Back in the bathroom.
The "Three Years of Formations, Five Years of Simulations (Shanqing Press)" held in his hand, the moment it was brought back, just as expected, because it lost Daoist Shanqing's maintenance, scattered into spiritual energy.
Lin Li didn't waste it either, absorbing all of this thin spiritual energy.
At the same time, he paused the time on the backup phone, which showed that more than two and a half minutes had passed.
After calculating, the time ratio had indeed decreased again, becoming 1:150 this week.
Lin Li stretched. This week there was still one cheap opportunity to go to the immortal cultivation world that only cost 20 system currency, but there was no need to use it now. He would consider it on the weekend.
Lengthening the interval would allow him to accumulate questions over these few days, and then ask Daoist Shanqing all at once next time they met.
But now it was time to do the final check for tomorrow's exam.
"Knock, knock, knock."
Lin Li had just returned to his room when he heard a knock on the door.
"Sorry, sorry, the takeout was delivered wrong just now. You ordered Tastien, and I mixed it up with a Wallace order I was delivering at the same time. This one is your takeout."
Opening the door, the delivery guy he had seen 'a few minutes' ago was now standing at the door, apologizing.
More than six hours had passed, Lin Li had almost forgotten about this. Hearing this, he shrugged: "Sorry, I've already finished eating."
Delivery guy: "O.o?"
Bro, are you a glutton?
In just a few minutes, you finished eating all that?
"This..." The delivery guy was temporarily at a loss for words.
"It's fine, go ask the other customer if they accept changing to Tastien. I ordered quite a lot, and the price is definitely more expensive than his combo. If he doesn't mind, just give him my order.
"If he minds, explain the situation to him, and then discuss a solution. However much compensation is needed, I'll pay for it." Lin Li said.
Although this matter was primarily the delivery guy's carelessness, his attitude was quite good. Plus, having gained a lot today, Lin Li could completely pay for this mistake.
"Then... I'll call and ask."
The delivery guy was stunned for a moment upon hearing this. Seeing Lin Li so resolute, he nodded, took out his phone, went downstairs to the stairwell, and soon the sound of conversation rang out.
Not long after, the delivery guy returned to Lin Li's door again, and said to Lin Li with an apologetic face: "Sorry sir, that customer said he only accepts Wallace..."
Lin Li raised an eyebrow upon hearing this and nodded: "Seems to be a loyal user of the brand, alright then."
"Not really, the customer said he's constipated, and buying Wallace is for laxative purposes. He said Tastien definitely won't work, so he didn't want it."
The delivery guy shook his head with a very complex expression.
Lin Li: "(；☉_☉)?"
Seems to be a loyal hater of the brand.
"Shouldn't bananas be used for laxative purposes? That works better." Lin Li smiled and shook his head, "Taking this crooked path, if he's unlucky and encounters a Wallace that hasn't been drugged, wouldn't that be terrible."
"Maybe it's because he feels he has to eat a lot of bananas to have an effect, not as immediate as Wallace. And in the middle of the night, he can only buy bananas at the supermarket, which is quite expensive." The delivery guy smiled and replied.
"Ah? Bananas are originally eaten for laxative purposes?" Lin Li was stunned.
Delivery guy: "(；☉_☉)?"
Bro?
The delivery guy was also stunned.
Then how did you use bananas for laxative purposes before? 'Use' in the true sense of the word?
Seeing the delivery guy's complex expression, Lin Li was satisfied, then reached out his hand: "Then just give me my Tastien, and the other order will go through normal compensation, I'll pay for it."
"Thank you, thank you."
Lin Li: "Bro, give me your phone, I'll conjure up two hundred thousand for you right now."
Delivery guy: "?"
"Just kidding, I just tipped you a hundred yuan, take a look, is it enough to compensate for this order? If it's enough, keep the extra for yourself, if not, tell me." Seeing the delivery guy's miserable face, Lin Li smiled and changed his words.
As a former member of the delivery industry, Lin Li knew that the platform didn't take a cut from tips.
"It's enough, more than enough, thank you!" The delivery guy glanced at his phone and immediately bowed repeatedly in thanks.
Closing the door, taking his takeout, having stayed in the immortal cultivation world for six and a half hours, he was indeed a bit hungry, so Lin Li reviewed while eating his late-night snack.
...
Wednesday, the day the midterm exams officially began.
Lin Li rode his bike to school.
Daoist Shanqing's guidance was very effective. The feeling of practicing the Eight-Section Body Tempering Art in the morning was completely different.
Perhaps, after doing it completely once or twice more, he could complete this task.
School.
