Lu Mingfei, why are you slaying dragons if you're not involved!

Chapter 145 Lu Mingfei is a natural master of feigning ignorance
[Warning, it's time for dinner...]

Even though it was dinnertime, I always needed to deal with the sweat I produced after playing basketball.

The schedule is quite user-friendly in this respect, allowing Lu Mingfei to "take a shower and change clothes" before going to eat.

The allotted time is limited, but every minute or second that can be taken for a break is precious.

When taking a shower, Lu Mingfei likes to let his thoughts wander, completing the shower purely on instinct.

His first thought was the newly acquired term "Absolute Hit," but he only quickly came up with a few "combo usage methods" before temporarily setting them aside.

For Lu Mingfei, a newly acquired, unused entry is like a beautifully packaged package.

Before opening it, I was itching to try it, but after opening and using it, it was rather "boring".

The product is good, but it shouldn't be used too often.

Let's keep it as a trump card, a secret weapon.

The more cards you can hide, the better.

At the beginning, when playing most games, Lu Mingfei liked to use his ultimate skills to completely crush his opponents.

But playing like that for too long actually gets a bit boring.

After all, in the game, it seems that no one can rival his skills except those who use cheats.

Later on, Lu Mingfei started to play the "pretending to be weak to eat the tiger" tactic, focusing on appearing weak on the surface but secretly accumulating various power trump cards, and finally crushing the opponent with numerical superiority.

He would control the situation, initially being overwhelmed by the opponent, seemingly powerless to resist and only able to eke out a living, until the final battle when he would reveal his hand one by one, watching his opponent go from being completely relaxed to sweating profusely, and finally being unable to turn the tide and having to admit defeat and type "GG".

This kind of "being overturned" situation is the most frustrating, far more frustrating than being completely outmatched.

Because the latter is easily convinced, while the former will doubt whether Lu Mingfei was just lucky and stumbled upon a dead mouse... The opponent will always clamor for a few more times until they realize that everything is not a coincidence.

But if Lu Mingfei were to put on an act again, and occasionally lose a few rounds, it would be impossible to tell the difference.

Games and reality are not exactly the same, but there are always some commonalities—normal people don't pay much attention to minions on the roadside, nor do they use their limited-use ultimate abilities to clear minions before a battle.

Lu Mingfei felt that he was currently like a lowly soldier in the world of mixed-race people, and the safety of a lowly soldier was easily guaranteed.

But if some foolish guy actually tries to kill him as a regular soldier... he'll find that the soldier has a "self-destruct" attribute. In that instant, he can unleash a destructive power comparable to or even exceeding that of a dungeon boss, aiming for an instant kill!

For Lu Mingfei, safety is of course the top priority, because he is a little afraid of dying.

But sometimes he would secretly think that if an enemy in real life were to kick him, then the other party would have really bitten off more than they could chew.

Lu Mingfei had even already planned out what expression he would make and what he would say.

Amidst the other person's shocked gaze, he spoke with a tone tinged with surprise, raising an eyebrow slightly: "Not bad, after all this time, you're the first to see through my disguise. Where did I slip up?"

It's just a matter of who the lucky one will be, or whether the lucky Deadpool or the lucky dragon will be the first to enjoy it.

No matter how cringeworthy this fantasy may be, it's cool!
This scene has been listed by Lu Mingfei as "the second most exciting scene".

The reason it ranked second is because Lu Mingfei had a scene he had been conceiving for many years before this—probably during the Spring Festival Gala, when the beautiful Liu Miaomiao was playing the piano on stage, and he was staring blankly in a corner below the stage where no one would notice.

Just then, a pitch-black helicopter roared in, its massive rotor whipping up a gust of wind that cut like a knife. A group of men in black suits and sunglasses descended from above with the ruthlessness of secret agents from a movie, saying, "Mr. Lu Mingfei, now is not the time to watch the show. The world needs you."

They would dress Lu Mingfei in a black combat uniform and a long overcoat, escort him onto the helicopter, and then leave gracefully amidst everyone's stunned gazes.

This scenario is clearly unlikely to happen nowadays... at least not exactly the same way.

For example, when Liu Miaomiao is playing, he will be beside her instead of in the audience; and even if he is alone in the audience, no matter where he is, he will not be in an "unnoticed corner".

