Black Badger - Chapter 352



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352. Physical Test (3)

Seriously, why is this guy here?

I looked at John Mullen, standing behind me like a statue, with a heavy heart.

I just realized how tall he is.

But it’s too dry.

“Oh? Next week is the physical test!”

Meanwhile, Giacomo Roh remained the same.

The senior officer standing next to John Mullen looked at Badger and shouted.

“Don’t you even know when the physical test is?”

I didn’t even know you were behind me.

Last time, I didn’t notice Yoon approaching at all. This time, I didn’t feel any movement at all, so I thought all the seniors in the training grounds were looking at me.

I became depressed when I realized that my senses had become so dull.

If you keep doing this, you’ll end up getting killed by a level 5 creature, let alone an Elder or Kyle.

It’s even more depressing because there’s no guarantee that things will get better.

Of course, there was no time to be depressed for long.

Roga found me.

“Oh, Sunday!”

Now, please always remember ‘de’.

“Are you here to exercise?”

“Yes… Senior, but why are you here, Senior Mullen?”

“I brought you here to train you.”

So why do we train… .

…no.

Would you listen if I explained that you don’t need to do it?

“Anyway, you heartless bastards! Aren’t you worried that he’ll fail the physical test and have his enhanced body scrapped? You guys are really bad guys.”

“no!”

Chen shouted from inside.

“No! No! How many years have we been saying no! No! That’s not it!”

“Senior, just give up. Since Badger was founded, there has never been a time when Senior Giacomo has not done that.”

“Has it become even more cactus-like?”

“It’s here again, without fail. The John Mullen abuse show… .”

“Even the people who get dragged in are funny.”

“Why don’t we have an intelligence test?”

I could hear the seniors talking as they put down the kettlebells for the Black Badgers.

“I think I need that.”

I wonder if my classmates and peers didn’t have to worry about me.

I thought as I entered the training ground.

In fact, none of the seniors in the large training ground seemed particularly interested in me. Most of them were seniors I had never spoken to before, but there were a lot of familiar faces, and even those I had worked with were busy with their own training.

Chen shakes his head as he sees Ro dragging the genius scientist in, then walks over to do chin-ups.

Boom! Sylvia puts the deadlift bar down with a heavy thud.

Bobby, with earphones in his ears, was running furiously on the treadmill, regardless of who was coming. Leonard was putting on the Black Badger disc, and Gregory was wearing a headset, looking at himself in the mirror and violently punching the air.

The only one who greeted me was Karl Doe, who was standing up after finishing his bench press.

A senior slowly walks toward me, wiping sweat off his body with a towel.

It seemed like it had been a long time since I had seen a face without a mask.

“How are you feeling?”

“I’m watching.”

I couldn’t bring myself to say it was okay, so I smiled bitterly and answered.

“I’ve been resting for too long. I’m here to start slowly.”

“Don’t overdo it.”

The competent senior answered briefly.

“Nothing happened at headquarters?”

There’s no need to worry like this.

Carl stared at me as I told him that nothing had happened except for the strange messages I received. But he didn’t pay any attention to such messages, so he didn’t have to worry.

The man with dark blue eyes observed me quietly and then tapped my shoulder.

“Let me know if you need any help with the workout. I’ll be here for another two hours.”

I had no intention of lifting weights today, but I smiled and nodded.

“Yes, thank you.”

I asked him if he needed my help, but Carl waved his hand and went back to where the disc was.

A main gym full of the latest exercise equipment.

I arrived 30 minutes earlier than my appointment with my colleagues. I didn’t want to show them my miserable physical condition and look depressed.

I went to a corner and did some stretching. After warming up, I did some light bodyweight exercises.

And within 10 minutes I was frustrated.

This is driving me crazy.

My body feels so tired.

“This is a real deal….”

This has never happened before.

I was born with a healthy constitution and became a child of the World Tree, so I learned the technique of absorption. I was usually healthy. Of course, I never suffered from the fear of my body not recovering. I rarely absorbed, but there is a world of difference between having a last resort and not even seeing a last resort.

Besides, I’ve never heard of anyone recovering from a leaf injury.

In the first place, the empire did not talk about those who had ‘broken veins’.

