Chapter 16: Level Up in Learning!

Under normal circumstances, Sheng City No. 4 Middle School does not allow students to bring mobile phones into the campus.

Of course, many students still turn off their phones and put them in their backpacks, taking them out for use only when there's an emergency need.

"Scan me," one said.

"Okay," the other replied.

After turning on the phone, Xu You scanned Lu Zhiyao's QR code and sent a friend request.

This was the first classmate Lu Zhiyao had added as a friend in Class Six.

"Lu Zhiyao?" Seeing the WeChat nickname of Lu Zhiyao, Xu You found it quite meaningful.

It was homophonic with Lu Zhiyao's name and expressed an additional layer of meaning.

Unlike Xu You, who didn't bother to think of a screen name and directly used his real name as his WeChat name.

On the way home, Xu You and Lu Zhiyao didn't talk much.

In fact, both had questions they wanted to ask each other.

Xu You wanted to know why Lu Zhiyao transferred schools and why she chose Class Six, given her excellent academic performance.

Lu Zhiyao wondered why Xu You had improved so quickly, questioning whether his previous poor grades were intentional.

However, as they hesitated on how to start the conversation, they both arrived home.

"So, you live near the school too?" Xu You expressed his surprise.

Only then did Xu You realize that Lu Zhiyao lived in the neighborhood next to his own.

"Yeah, I chose it because it's close."

Xu You paused, wondering if Lu Zhiyao had just answered his question.

Could it be that Lu Zhiyao had guessed what he was thinking? But living close seemed too casual a reason.

Before Xu You could inquire further, Lu Zhiyao waved at him.

"Bye."

"Bye."

After returning home, Xu You found a message from Gao Shang on his phone.

To facilitate contact, Gao Shang had added Xu You on WeChat and sent him the materials for math competition review.

After thanking Gao Shang, Xu You forwarded the materials for both physics and math competitions to Lu Zhiyao.

Lu Zhiyao replied with a super cute cat emoji, completely lacking her usual aloof demeanor.

After dealing with these matters, Xu You took a deep breath.

Next was the most exciting moment... shopping!

Following the list, Xu You added textbooks one by one to his shopping cart.

Seeing more and more textbooks in his cart, Xu You became increasingly excited.

Finally, he could expand his... library again.

Indeed, how could three thousand beauties compare to three thousand high-quality books? Xu You had his interpretation of the saying "Books hold treasures more precious than the beauty of jade."

Originally, this meant that success in exams naturally brings beauty into one's life.

Xu You felt this was a rather mundane thought.

Using the pursuit of beauty as the goal for reading diminishes the true meaning of study.

A good book itself is more attractive than beauty.

Of course, a beautiful person with rich content is a different matter.

Xu You, feeling exhilarated, clicked the order button after stuffing his cart with dozens of books.

"If only Brother Dong's delivery could be faster."

Unfortunately, Xu You wouldn't be able to meet these enticing competition materials tonight.

Resisting his thirst for new knowledge, Xu You started working through a practice book he had bought earlier.

The difficulty of these questions was no longer enough to satisfy Xu You.

He was eagerly awaiting the arrival of the competition materials.

The next day after school, Xu You finally received the competition materials he had ordered.

It took him two trips to bring all the materials home.

"Let's start with the little green book."

The so-called little green book, a high school physics competition tutorial + ability test, is the most basic set of materials for learning physics competition.

The little green book consists of six volumes, covering competition tutorials and ability tests from the first to the third year of high school.

The competition tutorials mainly explain various basic knowledge points, while the ability tests are corresponding exercises.

The first volume even includes calculus study materials.

Calculus is indeed an essential mathematical tool for physics competition.

After a quick glance at the table of contents, Xu You found that these were very much related to high school physics.

However, they included additional expanded content, and the difficulty of the problems was significantly higher.

For example, the first volume introduced new concepts like angular momentum and rigid body mechanics, which are not covered in high school physics textbooks.

Xu You began studying the little green book in deep learning mode.

After the learning difficulty increased, Xu You found that the knowledge became tougher to grasp.

Although this tougher knowledge was somewhat more appealing.

But Xu You also realized a problem.

At this pace, even if he spent all his daily deep learning state time on

 physics competition study, it might not be enough.

Let alone studying for the math competition.

However, Xu You didn't worry too much and continued to focus on his studies.

After all, the process of learning is joyful, and there's no need to be overly concerned with outcomes.

Unbeknownst to Xu You, his experience points were nearing the limit.

Suddenly, Xu You heard a voice in his mind.

"Host experience points are full, upgrading learning level..."

"Learning Level: Lv1→Lv2 (0/1000)"

"After the learning level upgrade, both brainpower and daily vitality limit will increase."

"Brainpower: 66→86"

"Daily vitality limit: 6→8"

"Reassessing host's learning ability..."

"Learning ability: 68→88"

Hearing the series of voices in his mind, Xu You was overjoyed.

Unknowingly, he had upgraded his learning level!

Although he didn't know how the experience points were calculated, as long as he continued to study, the experience points would keep increasing.

Especially in deep learning state, the speed of experience point accumulation was even faster.

Xu You felt the change after his brainpower increased.

Even without entering the deep learning state, his thinking speed was much faster than before.

Compared to brainpower, the learning ability value more accurately reflected Xu You's current level of knowledge.

Although he didn't know the exact criteria, Xu You thought an 88-point learning ability was quite good among high school students.

Seeing the increase in the vitality limit made Xu You even happier.

This meant he could spend more time in deep learning state each day.

"Oh no!"

At that moment, Xu You realized an important issue.

There were only 4 hours left in the day, but he still had 5.5 points of vitality left unused!

Originally, Xu You had planned to allocate his vitality usage so that he would use up his daily limit just before the day ended.

But the sudden upgrade disrupted his plans.

Xu You knew that any unused vitality points would be cleared at the end of the day and wouldn't carry over to the next day.

"System, can you help me save my vitality points?" Xu You silently wondered in his mind.

(End of Chapter)