"Lin Li, have you seen my pen?"
Bai Bufan turned his head and asked word by word, his eyes hiding lice as always.
"Shh…" Lin Li put his index finger to his lips, turning his head but not his eyes, telling Bai Bufan to be quiet: "It's evening self-study, little mouth, no talking."
And Bai Bufan really was something. The college entrance exam is a war without smoke, a student losing a pen is like a soldier losing a gun, too useless.
"The pen you lost is mine, fuck! Eh, fuck, Lin Li, why are you so bad!"
Seeing Lin Li's reaction, an unnamed fire rose in Bai Bufan. He went up, grabbed Lin Li's collar, and growled in a low voice, the king barking, angry and ferocious.
Bai Bufan ▄︻┻┳═一 Lin Li.
"Oh my, my pen is too light and thin, it's uncomfortable to hold and lacks a sense of power, not suitable for darts. Yours is handier."
Lin Li chuckled, then took a new pen from his pencil case in the drawer and threw it to Bai Bufan:
"Make do with this tonight, I'll bring you a box of your kind of pen tomorrow."
"I'll consider that your humanity hasn't completely vanished, the sow breeding farm near Xiling escaped a disaster."
Bai Bufan nodded. Actually, he still had half a box of pens as backup. High school students rarely have only one pen, but the crying child gets the candy.
Didn't he just get a whole box of pens.
And Lin Li was also very happy.
[Task 5 has been completed.]
[You have received rewards: Physique Improvement: Spiritual Energy Absorption Speed increased by 200%; System Currency 100.]
Looking at the notification popped up by the system, Lin Li couldn't help but sigh, if only there were more tasks like this.
This kind of task of slaying demons and monsters is considered the easiest to complete among the system tasks.
This task took less than two minutes from appearance to completion, it can be called the extreme speed version. It should have given him dozens of gold coins that can be cashed out for one RMB when reaching ten thousand.
Unfortunately, this time it didn't trigger any derivative tasks to let him continue hunting.
The trigger frequency is too low. It's been almost three months since he got the system, and counting today, it's only triggered three times.
Although the rewards are low and monotonous, it's almost like a 'freebie', having it is good enough.
Can demons attack people around me who are afraid of bugs more often, so that I, the eldest senior brother of the sect, can protect them.
"What are you thinking about, looking so miserable." Bai Bufan heard a sigh, turned his head and asked in surprise.
"I want to throw a hornet's nest into the classroom and then lock the door with a 'snap'." Lin Li spoke his mind.
This should be considered a very, very bad massive invasion of demons into the Nansang Sect, the system should give him a task.
Bai Bufan: "?"
"Why would you do that?"
Bai Bufan couldn't understand why Lin Li had such anti-social thoughts.
"Haven't you grown flowers? Flowers definitely need pollination. Everyone is a flower of the motherland, what's wrong with hornets pollinating them." Lin Li said calmly.
His voice had a faint sense of death.
Bai Bufan: "..."
"Fuck," after a silence, Bai Bufan smiled and shook his head, pointing at Lin Li: "Lin Li, although I don't grow flowers, I farm. But, I have a doubt now."
"What doubt." Lin Li asked.
"Lin Li, how do you plant this seed, how do you plant it? How do you plant it~" Bai Bufan revealed his true intentions, repeating the question 'doubtfully'.
(Translator's Note: "How do you plant" (za zhong) sounds like "bastard" (za zhong)).
No matter how rich Bai Bufan's farming experience was, he didn't know how Lin Li planted this seed.
"Get lost." Lin Li smiled and gave him the middle finger.
...
The first period of evening self-study ended.
The boys in the back row all gathered under the blackboard, looking at the pen and the moth corpse still stuck in the wall.
"Fuck, it went in so deep, how much strength and accuracy does it take to do this, when did you practice?" Zhou Baowei sighed.
"Does this need practice? Isn't it an operation that anyone with hands can do?" Lin Li shrugged.
What he [Imitated] was the guy who threw the most handsomely and accurately that day, with full strength and a 150% BUFF, naturally he was very fierce.
"So arrogant? I have to suspect with the greatest malice that you ordered this moth to scare Luo Meng, just to show off." Zhou Baowei scolded with a smile upon hearing this.
"Your malice is still too small, Lin Li plans to release hornets to bite all of us." Bai Bufan chuckled.
Zhou Baowei: "?"