People were reluctant to even mention those who had lost their sixth sense.

Those sentenced to the harshest of punishments.

Those who are cast out by society and live a life worse than death… .

What should I do if I can’t recover like this?

Doing 150 push-ups in the correct position is hard.

Is this a body?

“Sunday!”

I was so shocked by my body being completely trashed that I didn’t immediately realize that Ro was calling me.

“Hey! Sunday! It’s big!”

“yes?”

I looked up and pointed at myself stupidly.

“Did you call me?”

Law stood next to John Mullen.

Today is the first time I’ve seen that tall, brilliant scientist take off his white lab coat.

John Mullen lying blankly on the bench press seat.

Ro, leaning against the bar placed above him, waved his hand and called to me.

“Yeah, you. Come here.”

I walked nervously towards him.

“Hey, help me with the bench.”

Ro said as I stopped.

“Stand back there.”

Can John Mullen bench?

I bowed my head and looked down at the stars of the scientific world.

The upturned face of the ashen-haired man came into view.

A scientist blinking and looking up at the bar… .

Roga took the disc and put it on.

“A total of 40 kilos?”

I checked the weight and furrowed my eyebrows.

“Is this possible? The only exercise you do on a regular basis is breathing.”

“Oh, it’s okay since he has a reinforced body too!”

Roga took a step back and shouted.

“I heard you warmed up with an empty bar earlier.”

Oh. Still, it looks like you can lift about 20kg without any problems.

I looked down at Mullen, a little surprised.

A genius scientist who raises both hands and grabs the bar while lying expressionlessly.

My wrist is too bent.

I carefully adjusted the angle of Mullen’s wrist.

“If you hold it like this, your wrist will hurt.”

The scientist followed my words obediently, as if he had no ego.

Is it really okay to hear that?

“Are you sure this weight is okay?”

No answer came back.

Just staring blankly at the ceiling.

Are you even aware of your current situation?

I was stuck in a fundamental doubt, and Ro said to me:

“Help me pull out the stick.”

I followed his instructions and carefully helped Mullen lift the bar.

He lifted the bar with both hands to relieve the weight, then brought the scientist’s arms and the bar into an appropriate position.

And now I have to let this bar go… .

…I guess I can just let it go?

“What are you doing? Let go of the bar!”

Roga shouted.

“At 40, even female badgers lift weights as a warm-up!”

Well, that’s true too.

I carefully took my hand off the bar I was holding.

Fully prepared to catch the bar if it suddenly falls.

But John Mullen was holding the 40kg bar well.

I let out a small sigh of relief.

“Okay, now lower it to your chest.”

I guess I underestimated the power of the reinforced body.

“Put it down and then put it back up.”

Now I know how this was made, but it’s bittersweet.

I feel a sense of guilt towards Seunghyun, who was the subject of the experiment.

Still, if a person who doesn’t exercise can lift 40 kg, the effect is enormous… .

thud!

John Mullen’s elbow is twisted.

“Ugh.”

crazy!

I was startled and immediately lifted the bar.

“Senior!”

John Mullen’s face turned blue.

“Are you okay?!”

I feel like I’ve been stabbed in the neck.

He quickly put the bar up and bent down to check the scientist’s condition.

A man with his head down. My heart pounded as I looked at him.

No wonder, the 40kg bar hit Mullen right in the neck.

A genius of the world almost passed away.

“Senior. Are you okay, Senior?”

“what.”

Roga arched his thick eyebrows.

“Can’t you hear this?”

It won’t work.

After feeling Mullen’s neck and other parts to make sure he was okay, I quickly started to remove the disc from the bag.

I checked his lying position, but he was clearly in no condition to lift any weight.

We need to clear the sack before Roga tries to hear something again.

I quickly placed the bench press bar and plates in their places and walked over to Law and said.

“Senior, the weight isn’t real.”

“Is this really a human body?”

“Let’s do bodyweight exercises.”

In fact, bodyweight exercises are the most difficult.

When I say bodyweight exercises, I mean exercises that even beginners can do.

Like crunches or sit-ups….

“Come up!”

Law, who had accepted my opinion, was thus holding John Mullen’s two legs and shouting.

“Come up! Come up!”

