40: Chapter 40 Physical Points

As he spoke, Zhao Yang paused.

He sighed softly.

"I'm telling you this not because I want you to trade stocks. To be honest, I've always felt that the stock market is pretty much the same as a casino."

"Retail investors, institutions, and other sources of capital are just people at the poker table, and the chips they hold vary."

"But their goals are almost identical: they all want to snatch the chips from others."

"What I told you is nothing more than some relatively orthodox and professional financial knowledge and stock trading operations."

"But in reality, understanding these things might not even be meaningful. The high-stakes games played by large capital are far riskier than most people imagine!"

"Unless you are someone who can see the future, it is very difficult to enter the stock market and escape unscathed."

Zhao Yang looked at Wang Ming earnestly as he said this.

To be honest, if he hadn't been a reincarnator, even if the system had granted him Stock Trading Mastery, he wouldn't have put much capital into the stock market.

Because the stock market really isn't that simple.

Whether it's A-shares or us stocks.

No one can guarantee that a crash won't happen in the next second!

When it comes to stock trading, even the most talented and capable people have stumbled.

Although Zhao Yang traded stocks in his previous life, he was like most people and only used it for asset allocation, using about one-fifth of his assets to buy stocks.

Most of the money went into blue-chip stocks, and the vast majority of the rest was placed in funds.

After all, the stock market is too volatile. Unless you are a full-time trader staring at news feeds and K-line charts every day, dreaming of getting rich from stock trading is just that—a dream.

But full-time stock trading... that wasn't a choice that fit Zhao Yang's personality.

"Understood! I'll just learn a little about it; I definitely won't jump in easily!"

Wang Ming patted his chest and assured Zhao Yang.

Zhao Yang nodded, not expressing any opinion on the matter.

As long as this guy Wang Ming didn't use leverage to enter the stock market, honestly, any losses should be within a controllable range.

Moreover, as far as Zhao Yang knew, Wang Ming was relatively reliable in this regard.

Therefore, Zhao Yang didn't worry too much.

Sitting on the train watching the scenery outside the window, Zhao Yang and Wang Ming chatted.

Soon, the sky gradually darkened.

Zhao Shiyu climbed down from the upper bunk to use the restroom. Upon returning, she saw Zhao Yang and hesitated slightly.

"Zhao... Zhao Yang, I'd like to ask you a question, is that okay?"

Zhao Yang, who was chatting with Wang Ming, was slightly stunned; he hadn't expected Zhao Shiyu to take the initiative to speak to him.

Wang Ming, who was beside them, was also stunned.

He had never heard of Zhao Shiyu actively striking up a conversation with any boy.

Damn!

Is Brother Yang's charm really that incredible?

The way Wang Ming looked at Zhao Yang beside him had completely changed.

"Go ahead and ask!"

Zhao Yang was only slightly taken aback, but he quickly reacted and asked Zhao Shiyu with a smile.

Zhao Shiyu asked a question related to finance.

"Sorry, I heard the conversation you and this classmate were having on the lower bunk earlier."

Zhao Shiyu said, looking at Zhao Yang apologetically.

Zhao Yang smiled.

"It's fine. I wasn't trying to hide anything; it's just some knowledge. The real stock market isn't like this. You can learn these things by reading more books and researching more—it's just information!"

After saying this, Zhao Yang directly answered Zhao Shiyu's question.

"Thank you!"

The confusion in Zhao Shiyu's eyes vanished.

She nodded and climbed back up to the upper bunk.

Zhao Yang glanced at Zhao Shiyu's back before withdrawing his gaze.

"What are you thinking about!"

He said impatiently to Wang Ming, who was staring blankly at the side.

"Nothing, not thinking about anything."

Wang Ming said sheepishly, looking at Zhao Yang.

In fact, Wang Ming had a lot of questions he wanted to ask Zhao Yang. He was very curious about how his Brother Yang could be so calm in front of Zhao Shiyu.

In Changcheng No. 1 High School, which boy could maintain such a composed attitude in front of Zhao Shiyu!

Brother Yang didn't look like a student; he looked more like an old-fashioned adult.

However, after thinking about it, Zhao Shiyu was still on the upper bunk.

If he asked Zhao Yang like this, Zhao Shiyu would definitely hear it.

Thinking of this, Wang Ming didn't dare to continue asking.

"Alright, I'm going to exercise for a while. You go play by yourself!"

Zhao Yang said to Wang Ming with a smile.

"Exercise? On the train?"

Wang Ming was stunned.

By this time, Zhao Yang was already ignoring Wang Ming; he lay directly on the floor and started doing push-ups.

Watching Zhao Yang's movements, Wang Ming's expression became slightly strange.

"Brother Yang, is this necessary... there's no need to exercise on the train, right! We're on a journey right now, it wouldn't hurt to rest for a day or two..."

Naturally, Zhao Yang wouldn't tell Wang Ming that he had a system mission to complete.

He just smiled and continued doing push-ups.

"No, exercise is something that requires consistency and a plan; only then can you exercise seriously. If you take a break today because of something, and another break tomorrow because of something else, fishing for three days and drying nets for two, then exercising becomes meaningless."

"Uh..."

Although Wang Ming felt that something was strange, he didn't say anything more.

While doing sit-ups, Zhao Yang looked at the system screen in front of him.

On the system display, two lines of text appeared clearly.

【Physique: 8 (34%)】

【Daily Physical Strengthening Progress: 6 minutes 21 seconds】

This was the important factor for why he had to exercise on the train!

That's right!

Just like with the academic level, Zhao Yang could also see the progress bar for his physique!

It was just that, perhaps because it was a matter of physique, it didn't follow the same logic as the experience point system, so the system panel didn't display precise experience points.

Instead, it was replaced by a progress bar, a percentage progress bar.

However, this wasn't troublesome; it was quite intuitive to understand. Although there were no specific numbers, for Zhao Yang, understanding the percentage directly as experience points was the same thing.

It was just that the difficulty of obtaining it was much harder than academic experience.

Even now, with the system bonus, he could obtain a 100% special bonus.

Currently, Zhao Yang could only gain about five or six percent of progress from two hours of exercise a day.

It seemed decent, but imagine, if there were no bonus from the system, how long would it take to increase even one point of physique?

As expected, he had no physical talent, or perhaps his foundation was just too poor...

Moreover, after more than ten days of exercise, Zhao Yang had also discovered a problem: too much of a good thing is bad.

It wasn't that the progress bar would definitely rise just because he exercised; if he exercised excessively, the progress bar could even drop!

The human body needed an equilibrium point; this was something Zhao Yang had figured out through trial and error over these days.

Physique points didn't seem to be part of the system's "Once Certified, Always Certified" system...

However, this was also easy to understand; after all, if physique could also be "Once Certified, Always Certified", then this society, this world, would turn into a fantasy world. If he learned from a certain bald guy, maybe in a few years, he could just punch the moon to pieces?