Chapter 62: Food Insufficiency (2/2)

Huang Wei was lost for words. After hesitating for a few seconds, he found the courage to say, “I was forced to… We no longer have rice and we have been eating porridge for a few consecutive days. I’m here to buy some rice from you. At a good price of course.”

Mr. Wang’s wife suddenly entered the conversation and she asked in a low voice, “What does that Huang Wei want from you?”

“He said he wants to buy some rice, shall we sell him some?” Mr. Wang whispered.

“Why should we? We don’t have enough ourselves. Who knows how many days such conditions will last? If we don’t have rice by that time, what shall we eat?”

They argued for a while and Huang Wei anticipated bad news.

“Huang Wei, I understand that you won’t borrow rice from us if you don’t really need it but we don’t have much rice too as we have four family members who need to eat every day. I’m sorry, why don’t you try to ask someone else? I’m so sorry!” Mr. Wang said embarrassedly.

“Oh, it’s alright, it’s alright. I understand that you have your problems as well.” Huang Wei said insincerely again.

He stood there for a while, sighed and walked back to his house. As he was about to take out the keys to open the door, he heard the conversation inside and stopped moving.

“When will dad come back with borrowed rice?” His son asked in a clear voice.

“Soon, then we can have a nice meal.”

“Can I have the rice instead of porridge?” his son asked with hope.

“Sure!” his wife paused and continued, “but only for a meal.”

“Oh, that’s great! But why isn’t dad home yet?”

He slowly squatted down while leaning against the wall and sighed. Then, he stood up abruptly and went upstairs. He did not believe that out of the many people in this building, nobody would sell him some.

“150, 151, 152…”

Luo Yuan was doing push-ups in the living room and his speed was so fast that he can do about 5 push-ups a second. Sweat was dripping down his back and his fair skin appeared to be coated with a layer of oil. He still kept going like a flawless speedy yet accurate machine.

His back muscles were like the two wings, contracting and relaxing along with his actions which also pulled other long and narrow muscles together forming a dense muscle network.

Wang Shishi was standing at the corner and watched Luo Yuan secretly. As she was in her adolescent period, she was curious but felt shy. Additionally, the sounds which occasionally came from Luo Yuan’s bedroom further intensified her curiosity. She took a deep breath, rolled her eyes, and walked into the living room boldly to Luo Yuan’s side while trying to act normally.

At that moment, Luo Yuan stopped. He was panting heavily, grabbed a towel to wipe his sweat away and wanted to take a bath.

“Brother Luo, aren’t you doing push-ups anymore?” Wang Shishi stared at Luo Yuan’s body and acted like she was surprised.

“No!” Luo Yuan was panting so heavily that he could not speak. This high intensity training tested his stamina and he was already exhausted in less than a minute. However, considering he went from 170 fast push-ups at the beginning to 200 times now, he has already shown a slight improvement.

The best training method for him was to do short distance sprints which will lead to heavy panting like a dog after a few seconds. However, it was still daytime and someone would notice him even though there weren’t any people on the street. Thus, he dared not practice sprinting on the street or he might be seen as a mutated person and get into trouble.

His stamina was the restraining factor to all his status points. His body was like a machine with a flaw since it could only work at full power for less than a minute, thus limiting his abilities. Because of this, it did not matter to him whether it was day or night, as long as his physical strength recovers he will continue training his stamina.

Though the mutated mosquitoes outside threatened the life of normal people, they were not able to go near a person who had already mastered sword fighting. Once he entered the state of combat, his surrounding would become very quiet and all the insects would retreat. Occasionally, some unlucky mutated mosquitoes might go too near and later find themselves lying on the floor.

After successfully controlling his powers before, he basically spent his nights outside every day. Even though the blazing light from the blade of the Zhanmadao was surprisingly powerful, it could not help much in actual battles due to his current constraints because nobody would give you enough time to focus your power in an intense battle!

Though he managed to kill the huge lizard, it was mainly down to luck. After all, it was dizzy and fell on the floor as it was hit by the high explosive bomb and grenade which gave Luo Yuan a good opportunity to attack it. However, if it could dodge Luo Yuan’s attacks, his rhythm would be interrupted and he would not able to focus anymore.

Therefore, what Luo Yuan needed to do was to shorten the time taken to focus from more than 10 seconds down to only a second so that he can control his power at any time. However, maybe this was all wishful thinking. Luo Yuan felt disappointed with the results of his training even though he had been practicing for a few days.