Chapter 6: Chapter 6: Power Surge

Full and satisfied after the meal.

Lu Li was about to return to his rented room to try evolving the x-ray vision.

Suddenly, he noticed a newly opened arcade across the street.

Lu Li blinked, “I remember that blogger mentioned if you fully unlock your gene lock, you’d instantly gain a more explosive power than Tyson. Most arcades nowadays have punching machines. Should I go test my punch strength to see how high a score I can get?”

Punching machines in arcades are generally not very accurate, they can only be used as a reference.

With this thought, Lu Li walked towards the other side of the street.

He had played with punching machines before.

The kind with a rotating pointer.

A maximum score of five hundred and fifty.

If you exceed this value, the machine would restart.

He previously scored three hundred points with a running start punch.

It’s said that three hundred points equal three hundred kilograms, but Lu Li knew it wasn’t true.

The reason for such a high display was purely because the owner adjusted the machine, wanting the customers to feel accomplished and thus spend more money on strength tests.

He estimated three hundred points was at most equivalent to a force of one hundred fifty kilograms.

That doesn’t mean he has one hundred fifty kilograms of punch power.

That was only with the running start.

Without a run-up, he couldn’t reach that value at all.

Lu Li was very self-aware.

“A normal adult male can punch with a force roughly equal to their body weight, only those with special training can punch with a force surpassing their body weight.”

Lu Li had read a report once.

It’s said that Bruce Lee could punch with a force of one hundred fifty-seven kilograms.

As for Tyson, even more terrifying, at his peak, his punch could reach two hundred forty-four kilograms.

Whether these two values are true, he wasn’t sure yet.

However, rumors about Tyson punching with an eight hundred kilograms force, he was certain were false.

After all, a normal human skull can withstand between two hundred to five hundred kilograms.

If Tyson really could punch with eight hundred kilograms, who knows how many opponents he would have killed, but this has never happened in reality.

Lu Li entered the arcade.

For now, there were only about seven or eight people scattered around playing.

Among them, two or three young guys were gathered around the punching machine.

Lu Li headed to the cashier counter to buy some game tokens for the strength test.

But then he was drawn in by the sight of a woman in a women’s suit sitting behind the counter.

She had a simple and neat bob-cut, her face naturally pale and as smooth as jade, with subtly rosy cheeks without any blush, paired with a black women’s suit; her demeanor didn’t match that of a cashier at all.

The woman glanced at him briefly, then lowered her head to continue typing on her phone, not swooning like other women upon seeing Lu Li’s handsome face.

To be honest, Lu Li had never seen such a beautiful woman.

At least in his standards of beauty, no female celebrities were as pretty as the woman in front of him.

He couldn’t help but take a couple of additional glances, but of course, without appearing like a lecher.

Lu Li walked up and straightforwardly said, “Give me five tokens.”

The woman seemed like she was deaf, keeping her head down without responding.

Lu Li thought perhaps she didn’t hear him, so he raised his voice, “Buy five game tokens.”

This time he clearly saw the woman frown slightly, yet she still didn’t respond or look at him.

Lu Li was almost speechless, thinking what kind of cashier is this, not even acknowledging a customer wanting to buy tokens?

Just as he was at a loss for words, another girl walked in from outside.

This girl went behind the cashier counter and said to the seated woman, “Miss Liu, the boss lady told me to apologize, she’s stuck on the road.”

The woman finally nodded and then pointed to Lu Li, “He’s buying tokens.”

Lu Li: “…”

Can’t you just say I want to buy game tokens?

Buying tokens doesn’t sound nice at all!

However, from their conversation, he vaguely learned that this woman wasn’t the cashier, no wonder she ignored him earlier.

The cashier girl finally noticed Lu Li.

She couldn’t help but light up, eagerly saying, “Hey handsome, how many tokens would you like to buy?”

Lu Li replied, “Five tokens.”

The cashier handed him five game tokens and even chatted him up a bit.

The content was somewhat similar to the noodle shop owner’s wife.

Just things like how she’d never seen him before.

Lu Li casually responded a couple of times.

After paying, he went over to the punching machine.

Just as he approached,

a young guy with dyed yellow hair quickly said, “It’s my turn! It’s my turn!”

The other two guys, whose hair colors were quite normal, quickly stepped aside for Huangmao.

