Chapter 18

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Medical supplies were incredibly rare in this post-apocalyptic world.

Many people could only choose to take their illnesses head-on after they got sick. They could only blame their luck if they succumbed to their illness.

Health checkups were basically non-existent in this world.

Now that he had the “health” attribute in his Physique Attribute Panel, Wu Peng could constantly check on the status of his body and he would know when there was a problem with his body when his health value dropped.

The production station should also give him the option of producing medical equipment and medicine.

Wu Peng would not have to worry about suddenly dying from a disease when he constantly upgraded the production station in the future.

Wu Peng did not want to waste time since he could increase his strength while he trained in the gym.

He wiped off his sweat with a towel and was prepared to continue to lift weights.

However, there wasn’t much equipment in the gym, it didn’t even have a treadmill. Only the most basic pieces of equipment were inside the gym.

“It would be nice if I could upgrade the equipment in the gym.” Wu Peng thought about it.

He accessed the Attribute Panel, found the options for the gym, and noticed that the gym could be upgraded.

The Ordinary Gym was the upgraded form of the Simple Gym. It had more equipment for working out and could slightly increase the speed of his attribute gain.

“Increase the speed of attribute gain?” Wu Peng immediately became excited. Would he be able to become Superman if he trained in the gym constantly for a year?

However, the upgrade for the gym required 500 points.

He had just spent 500 points to expand the shelter and another 100 points to build the gym. He would become penniless if he upgraded the gym.

Wu Peng struggled between the two decisions in his heart for a while. He clenched his teeth and pressed down on the option to upgrade the gym.

The thought of becoming Superman had taken root in his heart. He had to advance no matter the price he had to pay.

There was a beam of white light, and the gym had been successfully upgraded.

Now there were many pieces of equipment in the gym. There was a treadmill, chest developer, squat machine, and other pieces of equipment waiting for Wu Peng to use.

“Hehe, I’ll become Superman soon!” Wu Peng let out a strange cry and sprinted to the chest developer to work on his chest muscles.

He felt blood rush to muscles. It felt as though he constantly oozed power.

However, Wu Peng had trained for a full hour and was completely exhausted before the system nonchalantly issued a notification. “Strength increased by one point.”

“My God! I toiled throughout the entire day just for one point!” Wu Peng slumped to the ground and panted heavily.

He felt that something was off. He had trained with the dumbbells for half an hour in the Simple Gym and managed to increase his strength by one point.

Why did the speed of his progress become slower after he upgraded the gym and used better equipment?

Didn’t the system say that it could boost the speed of attribute increase?

“My 500 points!” Wu Peng felt his heart bleed knowing that he had spent a full 500 points on this upgrade.

However, Wu Peng did not know that his strength had been on the verge of leveling up just now. His strength would increase as time passed even if he did not work out. Working out only hastened the process.

If he wanted his strength to increase right after it leveled up, it would take a while for the additional one-point increase.

If not for the gym, he might have to spend half a year for his strength to increase by one point again.

Wu Peng crawled up dejectedly after he rested on the floor for a moment.

“Looks like I won’t be able to become Superman, but I can still accept that my body is becoming stronger.” Wu Peng quickly adjusted his mindset and shot two punches at the sandbag. He realized that fact even though his strength had only increased by one point.

The effects of that increase were very prominent. The power he had behind his punches had become much larger than before.

“I’ll settle for becoming Batman if I can’t become Superman.” He had to head out to gloat now that he had become stronger.

Wu Peng immediately headed to the base of the law enforcers. He lifted his head, raised his chest, and spread open his arms after he walked past the main door. He intentionally walked into the base with small strides.

His posture naturally attracted the attention of the people around him.

After getting familiar with Wu Peng during this time, the law enforcers knew that he liked to play the fool and walked past him with smiles on their faces.

Just like that, Wu Peng walked all the way to Ye Wei’s office. “Little Ye, do you notice anything different about me?”

Ye Wei glanced toward him, not knowing what he was up to once again. “Why do you look like a fighting rooster?”

“Hehe, I’ve been working out in the gym and now my muscles have gotten much stronger. Please call me ‘Macho Man’ in the future!” Wu Peng said with a cheeky grin as he flexed his muscles.

The corners of Ye Wei’s lips rose slightly but quickly returned to normal. “You even have a gym? Are you sure you weren’t just lifting rocks?”

“Hmph, I use standard gym equipment. I have stuff like treadmills, chest developers, and the like. Do you know about chest presses? I can do 30 of them!” Wu Peng bragged. He wanted Ye Wei to take him seriously instead of teasing him.

Ye Wei saw that he was being serious. She stood up, walked toward him, and observed him from head to toe. “How many kilograms do you use with your chest developer?”

“30 kgs!” Wu Peng proudly raised his head even higher.

“Puuu! 30 kgs? Even I use 35 kgs. Daliu can do 50 chest presses on 100 kgs of weight!” Ye Wei said with a laugh.

“… Goodbye!” Wu Peng squirmed and turned to run as he felt embarrassed by Ye Wei’s teasing.

It was only now that he realized how ordinary his physique was.

“Wait!” Ye Wei fought back her laughter and stopped Wu Peng.

“Don’t continue to humiliate me!” Wu Peng’s face was red. He looked at the ground, too embarrassed to look at Ye Wei.

“Let’s talk about work. Two hours ago the other cities also experienced incidents of the satellite signal stations being destroyed. I highly suspect that Viper did this,” Ye Wei said.

Wu Peng’s expression instantly became stern, “Are there any other pieces of useful information?”

Ye Wei shook her head, “The other cities don’t have it as good as us. They couldn’t come across the members of Viper.”

“Just what is Viper trying to do? Attacking in multiple locations is not a good idea. How could they be so confident that they could deal with that many law enforcers at once?” Wu Peng wondered.

“No matter what Viper’s plan is, we have to protect our last station. Viper will definitely expose an opening when they become pressured enough,” Yu Wei said confidently.

…

After the two of them discussed some details, it was now evening.

Ye Wei had to start to make preparations to hand her shift over, and Wu Peng did not continue to bother her.

Wu Peng’s phone suddenly rang on his way home. It was an alert from the Bird Scouting Drone.

Ever since he crossed swords with Viper, Wu Peng was afraid that they would infiltrate and sabotage his shelter while he was out, so he configured the Bird to automatically patrol the area around his shelter when he left and alert him if it detected a biological creature near his shelter.

He connected his phone to the camera of the Bird Scouting drone and saw a woman hastily escape near his shelter.

The woman was simply dressed, and she had many wounds on her exposed skin. She tightly gripped a black crystal in her right hand.

At the same time, three people in pure-black protective gear were hot in pursuit behind the woman.

Wu Peng immediately recognized that they were members of Viper through their outfits.