would still work!

This is a hack, no way to wash it away.

"You've improved a lot." Chu Zihang's voice came from the side.

"Right, Senior, you really have a keen eye for talent; I am indeed a basketball genius!"

Lu Mingfei laughed smugly with his hands on his hips, but before he could be smug for two seconds, he started picking up the basketballs rolling all over the floor under the threat of the system's electric shock countdown, tossing them back into the basketball cart one by one.

Chu Zihang was silent; he was thinking.

Lu Mingfei was undergoing Bloodline Awakening; in Chu Zihang's view, this was already inevitable.

Otherwise, the series of events that happened before could not be explained, and the progress Lu Mingfei was making now, which could be called absurd, could not be explained either.

Hybrids all have a certain degree of physical enhancement during Bloodline Awakening, but it is focused based on their Spirit Speech; some have strength, some have agility, and others have all-around balance...

In Chu Zihang's view, Lu Mingfei's situation might lean more toward "control"?

As for what specific Spirit Speech it was, Chu Zihang had no clue.

Every Spirit Speech has no signs before it is activated and used; if it could be judged like this, Chu Zihang wouldn't be out on a mission during winter break.

He should be at Cassel College, sitting at a table with those fossilized old antiques who study dragonkind, and it would have to be him who picks up his chopsticks first before the others could move.

However, there was one thing Chu Zihang could be certain of: when a Hybrid undergoes autonomous Bloodline Awakening, it is ex-treme-ly dan-ger-ous!

A Hybrid possesses the blood of dragonkind and acquires the power of dragons—【Spirit Speech】—and naturally inherits their various negative emotions such as tyranny, bloodthirst, and sorrow.

It's fine if the awakening is successful and stabilized, but during the Bloodline Awakening, suddenly possessing a powerful physique and strength while being influenced by those negative emotions is when things are most likely to go wrong!

But Chu Zihang didn't see any of this in Lu Mingfei at all.

Lu Mingfei was like a person with nothing wrong, still happy-go-lucky, and talking nonsense all day long. If it weren't for the things he had done and his speed of progress being completely contrary to common sense, there wouldn't even be the slightest flaw.

"Lu Mingfei."

"You speak, Senior!"

Lu Mingfei trotted over, patting the basketball, panting, looking quite like a puppy playing with a ball that shines as soon as it gets a little sunshine.

"Recently, have you felt that something is not quite right with yourself?" Chu Zihang weighed his words.

"Not right..."

Lu Mingfei scratched his hair, thinking to himself that he was indeed very not right. A momentary intermittent ambition, because the Schedule Plan was directly solidified, and it couldn't be canceled for a month!

But Lu Mingfei couldn't possibly tell Chu Zihang about this, and it wasn't a question of whether he could be trusted. It was that this thing was just not scientific!

Even if he said it, Chu Zihang probably wouldn't believe it, and might even treat him as a mental patient or something...

Seeing Lu Mingfei hesitate, Chu Zihang was even more certain of his guess.

"Something like feelings of anger, sorrow, or wanting to destroy something?" he asked.

Since it was confirmed that Lu Mingfei was undergoing Bloodline Awakening, matters related to the Dragon race would eventually have to be discussed with him, so it was better to lay some groundwork now.

"Emotions... I have them!"

Lu Mingfei recalled what happened in math class that morning, his face turning slightly pale, and he immediately gave Chu Zihang a brief account of it.

"Afterward, I felt like I had become a different person, with a strong urge to slash at something!"

Chu Zihang fell silent again, and again, and again.

A semester had already passed, and Chu Zihang had become the president of the Lionheart Society at Cassel College with unprecedented speed, and had even joined the Execution Department to go on several missions... having read many files.

Among them, there was no shortage of Hybrids who, due to various events, experienced massive emotional fluctuations, leading to Bloodline Awakening, bloodlust, and murder, causing human tragedies.

However, what was going on with Lu Mingfei?

When other people get angry, they lose control and start a massacre; when you get angry, you also lose control, and then you go up to the podium and solve the final math fill-in-the-blank question???

Could it be that you just wanted to prove the saying "people can do anything when they are angry"?!

"Is my situation a big problem?" Lu Mingfei asked Chu Zihang, feeling quite terrified.

"Not very big."

Chu Zihang really couldn't bring himself to lie and say this situation was serious; after all, the worst-case scenario might just be solving even harder math problems... which looked like a good thing no matter how you put it.

"Really?" Lu Mingfei asked, half-believing.

"Really," Chu Zihang affirmed, "However, if this situation happens again in the future, remember to tell me, immediately, as soon as possible..."

He paused, "You probably don't have a mobile phone yet."

"Not yet, but once I get the money, I can buy one myself..."

Lu Mingfei was happy at first, then his voice trailed off as he realized. With his Schedule Plan already full, how would he have time to buy a phone!

"I might have to trouble you to help me buy one, Senior, anything will do; just Dunk the cost from that money."

Lu Mingfei smiled sheepishly, unable to help rubbing his hands together, "When are you planning to arrange for the lawyer to visit my aunt's house, Senior?"

Leaving behind his personal property without pursuing it, Lu Mingfei felt he had already done his utmost and returned kindness for resentment, so he felt no guilt asking about this matter now.

"It's almost six o'clock."

Chu Zihang took out his phone to check the time and messages, "Barring any accidents, the agreement contract is already in front of them. If they don't want to pay even more in court, they have no choice but to sign."

(End of chapter)