Me, The Sovereign of the World? [Modern Evolution]

In the evening. Zoe Carter was at home quietly studying the mechanism of her own physical changes. After returning from Benny's house, she spent the afternoon watching videos, reading novels, and playing games. Then, having promised to protect Benny from being beaten, she decided to transform the arrangements for the upcoming experiments on physical changes into physical exercises.

She slightly increased her own exercise intensity. A last-minute attempt is better than none at all. Although she only needs to deal with employees of educational institutions who might beat Benny, Zoe, who has only fought once so far, is still somewhat worried about her combat ability.

Not worried that she can't win, but worried that she might be too strong.

What if she accidentally tears the opponent's throat apart if she can't control herself?

When dealing with the person from the internet-famous store, she could suppress her fighting desires. But helping Benny might mean facing many people.

At that time, it's hard to say whether she, who has never faced such a situation, can control herself.

So, she needs more exercise to enhance her self-control. At least, in her opinion, exercise can enhance self-control. But when she started exercising, she suddenly realized a problem that she had never paid attention to before:

Her physical recovery mechanism... Seems to be seriously flawed!

In theory, her ability to fully recover energy consumption with just a 10-second rest would allow her to rapidly recover energy while expending it, as long as the intensity of energy consumption doesn't reach a certain level, it could essentially be perpetual motion. But in reality, it's not like that.

After confirming through experiments, she found out that she only starts to recover energy 10 seconds after finishing the exercise. The intervals during exercise don't recover energy. It didn't become a perpetual motion machine. Instead, it's more like refreshing status as in a game.

This recovery mechanism. Is actually quite absurd. It's as if everything controlling her physical recovery ability stops when she exercises.

In Zoe's view, this situation is definitely not good. If she ever finds herself in a combat situation in the future, she can't just try to take a ten-second break and then attempt to fight back after her energy is depleted, right?

The enemy probably won't give her that chance. Of course, if the enemy insists on talking nonsense for half a day, don't blame Zoe, who lies on the ground for ten seconds, for coming back at full health.

In any case, after the experiment, Zoe only confirmed the peculiarity of the physical recovery mechanism and couldn't come up with any countermeasures. She can only relax for now. After all, at present, this kind of recovery mechanism is at least more beneficial than harmful.

Besides some flaws, it's still quite absurd. With such an absurd recovery ability, Zoe isn't that picky. Currently, this kind of recovery mechanism. Is definitely sufficient. Thinking like this, after conducting experiments on the physical recovery mechanism until late at night, she threw herself directly onto the sofa.

Although not physically tired, she, who had slightly exhausted herself conducting several tests of the physical recovery mechanism, still felt some mental fatigue.

Fortunately, this kind of fatigue isn't severe. With the windows open and the cold night breeze blowing in, she felt much better all of a sudden.

Time slowly passed during the experiment.

Looking at her overpriced linux phone she recently buy that can disabled certain network modules, she realized it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

With her privacy-focused phone in hand, she started chatting with Benny through an E2E app, who was helping her solve the surveillance incident, following the progress of the things Benny sent over.

At this moment, Benny is still out there running around. The things he promised Zoe to do are almost done. Now he is busy causing trouble for others for his own little interests.

Since they parted ways in the morning, Benny headed straight to the office building where the Hampsterburgg Morning Post is located. With his extremely high efficiency, he quickly met with the higher-ups of the Hampsterburgg Morning Post directly by virtue of his lawyer identity.

Then, he used some means to obtain a bunch of strange and unfavorable information for the Hampsterburgg Morning Post.

After a heated argument, it ended with Benny's statement, "I hope you don't disappoint my client."

In the end, the Hampsterburgg Morning Post agreed to privately settle the matter. They removed and took down Zoe's related videos and compensated her with 25,000 euros.

Correspondingly, Zoe also couldn't continue to pursue matters related to infringement of portrait rights. Zoe is satisfied with this outcome. The videos have been taken down, and she received compensation.

There's no need to stir up trouble anymore. She's not someone who easily resorts to extreme measures like killing everyone in a web novel; usually, she won't go to extremes. Of course. If her life safety, relatives and friends, or personal interests are harmed, she won't hesitate to take action.

With a weapon at hand, murderous intent arises. Her strength isn't just for show. Avoiding trouble is just to research her own changes quietly, without threats, and thoroughly.

After dealing with the Hampsterburgg Morning Post through Benny, he took a bunch of other materials prepared in advance and went directly to confront the boss of that internet-famous store.

From the excited voice messages Benny sent occasionally, with a background sound of the store owner speaking, Zoe could tell that Benny's situation was going well on that end.

Vaguely, she could hear the store owner's tone in Benny's voice messages change from impatience to respectfulness.

In the voice message sent after ten o'clock, Benny said he had already been taken by the store owner to a bathhouse for relaxation and to discuss the settlement fee.

"After that, we will dine, want to come?," Benny had seized on the sore spot of that internet-famous store. Zoe didn't accept Benny's invitation. Currently, she doesn't eat, and her genetic material disappears into thin air.

Whether it's going out to eat heartily or indulging in something else, she's not too keen.

Sometimes, it's more interesting to quietly research oneself. That kind of slow development, that feeling of exploration and progress, is always addictive, much more satisfying than showing off or proving oneself.

Thinking this, Zoe and Benny made sure on their phones that the surveillance issues were all resolved.

After receiving a positive response, they stopped chatting. Looking at the time, which was close to midnight, Zoe simply opened the notepad on her phone and began today's record.

[ Sixth record: January 24 ]

[ 1. Maximum quantity standard push-ups: 2420, still making progress compared to yesterday, and the upper limit of physical strength has once again improved.]

[ 2. Discovered the special nature of the physical recovery mechanism, similar to the recovery setting in games.]

Looking at the record of these days, Zoe felt the tangible progress she had made. The improvement in physical strength is just the foundation.

In fact, strength and speed improve together with physical strength, or rather, with physical condition.

With this in mind, Zoe prepared to open the computer to create a line graph to better understand the proportion and trend of her body changes. However, shortly after opening the computer, a strong drowsiness hit Zoe, who hadn't slept for many days.

"..."

This drowsiness, made Zoe widen her eyes in surprise. She wanted to say something, but... The next moment, the world went dark.