Chapter 115: 114 Helen's Second Test

[Physical recovery 100%, Rapid Recovery (unlocked) unlock progress 30%.]"Ha~"

Bai E suddenly awoke, the occasionally cold touch on his body during his sleep always made him feel as if a blade was gliding over him, creating a sense of danger. This was the first time he actively wanted to wake up from a coma induced by physical exhaustion.

"Awake?" Helen, who was sitting at the workbench with her back to Bai E, asked softly without turning her head.

"Mhm..." Bai E sat up from the equipment bed and began to dress.

Only a pair of big shorts was left on him, Helen had almost completely stripped him... seaʀᴄh thё NôvelFire(.)net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

[Another 270 points of combat experience gone.]

The little combat experience that he had just replenished from the players had once again grown wings and flown away, leaving him with only 93 points, which wasn't even enough for the next training correction. Luckily, there was still general experience to fall back on...

Bai E sighed in his heart. To cooperate with Helen's experiment, he had once again sacrificed combat experience for modifications without having the chance to consolidate the memory in his own body afterward.

It felt like a bit of a waste.

But fortunately, there was another compensating hope—

[You are currently participating in the creation of knowledge—Advanced Physical Training Version 3.0, current creation progress 5%...]

"I go... Training?" Bai E, now dressed, asked quietly.

It's never too late to mend the fold after a sheep is lost.

His body's memory of exercising under extreme conditions was fading away. Bai E could only feel as if ants were crawling over his skin without seizing the opportunity right away.

Very urgent...

"Don't be in a hurry." Helen, with her head down working at the desk, beckoned for him to continue waiting without turning back, "Just give me a moment, I need to explain some things to you."

"Oh~"

It felt like years...

After finally dealing with the newly acquired data, Helen spun her chair around and, with legs crossed and leaning against the back of the chair, looked at Bai E, "I've preliminarily analyzed your body's movement under two different weight bearing conditions, and I have some suggestions for you."

"Mmm..." Bai E listened attentively, as docile as could be.

"At this stage, I think you should stick to using a 30 kg weight as it is sufficient to achieve your training goals. Your physical attribute has already reached 14.1, but until you hit 15 points, the effects of extreme training under a 30 kg weight should be enough for your body to make significant progress with each training session.

While you can achieve higher energy consumption with a 43 kg weight, it doesn't significantly enhance the benefits to your body. In fact, your body may experience a deficit from the excessive consumption in this overloaded state.

I'm not sure yet why your body recovers from injuries faster than the average, but if you continue high-load training under a 43 kg weight, your recovery speed won't keep up with the rate of injury, and chronic injuries will be hard to manage."

[You are currently participating in the creation of knowledge—Advanced Physical Training Version 3.0, current creation progress 12%...]

"Oh~" Bai E nodded as if enlightened.

No wonder his talent unlocking speed skyrocketed after starting Advanced Physical Training; it wasn't just a matter of recovering stamina, the high-load training was also invisibly damaging his body.

In fact, even if Helen hadn't suggested it, Bai E was planning on continuing with 30 kg weight training.

After all, even though he could achieve a higher level of completion under a 43 kg weight with experience correction, with his own memory, he couldn't reach that extreme level. It was more appropriate for his current situation to train under 30 kg without exceeding 125% completion.

"This is just a suggestion from me, but in addition..." Helen took off her glasses, her naturally charming and slender eyes quietly stared at Bai E. A tiny, delicate mole beneath the right corner of her eye attracted Bai E's gaze like a black hole, making it hard for him to look away.

"I want to ask you something..."

The soft, bewitching voice seemed to come from beyond the heavens, ethereal and drifting, echoing in Bai E's mind.

[With the help of "Self-Restraint," you successfully passed a "Psychological Check."]

[You have successfully passed a mysticism resistance check, Mysticism +0.1.]

Bai E's eyes were blurry, as if his consciousness had drifted off to another world, he responded subconsciously, "Yes?"

"Why do you push yourself to train to such an extent?"

Helen looked quietly at Bai E's face, waiting for the warrior who had created many miracles to answer.

Human effort has no standard answer, how much should one strive before it is considered "enough"?

Is it enough to surpass peers? Is it enough to surpass instructors? To what extent does surpassing them count as reaching an end?

Everyone saw the variety of efforts made by this artificial human recruit, everyone marveled at the performance he had demonstrated, but the motivation that supported him to break the norms in the eyes of others time and time again... nobody cared.

But she wanted to know.

"Of course, you should do everything to the utmost," Bai E said with an ethereal look and a voice as rigid as still water, "Train earnestly, laugh heartily, cry out loud, and enjoy meals as if each were your last. I cherish every day of life, because the start of each day is the first day of the rest of my life. Unless I am about to die..."

Bai E's pace of speaking was very slow, his words measured and distinct, the slow cadence seemingly underpinning the intention behind all his actions.

"..."

Helen stared into Bai E's eyes, silent for a moment, that strange attraction fading slowly with the passage of time.

Bai E blinked, as though waking from a profound dream.

"Helen... Did I just drift off?" Bai E showed a clearly apologetic expression on his face.

Helen smiled, her eyes losing their envious glow, "No, it was me who was distracted."

Such a pure artificial human...

This is the magnificent miracle expressed by genes under the realm of infinite possibility!

"You mentioned before that you wanted to know more about my research, are you interested in hearing about it now?"

"Yes," Bai E nodded seriously.

He had a clear understanding of his own role, which in this task of developing new knowledge was to "participate in creation."

It was definitely Helen's role to create, his to participate.

More precisely, Helen was to conduct the research, and he was to be the subject of it...

The only hope of completing this task lay in Helen taking the initiative to impart her knowledge generously.

If she kept silent, his presence would be in vain.

"Originally I planned to adapt your training method so that everyone could utilize it, but based on current findings, to accomplish this there are mainly two concerns—the damage to the body is too severe, and the difficulty of personal will and control over one's body is quite high..."

[You are participating in the creation of knowledge—Advanced Physical Training Version 3.0, current progress 29%...]

"Moreover, I've found that on you, in fact, a 30-kilogram load is entirely sufficient before reaching a physical condition of 15 points, and the three different load levels previously designated are unnecessary. The training with your 43-kilogram load could be applied to those with physical conditions above 15 points..."

[You are participating in the creation of knowledge—Advanced Physical Training Version 3.0, current progress 46%...]

"I need more experimental references with different targets as a comparison with your sample in order to formulate a training method suitable for most warriors, and at that time..."

"Thump thump thump~" A knock on the door interrupted Helen's speech.

"Speak."

"Teacher... Teacher..." Aer's gentle voice came from outside the door, "The military has sent someone over claiming that they need to verify something urgent with you, do you have a moment?"