3 The Cat Who Speaks Human Language

  Li Ge rode a bicycle to school, while Xue Jing took the bus. After the two separated, Xue Jing took the bus, got off after three stops, and walked a few hundred meters before returning home.I greeted the security guard, entered the residential complex, came to my own apartment building, took the elevator to the ninth floor, and took out my key to open the door.

After entering the room, Xue Jing threw his schoolbag on the sofa, stretched his body, and walked into the "gym".

It is called a gym, but in fact it was originally a storage room. After the skill panel was awakened, Xue Jing cleared out the debris inside and purchased a lot of fitness equipment, turning it into a small gym. To do this, he almost spent all the living expenses he saved every month.

Fortunately, he did not become a member of the orphanage in this life. Instead, he had both parents and an older sister who just went to college last year. Although his family was not rich, it was still happy.

The only problem is that his parents are very busy at work and are often on business trips. His sister Xue Wan has been studying in another city since last year, which has resulted in Xue Jing basically living alone.

Xue Jing first did a set of stretching exercises, then stood on the treadmill, started it, and adjusted the speed to 12km/h, intending to run at this speed for ten minutes to warm up.

As he ran, he fell into deep thought.

"I ran 1,000 meters during the physical test at noon, and gained 10 more experience points than running 1,000 meters normally..."

"So, this method of 'participating in specific events' is the trick to quickly gain experience?"

The reason why Xue Jing agreed to his class teacher Du Shiwei's request to participate in the school sports meet after school was to confirm this point.

If this was the way to get more experience, and a normal daily physical test could increase his experience, then participating in a formal competition should increase it even more.

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An hour later, Xue Jing was sweating profusely and gasping for breath. He unscrewed a 500ml bottle of mineral water and drank it all in one breath.

He opened the panel.

[You completed a hard workout, fitness experience +98]

[Fitness Lv2 (356/500)]

He calmed down for a while and felt the changes in his body.

Well, if you just go by feeling, you can't feel anything.

But he knew that his physical fitness had improved a little.

The changes in skill experience points are reflected in real time, not just when you level up.

"As for the skill of fitness, it's actually not worth the effort if you spend time practicing it," Xue Jing thought.

Through his understanding over this period of time, he found that the skill "Fitness" can comprehensively enhance all of one's physical qualities. It is a very useful skill and also his main goal for gaining experience.

But this skill does not actually require him to specifically practice in the gym.

According to his observation, the way to gain experience for this skill should be "any behavior that can exercise the body."

For example, when he runs, he can increase his "running" experience while also gaining some "fitness" experience at the same time.

In this case, he can also increase his "fitness" experience by doing other behaviors that can exercise the body, without having to spend time specifically exercising with fitness equipment.

For example... practicing martial arts.

The martial arts in this world are much more advanced than those in the previous life.

He had seen with his own eyes a video of a martial arts competition online in which a martial artist kicked his opponent more than ten meters away, and the opponent crashed into the wall, leaving a human mark.

The movement was incredibly fast.

He also wanted to learn martial arts, but... he didn't know where to start.

Soon after his panel awakened, he looked for videos and cheats online and practiced diligently, but up to now, there has been no movement on the panel.

The activation of skills cannot be achieved by random practice, it must have real stuff, otherwise he would have a lot of skills by now.

There are a few martial arts dojos in Qingcheng, but the fees are horribly expensive. He can't afford it, and he is too embarrassed to ask his parents for money because it is really too expensive.

"As long as I can get started, with my unrivaled talent and amazing wisdom, it would be easy for me to develop a powerful and domineering martial art."

But no matter how talented or intelligent he is, without a master to guide him, he is like a skilled cook without rice.

The skill panel allows him to go from 1 to 100, but it cannot allow him to go from 0 to 1 out of thin air.

Xue Jing rested for a while, then got up and went to the bathroom.

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I washed my hair, rinsed my body, filled the bathtub with water and soaked for fifteen minutes. All my fatigue was gone, but my muscles were still a little sore.

In the bathroom, Xue Jing looked in the mirror.

This is a very elegant face, intellectual and ascetic, very cold when without expression, but as long as the corners of his mouth are raised, it is like a warm sun rising in winter, not hot, but just a ray of warmth, but enough to refresh the heart.

His figure is thin but not bony. After these days of skill training, beautiful muscles have begun to emerge. Since skills enhance physical fitness in an all-round way, there is no disharmony in these muscles, and they all grow in the most perfect direction.

He looked down...well, he had a small belly.

Twisting his half-long black hair that didn't reach his eyes, Xue Jing put on his clothes, walked out of the bathroom, and prepared to go out to buy some food for the household.

I changed my shoes, walked out of the house, left the community, and headed towards the nearest supermarket.

It is now 7:30 in the evening. It has gotten dark, most people have already had dinner, and there are many pedestrians on the street.

While waiting for a traffic light on the road, Xue Jing suddenly heard several screams coming from the side.

Curious, he looked in the direction of the sound.

Across the street, I saw an old Mediterranean man sitting in a wheelchair and wearing a classic sleeveless white sweatshirt. He fiddled with the wheels on both sides with his hands, turning them quickly and controlling the wheelchair to shuttle quickly among pedestrians.

Is he... drifting?

It's amazing that the old man was clearly drifting with a manual wheelchair, but his technique was excellent, and he turned and moved lightly and freely. He turned a few drainage ditch bends and swung the wheelchair with the smoothness of a professional figure skater, extremely smooth.

When the wheelchair passed by, it created a gust of wind, which blew up the hems of the female students wearing short skirts along the way, causing them to scream. The old man in the wheelchair even took the time to whistle at the girls, causing them to curse and complain.

Looking at the old man's elegant back as he drifted away, Xue Jing fell into deep thought.

If sitting in a wheelchair counts as a skill, this old guy must be at Level 10.

But I encountered an interesting thing.

Shaking his head, the green light came on, Xue Jing crossed the road and walked into the supermarket.

I bought some beef, pork, vegetables, eggs, ham, vegetarian noodles, onions, ginger, garlic, spices, some used or almost used seasonings, some snacks and fruits. Then I paid at the checkout counter and walked out of the supermarket carrying a big bag.

Xue Jing returned the same way, but stopped when passing a dark alley.

"Um?"

A little black cat with four white gloves jumped down from somewhere and stood in front of him.

The cat did not have a collar, but instead had a platinum-colored metal ring on the top of its tail. I didn't know if it was a decoration put on a domestic cat by its owner, or a stray cat put it on by passersby as a prank.

Its body was dirty and some parts were hairless, which seemed to be caused by a fight with its own kind. There were also spots of solidified blood on its fur, and it was obvious that it had suffered a lot.

After Maomao jumped down, he staggered to Xue Jing, glanced at him with his emerald-like vertical pupils, and then fell to the ground sideways.

"Why are you trying to scam me here?"

Xue Jing burst out laughing.

But the cat looked quite pitiful, so he thought it was fate. He squatted down and prepared to take out some sausages to feed it.

At this moment, the fallen cat opened his mouth and spoke in human language in a daze, mumbling: "I didn't expect... the world of stray cats... is so cruel, gu."

After saying this, he closed his eyes and fainted.

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