Chapter 167 (1/2)

Chapter 167

The Running Man

Day 2

”Hey!!! Younglowered the water bottle from his lips and looked to his leftA car had deliberately slowed down tocould edcapped the bottle and waved at the driver”Nah! I'ed man looked at hi increased his pace”Thanks for offering though!”

”You training for aaze”Nope!” he saidI' Tibet, he added silently

”Alright then! See you around kid! I hope you reach wherever you're going”

Li Yundong gave the ained speed and pulled away from hi like this happenedYesterday, he had had around twenty such encountersIf the passing drivers thought he was crazy, Li Yundong couldn't really bla thisBut if this training could help him pass the Zhuji phase and survive the Heavenly Thunder afterwards, then he'd be damned well sure he'd ace it

What surprised hih, was the fact that he didn't feel tired at all despite having run God kno many kilometers without sleep, food, and restEven when he was rehydrating hiInstead, heand then sipped on his water

Zi Yuan had insisted that he never stop for a breather once he started running, that he should keep running until his legs gave out entirelySo far, he'd been doing exactly thatThe way he saw it, his entire journey to Tibet would consist of: all out bout of running; collapse due to exhaustion; eat, sleep, and rest to replenish his strength; repeat

Basically, the whole journey would consist of cyclesH Man cycleYepThat definitely had a nice ring to it

Right now, he was still in his first Running Man cycle—he had yet to stop running since he left New Hongsheng districtHe wondered when his body would finally reach its li for days without problemsWell, he did experience alike crazydisappeared as soon as he started sweatingOther than that, there weren't any htly elevated but consistentHis legs didn't feel sore at allHis body felt hot all over, but he supposed that was norThe heat inside his body never beca heavily, which helped cool hi did strike hiot drawn out on their own and started circulating through hisfor a whileThat had never happened beforeUsually, he had to consciously draw out the Qis of his five Zangs with his Yuanyang, but this time the Qis seemed to have a will of their ownHe wondered whyHe made a mental note to ask Zi Yuan about it later

Su Chan was constantly on his , he'd start wondering about the kind of funny remarks that Su Chan would ! Look! That thing has so hts! Hehehe!

Oh, Yundong… Look! Octopus food! Dagoyakee balls! Yu eyesBlinkBlinkBlinkSeconds later: Yay!!! You are so nice, Yundong! Muacks! Muacks! Muacks!

Yundong! Squids! Fried squids on sticks!

Yundong thisYundong that

Who was he kiddingThose were all s to hie archway appeared aheadAbove the archas a huge sign with a bunch of words printed on itHe squinted and tried to read the words from afarHe couldn't

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His vision was too blurry from the tears that had welled up in his eyes

Day 3

Li Yundong's knees hit the pave Man cycle just endedSo this hat it felt like to run till you dropSurprisingly, it had taken over 600 kilometers to reach his li gulps of air, and then rolled onto his backThe stars blinked down at hiht sky

Where was he anyway?

He sifted through his nboards or landave out

He ca

Great, now he didn't even have a clue where he wasAll he kneas that he was lying half-dead in a ht, chuckling to hi?

Seriously, what the fck was he doing?

He shut his eyes and kept breathing and filling his lungs with ue came when he was about to leave the previous city—the first city he'd arrived at after he left Tiannan CityHis breathing started to become rapidHis heart rate increasedEventually he started to feel the burn in his lungs

But still, he kept pushi+ng forwardHe left the city quickly and entered the highwayHe'd been running on this highway for an hour or two before his ave out

He tried to re the afternoon before he left for this crazy tripHe had lunch with Zi Yuan and Ruan Hongling before Zi Yuan told him about this tripSo it was three days since I last ate, huh? Wasn't too bad, he supposedEven though it felt like ages agoAnd yes, he was hungry as fckBut that wasn't even his prier proble like he'd just turned into a cripple, of course): he had run out of drinking water

Li Yundong groaned at the thoughtStupid, stupid, stupid! He was a fcking idiotWhy did he choose to leave the city? He should've just run around the city in circles until his legs gave outAt least he'd still be inside a city when he exhausted all his strengthRight noas in the hwayWhere was he supposed to find water in the hway? What should he even do? Pray for the rain?

YeahThat was pretty duardlessWhat's done is doneHe would just have to walk back into the city tomorrow, buy soain

His breathing had begun to even out, and he felt like he was drifting in and out of consciousnessHe knew because he kept seeing Su Chan's face floating before his eyes, kept hearing her sweet voice beside his ear

Maybe she was here? IdiotWhy would she be here?

Maybe he should just sleepWait, noLi Yundong shook his head a few times and blinked his eyes openHe pushed hi position, then removed his backpack froainst soot into aDa Zhoutian and Xiao Zhoutian would help hi take over

I miss you, Chan'er

Day 10

Guess what? He'd just crossed the borders into another provinceAnother province! On foot! Woohoo! Great stuff to tell his—hopefully foxy—grandkids

Noas on his way towards Zhangfang, the first town he would pass after crossing the borders into Hunan provinceHe'd passed by a lot of towns and counties over the past few days when he was traveling towards the borders of Jiangxi province (Zhaoxian, shi+bi, Huangzhou, Luoshi+, Shangfu, Ganfang, and etc), during which he realized the ioal

He'd learned to avoid big cities and pick routes that would lead hih smaller towns and counties insteadGenerosity was abundant in se citiesIn a fens that he'd stopped by, the townsfolk had actually opened their ho him foodAnd it certainly helped that prices for food and water werethe right routes as well; it was also about ti and the ability to adapt to unforeseen circumstancesHe had to th of his strides—so that he would end up soave outIt had taken hi these adjust after entering Zhaoxian's town area, so he couldn't stop (Zi Yuan said he had to keep running until he dropped)But at the sah steaIn the end, he ended up running around Zhaoxian in circles—he didn't want to end up in the ain when he reached his limits

There were also noticeable improvements in his staminaEvery time after he reached his limits and recovered, he was able to push himself further (in ter Man cyclesIn other words, the training orkingIt was really workingHe could feel the Qis of his five Zangs growing stronger and beco more concentratedWhich re concrete bricks and test out the results of his trainingHopefully he could achieve the sa Zi Yuan did with the marble block soonHe needed a name for that effectYeahHe definitely needed a name for itHow aboutthe Paloal was to reproduce the Palm Print effect before he arrived at TibetOperation Palm PrintHow about that?

Day 15Near the borders of Hunan Province

Finally, this day came, the day he was forced to throw his shoes away because they were no longer serviceable—the base was completely torn off due to all that wear and tearAt the moment, he had three choices: buy a cheap pair of shoes; continue his journey barefoot and hope that soive him a pair of shoes for free; find his own shoes, either by ru his own shoes

Li Yundong dismissed the first option almost instantlyA new pair of shoes wouldn't be worth the invest a cheap pair of shoes only to ruin the hishis own shoes seeh dumpsters for a pair of shoes seemed like a terrible idea too, especially when he had no ready access to a showerHe'dthe possibilities of having s

Barefoot it is, thenLi Yundong shoved his old shoes into the trash can and looked up at skyFor once, Li Yundong was grateful for the su at times