"Today ceding five cities, tomorrow ceding ten cities, the day after tomorrow ceding twenty cities, three days from now ceding forty cities, four days from now ceding..."
While heading to the teaching building, he saw Bai Bufan sitting on the edge of the flowerbed, reciting "On the Six States", mumbling indistinctly.
"You're fucking ceding cities here until you're tired of it. Arithmetic progression is one thing, but you're fucking doing geometric progression. What country is so capable of ceding?"
Lin Li went up and pinched Bai Bufan's butt. The touch was as terrible as ever. He wiped his hands in disgust while complaining.
"The Qing Dynasty, every time a foreign power comes, we cede once. Can't finish ceding, simply can't finish ceding. Cai Xukun and Yu Wenbo can only be younger brothers when they come, they can't be 'gege' (ceding/older brother)." Moving away from the salty pig hand, Bai Bufan answered instantly.
"Your mom." Lin Li found it a bit hard to hold back.
Today's brand new merit was damaged again.
"Yes, it's my mom, but it's also your mom." Bai Bufan nodded upon hearing this, his expression serious, clenching his fists in front of him to cheer: "Lin Li, never forget national humiliation, let the alarm bell ring long."
Lin Li: "..."
What kind of value are you fucking adding here.
"Why are you staying here?" Lin Li asked.
"My exam room is in Class 3, on the first floor. I'll go straight there later, it's comfortable here." Bai Bufan pointed to the first floor while chewing.
"What are you eating."
"Stride, makes me unable to stop reciting, do you want some?" Bai Bufan took a box out of his pocket.
"Yes." Lin Li took it and took out two pieces.
After returning these two pieces to Bai Bufan, he put the rest back into his own pocket.
"Thanks, ask me if you want to eat in the future."
Bai Bufan: "?"
Is this something a human would do?
"Damn Lin Li! No thanks allowed! Give it back to me!"
"Get lost, get lost, I'm going to continue reciting. What was it after ceding ten cities..." After getting his chewing gum back, Bai Bufan waved his hand like shooing a fly, flipping through the second volume of compulsory Chinese in his hand.
"You still need to flip the book for this? Then getting one night of peaceful sleep. Waking up to look at the four borders, and the Qin army has arrived again. However, the land of the feudal lords is limited, while the desire of the violent Qin is insatiable..."
Lin Li recited extremely fluently and smoothly, sneering: "You haven't even memorized something so simple, useless thing, I can recite it backwards fluently."
"Then recite one backwards for me, don't fucking 'On State Six'." Bai Bufan sneered upon hearing this.
However, Lin Li smiled slightly: "Yi xia guo liu zai you shi, shi gu zhi wang po guo liu cong er xia, da zhi xia tian yi gou..."
Bai Bufan: "?"
Listening to this thing that he couldn't understand at all for a moment, Bai Bufan suddenly looked at the textbook and found that Lin Li was really reciting backwards from the last paragraph of "On the Six States" in the true sense!
No? Bro, you really can?
Are you playing for real?
"Do you want me to continue reciting?" After reciting a paragraph, Lin Li asked with a smile.
"...N-no need."
"Now calling you useless, Bufan, do you still have any objections?"
"No objections, Brother Lin Li scolded well, I am useless~" Bai Weixiang gave Lin inb a thumbs up.
(Translator's Note: A reference to League of Legends players Lwx (Lin Weixiang) and Doinb).
"Losing to me, you don't need to feel inferior. The gap between people is already very big, let alone between a person and a dog." Lin Li was very satisfied, patted Bai Bufan's dog head, and comforted him.
Bai Bufan: "..."
"Did you fucking memorize it backwards just for this moment of showing off? Fuck, how did I fall for your trick!" Repeatedly hesitating to speak, stopping and then speaking, Bai Bufan was finally sour and regretful.
Lin Li wasn't that bored—after all, he couldn't predict that Bai Bufan would ask this.
Of course, if he could have predicted that Bai Bufan would ask this, even if Lin Li didn't have the system or [Eidetic Memory], he really would have memorized it backwards just to show off.
It's just that now with [Eidetic Memory], after memorizing it, it's equivalent to an open-book recitation, just reading it backwards.
"The wild geese probably won't fly south this year." Therefore, Lin Li just looked at the sky and said somewhat deeply.
"Ah? Why?" Bai Bufan also looked up upon hearing this, but there were no wild geese in the sky at all.
"Because there's no crossing south at all."
Bai Bufan: "?"
"Bufan, a candle that originally lasts for half an hour can only burn for three minutes in your hands, do you know why?" Lin Li smiled and looked down at Bai Bufan, asking.
"Shut up."
So it's the humiliation segment, Bai Bufan covered his ears.
