Lying Flat 111

Lying Flat +1+1+1

To explain what academy missions were, one had to start with Dawn Academy's educational system.

First, Dawn Academy was not a charity.

Giving children in the apocalypse a chance to change their fate was already the greatest kindness.

Second, Dawn Academy received no government funding or charitable grants. All its funds had to be raised independently!

Why did Dawn Academy allow team investments? To put it bluntly, it had no money!

In order to cultivate more elites with limited resources, Dawn Academy adopted a brutal elimination system.

In just three months, Chu Fei's class had shrunk from twenty-seven students to ten. In the future, it would be reduced to only two or three.

Those who were eliminated were converted into value ahead of time—cannon fodder, industrial workers, and so on.

Then there were the few elites, such as Sun Xiangqing, Zhao Xiaofeng, Guo Xuan, and even Chu Fei himself. They were at a crucial stage of cultivation, and their demand for resources was limitless, while the academy's resources were limited. So how could the academy train its students?

Team investments could certainly solve part of the problem, but Dawn Academy could not rely entirely on teams. If it did, it would become a team's vassal.

Therefore, Dawn Academy had to possess its own financial system. One crucial part of that system was the Academy Mission System.

Furthermore, after one's Cultivation Level broke through 7.75, cramming and spoon-fed training methods became almost ineffective. Once learning reached a certain point, one needed "unity of knowledge and action"—one had to put it into practice.

As the old saying went, true knowledge came from practice.

At that point, aside from setting aside one day each week for classes, the academy required students to spend the rest of their time practicing—fighting and the like.

Grow through battle, acquire resources through battle.

The true elites would stand out from the crowd, while those who were not elite enough would either get battered bloody or voluntarily apply to step back and become technicians or the like.

And this practical system was the Academy Mission System.

At the end of the introduction, Sun Xiangqing summarized, "Take me as an example. Team investments are unreliable, but they generally meet thirty percent of my needs.

The academy's basic supplies cover roughly another twenty percent.

The remaining fifty percent has to be earned through missions.

But most importantly, missions are generally led by teachers or experienced people, and you can learn a great deal in the process.

After such training, even if you can't become a true Awakened, you'll still be among the best of the Semi-Awakened."

Chu Fei nodded slightly and asked, "Are these academy missions mandatory?"

"They aren't mandatory. But if you don't carry out missions, teams generally won't keep investing in you, and may even gradually cut your resources.

The final result is that no one forces you to do them, but you still have to grit your teeth and say, 'I like it.'"

Chu Fei thought for a moment and said, "In other words, if I had sufficient supplies, I could actually just lie flat?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Sun Xiangqing bared his teeth. "But according to Dawn Academy's current records, the average time needed to break through the Second Limit is ten months.

Ten months, three hundred days. You need at least three jin of mutated beast flesh every day to replenish what cultivation consumes, and even that's barely enough.

Even if calculated using low-grade mutated beast flesh at three jin a day, that would cost fifteen hundred yuan daily. Over three hundred days, that's four hundred and fifty thousand yuan!

If you don't do missions, where are you going to get that money?"

Chu Fei nodded slightly and fell somewhat silent.

Cultivation required resources. And what were resources? Money!

A penny could stump a hero, let alone four hundred and fifty thousand yuan, and that was calculated at the absolute minimum standard.

Four hundred and fifty thousand yuan. In this apocalypse, where one thousand yuan could buy a life, it was an unimaginable sum.

And that was only the minimum standard. If one truly cultivated all the way through, the cost would probably double.

If you didn't carry out academy missions, who would give you that much money?

Unless... you could break through quickly!

Chu Fei recalled the time he had received more than two hundred and forty thousand yuan in investment at once. The real bulk of it had been calculated with the formula 50n(n+1), amounting to two hundred and twenty-one thousand one hundred yuan!

Chu Fei quickly calculated, arriving at the result in an instant:

If he ate five jin of mutated beast flesh a day, calculated at a cost of twenty-five hundred yuan, then four weeks, or twenty-eight days, would cost seventy thousand yuan.

According to the Greedy Wolf Team's investment rules, using the formula 1000+50n(n+1) for a rough calculation, his Potential Index would have to improve by at least 0.067 each time!

"In other words, as long as my Potential Index increases by 0.067 during each physical examination every four weeks, I can rely entirely on the Greedy Wolf Team's additional investments and lie flat all the way to 7.8!

Adding in the basic supplies provided by the academy itself, it'll be more than enough."

Sun Xiangqing: ...

After thinking for a moment, Sun Xiangqing said leisurely, "There's a problem with your calculation. If you advance by 0.067 every time, you'll reach the Second Limit in three months.

That's the Second Limit. Do you really think it'll be that easy?"

Chu Fei calmed down. That seemed to make sense.

But that was a matter for the Second Update Stage, the gradual stage. For now, he should consider the First Update Stage—the current stage.

Chu Fei began calculating:

After this additional investment, he had nearly one hundred and sixty thousand yuan on hand.

He now needed to eat ten jin of Meat Porridge a day, which could be calculated at roughly five thousand yuan. Whatever fell short, he could make up by eating at the school cafeteria.

One hundred and sixty thousand yuan at five thousand yuan a day was enough for him to lie flat for a full month!

The human body's renewal period had one minor cycle every seven days and one major cycle every twenty-eight days~

That timing felt kind of strange.

But science had to follow the facts. There was no need to care about a few weird little issues.

In short, after calculating it out, Chu Fei believed that he could completely lie flat through the First Renewal Period.

After confirming that he had unknowingly prepared everything long ago, Chu Fei returned to his dormitory, removed the bedboard, placed it beneath the shade of a tree, and lay flat!!!

Summer had arrived, but the weather was not too hot yet.

Flying Tiger City seemed to have insect-repelling technology, and mosquitoes and other bugs were rare.

In short, the environment was friendly too. Reason to lie flat +1;

Cultivation issues made it necessary for him to lie flat. Reason to lie flat +1;

He had sufficient supplies, enough to support the First Renewal Period. Reason to lie flat +1;

Ever since arriving in the apocalypse, he had never gotten a proper rest, and he likely would not have much time to rest in the future. This was probably his only chance to rest. Reason to lie flat +1;

Oh, right. He had previously caused his Thought Model to collapse, and it needed to be rebuilt. Reason to lie flat +1;

What else was there? Making his classmates jealous? Forget it, he couldn't think of a reason. Reason to lie flat +1!

Warm sunlight filtered through the treetops and fell on Chu Fei, leaving him pleasantly warm.

His tightly wound mind suddenly relaxed. The rustling of leaves around him sounded like a lullaby, and Chu Fei gradually drifted off to sleep.

After an unknown amount of time, a swelling sensation surged through his abdomen. Chu Fei got up groggily and headed toward the restroom.

A few minutes later, he groggily made his way to the cafeteria. After eating and drinking his fill, he returned and continued lying flat.

Not until the sun was halfway below the horizon did Cao Liwen's large face appear above Chu Fei, silently looking down at him!

(The grades were failing, so there would be no recommendations. This was a book I'd been thinking about for over a year, and I was a little tired, reflecting on it. Also, year-end overtime and other reasons meant I would temporarily maintain one update per day.)