After struggling through the ten movements, I felt a warm sensation inside my body... Of course, this wasn't some legendary internal energy, but rather an increase in my body's vitality due to accelerated metabolism and other factors.
The effect is absolutely immediate!
After three days of training, on the third night when Chen Xu entered the virtual training system again, the one-eyed instructor finally showed a satisfied look on his face and said, "Although your physical condition is still terrible, it's much better than before. You can proceed to the next step of training."
Before Chen Xu could even shout out in excitement, the one-eyed instructor's next words plunged him from heaven to hell: "The next training step is to train your reaction speed. At the same time, in reality, you also need to train your muscle strength. Continuing to do those 108 exercises will greatly benefit your reaction speed and strength."
"Strength and agility cannot be trained in virtual reality. The only thing that can be improved here is your combat experience, which includes reaction speed. However, reaction speed training requires simultaneous training in both the real and virtual worlds. Otherwise, if your reaction speed is fast in the virtual world but not fast enough in reality, you will find yourself 'all talk and no action,' with your movements unable to keep up with your thoughts. But there is no doubt that reaction speed can be trained in the virtual world. As for how to integrate it with your body in reality, that requires you to work harder in the real world."
"Alright, now the training content is..." Chen Xu found that a rope had suddenly been tied around his waist. The one-eyed instructor revealed a very vivid, highly anthropomorphic malicious smile and said, "Start dodging these two bees!"
No!
Chen Xu woke up from a nightmare as dawn was just breaking.
That was terrifying! Those two bees were stinging me one after the other... Please, bees only grow one stinger in their entire lives, okay? If you're going to do it, at least make it look realistic! What kind of bee stings someone, flies away, and then flies back to sting again?
However, Chen Xu didn't dare to voice this suggestion, because he was afraid that if that bastard instructor listened to him, he would release a swarm of bees...
That's not called practicing reaction time, that's called courting death!
The one-eyed instructor said that the movement trajectory of the two bees was actually designed, similar to the attack patterns in many boxing styles. If Chen Xu could practice to the point where he could face eight bees without being stung once, his reaction ability would be sufficient to graduate.
But Chen Xu listened with tears welling up in his eyes. Eight bees? Even the Ancient Tomb Sect's Heavenly Net Palm technique didn't have such a method!
After resting, Chen Xu went for a run, but didn't see Guan Yi this time. It seems that going to the gym with the two of them every afternoon is quite tiring for this girl, and she probably can't get up in the morning.
After finishing his run, Chen Xu diligently studied the "Chinese Language" textbook he had printed out... Speaking of which, the girl in the printing room on the third floor of the school's public courses department was quite pretty, and the prices were cheap—two cents for printing and one cent for photocopying, almost half the price of the one at the school gate.
When Chen Xu printed out the entire "Chinese Language" textbook, the girl almost fainted. There were over three hundred A4 pages, enough to bind into a textbook. The girl probably thought this student was either out of his mind or a rare breed who loved learning. She wanted to see what was written on the resource room, but since she wasn't a computer science major, she glanced at all the terminology and simply ignored it, thinking that this was probably another ambitious student who might be preparing to take the TOEFL or IELTS exams to get a scholarship to study abroad.
Chen Xu was actually quite good at choosing his surroundings. Early in the morning, taking advantage of being the first one up, he went straight to the most suitable place for morning reading on campus... the lotus pond.
This lotus pond is arguably the most scenic spot in Hexie University, with its pavilions, green grass, lush lotus blossoms, and a fountain and stream nearby, the water of which is refreshingly cool. So almost every evening, a group of lovelorn men and women gather here, their passion ignited, and then, under the cover of twilight, they sometimes make inappropriate "smacking" sounds.
However, when Chen Xu arrived today, he exclaimed "Bad luck!"
It wasn't that the spot was taken, but rather that he saw something like a balloon in the spot, containing a thick, white, unidentified liquid.
"This is too damn bold!" Chen Xu wiped his sweat. He had heard on the campus BBS that some couples were having sex in the open air near the lotus pond, but he had never actually seen it. He thought it was a joke at the time... This is the campus, and there are so many people around the lotus pond. Who would dare to act like a rutting dog and just go and have sex right here?
The problem was that seeing this thing, Chen Xu felt both convinced and disgusted. He had been thinking about having Xiao Min check whose DNA was inside, but then he thought it was too nauseating and decided against it... Chen Xu wasn't unfamiliar with this kind of liquid. Young people, with their vigorous blood and vitality, are naturally lustful and attracted to young women. In his dreams, he would often play the role of Xu Zhu and have a romantic encounter with a girl in his dream, only to wake up the next day to find white spots on his underwear.
