Chapter 260 - The Benefits of the Ba-Serpent Aura
Chapter 260 – The Benefits of the Ba-Serpent Aura
After the English teacher left, Zhu Xin Yi let out her complaints. Wei Xiao Bei had not thought about this, so he immediately appeased her. After that, he pulled Zhu Xin Yi aside in order to have her teach him.
In learning languages, having a conversation with another person in the same language was a lot more efficient than learning alone.
Even training in martial arts required another person to spar with to be able to improve properly.
After learning for most of the night, Wei Xiao Bei looked at his status panel, but no language skills such as English appeared.
It seems that English is not easy to learn.
In the next day, Wei Xiao Bei took a vacation from work to bring Zhu Xin Yi and Huang Kun to the Cui Hu City Gymnasium.
Cui Hu City Gymnasium had Cui Hu City’s largest swimming pool.
Wei Xiao Bei brought the two of them for one thing, swimming!
In Wei Xiao Bei’s eyes Zhu Xin Yi was now considered a multi-talented person.
Other than English, Zhu Xin Yi was also an expert swimmer.
Thus, Wei Xiao Bei had brought Zhu Xin Yi out. As for Huang Kun, he also pleaded with Wei Xiao Bei that he also wanted to go. Since Wei Xiao Bei thought that swimming was also an important skill, he also brought him along. After all, no one knew what could happen in the Dust World.
In times of necessity, swimming might even be able to save a life!
The season was already late autumn, so the weather had been mixed with a slight chill. Thus, when they arrived at the swimming pool, they saw that there were not many people there.
If it was in the summer, there would be a vast crowd of people sticking together in the pool.
Now, there was a lot of space for Wei Xiao Bei and company to enjoy swimming.
When Wei Xiao Bei jumped in the water, he could feel a sense of intimacy with the water.
Wei Xiao Bei had initially thought that this was an illusion, but after Zhu Xin Yi taught him for a while, Wei Xiao Bei was already able to dive in the pool and swim with ease.
This kind of intimacy with water seemed as if it was an inborn talent.
When Zhu Xin Yi had taught him the swimming posture, Wei Xiao Bei felt a bit awkward in using it. Soon after, he used his own swimming method that was most comfortable for him.
For a person like Wei Xiao Bei, once they gained familiarity with something, it was easy to imagine how fast they could make progress.
In just a few moments, Wei Xiao Bei had already made 3 laps on the pool.
At this points, Wei Xiao Bei understood that this had a relationship to the Ba-Serpent aura.
He never imagined that the aura still had this kind of advantage. Thinking about it, snakes were innate swimmers, especially for a giant snake like the Ba-Serpent.
Splash. Wei Xiao Bei’s head came out of the water and wiped off the water with his hands. Then he heard someone talk beside him, “Bro, not bad. Which team are you from?”
Wei Xiao Bei looked to his side with wide eyes.
It was a youth with a pretty good body type that was around 22 years old, which was close to Wei Xiao Bei’s age.
“Team?” Wei Xiao Bei was puzzled, but he understood in the next moment.
“My name is Qu Xin, Qu Yuan’s successor and part of the city’s swimming team.”
His voice was full of teasing as he extended his hand. Wei Xiao Bei grasped his hand and smiled, “Mine is Wei Xiao Bei, Wei Qing is my ancestor. I am not part of any team. I’m just playing around.”
“Not part of a team? Your swimming is so good! Looking at your speed, it should be able to beat the national record!”
Qu Xin did not dare believe it. He did not dare believe that experts could hide among the crowd.
Although Wei Xiao Bei did not consciously record his speed, his calculation ability and his memory was able to tell him his speed.
He had swam three laps around the pool which was more than 420 meters, and his time was 3 minutes and 44.37 seconds!
Moreover, he was still swimming in a relaxed manner.
Wei Xiao Bei remembered that the national record was 3 minutes and 40.14 seconds for a 400 meter distance while the newest world record was 3 minutes and 40.07 seconds for a 400 meter distance!
In other words, if Wei Xiao Bei swam a 400 meter distance, then he might be able to break the world record.
After calculating this, he guessed that he could be twice as fast when he goes all out! If he used his newly obtained [Intermediate Power Burst], then his speed would even be faster!
At the very least, he would need to try it again to find out.
After all, [Intermediate Power Burst] was the ability Wei Xiao Bei received when his muscle attribute reached 40 points, upgrading from [Elementary Power Burst].
Because he had never used it before, Wei Xiao Bei did not know how much power it would give him. However, no matter what was said, it was definitely a lot stronger than [Elementary Power Burst].
After this, Wei Xiao Bei became happy. If he went to join the Olympics, he would have been able to win a lot of gold medals.
