Chapter 23: Fitness Starts From Competition! [Please Collect]

Everyone was doing sit-ups collectively...

The rabbits outside were bewildered, clearly confused by the discrepancy between their movements and those of the players.

So, all the rabbits looked off into the distance behind them.

Yi Zheng, standing on tiptoes to observe the players' actions, grinned and said, "Easy, guys, let's do push-ups!"

Then the players saw all the rabbits drop to the ground collectively, huff, and puff...

The players compared their own movements to those of the rabbits, each one looking increasingly frustrated.

"Damn it, just watching them from here makes my butt ache!" the chubby guy cursed.

"Can you take this? No, I can't! Grab your gear, guys!"

Yue Wei was furious again and led a group of hot-tempered players out.

The rabbits were instantly thrilled...

Soon, Yue Wei and his group were back, dejected, at the resurrection point.

"Change of action! Jumping jacks! I refuse to believe they can make this look fancy!" Wang Mingchen ordered the players to switch up their exercise.

"Jumping jacks?" Yi Zheng mumbled to himself, frowning. This one seemed tricky.

While Yi Zheng was worrying, he saw a big rabbit among them suddenly squeeze his chest, then jump twice, and start pondering.

In a moment, that rabbit tied two groundhogs with a string and hung them around his neck, letting them dangle on his chest.

Then he jumped again, making the plump groundhogs bounce up and down...

The rabbit smirked in satisfaction, then he fixated on the female players and began to jump.

The girls' faces immediately turned dark...

"That damn rabbit is mocking us!" A flat-chested girl grew furious, grabbed her gear first, and charged out, only to be slapped into white light by the rabbit with a groundhog.

The men couldn't just stand by and watch the girls get bullied.

"Can you take this? Grab your gear, guys!" Yue Wei roared.

He grabbed at empty space around him, glanced outside, and saw his sword stuck at the village entrance. Only then did he remember he dropped it when he was killed.

But it didn't matter. Without a weapon, he clenched his fists and rushed out.

The other hot-tempered men followed suit...

Shortly after, everyone gathered at the resurrection point once more.

"Change! This time let's do lifts! If there's nothing to lift, grab someone!" Wang Mingchen called out again.

Everyone started lifting each other while glaring daggers at the despicable rabbits outside.

Seeing this, Yi Zheng shook his head. "Why haven't these guys caught on yet? They're so slow. Do they really think we rabbits have that much free time to mess with them?"

Just as Yi Zheng was pondering how to give them a clue, Yue Wei, who was practicing by lifting a male player, suddenly noticed something. "Hey, you were just out of breath and about to pass out. How did you recover so quickly?"

The other player was taken aback. "I think... I'm not tired anymore."

Yue Wei realized something, dropped the player, and shouted, "Yun Ying, Young Master Zeng, Sister Fang, Old Chen? I found a glitch! It looks like after dying and resurrecting, you're not tired anymore!"

The players who resurrected with Yue Wei also realized this, each confirming they were no longer tired.

Yun Ying's eyes lit up. "Maybe this is a glitch!"

Wang Mingchen said, "Everyone seems to have forgotten, that no matter how realistic this game is, it's still a game! In the game, resurrection means being fully restored. All fatigue disappears!"

Thinking of this, Wang Mingchen called out to the exhausted players in the crowd, "Everyone listen up, if you're too tired to continue, just leave the village and die. But make sure to store your equipment beforehand and go out naked!"

The girls rolled their eyes at him but knew well that going out with equipment meant likely coming back without it.

Also, being "naked" here didn't mean truly naked; they still had their base clothes on. Equipment was rare and losing it would be a pity.

On the other side, as Yi Zheng was pondering how to enlighten the human players, he saw a group of wobbly-legged men and women charge out, bare-handed. They rushed out in a chaotic manner, clearly wanting to be killed, and there were a lot of them!

Yi Zheng laughed, "Finally, they understand Master Rabbit's good intentions. This bunch of students sure are hard to teach! But at least the hard work has paid off. From now on, they'll work out, and I'll level up! Everyone trains independently, haha..."

This was Yi Zheng's plan.

As an NPC, he didn't want human players to know about his existence, lest they bother him constantly.

But if the human players didn't realize that exercising could boost their attributes, they wouldn't push themselves until they were dead tired.

Without the lure of attributes, they wouldn't persistently work out, and they wouldn't come out to get killed when exhausted.

If no one came out to get killed, how would Yi Zheng level up?

"Alright, boys, we won't taunt them anymore! From now on, whatever they do, we do! After all, they're still the pros! Let's see who can last longer! But anyone who voluntarily comes out, kill them on the spot, no mercy!" Yi Zheng commanded.

The rabbits responded, "Roar!"

Then the players noticed that the previously annoying rabbits had suddenly stopped bothering them. Instead, each one looked at them provocatively.

The human players did push-ups; they did one-handed push-ups!

The human players did lifts; they grabbed trees and did lifts!

The human players did jumping jacks; they jumped with stones!

Seeing the rabbits working so hard, the players' buried pride was also ignited.

"Hell, am I going to lose to a rabbit? Add weights!"

"Add them for me too!"

"Me too!"

...

All at once, the players trained desperately. When exhausted, they'd shout and charge out of the Newbie Village, only to be slapped to death by the rabbits in disgrace.

Initially, the players resisted this a bit, but gradually, they got used to it.

They even seemed to reach some sort of agreement with the rabbits. The rabbits took turns waiting at the entrance, killing anyone who came out swiftly and efficiently.

In a blink of an eye, ten days passed, and the human players were ecstatic to discover that due to the variety of daily exercises, their constitution, power, agility, and spiritual power each increased by 1 point!

In other words, in ten days, their basic attributes had increased by 4 points!

Apart from the 5 free attribute points gained from leveling up, it was essentially equivalent to leveling up once!

"There are still six months until the second beta test. Once new players arrive, we can coordinate and break through the encirclement. As long as we break out and go elsewhere, the sky's the limit! By then, foreign players won't stand a chance against us! We'll crush them!" Yue Wei laughed, immensely pleased.