But some things are fine with me, but disgusting with others. Chen Xu felt he couldn't stay in this place; otherwise, if he contracted a disease that started with A and ended with S, he wouldn't be able to explain it to anyone. But as soon as he turned around, he saw a beautiful woman with big eyes standing in front of him.
"How is it you?!" The two exclaimed at the same time. It turned out that Chen Xu still recognized the beautiful woman. She was Gao Xiaojie, who had exhausted him to the point of near collapse that day.
Gao Xiaojie, holding a book titled "Computer Assembly Language," widened her eyes and said, "Wow, so diligent now? Getting up so early to study? What are you studying?"
Chen Xu glanced at her book and laughed, saying, "What, you want to learn hacking too?"
"How did you know I wanted to learn hacking?" Gao Xiaojie's eyes widened, and Chen Xu realized he had misspoke. Studying assembly language didn't necessarily mean he wanted to learn hacking; it could also be about learning basic computer knowledge. He had just been thinking about this lately, so it slipped out unintentionally.
"Nothing, nothing, I was just guessing, hehe." Chen Xu felt it was best to avoid dealing with this feisty girl. Just as he was about to make an excuse to leave, Gao Xiaojie frowned and said, "What were you doing sneaking around here just now?" After saying that, she looked behind Chen Xu.
This glance was quite telling; he immediately spotted the balloon filled with an unidentified liquid on the stone bench in the pavilion. Curious, he walked past Chen Xu and asked, "What is this? Is it yours?"
After saying that, he reached out to take it.
Gao Xiaojie was indeed very curious. Although she had secretly visited some adult websites when she was alone, she would usually just peek at them and then close them with a blush and a racing heart. Now, seeing this kind of thing, firstly because she had never seen it before, and secondly because she thought it belonged to Chen Xu, she was unsuspecting and prepared to touch it.
This really scared Chen Xu. If a girl were to pick up something like this, she would definitely find out what it was later, and wouldn't she be so ashamed and angry when she thought about it?
If she were alone at the time, it wouldn't have mattered; it was embarrassing enough, but no one would know. But now, I'm standing right there. What if she thinks about why I didn't stop her and deliberately made her look bad? Wouldn't she be so angry that she'd kill me to silence me?!
Then Chen Xu focused his energy in his dantian and shouted:
"Don't touch!"
Chapter 51 of the main text: A wet hand of lust
Chen Xu's scream was heart-wrenching. Gao Xiaojie, who was about to touch the unidentified object, turned around immediately in fright: "What are you yelling about?!"
"This, this," Chen Xu quickly shielded Gao Xiaojie behind him, his face stern, and said, "Miss, please don't touch just anything, okay? Some unidentified objects are not good things; you'll regret touching them for the rest of your life."
"You're the one who's a 'Miss'!" Gao Xiaojie rolled her eyes. Her name, Xiaojie, is a transliteration of "Miss." The word itself wasn't a problem, but as times changed, its meaning became increasingly ambiguous. Therefore, Gao Xiaojie always referred to herself as "this young lady" and was absolutely averse to the word "Miss"!
However, upon thinking of the young lady, Gao Xiaojie, being quite knowledgeable, immediately realized what was going on and stared at Chen Xu with wide eyes in disbelief: "Holy crap, this thing is yours?! You, you, you, you, you! You're actually masturbating here so early in the morning?!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Xu tripped and fell to the ground. It took him a while to get up and say, "Sister, are you kidding me? How could I do such a thing?! This was left behind by someone else, okay?"
Gao Xiaojie spat, blushing, and said, "How can someone be so shameless?" Chen Xu chimed in, "Yes, yes! They don't even clean up the battlefield after the battle. Isn't this harming us innocent people? How can we sit here?"
"I don't want to sit in a place like this, just thinking about it makes me sick!" Gao Xiaojie blushed, hugged her books and quickly walked away a few steps, then turned back: "Hey classmate, I heard that Wu Yuan in your dorm is pretty good at computers?"
"Uh, what's wrong?"
"Is Wu Yuan's QQ name 'Crazy Ice Roar'?"
"No," Chen Xu scratched his head, "That's my QQ, what's wrong with it?"
"Yours?!" Gao Xiaojie's face revealed a look of sudden realization, and an extremely wicked smile. He said, "Very good, very good. Your QQ signature is that one, 'It's not hard to get your hand wet with lust, it's hard to get your whole quilt wet with lust'?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Xu broke out in a cold sweat. To be honest, his QQ signature was quite wicked, especially since a girl had said it to his face.
