Study Monster Cultivation System - Chapter 59

Chapter 59: Even Tony Was At A Loss For Words

The questions were as deep as the ocean when he delved in.

Time was but a passer-by.

Li Zheng, who had entered his “Passion for Chemistry” state, unknowingly set a new record for completing new questions in one sitting.

Two hours.

One entire book’s worth of foundational Chemistry questions, and an entire book of advanced questions.

He had completed all of them.

At this moment, he had less than an hour of energy left.

Li Zheng felt enriched, yet empty.

“90 hours passed just like that?” he thought.

“It sure isn’t enough.”

Fortunately, his Chemistry score comforted him.

[Chemistry: 131 ↑↑↑]

Li Zheng felt invigorated once again.

At this level, he should have no problem passing the college entrance exams.

His once weakest subject was now his absolute advantage.

The time he spent studying this weekend hadn’t been wasted!

However, Li Zheng didn’t remain happy for long. He glanced at his scores for Language and English, then looked at the unselected missions for leveling up.

He started to worry once again.

Even though he had already mastered Chemistry, he still lacked a study method for Language and English.

However, it seemed there weren’t any good study methods for those subjects in the first place.

“It would be great if I could complete the “Unparalleled” mission and directly obtain the title of “Human-shaped Dictionary,” he thought.

Li Zheng was liking the Human-shaped Dictionary more and more.

Memorizing vocabulary was ultimately an incredibly bitter process, but it was the absolute foundation for studying English.

However, it was too difficult to recover 100 hours’ worth of energy in 15 minutes.

He even felt a little depressed when he thought about this over lunch.

After lunch, he changed into the school uniform-style outfit he had purchased yesterday, grabbed the card for the hairdressers, and headed toward a hair salon located on the opposite side of his community. He got a hairdresser called Tony to help him come up with a hairstyle.

After the hairdresser washed, cut, and blow-dried his hair, Li Zheng’s once angular hairstyle, a center part with his hair stuck close to his scalp, became looser and more voluminous. Afterward, the hairdresser applied some hairspray to set the hairstyle.

The Li Zheng in the mirror had truly become another person.

In the past, he, from head to toe, could only be described with one word:

Blank.

Currently, he radiated the extravagant, depraved flair that Zhang Xiaoke had.

Li Zheng pointed his phone to the mirror and took a picture of his hair. He still wasn’t used to this image.

“Handsome, really handsome.” Tony rubbed his hands together in satisfaction.

“But I look like someone with very poor grades.” Li Zheng shook his head, a little unsatisfied.

Tony froze for a long while.

Even though he was a talkative person, faced with such a problem…

He couldn’t find anything to say.

After leaving the hair salon, Li Zheng was still depressed.

Getting his hair done hadn’t been relaxing.

It was still quite some time before he had to go visit Mrs. Hu, so he rode his bike to Northern Shaolin, the Xidan Joy City.

After consulting web reviews and meticulously selecting potential shoes, Li Zheng finally settled on a pair of black basketball shoes, the KD12.

The shoes were slightly out of his budget, but he could feel a true difference when he put them on.

The full-length air cushion provided all-around traction when he moved around, no matter the direction.

The additional Air Zoom cushion at the heel provided rich feedback, which was suitable for all kinds of landing plays.

Of course, in terms of price, Li Zheng still fancied the 99 yuan Shuangxin new-style shoes.

But it couldn’t be helped. The power of technology was irresistible.

After that, Li Zheng went to places like the arcade and the rock climbing club and tried to relax.

These activities were effective, but he was still two digits away from the goal of 400 points. Even if he spent coins to become a rock-climbing expert, he might only have a chance of approaching his goal if he was to take on the challenge of climbing a real cliff.

Now it looked like he didn’t have the capital to continue in the direction of extreme sports.

Though, Old Li went out and climbed mountains whenever he had a vacation.

“I’ll head back and take advantage of his gear, I guess,” Li Zheng thought.

…

It was already close to four when Li Zheng rushed to the Sky Temple Hospital by train.

He found Jiang Qinghua and Zhang Yue at the south gate.

But Jiang Qinghua and Zhang Yue didn’t notice him.

