Eating and a Leisurely Life

Eating and a Leisurely Life

Inside the hot pot restaurant.

"Phew—"

Chen Sheng, drenched in sweat, leaned back in his chair under the astonished gazes of the waitstaff.

This meal had taken him nearly two hours to finish every last dish.

His belly was round and bloated, making it somewhat difficult to breathe.

But Chen Sheng knew that if he wanted to rapidly improve his physical fitness, eating large amounts was essential.

It would be better to get used to it sooner rather than later.

After resting for quite a while longer, he slowly rose from his seat.

The meal had cost three hundred yuan in total.

Considering how many plates of meat Chen Sheng had ordered, it was not expensive.

After lunch, Chen Sheng did not head straight home. Instead, he went to a drink shop and ordered a lemon tea.

He sat by the roadside, drinking tea and basking in the sun as he watched pedestrians come and go.

It was incredibly pleasant.

Two hours later, when he felt that the food had initially digested and his stamina had fully recovered, Chen Sheng finally left the drink shop.

He was going to run home.

With Chen Sheng's current stamina, it should be enough to raise his Constitution attribute again.

But before running, there was one more thing he needed to do.

Chen Sheng

Strength: 0.87

Agility: 0.92

Constitution: 0.92

Skills: Limitless Body, Breathing, Swimming, Running.

Skill Points: 0.09

He had never looked into what Skill Points were used for before.

Recalling what Brother Qiang had said today about how exercise required the right methods as well,

he decided to experiment.

Running: 2/50

He found the Running skill and focused his attention on the words.

The next second, his Skill Points changed from 0.09 to 0.04.

It seemed that 0.01 Skill Points equaled 10 proficiency points.

The skill representing Running changed as well.

Running: LvMax

A stream of information suddenly flooded into his mind.

In an instant, Chen Sheng understood everything about running and integrated it into his instincts.

"So this is what skills do."

For the cost of just 0.05 Skill Points, he had automatically mastered the optimal running posture and breathing technique.

Unfortunately, the panel seemed to display only skills related to the body.

Otherwise, Chen Sheng could have picked up a Nobel Prize or something while working out.

Still, this was enough.

Chen Sheng loosened up his limbs on the spot.

Then he started running toward home.

When he had gone out that morning, he had only run for ten minutes—just over a kilometer—and had nearly collapsed.

Chen Sheng wanted to see how much progress he had made after a day of training.

Ten minutes.

Chen Sheng had already run over a kilometer.

The morning version of him would have been exhausted by now.

But now, Chen Sheng only felt slightly short of breath.

Fifteen minutes.

He had covered over two kilometers.

By then, Chen Sheng's breathing had started to grow labored.

Running on the road really was much more taxing than running in a gym.

Twenty minutes.

He had covered nearly three kilometers.

Chen Sheng felt that eighty or ninety percent of his stamina was gone.

His speed had clearly slowed as well.

But he had no intention of stopping.

It was not like the gym, where he needed to conserve his stamina for strength training.

He could rest after he ran out of energy.

With that, Chen Sheng gritted his teeth and continued running forward.

Twenty-five minutes.

With his stamina completely depleted, Chen Sheng sat down by the roadside without a care for his appearance.

His face was pale, but his expression was delighted.

As for why—

Of course, it was because his Constitution attribute had risen by another 0.01. Feeling his stamina rapidly recover, Chen Sheng decided that after a short rest, he would set off once more.

Even if his attributes did not necessarily rise again, it was never wrong to accumulate more progress.

Two hours later.

Chen Sheng finally returned home.

As for why it had taken so long,

it was because he had alternated between walking and running along the way. When he got hungry again, he stopped at the Sha County Snacks near his home for a small extra meal.

Clearly, the increase in his attributes did not come from nowhere. It came from rapidly converting the nutrients in Chen Sheng's body.

Once he understood that,

Chen Sheng looked at the forty-two thousand yuan remaining in his savings and felt they were in grave danger.

"Forget it. I'll use it for now."

"I'll figure out how to earn more when it runs out."

He comforted himself, then immediately went to the bathroom for a cold shower when he got home.

Ten minutes later.

Chen Sheng lay in bed, feeling waves of exhaustion wash over him like a tide.

He instinctively closed his eyes.

By the time the ringing of his phone woke him, the sky had already darkened.

The caller was the deliveryman for his appliances.

Half an hour later.

The newly bought appliances had been installed.

After tossing all his changed clothes into the washing machine, Chen Sheng headed out to settle dinner.

"Boss, pack up two orders of soup dumplings, a bowl of Bian Shi, and two tea eggs."

"Oh, and stir-fry a serving of River Noodles too."

It was not advisable to eat too much at night.

Therefore, Chen Sheng was quite restrained when ordering.

The owner of the Sha County Snacks smiled so broadly that the wrinkles on his face bunched together.

This was a major customer.

"Sir, your food is ready."

"Thanks."

After returning home,

Chen Sheng sat in the living room, eating while watching television.

Half an hour later, after eating and drinking his fill, Chen Sheng cleaned up the food containers and hung the washed clothes on the balcony.

After hanging up the laundry, he did not leave the balcony. Instead, he sat directly on the floor and looked at the crescent moon overhead.

In that moment,

he suddenly felt a little lonely.

After he left his hometown, he had gradually lost contact with his former friends.

He was not familiar with more distant relatives and could not be bothered to deal with them.

As for the people he had met through work, all their dealings had been based on profit.

After returning to his hometown, Chen Sheng had thoroughly cleaned out his WeChat.

Now, he did not even have ten people on his WeChat.

"It's not so bad having no attachments."

Chen Sheng comforted himself.

At least,

he now had something he wanted to pursue.

He wanted to know just how far he could go with the panel.

Thinking of this,

Chen Sheng shook his head, tossing the tangled thoughts from his mind.

He sprang up from the floor.

"Time to work out! I can't waste the evening either."

There was no equipment at home, nor was there enough space for him to run.

But Chen Sheng still knew some basic exercises.

He closed his eyes and thought for a moment before coming up with a home workout plan.

One hundred Push-ups! One hundred Sit-ups!

One hundred Squats!

Let's go!

Chen Sheng clenched his fists, brimming with fighting spirit.

Three minutes later.

Bang! Chen Sheng's arms could no longer hold on, and he crashed face-first onto the floor.

Push-ups. He had only done twenty.

That was only because his Strength attribute had increased during the day.

But Chen Sheng was not discouraged.

He struggled to his feet and began doing Sit-ups.

Two minutes later.

Bang! Ten Sit-ups.

Again!

Five minutes later.

Bang! Thirty Squats.

Chen Sheng had already expected this outcome and had no intention of giving up.

After resting for a while, Chen Sheng rallied once more.

And so, two hours passed.

Even in the end, Chen Sheng failed to complete his goal.

The farther he went, the fewer repetitions he could do.

Lying on the balcony floor, Chen Sheng felt completely drained.

Fortunately, it was not without gains.

Chen Sheng

Strength: 0.88

Agility: 0.92

Constitution: 0.93

His Strength attribute had risen by another 0.01. Chen Sheng believed that he would definitely do better tomorrow night.

Seeing that it was getting late, he took another shower and went straight to bed.

Perhaps because of the exercise,

not long after he closed his eyes, soft snores filled the room.