"Lin Li, one day, you'll need to show your ID and a statement of purpose to buy a pen." Wang Ze commented sharply.
"Feels like he guessed it after stepping on Bufan's shit." Qin Zeyu shook his head.
The pen couldn't stay stuck in the wall with the moth corpse forever. Lin Li jumped up, pulled out the pen, threw it into the trash can, turned around and sneered:
"Guess? You guess one and show me!"
"Hehe, how did you throw it, teach me, I really want to learn this. Once I learn it, I'll immediately change my name to Qin Zeyu (Mentor Lin Li)." Qin Zeyu scratched his head and pleaded expectantly.
"Just aim and throw." Lin Li put his hands behind his back like a master, very stylish, hiding his merit and fame as he walked towards the toilet: "I won't talk to you mortals anymore, I'm going to the toilet."
When he came back from the toilet, Lin Li found the guys gathered in the long corridor leading to the Senior Two teaching building.
"Lin Li, come here!" Noticing Lin Li's return, Wang Ze also called out.
Lin Li walked over. It turned out these guys found a plastic bottle with half a bottle of water left as a target, prepared several pens, and were now throwing pens.
This corridor leading to the Senior Two teaching building had few people walking on it, and people coming from the opposite side could be seen immediately. Throwing here would neither damage public property nor accidentally injure classmates.
"We completely can't throw with your feeling. Come on, Lin Li, show us again, I want to see you pierce the bottle!" Wang Ze handed Lin Li a pen and said expectantly.
Lin Li: "..."
Fuck.
[Imitation] can only be learned for one hour. The two evening self-study periods at Nansang Middle School are eighty minutes long. Now the effect has passed, otherwise, with Lin Li's personality, he would have shown off again just now at the blackboard.
The ability has entered CD.
—Although the storage limit for [Imitation] is two times, Lin Li usually uses the ability once to "imitate the 'firearms' he imitated" to achieve an infinite loop of the ability, so it will be thirty hours before the number of times recovers to "1".
"Formless Sword" also has a distance limit, and he couldn't possibly make the pen visibly turn and fly in front of everyone.
So, if he were to throw now, it's hard to say whether he'd throw a dart or his face.
"You guys play, I don't plan to participate in your boring game of playing house." Having figured everything out, Lin Li just continued to wave his hand with a master's demeanor.
"Hmm? Lin Li, you're given a chance to show off and you're not taking it?" Bai Bufan frowned.
"I've passed the age of wanting to be a tomboy, I don't like showing off." Lin Li continued to wave his hand.
"Throw one, throw one." However, even though Lin Li repeatedly refused, Wang Ze still forced him, not letting him go.
The other guys also came up to echo, their eyes full of expectation.
Fuck, I accidentally became Joan of Arc… roasted on the fire.
"Ahem," Lin Li sighed, pretended to take Wang Ze's pen, weighed it, and shook his head 'regretfully':
"The texture of your pens is no good, you can't throw the effect from just now.
I'm not lying to you, Bufan knows, I specifically used his pen to throw, precisely because of this particularity."
Lin Li pointed at Bai Bufan.
Wang Ze and the others also looked at him.
After being pointed at, Bai Bufan didn't say a word, just ran back to the classroom and ran out again, handing Lin Li a pen exactly the same as the one just now, and it was brand new.
Lin Li: "..."
The two looked at each other.
"Here, throw it now." Bai Bufan had no expression, just raised his chin towards the bottle in the aisle.
"...No! Bufan! The pens they threw were all out of ink or broken, which is normal, recycling waste. Your pen is brand new, it will break if you throw it, you spendthrift!"
Lin Li's eyes widened as he questioned.
"It doesn't matter," Bai Bufan shook his head, "I have a premonition that I can see a scene more valuable than this pen."
His mouth gradually rose to a weird arc as he spoke, and Bai Bufan added grimly:
"Lin Li... I don't think you, this guy, would miss a chance to show off unless... you simply can't."
Lin Li: "..."
Fuck.
The two of them knew each other too well. He knew how long his root was, and he knew how deep his bottom was.
—His guilty conscience was seen through.
Hearing Bai Bufan say this, Wang Ze, Qin Zeyu, and the others also narrowed their eyes, completely blocking the way back to the classroom.
What was even more beastly was Zhou Baowei, who went up and replaced the bottle in the distance with a bottle cap. Under Lin Li's shocked gaze, he explained hypocritically:
"What's the point of throwing at a bottle for you, isn't that looking down on my Brother Lin? The bottle cap is about the same size as a moth, and this time it's a stationary target, it's still no difficulty for my Brother Lin Li!"
