"You're jealous of others because you're useless yourselves. With so many bricks, do you really think you can finish moving them all?! He's only doing this part-time, not coming every day. Stop filling your heads with all that nonsense."
"Get those stupid ideas out of your heads, or none of you need to come back!"
Liu Dezhu had somehow appeared behind them. When he heard that they wanted to extort Lin Fan, he immediately began cursing furiously.
"Get back to moving bricks. Anyone who doesn't want to work can get lost right now!"
"You spend all day refusing to think of anything good and cooking up all sorts of schemes!"
Amid Liu Dezhu's barrage of curses, the workers scattered in a panic, not daring to say another word.
If they went "porcelain bumping" now, that really would mean there was something wrong with their heads. Besides, they had never actually intended to do it. Someone had merely brought it up...
After cursing the workers away, Liu Dezhu turned once more toward Lin Fan, who was having the time of his life moving bricks. His mouth twisted and his eyes bulged, while his whole body nearly trembled apart.
"This kid... Did he eat a Great Strength Pill? He's crazy, crazy."
"Huh?!!!"
Originally, seeing Lin Fan carry five bricks at once had been enough to leave Liu Dezhu shocked to the point of trembling. But at this moment, Lin Fan directly picked up ten!!!
"Fuck!"
Liu Dezhu's eyeballs nearly popped out.
What the hell... ten?!
Wasn't that close to eight hundred pounds?! Was this something a human being could do? Even the world's strongest men might not be able to manage it, right?!
The key was that even if someone could do it, they would have a physique comparable to King Kong. But what about Lin Fan? He was clearly just a slender young man!
He could hold back no longer. After Lin Fan finished carrying that load, he called out to him.
"Little Lin..."
"Brother Zhu?" Lin Fan looked completely innocent, while inwardly... he was incredibly excited.
Carrying ten bricks at once hadn't even pushed him to his limit! In other words, if he used all his strength to lift with both arms, he probably had over a thousand pounds of strength?!
Then what about the power of his full-strength punches?!
If he ran into those "few punks" again, he could casually punch them so hard they'd shit themselves. If he didn't, they could count themselves lucky they had clean bowels!
At this moment, Liu Dezhu's legs were trembling.
"What... what's going on with you?"
"Uh."
Lin Fan immediately realized what was happening. He smiled and said, "It's nothing. I'm doing pretty well. I'm just a little stronger than most people. But you know I come from the countryside. I don't have much else, but I do have a fair bit of strength."
Liu Dezhu: "(⊙o⊙)..."
What the hell did he mean, he came from the countryside and simply had a fair bit of strength?
Who hadn't come from the countryside?! Why didn't I have strength like that?! Forget not having it—even looking at it is enough to make me tremble, all right?!
He was practically shaking as he spoke. "You... aren't you going to be taken to the Abnormal Human Research Center for study?"
Of course, Liu Dezhu had no idea whether this center actually existed. He merely wanted to use the joke to ease the atmosphere.
Yeah... mainly because he was scared out of his wits!
If he provoked Lin Fan and got hit by him, wouldn't he instantly have to kneel on the ground and beg me not to die?
But the key issue wasn't whether he would kneel. It was that I would definitely be the one kneeling!
How could Liu Dezhu not be afraid?
But then he realized he probably shouldn't have made that joke.
Because Lin Fan was stroking his chin and nodding thoughtfully, while his eyes repeatedly swept over Liu Dezhu from head to toe...
Oh, crap?
He couldn't be thinking about silencing me to prevent me from being taken away for research, could he?
Just then, Lin Fan spoke.
"Brother Zhu, what you said makes a lot of sense..."
Lin Fan wanted to curse himself as an idiot.
He had been too focused on testing his strength, and on top of that, he had been far too excited to think about hiding it...
And now look at him. More than a dozen people had seen it. If there was no evidence, like if nobody had recorded a video, then it probably wouldn't be a big problem. But what if someone had?
It would be a miracle if the strength he had displayed didn't attract serious attention.
So he made a decision.
"I can't come to move bricks anymore."
No more coming!
It wasn't that he didn't want to earn money. On the contrary, with his current efficiency, Lin Fan estimated that he could make two or three thousand a day. How could that money not be tempting? It was incredibly tempting.
The problem was that he couldn't draw too much attention to himself!
And because of what had just happened, he felt that, to be cautious, he shouldn't come back again.
Although the Abnormal Human Research Center Liu Dezhu had mentioned might not exist, Lin Fan firmly believed that organizations like it did exist!
He had only just gained a little strength. Getting watched by those organizations or departments now would clearly be the height of stupidity.
So he was destined never to return here.
Even if he "lay low" afterward and didn't reveal his strength, he had already exposed himself here once. If he continued working here, plenty of people would still keep an eye on him.
"..."
"Won't you think it over?" Liu Dezhu suddenly felt rather regretful.
Such a good super "brick-moving expert," and he wasn't coming back just like that?
But the moment the words left his mouth, he wanted to slap himself hard. He forced out a smile that looked worse than crying.
"I think you're quite suited to this line of work..."
"Maybe, but I'll be rather busy from now on, so I really can't come anymore."
Lin Fan was helpless as well.
If he went all out, he could earn tens of thousands a month moving bricks.
What a pity. It was impossible.
"That really is a shame."
Liu Dezhu breathed a sigh of relief inwardly, but his face was full of regret. "Still, everyone has their own ambitions. You're a graduate student, after all. You'll have a brighter future and a broader world ahead of you!"
"All right, I'll settle your payment..."
Liu Dezhu took out some money.
The moment Lin Fan saw it, he understood.
So he didn't want me to stay either?
"That makes sense... After all, the existence of an 'abnormal human' like me could easily cause all kinds of trouble."
"But how am I supposed to make money from now on?"
Sigh!!!
After leaving the construction site and boarding the bus, Lin Fan felt the few hundred yuan in his pocket.
"I have to find a new way to make money as soon as possible. I wonder how much money I have left. That spendthrift Tigress couldn't have blown through all the money on my phone these past few days, could she?"
Thinking of this, Lin Fan opened his payment app and glanced at his balance.
"Just over five hundred?"
He casually glanced at it and looked away. "Looks like that spendthrift Tigress didn't spend much this time... Wait!"
He suddenly realized that something was wrong.
Lin Fan looked at the balance again, and his mouth slowly fell open.
"Units, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten-thousands..."
"Over fifty thousand three hundred yuan?!!!"
"This..."
Lin Fan was instantly dumbfounded!
When did I get this rich? Even I didn't know I had this much money!
"Did she do this?!"
Lin Fan quickly realized that it was the only possible explanation!
"But how did she make fifty thousand in three days?!"
"Could she have robbed someone?!"
His entire body instantly went cold...
The first time, she had only stolen food. This time, she had committed robbery?!
Otherwise, there was no way she could have made money so quickly!
No, that wasn't right!
Suddenly, Lin Fan's heart shuddered.
There was another possibility.
Could it be...
"The Tigress didn't want to work hard anymore, so she used my body to service some rich lady or something...?!"