Study Monster Cultivation System - Chapter 58
Chapter 58: Sales#Unparalleled#Depravity
“Who’s Li Jiaqi?” Li Zheng asked.
“A streaming salesman. He won’t let you go until he completely empties your wallet. I just freed myself from my addiction to his streams.” Zhang Xiaoke angrily stomped her foot. “Anyway, I’m not coming shopping with you ever again.”
“Aren’t the outfits I paired for you nice?”
“They are quite nice.” Zhang Xiaoke instantly softened her stance and lifted her three bags of clothes expectantly. “Aiyaya, I can use them during the class activity tomorrow~”
“Then, after we’re done with the activity tomorrow, do you want to come with me and pick out some shoes?”
“Shut up! I won’t be called Zhang if I go shopping with you again.” Zhang Xiaoke’s stomach rumbled as she spoke.
“You’re hungry?”
“Yes…” Zhang Xiaoke scratched her head.
“Recommend a restaurant. My treat.” Li Zheng smiled generously. “I learned a lot today, and it was all because of your guidance.”
“You sure have a heart. I don’t have any money left to spend on food.” Zhang Xiaoke took out her phone and started searching the web. “I can eat whatever I want?”
“Yes.”
“Hehe, then let’s go have hotpot.” Zhang Xiaoke licked her lips.
“Sure. It sounds relaxing.”
Then, the money Li Zheng had earned…
Zhang Xiaoke spent almost all of it on the meal.
Ultimately, Li Zheng didn’t know how Zhang Xiaoke could have ordered four to five hundred yuan of food and ate it all.
“Her fat must have gone to her belly,” he thought.
“It’s no wonder she’s that heavy.”
What Li Zheng didn’t know was that…
Zhang Xiaoke was actually preparing for hibernation.
After all, all she could eat before the new year was dirt.
…
After Li Zheng sent Zhang Xiaoke home in a cab, his experience bar had reached [Relax 68/70 hours].
Just two more levels until he leveled up.
How could he stand that?
Li Zheng took a detour and went to the basketball court at a nearby park.
He played half an hour of wild late-night basketball with a bunch of middle-aged men.
Finally, he went home to shower and read a comic book.
In the end, he managed to level up just before midnight.
New challenges were presented, as promised.
[Li Zheng]
[Game Coins: 10]
[Relaxation Level: Lv3 ↑]
[Progress toward leveling: Relax 0/360 (hours)]
[Please choose your reward for Lv3…]
[A]
[Demon Salesman: Sell 500,000 yuan worth of fashion products in a week.]
[Reward: 20 Game Coins, the title of Manic Salesman, 30% ↑ your energy recovery rate when shopping, and 30% ↑ your monthly recovery limit.]
[B]
[Unparalleled: After receiving this mission, all relaxation activities will have their energy recovery limit removed. This lasts 15 minutes. Please recover 100 hours’ worth of energy within 15 minutes.]
[Rewards: 20 Game Coins and a choice of one of the below “Unparalleled” titles.]
[1: Human-shaped Dictionary. English vocabulary +40,000 (Complete mastery over the pronunciation and usage of the first 40,000 most commonly used words.)]
[2: Encyclopedia Master: Fully grasp all of the content in the Cihai Encyclopedia and Xinhua Dictionary.]
[3: Equation Feedback Machine: Grasp the top 3000 most commonly used math and science equations.]
[C]
[Path To Depravity: Form a faction in class and become the true ruler of the class. Also, make the homeroom teacher so angry that she cries, twice.]
[Reward: 50 Game Coins, Depravity II Debuff, and a permanent 50% reduction of your study efficiency.]
Li Zheng froze.
“What kind of stupid missions are these?” he thought
“I have to delete C, of course. It’s no longer a question of whether or not I’m going to hell. This is me becoming hell itself.”
“As for A, increasing the relaxation efficiency of shopping is obviously good, but the rewards are mediocre at best.”
“It also feels like it’s pushing me toward a strange profession.”
“As for B…”
“All three of the titles are rather tempting.”
“It’s equivalent to saving hundreds and thousands of hours of the most mundane study time.”
“Plus, I won’t have to revise the material, and I wouldn’t forget about it.”
“But this mission. D*mn it, isn’t it too difficult?”
“Recovering 100 hours of energy in 15 minutes.”
“I have to reach 400 for my energy recovery rate and sustain it for 15 minutes.”
“If I’m remembering correctly, 10 was the highest my recovery rate has ever been.”
“That was when I blocked Lin Yujing while we played basketball.”
“Could there be something even more satisfying than that in this world?”
“Furthermore, while I was pairing outfits when I was shopping, I could, in theory, have had a chance of hitting 20. But after doing the activity for so long today, I only managed to maintain a number under 10.”
Li Zheng thought for a long time but had no idea how to complete the mission.
