NOVEL WEB Chapter 12: 012 Pity their lack of wisdom, anger at their lack of ambition
"Alright, Sister Xia." A normal girl trotted over, hugging Qiao Bixia's arm and said, "It's just a normal match. Jingjing must have something on her mind today."
"Hmph." Qiao Bixia shouted to the sideline, "One more person."
Li Zheng finally breathed a sigh of relief and gave a grateful look to the normal girl.
The normal girl scratched her head sheepishly, "You're really good at basketball. Every move is useful."
"It was just luck. Let's continue to practice together in the future." Li Zheng nodded, "Except for Lin Yujing, I will go easy on the girls."
"Hehe."
Li Zheng originally thought there would be another flirting prompt at this moment.
Playing basketball while chatting, double recovery, accelerating learning.
Unfortunately, there wasn't.
It seemed that with this normal girl, it was purely a friendship.
Li Zheng suddenly felt a bit scared.
On the contrary, with Qiao Bixia and Director Sun, it was beyond friendship.
Not good.
He couldn't talk to them anymore, not even look at them.
The next scene was filled with tension.
Many other people from different courts came over to this one, wanting to teach Li Zheng a lesson.
In such an intense match, after just five minutes,
Li Zheng was completely exhausted.
The recovery rate dropped to zero.
Although he had the skills of an ordinary professional player, his stamina was still that of a weakling.
Fortunately, Lin Yujing's provided experience restored several dozen minutes of vitality.
Unable to continue relaxing, Li Zheng had to retreat from the court.
As he was packing his backpack, those two fangirls came over.
Holding hands, heads lowered, each said a sentence.
"Senior...can we add you as a friend?"
"We...we'll send you the photos we took of you playing basketball."
Looking at the two girls shyly holding hands with their heads down,
Li Zheng lamented their lack of intelligence and was angry at their lack of progress.
"You guys, are in the first year of high school, right?" he asked.
"Yeah...did Senior notice us before?"
"We like to watch basketball but can't play...but if Senior is willing to teach..."
The voices of the two girls grew smaller and smaller.
"Stop." Li Zheng's expression gradually became serious. "How did you score on your monthly exam? Have you done your homework? Are you a science or liberal arts student?"
"???
"High school is a brand new starting point, the time to be diligent." Li Zheng quickly took out his phone. "I'll send you the first-year study materials I've collected, and ten thousand carefully selected exercises... I wouldn't give it to just anyone, but you two can have it because it's too precious."
"Sorry to bother you..."
"Goodbye, Senior."
Li Zheng had to put away his phone, smile faintly, and walk toward the school gate under the setting sun.
"Hmph...they have ambition."
You have fully relaxed. This session is concluded.
Intelligent interface is being generated...
Expected to complete by the next day.
Indeed, the learning function shouldn't be so rudimentary.
Li Zheng wiped his sweat.
A fulfilling, colorful day.
It would have been perfect without Lin Yujing.
But he had to admit, she did provide a quality relaxation experience.
Especially that one block. Very satisfying.
In the future, she probably wouldn't dare to provoke him again.
Great, now he could study in peace.
...
The next morning, when Li Zheng woke up, he found himself still hugging the October issue of Sci-Fi World, with a lot of drool on it.
It must have been because the previous day was so fulfilling, causing him to be so out of control while resting.
Even getting out of bed, his whole body ached.
Except for long-distance running exams in PE class, he had never been this sore.
It seemed that relaxation was heavily dependent on physical fitness and muscles. He needed to set up an exercise plan.
The next moment, while brushing his teeth, Li Zheng found the system interface had already been reconstructed.
It was barely decent.
The Study Demon cultivation was clearly divided into two main modules: learning and relaxation.
First, he looked at the learning section.
His academic status was clear at a glance.
Li Zheng
Basic science learning stage (pending upgrade)
Chinese: 94 Math: 109 English: 92
Physics: 102 Chemistry: 63 Biology: 87
Note: Subject scores only represent the level of mastery of the subject and are unrelated to exams.
Scores over 150 in a single subject, or an average score over 120, qualify for an upgrade to specialized learning stage.
After meeting the conditions, you may also choose to delay the upgrade, continue to strengthen subject foundations, and double major in liberal arts.
Today's vitality value: 27/27, 28x speed.
Tip: Learning speed can be switched to normal speed at any time.
Next, he looked at the relaxation interface.
Li Zheng
Game Coin: 0.
Relaxation Level: Lv2.
Distance to upgrade: Relaxation 1/72 (hours)
Each upgrade will select three richly rewarded tasks for you to choose from.
Please choose your Lv2 reward—
A
Campus Basketball Overlord: In two weeks, maintain a winning streak of 100 games in the campus basketball attack and defense matches.
Reward: 10 Game Coins, Campus Basketball Overlord Buff, Basketball relaxation speed rate 30%↑, upper limit 30%↑
B
Subject Enthusiast: In real time, improve your score by 20 points in a single subject within 48 hours.
Reward: 20 Game Coins, Subject Enthusiast Buff, permanently increases learning efficiency of the subject at this phase by 100%.
C
School Skipper: Do not study or go to school for 48 consecutive hours.
Reward: 50 Game Coins, Corruption Debuff, reduces study efficiency by 30% for two weeks.
Looking at these three tasks,
Li Zheng almost brushed his teeth until they bled.
First, delete C for me!
Not studying for two days is already corruption.
Skipping school?
In a hurry to go to hell?
Looking at A and B, the rewards were pretty good.
Unfortunately, he couldn't manage a 100-game winning streak in two weeks.
After all, his stamina could only last for two games at most.
Two games a day, it would take two months to gather 100 wins, and he would have to start over if he lost in between.
Comparatively, B, improving 20 points in a single subject within 48 hours,
was a bit tough.
But if it was his weakest subject, chemistry, there was still a chance.
Anyway, C was impossible, and A was unachievable.
Studying required ambition.
So, B it was.
Chemistry!
This time, I will conquer you.
To tackle this difficult task, Li Zheng gave up his own backpack, dug out his father's hiking bag, and stuffed all the textbooks, notes, and review materials related to chemistry into it.
When he was about to leave, he found a note stuck to the door, written in immaculate script—
Son, yesterday you left a message saying you suddenly developed a liking for basketball.
Dad is very happy. Good health is the capital of learning. If your grades drop, it's just a difference between attending 985 or 211 colleges, but if your health has problems, it's 996 to ICU.
Haha, I'm so funny.
There's 300 yuan on the shoe cabinet. Use it to buy a good basketball. Don't always borrow others'.
Remember, buy a basketball, not stationary.
Lastly, today's wisdom—
Life is not a stationary process, but the Ergodic Theorem still applies!
You haven't learned about stationary processes and the Ergodic Theorem yet, but I believe when you do, you'll have an epiphany.
Besides, don't use this sentence in your essay. The essay graders won't understand it.
—Li Yi
2018.10.11, 05:13