Everyone Likes to Show Off

In the evening, after resting for a while following dinner, Lin Zichen went upstairs and hid in his room to engage in high-intensity training.

After training for over three hours, he only stopped to rest when his muscles felt completely numb and he was drenched in sweat.

He didn't waste his break time, sitting on the floor and using his phone to search for news related to the Rat God Cult, keeping a constant eye on the movements of this heretic cult.

A quick search revealed that in less than a day, several more believers had been arrested.

One had to admit, the efficiency of the Municipal Public Security Headquarters was truly high.

The only drawback was that they still hadn't managed to catch a single Giant Mutant Rat.

In fact, they hadn't even caught a glimpse of one.

It was as if the creature known as the Giant Mutant Rat had never existed in the human world, which was truly baffling.

After resting for a moment, he felt refreshed.

Lin Zichen put away his phone, grabbed his clothes, and headed to the bathroom.

Once he finished his shower, he turned off the lights and went to bed.

Before sleeping, he specifically set an alarm for 3:00 AM, planning to head out into the streets in the dead of night to test his physical stats.

In the blink of an eye, several hours passed.

The phone alarm rang.

Lin Zichen woke up at the sound, put on his clothes, grabbed his measuring tools, and quickly slipped out of the house.

He then found a blind spot in the surveillance coverage and began his tests.

In less than ten minutes, the results were in.

A 100-meter sprint took only 3.59 seconds.

His vertical jump reached 7.02 meters.

He could lift a car weighing approximately 1650kg with one hand.

Compared to his last test, all three data points had improved.

After finishing the tests, Lin Zichen didn't linger outside; he jogged all the way home with his tools in tow.

While passing by a green belt, he noticed a fat rat on the side of the road.

Looking closer, he was shocked to discover that the rat was actually lying on the ground eating a bird!

It was eating a sparrow!

The sparrow was still alive, its wings fluttering in a desperate struggle to escape the rat's mouth, but to no avail.

Lin Zichen was stunned by the scene before him.

He had seen cats eat birds before.

But what was this about a rat eating a bird?

How did it even manage to catch one?

Lin Zichen frowned, feeling that the scene was deeply unsettling, so he quickly distanced himself from the rat and chose to take a detour home.

On the way back, he took the opportunity to call the Public Security Station to report the situation.

After the personnel at the station heard his report, they simply told him not to get close; other than that, they said nothing else and didn't even ask for the location, appearing completely indifferent.

The next morning.

Lin Zichen ate breakfast and stood at his doorway playing on his phone, waiting for Shen Qinghan to come out so they could go to school together.

Before long, Shen Qinghan emerged, carrying a small bag of cookies.

She stopped in front of Lin Zichen, took a cookie from the bag, and held it to his lips, smiling sweetly: "My mom made these last night, try one."

Xu Meng had specifically made them for her to take to school to share with her classmates, hoping she would get along well with everyone in her class.

Lin Zichen took a bite and laughed: "Aunt Meng's cookies are as delicious as ever."

"Of course they are!"

Shen Qinghan said, looking proud.

After a brief chat, the two of them set off for school.

As they walked through the school gates and along the path, Lin Zichen suddenly heard someone calling his name from behind.

He turned around to see a tall girl.

She looked like a senior student.

"Ah, Junior Zichen, it really is you! I said your back looked just like yours!"

Seeing Lin Zichen's incredibly familiar, handsome face, the girl ran over, looking visibly excited.

Lin Zichen examined the girl, but realized he didn't know her, which left him feeling somewhat confused.

The girl smiled and said: "Junior Zichen, do you remember me? When you participated in the school sports meet in seventh grade, I was right by your side cheering for you the whole time, until my throat went hoarse."

Lin Zichen didn't remember her at all, but he still smiled politely on the surface and said, "Of course I remember."

The girl was overjoyed to hear him say he remembered her.

Lin Zichen didn't chat with her for long; after tossing out a "Goodbye, senior," he led Shen Qinghan toward the classroom for Class 1 Grade 1.

On the way, Shen Qinghan couldn't help but remark, "Xiao Chen, you really are popular. No matter where we go, I see your little fan girls."

Lin Zichen just smiled and said nothing.

After arriving at the classroom, Shen Qinghan shared the cookies with Li Chuxin and He Yu.

It was the first time those two had tasted such delicious cookies, and upon learning they were handmade by Shen Qinghan's mother, Xu Meng, they couldn't stop singing her praises.

As Xu Meng's daughter, Shen Qinghan listened from the side, feeling wonderful inside.

Not long after, the bell rang for class.

The students of Class 1 Grade 1 welcomed the first lesson of their high school careers.

The subject was Mechanical Modification Course, taught by a bespectacled tech-savvy man named Cai Yuanfei.

The content for the first class was quite simple, focusing mainly on introducing basic concepts and philosophies to the students.

Lin Zichen listened for a moment and realized it was all knowledge he had learned from books as a child, so he silently took out a book he had brought from home and stopped wasting time listening to the lecture.

Except for him, the other students in the class were listening very attentively.

After all, not everyone could be like him, having read extensively since childhood and possessing a photographic memory.

The vast majority of people had to keep pace with the teacher's instruction.

While Lin Zichen was quietly reading, Lu Gang and Wang Shujie, the two top students from Nanguan City, were extremely active in class.

Every time the teacher posed a question, the two would immediately scramble to answer, and they were correct every time, shocking the rest of the class and making them seem incredibly formidable.

Cai Yuanfei, the instructor, also praised them incessantly, complimenting them as worthy of being top students from Nanguan City for their rich reservoir of knowledge.

After the Mechanical Modification Course ended, the next subject was the Gene Fusion Course.

The instructor for the Gene Fusion Course was named Liu Deren, also a bespectacled tech-savvy man.

The content for this first class was also focused on introducing theories and concepts.

Lin Zichen listened for a bit, found it was still material he had already self-studied, and continued to lower his head to read his own book.

As for Lu Gang and Wang Shujie, they continued to perform actively in class as they had before.

In all his years of teaching, this was the first time Liu Deren had encountered students with such a vast reservoir of knowledge, so he couldn't help but give them a thumbs up and praise them:

"Incredible. Students from Nanguan City really are something else. In all my years of teaching, I've never seen such impressive students; you have truly opened my eyes."

Hearing this evaluation, both Lu Gang and Wang Shujie felt their vanity greatly satisfied.

Before long, the bell rang for the end of class.

After two periods of Mechanical Modification Course and two periods of Gene Fusion Course, the entire morning's classes were finished.

"Brother Jie, I heard you were the third-place finisher in the Nanguan City high school entrance exam. That's too badass, right?"

"Lu Gang, I heard people say you can easily lift 300kg with one hand. Is that true?"

"My god, the top students from Nanguan City are just too strong!"

During the lunch break, the students in the class were basically all gathered around the two Nanguan City prodigies, marveling at their strength.

Seeing this scene, He Yu felt incredibly sour and couldn't help but mutter in a low voice, "Damn, these two are such show-offs. They were performing the whole time in class, terrified that people wouldn't know how great they are."

Lin Zichen, however, felt that it was only human nature for them to show off; there was nothing to be annoyed about.

If someone studies that hard and puts in that much effort, and finally achieves such excellent results, it would be too much to forbid them from showing off a little.

In many cases, the greatest motivation for people to strive for success is the desire to show off once they have achieved it.

"To return home in glory is like wearing brocade in the dark"—that is the logic behind it.

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