The original sentence should have been "It's not hard to compose a poem, but it's hard to compose poems for a lifetime," but Chen Xu changed two words and it became incredibly wicked. Then, looking at the used condom next to him and Gao Xiaojie's words about "masturbating," Chen Xu felt utterly humiliated and couldn't even lift his head.
"Very good!" Gao Xiaojie nodded and said, "Since it's you, that's right. This student, confess honestly. Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely. I'm in a good mood today. If you confess honestly, I'll spare your life."
These words confused Chen Xu, who asked, "What am I supposed to explain?"
Before she could finish speaking, she was tapped on the head. The petite Jiangnan girl, hands on her hips like a teapot, glared at him and said, "You're quite the actress, aren't you? Tell me, did you steal that photo of mine?!"
"What photos?" Chen Xu knew immediately what had happened after saying that.
A photo of Gao Xiaojie!
That day, that bastard Wu Yuan somehow got Gao Xiaojie's QQ number, logged into her QQ space, cracked the album password, and downloaded a bunch of photos of the young lady... If they were just pretty photos, that would be one thing, you can just look at them, right? Young girls take such pretty photos to show off, right? It can satisfy their vanity. But the problem is that there is one photo among them that is so ugly it can't be shown to anyone. If that gets out, it will be a huge blow to the young lady.
Chen Xu's current worry is whether that photo has been accidentally leaked. Because Wu Yuan is about to get a new computer, this laptop isn't treated like a precious treasure anymore, not even allowed to be touched by strangers. So, lately, many guys have been using Wu Yuan's computer to go online when he's not around, and who knows, someone might have seen the photo and leaked it?
Seeing the murderous glare in the eyes of this girl from Jiangnan, Chen Xu's heart skipped a beat. "I can't say anything, I absolutely can't say that this has anything to do with me!"
Confess and you'll be treated leniently, life imprisonment is fine, resist and you'll be punished severely, but you'll only be able to go home for the New Year. Chen Xu understood this principle very well, so he deliberately put on a silly and innocent expression: "What photos are you referring to?!"
"You still dare to talk back!" Gao Xiaojie could tell at a glance that this guy was pretending to be stupid, so she took out her phone, pulled out a photo, and showed it to Chen Xu: "Look, isn't this what you stole from my space? You still dare to deny it?"
Chen Xu looked at the photo and sure enough, it was the one. He then pretended to be very curious and asked, "Hey, who is this? It looks a lot like you."
"You're quite the convincing liar!" Gao Xiaojie exclaimed angrily. "Please! Absolutely no one could recognize me in this photo at first glance! Next time you lie, please use your brain! Hmph, now confess, did you crack my QQ photo album password?"
Chen Xu wanted to continue arguing, but Gao Xiaojie snorted, "I'm giving you one last chance. Confess honestly, who cracked my QQ album password? Hmph, don't think I don't know. I've already seen your QQ number in my QQ space visitors list! Crazy Ice Roar!"
Chen Xu was really sweating now. He quickly said, "It really wasn't me! My computer skills are so bad, how could I possibly crack the QQ album password? It was Wu Yuan who did it, it has nothing to do with me!"
If Wu Yuan were here, he would definitely stab this traitorous beast to death. But Chen Xu thought to himself, "Better to die for a friend than for myself. Boss, it's not that I betrayed you. It's not that the Nationalists weren't trying hard enough. It's just that the Communists are too cunning! They've already got our hands on you, what else is there to say?" Moreover, Chen Xu believed that if things were reversed, given his boss's character, he would definitely make him take the blame first.
"Is it really Wu Yuan?"
"It's him! It's definitely him!" Chen Xu nodded emphatically. "Our boss is in the computer interest group. How could just anyone get in?"
Gao Xiaojie snorted: "So what if it's the computer team? Are they all that important? They still have to listen to me, don't they?"
Chen Xu exclaimed "Ah!" Gao Xiaojie waved his hand and said, "Let's not worry about these things for now. Are you sure it was Wu Yuan who did it?"
"Absolutely, definitely, and without a doubt!"
"That's fine!" After hearing Gao Xiaojie say that, Chen Xu timidly asked, "Sister, what do you plan to do with our boss? Deep-fry him or strip him naked and hang him at the school gate?"
Gao Xiaojie rolled her eyes at Chen Xu and said, "If that happens, will you do his work? And do you really think I'm that violent?"
