Chapter 22: You said you had a disaster in your fate, but you didn't say it was a Porsche

After returning home, Lin Li took a shower and went to sleep, and when he woke up, it was already noon.

After eating a Chinese-style buffet at the community canteen, he returned home to continue translating the Body Tempering Eight-Section Brocade.

Time passed quickly. With the previous accumulation, the speed of the later parts was quite fast. The translation neared its end in two days.

Lin Li was originally very satisfied—this sense of conquest after hard translation and getting the correct answer—until—

"Why is there a reference answer at the back!"

However, Lin Li quickly realized something was wrong. He had browsed through it all at the beginning; it was such a long passage of modern text, Lin Li couldn't have missed it.

"Is translation a necessary process? Only after I 'comprehend' it will the answer appear, to prevent me from getting details wrong?"

Then this technique was smarter than the system.

That was a good thing, so Lin Li didn't think about it anymore.

The four chapters—one, three, five, and seven—didn't require the assistance of spiritual energy, but the other four did.

The odd-numbered chapters were a set of body-tempering methods, and the even-numbered chapters were another set. Not learning two didn't hinder starting to learn three directly after one.

As for the big pie the technique drew for him, if he could thoroughly master it—even without relying on spiritual energy at all, his physical functions could grow rapidly, approaching the limits of a human.

Of course, this "human" couldn't include Hanma Yujiro.

Retsu Kaioh wouldn't work either. Lin Li would never be able to forget the scene where Retsu Kaioh, that guy, was left with only a head and a baby's body and could still be alive.

And the spiritual energy chapters were to transform his body into a shape that spiritual energy liked, turning him into a velvet ball for spiritual energy.

Increasing the utilization efficiency of spiritual energy, so that in the future, when using or absorbing spiritual energy, one piece could be broken into two to spend.

For Lin Li, this was more important than having "super-sensitive spiritual energy skin."

After all, he was indeed "poor."

Although 0 broken into two halves was still 0.

After seeing the big pie, Lin Li had even more passion.

On Sunday morning, Lin Li practiced even harder, and even practiced an extra round after the task was completed.

However, the result was that the body's feedback was far worse than before.

His body was more tired, and his spirit wasn't as pleasant as before.

Lin Li thought about it; the arrangement given to him by the system should be the most suitable time and length for practicing the technique, and there was no need for him to paint a snake and add feet.

However, Lin Li also saw it.

Grandpa Zhou really intended to steal his technique.

Disrespectful to the old.

For these two days, he didn't practice his Tai Chi at all, or when he did, he was just putting on a show, with his peripheral vision entirely on him—he would notice this every time he took a short break.

Fortunately, it was a grandpa; otherwise, it would be a secret crush.

Perhaps precisely because he was a martial artist, he could see the extraordinary nature of the Body Tempering Eight-Section Brocade at a glance.

He still couldn't underestimate the people of the world.

It was just a bit too arrogant. Facing his gaze, Zhou Youwei never feared, looking at him with a righteous expression.

How could he steal so righteously?

However, Lin Li didn't intend to change places to practice because of this.

At any rate, he was a martial arts junior who had accompanied him to complete a task once; this could be considered a chance fed back to him—anyway, it was very difficult to successfully steal the technique. If he succeeded, then he was awesome.

Sunday night.

Although it was still within the weekend range, for the students of Nansang Middle School, everything had already ended.

Therefore, when Lin Li arrived at the classroom, everyone was in a lifeless state of soul and body separation.

Most were already sitting in their seats, starting to write the weekend homework that hadn't been touched at all.

The abstract kids in the back row didn't count as this majority.

It wasn't because they had finished their homework, but because they were cherishing these last ten-plus minutes of freedom.

"Yellow Heaven is above, listening to *Clockwise* once, can it return me to the weekend?" Bai Bufan was praying loudly while standing on the storage cabinet behind the classroom with Zhou Baowei.

"Listening once probably won't work, but if you listen for five days, you can return to the weekend." Lin Li, who had put down his schoolbag, said to Bai Bufan.

"..."

"Don't say it, you really don't say it, Lin Li, you are truly a genius who controls time." Bai Bufan wanted to say something but stopped, wanted to stop but said it, and gave a thumbs up.

"Thanks. Damn, Baowei, what did you do this weekend? Was your masculine energy sucked away?" Lin Li walked to the two of them and saw the dark circles under Zhou Baowei's eyes, clicking his tongue.

"He must have been a celibate monk fiercely this weekend." Bai Bufan shrugged.

"Being a celibate monk is good; it's cool to guard Ying Zheng, but you can't be greedy." Lin Li understood Bai Bufan's meaning in seconds, but still advised him.