After doing all this, everyone signaled Lin Li with malicious eyes that he could start.
Lin Li: "..."
None of the boys in Class 4 of Senior One are human, not a single one!
Lin Li let out a desolate laugh, and then this bleak laughter gradually grew louder.
Using both hands to stroke all his hair back, making it a slicked-back style for a short time, Lin Li took the pen and stood in place, moving his right arm.
"Bai Bufan, heh, Zhou Baowei, heh, Wang Ze, you guys, heh, ridiculous."
"You guys, one by one, just watch carefully!"
"Questioning me, the Kami of the new world, sure enough, only the ignorant can be fearless."
Fired up!
"Now, for your blindness…" Lin Li recalled just now, made the action, stared at the bottle cap, got ruthless, forgot his feelings, risked his life: "Pay the price!!"
The pen turned into a shooting star, the spear thrust out like a dragon, a point of cold light!
At this moment, what Lin Li threw out was no longer a pen, but his face!!
—Because fucking hell, he! Didn't! Hit! It!
The pen dropped to the ground with a clatter and rolled twice.
"..."
Feeling the silent but suddenly much more intense gazes of the people around him, Lin Li didn't dare to look back. He just covered his mouth with his right palm, rested his elbow on the back of his left hand, and after a long time, spoke:
"Damn, the wind was too strong just now, I'll throw it again."
Under the boys' death stares, Lin Li trotted over alone like a dog to pick up the pen.
The ones who picked up the pen the most were all behind him, but the one picking up the pen was himself. Lin Li felt this world was hopeless.
Back to the original position, fire up again!
—"Fuck, why are these lights so flashing! It made my aim fail, one more time."
—"Damn, which class was that, shouting so loudly when I threw, it made me throw crooked, one more time."
Lin Li's body control ability was actually very good, but the target was a bottle cap after all, it was too small, and that beast Zhou Baowei put it too far away. Lin Li, a little immortal at the third level of Qi Condensation, couldn't hit it right away.
Although Lin Li felt he had grasped some techniques and could hit it after throwing a few more times to get used to it, it seemed there was no chance—
"What's the excuse this time?" After the fourth failure, Bai Bufan asked with a smile.
Hearing this, Lin Li didn't go pick it up either. He turned around, revealing an innocent and cute smile: "Hehe, if I said the internet lagged just now, would you believe me?"
"..."
"Boo…"
"Boo…"
"I said earlier that Lin Li's throw just now was a fluke, he's just a piece of trash."
"Bufan, next time you poop, can you do it more covertly, don't let Lin Li step on it."
"How can someone shout 'Let the doubts be louder, I can't hear you' like that? Shameless."
"Alright, alright, Lin Li, go play somewhere else, don't be an eyesore here and waste our time."
A real-life version of everyone pushing a falling wall. These guys who were just calling him mentor and father were now discarding him like worn-out shoes, pushing him away in disgust.
"You people going up the mountain, how dare you mock the god coming down the mountain!!" Lin Li pointed at the crowd angrily, then felt a bit sorrowful: "The road down the mountain... is too noisy."
"Did anyone know me before the rumors?"
"The butterfly can't fly over the sea, do you have the heart to blame it?"
No one paid attention to him, these bastards.
"If the spring breeze has pity for the flowers, can it allow me to be young again!!" Lin Li leaned against the wall, sitting desolately on the ground.
Finally, someone paid attention to him.
It was Xue Jian, who walked over from the stairs carrying a stack of answer sheets. Seeing Lin Li sitting on the ground, he asked in surprise: "Lin Li, why are you sitting on the ground?"
"Teacher..." Lin Li raised his head sadly, "I'm old, useless... I miss my eighteen-year-old self, I miss the me who used to be omnipotent."
Xue Jian: "(；☉_☉)?"
In his class, you could even see an eighteen-year-old student missing his eighteen-year-old self.
This was his Class 4 of Senior One, the most overpowered class in the current version of Nansang Middle School, the key target of the principal and the grade director, the fundamental reason why he had to emphasize the rules and regulations to them privately after emphasizing them to everyone.
As the homeroom teacher of such a class, Xue Jian felt his life was over.
