Listening to Lin Li's chanting, Ding Sihan was dumbfounded.
Who said simple Chinese civilians couldn't hand-rub civilian C4.
Isn't this it?
Remember, the only difference between C4 and A5 is that C4 has a countdown, but A5 doesn't. When using an OPPO A5 against an enemy, the enemy doesn't know when it will explode—of course, neither do you.
"Is that even a phone you're playing with!"
After being stunned for a moment, Ding Sihan picked up her phone again, searched for a moment, then looked up at Lin Li and started a reverse chant:
"According to Article 125 of the Criminal Law and Article 30 of the Public Security Administration Punishments Law, making bombs without permission is a serious illegal act! Illegally manufacturing explosives, regardless of whether they are used or cause consequences, constitutes the 'crime of illegally manufacturing explosives', punishable by fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years; if the circumstances are serious, the maximum penalty can be life imprisonment or even death!
Lin Li, go turn yourself in, there's still hope for you. You don't want Yingbao to be a widow for the rest of her life because of you, do you!"
Chen Yuying: "?"
Why am I being dragged into this?
"Hehe, changing the subject, trying to deny you're a noob, huh."
Lin Li happily ignored this and continued to poke at Ding Sihan's sore spot.
"You, you! I have skills. This game has two tiers, and I've reached Tier 7 at my peak, which is equivalent to the King tier in Honor of Kings, and a double King at that, understand!"
Ding Yiji's face turned red, veins bulging on her forehead, and she started to argue.
What followed were incomprehensible words, like 'delayed hitboxes don't count as missed hits', 'character tier T3', 'targeted bans in legendary matches'...
Oh no, Lin Li, who had never played Identity V, really couldn't understand.
But it didn't matter, Lin Li had a formula, just apply the formula:
"If you're a noob, practice more. If you can't afford to lose, don't play. The past is the past, the present is the present. If you keep comparing the past to the present, why don't you compare it to when you were born!"
"?"
"Ahhhhh Lin Li, go die!!"
Ding Sihan was like this, getting angry when she couldn't win an argument. She stood up and delivered a Leo Flying Kick, with astonishing power.
Fortunately, Lin Li was also standing, so his kidney escaped disaster.
"Come here, Lin Li, I'll give you the phone, you play. Let's see how well you can play!" Ding Sihan said angrily.
"I've never even played this game."
"If you're scared, just admit it!"
"Since you insist, heh, Ding Sihan, just watch how you can't even compare to a newbie." Seeing Ding Sihan being so aggressive, Lin Li unceremoniously picked up the phone and talked tough.
Confidence is the peak.
...
"A Crushing Defeat".
Hehe, I really can't do anything about you four, you all escaped.
"Lin Li, I believe you're a true newbie now." Ding Sihan held her stomach with one hand, laughing so hard she knelt on the picnic mat, her mocking smile as arrogant as Lin Li's was before.
Lin Li sighed.
The script shouldn't be like this.
Damn it, I'm a cheater.
An existence like me with deep blue points shouldn't I first be questioned, then initially suffer a setback, but with heaven-defying comprehension, learn all the skills in one game, pull off a brilliant counter-kill at the last moment, making everyone gasp and say this kid is terrifying, and then handsomely say something like "You can steal screenshots, but what about talent?"
Why is it a setback at the beginning, a setback in the middle, and still a setback at the end.
I'm not Zhou Baowei, why am I taking so many potions.
(Translator's Note: "Yao ji ba" (taking potions) sounds like "yao ji ba" (want a dick)).
System, you useless thing, I'm angry. Unless you give me a few easy tasks, I won't talk to you anymore, humph.
"It's your rank points dropping, and you're still happy." Lin Li could only say to Ding Sihan in a cool tone.
"Whatever, it's worth it." Ding Sihan became generous at this moment.
But Lin Li didn't care either, actually... it was quite comfortable.
Just now when playing the game, Ding Sihan and Chen Yuying sat on his left and right, both watching him play.
To be honest, Lin Li's mind wasn't entirely on the game.
With their heads leaning close, so near, when the wind blew, the ends of their hair carrying the citrus scent of shampoo brushed his earlobes. The warm breath pouring out when the girls laughed created a subtle temperature difference in the November wind, tickling his earlobes and his heart.
This feeling cannot be described to outsiders.
He'd be willing to lose ten more games, no, a hundred more games—anyway, it's Ding Sihan's account, let alone dropping rank, he wouldn't care even if it got banned.
