Chapter 286 - 176: Base Completed, Strength Test
The core of his setup was an industrial-grade force platform and a heavy-duty dynamometer with a digital display, both of which he had specially ordered. This was professional equipment typically used to test the hydraulic arms of heavy machinery or the breaking strength of high-tensile industrial steel cables.
Li Wei took off his jacket, loosened up his shoulder and wrist joints, and walked over to the dynamometer’s stainless-steel grip.
’A Strength of 5.0,’ he thought, looking at his attribute panel. ’Let’s see what my limit is now.’
He planted his feet shoulder-width apart and gripped the cold, metal pull-ring tightly with both hands.
He took a deep breath. In an instant, his relaxed muscle fibers tensed, contracted, and erupted with force like a high-density winch.
GROAN—
The extremely thick, industrial-grade spring emitted a dull, metallic protest. On the high-frequency digital display connected above the device, red numbers began to flash wildly.
3,000 N... 7,000 N... 10,000 N...
Finally, after Li Wei pushed his explosive pulling force to its peak and held it there for three solid seconds, he slowly released his grip.
The immense force had left white imprints on his palms.
He looked at the peak number: 11,025 N (Newtons).
Li Wei looked at the data on the display, wiped his hands with a towel, and did a quick conversion.
11,025 N was roughly equivalent to a pulling force of 1,125 kilograms with both arms—a pull of over a metric ton!
In other words, his strength had more than doubled compared to when it was at 3.0.
"I thought it was linear growth," Li Wei muttered to himself. "Guess not?"
He looked at his attribute panel, where he still had 0.3 free attribute points.
"System, allocate points!"
Allocating points after so long felt both strange and familiar to Li Wei.
A tingling numbness that made his teeth ache spread from the depths of his bone marrow. On a microscopic level, invisible to the naked eye, his muscles—once like forged steel—began to compress and densify.
He closed his eyes, took a few deep breaths, and walked back to the force platform, ready to try again.
A force platform of this grade could withstand over 20 metric tons of pulling force; he didn’t have to worry that his increased stats would break it.
The numbers on the digital display skyrocketed wildly, blowing past his previous record before flickering violently and stabilizing at a terrifyingly high value:
12,671 N (Newtons).
Li Wei released his grip, his eyes narrowing slightly as he looked at the number on the screen.
Converted, that was approximately 1,293 kilograms.
’My Strength was 5.0 before, with a pulling force of 1,125 kilograms. Now, after adding 0.3 attribute points, my Strength is 5.3, and the pulling force is 1,293 kilograms—an increase of 168 kilograms.’
’This means each 0.1 attribute point increases my absolute strength by about 56 kilograms, which is exactly 5% of 1,125.’
Li Wei’s eyes suddenly lit up.
So, the system’s attribute algorithm wasn’t simple linear addition after crossing a basic threshold. Instead, it was a percentage-based multiplication stacked on top of the current integer attribute!
That meant adding one full attribute point could increase his strength by a whole 50%!
This compound growth curve meant that in the later stages, his physical attributes would undergo an explosive, exponential evolution!
He was now starting to look forward to testing his Constitution’s defensive capabilities.
Li Wei turned his head and looked toward the live-fire range not far away.
He walked over to the range’s weapon display rack. Thanks to Royce’s credentials and endorsement, the arsenal here far exceeded normal civilian standards.
Li Wei picked up a 9mm Glock 19 pistol, ejected the magazine to check it, and loaded a standard 9mm full metal jacket round.