Chapter 379 Strange Boss
In the novels about cultivating immortals, practicing both magic and physical cultivation is an arduous and arduous road to heaven.

But we are in the city, so Li Yan's seemingly difficult and dangerous road actually appears to be... a little happy.

It's nothing more than adding a little physical exercise to the virtuous cycle of improving yourself while completing what you have to do.

Although the intensity of practice has been increased, it seems to have become a combination of work and rest.

Perhaps out of concern for Li Yan's physical condition, at lunch time, Wang Zi walked to the door of Li Yan's office. Not hearing the clacking sound of the keyboard inside, she knocked on the door.

"Come in." Li Yan's voice sounded a little strange.

As soon as Wang Zi opened the door, she smelled an enticing fragrance.

What caught the eye was Li Yan, who was doing push-ups in sportswear, and a hamburger, fried chicken, French fries and cola on the coffee table next to her.

Clearly, there was the sound of exploding keyboards here half an hour ago?

This scene was so hard to understand that Wang Zi’s brain froze.

"98, 99, 100!"

After Li Yan finished counting, he pushed himself up with both hands and jumped up lightly from the ground.

"What's wrong, Sister Wang?"

"Uh..." Wang Zi looked at the Western fast food that was enough for at least four or five people, and felt that she couldn't say out loud that she was worried that her boss wouldn't eat well in his latest job. "Is there anyone visiting today?"

Maybe it was Chen Fan or some classmates? Li Yan was not the type to treat other company CEOs to burgers.

“No one is coming.”

"One serving?"

"Well, it can be used as afternoon tea." Li Yan stretched out her arms and said, "It consumes a lot of energy, so eat more."

"I was worried that you forgot to eat lunch again, so I wanted to remind you."

"Thank you for your concern."

"Also, Mr. Li, Mr. Sun asked me to ask if they need to further organize the results they have and then send them to you according to the pace you need?"

This is a very well-spoken statement. What he actually means is that he is worried that Li Yan cannot handle it alone.

Maybe Wang Zi told them that the boss worked until the early morning yesterday and overslept today, or maybe it was just Wang Zi's consideration and she used Sun Miao as an excuse.

Li Yan smiled and said, "Tell them to speed up. If they have anything on hand, just throw it to me. Tell them to follow me closely. If you really can't control those lazy guys, just do it yourself."

"Okay." Wang Zi left the room with a professional smile.

Li Yan in the room has actually completed the third set of 100 push-ups, although she cannot overdraw her physical strength and energy because of the "physical health" protection mechanism.

But things like growth in muscle latitude and increased bone hardness are achieved through the method of "destruction before construction, destruction before construction".

Muscle fibers cannot become thicker and harder unless they are torn and trabeculae are broken.

This is a very scientific and correct cognition. Having such an idea is equivalent to patching your "physical health".

Properly pushing muscles to their limit is not a condition that requires "physical health" intervention.

Of course, if exercise causes muscle tears or even rhabdomyolysis, it is definitely not within the "appropriate" range.

"Fitness", an activity that Li Yan had little interest in in his previous life and even now, finally has a very special meaning.

Point-to-point blasting of muscle limits is undoubtedly a good way to improve Li Yan's four-level body-related skill values, including "muscle endurance", "muscle strength", "bone strength" and "explosive power".

Long-distance running improves cardiopulmonary function and endurance, yoga improves body coordination and flexibility, and participating in ball sports improves dynamic vision, reaction and concentration...

Through breakthroughs in various small skills, the second-level skill "Body" is forced to improve, which directly radiates the third-level skill "Physical Strength".

Once the "body" is improved, Li Yan's brain strength will definitely increase as well - as for how the brain becomes stronger...

Who knows?

Anyway, as long as the output efficiency is higher, the brain works faster, and the energy limit is improved, that's enough.

As long as the conditions on the physical level are met, Li Yan can safely push his energy output to the limit and avoid the obstruction of "physical health".

The system said that this was a case of good intentions being taken for granted.

So he is pushing his limit on push-ups, and will have a super high-calorie lunch to replenish his energy so that he can work hard again in the afternoon.

However, what he didn't expect was that he had to do 100 standard push-ups in a set without rest, with only a five-minute break between sets. He continued even though his arms were still sore, and did three sets in a row, and he actually completed them just like that.

He thought he would be exhausted halfway through and then trigger a breakthrough in his muscular endurance.

Is it that these 300 push-ups are not difficult enough, or is he better than he thought?

After awakening the skill of "neural recruitment", his athletic performance has been completely different. It is not at all the 60% progress strength indicated by the system.

The reason is simple. More precise control and higher output efficiency mean that Li Yan has stronger body control and more physical strength.

