Chapter 231

These days, you can even see people trying to cyberbully Hayao Miyazaki.

Lin Li no longer paid attention to the special-grade cursed spirit Chen Tianming, and after getting a clear view of the situation near the jump rope area, he shouted loudly:

"Ding Si, stop your legs!"

"Huh?"

Then Lin Li took advantage of Ding Si's momentary daze, took a big step forward to the front of the crowd, hugged his own head, jumped when the rope hit the ground, and quickly slipped out.

Ding Si, who had cut in line behind him and came up to jump, got hit in the leg.

"Haha, trash." Seeing this, Lin Li put his hands on his hips, pointed at Ding Si, and laughed loudly with his head tilted back.

"You messed up my rhythm! You still have the nerve to bark like a dog? I'll make you trash! I'll make you trash!" Ding Si, flushed with anger, chased after Lin Li and started kicking.

"My school uniform pants are custom-made, 1,800! 1,800!" So Lin Li covered his butt and ran.

One thousand eight got dirty.

The two returned to the jump rope area.

The Nansang event uses the "figure-eight rope weaving" format, meaning all players enter and exit the rope circle in sequence following an "8"-shaped path, and the winner is determined by the number of times completed within three minutes.

The rule is two rope-turners and eight players, but now there are many people, because they watch who jumps well and let that person go up when it's time.

Lin Li naturally blended in, and made almost no mistakes, except that he was always worried the rope would hit his head, so every time he jumped, he held his head.

"How do you jump so well?" Ding Si from behind asked hesitantly.

"Of course it's talent, it couldn't possibly be because in elementary school I spent all day telling my buddies that jumping rubber bands was sissy stuff before playing this childish game, but actually every day after school, the first thing I did when I got back to the neighborhood was start chanting with the neighbor's kids: 'Jumping rubber bands, I'm first, horse orchid blooms twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-one' to practice, right?

Ha—, ha—. It was so long that Lin Li felt like he was about to suffocate from saying it.

Lin Li suddenly realized: long, difficult sentences—this is practically a kind of language deep-throating oneself.

Ding Si: "..."

"You're really amazing, Lin Li, I feel you're quite suited for this event." Chen Yuying walked over and said.

"Whatever, anyway I'm an all-around athlete, I'm the brick of Class Four, wherever needed, I'll go there! Loyal! Sincere! Just need the class monitor to give one order, no matter what event, I'll immediately defect! Escape!" Lin Li stood at attention and swore an oath.

Chen Yuying was already used to it, nodding: "I'll check later, Lin Li, are you good at other events? Like this stone-hopping river-crossing game, everyone walks it but isn't used to it."

Lin Li looked in the direction Chen Yuying pointed, and saw three stone slabs placed on the ground.

The so-called stone-hopping river-crossing game requires players to use these three stone slabs as footholds, moving from the start line to the finish line, during which no part of the body may touch the ground, otherwise they must start over.

On Nansang's side, it's a relay race: a fifteen-meter stretch, with six people each responsible for three forward and three backward legs, calculating total time consumed.

"This, simple."

Lin Li nodded easily, stepped forward, weighed the stone slabs, and then began "crossing the river."

The most standard method is to place one foot on each slab, then move the third slab forward and step forward one slab, repeating the process.

Lin Li started this way too, his speed not fast yet, seemingly adjusting.

But after only a few meters, Lin Li directly placed one slab to the side, using only two slabs—when lifting his foot, he pulled the rear slab out with his hand, and when landing, that slab just happened to land exactly on the forward foothold.

This method is very fast, but also requires some skill; Bai Bufan, who was also trying this event on the other side, widened his eyes.

Lin Li can go, I cannot not go, so Bai Bufan also tried it once.

Hmm.

Stepping on his own foot with his hand still hurts quite a bit.

"Simple." After easily finishing, Lin Li stood up and snapped his fingers.

"So three stones are still redundant then?" Chen Yuying covered her mouth with her hand, slightly surprised and lips parted, sighing.

"Not redundant, I've already figured out how to use that stone." Lin Li waved his hand, he's an expert, naturally has his tricks.

"What use?"

