After browsing Sun Xiaochuan's Tieba forum, which was full of absolute characters, Gu Qing suddenly remembered Zhou Yuan, the [Biochemical Maniac].
They had been WeChat contacts for almost a day, yet he still hadn't checked the man's Moments. That was a bit hard to justify.
Well, he'd take a look now.
Hopefully, he could find some useful information to prepare for farming the man's tag attributes later.
With that thought, Gu Qing exited Tieba, opened WeChat, and tapped into Zhou Yuan's Moments.
Fortunately, this research maniac hadn't set his Moments to show only the past three days.
Otherwise, there would have been nothing to see.
Zhou Yuan hadn't posted much. Scrolling all the way down revealed only twenty-odd posts.
With so little content, Gu Qing finished reading everything in under two minutes.
He gleaned three important pieces of information.
1. Zhou Yuan was single and longed for a relationship that would lead to marriage.
2. Zhou Yuan was poor and really wanted a house and car of his own.
3. Zhou Yuan loved playing League of Legends and missed the happy times teaming up with his roommates as an undergraduate.
Based on these three pieces of information,
Gu Qing seriously considered ways to get closer to Zhou Yuan.
Option one: introduce someone to Zhou Yuan, who had neither money nor looks. Too difficult. Pass.
Option two: provide Zhou Yuan with a house and car. Impossible. Pass.
Option three: all four guys in his dorm played League of Legends, so adding Zhou Yuan would make a full five-man team. This had potential.
Once we get to know each other through gaming, I'll try asking him to take me into the lab to do research together and farm the hell out of his [Biochemical Maniac] tag's attributes...
With that in mind, Gu Qing sent Zhou Yuan a message.
[Gu Qing: Hey, Yuan, I noticed from your Moments that you seem pretty into League of Legends. My three roommates and I play too, and two of us are Challenger. Want to team up as five sometime when you're free?]
After he sent the message, there was still no reply by the time the bell rang for class.
Gu Qing didn't foolishly sit around waiting for a response.
As soon as the bell rang, he immediately started working through practice questions with Yang Yuntong beside him.
Time flew as he immersed himself in the questions.
In the blink of an eye, the morning was over.
[You studied with your classmate Yang Yuntong for over one hour] x4 [Focus +1] x4 [Learning ability +1] x4 [Once learning ability has increased by a total of 100 points, you can obtain the attribute-exceptional comprehension] [Points currently obtained: 34]
Only 34 points.
Gu Qing felt his progress was a little too slow.
But there was nothing he could do. His time was limited.
These days, he trained with Xia Shuran for three hours and played basketball with Gao Fei for another three hours almost every day.
With all the other miscellaneous things he had to do, his schedule was already packed.
He had no spare time to work on questions with Yang Yuntong.
When the bell rang to end class,
Yang Yuntong hesitated beside him, then gathered her courage, leaned closer, and asked quietly,
"Gu Qing, there's a really good new Hollywood blockbuster out. Are you free this weekend?"
Lately, she had been sitting with Gu Qing to work on questions all the time, and unrealistic fantasies had gradually taken root in her heart. She thought she might have a chance with the handsome guy in her class.
Gu Qing's heart lurched when he heard that.
Oh, crap!
This relationship's about to fall apart!
He pretended to be absorbed in a question and not to have heard her.
Only after several seconds did he turn toward Yang Yuntong with a look of belated realization, asking uncertainly,
"Huh? Were you talking to me just now? I was so focused on the questions that I wasn't listening."
"N-no, it's nothing. I was just saying class is over, so I'm taking these past graduate entrance exam papers."
Yang Yuntong hurriedly gathered up her graduate entrance exam materials, stood up, and walked away quickly.
Being handsome isn't all good. It nearly cost me a tool for farming attributes...
Gu Qing breathed a silent sigh of relief.
Afterward, he went to the dining hall with his meal buddy, Chen Zijie.
He had just gotten his food at the dining hall
and was about to sit down and eat
when he finally received a reply from Zhou Yuan.
