Chapter 24: One more round, just one round

Zhai Da and Wu Yue worked together to move the old TV to San Mao's home.

Wu Yue was responsible for moving the TV, and Zhai Da was responsible for carrying the wires.

You can't trip your brother, right? That would be bad.

Today was the weekend. Yu Xiaoli said she went to chat with her old sisters, so Zhai Da saved the trouble of explaining. In his small room, the wardrobe that had been remodeled into a bookshelf had been cleared of a space, just enough to embed the small TV completely.

Wu Yue's large bucket of iced black tea was finished, and Zhai Da took a Coke from the fridge for him.

"Look at how weak you are, why don't I have sweat."

"You didn't do anything..."

Wu Yue took a handful of crumpled banknotes out of his pocket and handed them to Zhai Da. This was the money the old man paid.

The whole plan had been successfully completed. That domestic TV was bought by Zhai Da at the old mall. It was indeed outdated, but it cost 1,300.

Trading the old for the new to the old man, back and forth, it was equivalent to spending a thousand yuan.

Actually, he could have accepted spending 2,000 yuan. The reason he went around in such a circle was that he held a skeptical attitude toward the character of people in such shops. Going up to buy a TV was too strange, and sitting on the ground and raising the price was almost the other party's instinct.

After all, they could even blow pagers into being the Empress Dowager.

Now it was a happy ending. In one day, from collecting money to getting [Equipment], everything was done.

Zhai Da counted the 300 and returned it directly to Wu Yue in front of his face.

Wu Yue was stunned, overjoyed: "Gave it to me? Didn't the police station already give me 100?"

Zhai Da nodded: "One yard is one yard. You were busy for half a day this afternoon, and you specifically rode the tricycle home for a few kilometers to deliver it, plus the old phone from before, it all counts. But I have only one requirement."

Wu Yue understood and made a zipper motion: "Little mouth~!"

He patted Wu Yue on the shoulder and let this guy leave quickly, without explaining anything more.

If reporting gambling to get a reward could be explained clearly, then it was impossible to explain clearly why he went to such lengths to trade for an old TV.

Just sew it shut.

After Wu Yue left happily, Zhai Da returned to his room, opened the wardrobe door, and the TV was right in front of his eyes.

If sitting at the desk, the angle was just right, and he could see it by turning his head.

"White Equipment [Old Man's TV]: No one can watch TV for twenty hours a day, unless he opens a shop with no customers."

"Status: Owned, Activated."

"Effect: Addiction to content played +300%."

"Note: Addiction after growing up is to comfort the self when young."

As the information updated, brand new content appeared before Zhai Da's eyes.

"Detected that the host owns more than three pieces of [Equipment], opening [Equipment List], you can view owned equipment and toggle equipment effects."

"Please collect more equipment, or synthesize higher-level equipment, to unlock more system functions."

Zhai Da was stunned. His vision was pulled into a brand new blue interface, and there was a "List" button in the upper right corner.

After opening it, there were only three things inside.

[Clown Love Letter], [Sturdy Permanent 28-inch Bicycle], [Old Man's TV].

All three had "Activated" behind them.

So that's how it is. Now he could manually toggle item effects?

But it seemed there was no such need for the time being...

It seemed that as he obtained more and more equipment, the system would have some different changes...

Zhai Da nodded with satisfaction.

But that wasn't important now. Let's test how addictive the "Old Man's TV" was!

In a grid below the wardrobe, there was a third-hand DVD player he had picked up at the old mall for 200 yuan.

Connecting all the lines, including the headphones for listening to songs, Zhai Da dug out several discs that had been gathering dust.

These were attached to the tutoring books. There were no online courses in this era, but many books came with accompanying discs. Zhai Da had accumulated quite a few, but had never watched them once.

Zhai Da picked and chose, and finally decided to go straight for math to wake up his brain.

If he picked Chinese, which he was relatively good at, it wouldn't be easy to show the effect.

Math was stimulating. He used to get a headache as soon as he heard it, but today he wanted to see how it was "addictive."

The system description was a bit vague, because "Addiction +300%" didn't have a standard. Was it an additive accumulation value, or a multiplicative probability value?

If it was the latter, the effect was average, because the probability of just watching a "math disc" and getting addicted... infinitely approached zero, and increasing it by three times could be ignored.

