Chapter 20: A Sweaty Situation

Chapter 20: A Sweaty Situation

My eyes open to the light of the room.

Ah, shoot.

I wasnt able to keep my autoscan active through my sleep tonight.

Getting up quickly, I try to remind myself of my plan. Back in my old world, I had a lot of trouble remembering things and needed a planner to keep track of things. Strangely enough, since Ive been here, I could only feel myself thinking clearer.

Could it be the healing constitution? I should probably do some testing to see how much Ive improved.

Still, I only feel comfortable with my schedule when I have a planner of sorts. Though I may not need it, Id still like to have one but back to what I planned.

Today I will work on my workouts, the wall running/shadow boxing testing, pushing my scanning limits, and awareness training. I must make my workouts, scanning workouts, and awareness training something that I complete daily. Ive never been one for working out and always have been a late sleeper, but recently Ive been able to get up early, with no issues.

Getting on with my day, I use my scan to practice my awareness technique and also activate the half a meter autoscan. Once I have those up and feel comfortable enough to concentrate on other things, I head out of the bedroom to check out some small rooms near to this one. In the room three down from this one, I can see quite the interesting sight.

Laid out in front of me, in the corner of the is Gong, with her spider legs curled in, but her human side is laying, arms sprawled and softly snoring, on a sloped web wall.

Ah.

Since I took her room, she probably slept in here instead. When she wakes up, Ill see if I can take another room. It wouldnt be right to take over her room like this, especially for the long term.

Trying not to wake her up, I quietly head back to her bedroom. Arriving back with no issues, I begin my workout. Keeping up the awareness and autoscan for training. Starting with pushups, I try to remember the correct technique, as I try to complete. Starting with one, I complete it easily. Once I get to 50 pushups is when I felt the burn. I dont think I ever have completed this many pushups in my life at one time. I push myself and keep going. Even as I continue, I can feel my body recovering and allowing me to go further and further. And so I push. And push. And push.

Three thousand pushups later, I feel tired from the exertion and collapse on the ground, snot running down my face and heavy breathing. I cant even twitch my arms; I feel so tired. Even as I lay here for a single minute, somehow, I can feel my energy and body recovering, to where I felt like I only took a light jog. Not only that, but I felt my control over my awareness improve, as I strained to manage both my workouts and the technique.

What the heck is going on?! I havent even turned on the healing aura yet and Im already feeling like I can do three thousand more! If this is how the healing constitution is what will it be like if I use the healing aura?

Somehow, the thought of that scares me a little.

Nonetheless, I continue on with my workout.

Cheering me on in one corner, are the flying insects from last night. I have them doing weird arm waves in time with my movements. Funniest part about it, though? Im starting to not have to focus on them doing the movements, since they are getting used to it.

When I catch my groove of pushups, exhaustion, and then continue, it feels like I am managing around 35 pushups a minute. When I reach around 6000 total pushups, I change to another workout. Moving from pushups to sit-ups, I similarly manage to get above 6000, before moving on to squats. From that point, I try out other exercises I vaguely remembered (and refined using scanning), but not in the same quantities. During these exercises, my shoes and socks felt pretty uncomfortable, so I took them off. As I was in the middle of a rep, I placed them to the side quickly.Thê source of this content n/o/v/(el)bi((n))

In the corner of my eye, I could have sworn I saw Lin and Ai watching. However, just as I was going to turn my body to talk to them, I could see them already heading out. I could just overhear Ai, He must be practicing some type of technique. We should leave him to it. W-wait, I want to

Eh, they are sort of right. I guess I dont have to correct this misunderstanding. Plus, I need to finish this up. It feels like Ive been doing this for days.

After collapsing in exhaustion, I rest for what feels like a good half hour. Once I feel completely recovered, I finish up by testing the shadow running and fighting technique.

Pretty straightforward. I got my butt kicked by my own shadow.

When I finally had enough fun through punches in the air at nothing and experiencing repeated headaches, I sat down for a rest.

Taking a look around the room, I realized something. Its actually quite difficult to figure out how much time has passed.

As I head back inside, I reduce my autoscan back to the sustainable distance.

When I do so, I notice something that had caught my interest earlier.

Looking closely at the ground, I can see the transparent lines of web I had noticed on the way in. Utilizing my new and improved scanning, I map out where they are in the room.

This could be useful in practicing to avoid walking into traps.

Using this as a goal, I try to avoid as many of the transparent lines as I can.

Somehow, I successfully avoid them all until I get to Gongs room. As I get closer and closer to the room, Im able to smell the thick musk of sweat emanate from that direction. Its pretty clear what it was from.

Oh no.

I totally didnt consider how bad it would smell when I work out in a room, especially with the intensity of the workouts I did!

God, Ill need to figure out how to air out this room.

Double timing it to the entrance of the room, I hear strange sounds coming from the room and am shocked by a disturbing sight.

Rolling around in the portion of her room that I was working out in is Gong.

When I say rolling around, I mean literally. She seems to be in a revolving pattern of rubbing her legs on the ground and then bringing her face to the floor Which she then rubs her face into, with loud sniffs.

I can just barely hear her whispering to herself.

*SNNNNNIIIFFFF*

Ohmigod, it smells so good. What the heck is this?! And why does the whole room smell like this? *Snnnniiiifff* Seriously, what is this?!

I am so shocked by this sight that I just stand there without moving. As this continues, without her noticing me, I finally decide to head over to the room she slept in previously.

I think Ill just sleep here for the night.

As I walk over to the room, as I get to the entranceway of that enclave, I realize I just stepped on one of the transparent lines. Almost immediately, I hear the noises from Gongs room stop.

Ah.

So, it is what I thought. This must be an alert system for Gong. Its a good thing I didnt trip any while I was in that room

Heading into the room, I can feel myself burning up a bit.

Making sure to go through the nightly ritual of maintaining my awareness and the autoscan, I nod off to sleep in a position not unsimilar to Gong the night before.