7 Health Preservation, 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 all sleepiness was dispelled the moment he opened his eyes.

He opened the skill window.

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

[Health Level 1 (236/300)]

Xue Jing activated the health-preserving skill a week ago.

According to his observations, the effects were some physical enhancements, significantly improved sleep quality, and, very noticeably, improved his energy.

Since the health-preserving skill was activated, he hardly ever felt tired the entire day. He was full of energy and could do things immediately when he thought of them. His procrastination was greatly reduced, and he could 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 common skill that makes him most satisfied.

However, the only way to improve his skill so far seems to be going to bed early and getting up early. He has also tried taking health supplements, eating on time and maintaining a regular diet, and other health tips, but to no avail.

After closing the door, Xue Jing prepared to get up, wash and go for a run, but he found that his left arm felt furry. He lifted the quilt and saw that it was indeed a cat holding his arm with four white gloves and sleeping soundly.

Xue Jing felt a bit of a headache.

Even though he had made the cat reveal the fact that it was not a cat yesterday, he still couldn't get it to speak in the end.

As long as the cat doesn't speak, he won't be able to get any information about the divine substance, and the unlocking of the "Twin" active effect will be a long time in coming.

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

"Forget it. There will always be a way out when you get to the mountain."

He pulled his arms out of the cat's arms, got up from the bed, and covered the cat with a thin quilt, leaving only the cat's head exposed.

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

After washing up, I changed into sports-friendly clothes, put on my sports watch, put on my shoes, and went out for a run.

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

At this point in time, Xue Jing is the only one here.

The sky was still dark, and the street lights were still on. Under the light, Xue Jing walked onto the "runway" and did some stretching exercises.

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

This is the speed he is 'jogging' at now.

One lap, two laps, three laps...

An hour later, Xue Jing slowly slowed down his pace and gradually stopped.

He was breathing heavily, sweating profusely, and his feet felt burning from the toes to the base of his thighs. His lungs felt as if someone was holding them and kneading them. Every time he inhaled oxygen, it would be squeezed out by that hand, and the feeling of lack of oxygen could not be alleviated at all.

After a few minutes, he gradually calmed down his breathing and raised his right hand to check the data on his sports watch.

Running time: 1 hour, 2 minutes and 13 seconds, average speed: 18.3 kilometers.

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

Running at this speed for an hour without stopping is a huge challenge for Xue Jing's current physical condition.

He has been doing this run every morning lately.

Originally, he couldn't run like this every day because 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, he only needs to take a good sleep and feel fully recovered when he wakes up.

Xue Jing opened the door.

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

[Running Lv3 (463/800)]

I ran a little over 18 kilometers, which gave me 205 experience points for "Running".

As his experience with this skill grows and levels up, everything about him related to running will be strengthened.

His posture and power will become more and more perfect. How to exert force to avoid injury while being more powerful, what posture can reduce wind resistance to run faster, how to coordinate breathing rhythm, all of these are engraved into his body like instinct.

Physical fitness is also improved, especially lung capacity and leg explosiveness.

Xue Jing glanced at the "Fitness" skill again.

[You 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."

It was tiring, but the satisfaction of seeing himself getting better made him happy beyond the tiredness.

Even without mentioning the boss's growth rate, it just allows people to clearly see their own progress, which is actually an incredible plug-in.

Just like some people cannot persist for long when learning to exercise, but can play games all night long for several days, the biggest difference between them actually lies in whether they can accurately recognize that they are making progress.

The certainty of receiving positive and negative feedback in real time and the strong sense of anticipation of knowing that one's future will be great can give most people a strong motivation from the bottom of their hearts.

This is almost like letting people take one step into the saintly realm of "unity of knowledge and action".

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

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

After returning home, he took off his clothes and threw them into the washing machine, then went into the bathroom to rinse his body, feeling refreshed.

At this time, the cat still hadn't woken up. It had clearly slept with him yesterday. This creature was clearly not a cat at all.

Xue Jing came to the kitchen, took out six eggs from the refrigerator, put them in the pot, poured enough water to cover the eggs, and put it on the induction cooker to cook.

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

Then he took out the unfinished slices of bread that he had just bought yesterday morning from the cabinet. This was his breakfast today.

Because it is too simple, it cannot be called cooking skills at all, so the "cooking skills" experience has not increased.

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

Although the cat had always refused to communicate, which made him very dissatisfied, it had brought him the opportunity to improve his skills, so Xue Jing was very grateful to it in his heart.

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

When he arrived at the gate and opened it, he turned around and threw a dart. Then he immediately turned back without looking at the result, walked out, closed the door and locked it.

On the dartboard hanging on the corner, a dart was deeply embedded in the bull's eye.

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

Xue Jing left home, walked for a distance, and took a bus. He passed three stops while being secretly watched by the female students on the same bus. He gained some more experience in charm, got off at the stop, and arrived at Qingcheng Middle School.

It was around 6:30 in the morning. There was a crowd of people at the school gate. Xue Jing followed the crowd into the campus, but he did not go to his class. Instead, he walked to the opposite side of the affiliated high school teaching building.

As an affiliated middle school of Seijo University, Seijo Middle School and Seijo University campus are connected, and students can visit each other at any time.

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

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

However, due to various considerations, the authorities have strictly blocked information in this regard. Some information can be found on the Internet, but they are all simple introductions without details.

But just because you can't find it online doesn't mean you can't find it at Sun City 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 Qing High School.

The elite class is a special class, so naturally there is special care. As long as the students in the elite class can maintain their grades and keep this status, they can choose not to take the college entrance examination and go directly to Sun City University when they graduate with this status.

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

The first six floors of the library are open to ordinary students of the affiliated high school, but the seventh floor is not open to the public. Hidden inside are documents and files that cannot be found on the Internet, and only students of Qing University or the affiliated high school elite class are allowed to enter.

Xue Jing went in once out of curiosity, but there were too many documents and files on this floor, and they were too messy and complicated. Moreover, without a computer to search and locate the books, it was difficult to accurately find the information he wanted to know, so he never came here again.

However, this is currently the only place where he can possibly find information related to "divine matter", and he can only try his luck here.

Qingda Library occupies a very large area, with several access gates placed at the main entrance. 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 leading to the seventh floor. He swiped the card again to pass through and came to the seventh floor.

Compared with the first six floors with very modern decoration, the seventh floor of the library is plain and simple, 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 have the illusion that you have crossed time and traveled to the past.

But there is a sense of heaviness and historical sedimentation that is not present in the first six floors.

Usually, few people come to the seventh floor, let alone it is still early in the morning. Xue Jing thought that there should be no one there.

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