Chapter 20: To Become Stronger, To Become the Strongest and Most Badass in the World

Emotion Perception?

Lu Mingfei was stunned; with 【Super Speed Calculation】, 【Physical Recovery】, and 【Precision Hit】 as pearls of great price already in his possession, he had expected the Piano LV1 entry to be something even more formidable.

Like the Three-Cave Qin Demon from *Kung Fu Hustle*, sound turning into flying blades, a single tune breaking one's liver and intestines!

Of course, what others played was a guzheng, which required plucking, while what he played was a Piano, which only required pressing. Lu Mingfei had long since prepared himself mentally for this—since that was the case, he would just fire invisible bullets instead.

Not bad, acceptable!

It was just that a grand piano was inconvenient to move and hard to target with, so when the time came, he would just lightly modify it, add some treads and an automatic targeting rotating base, and transform into a heartless "Eighty-Eight Gun Qin Demon"!

If he wanted to keep it simple, he could just make do with an electronic piano, shooting while running...

It must be said that student Lu Mingfei's imagination was still quite rich.

Yet, such a setting that didn't fit the art style clearly couldn't actually appear; the 【Emotion Perception】 entry given after Piano LV1, judging by the literal description, seemed to be a support skill?

It was just that he didn't know if it was powerful or not...

"Still reminiscing?" Shanshan Ayi's voice woke Lu Mingfei from his reverie.

"Ah? Ah... yes!"

Lu Mingfei turned his head and happened to meet Liu Miaomiao's gaze; his gaze paused, and his heart stirred slightly.

The longer the communication... does that mean just talking should be enough?

Why not try it out on Liu Miaomiao in a moment? Chatting wasn't against the law, and he still didn't know what form the feedback for Emotion Perception would take.

"Ayi is right here, where are you looking?"

Shanshan Ayi reached out and waved her hand in front of Lu Mingfei's eyes, her tone somewhat resentful. Although in her understanding Lu Mingfei had a "crush" on Liu Miaomiao, being so blatant was just too outrageous!

How could she say that back in her day she was one of the four great beauties known to the whole city! Although she was a bit older now, didn't maturity have its own charm?

"Shanshan Ayi, if I could twist my head one hundred and eighty degrees, I'd have to go to the hospital."

Lu Mingfei casually tossed out a piece of nonsense, "Or end up in a research institute being sliced up."

"Then you really should be sliced up and studied."

Shanshan Ayi laughed, "But that's a matter for the future; it's time for class to end now, and Ayi is going to get off work to meet up with my sisters for dinner and drinks. Are you coming? They're all beautiful ayis just like me~"

"Minors can't drink!" Lu Mingfei shook his head and refused decisively, without even a hint of temptation.

Beautiful ayis were one thing, electric shocks were another... he had to "go home."

To avoid being shocked, Lu Mingfei could even reject Chen Wenwen, whom he once swore he would marry! Let alone Shanshan Ayi, whom he had only known for a short while?

As for negative emotions like shame or embarrassment, Lu Mingfei naturally had none.

Fearing death and pain was human nature!

"Tsk, the young don't know the goodness of an ayi, mistaking..."

Shanshan Ayi muttered something indignantly, waved her hand, and started shooing them away, not delaying even a minute, "Class is over, you two go together!"

【Warning, the time for the 【Go Home】 plan has arrived, please execute the plan immediately】

"Thank you, Shanshan Ayi! Ayi, you teach really well!" Lu Mingfei thanked her sincerely.

"How could that be, it's because you learn well!" Shanshan Ayi covered her mouth and chuckled.

Lu Mingfei, however, was stunned; for some reason, he heard a hint of... sarcasm in these slightly polite words?

Did he misunderstand? Or was it the effect of 【Emotion Perception】 after exchanging these few sentences?

But if it was the latter, what was the reason?

Before Lu Mingfei could figure it out, Liu Miaomiao softly said, "Thank you, teacher, goodbye teacher," and then looked at Lu Mingfei, signaling for him to leave together.

Clearly, she had something to say.

Seeing this, Lu Mingfei was thoughtful, so he stopped dwelling on it and stepped away with her.

"Lu Mingfei, have you really never learned the Piano before?"

In the hallway, Liu Miaomiao asked softly.

"No... let alone learned, I've never even touched one before; today was the first time!"

Lu Mingfei answered decisively, then felt a bit confused, "Why are you asking this?"

"Hmm, the teacher misunderstood."

