First night running

Yin Ling saw his profile and at the beginning wasn't really shocked, the number of people who still remembers him or who trust him wasn't surprising, he was wondering who were the two people not being be able to forget him, he guessed that one was his father and didn't know who the other was, neither was he really interested. He guessed as well that he was the one who knows Zeraeph and knows about him being a God.

But he didn't expected having 21785 fame point already, and didn't expect neither that there were another system money called super fame point.

He immediately asked Alicia about it, she responded him that every people who once knew him will earn him 1 fame point, that every people still knowing him at the end of the week would make him earn two times the number of those people, 10 times for the people trusting him and he would earn 10 000 fame point per people who will never forget him. She told him that super fame point was related to Zeraeph fame hence he shouldn't be bothered by it know.

The system just started ergo he didn't earn any week fame point yet.

He told Alicia to purchase the health improvement and the bought out cost passed from 10 to level up to 80 to level up, then after another purchase to 640, then to 5120 and finally he seeing the shop panel where there was written

[Health improvement rank 4/9 spend 40 960 fame points to level up

Strength improvement rank 0/100 spend 1 fame point to level up

Speed improvement rank 0/100 spend 1 fame point to level up

Dexterity improvement rank 0/100 spend 1 fame point to level up

Stamina improvement rank 0/100 spend 1 fame point to level up

Fame point remaining: 15 935]

Yin Ling was satisfied with the fame points necessary in order to improve his health, each rank costed 8 times more than the previous, but even the last rank costed "only" 167 772 160‬ fame points. It was admittedly a lot, but considered his mission even being know by one billion people was easy let alone two hundred million people. Of course this worked only if the system keep his rhythm.

He did not even considered buying other improvement than the health improvement. First it was depending on his physical condition and suffice it to say that 0 +5% was still 0. Secondly, in his opinion right now, having more strength or being faster was totally useless. He didn't even started his training and he couldn't be bothered by those so-called cheat-like improvement. It was maybe a sort of pride question as well that he had: The other people don't have this sort of help but can still be stronger than me? Then they trained harder than me, I just need to train more and then catch up and finally be stronger, that's all.

He then wondered if the health improvement was sort of cheating as well, but soon gave up the idea: even if it was he didn't really care. He suffered enough for not having this "cheat-like boost" in the past. If in order to do what he likes if he needed to cheat, then he would cheat anytime. But after thinking about his health improvement he realised something quite important: he didn't feel anything different after the improvement, not in the slightness.

Alicia was the improvement successful?

[Yes Ling the improvement was successful]

Why do I not fell any difference then?

[You gain a portion of God power allowing your cell to regenerate themselves numerous time faster than other human being, because you were not in need you were not able to feel it. I guess when the power will be needed you will sense it somehow]

Oh, I see thank you Alicia

[It is only my job explaining how the system work to you]

Really a long way to go… said Yin Ling to himself sighing.

I was wondering Alicia, you have memory which should be valuable in order to fulfilling Zeraeph mission, do you have any information which could be useful to me now?

[I can tell when healthily speaking you need to stop practicing]

That's indeed an advantageous Intel, speaking of practicing I should get starting. I can't wait, it's been more than 15 years.

[You shouldn't say it this way to stranger]

Hmm, what are you talking about?

[Hearing it's been more than 15 years from a 12 years old boy isn't very natural]

Guess so, you're right. Speaking of interaction with stranger, I can't talk to you if there is other people around it isn't convenient, do you have any idea?

[You just have to think about speaking to me and I will hear it]

You mean I spoke for about half an hour out loud for nothing?

[More precisely for 34 minutes and 35 seconds but yes]

Why didn't you say it earlier?

[You didn't ask]

Yin Ling sighed one again and left his room. He checked his phone and saw 23:20 1st October 2013, he remembered that he has in first year of middle school (middle school in China normally start at twelve years old and end at 15 years old) and that It was the first day of a one week National Holyday.

He looked at the small living room, there was a black sofa and an eighty centimetre high oak wood table, as well as a chest of drawers where there was some book and today's newspaper.

On the table he could see two bowls of rice. He guessed that he stayed in his room the entire day and that there was his midday lunch and his dinner that he didn't touch.

Four doors could be seen from the living room, his room door, his father's door, the kitchen door and the house door. He could hear his father's snoring from his father's room.

His father was in building and public work industry and worked from 6:00 to 12:30 and from 14:30 to 18:00 every day expect Sunday, with him working at 6am it was not surprising that he was asleep at 23:20.

With his body condition, and his 83kg which is quite a lot for a 12 years old boy the better thing to do was some cardio exercise. He therefore took his chooses and went out.

At night, in Hongshanxiang district, you could see a fat boy doing dividing running: 30 seconds sprinting followed by 30 seconds trotting before starting again.

The boy suddenly stopped because he heard a voice that only he could hear.

This was of course Yin Ling hearing Alicia warning saying him that if he kept up he would have negative repercussion.

He hesitated a bit, he checked his phone and saw 2:45 2sd October, and thus decided to stop reluctantly. There was a big smile on his face, he was truly happy, running for a bit more than 3 hours for some people would be hell but for him it was paradise. He was exhausted but it didn't matter a single bit, his strong will could utterly destroy this sensation, but being exhausted felled good for him.

He walked back home, entered the living room again decided to eat those two bowls of rice; Even though cold rice wasn't really good, he needed to eat and when he had been 18 years old without any income he ate things worse than just cold rice hence he finished the two bowls. He was still a bit hungry but couldn't do anything about it, he cleaned the two bowls and was going to go to his room when he heard.

[Aren't you going to wash yourself?]

During his running, he was constantly speaking with Alicia, and they became more aware of what each other thought. Running wasn't really mentally demanding and he could speak with Alicia without disturbing his respiration thus he really didn't have a reason to not talk to her.

Alicia was becoming more and more like a human being at an alarming rate: If we considered that she was born, admittedly with some memory, less than half a day ago and was already speaking like a normal girl expect for some things related with either him or the system it was indeed a bit crazy.

He was a bit ashamed of himself, he never really took care of himself and thus she was becoming either like a wife or a mother with sentence like "You should look around it's risky at night" or "even though there is no car you need to use pedestrian crossing" or even just now when she reminded him that he didn't wash himself.