Lin Li turned his head, looked at Chen Yuying who was also smiling now, and teased: "Smiling so happily, want to play a round? Let's see if the smile transfers?"
"No need, I don't really know how to play," Chen Yuying shook her head, "I haven't played this game many times either, I only tried it because Sihan asked me to."
"Then what games do you usually play, Class Rep?" Lin Li asked curiously, "Eggy Party? Dream Star? Or~ there's a game that makes you younger the more you play~ it's the mobile game Peace Elite~"
Lin Li, who was originally singing the Peace Elite song with a rhythmic beat, suddenly looked down at his phone.
Fuck, did I just mention the four words Dream Star? Has Tencent already started downloading it for me?
Phew—thank goodness, not yet.
"I have them downloaded on my phone, but I haven't really played them," Chen Yuying shook her head with a smile, "I actually rarely play video games, there isn't one I've been playing consistently."
Lin Li indeed hadn't seen Chen Yuying play games much, so he asked curiously:
"So what do you do in your free time? Don't tell me you're studying? Damn it, I'm going to fight you try-hards!"
Fighting for a bed is also fighting.
Fighting for a good meal... Although Lin Li has passed the net worth of eating Pinduoduo group meals, if Chen Yuying wants to eat, he is still willing to accompany her.
"Of course not. Usually, I go out to play with my mom or do beauty and skincare. Occasionally, I take some special interest classes. How do you think I know a little bit of all the popular dance styles?
As for the remaining fragmented free time, it's watching dramas, variety shows, and short videos."
Chen Yuying shook her head with a smile and explained.
Oh, Lin Li almost forgot, kids from rich families are like this. Parents take them to see the world and expand their interests.
For many of them, games are indeed not very necessary. After all, reality can be more interesting, why throw yourself into a boring virtual world.
Only people who can't find joy in reality will indulge in it.
Damn, feeling depressed, what's the point of living, I'm going to jump.
Wait, I seem to have forty million in gold, almost forgot, hehe, never mind then, I won't jump. I'll leave the opportunity to jump off a building to someone else.
After all, jumping off a building might cause the rooftop to be sealed off, better not waste public resources.
"You've probably laughed enough. Hanzi, Identity V isn't my home turf. Let's do some farm work instead. I see you have it on your phone too, I'm stronger at this."
Elbowing Ding Sihan's calf with his knee while she was still laughing, Lin Li patted the picnic mat and said.
"Sure, let's play a match. Ask Yingbao to join too, she has it on her phone." Ding Sihan gave Lin Li's knee a counter-punch and nodded.
Hearing this, Chen Yuying obediently turned her phone screen horizontally, followed by a "Timi" sound, she hadn't played in a long time, so it definitely needed an update, so she let it download first.
"OK." Lin Li nodded.
"Lin Li, what hero are you going to play?" Opening the game, Ding Sihan asked.
Lin Li: "Yao."
Ding Sihan: "(；☉_☉)?"
"Say that again, what. are. you. playing?!" Ding Sihan resisted the urge to go up and grab Lin Li by the collar to question him, saying word by word.
"Yao, Sun Bin is fine too, 'People are so cute, of course they are boys'~"
Lin Li artificially imitated the character's lines in the game, making Chen Yuying laugh.
"You're playing Yao, what is my Yingbao going to play?"
Amused by Lin Li's reversed roles, Ding Sihan spoke up for Chen Yuying.
"Don't girls all like playing mid and support? She can play mid."
Ding Sihan smiled again, but still without any mirth: "Lin. Li, you also know girls like playing mid and support. If you two play mid and support, what am I going to play? Marksman? Will you protect me?"
"You play marksman then." Lin Li nodded upon hearing this.
"Sigh, fine, I'll spoil you two… wait." Ding Sihan was about to nod when she suddenly realized something was wrong.
Looking up, staring at Lin Li, narrowing her eyes, she asked slowly:
"Lin Li... did you only answer half of it? Regarding the question 'will you protect me', you haven't answered yet. Now, speak, answer me, Lin! Li!"
Lin Li slapped his thigh in annoyance, shaking his head and sighing at Ding Sihan's sharpness.
Facing the questioning, he could only blink and remain silent, silence speaking louder than words at this moment.
"Go die, Lin Li! You play support and don't protect me, so you want me to 1v2 all by myself!!"
Playing Yao was of course a joke, Lin Li ultimately chose to play some cool heroes.
