The "Heavenly Secret Mirror" was of very good quality. Not to mention using it to smash the little bear, it was more than enough to smash walnuts.
Lin Li ate the freshly shelled walnut kernels while wiping the walnut residue powder off the cracked "Heavenly Secret Mirror", returning it to the system to let it repair itself.
Fuck.
Does weather count as a heavenly secret? Although Lin Li really didn't want to admit it, he also felt it counted.
But, but!
You can't really give me this kind of heavenly secret.
You're a magic treasure, bro. Shouldn't you give me some indescribable, unlookable hidden information that requires a huge price to pry into?
For example, what exactly did the pangolin say, the 1999 non-disclosure agreement, the entrance to the private circle of welfare girls, whether Zhu Chongba sold his ass when he was a beggar in his early years, etc. These are all fine.
But you just had to give me the weather.
Brother Mirror, I know you can make a move, but it's really not the time for you to make a move.
If I want to check the weather, can't I just look at the weather forecast? I can even see the whole next week or even half a month.
What is this?
"Black Gold PLUS Advance On-Demand Ultimate Heavenly Secret Grand Member Mirror"?
However, Lin Li thought about it and could only pin his hopes on the fact that his degree of refining it was too low.
It was because the refining was not in place that the heavenly secrets it could capture were only such superficial things. In the future, as he refined it deeper and more thoroughly, it would truly become the guiding dark light on his life path.
Please, it must be like this. Don't let it be because there is no Heavenly Dao in reality, so the Heavenly Secret Stone is strong when meeting the strong and weak when meeting the weak, and only has this level.
I don't want this kind of thing.
But after sighing a few times, Lin Li yawned and went to bed.
...
Friday, Friday, full of energy, beating gongs and drums, wanting to dance.
This is the beautiful Friday that is different from the damn Monday and the insidious Wednesday. The smiles of the boys in the corridor are more sincere than usual.
Each one is like Jie Xu Sheng, transforming into a sunny, cheerful big boy.
Friday is such a beautiful noun.
Oh, wait, except for Friday in "Robinson Crusoe", Ni Ge, bad.
"Weekend, weekend, senior sister, senior sister..." Wang Ze held the handrail with both hands, pulling his body forward when exerting force, leaning against the handrail, and then naturally falling back when relaxing, repeating this over and over.
"Wang Ze, I know you're at Seven Star Entertainment now, but don't go into heat against the handrail." Lin Li glanced at Wang Ze and said.
The self-repair speed of the "Heavenly Secret Mirror" was quite fast. It was repaired in less than a day, much shorter than the "Duck Blood Bottle".
However, Lin Li didn't infuse spiritual energy into it again. At least he had to wait until the refining went a step further.
"Get lost!" Wang Ze stopped his movements, cursed with a smile, and then hesitated and sighed: "Lin Li, tell me... should I prepare flowers or something tomorrow to be romantic?"
"Romance comes with a price." Lin Li felt a bit nostalgic upon hearing this, "I once hid a rose behind my back."
"And then?" Seeing Lin Li pause, Wang Ze asked curiously.
"But she in front of me was unwilling to accept it." Lin Li said sadly.
"Why?" Wang Ze swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"She said... take it out, there are surveillance cameras here."
Lin Li looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, not letting his sad tears flow out: "The flower shop owner later called my mom, the price was really high."
Wang Ze: "(；☉_☉)?"
So you hid the rose behind your back, and the flower shop owner didn't accept it saying there were surveillance cameras?
"It's your fucking timing that was wrong! Don't touch porcelain romance when you're being a thief!" Wang Ze raised his middle finger.
"Exactly, Lin Li, you're really a buzzkill," Bai Bufan also looked at Lin Li with disdain, and raised his chin at Wang Ze: "Wang Ze, listen to me, give flowers, you still have to give flowers."
