11: Chapter 11: For me, other people's girlfriends are more exciting.
Looking at the stockings that he couldn't fold back, Yun Zhuo couldn't be bothered to worry about it anymore; whatever happens, happens.
Just as he walked out of the residential complex gate, he saw Su Qingyuan jogging over from across the street, her hair blowing lightly in the evening breeze.
As soon as she ran in front of Yun Zhuo, she transformed into that red and white superbike. The handlebars shook slightly: "What are you dazing for? Get on quickly, I'm taking you to a good place."
Yun Zhuo straddled the motorcycle and followed the navigation Su Qingyuan marked on the holographic screen, speeding for thirty kilometers before finally stopping in front of a warehouse at a freight depot.
He jumped off the bike and looked around; it was pitch black everywhere, with only a few faint glimmers of light from distant streetlamps.
On the way here, besides the old gatekeeper at the entrance and the old dog dozing at his feet, he hadn't seen a single soul.
"Teacher Su, what are we doing here?"
"Get off first," Su Qingyuan's voice echoed in his consciousness.
"Oh, right." Just as Yun Zhuo jumped off, the superbike transformed back into Teacher Su.
Su Qingyuan walked to the tightly closed iron door of the warehouse, reached out to open a small cover, revealing a secret keypad for the System. It was a full touchscreen, brimming with a high-tech feel.
She operated the password keypad with the ferocity of a tiger, but the prompts on the screen were all errors.
"Teacher Su, what exactly is in here?" Yun Zhuo leaned over to take a look.
"Oh, don't be noisy." Su Qingyuan frowned, cross-checking the information on her bracelet word by word, "6, 2, 5, 1..." Her fingertips fell, but the red light continued to flash.
Yun Zhuo stared at the numbers on the password pad and suddenly pointed at the holographic screen on her bracelet: "Teacher Su, look at that small period at the end of this string of numbers. Could it also be part of the password?"
"Huh?" Su Qingyuan turned back in confusion, but before she could finish, Yun Zhuo had already reached out to the keypad, his fingertips dancing quickly across the keys.
The keypad emitted a "beep" and lit up with a green light. The door followed with the sound of an airlock, slowly sliding open to both sides, and rows of ceiling lights in the warehouse lit up in response, illuminating the entire space.
Yun Zhuo squinted and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. It turned out to be a fully equipped training room inside, with various machines gleaming with a cold, hard metallic luster, looking extremely professional.
Without waiting for him to ask, Su Qingyuan knew what he wanted to know and gave the answer directly: "I borrowed this from a friend. We'll come here to train from now on, so you don't have to worry about not having money to rent a training room."
Yun Zhuo intentionally drawled his words and asked, "A boyfriend?"
"Yeah, it's my boyfriend's." Su Qingyuan looked up and glared at him, though her tone lacked conviction. "Just say whether you're going to use it or not?"
"Hey, you're overthinking it. To me, other people's girlfriends are more exciting."
As Yun Zhuo spoke, Su Qingyuan slapped his shoulder hard. The force wasn't light, but it carried a hint of playful annoyance: "Pah, you little scumbag. To tell you the truth, this belongs to my cousin."
"Cousin?"
"Yeah, his father is my biological uncle. He used this for training when he was in high school. Now that he's gone to university, it's sitting idle with no one using it, so I borrowed it. Does that make you feel much better?"
Does that make you feel much better?"
"Heh, it's not like I was jealous." After Yun Zhuo finished, he looked away as if nothing had happened.
"You... hmph!" Su Qingyuan glared at him and walked inside huffily, then turned back to wave her hand, her tone softening: "Alright, alright, come in and take a look. I heard from my cousin that this is an A-rank Training Room."
Walking into the training room, Yun Zhuo looked around and couldn't help but remark, "When we were at the guild before, the D-rank Training Room we rented cost ten thousand per hour. I didn't expect your cousin to have his own private A-rank Training Room. Your uncle's family must have a significant background."
"It's just so-so." Saying that, she went to a terminal, opened the control System for the training room, swiped a few times on the holographic interface, and said to Yun Zhuo: "Want to experience it?"
Yun Zhuo leaned in to look at the holographic interface: "What is this?"
"A Gravity Controller. Training in a high-gravity environment not only speeds up the rate at which we complete our synchronization but also accelerates the absorption and transformation of Corrosion Energy."
