"However, this trait does save a lot of trouble," Wang Ye nodded and said.
If this mbrane were to exist permanently, it would surely affect his daily life.
For example, holding chopsticks, swiping a phone, typing on a keyboard, and any other tasks requiring dexterous fingers would be severely affected.
Following this,
Wang Ye returned to the water, attempting to control the expansion and contraction of the "webbing" on his hands and feet with his mind.
After so experintation, he found that the expansion and contraction of the "webbing" on his hands and feet could be effortlessly controlled by him. Like the retractable claws of a feline, they could retract into the flesh and spring out instantly. The function of expansion and contraction was controlled by a small ligant.
Wang Ye kept swimming in the water.
His posture was nearly perfect, like a rmaid born to swim.
The appearance of the mbrane once again boosted his swimming ability by leaps and bounds.
Originally, it took him about 35-40 seconds to swim a 100-ter distance.
Now, it only took him about 25-30 seconds.
He nearly doubled his swimming efficiency.
Just when Wang Ye was about to use a steel nail to catch fish and go ashore,
he suddenly felt an unfamiliar sensation on his neck, giving him an unpleasant feeling of restraint.
When he reached out to touch it, he felt sothing slippery and terrifying.
Moreover, these things were wriggling and opening like living creatures, emitting warm currents as if nurous slugs had crawled all over his neck.
Wang Ye was imdiately taken aback.
"What is... this?!"
He didn’t think too much and hurriedly swam to the shore.
Using his phone’s selfie cara, he carefully examined his neck.
Suddenly, he discovered two rows of fine gill slits on his neck, totaling about ten, very similar to the gill slits on the sides of a shark.
And as Wang Ye swam ashore, these gill slits gradually closed and disappeared at a slow pace.
About ten seconds later, the two rows of terrifying gill slits on his neck had completely disappeared.
"It seems they are organs evolved simultaneously with the webbed toes..."
Wang Ye breathed a slight sigh of relief.
The reason he hadn’t noticed the evolution of the gill slits until now was that he had already been able to hold his breath underwater for over an hour, so he hadn’t imdiately sensed the changes in his body.
Wang Ye tentatively opened his mouth and inhaled so lake water.
Surprisingly, this lake water didn’t choke him or enter his stomach, but instead flowed slowly out through the gill slits.
Wang Ye could clearly feel that he was extracting sufficient oxygen from this lake water.
This oxygen was processed by the gill slits and entered his bloodstream.
The feeling of breathing through the gill slits was quite marvelous.
It was completely different from the sensation of breathing with the lungs.
But the problem was that the water quality in the lake was too murky. Even soone like Wang Ye, who wasn’t particularly concerned about cleanliness, couldn’t help but develop a slight ntal resistance.
Moreover, Wang Ye didn’t know if his gill slits could filter seawater.
After all, the salt content in seawater is extrely high. Even just skimming past his tongue and into his throat would be unbearable, let alone filtering it with gill slits.
"So, I’m still just a freshwater fish at this point..." Wang Ye furrowed his brow slightly.
After getting sowhat accustod to his newly acquired two organs,
Wang Ye returned to shore.
He placed the ten fish he caught on an oil pan to fry.
After the evolution of his canine teeth and jaw muscles, he could now easily crush the bones of any creature, including fish bones.
Thus, his way of eating fish had also changed from before.
From small bites to a manner of biting and devouring similar to snakes, lizards, and other cold-blooded animals.
He could take a bite of half a fish, crushing it, bones and all, and swallowing it.
This primitive and crude way of eating did not cause him any discomfort.
Instead, it made him feel incredibly relieved, and the taste of the fish beca much more delicious.
After finishing the fish,
Wang Ye strapped on his backpack and continued on his journey.
This was the fourth day of his hiking expedition.
Altogether, he had run and walked over 700 kiloters.
Almost equivalent to 17 full marathons.
And with such a terrifying accumulation of running and walking, the skill level of [Rushing] on his panel was gradually nearing its maximum. He estimated that after running less than a hundred kiloters more, he would be able to upgrade it.
The speed of skill level improvent for such extraordinary system skills, which exceeded human limits, could be described as slow as a turtle crawl. However, correspondingly, the improvent brought by leveling up was also quite significant. For instance, after the [Rapid Step] skill upgraded to lv2, Wang Ye’s walking ultimate speed increased from 300 allocation to 230 allocation—a noticeable improvent visible to the naked eye.
As Wang Ye noticed that the skill level of [Rushing] was about to max out, he could hardly contain his desire to farm experience.
He started running non-stop along the mountain path.
Finally.
By around midday,
the Rushing skill level broke through to lv2.
An influx of knowledge about Rushing flooded into Wang Ye’s brain.
His already near-perfect posture was further enhanced.
However, this improvent was quite subtle.
If world champions in the field of running study how to avoid wind resistance, how to maximize muscle efficiency, and how to improve gear quality,
what Wang Ye was now studying was how to control the vibration frequency of each cell, the flow speed of each milliliter of blood, and the contraction amplitude of each muscle fiber to enhance his running speed. This near-microscopic subtle control required the assistance of his innate Qi (Magnetic Force).
These delicate skill improvents, although seemingly useless,
were advantageous because the intricacies in the human body are many, even surpassing quadrillions.
When quantitative change leads to qualitative change, it can bring unimaginable progress.
After spending half an hour digesting the newfound knowledge in his mind,
Wang Ye decided to test his current hundred-ter running speed once more.
Initially, his hundred-ter ti had already reached 6.54 seconds.
He wondered how much the ti could be reduced after the upgrade?
Wang Ye found a relatively flat mountain path, asured the approximate distance with a ruler.
Then he put his backpack on the ground, took out his stopwatch, and assud a crouching start position.
At the mont the stopwatch started, he began with an explosive start.
Swish!!!
Wang Ye’s figure instantly turned into a dark blur, like a cheetah or antelope pouncing forward. The sound of him cutting through the wind was loud, like the roaring sound when a truck’s front end breaks through the air at high speed, showing how terrifying his current running speed was.
In just two and a half seconds, he had covered a distance of fifty ters.
But at that mont, Wang Ye noticed his feet’s grip on the ground was gradually decreasing.
At first, he thought it was just a side effect of the speed being too fast for sufficient friction, not paying it much mind.
Until... his feet left the ground.
Wang Ye saw his body uncontrollably soaring towards the distant rock wall, alarm etched across his face.
"Is this because I was running too fast... and started flying?"
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