Liu Miaomiao explained, "Your level of progress... is too fast, so fast that it defies common sense; the teacher thought you were pretending."

"Ah? This, I..."

Lu Mingfei didn't know what to say for a moment.

Was there a problem with progressing too fast?

Fine, Lu Mingfei admitted that when he saw his Proficiency jump by ten points at once, he was also startled.

But he simply didn't have the awareness that "progressing too fast defies common sense"; who was Lu Mingfei? In his past seventeen years, the concept of "progress" basically didn't exist for him!

Once he got to experience it, becoming completely "addicted" was the only logical thing; how could he care about what others thought?

"Is it... really that fast?" Lu Mingfei asked in a low voice.

"It's not just usually fast."

Liu Miaomiao sighed slightly; she considered herself to have some talent for the piano, but compared to Lu Mingfei... it couldn't even be described as the difference between heaven and earth.

And now that she had to spell this out, she inevitably felt a bit weary.

"Do you know Yevgeny Kissin?"

"Don't know, never heard of him, who is that?" Lu Mingfei shook his head three times.

"..."

Liu Miaomiao only felt a breath of frustration in her chest, "Then... Beethoven! You must know him, right?"

"Oh oh, I know that one."

Lu Mingfei nodded repeatedly, "The dynamite king, right..."

"That's Nobel! I'm talking about Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven, the Sage of Music, the King of Symphonies! The only thing those two names have in common is the 'Be' sound in transliteration, how did you mix them up?"

Even the good-tempered Liu Miaomiao couldn't help but grit her teeth; she finally felt that the Lu Mingfei in front of her looked familiar—this was that cheeky bastard, no doubt about it!

"Oh, oh, Beethoven, sorry, sorry... what about him?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

"Your Piano talent belongs to that level." Liu Miaomiao said this quite reluctantly.

"Huh?" Lu Mingfei was stunned.

He realized what she meant.

"Ahhhhhh?!!"

"Understand now?" Liu Miaomiao looked at him.

"Understood, understood. I won't be dragged off to be sliced up for research, will I?"

Lu Mingfei carefully looked left and right, as if worried that a few fully armed people in white coats might jump out at any moment to tie him up and send him to a laboratory... that was the trend these days!

"Ha..."

The little beauty Liu Miaomiao laughed with relief, "You should be worrying about how much money you can make in the future."

"Make money?"

Lu Mingfei blinked, "I don't actually have much of a need for money..."

This sounded like he was putting on airs, but for Lu Mingfei, it was the honest truth.

He had always been a person who went with the flow; before, he thought it would be blissful to have 50 in pocket money a day that he couldn't spend, and now, after taking back the money his parents sent from his aunt, it would clearly far exceed that goal.

"Then what do you want to do in the future?"

Liu Miaomiao was a bit curious now, and she asked, "You suddenly started working hard on Learning, came to play the Piano, and... and stopped paying attention to Chen Wenwen. If it's not to make money, why are you working so hard?"

"I..." Lu Mingfei fell into silence all of a sudden.

At first, he made the Schedule Plan because Chen Wenwen had given him a shot of adrenaline, putting him into a state of intermittent ambition, but as the plan was forcibly executed until now...

Things had long since undergone a subtle change.

It wasn't that he suddenly stopped liking her, but it wasn't until Liu Miaomiao brought it up just now that Lu Mingfei realized Chen Wenwen hadn't even appeared in his mind once today!

Not even her name.

In the past, this was something Lu Mingfei wouldn't have dared to imagine, but now, it had truly and genuinely happened.

"I... don't know either."

Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment, shook his head, and then casually spouted some nonsense, "Probably to become stronger. I want to become the strongest and most awesome man in the world!"

The air went silent for a moment.

"Are you sure?" ×2

Liu Miaomiao asked, her soft voice seemingly mixed with a mechanical tone devoid of emotion.

"Of course!" Lu Mingfei waved his hand grandly, and only after answering subconsciously did he realize, "Hey, why does your voice sound a bit strange..."

【Response confirmed, target locked. After the current Schedule Plan is completed, a new Schedule Plan will be formulated to achieve the goal.】

"Eh?"

Lu Mingfei looked at the characters popping up in front of him, somewhat dazed.

It took him a long while to react.

In the "Are you sure?" from just now, one of them was "asked" by the Schedule, and it happened to overlap perfectly with Liu Miaomiao's question, seamless!

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!"

"How can you play so dirty!"

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