"Don't say that. This is purely my own doing, it has nothing to do with you," Wang Ye shook his head.
Xu Gaohua continued to ask, "So your health is okay now?"
Wang Ye grinned, "No problem, I'm working out every day now, getting better by the day."
Xu Gaohua also smiled, "Indeed, compared to a month ago, you're a completely different person."
Xu Gaohua, as Wang Ye's subordinate, often assisted him in his work, therefore he was quite familiar with Wang Ye's daily routines.
Now seeing Wang Ye transform within less than a week, Xu Gaohua was naturally quite surprised.
Xu Gaohua hesitated for a moment, then continued, "Also, Brother Wang, there's something I need to tell you. The project you were working on before you were hospitalized, Fang Lin has taken over for you..."
Wang Ye waved his hand to interrupt him, "It doesn't matter anymore, I'm leaving soon anyway. After receiving the work injury compensation, I'll handle the resignation. The prepared plan materials are saved in the D drive of my computer, the boot password is my birthday. You and Fang Lin can handle the work handover and distribution yourselves."
"Ah? So sudden?" Xu Gaohua was stunned.
"Lately, I've been more open-minded, thinking of taking a trip to relax," Wang Ye smiled.
"This spontaneous trip is the dream of so many people," Xu Gaohua said with a face full of envy.
Wang Ye shook his head, "After I resign, don't work too hard, taking it easy sometimes, not pushing yourself won't cause problems, don't repeat my mistakes."
After Wang Ye resigns, the original workload will definitely fall on Xu Gaohua, and his already busy work will become even more overwhelming.
Wang Ye got sick and there was a system to remedy it. If an ordinary person gets sick, they might lose half their life.
Xu Gaohua heard this and bitterly smiled, "Brother Wang, we all have families to support, can't be as carefree as you..."
Wang Ye nodded, "True."
There's a popular comment online that says: Respect others' destinies, let go of the helper complex—changing someone's mind completely is difficult with just a few words.
Talk too much, and they might just think you're an idiot.
After some casual chat, the two bid farewell to each other.
Wang Ye took out his phone and continued searching for nearby gyms.
...
About two hours passed.
Wang Ye's Walking Skill has already improved by about 10% Skill Level.
He sat on a massage chair in the mall, scratching his head a bit irritably.
He's consulted almost all the gyms in the nearby area, the minimum monthly card consumption was five hundred bucks, yet there's no guarantee of quality weightlifting platforms and adequately weighted barbell plates.
Moreover, the visible gyms in the city center are mostly commercial gyms, which mainly feature aerobic equipment like treadmills, aimed at the general public, and the profit model primarily revolves around selling private lessons.
Wang Ye wandered around Longjiang District, consulting numerous gyms, but ultimately he had to leave helplessly.
No other reason, just too crowded.
Longjiang District is already a densely populated area, and commercial gyms are naturally crowded, especially now that it's the weekend. Every gym is packed, a row of treadmills and elliptical machines are occupied by middle-aged women doing aerobic exercises, producing thumping running sounds, the air filled with a strong smell of sweat, and from time to time, a few strong men let out some shouts.
Plus, everywhere, personal trainers are pushing to sell lessons.
The atmosphere is terrible.
Though it's not that you can't work out, it always made Wang Ye feel the money was not worth spending. A thousand bucks for a monthly card with a poor experience feels like pure waste of money.
Wang Ye left the mall and walked home along the sidewalk.
He took a bunch of keys out of his sling bag, inserted them into the lock, turned it twice, and then kicked off his running shoes to enter the house and shut the door, plopping onto the sofa.
Just as Wang Ye was about to open the short video app to watch the Tai Chi videos by Ling Xiaolong.
Suddenly, he thought of a great way to test his strength. He promptly quit the short video app and opened the shopping app, searching for "Wanjia Grip Strengthener".
Grip Strengthener.
Back when Wang Ye was browsing videos, he often came across this small fitness equipment primarily used for testing strength by wrist athletes or wrist strength enthusiasts.
It's only about half the size of a palm, very inconspicuous, yet it can easily test human maximum grip strength.
Generally speaking, if an ordinary person can lock a 150-pound grip strengthener, it already shows excellent grip strength, either they're naturally strong or have some training background. In school, playing arm wrestling is usually enough to dominate an entire class.
Beyond 200 pounds, it's the level only enthusiastic athletes with some years of training can lock.
And above 300 pounds, you step into the realm of professional wrist athletes.
Imagine.
A standard-sized adult, weighing less than 200 pounds.
If they can easily lock a 200-pound grip strengthener, it means they can effortlessly use one hand's five fingers to lift a person's weight and swing freely.
300 pounds, of course, is more exaggerated.
Wang Ye has only seen this level of grip strength in videos shot by climbing athletes.
Of course, Wang Ye buys the grip strengthener not purely for specialized training. Even without specifically training grip strength, his grip will steadily and continuously grow, and eventually, he'll reach a climber's standard.
Wang Ye believes the greatest advantage of the grip strengthener is its cheap cost—whether buying the one with the highest poundage level directly, it costs just over a hundred bucks.
Compared to multi-thousand-buck barbell equipment, grip strengtheners are practically the people's strength testing tool.
Wang Ye quickly reviewed the evaluations about grip strengtheners and finally spent 162.60 yuan to purchase four grip strengtheners with different levels: 200 pounds, 250 pounds, 275 pounds, and 300 pounds.
Divine Techniques Express shipping, it would take about two to three days to arrive.
Regarding this shipping speed, Wang Ye doesn't mind.
Anyway, temporarily push-ups are enough to meet his strength testing needs.
But he can predict, with his robust recovery ability, it won't be long before he reaches a state close to doing push-ups endlessly.
For example,
His body is like a water tank, each push-up drains a certain amount of fresh water from the cracks, while at the same time, a faucet above continuously supplies new fresh water.
With his current recovery, he can't achieve the state of supply exceeding consumption, so the fresh water in the water tank will only gradually decrease until it runs dry.
But as long as Wang Ye's recovery ability keeps improving, until supply exceeds consumption, the fresh water in the water tank will always remain full. He will be able to do push-ups almost endlessly.
By then, testing the depth of the water tank again requires intensifying the training and enlarging the cracks to make the water consumption per second greater, even surpassing the supply.