“Do I have to block Lin Yujing 40 times in a second for 15 consecutive minutes?” he thought.
“She might not be able to hold on for that long.”
“It looks like I have to reluctantly choose A.”
Thinking about it, Li Zheng chose to sleep.
“I’ll sit on it for now. I might find a new relaxation activity in the future,” he thought.
“I’ll choose A if it really doesn’t work. If I choose A, I’ll go ask Uncle Fei next weekend and see if there’s any way to quickly promote products.”
Li Zheng could sense that Li Jiaqi, the man Zhang Xiaoke had told him about, was also doing something like this.
…
It was Sunday morning. Old Li had left before daybreak, as usual.
The activity of visiting Mrs. Hu was planned for 4 p.m.
Like always, Li Zheng naturally started to study.
After breakfast, Li Zheng pulled open the curtains in his bedroom and enjoyed the sunlight.
Old Li and Ning’er knew they would never be home in the morning, so they gave the room with the best and largest window to Li Zheng. This made Li Zheng’s room abnormally well lit. It was a paradise for studying.
After making a few adjustments, Li Zheng made a pot of tea and was seated before his study table before nine.
Just like always, he took out his assignments and practice questions and arranged them neatly according to the subject.
As he admired the exquisite towers of practice questions, Li Zheng picked up his teapot and happily poured himself a cup of tea.
The steam slowly rose off the cup and into the sunlight, making him feel incredibly comfortable.
He grabbed his glass cup and took a long, comfortable breath.
This was the study atmosphere.
It was comfortable.
It was too comfortable.
After taking a small sip of hot tea, Li Zheng impatiently took out his pen and started on his assignments.
To many students, assignments were a burden. Merely completing the assignments was too difficult for them.
But to Li Zheng…
Assignments…
They were merely a warm-up.
These basic questions were just for him to slightly consolidate his knowledge, and were a prelude to getting his brain into a question-answering mode.
Without his realizing it, twenty minutes had passed since he started on his assignments.
Li Zheng was done.
He closed the booklet and touched his cup.
The tea was still warm.
It was just right.
Li Zheng felt extremely comfortable, and he couldn’t help but get into an aesthetic mood.
He took advantage of this mood and opened up his weekend journal for Language. He raised his pen and wrote—
A bale of sunlight, a pot of tea.
The clear waves of questions reflected a magnificent splendor.
I wish to ride the winds and charge into the sea of knowledge.
To find that there’s no end when the clouds part.
He was done. He placed his pen down.
“How wonderful!” he thought.
He immediately penned down the title.
“There Must Be Questions.”
He then read through his work multiple times, then added two lines underneath it.
“I didn’t come up with the structure of this poem myself, but I’ve memorized too many poems and can’t remember which poem this structure came from.”
“If possible, Mrs. Tang, please tell me.”
Li Zheng closed his book. He had expressed all of his love.
He then checked his energy.
[6.1/93 hours]
“I still have almost 90 hours for studying?” he thought.
“This feels too good.”
“I have to thank Zhang Xiaoke. I recovered nearly 60 hours of energy at one go when I went shopping yesterday.”
“Unfortunately, shopping is a monthly relaxation activity. I have to wait a month before I can feel this good again.”
Li Zheng savored his green tea and admired the results of his studying.
[Language: 94] [Mathematics: 110 ↑] [English: 92]
[Physics: 103 ↑] [Chemistry: 104] (Efficiency 100% ↑) [Biology: 90 ↑]
It was decent.
There weren’t any assignments for Language. Li Zheng had only voluntarily done his weekly journal, so it was normal that his score didn’t improve.
Mathematics and Physics were subjects that he was traditionally strong in, so his scores in these subjects would increase even without him controlling them.
English was the subject he had the most assignments for over the weekend, but he couldn’t improve his score no matter how much of the assignments he did. It was frustrating.
Finally, Biology felt non-existent. He was leaving it at that for the time being.
He had completed his assignments too quickly, which made him feel a little troubled when it came to his self-study time.
It was the frustration that came with the blessing.
Even though he thought that way, his hand subconsciously moved toward the Chemistry textbook.
It couldn’t be helped. Who could resist a 100% boost in his efficiency?
Furthermore, he might have the chance to obtain a variety of buffs for his other subjects. It wasn’t too late for him to work on the other subjects when that time came.
“Chemistry it is. I’ll boost it up first,” he thought.
He made himself another pot of tea and opened his Chemistry textbook, continuing to study ahead of what he currently needed to learn.
This time, when he raised his head again, his tea had gone cold.
He had spent over an hour studying, but he had finally finished studying all of the high-school level Chemistry topics.
At the same time, he had also come up with his own mind maps to facilitate his future revision.
After that, he made himself another pot of tea after resting for ten minutes.
He had to strike while the iron was hot. He made himself a tiny goal to finish two sets of practice questions!
