I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal
Chapter 48 - 44 Already Like Strangers (Please Follow)

Chapter 48: Chapter 44 Already Like Strangers (Please Follow)

March 13th, seven in the morning.

Today’s weather forecast is light rain turning overcast.

However, as everyone knows, weather forecasts are always inaccurate.

Sometimes it’s because a certain provincial meteorological bureau is too greedy, using thousands of artillery shells to prematurely bring down rain clouds that should have spread across several provinces.

Other times it’s simply because the weather, this chaotic system, is truly unpredictable.

In any case.

This morning was sunny.

Chen Yun, on time, carried a big hemp sack containing the battle drum’s bronze hammer, stepping out at 7 a.m.

He was ready to start his morning run.

He brought the battle drum’s bronze hammer to add some weight for himself, having ordered weight equipment online last night as part of his exercise plan, which was naturally still being made in overtime.

Thus, it was time for the battle drum’s bronze hammer to prove its worth.

He wasn’t worried that carrying such an exaggerated battle drum’s bronze hammer out would attract much attention.

His battle drum’s bronze hammer was wrapped in a layer of hemp sack, and attracting attention would first require the sack to break.

And even if the sack did break, it wouldn’t matter.

Firstly, at this time, everyone was busy with their early morning routines, few would care about him passing by with a hammer.

Moreover, honestly speaking, would you give more than a fleeting glance to someone on the street carrying a battle drum’s bronze hammer? Even if you did look several times, would you remember it a few minutes or hours later?

And the place where he was going to exercise, a fairly large park, it was easy to avoid many people by just going slightly off the main paths.

Secondly, most people in modern society have no real concept of weight; they are even a bit confused about how much a pound of groceries is, so they wouldn’t perceive the hammer in his hand as particularly heavy.

Lastly, even if someone did notice it and understood the weight of such a big piece of metal, they wouldn’t believe it was real; they would most likely think it was a hollow toy.

Such truly enlightened folks would definitely fall into the trap of being too clever by half, knowing such a big hammer would be heavy, so definitely concluding that the one in Chen Yun’s hand must be hollow.

In any case.

In this indifferent modern society, there was no need to worry about carrying the battle drum’s bronze hammer out.

However, while waiting for the elevator downstairs, the constantly open "Transparent World 2.0" noticed some desperate whispering from next-door neighbor Bai Shi’s room.

With some curiosity,

Chen Yun paid more attention to Bai Shi.

He saw the hungover Bai Shi waking up unusually early today, despairingly pinching a single hair between his index finger and thumb.

His face was especially clear.

Not at all the muddiness of someone hungover.

Chen Yun sensed Bai Shi’s confused, frightened, and perplexed emotions, knowing he had been scared awake.

Evidently, sudden hair loss, for him and his Mediterranean hairline, was more effective than any hangover remedy.

Bai Shi was somewhat unable to accept his current reality.

Although only one hair had fallen out, if one hair could fall out, so could two!

If two, then a patch could.

"It’s over, do I need to stop drinking?" Bair Shi murmured.

He fell into a state of continuous bafflement.

Meanwhile, Chen Yun who was waiting for the elevator, got on the just-arrived elevator slightly guiltily.

Silently not uttering a word.

To be frank, Bai Shi losing a hair was indeed his doing.

Last night, experimenting with the effects of telekinesis on the wall between them, he couldn’t resist and had made a move on Bai Shi’s head.

That was a bit beyond acceptable.

But Chen Yun couldn’t help but note, that even a bit reflective Mediterranean head was too conspicuous a target.

Guiltily descending the stairs.

Headed towards a nearby time-honored self-brewing tavern.

Speaking of which...

He had drunk quite a lot of Bai Shi’s good wine last night, even though he didn’t quite savor the taste anymore, but he still drank it.

Along with plucking someone’s hair.

Chen Yun planned to exercise and then go there to tap some rice wine to bring back for Bai Shi.

He remembered Bai Shi’s favorable review of the tavern’s self-brewed rice wine.

Conveniently, the park Chen Yun planned to jog in this morning was near that tavern, making it a convenient stop along the way.

........

Longhu Wetland Park.

Home to Shucheng’s largest ecological lake, inhabited by egrets, orioles, green-headed ducks, cotton teal, and other birds. The park featured forests, lakes, meadows, wetlands, recreational squares, and walking trails.