"When the time comes, I'll put it in my pocket, and whoever is in front of our class team, I'll throw it at them." Lin Li spoke with unjustified confidence but also boldness.

Chen Yuying: "?"

Is this how bricks are supposed to be used?

Eh.

Bricks seem to be used this way.

"The school won't allow this, huh." Chen Yuying said with a smile.

"Why not? Others are like Bai Bufan—trash needing three bricks, I saved one brick, so throwing it at people shouldn't be my freedom?" Lin Li got angry.

"If others give up the competition, they could save three bricks, Lin Li, do you think they'd throw them at whom?" Bai Bufan said lazily from the side, not forgetting to aim at Lin Li's head, weighing the brick in his hand.

Also turning a blind eye.

Lin Li: "?"

Makes sense.

"I support all school rules! Student safety is the most important!" Lin Li's expression turned serious.

The girls laughed out loud.

Afterward, Lin Li tested all the fun events that could be measured.

He achieved good results in all of them.

Being able to achieve these results, upon analysis, Lin Li believes it's due to two buffs: a 100% increase in bodily control and a 40% increase in comprehension. The latter speeds up understanding the key points of these fun events, while the former quickly turns his understood "theoretical experience" into actual practice, so wanting to slack off is difficult.

Listening to the girls' one after another exclamations and unstinting praise, Lin Li's little tail almost wanted to perk up to the heavens.

The purpose of my cultivation, aside from making that already-met mother and son fly up, isn't it precisely for this moment?

"Really amazing, then in that case, when I arrange for the classmates with poor sports to join a fun event, for victory, the rest will have to be dispatched as much as possible to you, Lin Li." Chen Yuying said.

"No problem, leave it to me." Lin Li patted his chest.

"I lost my wallet, Lin Li, can you help me find it?" Bai Bufan said this out of the blue at this moment.

"No problem, leave it to me." Lin Li understood instantly.

"Then why won't you give it back to me, you little thief!"

"... What a cold joke." Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan only reacted after a moment, laughing as they spoke.

"By the way, class monitor, are you participating in any competitive events?" Lin Li asked.

"I signed up for the 200 and 400, but it's just to make up the numbers, getting a participation point is enough." Chen Yuying nodded and replied.

Chen Yuying's PE grades, among the girls in the class, could be understood as the tail end of the first echelon when running.

Making up the numbers was a self-deprecating way of putting it, but getting a good placing at the sports meet was indeed a bit difficult; it depended on the level of the other competitors in the same heat.

"What about long distance? Who's running the girls' 3000 meters?" Lin Li asked.

Nansan Middle School girls also had a 3000-meter event; girls participating in this required even more courage than boys running the 3000.

"The only one confirmed so far is Wanqiu." Chen Yuying said.

Although Qu Wanqiu was very lazy, she was indeed the best runner among the girls — Xie Wenjing was a sports student, but her specialty was shot put, and she wasn't good at running.

"What, so it's a comrade-in-arms!" Lin Li waved to signal Qu Wanqiu over, then extended his hand, kindred spirits recognizing each other.

"Did you wash your hands?" Qu Wanqiu glanced at Lin Li's hand, hesitating.

Lin Li: "?"

What kind of celestial aristocrat little brat.

So the handshake palm turned into an international middle finger.

"3000! 3000! So annoying!" Wang Ze seemed to have heard Lin Li chatting about 3000-meter-related stuff at this moment, walking over listlessly, crazily shaking Lin Li's shoulders.

"What's the matter?" Lin Li asked while shaking along.

"The class can't find a dumbass like you who voluntarily runs long distance anymore, how come even for making up numbers everyone's unwilling one by one, Lin Li, quickly exert your dumbass power, infect everyone else into dumbasses too?" Wang Ze's words were rough but his reasoning wasn't.

Lin Li was just about to say he couldn't help, but the idea king suddenly had another idea.

"Wang Ze, if I can help you find someone to run the 3000, what can you give me in return?" he asked.

Wang Ze answered: "My burning and sincere love." Lin Li left.

"No no no, Lin Li, if you really can find someone, from now on you're my adoptive father, you say east I absolutely won't go west, I'll follow your lead completely." Wang Ze hurriedly changed his tune.