Chen Xu said, "Isn't that right?" Seeing Gao Xiaojie glare at him again, he quickly smiled apologetically, "Is the boss helping you with work now? What kind of work?"
"It's a secret!" Gao Xiaojie smiled smugly. "Anyway, they've been busy for so long, and they're almost done. Considering you helped me a lot today, I'll let you see the finished product when it's ready for testing."
Chen Xu scratched his head: "How did I help you?"
Gao Xiaojie seemed to be in a good mood, even giving Chen Xu a flirtatious glare before saying, "That's settled then, I'm outta here." Then she dashed away like a rabbit, leaving Chen Xu standing there wondering, "What exactly did I do to help her? Was it about the condoms?"
Meanwhile, after Gao Xiaojie turned a corner, he immediately took out his phone, dialed a number, and laughed loudly, saying, "Jingjing, I've found out who hacked my QQ album! It's that kid Wu Yuan! Yeah, the one with glasses, the one who looks really sleazy! Yeah, Chen Banxian said it himself."
Zhan Jing chuckled, "Now that you know, what are you planning to do with him? Are you going to print his phone number on flyers and plaster them all over campus, or tie a rock to his leg and throw him into Swan Lake?"
Gao Xiaojie exclaimed exaggeratedly, "Oh my! Jingjing, when did you become so wicked? What a vicious method!"
Zhan Jing on the other end was speechless and said, "Isn't this what you said in the dorm before?"
"I said it?" Gao Xiaojie chuckled sheepishly. Yesterday, she was furious when she found out her terribly ugly photo had been circulated everywhere. She probably said those things after eating several bags of potato chips. Gao Xiaojie said, "Jingjing, don't change the subject, okay? You almost fooled me! You said that no matter what method I used, as long as I found out who secretly accessed my photo album, you would teach me hacking techniques!"
Zhan Jing's voice carried a hint of amusement: "Uh, did I say that?"
"Ahhh! Jingjing, you can't go back on your word! You clearly said it! And I did it! Tell me, didn't the result you tracked lead to Wu Yuan's computer?"
"Okay, okay, you've got me." Zhan Jing couldn't resist Gao Xiaojie's pestering and could only sigh and say, "Then you should read that assembly language book first. You're too impetuous. If you can read it, I'll teach you. If you can't, well, I think with your talent, you'd be more suited to doing things related to games."
Chapter 52 of the main text: Jin Yong's Heroes
Actually, the whole thing started like this.
When Snake challenged SMMH, Zhan Jing received a text message from Blue Baby. Gao Xiaojie happened to be there and saw it all clearly, so there was no way to hide it from her.
Given Gao Xiaojie's personality, it would be difficult to keep her out of it. So, on the night of the decisive battle, Gao Xiaojie eagerly followed Zhan Jing to a hotel and booked a room. The two of them watched the battle with great interest. They witnessed how the SMMH master turned the tide at the last moment, how he completely defeated Snake, and how he made hackers all over the world marvel!
That's absolutely awesome!
One person's strength can suppress everyone in the world, and no one dares to compete with him. How enviable is this kind of state?
So, naturally, Gao Xiaojie then cried and begged Zhan Jing to teach her hacking skills, because Zhan Jing had also participated in the battle and had broken into the innermost layer of Snake's firewall very early on!
However, Zhan Jing felt that Gao Xiaojie was rather impatient and not the kind of person who could calm down and study quietly. Moreover, the study and combat of hacking were very boring and tedious, not as exciting as imagined, so she kept using this excuse to brush her off.
But Gao Xiaojie's ability to torment people is truly remarkable. Zhan Jing eventually couldn't take it anymore. And just yesterday, Gao Xiaojie suddenly discovered that several girls were secretly talking about her. Upon closer inspection, she realized that it was about that ugly photo of her!
Gao Xiaojie was furious... because such a beautiful young girl cares a lot about her image, and that photo was of great significance to her, so she kept it. But the problem is that she kept it without intending to show it to anyone!
Now that someone had found it, this was unacceptable! So Gao Xiaojie begged Zhan Jing to help her investigate who had cracked her photo album password.
Zhan Jing felt this was a good opportunity to test Gao Xiaojie, so she gave her a difficult task. She would find the person responsible, but Gao Xiaojie also had to find her own. Using every means at her disposal, she had to find out who had hacked into her photo album and stolen the photos... Although Gao Xiaojie didn't have any hacking skills, Zhan Jing said that the most important thing for a hacker wasn't the readily available techniques and tools, but rather the ability to think creatively, that is, to imagine.
A hacker who is constrained by rules and regulations will never become a top-notch hacker.