I am weak and friendly

Chapter 287 [Scavenging] Grandmaster Aunt Zhang
Tang Yiping subtly retracted his other foot, which had already stepped out, then took a step back and raised his cane...

Space has been reversed again.

Then he turned around and saw Aunt Zhang looking at Tang Yiping with a mixture of surprise and suspicion.

"Teacher Pingzi...you, you can stand up?" Aunt Zhang's eyes widened in surprise.

And... he can even stand on the wall?
Aunt Zhang didn't say the last sentence.

She still thinks it's some kind of strange exercise method. It's quite dark now, and she didn't see it very clearly just now.

Perhaps it's some kind of peculiar exercise method that involves using crutches to support oneself?

I've already seen Aunt Zhang, who has tried all sorts of bizarre exercise methods from different eras, in the small park near my neighborhood, and I thought to myself.

"Long time no see, Aunt Zhang!" Tang Yiping was also pleasantly surprised, feeling like he had gone through thick and thin and was seeing an old friend again.

"I thought Ms. Pingzi had already gone back to school. I was thinking that I didn't know when I would see her again..." Aunt Zhang said with emotion, "Is Ms. Pingzi going for rehabilitation? That's great, she can stand up again!"

"Yes, that's great!" Tang Yiping said.

Although the way he walks now is weird, what more could I ask for?

And it was so much fun!

"I knew Teacher Pingzi would get better and better!" Aunt Zhang said, then asked, "Teacher Pingzi, shall we pick it up?"

“Pick it up!”

There's a kind of friendship called "playing games together".

Tang Yiping and Aunt Zhang have this kind of friendship.

Without exchanging more than a few words, the two of them expertly began their trash-collecting journey. Their seamless teamwork made Stoka feel like an outsider.

Tang Yiping can stand up now, so Aunt Zhang doesn't have to go to many places by herself anymore. The two of them working together are extremely efficient.

Moreover, as the saying goes, "a scholar should be looked at with new eyes after three days of separation," Tang Yiping discovered that in just a few short weeks, Aunt Zhang's abilities had improved by leaps and bounds.

Often, just as Tang Yiping caught a whiff of something, Aunt Zhang had already gone upstairs.

This made Tang Yiping both lament that he hadn't picked up trash in a long time and was rusty, and amazed by Aunt Zhang's skill.

"Aunt Zhang, your skill level is really high!" Tang Yiping said.

"Not at all, I still need to learn a lot from Teacher Pingzi today," Aunt Zhang said modestly. "During the time Teacher Pingzi was away, I practiced and reflected every day, and I've come up with some insights. I've filled two big notebooks with notes. Today, I really need to learn from you, Teacher Pingzi. Teacher Pingzi, is there anything else you need to guide me on?"

Tang Yiping had to admit that he had nothing left to guide.

I even felt a sense of inferiority.

Watching Aunt Zhang collect trash is like watching a magnificent performance.

A trash can appeared in front of Aunt Zhang, and it took her less than half a minute to rummage through it.

Tang Yiping watched as Aunt Zhang rushed forward, raised her hands, and the trash in the bin flew up like a shower of flowers. Then, with a few swishes, the valuables landed on Aunt Zhang's tricycle, while the remaining trash was quickly stuffed back into the bin, even tidying it up so that it could hold a little more.

Aunt Zhang, however, remained completely untouched. Tang Yiping was utterly dumbfounded.

I just felt that Aunt Zhang was terrifying. Her garbage-collecting skills were so good that they could even obliterate the main road!

He even began to doubt himself. "I'm someone who has the ability to eat carrion, yet I'm not as good as Aunt Zhang?"

This is wrong!

The moment Tang Yiping's thought popped into his head, a notification flashed before his eyes:
—By observing Aunt Zhang, the master scavenger, her scavenging process, you can learn the A-level survival skill [Scavenging] and gain a bonus: initial skill level +1, initial level B.
Tang Yiping's eyes widened.

A master scavenger?

This was the first time Tang Yiping had seen such a high rating given to "The Survival Guide for the Weak".

It's normal to feel ashamed of yourself now that the case is solved!

My "carrion-eating" is just a side job of scavenging, while theirs is a professional scavenging skill! How could I possibly compare? How could I possibly compete?
Furthermore, learning a skill can increase your initial level by 1?

It's a pity that this skill overlaps with my [Carrion Eater] skill, otherwise I really would have learned it.

The skill level in "[Survival Guide for the Weak]" often refers to the upper limit. When you first learn it, it is two levels lower. For example, Tang Yiping's "Carrion Eater" is an A-level skill, but it was C-level when he first learned it.

Moreover, this thing is quite difficult to upgrade. Tang Yiping only upgraded to B-level after he found Old Man Du Yuanshan's house, and he is still only B-level now, without much change.

Aunt Zhang, the master of scavenging, can directly increase her initial level by 1, going from the newly learned C level to B level!
If there's a Scavenging Master, then there must be a Scavenging Grandmaster, right? And if a Grandmaster, will their starting level be increased by 2? And if there's a Super Grandmaster, who can directly learn A-level skills?

Tang Yiping felt that this learning path, which came with a +1 A-level skill, was absolutely invaluable!
Tang Yiping figured that many users of the "Survival Guide for the Weak" would want to learn from it, and he wondered how many strange and unusual users it would attract.

Tang Yiping felt that everything had been good since he got the crutches today.

Those 3500 million points were totally worth it!

However, because of this prompt, Tang Yiping could no longer easily observe Aunt Zhang's scavenging skills. If he accidentally learned them, they would take up his skill slot.

Tang Yiping's gains tonight were actually quite substantial, but he just lacked a sense of excitement.

After all, although Tang Yiping is still only earning an internship salary of 3260 yuan, he has seen a lot of things and can indirectly control a large amount of money. The two of them were just wandering around the neighborhood they had already cleaned up before, so they didn't find anything of particular value today.

Tang Yiping never expected that the greatest value today would be Aunt Zhang, the master of scavenging!
The two chatted while picking up trash, and before they knew it, it was past nine o'clock at night.

Tang Yiping said to Aunt Zhang, "It's getting late, you should go home quickly, otherwise your son will worry."

Aunt Zhang said, "It's quite late, Mr. Pingzi, you should rest too. But I live alone, where would I get a son? I'll be all alone when I get back, sigh..."

Tang Yiping frowned.

its not right.

Tang Yiping remembered clearly that when he first picked up trash with Aunt Zhang, Aunt Zhang had said that she would have her son drive her a Range Rover.

The impact was so great that he almost gave up trying, so Tang Yiping was sure he couldn't have remembered it wrong.

Aunt Zhang's son...how did he disappear?
(End of this chapter)