Chen Shouyi walked through the street, avoiding puddles along the way.

It had just rained early yesterday morning, bringing a touch of long-lost coolness to the weather, which had recently started to become a bit hot.

He checked his status panel, looking at the strength attribute, his face slightly surprised and excited:

"The optimized version thrice over is indeed powerful. After only officially training for a day, strength has already increased by 0.1 points. At this rate of improvement, it won't be long before my strength undergoes a tremendous transformation."

"Even now, if I were to fight Sun Mengyuan again, I believe I could win more easily." He felt a little eager but decided to give up, thinking it through, since everything in the virtual space was fake.

However, every time he made her wet herself, it always felt a bit excessive, and he couldn't get past the moral barrier in his mind!

In fact, the greatest improvement in recent days has been not the strength, but the will.

These days, practicing day and night every day, enduring painful torment like hell every moment, has fully tempered his willpower, increasing by as much as 0.2 points, reaching fourteen points.

A few dirty and untidy street kids were playing by the roadside, each time someone passed by, they would deliberately stomp on puddles, causing pedestrians to dodge repeatedly, their clothes splashed with dirty water all over.

Someone couldn't stand it and reached out to hit them, and the kids giggled and quickly ran away wildly.

Most people could only admit their bad luck.

The kids repeated the mischief over and over, enjoying themselves immensely, joyful laughter echoed on the street.

At this moment, when they saw Chen Shouyi coming from afar, they immediately showed playful smiles on their faces, seeming to want to try the same trick again. But before they could act, one glance from Chen Shouyi froze them in their tracks, their bodies becoming rigid as if struck by lightning, faces pale until Chen Shouyi left, and only then did they regain their senses.

"Scared me to death." A kid around eight or nine sniffled, still shaken.

"Me too, this person is so scary. I felt like I didn't dare to move a muscle." Another slightly older child clutched his chest where his heart was pounding fiercely, agreeing repeatedly.

"This person must be a Martial Artist. There are many Martial Artists around here. Let's not play here anymore, let's go to the park and dig cicada nymphs, they are delicious when fried, very fragrant."

"Okay, let's go!" The kids couldn't help but swallow and then bolted towards the distant park.

Chen Shouyi glanced back at this group of kids with their hometown accents.

"These must be the kids of the recent refugees who came to the Safe Zone!" he thought silently.

In recent days, more and more refugees have been migrating to Hedong, with some being settled in the Safe Zone.

"Look, a plane!" Someone shouted from afar,

The pedestrians erupted in excitement, stopping in their tracks and looking up at the sky.

Chen Shouyi was momentarily stunned upon hearing this, and immediately looked up.

He soon saw three small silver dots flying slowly in a formation towards them, they were three jet fighters, trailing long contrails behind them.

Chen Shouyi's heart was filled with disbelief.

After the mutations, gasoline and diesel combustion became relatively slow, and ignition points were higher.

The series of changes in physical constants meant that current engines could no longer start and function normally, causing all previous cars, including airplanes, to completely stop, gradually replaced by steam-powered cars and airships.

He once thought he would never see such sights again, yet surprisingly, they reappeared in the sky today.

"It makes sense, science is about understanding the laws and utilizing them. If current engines can't be used, then new engines are designed. If gasoline's ignition point is higher and burns slower, then pressurize the engine!

Gasoline is still gasoline; its combustion value hasn't changed."

Buzz...

The fighter formation flew overhead slowly, gradually moving away.

Chen Shouyi watched for a long time, then withdrew his gaze, filled with excitement. These past days, he's been overshadowed by deep gloom.

In fact, he had been pessimistic about the current situation.

The Barbarian God's formidable power was despair-inducing. With current human strength, apart from using high-yield nuclear bombs as a desperate measure, sacrificing one thousand to kill one hundred, there was really no good solution against the Barbarian God?

But the appearance of these three fighters was undoubtedly a glimmer of hope!

Compared to the slow-flying steam airships, fighters completely outmatched them in terms of maneuverability and combat power.

Before the mutations, Great Xia's most advanced stealth fighters could cruise at speeds of 2.8 Mach, with maximum speeds reaching 3.5 Mach.

There were also waverider vehicles that could fly near space, reaching up to 8 Mach.

Such high speeds even made the Barbarian God seem insignificant by comparison.

As far as Chen Shouyi knew, due to Earth's weak Original Force constraints, the Barbarian God's flying speed wasn't fast, meaning that as long as humanity restored its pre-mutation strength, it could deliver an asymmetrical strike against the Barbarian God.

...

With the appearance of the three fighters, the entire Safe Zone buzzed with excitement, many people stood by the roadside discussing fervently, with expressions of excitement as if celebrating a festival.

It had been a long time since news this exhilarating appeared.

In recent days, the atmosphere in Hedong had become increasingly oppressive and tense.

The news of the fall of the Ningzhou area had long been the talk of the town, and every day on the highway, trucks loaded with munitions and soldiers could be seen passing by, under such circumstances, even the children knew that war was imminent again.

...

Chen Shouyi walked all the way to Jiangnan University and found Guan Miao in the office.

"Returning your books!" The two walked to a secluded corner, and Chen Shouyi handed over a stack of books.

She wore a gray-white fine velvet hip-hugging skirt, revealing a small section of her calf, and a faint bruise on her fair face appeared rather jarring.

"In the future, when borrowing books, don't come looking for me anymore!" Guan Miao said coldly after taking the books.

"Alright, my cousin is studying here now; I'll let her borrow next time!" Chen Shouyi said, feeling somewhat guilty for troubling her for so long. If it weren't too abrupt to give money, he would've compensated her with it earlier:

"By the way, what happened to your face, did someone hit you?"

Upon hearing this, Guan Miao's expression turned even uglier; she clenched her fingers, her anger rising, and her chest heaved violently.

Her husband was a jealous person, and recently some idle gossip started circulating, saying she had been getting close to some pretty boy lately, leading to a big argument between them. This bruise was left from that incident and hasn't faded yet.

It was a completely undeserved disaster.

If only she didn't think she couldn't beat him, and he wasn't a violent maniac, she would've slashed his damn face. She coldly said, "It's none of your business, I accidentally bumped into the door.

If there's nothing else, I'll leave now, and don't come looking for me again."

She turned and left quickly with a frosty expression.

Chen Shouyi watched her back, feeling somewhat baffled.

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