Chapter 39: The Damn Schedule! Who Taught You to Give Rewards Like This

【Warning, the 【Sleep】 scheduled time has been reached...】

"Woohoo!"

Lu Mingfei skillfully exited the "Flow State" and stretched.

In just three short days, sleep had already become a reward worth rejoicing over for him.

Lu Mingfei stood up, the unfamiliar environment making him pause for a moment before he realized where he was.

"Do you usually study until this hour?"

Chu Zihang was already lying in his own bed, covered by the quilt in a "standard" sleeping posture, looking at him at this moment.

"It doesn't really count as 'usual,' just for the last three days... I'm sorry, Senior Brother, did I affect your sleep?"

Lu Mingfei scratched his head, feeling a bit embarrassed.

"No, I'm used to thinking about things before falling asleep."

Chu Zihang closed his eyes; every day before sleeping, he would recall that stormy night, and today the memory was exceptionally clear, to the point where he could vaguely smell the scent of cold rain.

But the remorse and sorrow of the past had diminished; after witnessing it again and knowing how to find Odin... what replaced them was joy, and hope.

Everything was finally no longer a mirage without proof; the body named revenge finally had a clear destination.

"It's so good, Dad."

After recalling the final scene, Chu Zihang slowly opened his eyes. The hospital room lights were already off; Lu Mingfei was on the other bed, curled up in the quilt in a "caterpillar-style" sleeping position, his breathing steady, having actually fallen soundly asleep.

Thus, Chu Zihang also slowly closed his eyes and gradually fell asleep.

Lu Mingfei was actually not asleep.

Or rather, he was asleep, but he was not sleeping "soundly."

The cause of the matter was this—before falling asleep, Lu Mingfei habitually checked his Proficiency panel.

If the physical and mental torture endured while completing the Schedule was sweat, then Lu Mingfei believed that Proficiency was the fruit he had diligently watered with that sweat.

Every time he looked at the Proficiency panel before bed, for Lu Mingfei, it was like the joy of watching the planted fruit grow larger day by day. This joy was one of the important factors supporting him to continue working hard!

Although the root cause was still that he would be shocked if he didn't finish, people, after all, always have to find some comfort for themselves, and on this point, Lu Mingfei was particularly adept.

The problem lay exactly here.

Other items were normal, the only problem was 【Tai Chi Fist】; when Lu Mingfei saw it, it displayed 【Tai Chi Fist LV0—Proficiency 21/100】.

Practicing for one night had increased it by 20 points; the growth rate of Tai Chi Fist's Proficiency was much slower compared to Piano and Basketball, but that was not the reason Lu Mingfei almost jumped up and shouted—

He remembered that when he finished his practice early and left Senior Brother Chu's house, his 【Tai Chi Fist】 Proficiency was already 21/100!

But what about the promised 【Reward: After the schedule is completed, 【Tai Chi Fist】 Proficiency will be increased】?

"Schedule, come out! Where is my reward? Did you swallow it? Damn it, having a schedule that doesn't act like a human!"

Just as Lu Mingfei shouted in his heart, he saw the familiar character format emerge before his eyes, and a cold, mechanical voice followed.

【Detecting...】

【Detection complete, determined as: 'Temporary Schedule' completed】

【Please confirm whether to claim 【Reward: Tai Chi Fist Proficiency】】

"Of course, claim it immediately!"

Lu Mingfei felt a surge of joy, thinking that sure enough, the crying child gets the milk; if he hadn't discovered it, maybe the Schedule would have just swindled him!

But a good child knows how to correct their mistakes, and as long as it makes up for today, the matter would pass; of course, the premise was that it had to add enough to satisfy him...

Just as Lu Mingfei was thinking this, staring at the number on the 【Tai Chi Fist】 Proficiency line, waiting for that "21" to add a few hundred or a thousand, he suddenly saw the characters change again, and the cold, mechanical voice followed.

【Claim confirmed】

【Reward being issued...】

【Entering reward issuance mode...】

Lu Mingfei was stunned; the reward being issued was a matter of course, but this was his first time seeing a "reward issuance mode"—what kind of fresh thing was this?

Besides, does issuing Proficiency require some kind of "mode"? Shouldn't it just be added directly to the number?

While he was puzzled, Lu Mingfei suddenly felt sleepiness wash over him. If the sleepiness he felt when tired usually came like a tide swallowing him, then this time the sleepiness was like picking up the entire Pacific Ocean and smashing it directly into Lu Mingfei's face!

Calling it "unconsciousness" might be more appropriate.

Lu Mingfei's vision went black, and he directly "fell asleep."

