At this time, Lin Chen was still standing at the school gate.
In order to get monster meat to eat, he didn't hesitate. He immediately walked about ten meters to the left and stopped.
In front of him was a small breakfast bun shop.
Thousands of years ago, monsters tore through the void and invaded the Blue Planet.
Some of these monsters were massive in size and terrifyingly powerful. Humans called them "giant beasts."
Others were smaller and weaker. Those were called "small monsters."
The giant beasts were so strong that only mechas could fight them.
But weak small monsters could be hunted by human warriors.
For example: red-haired pigs, matsutake rabbits, and other low-level creatures. They tasted good and were quickly domesticated by humans for food.
Red-haired pig meat, in particular, was famous for being delicious and easy to farm. Its meat became incredibly common.
From top hotel cuisine to high-end restaurant menus…
Even the most ordinary roadside bun shop used red-haired pork as filling.
"Boss, two meat buns, please."
After paying, Lin Chen picked up a bun and stuffed it directly into his mouth.
After two or three bites, the entire bun was gone.
[Consumed: 1 Red-Haired Pork Bun. Qi and Blood +1!]
When he saw the message flash across his system panel, Lin Chen's eyes lit up.
"Oh my god. It actually works!"
He immediately swallowed the second bun in one gulp.
[Consumed: 1 Red-Haired Pork Bun. HP +1, Attribute Points +1!]
"Perfect. This time I even got an attribute point!"
"System, open my status panel!"
[Status panel opened.]
[Host: Lin Chen][Qi and Blood: 202][Realm: First-Class Warrior (500 Qi and Blood required to break through to Second-Class)][Attribute Points: 1][Strength: 14 (Average adult: 5. At 100, a qualitative change occurs. Can be increased.)][Constitution: 12 (Average adult: 5. At 100, a qualitative change occurs. Can be increased.)][Spirit: 12 (Average adult: 5. At 100, a qualitative change occurs. Can be increased.)][Agility: 13 (Average adult: 5. At 100, a qualitative change occurs. Can be increased.)][Stomach Capacity: 2 / 100 (Can be increased.)][Digestion Speed: 5 (Can digest 5 points of stomach capacity per hour. Can be increased.)]
Lin Chen stared at his panel.
Both his Qi and Blood and his Attribute Points had gone up.
In the past, if he wanted to raise his Qi and Blood by just 2 points, it would take almost a full month of effort.
Now he'd done it by eating two buns.
Getting stronger was suddenly that easy.
At this moment, Lin Chen noticed another stat: [Stomach Capacity].
Because he had just eaten two buns, it was currently at 2 out of 100.
He wondered if that meant his stomach could still handle 98 more buns.
The bun shop owner watched Lin Chen wolf down two buns and couldn't help but smile. He felt a little soft-hearted.
"Poor kid. I'll give you two more."
As he said that, the boss handed Lin Chen two fresh meat buns.
"Ahem… Boss, thank you, but I have money. I want to buy one hundred more buns."
The owner froze. "Young man… what did you say?"
"You heard me. One hundred meat buns."
Lin Chen lifted his phone, scanned the shop's payment code, and transferred one hundred yuan.
He also accepted the extra two buns — not because he needed charity, but because he wanted to test whether his stomach capacity limit was really 100.
The boss's frown instantly flipped into excitement. This was the biggest sale he'd had in ages.
"Alright! I'll get them ready for you right now!"
He first handed over the twenty buns already in the steamer baskets.
Then he hurried back to the kitchen and started making more nonstop.
Lin Chen sat down, grabbed the buns, and began eating them one after another.
[Consumed: 1 Red-Haired Pork Bun. Qi and Blood +1!][Consumed: 1 Red-Haired Pork Bun. HP +1, Attribute Points +1!][Consumed: 1 Red-Haired Pork Bun. Qi and Blood +1!]…
Lin Chen sat at a small outdoor table beside the bun shop. Steaming buns were piled up like a small hill in front of him.
As he devoured them nonstop, the "hill" got shorter and shorter. The number of buns dropped rapidly.
The system prompts kept flashing in his vision.
The bun shop owner was stunned. His eyes and mouth were both wide open.
He had been selling buns next to this school for more than twenty years…
And he had never — not once — seen anyone eat like this.
Today had shaken his understanding of reality.
By now, a small crowd had gathered at the shop entrance to watch.
They stared as Lin Chen ate. Ten buns. Twenty buns. Fifty buns. Seventy buns.
Ninety-eight buns.
Everyone looked horrified.
After Lin Chen finally finished all the buns in front of him, he leaned back and rubbed his swollen stomach.
Then he opened his system panel again.
[Host: Lin Chen][Qi and Blood: 300][Realm: First-Class Warrior (Breakthrough possible at 500 Qi and Blood)][Attribute Points: 60][Strength: 22 (Qualitative change at 100. Can be increased.)][Constitution: 19 (Qualitative change at 100. Can be increased.)][Spirit: 19 (Qualitative change at 100. Can be increased.)][Agility: 20 (Qualitative change at 100. Can be increased.)][Stomach Capacity: 100 / 100 (Can be increased.)][Digestion Speed: 5 (Can digest 5 points of stomach capacity per hour. Can be increased.)]
He had eaten a full one hundred buns.
And his strength had skyrocketed.
All of his basic attributes had improved dramatically.
His Qi and Blood alone had gone up by 100 points.
Under normal circumstances, that amount of progress would take an ordinary warrior several years of brutal training.
There were still two buns left on the table.
Lin Chen reached out, intending to keep eating.
But the moment he tried, his entire body resisted. His stomach felt like it was about to burst.
He physically couldn't force down another bite.
"One bun uses one point of Stomach Capacity. A hundred buns fills a hundred capacity. Once you're capped, you can't force more food in."
"If you tried to keep eating past the limit, something dangerous might happen. Like… your stomach literally rupturing."
Lin Chen analyzed the situation and quickly understood a core rule of the system.
Then his gaze fell on the 60 unassigned Attribute Points listed on his panel.
A bold idea came to him.
"System. Allocate points."
"Put all Attribute Points into Stomach Capacity."
[Point allocation complete.]
[Stomach Capacity: 100 / 160]
When he saw that the upper limit had jumped from 100 to 160, Lin Chen couldn't help but grin.
"Boss! Sixty more buns!"
…
Soon, to the horror and amazement of everyone watching, Lin Chen ate another sixty buns.
His Qi and Blood and attributes rose again.
This time, he still had 32 Attribute Points left unspent.
Originally, Lin Chen wanted to keep going — keep increasing his Stomach Capacity, keep eating, keep getting stronger.
But then he checked his phone.
He only had 20 yuan left.
If he kept doing this, he'd go completely broke.
Lin Chen had transmigrated into this world eighteen years ago. He'd grown up without parents and was raised by his grandfather.
Then his grandfather passed away too, leaving him alone.
From then on, Lin Chen had to work part-time jobs just to pay his own tuition, while still squeezing in training every day to raise his strength.
Money had always been tight.
"Right now, I need fast money. And I also need a way to get real monster meat so I can keep getting stronger."
"The best option," he decided, "is to go to the Qixing Mountains south of Jiangcheng and hunt small monsters."
Lin Chen made up his mind on the spot.
He would head for the Qixing Mountains.