Chapter 5

Just thinking about his ex-girlfriend, Xiao Zhi immediately lost all interest in conversation.

He quit the game and lay down on the bed.

He couldn't help but start thinking about her again, wondering how she was doing now...

They had already deleted each other on WeChat, so he had no way of knowing her updates.

In his phone, apart from a few photos of her and her delivery address, there was nothing left.

No, there was still her phone number, which he still knew.

However, Xiao Zhi wouldn't contact her anymore, even though he really wanted to. He would only bury this impulse deep in his heart.

He no longer had a suitable identity to get close to her.

She had told him when they broke up that she was a bit tired and didn't want to date anyone anymore, not anyone...

Is it really so hard to forget her...

After giving his heart, forgetting someone is not an easy thing.

He still remembered when he was in college, a guy in his dorm broke up with his girlfriend and shouted at night that he wanted to go downstairs to buy alcohol. The dormitory door was closed, so he had no choice but to drink a lot of cold water from the tap and then lie in bed, sighing all night.

He also wrote his ex-girlfriend's name on the walls and wardrobe, muttering and sighing as he wrote.

At that time, everyone in the dorm laughed at this guy, and Xiao Zhi was no exception.

Breaking up is just breaking up, what's the big deal, no need to be like this, not at all like a man!

What a wimpy attitude, too pathetic!

A real man will never lack a wife!

For this, they laughed at this guy for a long time.

He still remembers this incident.

This is the difference between an observer and a participant.

Without that experience, one can never truly understand that feeling.

Now, thinking about it, Xiao Zhi can understand how that guy felt back then.

His current state is slightly better.

He just suffers silently in his heart, without showing much abnormal behavior.

To outsiders, he is still the same person, not much different from before.

Xiao Zhi tried hard not to think about her and instead focused on the game. Unconsciously, he fell asleep.

Another new day arrived.

It was still early morning, around 6 o'clock, when Xiao Zhi woke up.

He still felt a bit chest tightness, but it was slightly less severe than yesterday.

Indeed, shifting focus and time are the best healing agents.

Xiao Zhi logged into the game "World of All Beings."

Young people in modern society are mostly night owls, and there are few like Xiao Zhi who can wake up so early.

In fact, the old Xiao Zhi was also a night owl, but after the breakup, he lost interest in many things, including staying up late.

Looking around, the players were lying all over the ground next to the extinguished campfire, and Xiao Zhi was the earliest to wake up.

Those dozen or so players, wearing only shorts, were hugging their chests and curling up on the ground, looking like shrimps.

Xiao Zhi didn't try to wake them up; they were just player characters, and he couldn't wake them up even if he wanted to.

While controlling his character to leave, Xiao Zhi thought about how to train his character's strength.

The system had prompted that only those with a strength value of 100 were eligible to learn the "Nine Ox Bursting Strength Technique" from the village patrol captain, Wang Ji.

Xiao Zhi is a serious and persistent person.

Since he decided to play this game, he would play it seriously.

Even if playing this game was just a means to divert his sadness and shift his focus after the breakup.

The method of strength training is actually very simple and not difficult.

For example, push-ups, squats, and weightlifting can all train a person's strength.

In a secluded corner of the village, Xiao Zhi began to control his character to perform sets of push-ups, squats, and weightlifting.

Push-ups and squats don't require any props, while weightlifting does, but such props are not hard to find; a heavy stone from the side would do.

Controlling the character to perform these strength training exercises is actually very simple; Xiao Zhi just needed to extend one finger and tap a small icon on the phone screen repeatedly.

The character in the game was doing push-ups, breathing heavily, and sweating profusely, while Xiao Zhi just needed to place his phone in front of him and tap the small icon on the screen every few seconds.

It was easy, but the process was a bit monotonous and boring.

If there was an auto-training system, it would be great. Such an advanced game doesn't have an auto-training system, which is not very user-friendly.

While tapping the screen every few seconds, Xiao Zhi opened his computer and used a search engine to search for "World of All Beings."

As a qualified player, learning to search for game information and guides online is very necessary.

On the internet, the official website of "World of All Beings" was like air, never appearing.

However, the dedicated forum for "World of All Beings" was even more active than before.

The number of posts on this dedicated forum was almost reaching ten thousand.

The post about the character appearance debate was still very popular, but Xiao Zhi was too lazy to click into it again.

He looked at other posts.

"What a magical game, such a large game map, I can't see the end, my character is completely lost in the forest outside the village. Is this really just a 3GB game?"

"Anyone in Southern Wasteland Village?"

"This game is so hard, forget the main quest, even a side quest is impossible. It's a pain."

"Damn, this 'Fish and Bird Soaring Technique' requires 100 agility points to practice. My initial agility points are only 71, and my character has been training agility for over an hour, and my hand is sore from tapping, but I only gained 1 agility point. This is too unfair."

"Can someone in Northern Desert Village take me along?"

"Where is the recharge channel? Why is there no recharge channel? I want to recharge! I want to get stronger!"

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While tapping the screen every few seconds, Xiao Zhi browsed the "World of All Beings" game forum on his computer.

He found that the game "World of All Beings" was quite popular, and many players were attracted to it.