The System is Abstract, Luckily, So Am I

Chapter 232 : My Entire Body Was Fully Prepared!

The last minute of evening self-study.

There was no teacher on duty tonight, and the discipline committee member couldn't be bothered to manage things, so the classroom was already getting noisy.

"Lin Li, let me ask you something. You're lying in bed. On your left is a gay guy, and on your right is a peerless beauty. In this situation, who would you turn your back to?" Bai Bufan asked.

An absolute dilemma.

Hearing this, Lin Li pinched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Finally, he made up his mind, looked at Bai Bufan, and nodded: "An excellent marksman can deal damage while tanking hits."

"Reasonable." Bai Bufan approved. As expected of the marksman he trusted. "Only a marksman with your level of awareness is worthy of my support."

*Those who cannot abandon anything, can change nothing.*

This was true for Wang Ze's virtual parents, and it was also true for Lin Li's virtual asshole.

"Great, support, hurry up and tank the gay guy's damage for me." Hearing this, Lin Li felt that Bai Bufan's existence was rarely valuable.

Bai Bufan: "?"

"Then I'm not supporting anymore."

"Ring—"

"Let's go, Lin Li." As soon as the dismissal bell rang, Chen Tianming, who was closest to the back door, stood up and waved to Lin Li.

"What are you guys going to do?" Bai Bufan was curious seeing this.

"Tianming and I met on Tantan, so we're planning to hook up (yue pao)." Lin Li stood up and followed. He didn't have anything to take home tonight, so he didn't even bring his bag.

*(Translator's Note: "Yue pao" can mean "hook up" or "arrange to run").*

Bai Bufan: "..."

"Can you not say things like that? What if Qiaoqiao passes by the second floor, accidentally hears it, and misunderstands! Tantan, Momo, Soul, Jimu, Ta Shuo, Baihe Dating, whatever, I've never known, paid attention to, or understood them!" Chen Tianming said angrily.

"You mean to say she's on the fourth floor, but can make it to our second-floor corridor three seconds after class ends?" Lin Li asked back.

And listing off all those apps while claiming not to know them—isn't that a bit unconvincing?

"Maybe?" Chen Tianming nodded.

"Alright."

Lin Li had always been a good boy who corrected his mistakes. He nodded, looked at Bai Bufan, and re-explained:

"Bufan, Tianming and I aren't planning to hook up. We're just preparing to go to the sports field together tonight to train for the sports meeting.

"In the preliminary stage of our training, we will touch each other, using our hands or bodies to help each other stretch, and feel the joy under the night sky.

"Then, we'll get down to business, running around the track, panting 'hah—hah—'. As the rhythm speeds up, our bodily fluids will flow down our skin, our legs swinging alternately, making slight friction sounds.

"Perhaps passersby will cast strange glances, but we won't care, continuing to immerse ourselves in this outdoor pleasure.

"Until finally, exhausted and panting, we stop, drenched in sweat, and begin to reminisce about this training session, looking for areas worthy of recognition and areas where we didn't do well enough."

Bai Bufan: "!"

Chen Tianming: "?"

"You're fucking amazing to be able to describe running so erotically! Fuck, if we really run into Qiaoqiao tonight, let's just pretend we don't know each other, thanks." Chen Tianming's eyes widened in defeat, simultaneously regretting his choice to train with Lin Li.

But as the saying goes, since they already made plans, it's all the same with the lights off. Tonight, it had to be Lin Li:

"Let's go, let's go, don't waste time. I must get a good ranking in the sports meeting so Qiaoqiao can further see my charm."

"Bufan, are you coming?" Lin Li, being pulled along, turned back and asked.

"I... I'll pass." Bai Bufan chuckled. "My goal is to become a talent like Stephen Hawking, knowing astronomy above and paralyzed below. Sports or whatever, no need. Call me when you guys are really doing outdoor exhibitionism."

"...When exactly are you going to start exercising?" Lin Li said, disappointed in his lack of ambition. "What about your plan to surpass me?"

"I've always been disciplined. I believe that consistently not being disciplined every day is a form of discipline in itself. Asking me to exercise now is asking me not to be disciplined," Bai Bufan explained seriously.

Lin Li: "..."

For Bai Bufan's own good, Lin Li decided to force him.

"Come on, follow me to the sports field."

"What for?!!"

"You have to exercise tonight whether you want to or not. Taking a few laps around the field is better than playing dead in your dorm."

"Since you're all going, I'll go too. Burn my calories!" Seeing this, Zhou Baowei decided to follow the trend.

*Zhou Baowei, this guy for the masses, is prime material for driving a Volkswagen in the future.*

Arriving at the sports field, there were quite a few people here tonight.

Probably many had the same idea as Chen Tianming: the sports meeting was right around the corner, so they needed to train well during this half-month period.

*Everyone is preparing for pregnancy (bei yun - homophone for preparing for sports meeting). There's hope for the aging population.*

However, sports students like Wang Ze, who had their own daily training volume, generally wouldn't appear, as extra training could easily backfire.

Pity those little couples; their home turf was suddenly occupied, who knows where they transferred to.

Nansang didn't have a small grove large enough to completely hide one's figure. Who knows if there were a few couples secretly kissing behind the rostrum right now.

Leaning against the railing under the spectator stands, after warming up, everyone started running.

After jogging one lap together while chatting, the few of them started running at their own pace.

Running the whole way together was meaningless and wouldn't have any training effect.

...

"Hah—hah—hah—" Lin Li sat on the ground below the spectator stands, panting heavily.

