Chapter 7: Health preservation and the library

At five o'clock in the morning, Xue Jing opened his eyes on time from his sleep.

Although he had just woken up, he did not feel tired at all, and was full of energy, as if the moment he opened his eyes, he had completely dispelled his sleepiness.

He opened the skill panel.

[Early to bed and early to rise, health preservation experience +37]

[Health preservation Lv1 (236/300)]

Xue Jing activated the health preservation skill a week ago.

According to his observation, the effect is to enhance some physical fitness, significantly improve the quality of sleep, and very obviously improve his energy.

Since the activation of the health preservation skill, he has hardly felt tired all day, is full of energy, and can do the things he puts his mind to immediately when he thinks of them. The phenomenon of procrastination has been greatly reduced, and he can fall asleep after a while after closing his eyes, completely getting rid of the trouble of insomnia.

It can be said that this is the most satisfactory ordinary skill for him.

However, this skill seems to only increase in experience by going to bed and getting up early. He has also tried taking health supplements, eating on time, keeping a regular diet, and other health preservation tips, but basically nothing has happened.

After closing the panel, Xue Jing was ready to get up, wash up, and go for a run, but he found that his left arm felt heavy. He lifted the thin blanket and saw that it was indeed Maomao, who was holding his arm with its four white-gloved paws and sleeping soundly. (Nickname he gave the cat)

Xue Jing felt a little headache.

Although he had made Maomao completely expose the fact that he was not a cat yesterday, he still couldn't get it to speak.

As long as Maomao didn't speak, he couldn't get any information about the divine substance, and the unlocking of the active effect of "Twin" would be a long way off.

He couldn't say openly that he needed this "divine substance". He was very cautious about everything related to the skill panel and didn't intend to reveal anything to anyone.

"Forget it, there will always be a way out when the car reaches the mountain."

He pulled his arm out of Maomao's grip, got up, and covered Maomao with the thin blanket, leaving only the cat's head exposed.

It was still dark, he went to the bathroom, turned on the light, and started to wash up.

After washing up, he changed into clothes that were convenient for exercise, he put on a sports watch, and shoes and then went out for a run.

Not far from the residential area where Xue Jing lives, there is a small garden for people to walk and play. Outside the garden is a red brick road, which is specially built around the garden. It is very suitable for running when there are few people.

At this time, Xue Jing is the only one there.

The sky is still dark, and the street lights are not turned off. Under the light, Xue Jing walked to the "runway" and did some stretching exercises.

Then he started running at a pace far beyond that of ordinary people, which was not at all like jogging. It was almost like an ordinary person with a weaker body sprinting at full speed.

This is the speed of his "jogging" now.

One lap, two laps, three laps...

After an hour, Xue Jing slowly slowed down and gradually stopped.

He was panting heavily, sweating all over, and felt that his feet were burning from the toes to the roots of his thighs. His lungs seemed to be grasped by someone's hand and kept kneading. Every time he inhaled oxygen, it would be squeezed out by that hand, and the feeling of hypoxia could not be relieved at all.

After a few minutes, he gradually calmed down his breathing and recovered. He raised his right hand and looked at the data on the sports watch.

Running time: 1 hour, 2 minutes and 13 seconds, average speed: 18.3 km/h.

This average speed is close to the level of professional half-marathon athletes in his previous life.

Running at this speed for an hour without interruption is also a great challenge for Xue Jing's current body.

He has been running like this every morning recently.

Originally, he couldn't run like this every day, and his muscle damage couldn't recover at all.

But since the activation of "Health Preservation", his body's recovery ability has greatly increased. No matter how tired he is, as long as he sleeps, he will feel fully recovered when he wakes up.

Xue Jing opened the panel.

[You have completed a long-distance run, running experience +205]

[Running Lv3 (463/800)]

Running a distance of more than 18 kilometers, "Running" has increased by 205 points of experience.

As the experience of this skill increases and the level is raised, everything about him related to running will be strengthened.

His posture and power will become more perfect. How to exert force to avoid injury and have a stronger burst, what posture can reduce wind resistance and run faster, and how to coordinate breathing rhythm, all are engraved into his body like instinct.

His physical fitness has also been increased, especially his lung capacity and leg explosiveness.

Xue Jing glanced at the "Fitness" skill again.

[You have completed a long-distance run, fitness experience +32]

[Fitness Lv2 (288/500)]

He came to the chair in the garden and sat down to rest for a while.

"Comfortable."

Very tired, but this kind of satisfaction of making himself better visible to the naked eye made him happy far beyond tiredness.

Even if we don't mention the growth rate of the panel, just allowing people to clearly see their own progress is actually an incredible plug-in.