"No way, you guys know Baowei's self-control. If he doesn't act as a 'celibate masturbator' to accumulate masculine virtue for one day, he accumulates masculine virtue for two days." Bai Bufan sighed long.

"Then there's really no saving him." Lin Li nodded.

Zhou Baowei, who was on the side, had black lines all over his head: "Can you two damn well stop spreading obscene rumors without asking the person involved? Off-putting men, I was just staying up late playing games, that's why I'm like this."

Two beasts talking like a crosstalk act, not caring if the person involved lives or dies, right?

The main thing was that the girl who just came to the storage cabinet to get things was looking at him with the wrong expression!

"Is it *Genshin*?"

"No."

"That's great, you can still be saved." Bai Bufan breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's wrong with Xiao?"

"So you weren't a Terracotta Warrior this weekend?" Lin Li asked.

"... One thing is one thing." Zhou Baowei gave a dry laugh, then lowered his voice and said: "But have you guys heard? It seems like a massage parlor near our school was sealed off because it was providing that kind of service behind the scenes. I heard it was reported by someone."

"How do you know?"

"My brother's blind date, who likes to travel, went in, and then I found out. The matchmaker's genealogy has already been cursed to pieces by my parents."

"Is that damn travel? That's flying nationwide!" Bai Bufan laughed.

"Yeah, my brother heard she liked the sea, but now he knows she likes the Mediterranean. She said she was sensible early; it turns out it was because the 'Chairman' had already adjusted the formatting." Zhou Baowei curled his lips. "I'm quite grateful to the brother who reported it; otherwise, my brother, that honest man, would have almost become a 'cuckold'."

Lin Li smiled triumphantly.

He was the person involved, having experienced the whole process. Bai Bufan and Zhou Baowei wouldn't think of it even if they broke their heads; the protagonist was right beside them.

"Leaving after the matter is done, hiding one's name and fame"—this was simply him.

"No need to thank him; this is what he should have done." Lin Li's smile was ethereal.

"I didn't intend to thank him." Zhou Baowei shook his head.

Lin Li: "?"

I just said it casually, you really aren't thanking him?

Why don't you just replace your whole family and kowtow to me a few times?

"One thing is one thing. I announce that he is expelled from the 'male registry' and classified as a 'sisterly' type. I wish him ten centimeters shorter." Zhou Baowei shook his head.

"Indeed, I estimate he spent a lot of money, but he was too fast, finished in one minute, and the more he thought about it, the more he regretted it, so he backstabbed them." Bai Bufan giggled.

"Fast? It's not working!"

The two actually started to speculate about the hero with the greatest malice.

Lin Li: "?"

Suspected of being somewhat impolite.

Men's faces change a bit too fast.

"I don't think you should have such great malice toward a stranger." Lin Li shook his head. "The informant ultimately did a good thing. This matter is completely different from the nature of a reporting website or group chat."

"The logic is correct, and what he did is also correct, but I want to curse him." Bai Bufan nodded and shook his head.

"Why?"

"Because I have no quality, and my worldview was consolidated by Hang Dali." Bai Bufan said loudly.

"..." Lin Li was speechless.

Sincerity is indeed the ultimate move; Bai Bufan's life is finished.

"I suddenly have an urgent matter and have to go." Bai Bufan noticed the students walking in at the door, and his expression changed.

"Lin Li! Hold this dog thing down! Damn, he actually hid back in the classroom. You know that the most dangerous place is the safest. Fortunately, we came back to take a look." Another group of classmates who played games on the weekend walked over aggressively and shouted.

"What happened?" Lin Li asked curiously.

"Heh, I admit I had a small problem playing on the weekend, so I promised you guys that if you caught me before class, I'd accept a 'group wedgie,' but sorry, class is about to start. As long as I run out the back door, everything is over." Bai Bufan laughed loudly.

When a person is hungry, the meal comes.

He was worthy of being the protagonist chosen by the system. Lin Li smiled with satisfaction.

"Lin Li! Hold him down!"

"Lin Li won't—"

"Click."

Bai Bufan's words stopped abruptly. He turned his head to look at Lin Li, who had locked the back door.

Lin Li didn't look at him, but said to the classmates at the door: "I don't have much strength, I'm afraid I can't hold him down. Locking the door is more stable."

Bai Bufan: "?"

"Why treat me like this?"

When Bai Bufan was head down and legs up, his body slowly moving toward the door beam, the sadness burned in his golden eyes reflecting his upside-down best friend, the ancient bell seemed to ring in his body, and a lion that had lost everything was hidden in his eyes.

"Because my worldview was consolidated by *Family Guy*. Gigity, gigity, all right~~"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 23 =====