"Xiao Chen, the floor is so dusty. Since we don’t really have anything to do right now, why don’t we sweep the classroom floor?"

After the two finished looking at the photos on the wall and were about to leave the classroom, Shen Qinghan noticed how dusty the floor was. Her obsessive side kicked in and she wanted to clean it.

Lin Zichen had no objections.

So the two quickly found brooms and quietly began sweeping the classroom.

Not long after they started sweeping, two girls walked in from outside.

One of them, a girl with her hair tied in a bun, hesitated when she saw someone cleaning the classroom, then timidly asked, "Um… are you two freshmen too?"

Hearing this, Lin Zichen paused his sweeping, looked up at the two at the door and said, "Yes, we’re freshmen too. We just got here not long ago and when we saw the dust on the floor, we grabbed some brooms to sweep."

‘Eh? It’s actually Lin Zichen! Oh my god…’

The moment they saw his incredibly handsome face, the two girls instantly became excited and flustered.

Especially the bun-haired girl, whose whole face turned red as she nervously said, "L-Lin Zichen, I’m your fan."

"Fan?"

"Yes, yes, every single Eight School League you played in during middle school, I was there in person to watch. I think you’re amazing, so… so I became your fan." The bun-haired girl explained shyly.

‘Liar, not honest, obviously she only likes him because he’s handsome…’

Listening to her words, the short-haired girl next to her complained wildly in her heart.

After that, she looked at Lin Zichen, her cheeks slightly red and said shyly, "Lin Zichen, I’m your fan too. We both went to Shanhai No.1 Middle School for junior high. We just wanted to be in the same school as you. We thought you would definitely move straight up to this school’s high school division, so we specifically applied for Shanhai Middle School."

This part was true. Both of them were huge fans of Lin Zichen and they deliberately applied for Shanhai Middle School because they wanted to be at the same school as their idol, maybe even in the same class.

Lin Zichen was flattered. He didn’t expect his little fans to have spread even to other schools.

But this kind of popularity with girls seemed a bit over the top.

This was not necessarily a good thing.

His drawer would eventually be stuffed with love letters, creating a whole pile of unnecessary trouble.

While the three of them were talking, Shen Qinghan stayed completely silent, quietly sweeping the floor like a transparent person with zero presence.

Except for a brief lively phase in the lower grades of elementary school, she had always been rather introverted and rarely took the initiative to talk to people.

Only when she was with Lin Zichen would she talk more.

After all, they grew up together and knew each other very well, so being around him felt much more natural.

"This classroom floor really is dusty. Since the two of us don’t have anything to do either, we’ll help you clean the classroom too."

The bun-haired girl said this as she walked to a corner of the classroom, picked up a broom and started sweeping.

The short-haired girl also picked up a broom and joined in.

With the addition of the two girls, the entire classroom was soon cleaned.

At that moment, Lin Zichen saw three lines of text suddenly appear in the void.

[Achievement: Under the condition of teamwork, complete a total of 1000 tasks]

[Reward: Gain biological attribute—Social Animal]

[Total completed tasks: 1/1000]

After reading the message, Lin Zichen’s heart surged with excitement. Out of nowhere, a fifth achievement suddenly appeared. What a pleasant surprise!

But he didn’t know what effect this Social Animal attribute would bring.

It was really something to look forward to…

Just then, their homeroom teacher Han Yuanfeng passed by the hallway outside on his way to the restroom.

Seeing people cleaning the classroom, he immediately walked in with a smile and said, "You kids swept the whole classroom, huh? Not bad, very clean, well done!"

The three girls all felt delighted when they heard this. Making a good impression on their homeroom teacher on the first day of school was definitely a win. The cleaning was absolutely worth it!

Unlike them, Lin Zichen felt nothing inside.

He had been praised too many times since childhood, so he was completely immune to it.

* * *

Time passed quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was lunchtime.

Lin Zichen saw the time and went home with Shen Qinghan to eat.

After the meal, he rested for a bit at home, then quickly went out again.

This time he didn’t bring Shen Qinghan, going out alone instead.

The Ghost Shadow Squid Compendium had already been opened. Now it was time to open another aberrant beast’s compendium.

It was time to head to the mall and see what aberrant beast meat was worth buying to devour.

Riding his bike, he sped to the mall.

After parking, he went straight to the top floor to see if there was any reasonably priced aberrant beast meat for sale.

After looking around, he finally set his sights on Violent Eagle meat.

The Violent Eagle was a slightly more advanced aberrant beast than the Ghost Shadow Squid, but its main use was still as food.

Its biological trait was its exceptional vision.

An ordinary eagle’s eyesight is usually about eight times that of a normal human. The Violent Eagle’s eyesight, however, could reach thirty times that of a human, which was incredibly powerful.

Its visual tracking ability was also extremely strong, capable of precisely capturing even aberrant rabbits that moved so fast they blurred into afterimages.

With his experience of unlocking the Ghost Shadow Squid Compendium over the summer, Lin Zichen estimated that unlocking the Violent Eagle Compendium would also give him a vision-related biological attribute.

Vision was an extremely important biological attribute. If good enough, it could greatly enhance a person’s combat ability.

Take martial arts competitions as an example. A person with sharp eyesight could more easily catch their opponent’s movements, defend against attacks and strike more effectively.

In short, the Violent Eagle Compendium was definitely worth unlocking.

Besides, the price of Violent Eagle meat was cheap. Just 1998 yuan per jin.

Well cheap… compared to other aberrant beast meats.

On that entire floor, aside from Ghost Shadow Squid meat at 998 yuan per jin, no other aberrant beast meat was cheaper than Violent Eagle meat.

The third cheapest kind was 5888 yuan per jin.

The price gap was ridiculous.

If, like Ghost Shadow Squid meat, devouring one jin of it advanced the compendium by 1%, then unlocking the full compendium would cost about 600,000 yuan with the third cheapest kind.

Six hundred thousand!

That’s over half a million!

Impossible to afford!

After deciding to buy Violent Eagle meat which was a third cheaper, Lin Zichen quickly found the landlord uncle to help purchase a jin of it.

Soon, the meat was in his hands.

His savings instantly dropped by 1998 yuan.

Lin Zichen didn’t care about the money. He immediately went to a secluded spot and began devouring the Violent Eagle meat.

[You devoured a trace of the Violent Eagle’s Life Origin]

[Violent Eagle Compendium: 1%]

As expected, eating one jin advanced the compendium by 1%.

That meant it would cost about 200,000 yuan to unlock the Violent Eagle Compendium.

‘200,000… Looks like I need to work harder at martial arts competitions in high school to save up. I have to unlock the Violent Eagle Compendium before my second year.’

Confident that he would fill up the Violent Eagle Compendium before sophomore year, giving himself another biological attribute.

Although unlocking the Violent Eagle Compendium would cost twice as much as the Ghost Shadow Squid Compendium, the prize money from high school-level martial arts competitions was much higher than in middle school competitions.