Chapter 48: Hooked on hard work, how could I ever quit now!

While communicating with Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei still had to ensure his training intensity did not drop at any moment.

One warning didn't matter much, but the warning limit for a single Schedule Plan was only ten times; he always had to save a few for himself as insurance.

Under these circumstances, communication efficiency was undoubtedly extremely low, and it was impossible for a distracted Lu Mingfei to maintain operations like "reciting physics formulas and laws" or "thinking through problem-solving steps"—that would be equivalent to multitasking three ways at once!

Therefore, until 6:00 PM, when the 【Basketball Training】 plan ended, his 【Physics】 proficiency was still 96/100.

Now, whenever Lu Mingfei saw—no, even just thought about—this data that was only four points away, he felt very anxious.

He had the feeling of a fisherman fishing: the water was incredibly clear, and a super-sized fish visible to the naked eye was circling and testing near his hook, with its mouth at most four centimeters away from the bait—

Although he knew the big fish wouldn't be able to run away sooner or later, who wouldn't be anxious in this situation?

Thus, he used his actions to prove a saying.

When a person is pushed to the limit, they are capable of doing anything!

……

Hazy white mist floated overhead, and a strange smell mixed with various shower gels and body odors drifted through the sweltering heat.

The shower room at the Qingning Basketball Hall consisted of small, connected cubicles with doors; in one of them, Chu Zihang had his eyes closed.

His post-exercise shower had a procedure, one exclusive to the physical constitution of a Hybrid, a method akin to forging iron—

A strict three minutes: one minute of hot water, one minute of cold water, and one minute of warm water, which served to induce sweating, shrink pores, and wash away dirt, respectively.

It was as rigorous and rigid as a medieval ascetic.

Chu Zihang didn't actually like suffering; it was just that he had to keep himself as precise as a machine at all times. Once a machine relaxed, it would rust, and then it would never be able to slay gods again.

Next door to him, Lu Mingfei, exhausted to the point of mental stupor, was struggling to recall formulas under the spray of hot water.

These were clearly formulas he had memorized before! How could he have forgotten them after playing basketball for three hours, and why couldn't he think of them all of a sudden?

Lu Mingfei had no heart to think about factors like how cerebral hypoxia from intense exercise would lead to a decline in memory and thinking ability; he just felt like he was about to lose knowledge he had already obtained, and he even began to panic.

If this went on, wouldn't his proficiency decrease instead of increase!

He felt as if he saw that big fish about to take the bait move further away from the hook... his heart nearly stopped.

Just then, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Wait, he wasn't alone; if it really came down to it, he could just ask for "external aid" to use a landing net!

So he spoke up, "Senior, Senior, do you still remember the formulas for self-induced electromotive force and alternating electromotive force?"

Next door, Chu Zihang, who was executing his precise shower procedure, paused.

For a cold-faced, icy killer like him, who could fully achieve the state of "remaining calm even if Mount Tai collapses before him, and not blinking even if a deer springs up on his left," this reaction was considered reasonable.

After all, who would randomly ask a university student who had already been in college for a semester about physics formulas for no reason!

Fortunately, Chu Zihang was a true academic powerhouse.

If that incident hadn't happened back then, with his grades, he would definitely have been recommended for admission to Qinghua University or Peking University.

Moreover, the memory capacity of Hybrids, which is generally stronger than that of ordinary people, ensured that he wouldn't be like many high school students whose intracranial knowledge began to decrease exponentially after the college entrance exam ended.

By the time the two-plus months of vacation were over and university started, those people would basically be college students with "clear eyes."

After just a moment of thought, Chu Zihang answered.

Originally, Chu Zihang thought this was just a "flash of inspiration" from Lu Mingfei, or as the saying goes, "a brain cramp."

Boys often did this, suddenly asking an irrelevant question, or walking down the street perfectly fine and suddenly jumping up to shoot a phantom basketball...

But he soon knew he was wrong.

Because this answer was like poking a hornet's nest. Lu Mingfei grabbed onto him like a life-saving straw and wouldn't let go, with questions about physics formulas and laws emerging one after another!

"Senior, you're awesome! What about the formulas for inductive reactance and capacitive reactance?"

"Wow, and also, the period and frequency of an oscillating circuit..."

"That, the photoelectric effect equation..."

Chu Zihang answered them one by one, even being forced to delay his shower time for it.

Originally, because this was a public shower room, there were some middle-aged uncles and school team members who had come to play ball, so there were some other sounds of conversation.

Things like "What should we eat later," "I met a girl today who was really pretty," or "My mid-court shot just now was super cool," "You were just a blind cat hitting a dead mouse"...

But as the sound of Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang's oblivious Q&A appeared, the other voices gradually and consciously grew quieter.

The middle-aged uncles thought of their own brats who skipped classes to play games all day, and looked at someone else's child—even taking a shower, he was asking about formulas! No, he had to go back and find an excuse to beat his kid up first.

