Chapter 221: Biology actually contains heavenly secrets

Task completed, Lin Li was very gratified.

And no ten-fold derivative task popped up.

Actually, Lin Li had even prepared to run through all the gyms in Xiling, but it was fine that there wasn't one; it saved a lot of effort.

He declined Brother Zhu's good intention of wanting him to stay for whole-wheat steamed buns. After all, he said there was no wheat and no buns, and he was afraid something would happen if he ate them, so Lin Li ran away immediately.

Let Brother Zhai eat them.

【You have obtained the active ability "Soul of Close Combat."】

【You have obtained the derivative ability "Soul of Close Combat (Passive)"】

Can one ability derive a new ability? This was a situation that hadn't appeared before, so Lin Li checked the details curiously.

【Soul of Close Combat: Designate a single type of melee weapon. For the next hour, you will be proficient in the melee use of that weapon. Cooldown is 24 hours. During the ability activation and cooldown period, "Soul of Close Combat (Passive)" will be ineffective.】

【Soul of Close Combat (Passive): You will adapt to all melee weapons faster and can use them more flexibly for close combat.】

So that was it.

This looked much more powerful than 【Catching a Blade with Bare Hands】, and even just the derived passive alone could crush it.

And melee weapons, what was the definition of this thing?

To determine the definition, Lin Li rode his bicycle while looking at the ground.

Very easily, he found a disposable chopstick from the side of the road.

Upon picking it up, Lin Li's hand naturally held it in a reverse grip, just like holding a dagger.

Because Lin Li's brain was suddenly very certain that this was the most suitable posture for exerting force.

Waving the chopstick in front of him a few times and listening to the faint sound of breaking air, Lin Li laughed.

Obviously, the chopstick was also within the scope of the ability's influence.

It seemed that the ability's "melee weapon" referred to melee in a very broad sense. Short weapons like chopsticks that were more suitable to be called hidden weapons could also count.

Dropping the chopstick, Lin Li picked up a stone.

This place is sharper, convenient for hammering people, and holding it like this is more appropriate...

These instructional pieces of information appeared in his brain just like that.

Confirmed, as long as it's held in the hand, it's all melee.

A rifle equipped with a bayonet would definitely also be affected by this ability.

However, both the active and passive parts of this ability stated that it would only improve his melee talent with weapons.

In other words, if he could really get a firearm equipped with a bayonet, the information his brain told him would only assist in improving bayonet techniques and would not involve remote attacks like shooting or aiming.

But that was enough.

This undoubtedly increased his confidence in heading to "reality" to explore.

Then, why not strengthen it further?

When choosing to use the "Ability Amplifier," the prompt indicated that the only available target was the "Soul of Close Combat" as a whole, without distinguishing between active and passive.

【You have used an "Ability Amplifier" on "Soul of Close Combat."】

【Soul of Close Combat (+1): Designate a single type of melee weapon. For the next two hours, you will be proficient in the melee use of that weapon. During this period, you have one chance to change the designated weapon. Cooldown is 24 hours. During the cooldown period, "Soul of Close Combat (Passive)" will be ineffective.】

The time doubled, and there was an extra chance to change the designated weapon, making it more applicable. As for the passive, it didn't change at all.

Still quite satisfied.

It was a pity that only one amplifier was left.

Returning home, in order to go on a date with a beautiful lady, Lin Li continued to use spiritual energy to transform his "Clear Thunder-Driving Body."

The completion of the one-month body tempering task gave him 20 low-grade ones, plus that one high-grade one; Lin Li was currently not lacking in spiritual energy at all.

The maximum amount of electricity his body could store had greatly increased, and the distance for long-range discharge had also increased to twenty centimeters—it was only ten centimeters when he was at Shanting. This was a change within a few days.

He could feel that it wouldn't be long before the Clear Thunder-Driving Body could enter the next stage.

At that time, there should be another wave of major growth.

If there was still a chance, Lin Li would definitely go to Pingjiang to let that thunder-path expert know who the real Thunder Dharma King was.

"Mom is leaving first, so I won't send you to school."

When dinner ended, Wu Min, who had finished cleaning the kitchen, walked to the living room and said to Lin Li.

"Alright, Sister Min, to be honest, I really can't bear to see you go." Lin Li said with a choked voice.

While choking, he picked up Wu Min's bag from the table, stuffed it into Wu Min's arms, then pushed Wu Min to the door, opened the door, and performed a standard "please leave" gesture.

Wu Min: "..."

Only his mouth couldn't bear to see her go.

After flicking Lin Li on the forehead, Wu Min tidied up her things and left.

"Great, it's freedom!" Lin Li cheered at light speed.

The door opened.

