F-class

The result of the competition came out quickly. Su Li became the champion by an overwhelming margin. No matter how unwilling the others were, there was nothing they could do.

The gap was simply too obvious. They could not even pull any underhanded tricks.

However, Su Li winning the championship was not necessarily a bad thing in some ways.

Su Li was a student at Donghai University. Normally speaking, he was just there to make up the numbers. Yet this makeweight had won the competition through absolute strength.

Most importantly, he had won a prize of one hundred thousand yuan!

With such a dramatic twist, if it was promoted properly, it might attract even more interest and perhaps bring greater attention to the competition!

"Mr. Su Li, may I ask whether you've ever participated in a glutton competition before?"

"Not really!"

"Mr. Su Li, may I ask..."

"..."

Even with his extraordinary strength, Su Li had to expend considerable effort before finally escaping the extremely enthusiastic host and several minor reporters.

Afterward, Su Li hurriedly left the scene with a check whose taxes had not yet been paid.

On the way, Su Li sent Xia Ke a message, then finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Su Li had originally wanted to chat with Xia Ke a little longer, but because of him, "Misty Rain Summer Wind" had also attracted quite a bit of attention. As the owners of "Misty Rain Summer Wind," Xia Ke and Xia's Father had naturally caught the attention of a whole bunch of reporters and tabloids.

Moreover, unlike Su Li, who found those people troublesome, Xia's Father was eager for his restaurant to get more exposure!

Now that he had accepted an interview, he might even post about it on his Moments and Weibo later. Every possible publicity channel would certainly be used!

So Su Li could only leave on his own for now!

"The Resource Points only increased by eight. Is this Blue Screen really that intelligent? Did it automatically deduct the money I need to pay in taxes?" After looking at the Resource Points balance on the Blue Screen, Su Li rubbed his chin and calculated briefly before confirming one thing.

After receiving the prize money, his Resource Points had indeed increased, but the increase had been based on the after-tax amount.

"Tsk, forget it. I'll level up first!"

Muttering to himself, Su Li shook his head and walked toward the nearby bus stop.

He had gone to the western suburbs last time, so he would go to the eastern suburbs this time!

After Su Li won the competition, for the next day and a half, aside from attending a few classes at school, he spent most of his time at the various gas stations in Donghai City. He barely even visited the Virtual Universe.

With thirty thousand yuan, Su Li gradually bought nearly five thousand liters of diesel and drank it all.

Finally, without anything unexpected happening, his F- progress reached one hundred percent!

Real Universe, Donghai City, behind a certain protective forest in the southern suburbs!

After taking one last look at the information on the Blue Screen, Su Li suddenly poured a large bucket of diesel into his mouth.

Once the diesel entered his body, his Talent automatically displayed its powerful digestive ability. In only a short while, a surge of energy appeared inside Su Li's body.

The energy was not great, but to Su Li, whose body was already saturated with energy, it was of critical importance.

Su Li used Infinite Star Sea to guide this wisp of energy, gradually merging it into his body.

A moment later—

Boom!

It was like an explosion, yet also like nothing had happened at all. At that moment, Su Li sensed that he had changed.

Whoosh!

Su Li moved, and in the next instant, his figure appeared silently on the other side of the protective forest.

"Is this the change brought by F-class? My strength hasn't increased much—at most by fifty percent—but my body has become countless times lighter. Before, I could also erupt with this kind of speed, but that relied on forcibly bursting out with immense strength. Now, this speed has become instinctive..."

As he sensed the changes in himself, Su Li muttered to himself. After a moment, he opened the Blue Screen—

Name: Su Li

Location: Real Universe-Donghai City-Northern Southern Suburbs

Rank: F (1%)

Talent: Eat (Everything you can see is your food)

Shop: Unlocked

Resource Points: 12

PS: Population, land, wealth—everything you possess can be converted into Resource Points.

Missions:

"Grolar Chapter"—Become a Superhuman and continue advancing along the Path of Superpowers. At each stage of the mission, you can obtain some Resource Points.

"Primal Chapter"—Slaughter. The meaning of life lies in slaughter. Amid endless slaughter, you will continue to obtain Resource Points.

"Sure enough, I've reached F-class, but this is only the beginning. It's still far from enough!"

Having witnessed the strength of the Cloud-Devouring Python, Su Li naturally would not feel satisfied with this tiny achievement.

Fortunately, Primal Star was almost finished cooling down, and Su Li still had more than half of the prize money from the Donghai Glutton King. His advancement speed should explode again in the short term!

After advancing to F-class, Su Li drank diesel outside for a while longer, raising his level progress by one percent.

He discovered that advancing F-class by one percent required roughly twice as much energy as advancing F-. In other words, for Su Li to break through from F-class to F+, he would probably need to drink ten thousand liters of diesel.

Converted into yuan, that would be sixty-five thousand yuan.

Strictly speaking, money was not a problem. Su Li still had enough left!

However, he was not planning to rely solely on drinking diesel to level up. Getting tired of the taste was one reason. After all, ten thousand liters of diesel was truly an astronomical amount!

Besides, Primal Star would finish cooling down tonight, and he had yet to use the one-handed sword or the Speedy Food Processor he had bought on Gorol Star!

When Su Li returned to the dormitory, Zhang Yu and Zheng Hongyu were both hunched over the computer, looking at something with great interest.

As for Zhao Shengkai... there was no way that guy would be in the dormitory right now. At this hour, he was either studying or trying to hit on some new female underclassman in one of the clubs!

"What are you two looking at?"

Su Li walked over and asked curiously.

"Good stuff!"

Zheng Hongyu answered instinctively. A moment later, he realized that Su Li had returned.

"Boss Su Li, you're finally back!"

"Uh..."

"Big brother, we all know about it—the Donghai Glutton King!" Zhang Yu turned around and reminded him.

"Ahem, that was an accident!" Su Li did not know what to say. He had been busy leveling up these past two days and had not even had time to tell his roommates about such a major event.

"How about this? I still have something to take care of these next few days. I'll treat you all in a couple of days!" Su Li added. "You can choose the place!"

"Oh, I heard you won one hundred thousand yuan. You really have become a rich man now!"

Seeing how generous Su Li was, Zheng Hongyu and Zhang Yu exchanged a glance before saying, "We already have a place in mind. It's just an ordinary Western restaurant. But you can't regret it when the time comes!"

"Fine."

"Hehe, then it's settled!"

"Yeah!" Su Li nodded, then remembered what had happened earlier and asked, "By the way, what were you looking at just now?"

"Of course it's good stuff!"

As Zheng Hongyu spoke, he stood up and gave his seat to Su Li, gesturing for him to look for himself.

"What is it? Why are you being so mysterious? Don't tell me it's porn?" Driven by curiosity, Su Li sat down, took the mouse, and browsed the website on Zheng Hongyu's computer.

A moment later—

Su Li stood up expressionlessly, quickly stripped off, and climbed into bed, preparing to sleep—or rather, preparing to enter the Virtual Universe!

As for what Zheng Hongyu had shown him...

The website was called Evolutionary Home. Its name sounded rather like an organization from some anime, but the site contained various unusual incidents that had occurred around the world recently, all of which could be linked to superhumans.

According to insiders cited by the website, humanity's path of evolution had entered another period of explosive growth, and the evolutionary tide was about to begin...

Yet this website was obviously so untrustworthy. Who knew why Zheng Hongyu and Zhang Yu found it so fascinating?

Perhaps they had been poisoned by that Professor Lin?

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