The school team members thought of those symbols and formulas that they didn't recognize even when placed right in front of them, like heavenly scriptures, and only felt as if an inexplicable pressure had appeared over the shower room.

Some people were still unconvinced, muttering, "What are these two pretending for? This is a basketball court, if they have the guts, let's compare basketball," but others pulled them back, saying they seemed to have seen that person when they came in—it was Chu Zihang from Shilan Middle School, the starting center of the city basketball team back in the day; they couldn't even beat him at basketball...

Now, absolutely no one spoke—wasn't this bullying an honest person?

With 【Physical Recovery】 continuously in effect, Lu Mingfei's brain finally returned to its normal working efficiency.

Although he wasn't quite able to enter a "Flow State" while showering, his memory and comprehension efficiency had finally improved.

After inadvertently causing psychological damage to everyone else, Lu Mingfei finally saw with joy—

【Through diligent Learning, your 【Physics】 level has increased, gaining 1 point of proficiency】

【Physics LV0—Proficiency 97/100】

Nice!!!

Lu Mingfei was almost happy enough to jump up; his guess had been confirmed!

Sure enough, it was also feasible to learn during the time of other plans! Although the efficiency was very slow, and it felt much more torturous than normally executing a Schedule Plan... but the proficiency had indeed increased, even if only by 1 point!

In the past, Lu Mingfei might have felt that gaining proficiency this way was incredibly slow, but now he only felt it was hard-won... his arduous extra effort had finally paid off.

That big fish was only three centimeters away from biting the hook!

Lu Mingfei became increasingly anxious.

【Warning, one-minute countdown...】

He hurriedly dried his body and changed his clothes at an extremely fast speed, "Let's go, Senior, let's go grab some food?"

"What should we eat?" Chu Zihang asked.

With his mind full of various formulas, Lu Mingfei blurted out subconsciously: "Photon energy?"

Chu Zihang was silent for a moment.

The calculation formula for photon energy is "energy equals Planck's constant times photon frequency." In fact, any material will absorb photons under specific circumstances, but to say one could reach the point of "eating" them to survive...

"First, you would have to transform yourself into an Ideal Black Body."

Chu Zihang "tactfully" advised, "Before that, we had better eat some food from the normal menu of carbon-based lifeforms."

Lu Mingfei was, of course, unable to transform himself into an Ideal Black Body, at least not right now.

So they went to a normal home-style restaurant to order food and eat.

During this process, Chu Zihang looked up several times, watching Lu Mingfei across from him, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

This also did not conform to his behavioral habits.

Chu Zihang, who even strictly controlled the time he spent showering, naturally would not be slack when it came to eating; he would generally sweep through his food at the fastest speed, completely ignoring everything else... anyway, as a Hybrid, one didn't need to worry about indigestion.

And the reason for his abnormal behavior was very simple—after leaving the Qingning Basketball Hall, a "Summary Manual of Physics Formulas and Laws" had appeared in Lu Mingfei's hand, and he hadn't put it down or closed it since!

Even now, Lu Mingfei hadn't stopped; he could hardly bear to take his eyes off the manual, not even looking at what food he was picking up.

Chu Zihang watched helplessly as he stuffed a piece of ginger that looked very much like a chicken leg into his mouth, chewed it twice, and just swallowed it like that!

This was no longer a matter of whether he was working hard or not; to put it bluntly, Chu Zihang felt that Lu Mingfei was "obsessed."

But he didn't deliberately interrupt him; instead, he waited until Lu Mingfei's expression clearly showed joy, finally put away the manual for the time being, and began to wolf down his food hurriedly before speaking softly.

"Learning like this will be very inefficient. If you need it, I can provide tutoring or help you hire a tutor."

"Huh? No, no! Senior brother, I'm just..."

Lu Mingfei came back to his senses, forcibly swallowed the rice in his mouth, and grinned.

"I know this is inefficient, so I won't do it like this in the future, I'm just in a bit of a rush right now... it's just an intermittent state of being full of ambition. You know how it is for men, there are always those few days every month, Senior brother, you can just rest assured!"

Having said that, Lu Mingfei continued to wolf down his food; he was rejoicing over the bit of Proficiency he had just gained, feeling full of energy throughout his entire body.

【Physics LV0—Proficiency 98/100】!

Only two points left, and while mealtime was almost over, there were still three hours of Fitness time ahead!

There was enough time; even with this shockingly low efficiency, there was definitely enough time. Today, he would certainly be able to grind this Physics to an upgrade!

Chu Zihang didn't speak again; he watched Lu Mingfei in silence.

For some reason, although Lu Mingfei spoke very lightly and seemed very determined, he always felt that in the future, this kind of behavior might become Lu Mingfei's norm...

Once you're infected with hard work, how can you ever quit!

And what could be the reason for Lu Mingfei to be so determined and hardworking?

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