Life Game In Other World
Chapter 145: Copy World Character: High School Student (Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 145: Chapter 145: Copy World Character: High School Student (Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

He Ao took the piece of paper, noting down the phone number that had already been blurred a bit by the rainwater.

At that moment, Feng Ling suddenly nudged the young man beside her who was still a bit stunned, "What are you spacing out for, the gentleman has agreed, hurry up and kowtow and call him master."

The young man jolted awake with disbelief, his face brimming with astonishment. However, just as he was about to bow down, He Ao gently held him up and slipped an umbrella into his arms—it was a half-price umbrella that he had bought at the supermarket and had always carried in his bag.

"Don’t rush, go back and practice your fist technique diligently, when the time comes, I’ll contact you."

Then he put away the paper, opened the umbrella, and disappeared into the curtain of rain.

The young man watched He Ao’s retreating figure, holding the umbrella He Ao had given him, still somewhat in disbelief. He turned to look at Feng Ling, "Feng Ling, slap me. I want to see if I’m dreaming."

Smack—

Feng Ling unceremoniously swung her hand and gave a direct slap to the young man’s face.

"It hurts a bit, it’s real."

The young man rubbed his face and staggered to his feet, feeling a strange joy filling his heart, indescribable, simply wanting to grin foolishly.

"Don’t get too happy too soon, he hasn’t said he’d take you as a disciple yet, he just gave you an opportunity, he will contact you later."

Feng Ling rolled her eyes and glanced at her hand that was reddened from the slap, picked up the umbrella from the ground, "You’re a blind cat that ran into a dead mouse, yet you actually met an extraordinary master."

"What do you mean ’blind cat ran into a dead mouse’?" the young man was obviously a little offended, "I moved the gentleman with my sincerity and passed his test with my own talent."

"Sure, sure, sure," Feng Ling continued to roll her eyes, "Blind cat ran into a dead mouse and guessed the right answer, then concocted a plausible process afterward."

"Heh, you’re just jealous of me."

The young man opened the umbrella and walked with his friend deeper into the rain.

——

He Ao, holding the umbrella, stopped under the tree shade, quietly watching the two leave.

A test?

That way of putting it does seem reasonable.

The test began the moment the young man blocked He Ao on the martial arts stage.

An outsider might believe the answer with the tape stuck to the paper bag, but true martial artists at the pinnacle of their craft could see the problem with the paper bag on He Ao’s head.

By saying that, He Ao was in fact testing whether the young man truly had the insight of a martial arts peak, or had simply made a lucky guess.

This was the first test, to assess intuition, an understanding of the martial arts.

The young man remained kneeling there motionless; this was the second test, evaluating his temperament.

Having passed these two assessments, there was still a third one: physical aptitude.

To quickly grasp the fist technique pointed out by He Ao and turn it into physical action, allowing energy to run along the correct pathways—this is physical aptitude.

Of course, in testing physical aptitude, He Ao was also essentially displaying his own abilities.

Good intuition allows one to learn faster in martial arts training and saves some energy when teaching.

A good temperament enables a martial artist to go further. Martial arts training is a slow grind that requires prolonged endurance; if one has a weak temperament, they might give up after a couple of days or shrink back at the first sign of difficulty, and even with a good intuition, their earlier efforts could easily be wasted.

Physical aptitude, on the other hand, is the foundation that turns intuition and temperament into real strength. Good aptitude allows one to quickly turn what they’ve learned into their own skills; otherwise, they can only be armchair experts.

Intuition, temperament, physical aptitude—to learn martial arts, these three elements are indispensable.

Only after passing these three tests can one prove that they are at least malleable.

Then comes the next step: loyalty.

This can’t be seen in a short period of interaction, which is why He Ao didn’t make an immediate decision, instead he took down the young man’s phone number, preparing to arrange some tasks for the young man in the future, to cultivate him step by step.

In this process, he would also gradually guide the young man to become stronger, offering him tangible rewards, for loyalty without interest is not to be trusted.

This was a casual chess move.

But it would eventually serve its purpose.

The world was in the midst of some intense changes, and the strength of one individual was ultimately limited.

