"The situation is turning grim," one said.
"Hasn't it always been like this?" came the reply.
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Eagles soar through the sky, fish dart in the shallow waters,...
Li Changzhou returned to his dormitory from the cafeteria, changed into comfortable clothes, and continued exercising.
Pull-ups, push-ups, triceps extensions, abdominal extensions, and lunges are several training methods that do not require equipment.
After the sun went down, he went to the playground and began his endurance training.
The playground was crowded with people, including those who ran seriously like him, but most of them were there for a walk or to date.
Li Qianxia and Yang Qinglan also arrived, and the two were also doing physical training.
Upon seeing them, Li Changzhou suddenly remembered that a week ago, his sister had suddenly started running and even asked him to join her. At the time, he was suffering from a nervous breakdown due to the humanoid black mist and refused.
Soon, Li Qianxia attracted the attention of most people on the playground; she was running too fast.
It whizzed past, the wind blowing against people's faces, even causing a slight stinging sensation.
"Three laps! Bro!" Li Qianxia looped Li Changzhou three times.
Without using "Wolf Howl", her agility is 7 points, which is enough to participate in the Olympics.
Li Changzhou ignored him, maintained a steady pace, and continued his 90-minute run.
Li Qianxia quickly disappeared into the crowd on the track. Li Changzhou ran forward for a while and then met Yang Qinglan.
She was in the worst physical condition, around 4 o'clock, and was caught by Li Changzhou.
As they passed each other, he heard her whisper, panting:
"When you feel pain while learning or exercising, it is proof that you are getting better."
As expected of a philosophy major, their main weapon is their ideas.
The two beautiful girls ran for twenty minutes, then turned to walking, leaving only Li Changzhou still running.
Forty minutes later, Li Changzhou felt his breath burning in his chest cavity, and each inhale felt like swallowing a needle through his nose.
For sixty minutes, my legs were protesting with every step I took.
An elderly man who came to the school to exercise said to him, "Young man, that's not how you run. Fifteen minutes a day is enough."
Li Changzhou did not answer, nor could he answer.
He had no energy to talk; his mind was only focused on: keep running, keep running.
He was afraid that if he got distracted, his body would relax like a compressed spring.
"Brother, take a break!" Li Qianxia called out.
Li Changzhou ignored him as well.
"Isn't that Li Changzhou from the law school? What's wrong?"
"Did you break up with your boyfriend?"
"Huh? I've never heard that he has a girlfriend!"
Li Changzhou didn't have any special talents that would attract attention throughout the school. His good grades were only known within his class. His gaming skills were only known to the boys in the dormitory. His fame at Mingda University was entirely due to his face and his twin identity.
Seventy minutes later, he was sweating profusely, as if he had been pulled out of the water.
His throat felt like it was being sanded, he was panting heavily, and he could barely walk; people could walk faster than him.
Li Qianxia wanted to go up and pull him back to force him to rest, but Yang Qinglan reached out and stopped her.
"Let him continue."
"That's what he's doing..."
“If he wants to stop, he will stop on his own,” Yang Qinglan said quietly.
Li Qianxia watched her brother's retreating figure, but in the end, she didn't go up to him.
For eighty minutes, Li Changzhou, with his neck stiff, struggled to move forward, stumbling with every step.
From that moment on, he was practically dragging his feet.
He felt every muscle in his body throbbing, wanting to leave his skeleton.
Finally, after completing the 90-minute run, he didn't care if there were pebbles on the grass and just lay down on it.
His eyes were vacant as he gazed at the night sky, which was tinged with a dark blue hue due to the giant searchlights on the playground.
The lights of the night flight flickered on and off, and Li Changzhou's chest heaved, but he felt nothing, as if he had been hypnotized by the lights.
"Here you go." Li Qianxia handed over a bottle of water.
Li Changzhou tried to reach out and catch it, but his arm fell limply back onto the lawn.
"Why did you run like this?" Li Qianxia sat down next to his head, supporting the back of his head with one hand and feeding him water with the other.
"Cough cough!"
"Did you choke?"
"No, it's just that I feel like coughing when I strain myself." Li Changzhou pointed to the back of his head. "The pillow."
"You sure know how to enjoy life. You'll have to treat me to milk tea later." Li Qianxia put her legs under his head.
Li Changzhou shifted his body slightly, adjusted his lying position, and sighed contentedly.
"You've worked hard." Yang Qinglan also bent down and sat on the lawn.
With the two people surrounding Li Changzhou, he felt like a critically injured, dying person in a TV drama.
"Do you feel your body getting stronger?" Yang Qinglan asked softly.
"I'm about to die, and all you care about is whether my body has become stronger?"
"Do you feel your body getting stronger?" Not only did her wording remain the same, but even her tone was unchanged.
"......No."
Yang Qinglan nodded: "Thank you for your hard work."
Li Changzhou turned over and lay on his side, resting his head on his sister's lap, wanting to sleep.
After regaining his strength, he parted ways with the two and returned to his dormitory. Instead of taking a shower, he continued doing push-ups.
Students who came to visit room 407 expressed their curiosity, and Li Changzhou jokingly brushed them off by saying he wanted to be a handsome and fierce man.
Big Yellow was playing a game, sometimes cursing and sometimes laughing triumphantly;
Dong Ge watched the short video and exclaimed, "That's so cool! That's so cool!", "He can actually fish in a place like this! No wonder he's a fishing pro!"
Chen Shao was on a voice call with a girl from the student union, saying that the head of the arts and culture department kept asking her to pick up packages.
Li Changzhou wanted to play games, watch videos, and chat with Yang Qinglan in the "Three Sisters" WeChat group.
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