After graduating from high school, Lu Ke received admission letters from five universities with his excellent grades and excellent personal writing. In the end, he chose the journalism and communication major at the University of California, Los Angeles. One of the main reasons was the football team here. With a long history and tradition, he can also continue his football dream.
Los Angeles is an expensive city, and tuition plus living expenses are quite a burden. Although Lu Ke's parents immigrated, they were not investment immigrants, but skilled immigrants. Lu Ke's father is a programmer, and Lu Ke's mother is an accountant. The two of them immigrated by virtue of their own abilities. Their lives are relatively stable, but they are far from rich.
In order to save living expenses and adapt to American-style college life, Lu Ke chose a shared apartment, a three-bedroom house with one living room. In addition to him and Logan, there was another boy, Jay-Fox.
Jay was Lu Ke's classmate in the same department. The two were assigned to a group to do a project in their freshman communication course. As they went back and forth, they gradually became friends and then roommates.
When Lu Ke and Logan returned to the apartment, Jay was playing games in the living room, staring at the screen and greeting casually, "Training is over? Do you want to play a game? Relax."
"I'll do it!" Logan jumped over first and found a comfortable corner on the tattered sofa - it was a sofa they picked up on the roadside. It was very shabby, but very comfortable. Curling up cross-legged on the sofa is really an idea.
If it were normal times, Lu Ke would also be willing to go over and relax for a while. But today, he had more important things to do. After saying hello to his two roommates, Lu Ke returned to his room. After sitting down, he couldn't wait to summon the system, and then noticed the icon in the upper left corner. Unread messages.
I thought a lot and opened my inbox. There was an unread message in it. After I opened it, there was only one sentence in it. "Daily training tasks: endurance long-distance running, 10,000 meters; task time limit: none; task reward: base point +1."
Lu Ke's eyes couldn't help but light up. The doubts just now have been answered. Basic points can be obtained by completing tasks. So, going one step further, "Xiao Qi? In addition to daily training tasks, are there other tasks?"
"Yes. The types of tasks are divided into daily tasks, competition tasks, and special tasks." Xiao Qi's professional voice explained again dutifully, "Each task has a corresponding reward."
"Task interface." Lu Ke just thought about it in his mind, and the system page was switched. The same blue translucent interface had three columns, daily tasks, competition tasks, and special tasks.
According to the rules just now, the three-on-three duel is the game task, and what appears now is the daily task. So, what about the special task?
Seemingly aware of Lu Ke's doubts, Xiao Qi further explained, "Right now, I don't have permission to turn on the special mission option."
Lu Ke burst out laughing, "You can tell the truth, I'm not at a high level yet, I'm not a glass-hearted person." He wasn't even a substitute, and the game tasks had already appeared by chance, so how could a special task be triggered? Therefore, he should not be anxious and move forward step by step in a down-to-earth manner. At least he now understands the way to obtain basic points.
Although Lu Ke can't wait to get into training now, he also knows that haste makes waste. After such a long day, and also such a day of ups and downs, what he needs most is to have a good rest and recuperate his energy, and then get up tomorrow morning and start training officially.
So, Lu Ke chose to relax. Opening the door to the room, he shouted to the two people on the sofa, "Guys, add me in. Let me teach you a lesson and kill everyone!"
"Get lost." "Come here, I'll fight you, I'll beat you until you call me brother." "Come here and try, come here and try, I'll beat you to pieces."
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The next morning, around 5:30, Lu Ke had already gotten up. After changing into sportswear, I left the house and started jogging.
Los Angeles is a city full of sunshine, like spring all year round, with spacious streets, tall palm trees and low bungalows. The whole city has a sense of openness, which is completely different from the flowers, small and exquisite style of San Francisco. Lu Ke and his apartment are located in the West Hollywood area, only a fifteen-minute drive away from the University of California, Los Angeles campus. Every morning, you can see a large number of morning joggers, all sweating. Way to start a new day.
Endurance long-distance running is one of rugby's daily training, but it is not the core event. Compared with endurance, short-distance sprint ability, short-term explosive power and instant acceleration are more important training. Therefore, most of their training usually focuses on one thousand meters or two thousand meters, and two sets at most are enough.
I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but because he was burdened with completing the task, he was always calculating the distance to run. After running only 1,500 meters, Lu Ke felt that his breathing was starting to become a little disordered. It seemed that his physical strength was being exhausted faster than before. The usual training is much faster. Endurance is the most outstanding of all Lu Ke's physical qualities. Naturally, he will not give in easily.