If we train here after Body Integration, our leveling speed will be at least twice as fast.
Although we don't have cultivation resources right now, with this training room, reaching Rank ten within a month won't be a problem at all."
Rank ten? Yun Zhuo sighed inwardly. Before, he hadn't seen much of the world, so he had naively set Rank ten as his goal.
Now, looking at others, they were also candidates, yet they had their own private training rooms. Just thinking about it made him realize how huge the gap was between him and certain people.
Moreover, he heard that in those key high schools, there were also Genius Classes and Rocket Classes, which were the top of the top. He wanted to break through the encirclement of these people.
Rank ten? He wouldn't even be worthy of carrying their shoes.
The next moment, Yun Zhuo tapped lightly on the holographic screen, adjusting the room's gravity to two times.
The gravity limit here could reach seven times, but he knew that one must take things one step at a time. Trying to get fat in one bite would only result in choking to death.
The moment the confirm button was pressed, a heavy pressure suddenly struck. Yun Zhuo clearly felt his body sink, as if his feet were filled with lead.
Su Qingyuan beside him even stumbled. Fortunately, she grabbed his arm in time to avoid sitting directly on the floor, her voice a bit unsteady: "Suddenly increasing it actually makes me dizzy..."
Transform, Body Integration.
Yun Zhuo, who could already jog after Body Integration, was back at square one under double gravity. He crawled to the parallel bars on all fours, grabbing the cold metal bars to learn how to walk again.
Time spent sweating always flies by.
Unknowingly, the horizon had already turned the color of a fish's belly. The morning light spilled in through the warehouse's clerestory windows, reflecting dazzling spots of light off Teacher Su's mecha.
On the giant treadmill, Yun Zhuo had already run a full fifty kilometers.
In the Body Integration state, they didn't sweat, but after separating, both of them would be as if they had been fished out of water, completely drenched.
The familiar warm current pumped out from the heart again, flowing through every limb and bone, sweeping away the fatigue accumulated from a night of training—the two of them had ranked up once more.
【Name: Yun Zhuo】
【Rank: 2】
【Age: 18】
【Talent: Earth Rank High Grade】
【Strength: 30×2】
【Physique: 50×2】
【Agility: 30×2】
【Spirit: 60×2】
【Spirit Energy: 0】
【Cultivation Technique: Universal Body Forging Technique, Eighth Set of Radio Gymnastics (Entry)】
【Skill: Basic Saber Technique (Entry)】
【War Princess: Su Qingyuan】
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【Name: Su Qingyuan】
【Rank: 2】
【Age: 22】
【Beauty Score: 97】
【Talent: Earth Rank High Grade】
【Attack Power: 300×2 (Mecha Form)】
【Defense Power: 300×2 (Mecha Form)】
【Speed: 300×2 (Motorcycle Form)】
【Transformation Form: Little Electric Scooter → ever-changing motorbike】
【Socket Slots: 3 (Unactivated: 6)】
【Applause Count: 0】
【Current Status: Extremely proud in her heart for being able to help a kid named Yun Zhuo.】
After exiting the Body Integration state, Yun Zhuo wiped his sweat while saying, "It's light out, we should head back to school to get the Cultivation Technique from the principal."
Su Qingyuan swiped her bracelet to check the time and immediately cried out, "Ah~ it's almost seven o'clock! It's over, it's over, I'm definitely going to be late today."
"It's fine. With my current motorcycle driving skills, I can definitely get you to school before seven."
"No, I still have to take a shower." Su Qingyuan frowned, her tone carrying the persistence of a mature woman.
"What time do you think it is, and you still want to shower?"
"Hmph, even if I'm late, I'm still going to shower..."
At the school gate, Bao Dezhu and his two cronies were squatting on the curb, bored out of their minds.
Seeing fewer and fewer people at the school gate, one of them couldn't help but grumble, "Steamed Bun, why hasn't that kid Yun Zhuo come yet? He couldn't have known we were going to borrow his bike and decided not to show up, right?"
"Impossible. That kid is just a coward. Would he dare to skip class like us?"
"Steamed Bun, if we don't leave now, we're going to be late."
Just then, a familiar engine roar came from the distance.
The three of them snapped their heads around to look, and their eyes immediately lit up. That red and white superbike was speeding toward them. Who else could the rider be but Yun Zhuo?