"A man's mouth, a lying ghost, don't say such fart talk, how about this, if I find someone, you owe me ten not-excessive little requests." Lin Li waved his hand and said.

Hearing "little requests," Chen Yuying suddenly felt her soles get a bit itchy.

Lin Li couldn't be interested in guys' feet too, right?

"First say roughly what kind of requests?" Towards Sword Mound Lin Li, Wang Ze was still very cautious.

"Like helping me go buy drinks, helping me beat Bufan, beat Bao Wei and such." Lin Li completely didn't think in the direction of feet.

"Hah! Just that? Deal! Beating Bufan and Bao Wei I don't even need you to request, I'd do it with relish!" Wang Ze instantly felt relieved.

Bai Bufan: "?"

"I feel you guys are a bit impolite, I protest." he said.

Not a single mistake, not a single chapter, not a single release, not a single bit of content is anywhere else but here to read!

Steamed buns ignore dogs, humans ignore Bai Bufan.

"Deal!"

"Who are you looking for? I asked around, not a single one willing." Agreement reached, Wang Ze asked curiously.

Could it be Lin Li still has some back-row bros' blackmail material he doesn't know about?

"Let me say this first, I absolutely won't participate in this, seriously." Bai Bufan immediately retreated ten meters, maintaining an absolute safe distance as he shouted at Lin Li — this far, he had to shout to be heard.

1000 meters already took his life, 3000 is the death penalty repeatedly executed.

"Didn't count on you, useless thing. Class monitor, don't leave yet, you're an indispensable witness."

Lin Li said disdainfully, first instructing Chen Yuying beside him, then looking at his target — that existence who would occasionally look at him, gaze so intense it was impossible to ignore:

"Yue Zhi, come here a sec!"

"What for?" Wang Yuezhi walked over unwillingly, eyeing Lin Li warily.

Originally everything was fine, he and Chen Yuying were jumping rope together, then this dog thing Lin Li came and lured Chen Yuying away to play other fun events.

So annoying.

Wang Ze looked at Wang Yuezhi in surprise; although he'd "asked a circle," he'd indeed only asked those he was familiar with, Wang Yuezhi was one, not familiar, two, his running was average, Wang Ze felt there was no need to ask.

Could this guy be a hidden long-distance running enthusiast?

"I'm going to order you on an errand." Lin Li wore a gentle smile.

"Speak, I'll run it." Wang Yuezhi nodded.

He wasn't someone who couldn't afford to lose; mainly the stakes and bets Chen Yuying remembered very clearly, Lin Li was also fairly humanoid, letting Wang Yuezhi call him dad in private, at least he didn't lose face in front of Chen Yuying.

The original bet, besides one "dad," also had three not-excessive errands, Wang Yuezhi hadn't forgotten.

"Heard that? Wang Yuezhi agreed, 3000 and 1500 meter athletes just fill in his name." Teachable child, no need to say more, so Lin Li immediately said happily.

"OK! Liberated! Thanks, Wang Yuezhi, you're worthy of being our Wang family! You don't disgrace this surname!" Wang Ze happily clapped!

Wang Yuezhi: "Huh? You guys are saying—"

Wang Yuezhi: "?"

Wait.

What the hell were these two saying just now in their mouths??

"—Cough, cough, cough!"

Wang Yuezhi violently spat a mouthful of saliva into the air; fortunately Lin Li brought Chen Yuying and dodged quickly, no casualties.

Wang Yuezhi couldn't be bothered to catch his breath, staring wide-eyed at Lin Li, at least a magnitude 8 earthquake in his pupils, voice even trembling a bit: "Lin Li, you f*cking call running 3000 and 1500 an errand?"

Could tell Wang Yuezhi was really surprised, after all hearing profanity from his mouth was still pretty hard — especially with Chen Yuying also present.

As for Chen Yuying, she now stood at Lin Li's side-rear, head lowered, unable to hold back her snickering, taking advantage of no one paying attention to secretly punch Lin Li once.

Lin Li is truly terrible.