It was only when he was directly in front of Jiang Qinghua and stared directly at him for a long time that Jiang Qinghua suddenly jumped up in surprise. “Li Zheng?”

Li Zheng was frustrated.

“It’s over,” he thought.

“My studious image really has crumbled.”

“Li Zheng?” Zhang Yue stared with wide eyes. “Where… Where’s your uniform?”

“I’m washing it,” he lied, turning his head.

“This is going to be troublesome,” he thought.

[Relaxation activity detected: Flirting]

[Energy recovery rate: – 0.3 (Zhang Yue)]

As they talked, another female student rushed over.

Just like Jiang Qinghua and Zhang Yue, she also looked Li Zheng up and down before saying in surprise, “I was wondering who this handsome boy was. Li Zheng?”

[Energy recovery rate: 1.7 (Liu Yuexuan)]

[Total recovery rate: 1.4 ↑]

Li Zheng swallowed as he looked at Liu Yuexuan.

She was the Language representative of the class. She wore glasses and had a ponytail. She was a quiet person.

Over the past year, the two of them had barely spoken to each other.

“It can’t be helped. I’ll have to trouble you to make up for the loss Zhang Yue brought,” he thought.

“Good afternoon, Yuexuan,” Li Zheng said, smiling.

“Good… Good afternoon…” Liu Yuexuan blushed after suddenly being spoken to.

[Energy recovery rate: 2.4 ↑ (Liu Yuexuan)]

[Total recovery rate: 2.1 ↑]

Li Zheng blushed at his despicable act.

Then, a lively female voice came from behind.

“Yoo~~~~”

The undisciplined voice obviously belonged to Zhang Xiaoke.

Li Zheng turned around and waved, “Disciple, come quickly.”

“Ah?” Zhang Xiaoke froze and instinctively covered her mouth. “You… You must be lying. You’re too handsome.”

[Energy recovery rate: 4.7 ↑ (Zhang Xiaoke)]

[Total recovery rate: 6.8 ↑↑]

Even though Li Zheng was regretful, he was surprised at the same time.

“Zhang Xiaoke really lives up to her reputation. The food wasn’t wasted on her. She does have the goods,” he thought.

As more and more students approached, Li Zheng’s energy recovery rate oddly started to rise.

By 4:10, half of the girls in class had arrived.

And Li Zheng’s energy recovery rate had reached its peak.

[29.3 minutes per minute]

Unfortunately, when he reached his peak, he had also reached the daily limit of 1.5 hours that flirting gave him. Energy stopped adding up, and the number subsequently vanished.

His upper limit had only been an hour, and he only managed to bring it up to 1.5 hours after becoming a Fashion Expert.

No matter what, Li Zheng felt a little guilty about accidentally flirting with his classmates.

However, he noticed a shocking, yet evil truth.

He could flirt with many girls at once.

The mission “Unparalleled” was not a mission of quality.

But of quantity!

Which was to say…

If he was despicable enough…

If he flirted with enough girls…

15 minutes for 100 hours’ worth of energy.

There was hope.

Of course, the premise was that the girls couldn’t be like Qiao Bixia or Sun Xiubin.

If they were all like them, his life would probably be destroyed, and he might have to go down the path of depravity.

Thinking about this, Li Zheng started to silently do some calculations.

“The average value of flirting is around two,” he thought.

“I’ll have to flirt with 200 girls at once if I want to achieve the efficiency of 400.”

“All the second-year girls won’t be enough…”

“Plus, I would need a setting.”

“A setting where there would be more than 200 girls appearing at the same time and paying attention to me.”

“!!!”

Li Zheng’s eyes widened.

“The basketball competition!” he thought.

“Not only can I flirt with all the girls there…”

“But I can even prove to the group of third-years that I’m a macho man.”

Now that he had completed his thought process, inspiration flowed through him like a fountain.

At the same time, he couldn’t help but think impure thoughts.

“Human-shaped Dictionary, Encyclopedia Expert, and Equation Feedback Machine. Which one should I choose?”

Li Zheng didn’t know that while he had gained an epiphany, another man had silently been ignored.