Bai Bufan was still somewhat human.

Except for the fact that all the license plate numbers in the VTCC series were fucking CCTV recordings, the other things were real.

I'll forgive him for now.

...

Friday.

It was only 3:50 AM when Lin Li was woken up by the sound of his alarm clock.

The sky was still dark, somewhat hazy. There were few clouds, which was understandable. The Boss hadn't gotten up to work yet.

The moon was still hanging in the sky, but its brightness was now indistinguishable from its surroundings. You couldn't even see it if you didn't look carefully.

Lin Li was very sleepy, but he didn't laze in bed at all. He got up immediately.

It's always easy to get up when you have motivation.

So far, Lin Li believed that the only meaningful improvement to his constitution was the 100% increase in his memory.

And today, being the last day of Mission One, his constitution was finally going to see a new and useful improvement. Getting up early would leave him with some leeway to deal with any other situations that might arise.

"But... this fifty percent increase in qi and blood, it's not going to raise my blood pressure, is it?" Lin Li, who was dressed and about to go downstairs, stopped in his tracks and muttered to himself with a frown.

If it really was his blood pressure that increased by 50%, by the time he confirmed this news, he could probably increase it by another 50% on top of that in a short period of time.

He would probably die then.

An ordinary person wouldn't need to think this way, but with his system, Lin Li really couldn't be at ease.

Lin Li had to speculate about this system with the greatest malice.

However, a person can't just not eat because they might choke on their food. The mission naturally had to be completed. But to be safe, it was better to make some preparations.

Lin Li found a blood pressure monitor at home, which his mother had been coaxed into buying during a door-to-door sales pitch. He also found a matching box of antihypertensive drugs. He checked the expiration date; it hadn't expired yet.

He first measured his current blood pressure with the monitor. It was normal. After recording the data, Lin Li went downstairs with the medicine.

It was too early now. The community park was far from being as lively as before. As Lin Li walked, he only saw a few elderly people who were up early to buy vegetables or breakfast. As for people exercising, there were none.

At the old spot, Little Zhou was naturally not there either.

But his presence or absence didn't affect his training.

[For one consecutive week, rise before the hour of Mao (5-7 a.m.) and diligently practice the Eight-Section Body Tempering exercise for a cumulative total of at least half a shichen (one hour) before the hour of Chen (7-9 a.m.). (7/7)]

[Mission One completed.]

[You have obtained a constitution improvement: Qi and Blood increased by 50%; System Currency *100]

When the system's reward notification came, Lin Li suddenly felt a little dizzy. His vision went black, and he almost lost his balance.

System, I'll fucking praise you to the heavens! You're really doing it!

You don't listen to a single one of my good expectations, but the moment I say something bad, it comes true?

However, Lin Li didn't rashly take the medicine. When he looked down, he noticed that his exposed hands and feet seemed to be turning red. High blood pressure shouldn't cause this.

So he quickly grabbed the water cup he had brought with him and ran back home.

He'd go home first.

"Lin Li? Why are you here so early today?" Zhou Youwei, who had arrived at the old spot, saw Lin Li running towards his entrance and asked in surprise.

Lin Li waved his hand, having no time to answer, and ran around Zhou Youwei, continuing towards his home.

Zhou Youwei watched as Lin Li ran back to his residential building, his face full of confusion.

What's going on?

Why did he come so early and leave so early?

Zhou Youwei's expression narrowed slightly. This kid was being sneaky. After being seen by him, he had a look of panic and fear, almost as if "there's a trap" was written all over his face.

Without a doubt.

There was a trap.

Zhou Youwei arrived at the old spot but didn't start practicing. Instead, he vigilantly surveyed his surroundings.

This time, Lin Li wouldn't be able to frame him!

...

Lin Li ran all the way home and sat down on the sofa.

The dizziness in his head had begun to subside, but his body was still red.

Lin Li began to measure his blood pressure again.

It was a little higher than before, but within the normal range. It was more like the fluctuation after his exercise rather than a result of the system.

Lin Li relaxed a little, threw the medicine he was holding to the side, got up and went to the bathroom, took off his clothes, and looked at his truly "red-hot" self.