"Errands, run-ning, run and legs — no matter how you look at it, if three kilometers isn't an errand task, then what is?" Lin Li made a jogging-in-place motion, swinging his arms and lifting his legs, and said it as if it were only natural.

The words aren't rough, the logic is even less rough.

Wang Yuezhi: "..."

He wanted to curse someone.

No, Lin Li isn't human; he wanted to curse a beast.

"Wrong wrong wrong!" Wang Yuezhi hurriedly waved his hands — making him run three kilometers would kill him too — "We agreed at the start on three not-excessive errand tasks, but this is already excessive."

"If during the big break, in the classroom, I had you go to the school shop to buy me a bottle of water — would that task be excessive?" Lin Li asked, almost without thinking.

"That one isn't excessive; of course I can accept it." Wang Yuezhi nodded.

"Then it's settled. Counting the stairs up and down, the round trip from our classroom to the shop is about two kilometers. So be it — you're supposed to run three errands for me, perfect: the three errands are respectively the 1,500-meter race, the first 1,500 meters of the 3,000-meter race, and the last 1,500 meters of the 3,000-meter race. Perfect! perfect!"

Wang Yuezhi: "???"

Wait.

Quiet, let me think.

Is this right? This isn't right, is it?

You schemer — didn't you already calculate all this from the start?

Looking at the dazed Wang Yuezhi, Lin Li felt his logic had absolutely no problem.

Then why has Chen Yuying been secretly punching her own back.

Damn it, the class monitor is actually hitting herself for Wang Yuezhi.

Lin Li wanted to dye his own head green.

"Wrong wrong wrong wrong!" Eyes lighting up, Wang Yuezhi seemed to have grabbed a lifeline; his brain reconnected and he hurriedly denied again: "Lin Li, if I help you go to the shop to buy things, there's absolutely no need to rush — the big break has twenty minutes — this can't be compared to a race!"

"Right right right right." Lin Li waved a finger in front of Wang Yuezhi: "Yuezhi, we never expected you to get a good placing; our purpose is purely to secure a participation base point, and to give Wang Ze a freedom."

"So you still don't need to rush at all. Just treat it like running to buy something during the big break. Forget twenty minutes — even if you run twenty hours it's fine, as long as you finish. Isn't that even more relaxed than going to buy something?"

Wang Yuezhi: "????"

Wait again.

Quiet again, let me think again.

Huh? Seems like this really is just a pure errand task now?

Seeing Wang Yuezhi still seemed to want to retort, Lin Li frowned slightly: "Yuezhi, I've broken the reasoning down for you piece by piece. This was the bet between us brothers from the start — you can't play sore loser. What do you think? You wouldn't want to welsh, would you? Sigh, if that's the case..."

Wang Yuezhi raised his head, glanced at Lin Li, then glanced at the notary Chen Yuying, and suddenly felt he had indeed been a bit "unreasonably obstinate," so he hurriedly retorted:

"Who said I'm welching! Fine! I'll run! Running is all it takes, right!"

Crap.

One second after saying it, Wang Yuezhi regretted it.

What bullshit did I just say.

Because Chen Yuying was present, Wang Yuezhi, whose brain had just heated up, merely gritted his teeth and said: "But Lin Li, remember — from now on, we're even. I don't owe you anything anymore!"

"OK! I believe you! Wang Ze, did you hear! You're free!" Lin Li gave Wang Yuezhi a thumbs-up, then turned to look at Wang Ze.

"Thanks, godfather! From now on when beating Bufan and Bao Wei, just call on your godson!" Wang Ze was moved to tears!

"Wang Yuezhi, I'll cheer for you when the time comes." Standing behind and to the side of Lin Li, Chen Yuying politely said to Wang Yuezhi at this moment.

Anyway, I'll definitely have to go watch Lin Li run then; cheering for him — we're all classmates, it's just a few more words.

Wang Yuezhi: "!"

Eh?

Cheer for me?

Hehe.

Gurgle gurgle gurgle.

After chatting with Wang Ze, Lin Li looked in surprise at Wang Yuezhi suddenly standing there spacing out and grinning foolishly — what happened?

Where did the pink bubbles come from?

Although I don't know why, a happy ending for all has been reached.

(End of chapter)