"Too bad, it's loneliness." Lin Li teared up at light speed.

Wu Min was used to it; she just signaled Lin Li to go to her room to get something she had left behind, and then she truly left.

Lin Li didn't rush to go out immediately; Wu Min might be squatting and waiting for him. It wasn't until 5:30 that he rode his bike to the station to retrieve his other express packages.

There wasn't enough time, and there was no need to unpack them, so Lin Li headed to school for evening self-study.

"Konnichiwa, Baowei." Seeing those guys in the hallway still stacking on top of each other, Lin Li stepped forward to greet the Japanese, Zhou Baowei.

Zhou Baowei pretended not to hear.

"You're wrong, Lin Li. Baowei doesn't understand that now; you have to change it." Wang Ze, who was on the side, said with a smile upon hearing this.

"Huh? Updated again?" Hearing this, Lin Li looked around to make sure there were no teachers, then took out his phone to check Baowei's QQ space.

"October 4th: If I don't lose weight properly by tomorrow, I'll become one of Old Jiang's people in my next life!"

"October 5th: If I don't lose weight properly by tomorrow, I'll become a Japanese person in my next life!"

"October 6th: If I don't diet properly tomorrow, I'll be a pig in my next life!"

"October 7th: Oink oink oink oink, oink oink!"

"So you've already become Tianpeng, Baowei. You're even more amazing than Martin Morning; you're 'Great Transformation Baowei'." Lin Li was amused and patted Baowei's shoulder with a chuckle.

"I've already tried very hard. I followed the weight loss tutorial, and I even multiplied their training volume by seven, but it's still useless." Zhou Baowei scratched his head and said.

"Which part of the volume?" Lin Li's sharp eyes instantly saw through the wordplay.

"The weight loss meal."

"That makes sense. You can eat seven portions a day; you are this!" Lin Li gave a thumbs up.

"Wrong, it's per meal. Don't say that, the weight loss meal is actually quite delicious."

"Then I have to give you two of these."

After chatting with the few people in the hallway for a while, Lin Li returned to the classroom.

Bai Bufan was sitting in his seat, the window next to him was open, and the electric fan overhead was creaking as it turned.

Would his head be sliced off if the electric fan fell down?

Lin Li had imagined such scenes since he was a child, and he would even think about how he would dodge and how far the blood would splatter.

"If you don't close the window, there will be a lot of mosquitoes and insects later." Returning to his seat, Lin Li said while closing the window.

Although Lin Li wasn't afraid of mosquitoes, it was annoying to have other small bugs flying around.

"September is over, and they won't even let us turn on the air conditioning. Nansang is too stingy." Bai Bufan pointed helplessly at the vertical air conditioner behind them that couldn't be turned on anymore.

"A calm heart naturally cools. If you can't handle this little bit of heat, won't you collapse when you graduate and deliver food in the future?" Lin Li looked at Bai Bufan with some disappointment.

Bai Bufan: "?"

"Why is my future already destined to be delivering food? Shouldn't I be selling matches in the winter?"

"That works too, I respect your choice." "Wait, no!"

After evening self-study began, Xue Jian came to patrol as usual, and then called Lin Li and Bai Bufan out again.

But it wasn't a bad thing; it was just because they made it onto the school's honor roll, and it was their first time, so they needed to provide a "message" to be recorded by the school.

"Can I say anything?" Lin Li asked with anticipation.

"You can't say anything about yellow, gambling, or drugs."

Lin Li: "I want to say silence is golden."

"How about you?" Xue Jian looked at Bai Bufan.

Bai Bufan: "..."

Silence is better than sound at this moment.

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Xue Jian: "..."

Xue Jian realized that his silence and Bai Bufan's silence were different.

"Both of you, change it for me."

Lin Li and Bai Bufan had no choice.

After all, rules were rules, and they weren't set just today.

Finally, considering that the two of them made it onto the honor roll together, they decided to link up. So Lin Li looked up: "Teacher, then can I write 'Without Bufan, I wouldn't have achieved today's results'?"

"This is fine." At least it was better than yellow, gambling, or drugs. Xue Jian nodded.

Bai Bufan's eyes widened, and he teared up a bit, then nodded firmly: "Teacher, then mine will write 'Without Lin Li, I wouldn't have achieved such progress'."

"Fine."

Not wanting to delay any longer with these two troublemakers, Xue Jian nodded and left.

"Good brother!"

"For life!"

The two who remained looked at each other, shedding tears for the brotherhood between them.

Evening self-study continued. The homework had been finished during the holiday, and he had already previewed the lessons. With no academic pressure, Lin Li simply pretended to study, but in reality, he was holding a spirit stone and started cultivating in the classroom.