Although normal matches don't restrict ranks, they still prioritize matching low ranks with low ranks. Lin Li's rank this season was also low, so the three of them slaughtered everyone in the noob lobby.
Chen Yuying was responsible for "quack quack" (gaga), Ding Sihan was responsible for making "trouble" (luan), and Lin Li was responsible for "killing" (sha) everywhere.
(Translator's Note: "Gaga luan sha" is slang for slaughtering everyone easily).
...
Time flies, the sun and moon act like shuttles, the white colt passes the crevice, time flies like an arrow.
The world changed color.
Flowing gold and molten iron, the clouds were burned by the setting sun, and crimson-gold sunlight filled the sky and earth.
"It's about time, what do you say, let's head back."
Another "Victory" sounded on the three phones. Looking at the sunset on the horizon, Lin Li stretched.
"Okay~ It's indeed time to go." Ding Sihan and Chen Yuying also nodded and stood up.
So the three began to pack up the picnic mat and the food on it.
At this moment, a sudden fierce wind struck. Looking up, the camphor branches and leaves surged into emerald waves in the twilight, rustling.
The green and yellow leaves broke free from the branches, tracing trajectories in the sky, their edges plated with a molten gold halo.
This scene was quite beautiful.
Not just the three of them, almost everyone in the park was admiring the beauty brought by the autumn gale at this moment.
The girls' long hair was stirred into flowing clouds by the wind, with fallen leaves interwoven within. The hair on Lin Li's forehead was also blown up, revealing his entire forehead.
The wind rose and stopped, leaving only fallen leaves all over the ground.
"So beautiful~"
"I recorded a little bit!"
Releasing their feet that were stepping on the picnic mat to keep it from flying away, Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan sighed with emotion.
"If we were under the tree at this time and took a live photo, it would definitely be absolutely beautiful!" Ding Sihan said with some yearning, "I've even thought of the pose, stroking the hair behind my ear with my hand, and then looking back."
"Mhm, it should be great." Chen Yuying also nodded in agreement.
"Sigh, it's a pity it came and went so fast, now it's gone." Ding Sihan sighed softly, but wasn't too regretful, after all, it was something that couldn't be sought after.
But, isn't this a coincidence.
What is the purpose of cultivating immortality? Isn't it to help girls take beautiful photos.
Long live showing off!
"I have a way." Therefore, when Lin Li heard this, he snapped his fingers without hesitation and said to the two:
"Isn't it just wind? I have a way to get it for you. One of you go pose under the tree now, and the other get ready to shoot. Don't miss the opportunity when the wind comes."
"What way? You're not going to blow on us when we get there, are you?"
Ding Sihan looked wary, and as she spoke, she covered her nose, seemingly already smelling the odor: "Eww, so stinky."
Lin Li: "?"
Fuck, besides the "so stinky" part, it seems quite in line with what his persona would do.
"I'm not messing around, trust me this once. I swear on my hair this time, if I'm playing you, I'll go to school bald next week." Lin Li pointed four fingers to the sky.
"Playing that big?" Ding Sihan raised her eyebrows and clicked her tongue: "Then I have to believe it."
"Let's go, Lin Li should be able to do it, let's trust him." Chen Yuying smiled and pulled Ding Sihan under the tree.
Lin Li also started his preparations.
"Woof woof!"
"Woof woof!"
"Money, Lucky, quiet! Just curious, what are you doing?"
The owner of Wangcai and Laifu, who was also preparing to leave, passed by Lin Li with her friends and saw Lin Li sticking small flags made of tissues on the grass, so she asked curiously.
"My classmates want to take photos, they want to capture the scene of fallen leaves flying under the tree in a strong wind."
Explaining while not stopping his movements, Lin Li took off his shoes, casually picked up a small branch, crooked and of varying lengths, far less perfect than the one he picked up during the autumn outing.
"Sounds beautiful, but what does this have to do with what you're doing here..."
The female owner still didn't understand the connection, so she spoke again.
"I'm learning from Zhuge Liang borrowing the east wind, sister. These are the blue, red, black, and white flags planted according to the twenty-eight mansions, but conditions are a bit tough now, only tissue white flags. And this is the incense altar, this is the sacrifice, conditions are also a bit tough, only half a pack of Pocky.
It's the thought that counts, God should understand what I mean."
Lin Li, with his hair down and barefoot, preparing to perform a sword dance, pointed at the things on the ground and explained.
