Greatly Enhanced Physical Fitness

Greatly Enhanced Physical Fitness

Luo Wen froze where he stood.

That was right—his first sensation was that he had become lighter.

Whether it was the feel of lifting the blanket or the force needed to get up.

It was like taking off several dozen pounds of training weights after wearing them for a long time.

"Could it be...?"

Luo Wen widened his eyes and looked at his hands.

There were no obvious changes.

Luo Wen frowned.

He stood up.

He tried bending his knees and jumping.

Whoosh—Bang!

Like he was dunking a basketball, Luo Wen shot straight up from where he stood, his head slamming into the ceiling with a bang.

Smack.

Luo Wen landed in a daze and rubbed his head.

The hotel room's ceiling was probably 2.8 meters high. He was 1.9 meters tall, yet he had nearly effortlessly reached a height of ninety centimeters.

Moreover, Luo Wen knew that he had still been rising just now. A ninety-centimeter vertical jump was not his limit.

"Have my strength and jumping ability increased?"

That thought popped into Luo Wen's mind.

His jumping ability had definitely not been this good before.

A flicker of surprise crossed Luo Wen's face.

But he still found it hard to believe.

So he threw a few punches at the air.

Buzz! Buzz buzz!

The dull sound of his fists cutting through the air echoed through the room.

The surprise on Luo Wen's face grew even stronger!

His punching speed was far faster than before, and his stamina seemed to have increased considerably as well.

Buzz buzz buzz!

On a whim, Luo Wen began shadowboxing smoothly, just as he did during his usual training.

His agile footwork paired with sharp punches looked both intimidating and pleasing to the eye.

Luo Wen shadowboxed for a full ten minutes before stopping with a smile on his face.

He had really become stronger!

After a full ten minutes of shadowboxing, he was only sweating lightly and still had plenty of stamina left.

In the past, ten minutes of high-intensity shadowboxing would have left him utterly exhausted. Now, he was only lightly sweating.

Luo Wen could clearly feel that his strength, speed, explosive power, endurance, and even neural reaction speed had all improved tremendously.

The feeling of his strength advancing by leaps and bounds intoxicated him.

No wonder the Earthlings of Swallowed Star could embark on the path of evolution through the RR virus.

"Once I get back, I need to properly test my current physical data," Luo Wen thought.

He subconsciously checked the time.

19:12

"Hill should be getting home soon..."

Looking at the time displayed on the wall, Luo Wen thought to himself.

He had to get back before Hill returned home.

Otherwise, Hill would definitely worry if she got home and did not see him.

And if she checked the surveillance footage and found that he had vanished from the apartment into thin air, things would get seriously out of hand.

"But if I return to the Marvel world now, won't I bring the RR virus back with me?"

Luo Wen's heart skipped a beat.

"No, if clothes and air could carry the RR virus, then I would have already brought it back yesterday."

Luo Wen suddenly remembered his attempt to travel back and forth yesterday and revealed a wry smile.

"Forget it. I should still look it up. After all, I'm genuinely infected with the RR virus now."

Luo Wen saw that there was a computer in the room, so he walked over, booted it up, and opened the browser.

Luo Wen searched: After being infected with the RR virus, can you still infect others?

Very quickly, the browser provided an explanation.

After being infected with the RR virus, as long as the fever subsided and body temperature returned to normal, antibodies would develop in the body and the person would no longer be contagious.

Seeing this answer, Luo Wen breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as he himself was no longer contagious, that was enough.

As for whether his clothes or the air might carry the RR virus, Luo Wen had no way of knowing.

All he could do now was gamble that the Spacetime Vortex of the Dual-World Gate had some kind of filtering function. There was nothing else he could do.

Even if he disinfected his entire body, he could not eliminate the RR virus in the air.

He could not stop using the Dual-World Gate just because he was afraid, could he?

Luo Wen briefly browsed some other information before shutting down the computer.

"Time to head back."

Just as Luo Wen raised his hand and prepared to connect with the Teleportation Ring to return to the Marvel world, he suddenly noticed that something was wrong with the gems on it.

"Why are there only six left?"

Luo Wen's expression shifted slightly.

He carefully counted the glowing dark-blue gems on the Teleportation Ring again.

"One, two, three, four, five, six."

"There really are only six left."

Luo Wen frowned as he thought it over.