Lu Li was curious to see how many points others could score with a punch, so he stood by and watched.

Huangmao took a few steps back, then let out a yell of “ah” and suddenly charged forward with a punch.

The machine immediately displayed two hundred ninety-seven points.

Huangmao waved his fist with a bit of complacency, “Two hundred ninety-seven kilograms with one punch, not bad, right?”

“Impressive!”

“Bro, your punching power is really impressive.”

The two people next to him kept showering praise.

Lu Li wiped off some sweat, thinking that the machine had been adjusted by the owner; two hundred ninety-seven points at most was just around one hundred fifty kilograms with a running punch, what’s there to brag about?

The three young men continued to praise each other.

Lu Li walked up and said, “Hey man, still playing?”

Huangmao glanced at him sideways, “Nope, I’m done.”

Only then did Lu Li put in a coin.

Perhaps seeing someone else about to test their punching power, the three young men didn’t leave, they just stood by and watched.

Lu Li didn’t bother with how the three were looking at him. He stood there without a running start, took a breath, and raised his fist, ready to test his static punching power.

Huangmao was taken aback, “Bro, you’re not going to run?”

The other two thought Lu Li was playing for the first time, all showing strange looks.

Generally, when people play with the punching machine, they run-up to punch.

That helps achieve a higher score and satisfies the heart.

Now seeing Lu Li “foolishly” standing in place to punch, the three of Huangmao were understandably speechless.

“Oh, I’m just playing around.”

Lu Li didn’t say much, retracted his fist back, and then slammed it hard onto the red ball.

The next second, the numbers on it skyrocketed, jumping to five hundred fifty points, directly causing a reset!

Huangmao was instantly dumbfounded!

The remaining two guys also looked at the screen in disbelief.

They were so shocked, rubbing their eyes to make sure they weren’t seeing things.

But no matter how much they rubbed their eyes, the punching machine really was reset from Lu Li’s static punch!

The three of them were completely stunned.

Lu Li couldn’t help but shake his head, turned around, and walked out.

Although the punching machine reset, the limit of five hundred fifty points was not his ultimate limit, still not measuring the exact power.

But there’s one thing for sure.

If this machine’s measurement wasn’t far off from the previous estimate,

Then his static punching power should be surpassing Tyson.

As for how much it surpasses, Lu Li couldn’t judge for the moment.

After taking several steps outside, the exclamations of the three behind finally reached him.

“Holy crap! That’s fierce!”

“Punching five hundred fifty kilos? Is that for real?”

“The machine got reset, do you think it’s real or not?”

Perhaps hearing the three’s exclamations, Miss Liu, who had been sitting behind the counter playing on her phone, was quite surprised, lifting her head to take a look, then glanced at Lu Li’s back as he headed toward the door.

Unfortunately, Lu Li’s pace was quick, and soon he was out of sight.

Only then did Miss Liu turn with interest towards the female cashier, “Has the punching machine in your game room been adjusted?”

The female cashier, still in a daze, was tiptoeing to look outside, absentmindedly responded to Miss Liu’s question, “The boss adjusted it, dividing by two is approximately equivalent to the actual value.”

Dividing by two equates to the actual value?

Did he just punch over two hundred kilos then?

Miss Liu couldn’t help but look outside again.

She had some understanding of boxing and knew that champion Ali’s tested punching power was only two hundred five kilograms.

Which means that the young man’s static punch just now was fiercer than champion Ali’s?

This left Miss Liu particularly amazed.

…

Little did Lu Li know that his recent punch test had left Miss Liu astonished.

At the moment, he was feeling quite exuberant.

In the past, his run-up punch would only score three hundred points at most.

Now, his static punch actually reset the machine.

It must be said that after last night’s “transformation,” his body had indeed changed significantly.

“With this explosive power, I could even enter boxing. It’s a pity I don’t have the connections; otherwise, getting a gold championship belt probably wouldn’t be too hard.”

Lu Li was very pleased with today’s strength test.

He had previously noticed a significant enhancement in his vision, hearing, and intuition, and now he had also tested a significant increase in strength.

Lu Li felt like he might be unlocking his genetic potential like the young blogger said, otherwise, his strength wouldn’t have increased so dramatically.

This made him feel very happy.

As Lu Li headed towards his rental, he considered, “Now I can try and see if I can actually evolve x-ray vision.”

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