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Chapter 237: Unexpected News
"Hello, I'm busy and will call—""Lawrence, we need your help!"Lawrence was cut short by Lucas's voice, which made him frown slightly as he grumpily replied, "What trouble? Have you guys been looking for trouble with everyone after discovering your friend is a good martial artist?""No, that actually isn't it. It's about Ralph!" Lucas immediately replied."Ralph? What happened to him?" Lawrence asked with a frown. His hand subconsciously picked up a pen and started sketching doodles on a blank paper."He came back to the dorm quietly. We thought maybe he had a heartbreak or something, or maybe it was just emotions, so we left him be. But when I was about to sleep, I smelled blood in the room. After tracing it, it led me to his bed. The wound isn't big but... the injury is serious. He was shot!""What?" Lawrence's eyes contracted. His brain lagged a second behind, trying to process those words."You need to call him yourself. He doesn't want to open up to me, but I bet he will to you.
Chapter 236: Number Crunching
Three hours later, Lawrence was ready to throw his laptop out the window.He leaned back in the expensive chair, ran both hands through his hair, and let out a groan that echoed off the books he'd never read. The spreadsheet on his screen stared back at him like a personal enemy."Okay. Okay. I can do this."He'd started strong. Opened the files, nodded along to Hazel's notes, felt confident. Then he hit the projections section.Revenue forecasts. User acquisition costs. Lifetime value calculations. Ad revenue modeling based on current engagement metrics.He knew these terms. He'd sat through lectures on them. But knowing what something means and actually making the numbers work were two different things.Lawrence grabbed his phone and typed into YouTube: "how to understand startup financial projections for beginners."Thirty minutes later, he'd watched three videos, taken notes on a pad he found in the drawer, and felt marginally less stupid.Then he hit another wall."What the hell
Chapter 235: Stepping Back
The next day.The morning sun streamed through the penthouse windows as Lawrence finished his last set of Bajiquan forms. His body moved automatically now, the Master-level understanding settled deep in his muscles. Three Emperor Canon Fist still felt clunky, but that would come with time.He checked his phone. Missed messages from his friends and even Sophia, which he quickly replied to. Angus asking if he would be at the dojo today. A text from Hazel with the files she'd promised.Finishing everything, he chose to observe the new features of Nexus Chat App and couldn't help but frown as he stumbled on the first ads on the platform. In order not to make the ads annoying, they didn't put them on videos like Omniverse did. Instead, they placed ads in comment sections based on what the post was about. If it was about a celebrity, then fashion-related ads showed up. And so on and so forth.A strange notification popped up about a social media ad campaign targeting "mysterious moonlit man
Chapter 234: Increasing the Health Attribute
After this, Lawrence felt a flood of new understanding flow into his mind.He quickly put down his fork and stepped away from the kitchen island. He moved to the open space in his living room where he sometimes practiced.No one was around. Just the quiet hum of the city far below and the soft light filtering through the floor-to-ceiling windows.After a short break and drinking some water to settle his stomach, Lawrence started running through Bajiquan routines. Then he practiced the Six Harmonies Great Spear for one round, using an imaginary spear since he didn't keep one in his penthouse.When he finally stopped and let out a tired breath, his face showed genuine happiness. His understanding of Bajiquan had deepened. Things he hadn't grasped before now made sense. The movements flowed smoother.The gap between him and his senior apprentice brothers was still huge. But reaching Master level in Bajiquan gave him the equivalent of years of training and knowledge packed into his mind a
Chapter 233: Expert
This scene lasted for twenty minutes.After seeing the lake return to normal, Lawrence let out a sigh and turned around.He didn't even know why he sighed. Was it because the black beetles had disappeared, or was it because of the mystery of Green Lake?On his way back, the closer he got to the street, the more he felt like someone was watching him. But every time he tried to check his surroundings carefully, the feeling vanished.Overall, he was very tired and exhausted.As soon as he reached his room, he threw himself on the bed. The fatigue he'd been holding back surged through his body, making him almost unable to move. He quickly fell asleep.He didn't know when he left the Dust World. The woman in red on the rooftop gradually faded away.---Lawrence sat in his penthouse, picking at the food delivery Sophia had sent over. It was some kind of western-style nutrition meal—grilled chicken, quinoa, steamed vegetables, all arranged neatly in compartmentalized boxes. Fancy stuff.His
Chapter 232: Mad Smashing
Lawrence felt his blood run cold. He didn't dare stay there any longer and broke into a run.What made him relieved was that the black beetles weren't fast. At least they were slower than him.He only stopped running when he got back to his street.At that moment, he started asking himself whether he should leave this street or not.It was easy to imagine that this place wouldn't be able to stop the beetles' attack, unless some kind of miracle happened.After ten minutes, the black beetles came into view.Because there was less vegetation here and the beetles were spreading out in all directions, the ones moving toward the street had thinned out.The beetles in front moved like a black stream, slowly flowing forward.Lawrence thought for a moment, then went back to the apartment building. He swapped the pitchfork for a club and returned to the end of the street.Ten more meters. Five more meters. He stopped and swung the club down on the beetles.The club smashed them without much sou
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