"Because you're anxious (la ji)."
(Translator's Note: "La ji" sounds like "la zhu" (candle)).
"Fuck!!"
Bai Bufan covered his head in breakdown, and issued a curse full of resentment towards Lin Li:
"Lin Li, if you keep showing off like this, you will suffer retribution sooner or later.
"Remember, Musk's son, just because he showed off, was directly kicked out of the house by Saint Ma, who doesn't even recognize her as his daughter anymore."
Lin Li: "?"
What kind of showing off is this?
But Lin Li quickly made a surprising discovery, his expression becoming full of scientific research spirit:
"But if you ask me, Saint Ma's family is also in the same continuous line. Hasn't Old Ma always been delving into rocket recovery technology?"
"I feel his son is just to inherit his father's business, to inherit Old Ma's will, so he dismantled his big rocket and transformed it into a rocket recovery platform. From now on, she can recover big rockets every day.
"Isn't this another sense of 'father and daughter of one mind, their sharpness can cut through metal'?"
Bai Bufan: "!"
"It really is! Holy shit, so Little Ma's thoughts were so far-reaching? Admirable, admirable!" Bai Bufan approved.
"The so-called break is just a play for the world to see. If nothing unexpected happens, Little Ma is actually a rocket engineer (night version)."
"Yes, I also think she's recovering every night..." Bai Bufan's face originally had a lewd smile, but the next second he suddenly reacted:
"Your mom's Lin Li, I'm fucking reciting a book, you reciting it backwards fluently is easy, don't torture me! Get lost!"
Look, anxious again.
Lin Li shook his head in disgust, and then continued walking towards the teaching building.
On the second floor, Lin Li first passed by Class 5, looked at the seat numbers posted at the door. He was number 8, in the first row of the second group.
Then he walked straight to the door of his own class, slapped the desk in the corridor, and questioned: "Who allowed you to sit in my seat?"
Nowadays, once Lin Li enters a sneaky state, it's hard to make a sound. Therefore, although the sound of slapping the desk wasn't loud, the unprepared Chen Yuying trembled all over.
The voice of the culprit was too familiar, no need to look up at all. Then the girl was a bit annoyed, put down her textbook, picked up Lin Li's textbook, rolled it into a tube, looked up to meet his gaze, raised it high and put it down gently, knocking Lin Li once.
Lin Li was knocked dizzy and fell to the ground.
Chen Yuying: "?"
Extortion!
Chen Yuying kicked him lightly: "Lin Li, sleeping is not allowed here."
Seeing that Lin Li still wouldn't get up, Chen Yuying got up, found a fallen leaf that had blown in from the autumn outside in the corridor, put it on Lin Li's stomach as a blanket, and then ignored him, continuing her review.
Then Lin Li had to get up.
"Even specially using my textbook to hit me, Class Rep, you are really bad." Leaning against the tiled wall outside the classroom, Lin Li smiled and teased.
"Hmph."
Chen Yuying pressed her palms around her temples, her fingers curling a few strands of hair. Hearing this, she just softly made a breathing sound, and continued reading without looking up.
Woman, your aloofness has successfully caught my attention.
"Want some chewing gum?" Lin Li spread his hand on the desk, revealing the Stride he had just plundered from Bai Bufan in his palm, and asked.
"Okay."
Chen Yuying wasn't polite. She took the candy, tore open the wrapper, put it in her mouth, then folded the wrapper and put it back in her pocket.
Lin Li nodded in gratification, much more civilized than himself.
Obviously, Chen Yuying is the type who wraps the chewing gum in the wrapper before throwing it away after eating.
Unlike himself, who spits it all on Bai Bufan's chair.
"It's not for free." After Chen Yuying put the candy in her mouth, Lin Li spoke.
"Thank you."
"What I want is not a thank you."
"Then what do you want?" Chen Yuying looked up.
"Just a very small request. As long as you promise me, you can have as much chewing gum as you want in the future." Lin Li patted his chest.
"What is it?" Chen Yuying tilted her head and asked, seeming a bit interested.
"The chewing gum after you finish eating must be returned to me, I want to take it back and soak it in water to drink." Lin Li said seriously and earnestly, "I have a picky mouth, and I also worship foreign things, I like to drink some imported products."
Chen Yuying: "?"
"Lin Li, you're so disgusting!" Chen Yuying laughed and scolded.
"Damn it, other people's deep affection can at least be called a simp, but my deep affection only gets a 'disgusting'?" Lin Li was very hurt.
"Alright," Chen Yuying shook her head helplessly and sighed, "Lin Li, don't forget the bet. If you don't hurry up now, when you lose, let's see what you do."