Everyone's blue bar is so long, you can only use a combo to release the ultimate, but Li Yan can use the ultimate as a combo, how to play it?
"Neural recruitment" is a talent, which is concentrated in the great players whose muscles are not large in size but whose athletic performance is extremely explosive.

With his thin arms and legs, he can squat 200KG, which is extremely shocking.

It's really unreasonable for Li Yan to turn this thing into a skill.

So these 300 push-ups might have been a real challenge in the past, but now the energy required to do two is probably just as little as doing one.

"Increase the intensity and continue."

So Li Yan started doing the unfamiliar clapping push-ups, as she had never done any before.

By the time I got to the third one, I was able to use force accurately.

It feels so good.

You ask why Li Yan can't go eat now or continue working on code?

If he stops now, the soreness of his muscles might affect his condition in the afternoon. He wants to make a breakthrough directly to get rid of this soreness and fatigue.

After a while, the regular "pa pa" sounds in the office stopped.

Li Yan was panting, sweat dripping from his chin. He supported himself on the ground with his hands, the veins on his arms were bulging, and he looked very tired.

After doing this series of push-ups aimed at exhaustion, Li Yan discovered another great ability of "neural recruitment".

After the muscle groups commonly used in normal push-ups reach a certain degree of fatigue, Li Yan can fully mobilize other muscle groups to complete compensation. That is, although it looks the same posture to the naked eye, the position and method of force are actually completely different.

In this way, commonly used muscle groups can go through the fatigue period and take a break, thus achieving longer standby time.

The switching of muscles even creates a sense of rhythm...

There are many benefits to doing this. Improving battery life is naturally one of them. From an exercise perspective, you can also use the same movement to exercise muscle groups that are not often used.

Li Yan couldn't even imagine how explosive the athletic performance would be if all the muscle groups in the body were actively exercised.

"I can't hold on any longer. I won't need to compensate this time. I'll just hold on for dear life. Three, two, one, go!"

Willpower 61 is no joke. Fighting the fear, fatigue and resistance brought about by this "limit" is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

As Li Yan pushed himself up with a feeling of distension and pain, he heard a "ding" sound in his mind.

[Muscle Endurance +1, Level 61 skill, total ]

[Muscle Strength +1, Level 61 Skill, Total ]

It turns out that I haven't made any progress at all from my previous accumulation...

The feeling of fatigue was swept away, and Li Yan only felt that his whole body had become much more stable - even though he was still maintaining the push-up posture, his core was as stable as a rock.

He even suddenly felt like trying a handstand, but now that he had made a breakthrough, he decided to use the time to organize the code.

"Mr. Li is... doing push-ups?" Sun Miao looked shocked.

He had originally planned to wait until lunch time to find Li Yan to see if he could be allowed to observe Li Yan's work.

This was a very valuable learning opportunity, and he really didn't want to be kept in the dark by "resonance". But Wang Zi said that Li Yan was doing push-ups and it was inconvenient to talk about work.

Maybe you've encountered a difficult problem and are stuck?

Forget it, Sun Miao shook his head and decided to go directly to the restaurant downstairs to eat noodles.

He discovered that Li Yan was not someone that ordinary people could understand.

"Sun Miao, Sun Miao, stop thinking of yourself as a genius." He said to himself in a low voice.

When he told this to others, Liu Liwei said a classic sentence:

“This is Office Cthulhu!”

Everyone was stunned, then burst into laughter, and then fell silent.

Li Yan's current "one-man strength" is no different from divine power to them; and he went to class during the critical period of work, worked until the early hours last night and overslept this morning, and now he is doing push-ups in the office...

It's really a bit indescribable.

"Is it possible that the Mr. Li we usually see is just the way he wants us to see him, and his true appearance is what he reveals behind the closed office door?" Shang Jie said.

Liu Liwei was excited when he heard this. "This explains Mr. Li's outrageous behavior. Think about it, he is only fifteen years old. When he was in the fifth grade of elementary school, he was considered unknown in Lincheng. So many years have passed since then. Even if he is extremely talented, he doesn't have that much time to learn, right?"

"So, he might be in a quantum state when we can't see him, and he can learn various things at the same time. But once we observe him, he will instantly collapse into a certain state, and he may go to class, or write code next to us, or handle company affairs, or run out for a book signing, or... do push-ups."

Shang Jie seemed to have convinced himself.

"So what about Mr. Li from Schrödinger's theory?" Sun Miao looked up at the sky in silence. "You might as well just say that he can travel through time."

"Hey! If it is really a quantum state, processing multiple things at the same time, isn't it jumping on the timeline? This is time travel!" Liu Liwei was still very excited.

"Okay, okay, I think it's very interesting." Cao Haibin laughed a few times.

As we all know, lunatics think that nonsense must be out of bounds.