In this case, you might as well put down the burden of your tasks for the time being and devote yourself wholeheartedly to your morning jog. No longer calculating the distance, just focus on running, running all the way from West Hollywood to the Santa Monica Pier. From a distance, you can see the clear and translucent tile-blue sky, and the pale pink sunshine is shining one by one. The dots penetrated into golden color, falling on the boundless sea surface, sparkling and blooming with infinite rays of light, like a miracle.
The tranquility of the morning, the noise of the sea, the tranquility of the sunrise, the awakening of the pier, the kind of vitality between noisy and quiet, caught in the sea breeze, coming towards you, people can't help but open their arms and let it run wild The sea breeze passes through the hands, turns into wings, and then soars up, embracing the intoxicating beauty in front of you.
Devoting himself wholeheartedly to exercise, sweating profusely, and then the whole world suddenly became enlightened. This feeling was so great that Lu Ke couldn't help but cheer at the waves of the sea, "Ah!" The turbid heat in his chest was vented. When you come out, you will feel relaxed physically and mentally.
The footsteps stopped at the end of Mantou. Bathed in the sunshine and sea breeze, Lu Ke looked down at his watch and realized that he had been running for a full hour. After stabilizing his breath, he summoned the system again. Only then did he notice that there were new messages in the inbox in the upper left corner again. He opened it and took a look. really--
mission completed.
"Congratulations, the daily training task is completed, and the basic point +1 is obtained."
After confirmation, the basic points in the upper right corner also changed, from "0" to "1". Before Lu Ke could think about how to add this point, another task followed with "ding". The sound appeared, no doubt, a new daily training task appeared.
When I opened it and read it, the content inside became complicated.
"Daily training tasks:
Endurance long-distance running, 10,000 meters;
Weight-bearing squats, three sets of ten reps each;
Sit-ups, three sets of ten times each;
Pull-ups: three sets of ten reps each;
Bench press: three sets of fifteen reps each;
Moving steps: three groups, each group going back and forth fifteen times;
One-arm fast throw: five groups, 20 times each;
Kneeling on one knee and passing the ball: five groups, 20 times each;
Running and passing at a constant speed: five groups, 20 times each;
Forty-yard return run: three groups, each group ten times;
Mission time limit: three consecutive days (0/3);
Mission reward: base point +1. "
A series of tasks were dazzling. Lu Ke took a look and found that these were actually basic training for quarterbacks. There was nothing special about technical content. They were just training on basic skills. But the first task was just an endurance long-distance run. , now it has become... ten items, which has doubled directly ten times, which is really surprising.
More importantly, "Xiao Qi, what do you mean three days in a row?" Lu Ke noticed this detail. He actually already had the answer, but he still needed Xiao Qi's confirmation.
"The mission must be for three consecutive days, and all training must be completed every day; if the mission is interrupted, then it will be cleared and restarted." Xiao Qi's answer confirmed Lu Ke's guess. He couldn't help but start to hold his forehead, and asked further, "Then Will more training items be added to a daily task? Not just basic items, but also professional and technical items?"
"Yes." Xiao Qi replied simply.
There will be more and more projects, more and more difficult, and similarly, they will become more and more professional. This is not surprising. Becoming a top quarterback requires effort and hardship far beyond imagination. To be precise, reaching the top in any field is not an easy task.
In the past few years, from high school to college, he persevered all the way, from interest to dream, from amateur to profession - at least trying to become a professional, even if he became a sparring partner, he never gave up, so now, he is There is no reason to give up anymore. Instead, he works extra hard.
Now on the pier in Santa Monica, those dribbling exercises are definitely out of the question, but he can try basic exercises, such as pull-ups.
Next to the pier, Lu Ke found a row of horizontal bars. He grabbed one of them, exerted his strength on his arms, and started doing pull-ups. It is not difficult to do ten pull-ups in one set. After the first set, rest for a while, then the second set, and then the third set. Thirty pull-ups, done in no time.
The system was summoned again, but Lu Ke found that there were no unread messages. Is it because the entire task has not been completed, so there is no news? However, he opened the task page and took a closer look. After the pull-up option, a set of numbers was added. If he understood correctly, this set of numbers meant that he had only completed six pull-ups. But the problem is, he has obviously completed thirty pull-ups, his math is still very good, and there are absolutely no typos, but why are only six shown here?
"Xiaoqi? Qizai?" Lu Ke frowned and called for help.
