Chen Shouyi walked to the window, opened it, and found the streetlights had become brightly lit after changing the bulbs. This scene, which used to be quite commonplace, now seemed like the light before dawn, carrying a unique charm.

He noticed that even in the villa area, not many residents had installed electric lights; most were still using dim gasoline lamps.

As for ordinary residential areas, it goes without saying—they were mostly pitch black, with even gasoline lamps being a rare sight.

At present, electric lights were clearly still a luxury item.

Even in this era, ordinary people couldn't enjoy the convenience brought by electricity for quite a long time.

Nowadays, it's not even a time of peace where industrial electricity is stopped to ensure residential use.

With limited power supply, after satisfying the electricity needs for communication and streetlights, next comes industry, especially military industry. Residential electricity comes last.

Then, Chen Shouyi practiced the thirty-six moves of Horizontal Training for a while, took another shower, and prepared to sleep.

He stirred a tablespoon of honey and said to the Shell Lady, who was turned away from him, sullenly, "Come on, time for honey."

The Shell Lady was silent for a moment, clutching a Glass Bead, sulking, "I don't want honey!"

"Aren't you hungry?" Chen Shouyi asked.

"Hungry!" She silently opened the mirror, glanced at her bald head, looking utterly despondent!

"Then why not eat?" Chen Shouyi said amusingly.

"I don't want to eat!"

"If you don't eat, never mind. I heard eating more makes your hair grow faster!"

The Shell Lady's body moved, she turned around, and said aggrievedly, "Bad Giant, are you lying to little one again?"

"No, absolutely not." Chen Shouyi immediately said.

"Then give me!"

Chen Shouyi quickly handed over the spoon, and the Shell Lady immediately hugged it, drinking large mouthfuls.

She quickly finished it, and Chen Shouyi took back the spoon, planning to wash it clean in the bathroom.

"I'm so hungry, I want more!" the Shell Lady shouted loudly.

Chen Shouyi helplessly made another half spoon for her.

...

"I'm still very hungry!" the Shell Lady said loudly, touching her bloated belly.

"You can't drink any more, go to sleep!"

...

The next morning, Chen Xingyue was surprised to see Chen Shouyi's bald head, then burst into uncontrollable laughter.

She even tried to touch Chen Shouyi's bald head, but he quickly dodged with an annoyed expression.

Can a man's head be touched just like that?

"Bro, haha... you're killing me with laughter, why did you shave your head bald, like a monk, so funny." Chen Xingyue clutched her belly, tears rolling down her eyes from laughing.

"What's so funny, it's so hot, isn't it normal to shave bald?" Chen Shouyi said expressionlessly.

Laugh yourself to death.

"Bro, have you been hit by something?" Chen Xingyue asked with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Chen Shouyi asked puzzledly.

"Like you've been dumped!"

"Boring!"

Faced with a dark expression, Chen Shouyi walked out.

"Bro, aren't you having breakfast?"

"I'll eat outside!"

Staying here just to be ridiculed?

Chen Shouyi took out his bicycle, stopped by a breakfast shop for breakfast, passed a clothing store, touched his bald head, hesitated for a moment, then went in and bought a baseball cap to wear.

Then, without going to the alternate world, he directly bicycled to Jiangnan University's library, where he spent the whole day reading.

When his parents returned at night, he was teased again.

"I told you to get a haircut, not shave your head bald, it looks awful!" Mrs. Chen laughed disdainfully.

"Haha, I almost didn't recognize you." Chen Dawei chuckled.

...

In fact, the look is something you get used to after seeing it enough.

For example, the Shell Lady was still unhappy when she got a bald head on the first day, but by the second day, she only occasionally sighed.

By the third day, looking in the mirror, she hardly cared anymore.

Time gradually entered September.

During these ten days, he either absorbed the Divine Blood of the Divine Blood Soil while the Shell Lady was asleep or went to the library to read.

During this time, he received another task, to go to a crematorium in the city to clear the gradually rampaging spirits there.

For others, spirits were something they were helpless against, but for him, it was no difficulty. Spending one night wandering around, the task was easily completed, nowhere near dangerous.

This time, the Divine Blood from the Divine Blood Soil had been completely absorbed.

In total, it increased his Intelligence by 0.4, Constitution by 0.1, and Strength by 0.1, plus 0.1 Perception increased through normal practice, the attributes now became:

Strength: 16.8

Agility: 17.6

Constitution: 16.8

Intelligence: 16.3

Perception: 14.4

Willpower: 16.0

Energy Accumulation: 8.92

Unfortunately, these days, there's been no progress with the cultivation technique to boost Intelligence, leaving Chen Shouyi quite disappointed.

Although an Intelligence of 16.3 has greatly compensated for his severely imbalanced attributes, there is still a significant gap of 1.3 points compared to his highest Agility. Now that the Divine Blood is depleted, unless more is obtained, any chance to improve is completely cut off.

...

At night.

The Shell Lady hugged a block even bigger than herself, building haphazardly.

Her head had started growing a bit of fuzz, looking fluffy.

As if a newly hatched chick.

These days, Chen Shouyi hadn't gone to the alternate world, often going out alone. To keep her from getting bored, he bought her a set of children's building blocks.

It was clear that Chen Shouyi made the right decision.

Ever since having the building blocks, the Shell Lady completely immersed herself in this low-intelligence game.

Playing joyously every day.

At first, she tried building the models from the drawings, but the blocks were really too big for her size, so she had to "climb hills and cross ridges" each time.

Often, before even reaching halfway, the blocks would collapse with a clang, so she simply ignored the model drawings altogether.

Now, her building block play was entirely freeform and carefree.

Completely haphazard.

"Good Giant, does my building look nice?" the Shell Lady asked.

"Nice!" Chen Shouyi glanced at the disorderly blocks, lying through his teeth.

Finally getting over the bald head's shadow, he didn't want to upset her.

...

At three in the morning, lying in bed, Chen Shouyi was not sleepy at all, watching the Energy Accumulation on the attribute panel gradually nearing nine points.

A few minutes later, he let out a long breath.

Finally, he could optimize again.

Without hesitation, he chose to enter a meditative state to refine his body, immediately proceeding with the optimization.

The dream quickly came.

...

It was unclear how long it was before he opened his eyes.

His face showed a trace of disappointment. This optimization, besides deepening his Meditation, didn't have much change, the same steps, and the same method.

A loss!

A huge loss!

Completely a blood loss!

It was a full nine Energy Points.

If he had known, he would have saved these Energy Points for the fourth optimization of the thirty-six moves of Horizontal Training.

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