When it was time for everyone to take a lunch break, Li Yan had finished four servings of hamburgers. Her stomach was still a little bloated, but it was far from being too full.

The "Nutrition" skill, which is also at 60% progress, is there.

"We have sufficient reserves, we can charge forward." He closed his eyes, sorted out his thoughts, and threw himself into the work at full capacity.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Li Yan, who was swimming in the ocean of code, suddenly stopped.

It’s not that he couldn’t hold on, but as he processed a large amount of information, it became increasingly difficult for Li Yan to maintain his speed.

He had experienced this feeling when he was writing a novel. He rushed forward in the first few hundred thousand words, but after a million words, because there was more and more prior information, his thoughts were gradually limited, and his speed inevitably slowed down.

The issue with the novel is easy to solve. With Li Yan's memory, he can even tough it out. At most he'll be a little tired.

Besides, I was not in a hurry to finish the novel at that time, so I just wrote it slowly.

It’s different now. This is a super enhanced version. The further we get, the more we have to consider things that affect the entire body, and we can’t slow down.

All problems stem from lack of ability.

Li Yan was eager to improve his intelligence, but he didn't expect that the first thing to show signs of movement was "logic".

How to improve work efficiency in the face of massive amounts of information?

Find routines, find commonalities, find patterns.

Li Yan studied architecture in her previous life. As a college student, she is always obsessed with "self-expression", especially those who study design.

Like most of his classmates, he looked down on routine industrial products and liked to argue that those solutions were "soulless."

The so-called soul is the various clever ideas that come to him in response to the design requirements of a certain project.

Later, he had an in-depth exchange with the head of the landscape team of a leading real estate company. When the boss heard Li Yan's homework, he directly came up with a plan that was no different from Li Yan's "brilliant ideas". After only one glance at Li Yan's floor plan, he gave a rough estimate of the figures such as the floor area ratio.

Li Yan was a little surprised and felt a little unhappy. How could a design be made in one go? Isn't this just a routine summarized from experience?
Talk about design.

So he directly said, "I feel like this design is a bit cliché."

As a result, the head of the landscape team said: "If you can come up with a routine at work, you are very impressive."

This sentence gave Li Yan a new understanding of "routine".

Summarizing is not easy, and the general solution is indeed difficult.

The essence of a routine is to find a general solution by summarizing countless experiences, simplifying the complex and abstracting the most critical framework.

Li Yan didn't know why, but he just remembered the conversation with this big guy in his previous life.

Maybe he is looking for a "routine" now.

Abstract common logic from the vast code and form routines to make the system run more efficiently and smoothly.

At the same time, it can greatly improve his subsequent work efficiency.

Ding!
[Logic +1, Level 7 skill, total ]

Damn it?

This sound came so suddenly.

He hasn't even achieved a deep understanding yet, so how come he made a breakthrough?

Moreover, he did not feel anything special about this breakthrough, and it even made him a little disappointed.

The experience of being in a fantasy world and feeling the changes in your body is really wonderful.

I thought there would be something like this every time there was a breakthrough in the second-level skill, but I didn’t expect there would be such a dull time.

Li Yan once thought that the skill "Logic" was also an incomplete skill with a full score of six points.

After all, his logic is now very clear and strong enough, so strong that it even affects his imagination.

The 6-point logic makes him pay too much attention to the rationality of life, which makes the awakening of the first-level skills very difficult.

If I continue going up, I'm afraid I'll turn myself into a robot.

"So the direction of improving logic is not towards 'absolutism'." Li Yan muttered to himself, "but... improving the ability to find logic from abstract information?"

He took another look at the data he had just processed halfway.

In almost an instant, he constructed in his mind the logical pathways between all the information that was remembered.

The naturalness of the process made Li Yan a little confused.

Classification, organization, summary, connection, distinction... Li Yan is like some specific pathways in the brain, which will complete these tasks the moment the information is received.

The intuitive result is that information that cannot be connected to other content floats alone and is very conspicuous.

In this work, Li Yan can screen out what results need to be thrown away at an extremely fast speed.

In other words, those codes were simply written to meet the tasks assigned by Li Yan. They were not in line with the overall idea. Instead of modifying them, Li Yan might as well write them himself.

"Mr. Li, is it convenient now?" Before getting off work, Sun Miao decided to knock on Li Yan's office door.

"come in."

Sun Miao was a little nervous when he entered the room, afraid to see Li Yan doing something incomprehensible again.

Fortunately, Li Yan was just sitting in front of the computer and looked like he had just come out of his deep thoughts.

"Mr. Li, I'm sorry to interrupt your thinking. I have an unwelcome request. I would like to follow you and see how you process these data. I would like to learn from you. Is this okay with you?"

Sun Miao spoke very gently and in a humble manner.

"No problem." Li Yan smiled.

If you can understand.

(End of this chapter)