A teenager's blush is better than any love confession. Right now, he was covered in seductive words.

Lin Li propped his hands on the sink and breathed slowly.

His head was no longer dizzy.

The soreness in his limbs, he didn't know if it was from the exercise, was beginning to fade.

After standing still for a few more minutes, he saw that the unnatural redness on his body was also starting to fade.

"So, was all that discomfort just now because my body hadn't adapted to the 50% increase in qi and blood yet?"

Lin Li could feel a faint change in his body. It was as mysterious as after cultivating the even-numbered sections with spirit stones, but the two focused on different things. But if you asked him to say exactly where the change was now, Lin Li couldn't say.

He felt... more energetic?

But he could probably be sure that this increase in qi and blood would bring benefits to him in the modern world.

"Stamina? Vigor? Health?"

But it had nothing to do with yang qi.

He could only wait and feel it out later. With a 50% increase, he would definitely be able to feel it very clearly later. Lin Li wasn't in a hurry.

Now, Lin Li looked at the system.

[Seven days have passed in a flash. Your skin and hair can already feel its power. The road ahead is clear. Keep up the good work, and do not stop here.]

[Mission triggered!]

[Mission One: For one consecutive month, rise before the hour of Mao (5-7 a.m.) and diligently practice the Eight-Section Body Tempering exercise for a cumulative total of at least half a shichen (one hour) before the hour of Chen (7-9 a.m.).]

[Reward: Constitution Improvement: Overall Recovery Ability increased by 50%, Qi and Blood increased by 50%; Low-grade Spirit Stones *20; System Currency *150]

[Overall Recovery Ability: Includes various recoverable values such as stamina, mental power, hematopoiesis, internal energy, libido, mana, mecha endurance, etc.]

This was a new mission that was activated when he completed the previous one. He had just been preoccupied and was only looking at it now.

"..."

The reward was very good.

Just the 20 spirit stones were enough to make Lin Li happy.

But in the description of this overall recovery ability, was there something strange mixed in?

Was his CD going to be halved in the future?

A person doesn't have much time to be a sage in their life, and it's going to be reduced even further?

Hehe.

Looking forward to it.

"Worthy of the name 'overall', it's truly overall."

Just the ability to accelerate the recovery of stamina and mental power was enough to show its value.

It was a pity that the mission required too much time. It would take a whole month to complete.

"Sigh, one mission after another. I have to get up before five every day. If the system keeps this up, I'll never get to sleep in in my life..." Lin Li suddenly stopped talking.

This was not something to be said lightly. There were many dialects in Xiling Town, and Minnan was one of them. Lin Li understood a little of the cursing words in it.

To ask what "sleeping in" means in Minnan, if you've watched Gan Lingniang's Wang Lei live stream, you should remember another word besides Zhu Zhenyi—"lan pa" (lazy dick).

The two are similar.

And the pronunciation of "sleep" in Minnan is similar to the meaning of "wash".

"I still have a lazy dick, and I can wash it," Lin Li said as such.

...

While Lin Li was not red-hot, Zhou Youwei was.

He had done nothing this morning, not even Tai Chi. He had been looking for the trap Lin Li had set.

He searched for a whole hour.

He even found all the dog shit in the bushes, one by one. Zhang Fang, who witnessed all of this, even came to ask him if he wanted to join the community's poop-scooping team.

None of this dog shit was fresh, so it probably wasn't Lin Li's doing.

It seemed Lin Li really hadn't left a trap.

But that was impossible!

No one understood Lin Li better than Zhou Youwei.

Zhou Youwei, who was in a brainstorm, suddenly opened his eyes wide. Heh, he understood.

"Lin Li's plan was to make me think he had left a trap, when in fact there was no trap, to make me fall into anxiety and fear!"

The more Zhou Youwei thought about it, the more he felt it was so.

This child was truly sinister to the extreme!

"I'm not anxious or afraid at all!"

After muttering to himself arrogantly, Zhou Youwei, having found the 'answer', finally walked home with satisfaction.

...

The benefits of the increased qi and blood were quickly felt by Lin Li.

