On the fifth day, Eric Thompson's spiritual power value increased by another 0.1, reaching an astonishing 0.6!

Ashley White had no choice but to start taking Eric Thompson seriously. The speed at which this stranger's primal force was improving was simply insane!

You have to know that a genius like Ashley White took a full eight years of training to reach the level of an eighth-level warrior! At Eric Thompson's current rate, it would only take him eighty days to reach the same level!

Eighty days...

It took her eight years of cultivation to reach eight units of primal force and be called a genius. So what should someone like Eric Thompson, who improves even faster, be called? A monster?

The always serious Ashley White even did something unprecedented and asked around campus about who Eric Thompson was. When she saw Eric Thompson with her own eyes, she was quite puzzled.

It wasn't that Eric Thompson was unattractive, but rather that he had grown up mixing with all sorts under the overpass, carrying a bit of a bad-boy vibe.

Ashley White had always believed that a genius should be extremely smart, hardworking, and have a very positive, ambitious image. But Eric Thompson's image was nothing like the genius she had in mind.

When she saw Eric Thompson leave campus and light up a cigarette without a care, Ashley White found it even harder to believe that this boy, with his roguish air and joking around with his friends, was actually a genius even more powerful than herself.

Fate always plays tricks on people. A model student like Ashley White logically should never have paid attention to someone like Eric Thompson, who was at the bottom of the class. But Ashley White just couldn't help thinking about him—every night, the image of Eric Thompson with a cigarette dangling from his lips would pop up in her mind.

Now, Ashley White had developed a habit: the first thing she did every day upon entering the training room was to secretly note down Eric Thompson's primal force index before the screen was cleared, while also looking forward to Eric Thompson's performance the next day.

0.7!

0.8!

0.9!

Of course, Eric Thompson never disappointed Ashley White. The ever-increasing numbers kept appearing in Ashley White's breathtakingly beautiful eyes, making her remember the name Eric Thompson more and more deeply each time.

……

Ever since completing his body reconstruction, Eric Thompson entered a period of rapid improvement. Besides being pleasantly surprised by his daily progress, his ever-increasing appetite also started to become a problem.

From the start of summer training on July 1st to now, July 7th, in less than a week, Eric Thompson found himself out of money, with only a pitiful hundred or so yuan left in his pocket.

He was an orphan, receiving a monthly stipend of six hundred yuan from the tactical school. The house was left by his parents, so he didn't have to pay rent, and his life was just barely passable.

But now, not only had Eric Thompson's appetite increased dramatically, he also wanted to eat meat at every meal. These days, Eric Thompson could eat two jin of beef in one sitting and still only feel half full, needing to fill up the rest with flatbread.

Lighting a cigarette, Eric Thompson frowned slightly, pondering how he could use the StarNet to make some money.

Of course, shopping on StarNet required money, but fortunately, there was also a lot of free information on StarNet, such as scientific journals and professional books.

"Master, I've detected that your body needs to replenish energy again. The ten packs of instant noodles tonight provide limited energy and can't meet the demands of your daily intensive training."

"According to Earth's food energy index, beef is a very good staple food—rich in protein, low in fat, and with enough calories. So I suggest you supplement with one kilogram of beef, one liter of milk, one kilogram of vegetables, one kilogram of fruit, and 0.5 kilograms of starch. Also, I've found that some medicinal herbs on Earth are very beneficial to the body, such as American ginseng, cordyceps..."

Eric Thompson quickly stopped Colin, sighing, "If I eat like that, I'll really be starving this month. As for medicinal herbs like American ginseng, do you know how much that stuff costs per liang?"

"Not much, just three kilograms of American ginseng per month will do," Colin replied innocently.

Eric Thompson was speechless at Colin, who didn't need to eat or drink. Three kilograms of American ginseng per month? Even selling himself wouldn't be enough to buy that.

"Being a warrior is really a money-burning profession. If I get a junior warrior certificate, my monthly stipend could go up to a thousand yuan, but that's still not enough," Eric Thompson muttered to himself.

Glancing at Colin, Eric Thompson grinned mischievously, "Hey Colin, can you think of a way to make some money? Like, using your abilities to hack into the bank system and do a little robbery..."

Chapter 6: Anti-Gravity Shoes

Eric Thompson's idea of having Colin rob a bank was firmly rejected by Colin.

According to this little guy, the Republic government—especially the military—was not as weak as Eric Thompson imagined. In their secret computer rooms, they had large quantum computers, which were obtained from the alien spaceship that suddenly crashed on Earth fourteen years ago.

If Colin tried to hack in rashly, he would have to go up against the semi-intelligent large quantum computers first, and there was a high chance of being discovered, along with Eric Thompson, and both would be caught by the military.

So, banking systems, military systems, national security systems—these high-security networks on Earth—should be avoided as much as possible.

Eric Thompson curled his lip. Getting caught by the military would definitely be bad, so he had to give up on that idea and think of something else.

Soon, Eric Thompson thought of a type of high-tech equipment that might be possible to produce on Earth and looked really cool: anti-gravity shoes.