Chapter 9: Increase pounds of strength every day

If I go for training, I will be exhausted after running a few steps, or kicked to death by that bearded man.

strength!

How to improve strength?
Lu Yuan turned over the mud, looking for earthworms under the black mud.

A dark blue font appeared before my eyes.

[Infinite Strength: Strength +10]

Lu Yuan widened his eyes and quickly opened the panel.

More dark blue lettering washed down.

[Host: Lu Yuan]

[Superpowers: Immortality/Infinite Strength]

【Attributes:
Strength: 50】

Strength! 50!

Lu Yuan excitedly stretched out his fist and punched the mud.

Although it seemed to have no effect and did not crack the mountain.

But the road was long at this time, and I was so happy that I couldn’t stop smiling.

He could sense that his strength was indeed much greater!
Previously, I only had 40 kilograms of strength, but now I have added 10 kilograms, which is a full 50 kilograms!
That's equivalent to more than a quarter more force!

Moreover, he already understood how to use his gift of "infinite strength"!
He doesn't have to do anything!
Just wait until noon, which was the time when he entered this world yesterday and fought with the soldiers.

It will automatically increase!

He had actually guessed before, maybe there was some triggering condition, or maybe it was a time limit.

Now, he guessed right!
He remembered when his superpowers increased his strength.

Look at the sun in the sky, it is exactly the same as it was then!
Doesn’t that mean that he can gain ten kilograms of strength every day without doing anything!

10 kilograms a day, 100 kilograms in ten days, 3650 kilograms a year!
Ten thousand years, that’s 3650 million kilograms!

If he could survive for trillions of years, wouldn't he be able to become One Punch Man?
If that happens, not to mention this broken place, even those super-powered people outside can be killed with one punch!

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan almost laughed out loud.

"Coo coo coo~!".

The unbearable feeling of hunger interrupted Lu Yuan’s sweet dream.

His face changed and he quickly grabbed a handful of raw rice from his pocket, put it into his mouth, and started chewing it with a crunching sound.

Only after he had swallowed all the raw rice did the expression on his face relax a little.

The hunger I felt just now was even worse than yesterday!

You know, he drank porridge yesterday and ate some earthworms today. His body is much stronger than when he first crossed over, probably because he had been hungry for a few days.

But even with the added ten kilograms of strength, the feeling of hunger was still unbearable.

Even after eating the remaining one-third of the rice, my stomach is still rumbling.

Lu Yuan's face now looks quite ugly.

This great power is not without cost.

Even for him now, it is a fatal price!

I am indeed gaining strength every day.

However, his energy was being consumed at a faster rate every day, and the food he ate was consumed.

He was already living such a difficult life with nothing to eat, and now this superpower made him a big rice consumer. If this was the case, he would definitely spend all the rice in his pocket tomorrow!

If this happens again the day after tomorrow, he will have nothing to eat and will probably starve to death!
Lu Yuan's face looked very ugly.

He touched the remaining ounces of rice in his pocket.

His hands were shaking due to hunger.

The movement of his stomach and intestines urged his hands to stuff the rice into his mouth uncontrollably.

Lu Yuan's fingers turned white from being pinched. He took a deep breath, pulled out his fist, and dug into the soil on the slope.

This rice cannot be moved.

Have to wait until night to cook porridge.

If I eat and digest it now, I'm afraid that when I try to gain strength tomorrow, the energy will be consumed and I won't be able to hold on.

I'd better look for it quickly to see if there are any earthworms, grasshoppers, or some kind of lizards.

Lu Yuan was here, searching with his butt sticking up. In different places, there were other people, like him, searching under small stones, digging in the soil, or even picking at the bark of trees.

the next day.

noon.

The sun is still shining. [Infinite Strength: Strength +10]

Look at the blue number that appears in front of you and open the panel.

[Host: Lu Yuan]

[Superpowers: Immortality/Infinite Strength]

【Attributes:
Strength: 60】

Lu Yuan sat down in a mud hole dug out from the ground, his dry face looking even paler.

He should have been delighted by the increased strength.

But now, he just can't like her no matter what.

He thought too simply.

I thought I could really dig up a lot of earthworms here.

No more.

Even around here, there is basically nothing to eat.

Because, these days, not only his food was being consumed, but all the people who did not get much food had almost eaten up all the rice.

Right next to the mud hole he dug, there were several people also digging.

Moreover, they couldn't dig out anything.

Some people stared with their eyes wide open, stuffed some tree bark into their mouths, chewing and swallowing it bit by bit.

Lu Yuan stuffed the last half ounce of uncooked rice into his stomach.

Put handfuls of snow into his mouth.

The snow melted into water in his mouth, taking away much of his body temperature. His face was very pale at this time.

He no longer had any food.

Not a grain of rice.

I am still hungry.

He was so hungry that he felt like going crazy.

His stomach kept contracting, he pressed his belly and looked at the man next to him who was eating tree bark and whose face was paler than his.

Look at the bark on his hand.

There are many trees here.

You can still get some bark.

He swallowed and tried to stand up.

"boom!".

A sound.

The pale-faced man suddenly fell down.

He fell to the ground and rolled down the slope.

He rolled into the pit of corpses at the bottom of the ravine and never got up again.

Lu Yuan looked at the corpse rolling down, stood up a little, and then sat back down weakly.

The bark cannot be eaten.

Not all tree bark is edible.

The guy just now ate the bark here and must have scratched his stomach and died.

If you eat this kind of tree bark, your stomach and intestines will not be able to digest it at all. Even if you don't die immediately from the scratches, you will suffocate to death due to bloating because you can't excrete.

So, no matter how hungry he was, he couldn't eat the bark.

Lu Yuan grabbed another handful of snow and put it into his mouth, swallowing the snow water.

Only when he could no longer swallow and coughed it out did he wipe his mouth, turn his back and continue digging the soil there.

The only thing he could count on was the things in the soil.

It is impossible for him to escape from here now.

He was a pawn of the Tianxing Army. Even if he had the strength to go down the mountain, he would not be able to explain his origins.

Lu Yuan had learned yesterday from the man who lent him the kettle that in this world one needs a pass to leave the county town.

They had no pass and could not explain where they came from, so they would definitely be beaten to death as rioters.

What's more, there was famine everywhere. Why did he think he could find food to fill his stomach once he came down the mountain?

Lu Yuan dug out handfuls of black mud. Even if it was a rotten wood buried in the soil, he would put it in his mouth and chew it for a few times to see if it was an earthworm.

(End of this chapter)