Naturally, he was only thinking of this in his mind. Wei Xiao Bei would never expose himself like that. If he was suddenly asked how he got so strong, then he would not know how to explain it.
However, Wei Xiao Bei’s smiling expression gave Qu Xin some thoughts. He tried asking Wei Xiao Bei, “Brother Wei, are you interested in joining our swimming team?”
Wei Xiao Bei was stunned and found it a bit funny, “Don’t worry about me. I won’t try to steal your livelihood.”
This Qu Xin did not pay attention to his excuses and waved his hand, “Don’t mind it. In any case, the city team can only reach such a level, earning more achievements would be difficult, so it’s better to find an expert and bring them back. It would give me a lot more face.”
This was a recruitment, but Wei Xiao Bei would never go join some swimming team. Moreover, Qu Xin was also only a member, so he might not have such an authority.
Naturally, the most important question was still about time. If he had the time to go join some swimming team, he would rather use that time to go learn more languages and cook more food. It would be a lot more beneficial to do so.
Additionally, Wei Xiao Bei had already looked at his status panel. Even if he swam so well, the swimming skill still did not appear. This meant that swimming was not a skill by the rules. It should be a type of limb movement just like running. In this case, running was also not a skill.
If it was like this, why would Wei Xiao Bei waste anymore energy on it?
He once again clearly refused Qu Xin’s invitation. After they chatted for a bit more, Wei Xiao Bei moved towards Zhu Xin Yi and Huang Kun’s direction.
At this moment, had shamelessly gathered towards Zhu Xin Yi. Who knew if this was caused by her beauty or the charm she was unconsciously exuding. The youths tried to use Huang Kun who was being taught by Zhu Xin Yi as a means of striking up a conversation with her.
However, how could Zhu Xin Yi even pay any attention to these youths who came to the swimming pool for no reason.
Seeing Zhu Xin Yi unwilling to talk with them, they began to direct the conversation to Huang Kun.
Huang Kun did not have a gift in swimming. He was already a 2-Star Creature, but he simply could not learn much after half a day and was still choking on water.
Because he still could not learn it, he was incredibly gloomy. After hearing the ridiculing tone in those youths’ voices, he immediately became angry and punched the water.
Boom!
He had already been training in the Dust World for quite a while so when the fist landed on the water, huge waves were sent splashing towards the youths. In an instant, the youths were smashed under the water.
With Huang Kun’s big moves, it had naturally attracted other people’s attention.
At this moment, Wei Xiao Bei came over just in time. He did not bother swimming anymore and pulled Zhu Xin Yi and Huang Kun into the changing room. After they changed their clothes, they hurriedly left the pool.
When they returned to the dojo, Huang Kun was thoroughly scolded by Wei Xiao Bei and was even badly battered by him to make him more obedient.
When it came to Zhu Xin Yi, Wei Xiao Bei was more at east. She had a firm heart and her own principles.
Huang Kun was different. He was still a second year junior middle school student. Whether it was his values or worldview, they were still gradually forming, and his experience in the Dust World had largely affected it.
A way to describe it was that his bad tendencies had slightly become stronger.
Thus, Wei Xiao Bei needed to teach him a lesson once in a while. Otherwise, Huang Kun might become a terrible disciple that would murder anyone he hated.
This was something Wei Xiao Bei did not want to see.
Luckily, Huang Kun was still deeply respectful towards him. After being taught a lesson, he did not only become more well-behaved, but he was even self-reflecting. HIs face had recovered a bit of childishness, making Wei Xiao Bei relax a bit.
After busying himself for a few days, Wei Xiao Bei had gained a new skill.
[Language]!
However, this skill was different from other skills.
Other skills would have the rank of the skill written behind like beginner, advanced, etc.
[Language] on the other hand had Chinese (Proficient), English (Beginner) written behind it.
After testing it out, he attempted to put evolution points into his Chinese, but it did not have any effect. It seemed that Chinese (Proficient) was already the peak.
On the other hand, after putting 200 points into English, it had turned from beginner to proficient. Afterwards, he could not put in anymore.
It appeared that language was something that was learned one by one and did not have many ranks separating them.
Wei Xiao Bei copied the words on an English magazine and read it out loud.
For Wei Xiao Bei, with English (Proficient), there were no walls that stopped his reading. Moreover, when he read it, his understanding towards English had deepened.
However, there was still a gap between his English (Proficient) and his Chinese (Proficient).
Wei Xiao Bei guessed that this was the difference between using the mother tongue as a foreign language.
After all, the mother tongue was something learned from adolescence to adulthood. For Wei Xiao Bei, he had been using it for the past 21 years while he used English for just a few days.