[Zhou Yuan: Sorry, junior. I've been busy all morning and haven't checked WeChat.]
[Zhou Yuan: I love playing League of Legends too, but I don't have much time during the week. I'll see how things look on the weekend evening. If I'm free, I'll message you.]
[Gu Qing: Sure. I'm generally free on weekend evenings, so whatever works for you, Yuan.]
Their exchange was brief.
Gu Qing put his phone away and focused on eating, finishing plate after plate.
Quite a few passing students were stunned by his appetite.
A few ill-mannered ones even secretly took pictures, probably to send to their friends and make fun of him.
Gu Qing didn't care in the slightest.
Of course,
he only didn't care at this stage.
Once he was completely invincible and could do whatever he pleased, if anyone dared mock him as a bottomless pit, he'd send them straight to the afterlife with a blast of laser vision.
That afternoon,
Gu Qing arrived at the sports field on time to meet Xia Shuran. He practiced with the Red-Tassel Spear alongside her for two hours, then did an hour of core training.
[Physical constitution +1] x3
"It's dinnertime, senior."
Xia Shuran wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked with a smile, "Want to go to the dining hall together?"
Gu Qing said, "No, I've arranged to play basketball with my roommate in a bit."
"Huh? You're going to exercise some more?"
Xia Shuran was a little surprised and muttered quietly, "It feels like Senior's stamina never runs out..."
No sooner had she said it than her cheeks flushed slightly. Her thoughts had accidentally strayed somewhere else.
Gu Qing's stamina was so extraordinary that just imagining it made her a little nervous. She silently wondered whether her slight frame could take it.
That evening,
Gu Qing dragged Gao Fei out to play basketball again.
Gao Fei was as feeble as ever.
After only two hours, he was already howling about being tired.
He wanted to abandon the court.
He said that if he kept playing, his legs would give out completely, and he wouldn't be able to explain himself to his girlfriend later that night.
Gu Qing didn't care about any of that and forced him to stay and keep playing.
After forcing himself through another hour,
Gao Fei looked utterly defeated, feeling his interest in basketball draining away bit by bit.
Gu Qing, meanwhile, grew increasingly interested in basketball as he looked at the physical constitution attributes he had just farmed.
[Physical constitution +1] x3
Including the +3 physical constitution he had farmed from Xia Shuran's [Martial Arts Grandmaster] tag that afternoon,
he had gained a total of 6 points that day.
Adding the points he had obtained before,
his accumulated physical constitution bonus was now +29.
Early the next morning,
on his way to the teaching building for class,
Gu Qing saw that the university had hired professionals to exterminate the rats.
It was a large, twenty-person extermination team, every member fully equipped. The operation looked impressive.
When he passed by again after classes ended at noon,
Gu Qing could clearly tell there were far fewer rats along the way.
At least around the trash cans, there were no longer any rats scurrying about.
He returned to his dorm and took a short nap.
When it was time that afternoon, Gu Qing got up and went to the sports field to farm attributes with Xia Shuran.
That evening, he dragged Gao Fei out right on schedule to farm attributes by playing basketball again.
Over the course of the day, his learning ability increased by 4 points, and his physical constitution increased by 6.
[Accumulated learning ability +38] [Accumulated physical constitution +35]
After showering that night,
Gu Qing lay comfortably in bed, playing on his phone.
It was almost midnight
when Gao Fei, who had been out on a date with his girlfriend, finally hurried back to the dorm just before curfew.
The moment he walked in, he couldn't resist dropping a bombshell, without keeping them in suspense at all.
"Huge news!"
"You know how there've been tons of rats on campus lately, and the university administrators hired people to exterminate them?"
"A professor from the School of Life Sciences thought the rats were abnormally large, so he caught a few himself to dissect and study."
"And guess what happened?"
"After dissecting them, he found remnants of human tissue inside every one of those big rats!"
"They reported it to the public security officers, and when they compared the DNA, it turned out to be an exact match for those two people who went missing before!"
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