"It's rare for a dog's mouth to spit out human words," Wang Ze looked at Bai Bufan and asked: "What kind of flowers should I buy, do you have any suggestions? Hey, Bufan, aren't you staying at school this week too? How about you accompany me to pick some out after school later?"
"Buy flowers? Why buy them? Don't you have your own?" Bai Bufan asked in surprise:
"When you finish confessing, just turn around, stick your butt out and say to Senior Sister Qian: 'Baby, this is the chrysanthemum I'm giving you. From now on, it's yours. No need to pity it, use it however you want.' Wouldn't that be fine?
Then you'll have a prostate orgasm, you'll die of pleasure."
"Bufan, you have no right to call me a buzzkill." Lin Li didn't even turn his head, looking at the ground and chuckling.
Wang Ze took a deep breath, then smiled and said: "Mentioning chrysanthemums in front of me? Bufan, you really have courage."
Bai Bufan: "?"
"Wait, wait—"
"I was wrong, bro, I'll accompany you after school, okay! I'm abstaining from sex, don't mess around!"
While the two were playing around, the chemistry teacher came out of Class 5 holding a white square basin, containing some chemistry experiment equipment, and walked towards Class 4.
"Fuck, after dragging it out for so long, we're doomed too."
Looking at the group of Class 5 students following the teacher out to the toilet, Lin Li didn't gloat, only felt the sorrow of the rabbit when the fox dies.
The warning bell rang, and several people returned to the classroom.
Chen Yuying looked at Lin Li returning to his seat, blinked, and asked in a low voice: "Have you thought about it?"
She was asking about the medium request for losing to Lin Li.
"Thinking, thinking." Lin Li, who had actually thought about it a long time ago, smiled and said.
Back to his seat.
The chemistry teacher was taking the instruments out of the square tray one by one and placing them on the podium desk.
"Class begins." When the class bell rang, the chemistry teacher clapped his hands.
"Stand up."
"Hello, students."
"Hello… Teacher."
"Sit down." After going through the classroom routine, the chemistry teacher patted the desk: "Today we are doing an experiment in this class."
"Everyone turn your textbooks to page 78, the chapter on metals and their compounds."
"We previously did the experiment of electrolyzing water to produce hydrogen. Today we will produce hydrogen through another method—iron reacting with water vapor."
Lin Li looked at Bai Bufan, and Bai Bufan looked at Lin Li.
"I will never forget your astonishing wisdom." Lin Li chuckled.
Bai Bufan had proposed a proposal in that experiment class.
—"Since electrolyzing water can produce hydrogen and oxygen, and drowning people drown because of a lack of oxygen, then in the future, if someone is drowning, we might as well pass high-voltage electricity into the water to electrolyze a large amount of water to get a large amount of oxygen for the drowning person to breathe."
"That's enough," Bai Bufan sweated yellow beans, "Lin Li, you're not a good person either."
After hearing Bai Bufan's proposal, Lin Li drew inferences from one instance.
—"Reverse thinking. In the future, if there's a fire, we might as well pass hydrogen into the fire scene. This way, hydrogen will react with oxygen to produce water. Not only can water extinguish the fire, but the consumption of oxygen can further prevent the spread of the flames."
After hearing the words of the two after class, the chemistry teacher almost couldn't catch his breath.
Who could have imagined that in his small classroom, the Ox-Head and Horse-Face of the King of Hell were hidden.
Each one came to help the King of Hell boost his KPIs.
"Now I'll invite a student to come up and complete the preparation steps before the experiment according to my instructions." The chemistry teacher looked at the class, "To test how well everyone has mastered the practical operation of the experiment."
Hearing this, Bai Bufan immediately lowered his head to look at his textbook. Wow, this textbook is really a textbook.
Lin Li sneered, but looked at the chemistry teacher handsomely and magnanimously.
The strong have such confidence. Since the chemistry teacher called someone to do the experiment, he wanted to see mistakes. Then what's the difference between inviting him, the first in the grade, to go up and operating it himself?