Senior Mullen… .

I saw the scientist swaying his body in pity.

He failed to do sit-ups and fell to the floor with a thud.

Roga clicked his tongue.

“This won’t work. Hey, put your feet up and sit down.”

“yes.”

I followed Law’s instructions obediently.

Law stood up and pointed at John.

“Hold on until he does 30.”

You probably can’t do 30.

“Make me do it no matter what. Hey, you can do it. Got it? You can do it!”

Roga clenched his fists and shouted next to the scientist.

“You have to do it! You have to pass the physical test!”

You don’t have to do that… .

Of course, even if you point that out, he won’t listen.

Fortunately, Law left John in my care and went off to do his own workout, giving me the special order to get 30 sit-ups done, no matter what.

I sat down, holding Mullen’s two legs, and looked down at him.

The cactus-like man was lying with his hands clasped on the back of his head, staring at the ceiling.

“Senior, can you do 30 sit-ups?”

Mullen shook his head to the side.

also.

“Then is that 10?”

Mullen shook his head again.

“Then let’s just do it as many times as we can… I know you don’t have to, but I don’t think Senior Ro will just let you go.”

Then John Mullen seemed to notice what I was saying and tried to come up.

I managed to get up there twice.

But from the third time onwards, my body started shaking like a cell phone on vibrate mode.

I smiled bitterly and gently grabbed his shoulder.

“I’ll help you, so should I just do it 30 times, senior?”

There’s no harm in exercising at times like this.

“Let’s do it 27 more times.”

Even if you look at me with such disbelief, I can’t help it.

I can only blame myself for following my senior… .

I sat on the mat and helped a man with a genius intellect do sit-ups.

Tom and Hesi came by on the way and looked down at me strangely, but they didn’t stop.

“What are you doing?”

“Senior, help me exercise.”

“What are you doing here, senior?”

Tom made a face as if he didn’t understand English.

“What are you doing now? Crunch?”

After filling out the numbers, I tried to send him back to the lab.

But the moment he carefully picked up the scientist who was sprawled out on the mat, Roh approached him. Boom! The bong was thrown so roughly that he worried that the training ground floor would break.

“Did you do 30?”

Mullen nodded his head rather quickly.

“Oh, good. Good job. You take responsibility for him today and make him exercise.”

“Me?”

“This time, we have to protect Muldae’s reinforced body!”

Giacomo said that and patted my back.

“Can you do it?”

“Um… Yes. I’ll try.”

“Okay. But I said he’s a kind son!”

The senior ruffled my tired hair and smiled.

“I like it.”

So, I was put in charge of the genius scientist’s training until that day, when he forgot about Roga Mullen and left the training grounds…

***

“Why are you doing that?”

“What are you doing~?”

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen someone who can’t hang on for even 30 seconds….”

I lay on the mat and let out a tired voice.

“If Senior Mullen gets stuck on a cliff, save him within 25 seconds.”

“What is that? Is that a human?”

Jonathan and Ricardo look down at me with a puzzled look.

Yoon, who followed them in, made a questioning voice.

The shooter looked down at the scientist lying next to him.

“I thought it was asparagus.”

Ricardo’s green eyes also rolled towards Mullen.

“You watched over me all day today~?”

“yes.”

You really looked after me diligently.

Later, I was amazed by John Mullen’s paper-like stamina and tried more things.

I was surprised to see someone with less hope than Deltay for the first time. But Ro completely misunderstood my intentions.

The curly-haired senior who stood out among the seniors who were looking at me with sympathetic eyes grabbed my shoulder and gave me a thumbs up.

‘Oh, you worked hard. What a wonderful kid. Let’s have a drink after the physical test.’

‘It’s okay, senior.’

‘I told you, you don’t have to decline. I’m already planning on having a drink with the HR manager, so don’t include me.’

‘yes?’

‘Next week. The place is… Where? I forgot. Go ask the HR manager.’

After saying that, Ro disappeared before I could express my intention to refuse.

Without even looking at the fallen John Mullen.

Humming a strange tune.

‘A really big guy came in.’

“So I got caught drinking with the HR manager….”

“Oh, like that.”

Jonathan sounded genuinely sympathetic towards me.

“Something happened.”