When Li Jie woke that morning, he lay in bed staring into space for a while. The pain in his flank kept reminding him how fragile he was.
Fucking trial-version system.
He decided to try a blind draw on the little character card. What if he got a body of steel?
But the odds of drawing anything good were hard to say. He scratched his head and spent a while studying his newly acquired skill.
[Boundless vitality: your mastery of qi has reached the · level] [Upgrade task: deep breaths 0/1000] [Task requirements: clear your mind/focus and remain calm] [*Complete all tasks to increase the skill level] [*You sensed the flow of qi with each breath] [*Your constitution has received a · improvement] [*Your ability to recover from injury and illness has increased ·] [*Keep breathing and don't stop, and you can live to a hundred]
Slightly increased? He reached out and poked the bruise on his stomach, which had turned black and purple...
Aaaaaaah!! Aaaah!
It hasn't gotten any better!! And now he was late for work.
He hurried downstairs and drove straight to the police department, cutting off other drivers and trading curses with them along the way. The moment he stepped into the lobby, he found a crowd gathered to watch something. For once, even the chief was among them, though he looked rather frazzled.
Huh? A show first thing in the morning?
Shamelessly ignoring his colleagues' complaints, he shoved a path through the crowd and squeezed into the front row. Someone was shouting angrily inside the conference room. "You can't solve the riddles, so you attack the person who poses them? This is simply... the most appalling manifestation of anti-intellectualism!"
*??*
Li Jie craned his neck to look inside. Suddenly, the door flew open