Chapter 19: How Can I Make the Goddess Feel So Good

"Not welcome, huh?" Seeing Zhang Chu's shocked expression, Huang Lili gestured at the takeaway of crayfish and beer in her hand. "Don’t you know that delivery guys can’t get into the Warrior’s Home community?"

A miscalculation!

Zhang Chu stepped aside, letting Huang Lili in.

Warrior’s Home was a high-end residential area. Delivery guys weren’t allowed in; residents had to fetch their orders at the gate, or security would deliver them personally. This was a regulation from the Warrior Administration Bureau, meant to protect warriors’ personal privacy and safety.

But in Zhang Chu’s view, it was pure pretension.

Huang Lili had been worried about how to catch Zhang Chu. She’d just arrived at the gate of Warrior’s Home when she overheard the delivery guy and the security uncle talking. Hearing Zhang Chu’s name and confirming his phone number, she was more than happy to help.

The security uncle didn’t dare object. Residents of Zone A were at the top of the pyramid; who would risk offending them?

"Master, can you tell me how you went from being a patient with ALS to a Level 1 warrior? Seven days—do you even know what it means to become a Level 1 warrior in seven days? Truly a master!"

Even her address for Zhang Chu had changed. In all of Binzhou, he was the only one worthy of being called a master by her.

"Did you come to see me for something?" As Zhang Chu guessed.

Huang Lili shook Zhang Chu’s arm, actually acting coy. "My grandpa wants to meet you alone. You won’t refuse, right? For the sake of when I helped you find that little workshop for the trial medicine..."

"Alright, I’ll meet him."

Ever since seeing Li Feng at Huang Wenzhan’s house, Zhang Chu knew he’d be exposed sooner or later. He hadn’t expected it to be so soon. And with Huang Lili pulling the emotional card to this extent, if he refused, his home would be forever restless.

Women, indeed, slow the speed of drawing swords!

"I knew you were beautiful and kind!" Huang Lili was utterly delighted, clutching a handful of crayfish as she skipped out the door.

"Hey, my crayfish!" Zhang Chu looked at the half-empty bowl of crayfish—he hadn’t eaten a single bite—and was left speechless.

...

The next morning.

Before leaving, Zhang Chu deliberately put on a mask and took a cab to the Warrior Center.

Twelfth floor, Virtual Hunting Ground.

Zhou Chuanxiong had prepared breakfast early—spicy soup with tofu pudding and a stick of fried dough.

Zhang Chu was now his commission-earning workhorse; serving breakfast was standard procedure.

"Brother Zhang Chu, same routine today?" Zhou Chuanxiong, well-practiced, began gathering people for the eleventh floor viewing area.

"Twenty matches today, pay all at once when I’m done." Zhang Chu had less than five hundred yuan on him and owed Li Dashan forty thousand. Today, he was here purely to make money.

Hearing twenty matches, Zhou Chuanxiong was excited and immediately set things up.

Virtual Hunting Ground No. 1.

Level 1 exotic beasts, twenty matches.

Zhang Chu had no intention of revealing his identity as a Level 2 warrior, mostly fearing that people on the forum would dig it up and put him on the trending list.

Seven days!

From an ALS patient to a Level 2 warrior.

Such an inspirational, extraordinary story would surely bring many people knocking at his door.

Binzhou University was trouble enough already.

Zhang Chu didn’t want more forces interfering with his covert development.

Blood vitality at 556, intermediate-level martial skills.

Twenty matches, easy as pie, finished in an hour.

Each match cost eight hundred, prize money was four thousand, earning a net profit of three thousand two hundred per match.

Twenty matches, sixty-four thousand yuan in hand.

With an hour left before the Warrior Center’s lunch break, Zhang Chu ate a simple lunch at the third-floor restaurant, then headed to the first-floor certification center. "Hello, I’m certifying as a Level 2 warrior, haven’t measured my blood vitality yet."

"Level 2?" Seeing Zhang Chu’s youthful face, the receptionist was stunned. "Here’s the blood vitality test form, pay over there, test your blood vitality on basement level one, then come back to me."

"Thank you."

In less than ten minutes, Zhang Chu had his blood vitality test results and returned to the counter.

The receptionist beauty looked at the data, stunned. "Twenty-one years old, blood vitality 557—how did you manage that?"

He’d eaten a whole bottle of vitamins yesterday, blood vitality plus one.

Zhang Chu stayed silent but enjoyed the admiring and shocked look in the beauty’s eyes.

For men, mystery is king.

"Mr. Zhang, your card has been replaced. The relevant benefits have been sent to your Warrior Mall app’s private messages; you can claim them within three months."

Soon, Zhang Chu’s warrior card was replaced.

According to warrior level, the card colors were seven: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet.

Level 1 was crimson.

Looking at the orange warrior card in his hand, Zhang Chu left the Warrior Center with a flourish.

On his way out, Zhang Chu glanced at Warrior’s Home.

With his promotion to Level 2 warrior, he received a one-time reward of one hundred thousand, plus a monthly stipend of ten thousand.

One hundred and ten thousand had already been deposited.

There was also an eighty percent discount coupon, usable in the Warrior Mall or in offline stores.

His monthly supply of Blood Vitality Pills increased from three to five.

Additionally,

A contract for a house in Zone A of Warrior’s Home—an electronic signature was all it took to move into the villa area.

No sooner had he left than the receptionist beauty reported the data to the Warrior Center’s senior management group: "Managers, please look at this data. We actually have such a young Level 2 warrior in Binzhou, and he isn’t even a student of the Martial Arts Research Institute!"

Instantly, all the work groups in the Warrior Center exploded.

Zhou Chuanxiong, dishing out lunch, saw the data in the group and his scalp tingled. "Damn, my brother Zhang Chu actually became a Level 2 warrior?"

He hurriedly tagged the managers in the Warrior Management Center group: "Bosses, I know Zhang Chu well. His promotion to Level 2 was definitely thanks to our twelfth floor’s Virtual Hunting Ground. When you took the risk to set it up, it was absolutely the right decision. Kudos to your visionary thinking!"

At that moment, Zhang Chu had no idea.

His promotion to Level 2 had not yet spread on the forums, but it had become the talk of hundreds in the Warrior Center.

Leaving the Warrior Center, Zhang Chu called Wang Peng. "Dapeng, does Uncle Li’s shop open during the day? I went to the exotic beast forest yesterday and got some stuff, want to cash it in."

"Come over."

The black market only opened at night; during the day, everyone was a law-abiding citizen.

Wang Peng quickly sent Zhang Chu a location: "Old Li’s Hotpot Restaurant."

Uncle Li was a real jack-of-all-trades!

Zhang Chu mused, hailed a cab, and headed straight to the hotpot restaurant.

On the road.

While waiting at a red light, Zhang Chu’s phone rang.

He glanced—class group chat messages.

"@Su Mingyue, congratulations to our goddess for reaching a blood vitality of 152, certified as a Level 1 warrior!"

"Su Mingyue: Thank you."

"Has the anonymous top scorer been found yet?"

"Who cares about that now? Goddess Su is the eternal champion!"

Reading the group messages, a playful smile curled Zhang Chu’s lips. How could he let Su Mingyue have things so easy?

He changed his cab’s destination on his phone. "Driver, change of plans—let’s go to Binzhou University."