Ding Sihan, Chen Yuying, Female Owner: "?"
Seriously, bro?
You're also borrowing the east wind?
"Lin Li! You said you weren't playing us! I'm angry, you must be bald next week!"
Ding Sihan, who also heard the conversation and was already prepared to help Chen Yuying take photos first, was now furious.
"Let's forget about being bald..." Chen Yuying said softly.
Although she didn't think Lin Li would be ugly bald, his current hairstyle definitely suited him better.
"Trust me this once. What Zhuge Liang could do, I can do too. Just watch!" But Lin Li turned his head and spoke confidently and firmly, then started the sword dance.
Having learned sword arts, Lin Li's sword dance was quite decent, even somewhat heroic and valiant.
Ding Sihan shook her head, whatever, forget it, watching a sword dance isn't bad either.
But if Lin Li suddenly turned his head later and said the wind he brought for her and Yingbao was named "Yushu Linfeng" (handsome and elegant), then his kidney would be done for!
Lin Li began to mutter the incantation:
"To take good photos, fallen leaves are best; everything is ready, all we need is the east wind..."
"Dongfeng-21 intercontinental ballistic missile, come! Dongfeng-31 intercontinental ballistic missile, come! Dongfeng-41 intercontinental ballistic missile, come..."
The woman watching the show nearby: "(；☉_☉)?"
What kind of fucking east wind are you borrowing!
Are you trying to destroy the pet-friendly park... no, are you trying to destroy Jin... no, are you trying to destroy the entire Nansang County!!
That thing shouldn't come!!
The woman looked up, fortunately, there was no sonic boom or gradually enlarging black dot, at least not for now.
The woman continued to watch Lin Li's sword dance.
She didn't feel there was anything to mock. Exchanging a smile with her friends, she only thought this was the madness that belonged to boys and girls in their unrestrained youth. Youth should be flamboyant and carefree, why care about anything else.
Whether it was the boy borrowing the east wind or the girls waiting for the wind, their faces all carried sincere smiles, all writing this answer.
Youth is so good, the woman thought, warming the corpses of these corporate slaves.
Hair fluttering.
"Whoosh—"
The wind came.
"It's here! What did I say! Ding Sihan! Apologize to me! Bark! Keep barking!"
"Wow!!"
"It really came!"
When the exclamations of the boys and girls behind them sounded, she and her friends immediately stopped and turned their heads.
The wind really came. The east wind rose, the leaves rustled, and fallen leaves spiraled down beside the girl under the tree. The scene was incredibly beautiful.
Fortunately, another girl who was well-prepared recorded this scene.
"So beautiful! Yingbao! Perfect!"
"Really~"
"Change pose!"
"Even more perfect! Again, again, click click click!"
So nice, the woman thought.
The wind continued to blow their voices over.
"My turn, my turn, I want to take photos too! Why is the wind getting weaker? Lin Li, can you still summon the wind? Please, if you can only summon this one gust of wind, I'm really going to be angry, like, really angry!"
"Although I'm about to vomit blood now, but Dingzi, since you said so, how can I disappoint you!"
"Borrowing another five hundred winds from heaven!"
The boy started his 'sword' dance again, and the girls watched him with joy and anticipation, waiting for that 'surprise'.
At some point, the woman and her friends all had smiles on their lips.
"Damn it, Ding Ding, my mana seems to be insufficient."
"Hey, Ah Ding, don't rush, back off, back off, go back! Don't kick me yet, I still have a trick! I still have a trick!"
The boy took a deep breath and brought out his trump card…
"God! I'm willing to trade Bai Bufan's ten years of romantic luck for another gust of east wind! Please! He'll do anything!"
"Dongfeng-21 intercontinental ballistic missile, come..."
"Wind, come!"
Perhaps miracles do exist in the world, or perhaps the world makes way for beautiful youth. When the second gust of wind really arrived as promised, the woman and her friends were left with nothing but numb shock.
"Here it comes! What did I say! What did I say, I am, the Son! Of! Wind!"
"Prisoner Ding, expression management, Class Rep, hurry up and shoot! My HP is bottoming out, I might not be able to summon a third gust of wind…”
"Shooting~"
...
This wind, which only a small number of people in the park noticed, slowly died down again.
Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan both took photos they were satisfied with.
The wind blew longer than expected. Later, they even handed the phone to that older sister and asked her to take a perfect group photo of the three of them in the fallen leaves under the tree.
The three began to pack up again, now they could go back without any regrets.
