Over the next two days of the weekend.
Gu Qing ignored the strange looks from his parents and younger sister.
He ate like mad every waking moment.
After a round of testing.
The results were astonishing.
His body had become so freakish that it could even digest dietary fiber.
Even more freakishly, no matter how or how much he ate over those two days, he only ate and never pooped. He seemed to have completely lost his excretory function.
"Lost" might not have been the right word.
More accurately-
It had probably been optimized.
It seemed his food utilization had reached the absolute limit. Almost everything he ate could be fully digested and absorbed, so no waste was produced.
"Strange. I keep eating without pooping, so why haven't I gotten any fatter? Why am I still so lean and muscular?"
In the bathroom, Gu Qing stood naked before the sink, looking at his lean, muscular reflection, and couldn't help wondering.
He thought it over and guessed that his physical body had probably become too powerful.
So much so that the way his cells stored energy had undergone a fundamental, qualitative change.
That was why he didn't get fat.
And this-
Was already completely beyond the bounds of a normal human.
"I never imagined my first step into the extraordinary would be eating like crazy without gaining weight, while practically optimizing away my need to poop."
"Girls would cry with envy if they saw this."
"After all, what girl wouldn't want to be a fairy who could eat anything without getting fat and never have to use the toilet?
"I wonder if this [Devouring] attribute can evolve in the future."
"If it can, that'd be fucking amazing. Maybe one day I'll evolve to the point where I can swallow a planet in one bite and devour the entire universe."
Gu Qing let his thoughts wander.
He was now really looking forward to the next three attributes.
Lightning-Fast Reflexes;
Knotted Muscles;
And Exceptional Comprehension.
The first attribute he'd obtained, Devouring, was already this overpowered.
The next three probably couldn't be all that bad either.
They'll definitely make me even more extraordinary.
PS: Holding out my bowl, begging for monthly tickets and recommendation votes!
Chapter 11: Not afraid of a kitchen knife
On his last evening at home that weekend.
Gu Qing went shopping at the mall with his parents for the first time in ages.
As for his younger sister, Gu Yao, she'd returned to school for evening study after their afternoon meal, so she wasn't involved.
The moment they reached the mall.
His parents immediately went on a shopping spree, buying a heap of food for Gu Qing to take to school.
Gu Qing had eaten a truly outrageous amount at home over the past two days.
His parents suspected he'd spent beyond his means at school and then had no money left for food, starving himself so badly that he'd started eating like mad the moment he got home.
They returned home after shopping.
Just as they stepped through the door, Wen Wanyi slapped her forehead and said with some frustration:
"Oh dear, this memory of mine! I actually forgot to buy soy sauce at the mall."
"I'll go downstairs and buy a bottle."
With that, Gu Qing turned and went downstairs to a supermarket across from their residential complex.
When he returned to the complex after buying the soy sauce, he found a huge crowd gathered at the entrance.
He also heard terrified cries:
"Someone's been killed! Someone's been killed!"
"You property management people, stop hiding like cowards! Hurry up and stop him!"
"I only make 2,800 a month! I'd have to be crazy to go risk my life fighting him!"
Hearing the clamor.
Gu Qing hurried forward for a look, and the sight that greeted him made his heart tighten.
A drunk reeking of alcohol was gripping a kitchen knife, slashing wildly like a madman.
A man and a woman lay motionless on the ground, covered in blood. They seemed to have been hacked to death.
No.
Not seemed.
They had definitely been hacked to death.
Because an extremely conspicuous label floated above the drunk's head:
-[Murderer]
Gu Qing watched the drunk for a while and found that his knife swings were as slow as a snail.
He knew full well.
It wasn't that the man was swinging too slowly, but that his own reaction speed was too fast.
That produced a visual slow-motion effect.
[Cumulative reaction speed +83] [Cumulative physical strength +20]
With these two attributes boosting me.
My combat strength now far exceeds an ordinary person's.
Dealing with just one drunk holding a knife should be effortless.
With that thought.
Gu Qing rolled up his sleeves and walked unhurriedly toward the drunk.
Provided he could ensure his own safety, he would try to stop this vicious assault.
After all, it was happening right outside his residential complex.
It was blocking his way home.
"Young man, don't try to be a hero! Even the best martial artist fears a kitchen knife!"
An elderly man by the roadside saw Gu Qing walking barehanded toward the knife-wielding drunk, looking ready to intervene, and hurriedly tried to stop him.
Gu Qing ignored the elderly man's warning.
He walked straight up to the drunk and stopped.
Trying words before force, he urged:
"Those two on the ground might still be saved."
"Listen to me. Put down the knife. There's still room to turn things around."
"Don't drive yourself into a dead end."
The two people on the ground were already as dead as could be.
But that didn't stop Gu Qing from saying it off the cuff.
Unfortunately, the drunk holding the kitchen knife didn't think like a normal person.
Hearing Gu Qing say those two might still be saved, he immediately crouched down and plunged the knife into their chests several times with wet thuds, every stab fatal.
Then he sprang to his feet and swung his knife at Gu Qing, who had come to reason with him:
"I'll fucking hack you to death!"
Holy shit!
This guy's a fucking lunatic!
There's no talking to him!
Gu Qing decisively abandoned verbal persuasion and went straight to physical persuasion.
The moment the drunk slashed at him.
Gu Qing merely turned slightly sideways and easily dodged the attack.
Then he immediately raised his arm and delivered a knife-hand strike to the drunk's knife-wielding arm.
For that blow.
Gu Qing used less than a tenth of his strength.
Yet when it landed on the drunk's arm, it was as heavy as Mount Tai bearing down.
It instantly knocked all feeling out of the drunk's entire arm.
The kitchen knife in his hand clattered to the ground.
Seeing this, the onlookers immediately swarmed forward and subdued the drunk.
With the situation resolved.
Gu Qing didn't linger. He picked up the bottle of soy sauce from the ground, turned, and left.
Commendations for bravery and all that.
He didn't need them.
He only wanted to quietly grind his attributes.
But just after he left, the drunk subdued by the crowd suddenly began convulsing all over for some unknown reason, his eyes bulging.
Then he failed to draw another breath.
And dropped dead on the spot.
Back home.
The moment Gu Qing entered the living room, he saw his parents sitting on the sofa, their faces full of worry.
When they saw him return, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"Honestly, child! I called you several times just now. Why didn't you answer a single call?"
Wen Wanyi demanded.
Gu Qing explained, "I put my phone on silent when I went to bed last night and forgot to turn the sound back on."
Still shaken, Wen Wanyi said, "You have no idea how worried your dad and I were. The homeowners' group said some drunk was hacking people with a knife at the entrance, and you'd just gone downstairs to buy soy sauce. Just thinking about it was terrifying."
Gu Qing smiled. "What's there to be scared of? Your son's not stupid. If I saw danger, I'd definitely get far away immediately."
He had only just finished speaking.
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