"Tch, let me tell you this, Class Rep, I'm already researching what kind of excessive big request I should make of you for the next monthly exam." Lin Li was quite confident.
"And, do you think I'm not working hard now?"
"Class Rep, you're wrong, completely wrong!"
"Besides improving oneself, to win, you can also drag down your opponent. Look, you're now being distracted by me and can't continue reciting. Rounding it up, isn't it me who's reciting?"
Chen Yuying: "?"
Seems to be the case.
Realizing how malicious Lin Li was, Chen Yuying packed her things, got up, and walked towards the main door of the classroom: "I'm going into the exam room to review, I'm not talking to you anymore."
"About how long will you not talk to me." Lin Li didn't stop her, just asked with a smile.
"About two and a half hours." Chen Yuying, who had already completely walked into the main door, stopped, leaned back slightly, poked her head out the door, made a gun gesture with her left hand, smiled and pointed at Lin Li, before completely walking into the classroom.
Want to pinch Bufan's butt again.
Lin Li smiled and returned to the corridor of Class 5, took out the printed original text of the "Basic Sword Art" from his backpack, and began to read it carefully.
Since Daoist Shanqing said the cultivation method given by the system would definitely not be wrong, then this sword art, which he originally despised as 'basic' and was even too lazy to translate and learn, now became necessary again.
After last night, there were many more important things Lin Li needed to do on his schedule.
Originally, there was only practicing the Eight-Section Body Tempering Art, punishing evil and promoting good, preparing for the midterm exam, teasing Chen Yuying, teasing Chen Yuying, teasing Chen Yuying.
Now there was learning formation knowledge, absorbing the Lightning Nurturing Seed, translating the sword art...
But having goals is a good thing. Lin Li didn't hate this feeling of being fully occupied.
A long time passed.
His arm was poked. Lin Li's attention detached from the sword art, turned his head, it was Chen Yuying.
"What's wrong, Class Rep?" Lin Li leaned forward slightly, bent down and asked.
Chen Yuying threw the chewing gum wrapped in the candy wrapper in her hand into the trash can, then handed Lin Li a piece of paper with words written on it.
Fuck, a love letter!
Lin Li immediately took it and looked at the content written on it:
[You are not allowed to secretly dig through the trash can to pick it up and soak it in water to drink.]
Lin Li: "..."
Lin Li rested his hands on the railing of the corridor, gently tapped his head, smiling pitifully and helplessly.
"Writing this note is just because you are still in the time period where you can't talk to me, right?" After laughing, Lin Li turned his head to look at Chen Yuying.
Chen Yuying also smiled and nodded.
"But..." Lin Li stopped talking. He suddenly discovered a blind spot, pressed Chen Yuying's shoulders to turn her around, then pointed to the trash can in front of Class 4, Lin Li questioned seriously and earnestly:
"Class Rep, our class's trash can is right there, so... you specially ran to Class 5's trash can to throw it. Why do I feel like you're not warning me not to steal it, but reminding me that you've finished eating and I can steal it."
Listening to Lin Li's judgment, Chen Yuying turned to face him, nodded heavily, then gestured towards the trash can with both hands, and nodded again.
—Please enjoy.
"...Class Rep, my heart is fluttering, and I'm also very touched, but there are too many people now, I want to save face. Later, I will definitely steal it later."
Lin Li leaned over further and whispered in Chen Yuying's ear.
The hot breath exhaled by Lin Li was a bit scorching. Chen Yuying leaned away slightly. After Lin Li finished speaking, she put her hands behind her back and gave him a smiling look.
Then she returned with light steps, her long hair swaying gently with her steps, pulling Lin Li's gaze.
So cute.
Lin Li looked at the note in his hand, and the delicate and beautiful handwriting on it.
This is the handwriting a high-scoring essay should have.
Glancing at the trash can, stealing chewing gum was out of the question, he wasn't Chen Tianming after all, but this note could be kept.
Lin Li still remembered that before today, the content of the most touching little note he had ever received was—
[AACBA, BDBCA, ACBDD, AACAA]
[BBDCA, ACBBD, DDBCB, CADBB]
[××√√×, √××××]
[Wait a moment for the essay questions.]
But starting today, its status was permanently replaced by this note.
However, Lin Li hoped that this note would also be replaced one day soon.
Looking down, he checked the time on his watch.
There was still time, so Lin Li ran towards the stairwell.
"Lin Li, why are you on the first floor again?"
"Don't ask these useless questions and waste time, turn around quickly, let me pinch your butt."
Bai Bufan: "?"
"Are you a fucking hooligan?"
"So what."
(End of Chapter)