Just like some people can't stick to learning and exercising for a long time, but can play games all night for several days, the biggest difference is actually whether they can accurately recognize that they are moving forward. (That's just me, lol)

The certainty of getting positive feedback in real-time, the expectation of knowing that they will have a strong future, can make most people feel powerful motivation from the heart.

This is almost like a saint who has half a foot in the realm of "unity of knowledge and action".

It was already past six o'clock, the sky was bright, and people began to appear around.

Xue Jing wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked back home slowly.

After returning home, he took off his clothes and threw them into the washing machine, walked into the bathroom to wash his body, and felt refreshed.

At this time, the cat was still not awake. Obviously, it went to sleep at the same time as him yesterday, and this just shows that the biological clock it displayed was obviously not that of a cat. (Cats are most active at dawn)

Xue Jing came to the kitchen, took out six eggs from the refrigerator, put them in a pot, poured enough water to cover the eggs, and put them on the induction cooker to cook. (Induction Cooker means electric stovetop)

He poured a large bottle of pure cow milk into another pot, boiled it on the gas stove until it was hot, turned off the fire, put oatmeal in it, and added some sugar to make a pot of sweet milk oatmeal.

Then he took out the unfinished bread slices he had just bought yesterday from the cupboard. This was his breakfast today.

Because it was too simple and could not be called cooking skills at all, his "cooking skills" experience did not increase.

He ate four boiled eggs, peeled the shells of the remaining two, and put them in a small plate. There was also some oatmeal and bread left, which he prepared and put on the dining table for the cat to eat when it woke up.

Although the cat had been refusing to communicate, which made him very dissatisfied, it had brought him the opportunity to transform his skill panel after all, and Xue Jing was still very grateful to it in his heart.

After doing all this, Xue Jing changed into his school uniform, carried his schoolbag on one shoulder, and took out a dart from the hanging tube next to the dart board.

Arriving at the exit, he opened the door, turned around and threw the dart, then immediately turned back, without looking at the result, walked out, closed the door, and locked it.

On the dartboard hanging in the corner, a dart pierced deeply into the bull's eye.

[Hit the bull's eye accurately, aiming experience +1]

Xue Jing left home, walked a distance, took the bus, passed three stops under the peeking of female students on the same bus, and gained some more charm experience. He got off the bus at the stop and arrived at Qingcheng Affiliated High School.

It was about 6:30 in the morning, and the school gate was crowded. Xue Jing followed the crowd into the campus, but did not go to his class, but walked to the opposite side of the teaching building.

As an affiliated middle school of Qingcheng University, Qing Affiliated High School and Qingda campus are connected, and students can visit each other at any time. (Qingda is a short nickname for the university)

The place Xue Jing wanted to go was the library of Qingda.

In this world, there are some abnormal things that did not exist on the earth in his previous life.

However, due to various considerations, the official information blockade in this regard is relatively strict. Some information can be found on the Internet, but it is all a simple introduction without details.

However, not being able to find it on the Internet does not mean that it cannot be found at Qingcheng University.

As one of the top universities in the outer ring, the students studying there are the future social elites and are qualified to know some secrets.

Xue Jing is a student in the special elite class of Qingcheng High School.

The elite class is a special class, so naturally they are given special care. As long as the elite class students can maintain their grades and status, they can choose not to take the college entrance examination and directly go to Qingcheng University after graduation.

Therefore, the elite class students have some privileges of Qingcheng University students in advance, such as... going to the seventh floor of Qingcheng University Library.

The first six floors of the library can also be entered by ordinary students of the affiliated high school, but not the seventh floor. There are documents and archives hidden inside that cannot be found on the Internet. Students who are not Qingcheng University students or students of the elite class of the affiliated high school cannot enter here.

Xue Jing went in once out of curiosity, but there were too many documents and archives on this floor, which were too messy and complicated, and there was no computer to search and locate books, so it was difficult to accurately find the information he wanted to know, so he never came here again.

However, this is the only place where he can find information related to the 'divine substance'. He can only try his luck here. The Qingda Library covers a large area with several access control gates.

Xue Jing took out his library card, swiped the card at the gate sensor, passed the verification, and walked into the library.

He went straight up without stopping and came directly to the sixth floor. There was another gate at the entrance of the stairs to the seventh floor. He swiped the card again and came to the seventh floor.

Compared with the first six floors with modern decoration, the seventh floor of the library looks plain and unpretentious, with old bookshelves, old tables and chairs, old books and documents, and old-fashioned dim lights hanging on the ceiling. As soon as you enter the door, you will have the illusion that you have crossed time and traveled to the past.

But there is a heavy sense of historical precipitation that is not in the first six floors.

Few people usually come to the seventh floor, not to mention that it is still early in the morning. Xue Jing thought it should be empty.

But to his surprise, there was already a girl sitting in the rest area where there were old tables and chairs.

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