So he definitely wouldn't be called.
Since he was safe, Lin Li silently approached Bai Bufan, and then his hand slowly rose from behind his back, slowly rose…
"Fuck your mom, what are you doing!" Unfortunately, Bai Bufan reacted as soon as Lin Li approached, reacting in time to stop him, and scolded in a low voice.
He knows me too well, Lin Li sighed.
"Zhuo Yongfei, you come up."
When this voice was spoken, the sound of exhaling in the back row was clearly audible. Everyone who was lifeless instantly came alive.
"Okay, first step, assemble the stand, test tube, and alcohol lamp, and adjust the positions."
"Very good, the test tube is tilted upwards at a 15-degree angle. Everyone should know why it needs to be tilted like this, right?" Watching Zhuo Yongfei's operation, the chemistry teacher nodded, then asked everyone.
"To keep the tears from falling."
The chemistry teacher glanced at Lin Li who chimed in, and nodded: "Correct, to prevent condensed water from flowing back and bursting the reaction test tube."
"With the chemistry teacher's temper, he actually just glanced at you for maliciously chiming in. The first in the grade is still too authoritative." Bai Bufan shook his head and sighed.
"Next, add detergent to the evaporating dish, then take the test tube off the test tube clamp first, take out the iron powder and put it at the bottom." The chemistry teacher continued to direct Zhuo Yongfei.
"Iron powder is black." Lin Li didn't turn his head, and after seeing the operation clearly, said lightly.
"Potassium powder is white." Bai Bufan also didn't turn his head, and said lightly.
"Dusk witnesses the devout believers." Lin Li turned his head and smiled.
"The peak gives birth to hypocritical supporters." Bai Bufan also turned his head and smiled.
"Cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck!!!" The two exchanged a glance, and the next second, they tacitly hooked their hands into a V shape as chicken wings, flapping while making chicken noises.
But since they were in class, the two stopped after making chicken noises for two and a half seconds.
"The temperature condition for the reaction of iron and water vapor requires six hundred degrees, which almost reaches the highest temperature an alcohol lamp can reach. Zhuo Yongfei, what should we do to ensure the experiment temperature meets the standard?"
The chemistry teacher, who had auditory hallucinations of chicken noises, looked up, frowned and found that he was in a classroom, not on a farm, and the people in front of him were students, not livestock. He scratched his head and continued to ask Zhuo Yongfei.
"Use a wind shield to concentrate the firepower, and then make sure it's the outer flame heating it?" Zhuo Yongfei answered unconfidently.
"Very good, that's right, that's enough, you can go down. I'll do the rest of the experiment myself." The chemistry teacher nodded in satisfaction.
"I have a better way." Lin Li lowered his voice.
"Oh, first in the grade, what's your opinion, speak." Bai Bufan humbly asked for advice.
"Use an alcohol lamp to heat an alcohol lamp to achieve a series connection. According to thermodynamics, the total firepower in a series connection is equal to the sum of the firepower of each alcohol lamp. One alcohol lamp can only reach a maximum of 600°, but two alcohol lamps in series can reach 1200 degrees. Why do you need a wind shield or an outer flame to make up the limit?"
Bai Bufan: "(；☉_☉)?"
"Hmm…" Then Bai Bufan nodded, giving a thumbs up in approval: "I say the Commander-in-Chief has high insight."
An alcohol lamp is also a lamp, and if it's a lamp, it can be connected in series. Reasonable.
According to the content of the experiment manual, if a sharp popping sound is emitted when igniting hydrogen, then the hydrogen is impure.
Then, if Lin Li operates like this, and the chemistry teacher doesn't emit a sharp popping sound, then the chemistry teacher is impure.
"Okay, at this time, everyone can see that under the heating of the alcohol lamp, the evaporating dish connected by the conduit has already started to bubble. Here, it contains the hydrogen generated by the reaction." The chemistry teacher, who had been talking about the PPT for a while, pointed to the evaporating dish and said.