When he opened his eyes again—

Lu Mingfei was startled by the person in front of him: "Senior Brother?"

He looked left and right, and the more he looked, the more alarmed he became—he was at Chu Zihang's home basketball court!

For a moment, terrible thoughts flooded his mind; could it be that everything before was a hallucination caused by extreme fatigue? That he was still practicing Tai Chi and had never left?

But soon he noticed something wrong, because the Chu Zihang in front of him did not respond to his words at all. Senior Brother had an icy, expressionless face, and his speech was indeed often short and concise, but he would always answer when asked and would not choose to simply ignore him.

This was not Senior Brother; although he looked exactly the same, it definitely wasn't him.

A large string of characters appeared before his eyes, confirming Lu Mingfei's guess.

【Loading reward issuance mode...】

【Loading successful】

【Reward issuance mode: You will enter deep sleep and complete 【Tai Chi Fist】 training in this scene; you will continuously gain Proficiency during the training process】

If one were to find an egg now, it could certainly be stuffed into Lu Mingfei's mouth with ease.

Because he was dumbfounded!

The damn Schedule simply doesn't act like a human; it turns out the so-called "knowing how to correct mistakes" was just to brew an even more evil and heaven-defying punishment!

This is like telling an employee they will get a large year-end bonus to make them work hard, and when it's time to pay, taking the employee to the bank entrance and saying, "The money is all prepared for you inside, go rob it yourself."

Using "capitalist" to describe such an act that angers both gods and men is an insult to capitalists; calling it a slave owner is even a slight beautification!

But the Schedule clearly would not listen to Lu Mingfei's pile of nonsense; it just kept issuing warnings—【Warning, it is now time for the 【Tai Chi Fist】 plan...】

Lu Mingfei wanted to cry but had no tears; could he just forgo this reward? It was the first time he had ever heard of having to practice martial arts while dreaming in his sleep!

But things had reached this point, and he was powerless to change the outcome.

【Warning, countdown to electric shock...】

"Fine, where was I practicing before?"

Lu Mingfei shivered. He looked at "Senior Brother Chu" in front of him. Clearly, this was a teaching instructor simulated by the Schedule, which had borrowed Senior Brother Chu's image; he wondered if it had paid any portrait fees...

"Senior Brother Chu" moved, performing a motion slowly and standardly.

Characters appeared before his eyes, accompanied by a mechanical explanation—【First, Opening Stance. Regulate the spirit and concentrate the breath, use stillness to control motion.】

Lu Mingfei remembered; Senior Brother had just taught him this before, saying it was the Twenty-Four Style Simplified Tai Chi Fist.

According to Senior Brother, don't think that just because it was simplified like this and promoted nationwide—to the point where even the grandpas and grandmas dancing in the square could perform the moves—that it wasn't effective.

On the contrary, these were movements compiled, extracted, and improved by the nation's Tai Chi grandmasters, and they were absolutely the essence!

One only needed to use them flexibly to apply them in actual combat.

Lu Mingfei followed "Senior Brother" and struck the pose.

"Senior Brother" moved again.

【Second, Left and Right Wild Horse Parts Mane. Turn the body to neutralize a direct strike, counter with the palm to the ribs.】

Lu Mingfei followed along to mimic the pose; he was a bit confused at this point, but he still nodded.

"If it's just like this, it's actually not too hard, it's quite easy..." he thought.

"Senior Brother" moved again, returning to the "Opening Stance."

Lu Mingfei was somewhat puzzled, but he still followed along and did the same.

Then "Senior Brother" moved again... but this time it was different; he stepped forward and aimed a straight punch right at Lu Mingfei!

The wind of the punch was fierce, holding back nothing at all!

Lu Mingfei, who had not anticipated this situation at all, was hit squarely in the chest. The immense force caused his breath to catch in his chest, leaving him unable to breathe, and he fell straight backward.

"Cough... cough cough..."

It took Lu Mingfei a long time to barely recover. He rubbed his chest and struggled to climb up, looking at "Senior Brother" with terrified eyes, "Are you trying to kill me!"

"Senior Brother" could not speak; only the characters exclusive to the Schedule slowly appeared.

【During training, all physical injuries will be rapidly repaired.】

【The best way to train 【Tai Chi Fist】 is—to master the key points of the moves through skilled application.】

Lu Mingfei understood.

The meaning of these two lines was very simple and could be summarized as—

One, he wouldn't die.

Two, he was going to get beaten up!

"The damn Schedule..."

Lu Mingfei muttered.

"Who on earth taught you to give rewards like this!"

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(End of this chapter)