Chapter 9 - You're So Young to Go to That Kind of Place?
"Beep beep beep - beep beep beep-"
The alarm clock rang five times, and Mom Zheng Qiuling's wake-up call rang three times.
Lu Yuan finally struggled to get out of bed with great difficulty.
"It's worse than I expected,"
Lu Yuan sat on the edge of the bed, with a helpless expression on his face.
What would be the consequences if someone who has long lacked physical exercise suddenly engages in retaliatory body training one day?
You can tell just by looking at Lu Yuan now.
Lu Yuan felt that there wasn't a single part of his body that didn't hurt. He even had to spare one hand to hold onto the mirror on the sink while brushing his teeth.
If today wasn't Monday, he really wanted to just lie in bed all day.
Breakfast was rice porridge, steamed buns, youtiao (fried dough sticks), and two boiled eggs.
Lu Yuan ate slowly.
The morning prep for school that usually took fifteen minutes took over half an hour today.
Fortunately, after eating breakfast and moving his limbs around, his condition improved slightly when he went downstairs with his schoolbag.
At least it was much better than when he first got out of bed.
Lu Yuan had originally planned to jog to school this morning, but clearly that was not going to happen now. He already had a hard time just walking, plus he didn't have enough time.
So he just took a taxi to school, which was a rare luxury.
Perhaps because the driver saw that Lu Yuan was a student in high school and this was an important time for studying.
The taxi driver drove extremely fast all the way.
Despite it being rush hour, Lu Yuan actually arrived at school five minutes earlier than usual.
"Lu Yuan!"
As soon as Lu Yuan walked into the classroom, a figure rushed up to him like an arrow.
"You're finally here."
Cheng Peng said as he tried to take Lu Yuan's schoolbag off his back, "Quick, quick, give me your homework to copy."
"What's in it for me?"
Lu Yuan deliberately teased him as he shielded his schoolbag in front of his chest.
Cheng Peng glanced at the digital clock right above the lectern and urged, "Anything! Please, bro, hurry up, there are only fifteen minutes until self-study starts."
"Two meals, the best kind."
"Okay, okay!"
Cheng Peng nodded his head like a pecking chick, and only then did Lu Yuan satisfyingly take out his homework from his schoolbag.
Cheng Peng snatched it and didn't even bother to go back to his own seat. He sat down next to Lu Yuan and started writing furiously.
The black ballpoint pen in his hand was like a frenzied snake that could not be captured as it moved.
"Cheng Peng, go back to your own seat to copy, this is my seat."
A bespectacled fat boy tried to pull Cheng Peng up.
Cheng Peng glanced at him without stopping his writing, "Did you finish all your homework?"
"What's it to you?"
The fat boy retorted unpleasantly.
"Let me sit for a while, go find whoever's homework you need."
Cheng Peng slapped Lu Yuan's stack of exercise books and test papers in front of the fat boy.
The fat boy was stunned for a moment, then looked at Lu Yuan. Seeing that Lu Yuan had no reaction, he quickly pulled out two books from the pile of homework and started copying as well.
After copying for a while, it seemed like he thought of something. "Oh wait, we'll all have the same answers, won't the teacher notice? Forget it, I won't copy."
"Idiot, can't you intentionally get some wrong to avoid the correct answers?"
Cheng Peng scolded him, and the fat boy suddenly realized.
"Oh right, how did I not think of that?"
"Hand in your physics and chemistry homework! Cheng Peng, you're the only one left in group four who hasn't handed it in yet."
A girl holding a stack of test papers yelled from the lectern.
"Wait, almost done.
Hey, self-study hasn't even started yet, why are you in such a hurry to collect homework?"
Monday mornings are definitely the liveliest.
No. 4 High School is not a key high school in Jiaoyan City, and Class 3 is just an ordinary class. Students like Cheng Peng are not uncommon.
There was a time when Lu Yuan was also one of these people.
Then one day, he suddenly jumped out.
Lu Yuan took out his foreign language textbook and randomly flipped to a page, spreading it out in front of him.
His eyes seemed to be staring at the textbook, but what he was actually looking at was his Profession Panel.
[Fighter lv1 (35/100)]
[Basic Profession Skills: Beginner Body Tempering lv1 (71/100)
Basic Boxing lv1 (53/100)]
Last night's intense training caused his Beginner Body Tempering to skyrocket nearly fifty experience points.
His profession experience also increased by over twenty points, marked improvement indeed.
"Profession experience has reached thirty-five points already, just sixty-five points away from reaching lv2.
Including the time needed for my body to recover, one week should be enough."
"[Student] lv3 to lv4, will also probably take about a week."
"When both classes level up, I'll get two free attribute points and two skill points.
At that time, my overall strength will undergo a huge transformation!"
At this stage, Lu Yuan no longer plans to spend any more attribute points or skill points on the [Student] Profession and Intelligence attribute. He intends to use the benefits obtained from the [Student] Profession panel to support his martial arts training for now.
For him, [Student] has become a side profession now, while [Fighter] is the main profession instead.
This has led him to develop a new leveling strategy -
"If I can unlock several side profession panels and use them to support one main profession, then the main profession's improvement speed will be very fast!"
Because no matter what profession, the early levels are the easiest, and obtaining attribute points and skill points is also relatively easy.
He just doesn't know the unlocking conditions for new profession panels yet, needs to research it more, and he hasn't thought of any suitable new profession identities for himself at the moment.
"Ding ling ling-"
Accompanied by the piercing ring of the bell, Fourth Senior High School's morning self-study began.
The noisy sounds of foreign language recitation echoed out from every classroom, signaling the start of a new week.
Morning classes were languages, math, physics and chemistry.
Naturally they were all "instances for grinding experience" for Lu Yuan under the effect of [Absolute Focus].
After eating lunch at the cafeteria and a brief lunch break, there were another four classes in the afternoon.
It wasn't until 5:45pm that the day's learning tasks were fully completed.
"School's finally over, I'm dead tired from today."
Cheng Peng complained to Lu Yuan as he trudged on the tree-lined path on campus with his schoolbag, "I always feel like Mondays are the most tiring, time passes so slowly too, it's agonizing."
Lu Yuan was too lazy to respond to him. Compared to how tired Cheng Peng felt, classes were much more relaxing for him than martial arts training.
Under the effect of [Absolute Focus], forty-five minutes of profession time flew by in a flash.
Moving around in the hallway outside the classroom during the ten minute breaks between classes, he actually felt much better than when he first arrived at school in the morning.
At least his body didn't hurt like it did in the morning anymore.
"Right, wanna go to the martial arts school?"
Cheng Peng suddenly perked up and asked Lu Yuan, "I'll let you train for two hours then go home."
Lu Yuan hesitated and shook his head. "I'll pass today.
I overdid my solo training at home yesterday, my whole body still aches."
"No wonder I saw you walking weirdly all day, I thought your hemorrhoids were acting up! Didn't dare ask in the classroom."
Cheng Peng had a sudden realization.
"Piss off!"
"Haha joking."
Cheng Peng came over and put his arm around Lu Yuan's shoulder, thought for a bit, and said, "Considering you let me copy your homework every week, bro I'll bleed myself dry today and take you somewhere.
Guaranteed you'll feel refreshed afterwards, and your body won't hurt at all."
Hearing this, Lu Yuan immediately widened his eyes, as if seeing Cheng Peng for the first time.
"Cheng Peng, you're so young, and you go to that kind of place?
Don't make me tell your mom."
"???"