Chapter 284: Enhanced Endurance

“Did you just invite me to start a business with you, only to poach me before we even began?” Duan Yi looked at Xia Yu with confusion.

“What do you think, are you coming or not?” Xia Yu asked again.

“No.” Duan Yi shook her head firmly, “I want to start my own business.”

“What kind of business? What’s so great about opening a milk tea shop?” Xia Yu continued to tempt Duan Yi.

Duan Yi thought for three seconds, then shook her head again: “Forget it, I still want to do it on my own.”

After refusing Xia Yu, Duan Yi started coaxing him again: “Didn’t you agree with me before to open a shop together? Why do you want to do it alone now? If you had disagreed earlier, I wouldn’t have started planning so quickly.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll still come to your shop, anyway my job is just to show up.” Xia Yu didn’t directly refuse Duan Yi, only saying he wouldn’t interfere much with the shop.

“That’s enough.” Duan Yi nodded, as she had only wanted to use Xia Yu’s reputation to boost the popularity of the milk tea shop.

“Good luck.” Xia Yu wished Duan Yi well on the surface, but secretly he thought about pulling the girl over once her milk tea shop failed.

He had seen Duan Yi’s business plan; she wanted to open a milk tea shop near the school, but Xia Yu felt that the location wasn’t very good.

Unless Duan Yi’s business plan changed significantly, this milk tea shop was likely going to fail.

After finishing a day of study, Xia Yu returned home. Early the next morning, he entered the body of the brown bear.

At this time, it was already morning for the brown bear.

The brown bear was in front of a cave, and beside the bear was the girl wearing a mask, gently stroking the scar on the bear’s head.

Her movements were very careful, and Xia Yu felt a bit ticklish.

He raised his bear paw, wanting to scare the girl, but this time the girl wasn’t frightened.

She looked at the paw Xia Yu had raised.

After holding the paw in the air for a while, Xia Yu could only retract it.

He couldn’t even scare this girl anymore, truly a failure.

Hissing slightly, Xia Yu stood up and walked away.

This time, he came to prepare to start practicing skills and to move the brown bear’s habitat a bit farther from the village to avoid attacks by hunters.

Since he couldn’t recall the brown bear now, Xia Yu could only reduce the bear’s danger this way.

After walking for a while, Xia Yu noticed that the girl was actually still following him. He quickened his pace again, and the girl also quickened hers.

Xia Yu thought he could lead her to a secluded cave, and then…

Then tie her up, use his paw to write, and force her to tell him exactly where this place was, so he could come and take the brown bear away.

But that would be too shocking, and to avoid being discovered, he would probably have to silence her afterward.

Kidnapping and silencing were two things that couldn’t be done; after all, bears were at the top of the food chain in the forest and would be fine.

Coming to a stream, Xia Yu crossed the water, and this time the girl finally couldn’t follow. She stood at the edge of the stream, a sad expression on her face.

Resisting the urge to feel soft-hearted, Xia Yu continued forward.

This time, he started running directly.

He used game points to purchase twenty experience cards, applied them to himself, and began practicing endurance.

He kept running like this off and on for six hours before stopping. He found a huge hollow tree.

Approaching it, Xia Yu estimated the space inside the tree could accommodate two bears.

He decided to set up camp here.

He continued running around the nearby area, surveying the surroundings. Eight hours later, he returned to his own body.

He opened the skill panel and checked his skills.

The endurance skill was already acquired and had reached LV2. According to the previous estimation formula, he was already close to LV3.

Changing into a tracksuit, Xia Yu went to the gym in the community.

He found a treadmill and started running.

Since this was his first time using a treadmill in this world, Xia Yu was unsure how to operate it and had to ask a man beside him before he could start the treadmill.

After teaching Xia Yu, the man took a sip of water and pressed the start button to begin his workout.

As he ran, he looked at Xia Yu.

He was thinking that since Xia Yu didn’t know how to operate the treadmill and hadn’t been seen in the gym before, he was probably an ordinary person.

If he were an ordinary person, running at this speed for ten minutes would be considered physically strong.

He sneered slightly and secretly increased his speed a level higher than Xia Yu’s.

He looked back at Xia Yu and felt he needed to let the other party know the difference between a fitness enthusiast and an ordinary person.

He hadn’t run for even a minute when Xia Yu, feeling that his stamina was depleting too slowly, also increased his speed.

The man frowned, then increased his speed again. Xia Yu, still feeling that his stamina was depleting too slowly, also increased his speed.

Until the speed was already very fast, seeing that Xia Yu no longer accelerated, the man first sighed in relief, then sneered again.

At this speed, an ordinary person would probably be done in five minutes. Let him show the difference between ordinary people and fitness experts!

Thinking this, the man kept running hard.

Three minutes later, hearing Xia Yu’s steady breathing, the man felt something was wrong.

Five minutes later, seeing that Xia Yu was still holding on, his breathing only slightly more labored, the man felt a bit panicked.

However, he still had a little confidence in his heart.

Another five minutes passed, the man’s breathing was already very heavy, but Xia Yu was only slightly out of breath.

The man finally panicked, completely losing confidence, but he still persisted.

Twenty minutes later, the man’s legs gave way, his foot was thrown outside by the treadmill, and he fell to the ground.

If an ordinary person fell, no one would laugh, but the man was quite popular in the gym, and those who knew him started laughing.

A few people who knew his name came over to tease him.

The man, his face red with embarrassment, dealt with the teasing while sitting to one side, using a machine to work his arm muscles, and continued watching Xia Yu.

The more he watched, the more shocked he became. His legs were already completely weak, yet the young man in front of him could still maintain his speed.

After waiting with difficulty until Xia Yu got off the treadmill, the man immediately approached to ask, “Brother, are you a long-distance runner?”

Xia Yu was taken aback, not understanding why the other person asked that, and answered straightforwardly, “No.”

“Then are you another kind of athlete?” The man continued to ask stubbornly.

“I’m a student at Huada University’s Chinese Department.” Xia Yu left this sentence behind and left the gym.

Back at the gym, the man remained standing in place, thinking about what Xia Yu had said about being a Huada student.

Since he was a Chinese major, naturally he wasn’t an athlete. Yet even without being an athlete, his stamina was this good. Indeed, there are hidden dragons and tigers among the common people!

Unfortunately, he didn’t ask for contact information.

The man sighed.

On the other side, Xia Yu returned home and received a call from Yu Ningmeng.