Yesterday, he had activated the Teleportation Ring for the first time, traveled through it once, returned once, and then traveled through it again, consuming the energy of three gems in total.

There had clearly been seven glowing gems left yesterday, but now there were only six.

"In other words, staying in the Swallowed Star world also consumes gem energy?"

"It looks like staying for more than a day consumes the energy of an additional gem..."

Luo Wen roughly guessed the reason and felt somewhat helpless.

"Looks like I need to get in touch with Tony Stark as soon as possible. Without a high-grade energy source, charging alone won't be enough."

With that thought in mind, Luo Wen snapped his fingers.

Instantly, a blue-black vortex enveloped him, and his figure vanished from the hotel.

The next second, Luo Wen appeared in his own room.

It was already late, and the lights were off, leaving the room pitch-black.

Yet Luo Wen discovered that his vision was barely affected.

"Looks like the RR virus enhanced my eyesight too."

If some of the base's facilities had not been shut down, Luo Wen would have wanted to undergo a full-body examination immediately.

"I wonder if I brought the RR virus back with me. If I did, Hill would probably be the first one infected..."

Luo Wen felt somewhat worried.

However, he had just looked it up online. For healthy adults, the mortality rate after infection with the RR virus was only around ten percent. The stronger a person's physique, the lower the mortality rate. Most of those who died during the Great Nirvana had been middle-aged or elderly people, as well as frail children.

Hill's physical condition far surpassed that of an ordinary person. Even if she were infected, the odds of her life being in danger were low.

"I'll know tomorrow. For now, I'll make Hill dinner." Luo Wen turned on the light in the room and suppressed his worries.

Soon, Luo Wen opened the refrigerator in the kitchen and took out two tomatoes, two passion fruits, some vegetables, and a little scallion, ginger, and garlic.

He also took a piece of beef tenderloin from the freezer.

He planned to make tomato and passion fruit beef.

It was one of Hill's favorite dishes—sweet and sour, refreshing, appetizing, and not greasy.

The dish was essentially a simplified version of Guizhou sour soup hot pot.

After putting the beef in the microwave to defrost, Luo Wen washed some rice and switched on the rice cooker.

Sour soup beef had to be eaten with rice. Eating it with bread just always felt wrong.

Once that was done, Luo Wen began chopping and preparing the ingredients.

The kitchen gradually filled with the warmth and aroma of cooking.

When Hill returned home, Luo Wen happened to be setting a pot of tomato and passion fruit beef on the table.

Steam billowed from the pot, and the fragrance that rushed toward her made Hill's face brighten the instant she stepped through the door. She took a deep, blissful breath.

"Luo Wen!"

"Hill, you're back."

Luo Wen looked up and saw Hill entering through the door.

"Mm, you're back!"

Hill quickly slipped off her black kitten heels, changed into slippers, and leaned over the table with a smile to smell the tomato passion fruit beef.

The sweet-and-sour, fragrant aroma whetted her appetite, and an unconscious smile spread across her face.

"It smells amazing. Looks like I came back at just the right time—"

Mischievously, Hill directly pinched up a tender slice of beef with two fingers, blew on it twice, and popped it into her mouth.

"Mmm—so good!"

Seeing that Hill had none of the poised, intellectual calm she displayed at work, Luo Wen smiled helplessly. "Could you at least wait for me to get you a pair of chopsticks?"

"How could I, when you made it smell this good? Besides, I haven't eaten anything since noon. I'm starving."

Hill sucked on her fingers.

"All right, go wash your hands. I'll serve the rice." Luo Wen rubbed Hill's head, her smooth golden-brown hair feeling pleasant beneath his hand.

"Don't rub my head! I'm your older sister!"

Luo Wen's tone and actions instantly left Hill fuming, and she put on a fierce expression as she scolded him in mock seriousness.

"I know, I know." Luo Wen pushed Hill into the bathroom.

He and Hill were half-siblings through their mother.

Hill was twenty-five this year, while he was sixteen.

After their mother died of illness, Hill had lived together with Luo Wen and taken care of him.

By rights, an eldest sister was like a mother, but Luo Wen's mental age made it difficult for him to treat Hill entirely as an older sister. Sometimes, he even unconsciously saw her as his younger sister.

On top of that, Luo Wen never called Hill "Sister," which made Hill quite annoyed.