Sweat dripped from the ends of his hair, soaking the back of his school uniform. He rested his hands on his knees, panting heavily, his throat feeling like it was on fire, every breath bringing a burning pain.

This feeling was truly a long time coming.

The time on his watch stopped at nine minutes and thirteen seconds.

This was Lin Li's 3000-meter result after giving it his all just now.

Under the night sky, no one would notice that a strong third-class athlete, a quasi-second-class athlete just a few seconds shy, had quietly been born.

He broke the Nansang high school freshman record by nearly a minute and a half.

Even at a higher-level middle school sports meeting, this would be considered an absolutely outstanding result.

If he secretly smeared a little blood on himself, used [Wind Control] to give himself a tailwind the whole way, and corrected his running posture and breathing, Lin Li even felt he could run under nine minutes, maybe even eight and a half minutes, within a few days of training, or even on his next run.

This also proved that the system's training wasn't as fierce as the system's stat boosts. He had still underestimated his own limits.

After confirming his limit at the current stage, what Lin Li needed to do was very simple: control his final result to exactly ten and a half minutes, just a few seconds over the record. Then, based on this result, he would determine his running speed for each lap and spend some time adapting to it.

At the same time, during this period, he needed to create an image of training hard for everyone in the class, and ideally, make it seem like he "exploded with potential" on the day of the race, achieving a result he couldn't "replicate" himself.

As for the 1500 meters, there was no need to test it. Lin Li's first 1500 meters during the 3000 meters just now only took four minutes and twenty-five seconds, which already broke the Nansang high school freshman 1500-meter record.

If he only ran 1500 meters, breaking it by half a minute would be a piece of cake.

"Lin Li, do you need a tissue?"

A clear voice, like a wisp of a clear spring in the night wind, carrying a hint of concern and gentleness. Lin Li looked up, his gaze moving up from a pair of white sneakers, sweeping past slender legs—*annoying school uniform pants, get out of the way!*

The school uniform pants didn't listen to Lin Li, so his gaze finally settled on Chen Yuying's face.

Chen Yuying stood in front of him, holding a pack of tissues, leaning over slightly to look at him. Her long hair was tied into a ponytail for exercise, and the loose hair on her forehead swayed gently in the wind. A few strands were stuck together with sweat, clinging tightly to her porcelain-white skin.

The stadium lights shone down from behind her, coating her entire body in a soft halo.

*Doesn't Shanghai already have an Oriental Pearl? Why does our Xiling have one too?*

"Heh, Class Rep, are you giving me charity?" But the atmosphere-destroying king Lin Li sneered.

Chen Yuying: "?"

"Mhm, I'm giving you charity." Blinking, after a second of being stunned, Chen Yuying nodded vigorously.

"?"

Lin Li: "...No, no, Class Rep, you, you should say you didn't mean it that way."

Chen Yuying shook her head firmly: "No, I am giving you charity."

"Then I don't need it! Take it away!" Lin Li got angry, his words very forceful, but his hand had already taken the tissue, and he quickly pulled one out to wipe his sweat.

"Class Rep, did you guys come to run too?" After wiping his sweat, Lin Li asked in a slightly lazy voice.

"Yeah, I just finished running too. Wanqiu and Sihan are still running."

"Then why didn't I see you?" Lin Li was puzzled.

"There were too many people in the inner lanes, and fewer in the outer lanes. I ran in the sixth lane. I saw you, though, darting around like a big black rat, running so fast," Chen Yuying explained.

"Class Rep, I think with your Chinese grades, you shouldn't just use such low-level similes. You should say, 'Lin Li's figure cut through the moonlight, his clothes fluttering like flowing clouds, his toes touching the ground like stepping on stars.'" Lin Li corrected Chen Yuying's low-level mistake.

He was met with a "bleh bleh bleh" from Chen Yuying.

"Lin Li, you can't stay squatting right after running. It will cause poor blood return. You should get up and do some stretching or walk slowly," Chen Yuying advised.

Actually, this corresponds to the warm-up before exercise; this is called the cool-down after exercise.

"Okay."

Although Lin Li felt he shouldn't need this step, he nodded without being a buzzkill.

Chen Yuying's cool-down was quite hardcore. She easily lifted one leg and placed it on the railing, the angle between her legs reaching over 150 degrees. Then she began to slowly press her body forward to further stretch her muscles.

Almost a full split. The Class Rep's body flexibility was indeed very good. It seemed her previous claim of having roughly learned many dance styles was true; you could see the foundation.

Seeing Lin Li also lift his leg and place it on the highest part of the railing, Chen Yuying, who saw through his intention, stopped him: "Lin Li, you ran long-distance. Your muscles are very fatigued right now. Doing a split can easily cause strains and joint damage."

"Class Rep, don't forget, I'm also a master of ballet! A skilled worker!" Lin Li was very confident, pressing his body down, equally easily breaking a large angle.

"Alright, impressive."

Seeing this, Chen Yuying blinked and praised him.

However, what kind of desire for white stockings did Lin Li have to make him self-teach to this level?

But before Chen Yuying could come up with an answer, she saw Lin Li's expression change. He pulled his leg back and stood with both feet on the ground again.

"What's wrong? Did you pull a muscle?" Chen Yuying immediately asked with concern.

"My entire body was fully prepared for a split, how could anything go wrong?" Lin Li smiled confidently and shook his head.

"Then what's this?" Chen Yuying was a bit confused.

"But my pants weren't fully prepared."

*(End of Chapter)*