Around that largest lake in Shucheng, there was excellent greenery and a running track.

A gentle breeze blew.

Chen Yun, carrying the hemp sack with the battle drum’s bronze hammer, slowly jogged along the park’s lakeside greenway, feeling the air he breathed was exceptionally fresh.

Previously plagued by poor lifestyle habits, with every organ from his liver to his spleen in poor condition, Chen Yun now felt physically and mentally better than ever before.

Running freely along the lakeside.

His heart full of joy and ease.

Now not needing sleep, he no longer had to worry about an unhealthy daily routine.

His mind was no longer consumed with the worry of mere survival.

In front of him laid a clear path, one that would inevitably change his life for the better.

So everything was different.

It was a state of finally living for himself.

After Chen Yun warmed up with a couple of laps around the lake, it was exactly twenty past seven.

At this hour of the morning, people were gradually starting to appear for their exercise in the wetland park.

Most of them were older men and women, and there weren’t too many of them.

After warming up, Chen Yun deliberately avoided these crowds.

In a more secluded part of the wetland park, he began a higher-intensity morning workout.

The previous two laps were just for fun.

Even carrying a heavy object like the battle drum’s bronze hammer.

But the distance wasn’t too long and the speed wasn’t too fast.

It hardly counted as intensive.

The exercise he now performed away from the crowds.

That was where the real effort lay.

It included but was not limited to thousands of dumbbell squats with jumps, flat bench dumbbell presses, bend-over dumbbell rows, and standing dumbbell curls...

During this regimen,

he switched all his dumbbells to the battle drum’s bronze hammer for added weight.

The intensity was so extreme that anyone who knew would call it inhuman.

However, Chen Yun was very familiar with this place and also had the help of Transparent World 2.0.

So he wouldn’t get caught by anyone or any surveillance.

After a while, as it neared nine o’clock,

Chen Yun, who had exhausted and replenished his energy several times, stopped exercising.

Feeling his body, not a single drop of sweat on it,

he packed up the battle drum’s bronze hammer, then ran to the lakeside to complete a few final laps.

By this time, there weren’t many people by the lake.

After all, it was a weekday.

Young people were all at work.

The elderly who could come for morning exercise had already finished by this time.

Holding a sack, Chen Yun ran at a speed that wouldn’t attract too much attention but was definitely fast.

However, he couldn’t complete even two more laps.

He couldn’t help but stop next to a young man, refraining from continuing to lap him.

"Are you... Xu Jinying?"

Chen Yun frowned, staring at the somewhat haggard face before him.

Without his confidence in his observational skills and memory enhanced by Transparent World 2.0, he barely recognized the man.

The change was just too drastic.

It was a friend he had met during his factory internship in Shucheng, after which Chen Yun had discovered his talent for writing novels and dedicated himself full-time to that pursuit.

Xu Jinying looked much worse now than he had before.

"Are you... Chen Yun?"

"Who else could be running with a sack and still lap me twice, if not you, kid?"

"You’re in such good physical shape now?"

Xu Jinying looked in surprise at Chen Yun, glancing at the muscles faintly visible under his thin clothes.

He didn’t suspect anything,

but was just amazed at how strong Chen Yun seemed now,

able to lap him even with weights.

"Not bad, I’ve been exercising."

"How have you been lately?"

Chen Yun nodded.

He didn’t mention that the weights in his sack were far heavier than Xu Jinying could imagine.

Instead, he curiously inquired about Xu Jinying’s recent situation.

From Xu Jinying’s face, he could see the weariness.

"What else can I do? Everyday, slaving away under a dog of a boss, who knows nothing but to speed up the assembly line."

"I’m almost worked to death day by day."

"It took a lot of pleading just to get a day off for my birthday today."

Xu Jinying shook his head helplessly.

He hadn’t met with any disaster, it was just the complex burdens of life that were leaving him gasping for air.

Hearing this,

Chen Yun was stunned.

Looking at this friend, who was still struggling for survival to the point of being utterly worn out,

he suddenly realized that this was the life of most modern people.

Yet currently, he lived for himself.

He felt fortunate to have gradually become a stranger to the lives of most people.

He had stepped onto a profoundly different path.

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