On his way over on his bicycle, he could very clearly feel that the duration he could sustain pedaling at full strength was longer than before.

After the fatigue from his morning practice had completely dissipated, he felt that after resting, his whole body was full of inexhaustible energy.

His endurance was much stronger than before.

But the changes brought by the qi and blood were definitely not limited to this.

Because his spirit and energy had also visibly improved. When he went out, he found that the faint dark circles that had accumulated during this period had disappeared because of it.

The coating on his tongue had also become a healthier pink.

—His kidneys seemed to have benefited from this improvement as well.

Yay!

It was a pity that the sleepiness hadn't disappeared. After all, he had gotten up too early today.

The imposing Lin Li entered directly through the main entrance this time and met the gaze of Wang Ze, who was looking at the door.

Yesterday's grudge, perhaps today was the time for revenge.

So Lin Li sneered, "Wang Ze, my divine skill is complete. I have become a new sports student. You, get out here and fight me one-on-one. After today, there can only be one sports student in our Class 4!"

"I voluntarily withdraw from this sports student title competition," Wang Ze first raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, then looked to the left and shouted, "But, Xie Wenjing, Lin Li said that only one of you can live."

Half of the left guardian's head peeked out from behind the teacher's desk, her eyes meeting Lin Li's.

Xie Wenjing, female, left guardian, sports student, her special recruitment event was the shot put.

Although not as exaggerated as Ne Zha from 'Ten Thousand Cold Jokes', her biceps were indeed bigger than Lin Li's.

Me fighting Xie Wenjing? For real?

Lin Li laughed, sneering at Wang Ze's cowardice and weakness, which had disgraced the name of a sports student. He himself laughed while backing out of the front door of the classroom, not forgetting to close the door before he left.

After distributing the breakfast, Lin Li asked Bai Bufan about the progress of the task he had entrusted to him yesterday.

"What did everyone say?"

"In our dorm, everyone except Tianming was successfully persuaded. As for Tianming, his reason is that he just went to Pingjiang Paradise with his family last year. Because he's a bit timid, he didn't dare to play many of the rides and didn't find it very interesting. And the amusement park takes up a large part of the Class President's travel plan, so he doesn't want to go.

The dorm next door, Wang Ze's, was also won over. Only Haoyang still said he wouldn't go. He just wants to be a shut-in and thinks going out is too much trouble," Bai Bufan said. "Lin Li, I've already tried my best, even sold my ass, to persuade so many people to change their minds. The remaining two can only be left to you. Don't threaten me anymore."

Persuading familiar people to go out together was actually quite simple.

The reason most of them had said they wouldn't go before was because other familiar people didn't seem to be going either.

And once someone changed their mind and started lobbying others, the effect was so significant:

"If XX goes, I'll go too.", "XX and I are both going, you're not going?", "XX said if you go, he'll go!", "XX said he's going."

When Bai Bufan and Lin Li confirmed they were going, some people were willing to go, and then it continued to snowball, until now, when most of them were willing to go.

"Fine, I'll go talk to them at noon," Lin Li nodded upon hearing this. This result was already pretty good.

"Your personal charm isn't as strong as mine. Can you win them over?" Bai Bufan was slightly disdainful.

"I have a hypnosis app," Lin Li replied with equal disdain.

"Tell me more about the hypnosis app. If it's useful, download one for me too," although Bai Bufan knew that Lin Li's mouth couldn't spit out ivory, he still couldn't hold back his curiosity.

A time-stopping pocket watch, a hypnosis app, who could refuse these things? One look and they'd be speechless.

Once you get it, you might be Careful Superman at first, but later you'll completely become Happy Superman.

"You've already downloaded it," Lin Li showed a profound smile.

"Huh? What app?"

"Alipay."

Bai Bufan: "?"

"I saw a rich guy show this app to his female companion at the mall last time. His female companion was hypnotized, her eyes filled with love, and she was completely obedient to the rich guy," Lin Li said seriously.

Bai Bufan: "..."

Don't say it, you really shouldn't say it.

Bai Bufan found that he couldn't refute it.

(End of Chapter)