12: Side effects of body strengthening liquid

On the screen, Du Ruoxi finally saw Wang Chen's reply. She smiled brightly and explained it to him!

"Just now, everyone said they wanted to hear another chinese lute piece. I wanted to ask, Yang Yang, what do you want to hear?"

42⑯V Year Great King Lazy Sheep: [Whatever. Since everyone wants to hear one, play the one you're best at!]

"Alright! Then I'll play 'Chinese Lute Language'!"

...Afterward, with Wang Chen's encouragement, Du Ruoxi played a few more pieces.

The livestream's popularity also reached its highest point since Du Ruoxi started broadcasting.

During this time, under Wang Chen's "instigation," she played a few PK battles. Without exception, every round was a crushing victory!

It wasn't until Wang Chen emptied the over 1 million Diamonds in his backpack and his spending level reached level 49...

...that he let Du Ruoxi end today's livestream.

Turning off his phone, he felt a sense of comfort spreading through his body.

Wang Chen could clearly feel the color of the liquid in the wooden tub slowly fading, from the initial deep blue to the current blue-green.

Furthermore, the "constitution strengthening fluid" no longer felt ice-cold like it did at the beginning; instead, it felt like soaking in a hot spring.

Pores all over his body opened up, and every cell in his body seemed to be cheering, greedily absorbing the "energy" from the liquid in the wooden tub.

After soaking for another three hours until the liquid in the wooden tub became transparent, Wang Chen stood up, dried his body, put on his pajamas, and lay down on his bed contentedly, falling into a dreamland.

In the system space, Youyou looked at the sleeping Wang Chen with a gloating expression, pouting her small mouth:

["Hmph! Stinky host! That's what you get for looking down on Youyou. I'm just not going to tell you!"]

...At 9:00 AM the next morning, a pungent stench wafted into his nose, constantly stimulating Wang Chen's brain.

Dazedly opening his eyes, he was about to get up to investigate the source of the foul odor.

Suddenly!

"Ah!!!"

"Holy!!! Crap!!!"

A loud roar! It startled the elderly men and women exercising in the residential area's square, who all looked up toward the direction of the sound!

"Young people these days, they really don't know how to exercise restraint!"

One of them, a thin old man practicing Tai Chi, had an "I get it" expression and lamented... Having just "struggled" to take off his shirt and seeing the pitch-black "mud" all over himself and the human-shaped mark on the bed, Wang Chen felt the world was full of "malice."

Waking up to find himself turned into a "Terracotta Warrior," the joy of receiving the reward last night vanished without a trace.

Enduring the disgust, Wang Chen rushed into the bathroom like a madman, not noticing the trail of black footprints left on the floor behind him.

He washed for over an hour, using more than half a bottle of body wash. Feeling as if a layer of skin was about to come off, Wang Chen finally couldn't scrub any more "mud" off his body. He let out a long sigh of relief, the feeling of being grossed out finally subsiding a bit.

"Damn, this constitution strengthening fluid is powerful enough, but the side effects are a bit too terrifying..."

Turning off the shower, Wang Chen wiped the water droplets off his face and grumbled to himself, "If someone didn't know better, they'd think I fell into a septic tank last night!"

Having dealt with the "mud" on his body, Wang Chen finally had time to think about the "disastrous state" of his bedroom. Right now, even standing in the bathroom, he could smell the pungent stench drifting in through the door crack.

Finding a clean bath towel to wrap around his waist, Wang Chen held his breath and cautiously opened the bathroom door.

What greeted his eyes was a trail of black footprints extending from the bedroom door all the way to the bathroom!

He had been in such a rush to get into the bathroom earlier that he hadn't noticed his feet at all... "What a disaster..." Wang Chen suddenly felt his head throbbing.

Just as he lamented, a stench countless times more intense than what he had smelled through the door crack rushed straight to his head, nearly knocking him out.

"Ugh!!! I really can't take this!"

He quickly retreated into the bathroom, took a few deep breaths by the window on the other side, then took a deep breath, held it, and lunged out.

His target was the living room window!

...After a huge effort, going back and forth between upstairs and downstairs several times, he threw away everything in the bedroom except for the wardrobe, the bed, and a set of clean clothes. Whether it should have been thrown away or not, he tossed it all, finally eliminating the "source of the sin."

After finishing all this, Wang Chen hurriedly called for the system.

"Youyou! Get out here! What's the situation? Aren't you going to explain this to me?"

"How does this constitution strengthening fluid come with 'biological weapons'? Are you messing with me on purpose?"

In the system space, Youyou's figure floated in the "air." She stood with her hands on her hips, tilting her small head up, trying hard to stifle her laughter. After a long while, just as Wang Chen was about to lose it, she slowly replied.

["Hmph! Now you know to come looking for Youyou? Who told you to make me angry last night?"]

["This system doesn't have time to mess with you! This is a normal reaction to the 'constitution strengthening fluid'! It has expelled the toxins and impurities accumulated in your body over all these years!"]

["Originally, if you, the host, had been a bit more humble and asked this system, I would have told you that after absorbing the constitution strengthening fluid, you would expel impurities and toxins from your body."]

Youyou blinked her big eyes and spoke in a deliberately infuriating tone.

["Who told you to just fall asleep? Sleeping like a little pig! Who else can you blame?"]

Wang Chen was left speechless by Youyou's "verbal barrage."

He recalled that soaking in the wooden tub last night indeed felt more and more comfortable. Later, he had unknowingly fallen asleep on the bed. It seemed... he really couldn't entirely blame Youyou?

However, he wouldn't bow his head and let this little system look down on him.

"You're just being wise after the fact! Would it have killed you to say it earlier!"

["Lue lue lue~ I just won't say it, to teach you not to underestimate this system!"]

["But, seeing as you've suffered so much, Youyou will still remind you, host—first, take a good look and feel the changes in your body!"]

After saying that, Youyou's voice vanished from Wang Chen's mind, and no matter how much Wang Chen called out, she didn't respond.

"This scammy system..." Wang Chen shook his head helplessly.

With Youyou's interruption, the frustration in his heart dissipated quite a bit, replaced by curiosity about the strengthening effect.

He looked down at the back of his hands and his arms.

When he had just finished bathing, he was too busy being disgusted to look closely. Now that he had calmed down to observe, he found that his skin really seemed a bit different. Before, because he had worked on construction sites all year round, exposed to the wind and sun, his skin was a bit rough, dark in color, and he had a few scars on his arms.

But now, his skin was much finer than before, with a healthy wheat-colored glow, and those few scars had disappeared.

His arms had also become sturdier—not with exaggerated muscular lumps, but with a feeling full of power.

He stood up and walked to the bathroom mirror. Earlier, when he was showering, the mirror was covered in a layer of water vapor. Now that the vapor had mostly dissipated, it clearly reflected his appearance.