Other players followed suit. Of course, some players thought this was a bit ridiculous; everyone believed that this was a game, and leveling up by fighting monsters was the orthodox way. So, some players just watched the excitement, while others wandered around the village, attempting to trigger some hidden quests or something.
As a result, someone did trigger one. Chen Hao triggered a Rabbit Fur quest, which required him to collect rabbit fur.
He looked at the big rabbit outside lifting a tree trunk two meters long and half a meter wide like it was making no effort, and finally threw down the line, "Pah!"
He gave up.
When there were no quests to do, players started exploring other gameplay options.
For example, someone began to study the flowers, plants, and trees in the village and then started a flower-growing mode...
Someone else, bored and unsure where they got some grains, began a farming mode...
What surprised them the most was that the system didn't interfere.
The land actually got farmed!
Ten days later...
"Attribute, my attribute improved! I gained 1 point of power!" a man doing squats exclaimed.
"My attribute also improved, I gained 1 point in Constitution!" shouted someone doing sit-ups.
"I gained 1 point in agility!"
...
The players who stuck with fitness training exclaimed, followed by bursts of wild laughter.
"I finally know why those rabbits are so strong! So it was because of fitness training, wahahaha..."
At this moment, the flower-cultivating player was also full of joy, "My... my spiritual power increased by one point!"
The farming player also shouted, "My spiritual power increased too!"
For a moment, the players who initially thought there was no hope and that the game was gradually losing interest instantly jumped up!
"I didn't expect this, the game can be played like this!"
"If you stick to one thing for ten days, it seems to pay off."
"Fitness, fitness!"
"I want to farm!"
"I want to grow flowers!"
...
But farming and growing flowers required land, and although the system didn't interfere with the players, the village was only so big. They didn't dare to leave the village, so, in the end, most people chose fitness.
At this moment, a player shouted with a crying tone, "Why hasn't any of my attributes improved? I've been doing fitness every day!"
This question stumped many players.
Then Wang Mingchen walked over, "From my observation, you do different fitness routines every day, right?"
The player nodded.
Wang Mingchen pointed at a player whose attributes had improved and said, "You do push-ups every day, and only push-ups, right?"
The player nodded vigorously.
Wang Mingchen said, "That's it, sticking to the same routine for ten days will earn you attribute rewards. But if you do different routines every day, there are no rewards. So, it's best for everyone to choose one routine and stick with it for ten days. Also, you can try doing multiple routines in a day and repeat the next day for ten days straight. Maybe you'll get some unexpected rewards."
If Yi Zheng were here, he would have given a thumbs up after hearing such an analysis, exclaiming this guy's intelligence rivaled his own.
"We don't know much about fitness, just push-ups, sit-ups, jumping jacks, long-distance running. What else?" someone asked.
"Frog jumps!" someone shouted.
Someone else said, "Bench press!"
"Clean and jerk!"
The suggestions dwindled as more people voiced ideas...
Fang Ling said, "Folks, are there any fitness instructors? Please step forward."
To everyone's surprise, a few fitness instructors actually stepped forward.
After some communication, they were willing to lead the team in fitness training.
Shang Han, Congxue, Yue Wei, Ren Shang, and Young Master Zeng had all practiced martial arts and were willing to teach everyone some as well.
For a while, the players began a crazy fitness mode.
Wang Mingchen suggested to prevent laziness, everyone should stand at the village entrance and exercise in front of the rabbits outside. Looking at those diligent rabbits, and thinking about the scenes of their abuse...
Sure enough, when the players saw the rabbits, their eyes turned red, and they began training intensely, not stopping until they were utterly exhausted!
The big rabbits outside saw these players training opposite them and weren't willing to be outdone. They gathered a large group of rabbits to train with the players in the village.
The rabbits outside did push-ups, and the players inside did sit-ups, each staring at the other with a "I'll out-train you" attitude.
However, the rabbits' attributes were far higher than the players'. By the time the players got tired, the rabbits were just getting started.
Gradually, the players couldn't keep up, not even with gritting teeth and pushing through.
To boost morale, Wang Mingchen specifically found a few pretty girls and handsome guys to lead the training, but even that only extended the effort by an hour before players started collapsing.
In the distance, Yi Zheng watched all this and raised an eyebrow, saying, "These guys are too weak! How will they compete against the mighty nations with bodies like these? This won't do, I need to motivate them."
Yi Zheng looked at the big rabbits, suddenly had an idea, grinned, and told Zi Lu, "Listen to my command. Do what I ask you to do."
"Yes!" Zi Lu obeyed.
Looking at the Newbie Village in the distance, Yi Zheng sighed, "Aye... For you all, Master Rabbit has worried himself to death. You better work hard!"
In the Newbie Village, the players were training when a female player pointed outside the village angrily, "Those rabbits are really insulting us!"
Fang Ling, Luo Beibei, Zhang Mei, Young Master Zeng, and others who were training focused, looked over, and saw a group of rabbits lying on the ground outside the village, wildly doing hip-thrusting motions at a rapid pace, just like small motors!
For a moment, they didn't find it particularly odd, but when they connected it to their squats, their faces darkened immediately.
"What the heck!" Yue Wei, with his fiery temper, couldn't hold it in any longer. He grabbed the great sword beside him and yelled, "Brothers, can we tolerate this? Let's take them on!"
Then a group of male players roared and rushed out. The rabbits, seeing this, also got excited, picked up their things, and charged forward. Bright white light flashed wherever the rabbits went...
The players soon gathered disheartened at the resurrection point.
In the distance, Yi Zheng saw his experience points increase by hundreds and laughed, "Oh wow, an unexpected gain! As expected, good rabbits get good rewards!"
When Yue Wei and the others returned to the village entrance, the rabbits outside were provocatively beckoning them with their fingers as if saying, "Come on, you weaklings!"
Yue Wei gritted his teeth and said, "They're so damn infuriating!"
But having just been resurrected, the lesson of death made him hold back.
Wang Mingchen said, "Let's change the exercise, we can't keep doing squats with them like this."
"What exercise then?" Fang Ling asked.
Wang Mingchen thought for a moment and said, "Sit-ups."