The students on both sides of the classroom stood up.
It didn't matter at all if they stood, because they didn't block anyone's view.
But after they stood up, many people in the front row also stood up, standing on tiptoe and leaning forward, wanting to see the bubbles the teacher mentioned.
In this situation, Lin Li and Bai Bufan couldn't see anything even if they stood up.
These female students in the front row are really... kind.
—Life is not lacking in beauty, but lacking in eyes to discover beauty.
Since they couldn't see the bubbles in the petri dish, Lin Li and Bai Bufan settled for the next best thing and looked at the butts of the female students in the front row.
Good looking.
Who the fuck wants to see those boring bubbles.
Eh, wait, fuck your mom.
Why did the boys in the front row also stand up, who are you sticking your stinky big butts out for.
Eh, fuck, why are these boys so selfish.
"To get pure hydrogen, you need to use the water displacement method. This was demonstrated before, so I won't demonstrate it this time. We'll directly use an electronic igniter to ignite it from a distance. Because it's definitely impure, if everyone stays quiet, you can hear the popping sound and see the flame."
The chemistry teacher pushed the petri dish slightly to the side, stepped back, and leaned forward with the electronic igniter.
As for Wang Ze in the VIP viewing seat: "(；☉_☉)?"
Teacher, are you serious about pushing it towards me?
Wang Ze silently moved a little further away.
But he was actually overthinking it.
Under everyone's gaze, there was just a very slight popping sound, and a flame that wasn't even as big as the petri dish, and it was fleeting.
To put it bluntly, in the subject of chemistry, any experiment with a slightly higher risk factor or perhaps cumbersome operation can basically only be seen in teaching videos recorded during the Qing Dynasty.
Even in Ghana, it's like this.
"When smelting iron, why do engineers strictly control humidity? It's because the water vapor in the iron smelting blast furnace will consume coke and reduce efficiency.
But in another scenario, when steel is quenched and instantly contacts water vapor, an FeO film is generated on the surface to prevent corrosion. These are all classic examples that might be used in exam questions..."
After igniting it a few more times, and even letting Wang Ze go up and try it once, the experiment part was considered over, and the teacher began to continue lecturing on theoretical knowledge.
Lin Li's mind was no longer on it, raising his eyebrows at the new task that had just popped up in front of him.
[Black iron forged in fire, gold and water giving birth to spirits, the path of spells is so wondrous. To prove the supreme Dao, the five elements are the foundation of compulsory cultivation. Why not advance today?]
[Task Triggered!]
[Task 2: Comprehend the mystery of the five elements, seek the power of the five elements to temper oneself (0/5)]
[Task Reward: Physique Improvement: Spell Effect increased by 100%; Cultivation Method: Five Elements Essential Arts; Random Magic Treasure 1; System Currency 150]
This task displayed a full five progress bars, with metal, wood, water, fire, and earth written in front of the progress bars respectively.
The rewards looked okay.
Tempering with the power of the five elements... does it mean using things related to the five elements to exercise oneself?
Lin Li thought for a while, reached his left hand to the left side of the desk, a blind spot that no one in the class could see, and materialized the "Thunder Nurturing Seed".
Following the method Daoist Shanqing taught him again, he began to absorb.
The progress bar for wood moved.
It seemed that in the eyes of the system, lightning belonged to the "wood" element.
Lin Li's expression relaxed a bit. It seemed that as long as he used items with corresponding attributes to exercise himself, this task shouldn't be too difficult to complete.
—Although he didn't have items of other attributes that could temper him, it didn't matter, he had an omnipotent old man from another world who could help him simulate scenarios later.
...
"Alright, that's it for this week's homework. Class dismissed, but everyone wait until the bell rings before going out. Pay attention to safety on your way home."