"Lin Li, how did you do it?" Ding Sihan asked with some admiration, although she wouldn't admit it.
And Chen Yuying just kept a small, sweet smile, looking at Lin Li.
"I used a cheat, playing in creative mode. I generated this wind by entering a cheat code." Lin Li was rarely honest.
Pop quiz: GTA 4 helicopter cheat code (5 points)?
Answer: 359-555-0100.
Mhm, perfect memory, worthy of him specially writing these numbers in a notebook to memorize when he was in elementary school.
"Tell the truth!" But Ding Sihan refused to believe it.
"Oh, it's just like Zhuge Liang back then. I just saw on my phone that it's windy now, so I just had to wait. If it came, I'm awesome; if it didn't, I'd commit seppuku to apologize and kowtow to you two. You two wouldn't really force me to go bald, would you."
Lin Li had to smile and casually make up a lie.
"I see... Eh? Is there? Why doesn't my phone's weather forecast have any such prompt?"
Ding Sihan was half-believing, but after looking at her phone, she was puzzled again.
"You really need to change your phone. Maybe being a noob isn't your problem."
Ding Sihan frowned, but whatever, forget it, maybe that's how it is, anyway it's not important, is it.
She turned to admire the photos on her phone.
The three walked towards the park entrance. When putting her phone back into her crossbody bag, Ding Sihan pulled out a yellowish-brown fallen leaf from her backpack. She looked up, held it against the sky, and muttered to herself:
"Do you think the departure of the leaf is the pursuit of the wind, or the tree's failure to ask it to stay?"
Lin Li: "It's abscisic acid."
Ding Sihan: "?"
"What, you're not convinced? Class Rep, tell me, am I right?" Seeing Ding Sihan's unfriendly gaze, Lin Li sneered and looked at Chen Yuying.
Chen Yuying smiled and nodded.
So Lin Li became even more arrogant: "Ding Sihan, I don't know how you studied biology, no wonder your grades are so bad, hehe, idiot!"
"Ahhhhh you guy with absolutely no romantic cells, go die!!"
"Wrong, incorrect, not hitting the nail on the head," Lin Li shook his head, "When I go to the toilet, I don't use paper to wipe, I use roses to wipe, I'm super romantic."
Ding Sihan, Chen Yuying: "?"
"Romantic my ass!! Just go die!"
...
Inside the pet park.
Wangcai and Laifu looked confused, not knowing why their owner suddenly decided not to go home again.
And the female owner and her friends, first looked guiltily in the direction Lin Li and the other two left, and after confirming that the three were gone and wouldn't come back, immediately gathered under this tree.
Great, the "blue, red, black, and white flags planted according to the twenty-eight mansions", the "incense altar", and the "sword" for the sword dance left by Lin Li were all still there.
As for the half pack of Pocky used as a "sacrifice", although Lin Li had taken it away, it didn't matter, they had some too!
"Quick, quick, quick, I memorized it, I'll do the sword dance to borrow the wind, you guys go under the tree and get ready to take photos!"
"Okay!"
"To take good photos, fallen leaves are best; everything is ready, all we need is the east wind..."
"Dongfeng-21 intercontinental ballistic missile, come! Dongfeng-31 intercontinental ballistic missile, come! Dongfeng-41 intercontinental ballistic missile, come..."
The female owner happily began to replicate Lin Li.
"Wind, come!"
"Wind, come!!"
"Wind, come on!!!"
"..."
The world was silent, a crow seemed to fly by, leaving six caws.
The friends under the tree: "..."
The woman blinked, fuck, why doesn't it work for me?
Maybe the way it was opened was wrong.
"Wind, come!"
"Kaze ga, fuku!"
No matter what language she used, it was useless, but then, the woman's eyes suddenly lit up, she realized again which step she got wrong…
Taking a deep breath, the woman shouted:
"God! I'm also willing to trade Bai Bufan's ten years of romantic luck for another gust of east wind! Please! He'll do anything!"
The leaves didn't move an inch, Wangcai and Laifu had already lain on the ground ready to sleep.
Could it be... that his account is already overdrawn...
Woman: TAT.
Damn it, fairy tales are all lies.
...
Bai Bufan, who was preparing to play games at home, suddenly sneezed violently.
His body felt a bit weak. Bai Bufan shook his head, forget it, looks like I can't play for the rest of today, I'll play tomorrow.
—Of course, Bai Bufan was talking about games.
(End of Chapter)