"Hum~"

Lu Mingfei hummed a song and finished showering and changing in the time it took for one song to play. He then left the Qingning Basketball Gymnasium with Chu Zihang.

After dinner, Uncle Chen took me to the gym.

As dusk fell, twilight descended. Half of the setting sun disappeared into the distant mountain ridge, and orange light flickered through the gaps between buildings, like a projector turning off at the end of a movie, the image gradually fading away.

"Uncle Chen, have you lost weight recently?"

Lu Mingfei glanced at Uncle Chen and noticed this detail.

"Yes, I've recently started to increase the intensity of my fitness training." Uncle Chen's tone was rather heavy.

"Then you must have increased the intensity a lot..." "I also controlled my diet. As the saying goes, training is 30% and diet is 70%."

Uncle Chen sighed, "When you get to middle age, you're not as good as you used to be... Young Master Lu, you must keep up with your fitness routine; it's especially important for you!"

“It’s packaged!”

Lu Mingfei nodded vigorously. The two physical fitness entries given by the [Fitness] plan were key to his ability to maintain this hellish schedule. How could he not stick to it?
Uncle Chen glanced discreetly at the rearview mirror, making sure that Lu Mingfei hadn't caught on to his hidden meaning... He thought to himself that his judgment of people was indeed correct; Young Master Lu was truly a born master of feigning ignorance!
"By the way, senior brother, how's your progress?"

Lu Mingfei slapped his forehead and looked at Chu Zihang again, "The adaptation of that musical score?"

"very smooth."

Chu Zihang replied casually, "The workload isn't heavy; it should be finished by the afternoon of the day after tomorrow."

"That's good, but won't this make it too late for the rehearsal?"

Lu Mingfei muttered, "I remember there was a rehearsal the day after tomorrow morning..."

"Did you allocate time for rehearsals?" Chu Zihang asked.

"……No."

Lu Mingfei scratched his head, suddenly feeling a bit terrified.

It wasn't because of the rehearsal, but because Chu Zihang mentioned reserving time, that he realized a serious problem—the four-hand piano duet with Liu Miaomiao was scheduled on short notice.

But whether it was the duet with Chu Zihang or the dance with Ling, it was either something she came up with on a whim or something she agreed to on a whim, and there didn't seem to be any corresponding schedule or plan!

[An unexpected emergency has been detected and is under investigation...]

[Verification complete. The intended actions align with the goal of 'becoming the most powerful and awesome man in the world,' and have been deemed necessary. Temporary schedule changes are underway...]

The temporary schedule has been changed.

Time: Evening of January 22
Objective 1: To perform a four-hand piano duet with Liu Miaomiao

Objective 2: To perform a duet with Chu Zihang.
Objective 3: To dance with Zero at the ball.

Reward: To be determined (based on goal completion)

"Can this still happen?"

Lu Mingfei was secretly delighted.

Has this triggered a special mechanism?
Although three temporary schedules have been merged into one, those who frequently play games know that the higher the difficulty of the task, the better the reward usually is.

The undetermined reward is clearly not the original increase in [Piano] proficiency; it can only be something better!

Just as he was pondering and guessing, the Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG slowly stopped in front of the gym entrance, and directly in front of the vehicle, a Mercedes-Benz S500 that Lu Mingfei was very familiar with had just come to a stop.

"By the way, Uncle Chen has something to do tonight."

Chu Zihang said expressionlessly and calmly, "I can't take you home."

"Yeah."

Without even a second to think, Uncle Chen nodded repeatedly in agreement, "I... I'm going to have a indulgence meal! It's an essential part of the fitness and diet control process!"

"hehe."

As it turns out, when people are speechless to the extreme, they can only laugh with relief.

Lu Mingfei glanced helplessly at the two guys who were clearly just there to "watch the show."

"I knew my senior brother, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, was a habitual liar who never blinked, but I never expected that you, Uncle Chen, were a bad guy too!"

"Then let Uncle Chen pick you up?" Chu Zihang suddenly asked.

"That's still..."

Lu Mingfei was at a loss for what to do, so he had no choice but to open the car door and get out, leaving the last three words in the gap where the car door was about to close.

"Goodbye."

(End of this chapter)