Who would get addicted to this stuff?

With inquiry and curiosity, Zhai Da inserted High School Math (I) into the DVD. The content was from the first year of high school, but he had to sort it out from the beginning.

Putting on the headphones, the sound came through.

"Hello students... Today, we will talk about the first lecture of high school math: Sets and Simple Logic..."

This [Old Man's TV] was quite retro, barely able to connect to the DVD signal input, but the image quality couldn't be mentioned, the color was distorted, and the sound was even more piercing like an old bee, and occasionally snow appeared on the screen.

Zhai Da watched seriously and found that the content of the first year of high school could still be easily understood... well, only limited to understanding, doing the problems himself was another matter.

He wasn't purely testing the [Equipment Effect], he was also studying seriously, and even took out paper and pen to record.

Just like that, unknowingly, 60 minutes passed.

Zhai Da rubbed his eyes and thought for a while with his head tilted...

It seemed there was no special effect...

But he had learned some things properly.

Let's watch another episode.

"Hello students... Today, we will talk about the second lecture of high school math: Functions, Logarithms..."

The difficulty went up quite fast. Zhai Da didn't want to miss the feeling of "being able to learn" just now, so he had to listen even more seriously.

These contents were no longer taught in school, but they were also indispensable cornerstones.

Unknowingly, another 60 minutes passed...

Zhai Da frowned slightly...

He felt he understood, but didn't completely understand.

A distraction in the middle, and the back couldn't connect. Sure enough, math would follow the "Eraser Law."

A bit of a pity.

"Hmm... let's watch it again. If you can't figure out functions, you can't learn math."

"Hello students... Today, we will talk about the second lecture of high school math: Functions, Exponents..."

Unknowingly, another 60 minutes passed...

Zhai Da nodded with satisfaction.

Not bad, I am indeed a genius. Not to mention taking exams and doing problems, at least the basic principles are clear!

At this time, he should strike while the iron is hot and see where his limit is!

"Hello students... Today, we will talk about the third lecture of high school math: Logarithms and Logarithmic Functions..."

Yu Xiaoli had chatted with her old sisters for a whole day, and her mouth was numb, but it was also a rare social activity for her.

The topics mainly covered:

The need for connections to arrange for children to enter the factory, the three links that children must get through to enter the factory, the seven precautions for children entering the factory, and the ten preparations for children entering the factory to find a partner.

Returning home, seeing the sneakers at the door, she knew Zhai Da was home and shouted:

"Xiao Da? Have you eaten dinner?"

There was no response from the room.

At this time, he shouldn't be sleeping, so Yu Xiaoli pushed open Zhai Da's bedroom door.

Just pushed it halfway, and saw Zhai Da facing the wardrobe, sweating profusely, eyes focused, wearing headphones and staring at the wardrobe.

Even his breathing was a bit rapid.

She didn't see clearly, and didn't dare to see clearly, so Yu Xiaoli silently closed the door.

After being silent for a while, she said to herself: "Sister Liu is right... Xiao Da is a big boy now, sometimes moms have to be both deaf and blind."

So she went to do her own thing.

Just like that, from three in the afternoon to twelve in the morning, Zhai Da was studying in one round after another.

Except for going to the bathroom and taking a shower, he didn't do anything else.

Even when Lu Wei sent him a message reporting that she had eaten seriously, Zhai Da didn't reply.

Gradually, he also realized that he seemed to have started to be affected.

Of course, it wasn't that kind of mindless "irrational addiction," but mixed with the idea of "the state is so good, ignore the system problem first, learn it first."

It was an addiction that could be "rationalized" by the brain.

This TV is interesting. Addiction +300% isn't the probability problem he guessed before, but a feeling of... accumulation.

At one o'clock in the morning, Zhai Da, who was in a dream, sat up abruptly.

"The tangent function angle is not straight, the cotangent function angle is not flat, so that's what it means... the cosine value is 0, causing the denominator to be 0..."

Zhai Da instinctively wanted to turn on the TV and start another round, but his hand reached out and then retracted.

Then he was silent for a long time.

"This isn't right! I opened the cheat to not work hard... this cheat made me even more tired.."

"Didn't I open this cheat for nothing?" ===== CHAPTER 25 =====