Researching the [Survival of the Fittest] Attribute

In just a moment, the coach of the Martial Arts Team walked up and stopped in front of the two.

However, contrary to expectations, the man wasn't there to pick a fight, but to invite Lin Zichen to join the Martial Arts Team.

"Student Zichen, I am Coach Guo from the school Martial Arts Team. I saw your astonishing performance at the school sports meet today, and I was truly stunned."

"I have been at Shanhai High School for many years, and I have never seen a student with such excellent grades who could also be so outstanding in sports."

"Personally, I feel that your athletic talent is surely even greater than your academic talent."

"Therefore, I would like to invite you to join the school Martial Arts Team."

"Of course, this invitation is a bit abrupt, so you can take some time to learn more about the team before making a decision."

"Room C in the school gymnasium is our base of operations. Tomorrow, or whenever you are free, feel free to come by and take a look."

Guo Xiangyuan finished his piece in one breath, not giving Lin Zichen a single chance to speak.

He genuinely believed that Lin Zichen's athletic talent far surpassed his academic potential.

After all, as a genius student who always took first place in every exam, he must have spent most of his time studying with little time left for physical training.

Yet, even under such circumstances, Lin Zichen had managed to crush the members of the Martial Arts Team at the sports meet to win three gold medals.

Without a doubt, this was a rising star in the future of the martial arts world.

If Lin Zichen failed to walk the path of martial arts, it would be a waste of talent that would infuriate both man and god!

Watching the Martial Arts Team coach, who was rambling on like a pushy salesman, Lin Zichen frowned, his impression of the man souring.

So, as soon as the man finished, Lin Zichen offered a polite smile and said, "I'll think about it. I need to head home now. Goodbye, Coach Guo."

With that, Lin Zichen pushed his bicycle and left with Shen Qinghan.

Once they were outside the school gates, he lifted his leg and mounted the bike, saying to Shen Qinghan beside him:

"Hanhan, get on."

"Xiao Chen, how about you let me ride you home today?"

Shen Qinghan, lollipop in her mouth, hopped around to the front of the bike, looking eager to try.

Lin Zichen heard this and decisively refused:

"Forget it. You almost rode into a ditch the last time you were on your own, let alone carrying me. You'd probably get us both killed."

"That last time was just an accident!"

"Give it up. With those skinny little legs of yours, you couldn't pedal a bike with a passenger."

"Fine, fine, have it your way."

Shen Qinghan stopped being stubborn and obediently sat on the back seat, wrapping her arms around Lin Zichen's waist with practiced ease.

Seeing that she was settled, Lin Zichen gave the pedals a light push and took off.

It didn't look like he was using much effort, but the speed was anything but slow, covering over a hundred meters in an instant.

Lin Zichen's cycling skills were top-tier, rivaling professional athletes. He wove silkily through the bustling streets and alleys without once drawing a curse from a pedestrian.

Shen Qinghan sat sideways on the back, arms around Lin Zichen's waist, lollipop in her mouth, feeling the breeze on her face and a sense of pure exhilaration.

Many female students from Shanhai High School were walking along the roadside, and when they saw Shen Qinghan sitting on the back of Lin Zichen's bike, they all wore expressions of envy.

Shen Qinghan had lost count of how many times she had been envied by her peers.

Every time it happened, she felt wonderful inside.

As she basked in the feeling, she couldn't help but giggle to herself.

"Why are you suddenly laughing so foolishly?"

"It's nothing."

"The green light ahead is counting down. I'm going to sprint, so hold on tight."

"Xiao Chen, I'm holding on! Ride faster, the green light is about to end!"

"Then here I go!"

"Go! Flying Little Witch! Faster!"

With the lollipop still in her mouth, Shen Qinghan urged him on, her words slightly slurred. Her bangs were blown high by the wind, and her face was filled with an excited smile.

Lin Zichen, the one doing the pedaling, pushed the pedals with all his might, terrified of missing the green light at the intersection ahead.

They stopped in front of the house.

Lin Zichen said goodbye to Shen Qinghan and pushed the bicycle inside.

As soon as he entered, Zhang Wanxin greeted him with great enthusiasm, asking with a beaming smile:

"Xiao Chen, how did the sports meet go? Did you win gold in everything?"

"Yeah, I got three gold medals."

Lin Zichen took off his schoolbag, unzipped it, pulled out the three medals, and handed them to Zhang Wanxin.

Zhang Wanxin was overjoyed, her eyes crinkling into slits as she said with a voice full of delight:

"I just knew it, my Xiao Chen is a genius who excels in both literature and martial arts!"

After saying this, she turned back to look at Lin Yansheng, who was sitting on the sofa and engrossed in a football match, and shouted at him with some dissatisfaction:

"Hey you, our son brought home three gold medals from the school sports meet, why aren't you coming over to praise him instead of watching that game!"

"Eh, coming, coming!"

Lin Yansheng chuckled and trotted over.

Afterward, the family of three each wore a gold medal, laughing and chatting as they took a group photo at home.

It was mostly Zhang Wanxin who wanted to take the photos; she wanted to show off her son on her social media feed.

After dinner.

Lin Zichen went to the rooftop terrace, which was filled with vegetables, to hunt mosquitoes.

He wanted to test the attribute effects of [Survival of the Fittest] to see if he could devour the Life Origin within the mosquitoes and thereby gain their attributes or skills.

As a result, after swatting more than 20 mosquitoes in a row, no expected text information appeared in the void.

It seemed that there was no Life Origin within the mosquitoes.

Or rather... it was so little that it was negligible.

For the sake of rigor, he stopped swatting mosquitoes and went back inside to hunt cockroaches.

He spent over two hours killing more than 10 cockroaches.

But the result remained the same; there was simply no Life Origin to devour.

"Could it be that ordinary creatures don't work, and it has to be Exotic Beasts?"

Lin Zichen thought of this and felt it was likely the case.

Perhaps only powerful creatures like Exotic Beasts had enough Life Origin within them to be devoured.

Small animals living at the bottom of the food chain, like mosquitoes and cockroaches, likely contained a pitifully small amount of Life Origin, almost to the point of being negligible.

Otherwise, the test results from just now could not be explained.

After all, the note for [Survival of the Fittest] mentioned "living beings," and did not specifically refer only to Exotic Beasts.

After figuring this out, Lin Zichen planned to go to the shopping mall to take a look around.

The malls in this world all sold goods related to Exotic Beasts.

Although the prices were very expensive and he couldn't afford them at all.

But that didn't stop Lin Zichen from going to see and verify his hypothesis.

Once he had the idea.

Lin Zichen went downstairs to find Zhang Wanxin, made up a random excuse about needing to buy something, and successfully obtained her permission to go out.

"Xiao Chen, where are you going?"

Just as he pushed his bicycle out of the house, Lin Zichen heard a shout coming from the balcony next door.

He looked up and saw Shen Qinghan leaning on her balcony, catching the breeze.

"I'm going to the mall to buy some things!"

"I'm going too, wait for me, I'll go tell Mom and Dad and be right there!"

After dropping that sentence, Shen Qinghan quickly left the balcony and went back inside to tell Shen Jianye and Xu Meng that she was going out with Lin Zichen.

PS: Setting out my bowl, begging for monthly tickets and recommendation tickets!