Refitting

"All right, then. I won't keep you for tea. When you leave, clean up the trash and take it with you."

After Jiang Ling finished speaking, he yawned, turned, and went into his room, closing the door behind him. That left the group staring at the post-party wreckage, a mess in the wind...

Back in his room.

Jiang Ling opened the system and looked at the skill he had received yesterday at Kami's Lookout through the system's new function, [Location Check-In]. He fell into thought.

"Possession": Choose any target within one kilometer to possess. Success rate and duration depend on the target's strength.

As the name suggested, one look at this skill was enough to know what it did.

Kami had once used this ability to possess an ordinary person and participate in the World Martial Arts Tournament.

But...

What was the use...

Jiang Ling felt it would not come in handy. He could handle weak enemies himself, while using "Possession" on powerful enemies might even fail.

It was a bit useless.

Still, he stuck to his own belief: the more skills, the better!

No matter how many useless skills he had, there would definitely be a place where they came in handy.

Just then.

His phone received a message.

Jiang Ling picked it up and saw that it was from Bulma.

Bulma: "Are you up yet?"

Seeing that greeting, Jiang Ling suddenly did not know how to answer.

After all, he had confessed while drunk last night, and had even done something that crossed the line of friendship—touched her chest.

It would be bad if he had left Bulma with the impression that he was a creep.

He had been a good student since childhood, the kind who won so many merit certificates his hands went soft!

Maybe... he should apologize?

Before Jiang Ling could send a message, Bulma sent another one.

"If you're up, come over to my place. That gravity device you mentioned yesterday—I have a prototype here. Come try it out."

When Jiang Ling saw that message, his eyes lit up.

He had only casually mentioned a gravity training system yesterday. He had not expected news about it today.

"Ah... I'm up. I'll head over right away."

After replying, Jiang Ling went out, flew into the sky, and headed toward West City.

An hour later, Jiang Ling looked down from the sky at West City below, with its tall buildings, busy traffic, and streams of people coming and going. He could not help sighing at the prosperity of a big city.

There was no need to look at the address Bulma had sent. With one glance, Jiang Ling spotted the huge courtyard in the city center, with the Capsule Corp logo hanging inside.

He descended from the sky into the courtyard.

Jiang Ling saw a graceful, pretty woman with not a single wrinkle on her face smiling as she watered the flowers, humming a tune under her breath. She seemed to be in a good mood.

Jiang Ling recognized her at once as Bulma's mother, Mrs. Brief, whose real name was Panchy.

Mrs. Brief noticed Jiang Ling's arrival and greeted him with a smile. "Hi, handsome. Is there something you need?"

Jiang Ling showed a polite smile. "Hello, Mrs. Brief. I'm Bulma's friend. I'm here to see Bulma."

"Oh~~" Mrs. Brief sized Jiang Ling up meaningfully, then said with satisfaction, "You're Bulma's new boyfriend, aren't you? Not bad, not bad."

Hearing that, Jiang Ling quickly waved his hands. "No, no. Auntie, you've misunderstood..."

Just then, Bulma rode over from the house on a little electric scooter and shouted, "Mom! Don't talk nonsense! Jiang Ling is my friend!"

"Right, right, exactly what Bulma said," Jiang Ling hurriedly agreed.

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Mrs. Brief hooked her arm around Jiang Ling's with a smile and said, "Then can this handsome young man accompany Auntie for a little shopping?"

Jiang Ling's body stiffened, and he cast Bulma a pleading look.

"Mom, don't be like that. Jiang Ling came to see me for something," Bulma said helplessly. Her own love of handsome guys had been inherited from her mother, but she was not that open-minded.

Seeing her daughter like this, Mrs. Brief covered her mouth lightly and laughed.

"You're protecting him so much, yet you still say he isn't your boyfriend."

"Mom!" Bulma planted her hands on her hips, her beautiful eyes narrowing slightly.

"Fine, fine. I won't bother you two. I'm going shopping." With that, Mrs. Brief smiled and walked away, leaving to go shopping.

After Mrs. Brief left, Bulma looked at Jiang Ling and said, "Don't mind her. My mom's just like that."

Jiang Ling waved a hand and smiled, indicating that it was fine.

"Enough about that. Let's go to the lab."

"Okay."

Because Bulma's house was relatively large, they needed an electric cart to get around. Jiang Ling sat on the back seat of Bulma's electric cart, and they headed toward the laboratory together.

Bulma drove the electric cart, while Jiang Ling sat behind her, his arms wrapped around her slender waist.

Feeling the sensation beneath his hands as a faint fragrance drifted into his nose, Jiang Ling found his thoughts starting to wander.

He couldn't really be blamed for that.

As the heroine of Dragon Ball, Bulma's figure was absolutely excellent, her looks were even more gorgeous and captivating, and she was also a top scientist, a genius when it came to research.

Honestly, what guy wouldn't be tempted?

Jiang Ling's expression shifted slightly, and he silently checked in within his heart.

[Ding, check-in successful. Reward: "Mechanical Modification Mastery"]

With the electric cart to get around, they reached the laboratory before long.

Bulma took out a machine from inside. "This is it. When I was little, my dad, Dr. Brief, got gravity technology from someone else and made this experimental prototype."

The machine looked somewhat crude, but Jiang Ling didn't care. As long as it worked, that was enough.

"Bulma, should we test it?"

"Mm."

Bulma nodded, then guided Jiang Ling step by step on how to turn on the machine.

Beep—

[Five-times gravity activated!]

Thud!

The instant the gravity activated, Bulma was pressed flat onto the ground...

Jiang Ling reacted and hurriedly turned off the gravity, then helped Bulma up, scratching his head with an apologetic expression.

"Sorry, Bulma. I was in too much of a rush to test it just now and forgot you were still beside me."

Bulma looked at him with a resentful expression and sighed. "Forget it. Wait until I'm farther away before you turn on the gravity."

After saying that, she quickly walked into the distance.

Seeing that she had left the gravity's area of effect, Jiang Ling activated the gravity again.

Five-times gravity!

Jiang Ling felt it for a moment, then started doing all kinds of warm-up movements.

Push-ups, sit-ups...

He even did a full set of the eighth set of radio calisthenics.

Every movement was extremely easy, without the slightest difficulty.

Because Jiang Ling had long since gotten used to King Kai's Planet's ten-times gravity, the current five-times gravity was child's play to him.

Suddenly, Jiang Ling felt his body sink as the gravity increased sharply.

He froze for a moment, then looked at the machine.

What was displayed on the machine's screen was unmistakably twenty-times gravity!

"..."

Jiang Ling raised his hand and turned off the gravity effect, then explained the situation to Bulma as she walked over.

"There's no problem with the gravity effect this machine produces, but there may be an issue with the internal system. Just now, it automatically jumped to twenty-times gravity."

Hearing that, Bulma checked it over and found the cause.

"This machine is too old. After all, it was made twenty years ago. The system and hardware need to be updated, and it still needs some modifications...

"It'll probably take a day. Come back tomorrow?"