Another hour passed.
[You have played basketball with your roommate Gao Fei for over an hour]
[Basketball skill +1]
[Physical Constitution +1]
[Accumulate 100 points of Physical Constitution to obtain the attribute—Knotted Muscles]
[Points currently obtained: 2]
Gu Qing first finished reading the text before his eyes.
Then he looked around, scanning the [Basketball Player] labels above everyone's heads.
Questions immediately arose in his mind.
There are so many people on the court with the [Basketball Player] label.
Why did I only get attributes from Gao Fei?
Could it be...
The key prerequisite for obtaining attributes is that I have to know the person?
But how exactly is "knowing" someone defined?
Does just knowing each other's names count?
Or do we have to spend some time together?
Gu Qing thought he would have to find time tonight or tomorrow morning to test it.
As for why he wasn't doing it now, he had played basketball for over two hours straight, nearly exhausting himself, and couldn't play anymore.
He left the basketball court.
Rather than rushing back to the dorm, Gu Qing went with Gao Fei to the supermarket in the residential area to buy snacks.
He spent several hundred yuan in one go.
There were so many snacks that Gao Fei had to help carry them.
Back at the dorm.
Gu Qing put the bags of snacks he was carrying on the desk, looked at Chen Zijie and Qian Duole, and said:
"I'll leave these snacks here. Help yourselves whenever you want. Don't be shy."
"Holy shit! Foster father, please accept my bow!"
Qian Duole instantly turned into Lu Bu, hollering away.
Chen Zijie was shocked. "Damn, Gu Qing, did you strike it rich? Got some way to make money? Hook me up, now!"
Gu Qing smiled. "I did come into a little money. Bai Ningyu gave me some breakup compensation."
"How much?"
"Not much. Just twenty thousand."
"Fuck!"
Chen Zijie was green with envy. "Heh, I'm a man of principle. I wouldn't care to earn a single cent of that dirty money you got by selling your looks!"
With that, he immediately sent Gu Qing a secret message on WeChat.
[Bro, there are too many people in the dorm for me to do this in person, so I'm kneeling before you on WeChat. Please introduce me to a rich woman who doesn't care about looks!]
Gu Qing laughed. "I'm just messing with you. I'm a guy. What breakup compensation would I get? Now that I'm single again, I can save what I used to spend on dating and treat myself properly."
Leaving them with those words.
Gu Qing grabbed a clean set of clothes and went into the bathroom to shower.
He took off his sweat-soaked clothes.
Then he looked down.
His stomach, which had only had a little muscle definition before, now sported eight clearly defined abs that looked chiseled with a knife.
Looking farther down, that muscle was even more impressive.
It was so powerful that one look would make Bai Ningyu drop to her knees and beg to get back together.
"New me, new stuff. I'll have to buy new underwear a size bigger on Pinxixi, or it'll be too tight."
Gu Qing muttered to himself.
After coming out of the shower.
Gu Qing immediately started his attribute-grinding plan.
First, he took out a few packs of snacks to share with Qian Duole, grinding his Digestive Ability attribute.
Then he teamed up with Chen Zijie to play games, grinding his reaction speed attribute.
From now on, whenever he had time, he would snack with Qian Duole while gaming with Chen Zijie in the dorm.
The whole idea was to keep a foot in both camps.
Before they knew it.
It was late at night.
The four roommates turned off the lights and went to bed.
Not long after they lay down.
Gao Fei suddenly spoke. "Let me tell you guys something really strange. Don't spread it around."
Qian Duole said, "Go on."
Gao Fei said, "A junior in the external relations department my girlfriend runs went missing half a month ago. The security footage showed he never left campus, but he just vanished. No sign of him alive, no body either."
Chen Zijie said, "Missing for half a month? He's probably done for."
Gao Fei looked regretful. "That junior was ridiculously handsome, only a little behind Gu Qing. I heard quite a few rich, pretty girls at school liked him, but he went missing before he could hook up with a rich woman. Yeah, he's probably dead. What a waste of a body born to live off women."
Missing for half a month without being found?
Really handsome?
Anyone who kills people regularly knows he's probably been dismembered, and it was most likely a crime of passion...
Gu Qing speculated to himself.
He didn't pay much attention to this bizarre disappearance.
Soon.
Gu Qing's thoughts returned to his cheat.
His mind was full of labels.
When I get up tomorrow morning, I'll find a stranger to test this on and see exactly how obtaining attributes through labels works.
P.S. Holding out my bowl, begging for monthly votes and recommendation votes!
Chapter 5: Martial Arts Grandmaster
The next day was Sunday.
There were no classes.
Gu Qing didn't sleep in. He got up at the first light of dawn and went out to buy breakfast.
He bought two tea eggs and a cup of soy milk.
He didn't take them back to the dorm to eat.
Instead, he ate as he strolled along.
He observed the labels above the heads of everyone he passed.
When he passed a privately run gym on campus.
He stopped.
Yesterday's two-point increase in Physical Constitution had greatly improved his physique.
He wondered how strong he was now.
I'll go in and test it...
With that thought.
Gu Qing entered the gym and bought a ten-yuan trial pass.
He walked around inside.
Even on a weekend morning, the gym was still packed with students working out.
He had to hand it to them: gymgoers really were disciplined.
Gu Qing scanned everyone's heads and found that anyone whose body showed even a little sign of working out had a [Bodybuilding Champion] label floating above their head.
He wondered what attributes he would get by working out with someone who had a [Bodybuilding Champion] label.
Right, I almost forgot I wanted to test how obtaining attributes through labels works.
This is a good time to test it.
Soon.
Gu Qing set his sights on a male student with a pointy head, an honest-looking face, clearly defined muscles, and a [Bodybuilding Champion] label floating above his head.
He deliberately walked over beside him to work out together.
Whatever the other guy trained, he trained too.
He would quietly wait an hour.
Then see whether he could trigger the label's attribute gain.
The honest-looking student worked out diligently.
He moved straight from training his chest to training his abs.
Then he trained his back and legs.
He barely stopped to rest the entire time.
"Hey, man, why do you keep following me everywhere? Are you fucking gay?"
After moving to several different spots to train and seeing Gu Qing immediately follow him every time, the honest-looking student finally couldn't take it anymore. He frowned at Gu Qing and demanded an answer.
Gu Qing denied it. "It's just a misunderstanding. Our workout routines just happen to be the same."
The honest-looking student said nothing after hearing that. He simply moved somewhere else to train.
Seeing this, Gu Qing silently followed.
"And you say you're not gay?!"
The honest-looking student suddenly stopped, whipped around, and spoke through gritted teeth.
After saying that, he glared fiercely at Gu Qing, then left the gym, cursing all the way.
Gu Qing checked the countdown on his phone. Over an hour had already passed.
However.
No text appeared before his eyes.
That meant he couldn't obtain attributes from strangers.
Well, I'll have to find an opportunity later.
I'll see whether I can successfully obtain attributes once we know each other's names.
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