I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal

On the evening of March 4th,

Chen Yun was quietly studying the mechanism behind the changes in his own physical strength at home.

After returning from Bai's house,

he spent the afternoon watching videos, reading novels, and playing around.

Then, having promised Bai Shi protection from being beaten, he considered shifting his planned experimentation with physical transformations to focus on physical exercise instead.

He slightly increased his exercise load.

Cramming at the last minute was always better than not cramming at all.

Although he only needed to deal with a group of staff members from an educational organization who might attack Bai Shi,

Chen Yun, who had only been in one fight so far, was still worried about his combat ability.

Not worried about being unable to beat them, but worried about being too strong.

What if he lost control and ripped someone's throat out?

When dealing with the guy from the internet-famous shop, he could suppress his craving for combat.

Helping Bai Shi might mean facing many people.

At that time, having never faced such a situation, it was uncertain whether he could keep his cool.

Therefore, he needed more exercise to enhance his control power.

At least he believed that exercise could strengthen his ability to control himself.

But shortly after he began exercising, a sudden stroke of realization hit him—an issue he hadn't paid attention to before, a critical issue:

His physical recovery mechanism...

It seemed to have a big problem!

Theoretically,

his ability to recover all his expended physical strength with just 10 seconds of rest

would mean that as long as the output intensity of his physical consumption wasn't too high, he could be like a perpetual motion machine.

But in reality, this was not the case.

After re-confirming with experiments,

he was sure that his physical strength only started to recover after 10 seconds of ending the exercise.

There was no recovery during the breaks between his exercises.

This wasn't a perpetual motion machine.

It rather felt like refreshing a status in a game.

It was like a game setting where full physical strength recovered after disengaging for 10 seconds.

Such a recovery mechanism

was actually quite outrageous.

It seemed as though everything that controlled the recovery of his physical abilities was halted during his exercise.

In Chen Yun's view,

this was definitely not good.

If he were to be in a combat situation in the future, he couldn't possibly plan to disengage for ten seconds to catch his breath and then try to counterattack, could he?

The enemy likely wouldn't give him that chance.

Of course, if the enemy insisted on rambling on for ages, they couldn't blame Chen Yun for coming back to full strength after lying on the ground for ten seconds.

In any case,

after the experiment, Chen Yun only confirmed the peculiarities of his physical recovery mechanism, unable to devise any strategies to counter it.

He could only resign himself to being at ease for now.

After all, such a recovery mechanism was currently more beneficial than harmful.

Despite some drawbacks, it was still quite formidable.

With such an outrageous recovery ability, Chen Yun wasn't so fussy.

The current recovery mechanism

was certainly sufficient.

Thinking along these lines,

Chen Yun, who had been experimenting with his physical recovery mechanism until well past ten at night, threw himself onto the couch.

Although he didn't feel physically tired,

after pushing himself to test his physical recovery mechanism a few times, he still felt some mental fatigue.

Fortunately, the fatigue wasn't serious.

With the cool night breeze blowing through the open window,

he felt much better in an instant.

Time slowly passed during the experimentation.

He looked at his phone, which now showed it was already past ten in the evening.

Chen Yun held his phone,

chatting sporadically with Bai Shi, who was helping him resolve the surveillance incident, and keeping an eye on the progress of the situation Bai Shi was updating him on.

At this moment.

Bai Shi was still out and about.

He had almost finished the tasks he promised to Chen Yun.

Now, he was busy causing trouble for others for his own little interests.

After parting with Chen Yun that morning,

Bai Shi headed straight to the office building of the Shucheng Morning News.

Acting efficiently, he quickly made his way to see one of the higher-ups of the Shucheng Morning News by leveraging his status as a lawyer.

Then, he used a bunch of strange and unfavorable information about the Shucheng Morning News, obtained through who knows what means.

After a spirited negotiation,

he concluded with a phrase, "I hope you don't disappoint my client."

In the end, Shucheng Morning News agreed to settle privately.

They withdrew and took down the videos related to Chen Yun and compensated him with twenty-five thousand yuan.

Correspondingly, Chen Yun also agreed not to pursue the violation of portrait rights further.

Chen Yun was satisfied with the outcome.

The videos were taken down, and he received compensation.

So, there was no need to create further issues.

He wasn't like those web novel protagonists who would readily kill someone's entire family—we wouldn't go to extremes normally.

Of course,

if his personal safety, friends and family, or personal interests were harmed, he surely wouldn't just sit back and do nothing.

With a weapon at hand, the intent to kill comes naturally.

His strength was not for show.

He avoided trouble to live a peaceful and unthreatened life, to secretly delve deeper into the study of his own changes.

Afterwards,

having dealt with the Shucheng Morning News, Bai Shi,

armed with a pile of other prepared materials, went straight to confront the owner of the trendy shop.

From the excited voice messages that Bai Shi occasionally sent to report on the situation, Chen Yun could tell things were going well for Bai Shi.

From time to time,

he could even faintly hear in the background of Bai Shi's voice messages the shop owner speaking.

Starting from impatience in the first voice message,

gradually becoming more respectful.

Until now, past ten o'clock, the latest voice message from Bai Shi said the shop owner had taken him to a bath center to enjoy and casually discuss the settlement fee.

He even asked Chen Yun if he wanted to come.

Clearly, Bai Shi had found the shop's Achilles' heel.

Chen Yun didn't accept Bai Shi's invitation.

Now, he neither ate food, nor did his genetic material disappear out of thin air.

Whether it was going out to feast or to engage in something lewd,

he wasn't much interested.

Sometimes, it was more interesting to hide by oneself and do research.

That kind of slow, covert growth,

that feeling of exploration and progress,

always made it addictive, far more thrilling than showing off or slapping faces.

With that in mind, Chen Yun confirmed with Bai Shi over the phone if the surveillance issue had been resolved.

After receiving an affirmative answer, he tentatively ended the idle chat with Bai Shi.

Seeing that it was close to midnight, Chen Yun decided to open his notes and begin today's record.

[Sixth record: 2024.3.4 (the 20th day of the first lunar month)]

[1. Maximum number standard push-ups: 2420, still progressing compared to yesterday, physical strength limit has once again improved.]

[2. Discovered special aspects of the physical recovery mechanism, similar to the out-of-combat recovery setting in games.]

Looking at the records from the past few days, Chen Yun felt the tangible progress he had made.

Improvement in physical strength limit was just the basics.

In fact, both strength and speed had improved along with physical fitness, or rather, physical condition.

Thinking as such,

Chen Yun prepared to open his computer and create a line graph to clearly understand the ratio and trend of changes in his body.

However, shortly after turning on the computer,

an intense wave of sleepiness overcame him, who had not slept in many days.

This drowsiness

made Chen Yun involuntarily open his eyes wide in surprise.

He wanted to say something, but...

The next moment, the world dimmed.