He Ao stepped through the water, creating a spray of blossoming splashes.

He held the umbrella, walked through the heavy rain, heading toward the road home.

The sheet of paper with the phone number was crushed into confetti by him in the rain and thrown into the trash can.

——

The next morning, He Ao practiced his morning routine under the light of dawn.

Then he visited Grandpa Fang in the hospital before returning to school for classes.

Liu Nan naturally took a seat next to him; this was a large class, and Yuan Nannan was also there. She walked up to Liu Nan with a pout, gave her face a vigorous rub,

"Nannan, you tricked me. I thought you went back to the south, and you didn’t even tell me you were staying."

After awakening her talent the night before, aside from asking He Ao out to dinner, Liu Nan had been busy joining the Research Institute and preparing for the relic selection, and she stayed up all night looking up information for He Ao, leaving her no time to contact Yuan Nannan.

She quickly stood up and rubbed Yuan Nannan’s face, "Alright, alright, Nannan, my bad. I’ll treat you to milk tea later."

Yuan Nannan eyed her suspiciously, "Really? I want double pearls and coconut jelly!"

"Okay, okay."

Liu Nan replied with a smile.

After Yuan Nannan arrived, there was an additional person next to He Ao. She sat beside Liu Nan, chirping like a herald of spring throughout the class.

He Ao just smiled and did not speak, attending the entire class calmly and earnestly.

After class, Liu Nan and He Ao both went to ask the advisor for a two-day leave.

Xidu University’s leave policy requires students to get a leave slip from the advisor, but after approval, the slip must be given to the subject teachers to prove their leave and avoid being marked as absent.

Therefore, He Ao and Liu Nan needed someone to submit the leave slips for them, and Yuan Nannan, who was playing on her phone nearby, ended up with a bunch of leave slips and the task of submitting them.

After all the business was taken care of, the three had lunch together. During lunch, Liu Nan went to buy milk tea for Yuan Nannan. When she returned, she found a baked sweet potato in front of her seat.

She glanced at He Ao and said nothing, but carefully stored away the sweet potato.

The afternoon sun streamed through the elegant floor-to-ceiling windows of the restaurant, shining on the smiles of the people.

——

In the afternoon, He Ao met with Liu Zhengyun’s secretary. Liu Zhengyun had already returned to the south yesterday, and upon leaving, he left He Ao a handwritten letter expressing his admiration for He Ao and his regret that he couldn’t even give away his spot.

He Ao smiled and put away the letter.

The hotel Liu Nan secured for He Ao was called Sycamore Hotel, located next to the pedestrian street in the center of Xidu City. It was a small detached apartment building with only 22 rooms. In front of the building stood an old sycamore tree, which was how the hotel got its name.

The hotel was elegantly and lavishly decorated, and from the windows of the viewing rooms, one could overlook the entire bustling city center.

The hotel was worth more than twenty million, but Liu Zhengyun discounted it to twenty million as a gift to He Ao.

In his own words, the extra amount was the premium of his ’beloved’ villa.

He Ao spent the afternoon completing the property transfer and share change procedures. Liu Zhengyun also covered the deed tax for property transfer and the personal income tax for the share transfer process.

However, the process was quite complex, and it might take three to five days. This was handled by the professional agency company hired by Liu Zhengyun.

After getting acquainted with the hotel’s management team, He Ao parted ways with Liu Nan and left the hotel.

By the time he got home, the night lights had already illuminated the quiet city.

He Ao took a bath and practiced his punches for a while.

The Five Beasts Fist had a long heritage and inherently had merits. After improvements, its combat power was significantly enhanced, so while teaching the youth, He Ao also activated Super Memory to memorize all the routines.

With the help of Super Memory and his understanding of Martial Arts, he practiced the routine just three or four times and gradually integrated the Five Beasts Fist into his own style, even performing it better than the youth.

Frankly speaking, Super Memory was quite useful for stealthily...borrowing others’ Martial Techniques.

As He Ao continued to familiarize himself with and contemplate the fist technique, the hands of the clock slowly approached midnight,

familiar text appeared in front of He Ao’s eyes,

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