Xue Jian took a deep breath. He shouldn't have asked this guy, but since he did, Xue Jian still patted Lin Li's head in disgust and comforted him perfunctorily: "It's okay Lin Li, Teacher is also old and useless."
"Sigh, Teacher, time is truly a ruthless thing," Lin Li sighed deeply, then suddenly thought of something and looked up:
"But, Teacher, I heard that some people are old and useless, and some are useless people who got old. The situations are different, so I think you shouldn't use the word 'also' so generally."
Xue Jian: "(；☉_☉)?"
I shouldn't have comforted this evil creature!
Xue Jian, whose mouth was twitching slightly, hit Lin Li's head with the answer sheets in his hand, without holding back… anyway, this guy was already holding his head with both hands, obviously anticipating this result.
"Teacher, I meant I'm the useless one who got old!" Lin Li defended himself.
"You'd better be!" Xue Jian sneered, but he naturally knew Lin Li meant no harm and was joking.
Then he looked at the other boys in the class in the zigzag corridor. Seeing what they were doing, he frowned and shouted:
"Bufan! Baowei! What are you guys doing, throwing pens? If other teachers see this, they'll laugh again. What's wrong with you all, hurry up and pack up and go back to the classroom! Really, not a single one gives me peace of mind."
As a serious middle-aged teacher, Xue Jian's oppressive feeling towards the students in the class other than Lin Li was still very strong. Hearing this, the boys sheepishly picked up their things and walked towards the classroom.
"Teacher, Lin Li scolded you, you scold him back, why transfer the anger value to us."
Bai Bufan walked to Lin Li and Xue Jian's side and said this weakly.
Xue Jian looked at Bai Bufan, who suddenly sat next to Lin Li holding his head with both hands, obviously ready to be hit by him. He looked up at the sky and sighed deeply.
Satisfying Bai Bufan, he knocked him on the head, and Xue Jian shouted coldly: "Lin Li scored 150 in math! Can you guys!"
The boys were shocked upon hearing this: Fuck, Lin Li scored 150 in math?
Lin Li was also shocked upon hearing this: Fuck, the good student privilege I've been longing for?
Am I finally the privileged class!
Then the first thing he would do is forget his roots… many hands make light work, wait until I burn a handful of firewood and pour water on it.
If you don't block the people behind you after entering the safe zone in PUBG, didn't you enter the zone for nothing?
Thinking of having someone backing him up, Lin Li perked up, stood up abruptly, pointed at Wang Ze and the others who were still standing, sneered, and then spoke expectantly to Xue Jian:
"Teacher, they just ganged up to bully and insult me. Now I want them all to kneel down and apologize to me, otherwise I'll transfer classes immediately. You wouldn't want me, this 150 in math, to transfer to another class, would you?"
Oh?
Is there such a good thing?
"Which class do you plan to go to? Teacher has many connections here, I can help you pull some strings and save some procedures." Xue Jian turned his head and asked.
"Never mind Teacher, I'm not leaving." Yingbao is still in this class, I can't leave. Lin Li shrugged and sat back on the ground.
Lin Li also understood.
His good student privilege was a bit different from Chen Yuying's good student privilege.
Lin Li believed that in Xue Jian's eyes now, the class hierarchy was probably like this…
Chen Yuying and other good students > ordinary students > humans > Lin Li (good student BUFF) > Bai Bufan and other creatures > desks, chairs, and other class property > others > Lin Li.
After all that, he worked hard to climb up, only to get privileges over his bros. What's the point of living, I'm jumping.
"Alright, give the answer sheets to the subject representative to distribute, and tell him to collect the weekend homework and send it to the office before nine o'clock."
Seeing this reaction, Xue Jian smiled, handed the answer sheets to Lin Li, and said.
"Alrighty."
Walking into the classroom with Bai Bufan and the others, he didn't give them to the subject representative first, but lowered his head to search for Chen Yuying's answer sheet.
At the same time, Lin Li was a bit forgetful, turned his head and asked: "Bufan, what did Old Jian say my math score was just now? I forgot."
Bai Bufan pointed at Wang Ze and the others like Donnie Yen.
"I told you, Lin Li would never miss any chance to show off. His refusal to throw darts just now was too obvious."
"Indeed."
"I saw through it."
"So what was my score? I really forgot." Lin Li thought hard.
"Heh, if you didn't forget, your mom dies."
"Wow, your mouth is really foul, disgusting, speechless." Lin Li was sweating yellow beans now.
(End of Chapter)