Hope Van Dyne

Chapter 13 Hope Van Dyne

"Chinese Kung Fu" was the third BGM Li Congxin awakened.

That day, Li Congxin had fought ten robbers alone in an alley. When he was injured on the forehead and his vision blurred with blood, he finally understood what Nalan Long had meant by "integrating kung fu into the little details of daily life."

Blood stained his pupils, and he suddenly grasped the essence!

At that moment, his state of mind simultaneously met the activation conditions for two BGMs. As a result, the superpowers he had not awakened in a long time actually awakened two at once.

One was "A Man Should Better Himself," which let him channel a grandmaster and instantly turn defeat into victory. The other was this "Chinese Kung Fu"!

"Chinese Kung Fu" enhanced his training methods, while "A Man Should Better Himself" strengthened his fighting methods.

Over the past half month, with the assistance of the two new BGMs, Li Congxin seemed to have suddenly become enlightened. Every time he practiced, he gained completely different insights, and his understanding and application of the Shaolin Twelve Road Tan Leg rose at rocket speed.

Even Mr. Nalan Long praised Li Congxin's transformation without restraint. He not only used the somewhat exaggerated phrase "you've become enlightened" to describe the change, but even personally set aside time to guide Li Congxin in martial arts, looking very much like he intended to pass on his true skills.

Li Congxin's strength was now worlds apart from what it had been half a month earlier. If he faced that group of street thugs again, he could easily beat them until they were crawling, even without activating a single BGM.

Time flew by during those fulfilling days. In the blink of an eye, another school year began, and Li Congxin once again walked through the school gates in high spirits, beginning his second year of high school.

When he stepped into the classroom, he unsurprisingly caused an uproar throughout the class.

"Who's that?"

"He's so handsome!"

"He's so muscular!"

There was no shortage of astonished exclamations, and Li Congxin also gained a huge wave of Impression Points in the process—several hundred in total.

Li Congxin now weighed seventy-five kilograms again. But what had grown this time was not fat. Instead, all his excess fat had been transformed into muscle. This made him look even more robust than he had before learning martial arts. Although he still could not compare with a professional bodybuilder like the Governor, he was already no less impressive than Marvel's Big Three.

He had gone from a round, chubby fat man to a massive muscular man over the course of a single summer vacation. When such a dramatic transformation appeared right before their eyes, few people could remain unmoved.

If this had happened in the Eastern Ancient Country before Li Congxin transmigrated, everyone might only have been secretly amazed and would not have shown it so openly.

But let's not forget—this was America.

Subtlety? It didn't exist!

Following the principle of "integrating martial arts into every detail of life," Li Congxin gave his classmates a friendly smile before quickly returning to his seat and sitting down firmly.

He moved like the wind and sat like a bell!

Even then, everyone's eyes remained fixed on the handsome, fit young man from the East. But after a moment, the boys looked away and went back to their own conversations. Compared with Li Congxin's successful weight loss and fitness transformation, they were more concerned with how the future plot of Doupo Cangqiong would develop.

Only the girls in the class were more interested in Li Congxin than in Doupo Cangqiong, and they kept sneaking glances in his direction. Besides that, there was also...

"Clark?" After Li Congxin had been seated for a while, Dave, sitting beside him, asked hesitantly.

Li Congxin turned his head. "What is it, Dave? Do you need something?"

"It really is you!?" Dave could hardly believe his eyes. "I knew you had been working out and losing weight, but I never imagined you could achieve this much in a month!"

Received 166 Impression Points from Dave Lizewski!

He had actually increased his Impression Points by so much in one go! Could it be that this guy...

Li Congxin sized up the guy before him again. He still looked familiar, still the same otaku who enjoyed "a pot of clear tea and a cup of wine." How could someone like this possibly provide him with more than a hundred Impression Points so easily?

Before this, among everyone Li Congxin had met, only Marcus had ever given him more than ten points in one go. Everyone else was about the same as Gorilla, never once giving him more than double-digit Impression Points at a time.

Yet this loser otaku before him had clearly only been slightly shocked. How could such a reaction produce so many Impression Points?

Could it be that this guy's destiny weight...

Wait!

Dave Lizewski!

That name sounded like it belonged to a character from the plot.

Looking at the guy's face again, could this person actually be the legendary, one-and-only weakest superhero—Kick-Ass?

"Clark?" Seeing Li Congxin staring blankly at him, Dave asked in confusion, "Is there something dirty on me?"

Li Congxin finally came back to his senses. "I was just thinking about something. As for what you said about my weight loss..." Li Congxin paused slightly before shrugging. "Nothing special. Just hard work."

Li Congxin's encouraging words brightened Dave's eyes, and he immediately seized the opportunity. "Clark, I heard that during summer vacation, besides working out and losing weight, you also learned Chinese Kung Fu. Where did you learn it? Could you introduce me? I'd like to learn too."

"No problem." Li Congxin had a fairly favorable impression of Dave, so he agreed readily. "After school starts, the martial arts school only has classes on Sunday afternoons. If you want to learn, come find me around noon this Saturday. I'll buy you lunch, and then we can go together in the afternoon."

At that moment, the classroom suddenly fell silent. It was the homeroom teacher, Kara, entering with her lesson plans.

A tall girl followed behind her. She looked about the same age as Li Congxin and the others, wore a standard school uniform, and had features that fit Western standards of beauty perfectly: a tall frame, broad bones, a square face, and thick lips... In short, she had the kind of appearance that completely failed to fit Li Congxin's aesthetic preferences.

"Good morning, everyone." While Li Congxin was observing the unfamiliar girl, homeroom teacher Kara had already begun speaking. "Today is the first day of the new school year. Welcome back, everyone. We also have a new student joining our class today. She's this beautiful girl beside me, Hope. Now, let's have Hope introduce herself."

At her words, the boys in the class immediately erupted into cheers and catcalls. Clearly, Hope's appearance suited the tastes of these lecherous boys quite well.

"Hello, everyone. My name is Hope Van Dyne. I'm from New Jersey. Starting today, I'll be a member of this class as well. I hope we can all get along."