Xue Jian put the chalk back into the chalk box, and after speaking, walked out of the classroom with his courseware.
There were still a few minutes before school ended, but as soon as Xue Jian left, everyone started making a ruckus.
Many boys had already stood up, ready to go.
None of them were carrying schoolbags. It seemed they really didn't want to study at all on the weekend.
"Ring…"
"Go go go, let's go~" As soon as the bell rang, most people immediately left the classroom.
Lin Li also got up, ready to go home.
After spending most of the afternoon tempering himself with the "Thunder Nurturing Seed", the task bar for the wood element was already a third full. If he hurried, he might be able to complete it today.
Good progress, take it slow.
"Bufan! Let's go, let's go, let's go! Lin Li, are you really not coming?" Wang Ze rushed over and put his arm around Bai Bufan's neck. It seemed he was ready to go to the flower shop. After speaking, he looked at Lin Li.
"Really not going, see you tomorrow."
If you want to buy flowers, you have to buy them early. Lin Li shook his head.
Cramming at the last minute is not only a foot fetish, but also low-IQ rap, not advisable.
"Tianming, are you not going home this week either?"
When walking to the back door, seeing Chen Tianming still sitting in his seat, Lin Li habitually asked.
Chen Tianming held the phone he had just gotten back from Xue Jian and chuckled: "Yes, I have a date with Qiaoqiao this week."
No wonder he specially brought his phone and handed it in, makes sense.
However, remembering Chen Tianming's bad behavior, Lin Li followed up and asked: "Is it like last time, a 'big date'?"
Big date = big chance of meeting = a kind of date where you forcefully bump into someone and shamelessly start walking together.
—Recorded from Chen Tianming during the Pingjiang Amusement Park segment of the autumn outing.
"This time it's a real date!" Chen Tianming's eyes widened as he retorted.
"So you fucking knew that a 'big date' isn't a date." Lin Li smiled and raised his middle finger, then walked out the door with the same arm and leg, but the next second he walked back in:
"Are you and Yao Qiaoqiao also going to the Pinglu market to play?"
"Yeah, I specially stayed at school this week just to go there and take a look and play." Chen Tianming nodded.
That's true, going to the market is considered a 'big event' in a town like Xiling.
"Today or tomorrow?"
Going to the market naturally doesn't just last for one day. It actually started on Friday and lasts for over a week, it's just that some activities and performances will only take place this weekend.
"Tomorrow, today is too rushed." Chen Tianming answered.
"Then maybe we'll see each other then." Lin Li shrugged, then saw what Chen Tianming was searching for on his browser, raised his eyebrows and asked: "Tianming, are you going to confess your feelings too?"
Chen Tianming shyly turned his head away, lowered his voice, and nodded: "To be honest, seeing Wang Ze so passionate, I also have some thoughts in this regard. I think... it's time."
"I don't want to just be friends anymore."
"...Then good luck, hope everyone succeeds." Lin Li patted Chen Tianming's shoulder and encouraged him.
Chen Tianming and Yao Qiaoqiao had known each other for over two months. According to Bai Bufan's intelligence, Yao Qiaoqiao didn't have any bad behavior. She never asked Chen Tianming for anything, and even if Chen Tianming offered, she would refuse.
Lin Li was willing to apologize for his initial sixth sense.
So, it's a good thing if he can succeed.
"Borrowing your auspicious words, I hope both Wang Ze and I can succeed." Chen Tianming nodded, cheering himself up.
"There's no need to be so stingy with blessings. There might be other people confessing tomorrow. You should wish that all lovers in the world eventually get married. Everyone succeeds, everyone succeeds."
Lin Li frowned slightly upon hearing this and suggested.
"That's true, my vision was too narrow. I am for everyone, and everyone is for me," Chen Tianming felt a bit guilty after being told this, nodded heavily, and sincerely corrected himself:
"Everyone confesses successfully!"
Lin Li: "That's more like it~"
(End of Chapter)