Anyway, the transformation process of the Clear Thunder-Driving Body wouldn't have any strange phenomena.

Bai Bufan was making up the homework he had specifically left for tonight during the National Day holiday.

While writing, he was also muttering:

"Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. So that's it. In biological taxonomy, family is smaller than class and phylum. It seems Lao Da hasn't been 'lifting his anus' less; the priest is having a blast."

Lin Li: "?"

Thanks Bufan, and thanks Kobe. For the sake of health, Lin Li started "lifting his anus" and drinking water.

"I'm off. Contact me via drift bottle if anything happens." As soon as the evening self-study bell rang, Lin Li stood up and said to Bai Bufan.

"Why are you in such a rush? What are you going to do again?" Bai Bufan hadn't even gotten off his seat yet and saw Lin Li preparing to run away, so he asked in surprise.

"I have a date."

"With whom?"

"A beautiful lady." Lin Li said while walking toward the back door.

"Outside of school?" Bai Bufan looked at Chen Yuying, who was still in her seat, and lowered his voice slightly, "Preparing to cheat so soon? Be careful of being 'turned a blind eye to'."

"Outside of the planet."

Bai Bufan: "?"

The truth is always unbelievable. Ignoring Bai Bufan, Lin Li jogged, preparing to go downstairs, but suddenly remembered something and changed his path back toward the office.

"What's wrong?" Xue Jian, who was just about to get up and return to the teacher's apartment, saw Lin Li running over and asked in confusion.

"Teacher, has the 'message' for the honor roll been submitted?" Lin Li looked at Xue Jian.

"Not yet, why?" Xue Jian shook his head.

Lin Li smiled: "Can I change it?"

Xue Jian: "?"

"... Fine."

Bai Bufan, who the hell is your brother.

Riding his bike home, Lin Li unpacked all the express packages he had retrieved in the afternoon.

A baseball bat, a steel rod, a fruit knife, a dagger, and a bottle of anti-wolf spray.

"This ability is really something. I'm looking forward to the active use situation. I'll really become a weapon master, right?"

Lin Li muttered to himself.

In front of him, the vital points on the paper dummy he had just made were full of deep knife cuts.

And all the attacks that could be considered precise were done by Lin Li, who had never trained before.

Lin Li felt as if there was a comprehensive weapon master in his mind. Every time he picked up a melee weapon, it would teach him how to use it; he just had to listen to its instructions.

After his limb control ability was enhanced, simple movements were smooth and flowing, and he could completely replicate them according to the thoughts in his mind.

Without killing fish in a supermarket for a few years, it's hard to have this kind of fluency.

However, for some high-difficulty movements, his brain knew how, but his body still didn't; it would still need time to settle.

Moreover, the one in front of him was a static target. In actual combat, there would definitely be differences, and it would be more difficult for his body to understand and process his brain's instructions.

But this was already very powerful.

If someone saw this scene of Lin Li, they would definitely mistake him for a Changsha native.

The act of stabbing Bai Bufan in the back tonight was probably also induced by this ability.

No wonder he suddenly wanted to backstab; the damned "Soul of Close Combat" had harmed him.

Lin Li is good, the Soul of Close Combat is bad.

It's a pity that the daggers and fruit knives on hand didn't have many moves to speak of. If he had a sword or a saber, it should be even cooler.

Like iron rods and baseball bats, there were many tricks in his mind.

It's a pity that even the cheap basic versions of these things cost several hundred, and most of them weren't even sharpened.

Sharpened ones were even more expensive.

It wouldn't even be as cost-effective as buying a chainsaw and becoming Logger Vick.

The reason Lin Li didn't buy a chainsaw was that this thing was too noisy. He wanted to enter the village quietly, without firing a shot.

Putting the dagger into its sheath, Lin Li returned to his room, first turned on the air conditioning, then put on a protective suit inside, and only then started to wear the bulletproof vest, wrist guards, and other armor on his body.

To be honest, the final result was a bit bloated, even slightly hindering his movement, and it was very hot, but this gave Lin Li a sense of security.

The Clear Thunder-Driving Body was fully charged. The "Duck Blood Bottle" contained one-third human desire and one-third fear, and the remaining one-third was empty, just in case.

Finally, Lin Li took his phone, held a mini plastic box containing a live ant in his hand, and headed to the bathroom.

He placed all the disinfectant, alcohol, and such on the side so that he could perform disinfection immediately upon returning.

While clicking on the stopwatch function of the spare phone placed on the washing machine, Lin Li clicked the button that was lit up on the system's unknown interface.

Everything in front of him turned pale white.

Beautiful lady, I'm coming!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 222 =====