Chapter 255

Wednesday.

After finishing his daily workout, Lin Li rode his bike to school.

There was still a month and a half left before the two-month deadline for the Body Tempering task.

Since starting the Body Tempering Eight-Section Art over from scratch, he truly felt he had gained new insights; when practicing, he could execute many details much more effectively, especially in the spiritual energy section.

Both his efficiency in utilizing spiritual energy and his physical fitness were steadily improving.

Lin Li felt that if he were to face Zhai Kai now, he probably wouldn't need 【Power Accumulation】 to fight to a draw, at the very least.

It was even possible he could suppress him.

With another month and a half to go, he could walk the path he had already traveled at least four or five more times; Lin Li didn't believe that after so many attempts, he still wouldn't meet the task requirements.

It was worth mentioning that the Clear Upright Thunder-Driving Method had also progressed further; after his Thunder Body reached minor completion, Lin Li could now gradually control the output of electrical arcs from his body, such as gathering a ball of electricity in his palm.

Although he couldn't hold it for very long and the power was average, it was indeed a step forward in terms of techniques, and it finally had the feel of a "Thunder Art."

He was finally, damn it, not just a simple power bank.

The future was promising; in any case, he had no opponents, so he would just take it slow.

——To this day, other than using the Clear Upright Thunder-Driving Method to electrocute mosquitoes, he only used it to electrocute Bai Bufan.

Even the zombies hadn't been touched by Lin Li's electricity.

"A horse's eye cannot tolerate a grain of sand~ because it would feel uncomfortable too~ A horse's eye is always full of wisdom~ as if it has experience to impart~"

Riding his bike leisurely, Lin Li hummed a song.

He had already grown tired of singing "Spring Breeze Elf," but fortunately, he had found another treasure of a song—"The World in a Horse's Eye."

"Sometimes a horse's eye holds shyness~ when it is being petted~ Tears also flow from a horse's eye~ when it has finished the battle~"

"What is the world in a horse's eye really like! Is it also searching for direction like me! No matter how much tempering and collision I experience! My horse's eye is always full of strength!" Lin Li sang the chorus loudly.

He didn't dare sing softly, for fear that the people in heaven wouldn't hear him.

When Bai Bufan shared this song with Lin Li last night, Lin Li immediately put it on repeat for a hundred times and became a believer.

This song written for a horse was so deeply emotional that it made Lin Li, a person who had never touched or ridden a horse in his life, actually empathize with it.

It could be considered another "erectile" work of the Chinese music scene, proving that the golden age of Chinese music had completely ended and entered the silver-gold age.

The lyrics were thought-provoking; what exactly was in a horse's eye?

Lin Li felt that for those steeds born to gallop on the grasslands, in today's modern society filled only with torrents of steel, their eyes must be full of longing and nostalgia for the turf.

When he got close to the school, Lin Li stopped singing.

He was afraid of being heard by acquaintances.

The school's electric retractable gate was kept wide open today; after all, although it wasn't an open house day during the sports meet, if students' parents wanted to come, they could still fill out a form and drive in to watch.

Little Sassy Gate, usually it only opened a small gap when he came by himself, why was it open so wide today?

Hmph hmph.

"Lin Li: I'm at the school gate, are you up, Class Monitor."

"Chen Yuying: Okay, I've got my things ready too, I'm coming downstairs now."

"Lin Li: OK."

Because the opening ceremony started at 7:30, there was plenty of time reserved; it was only 5:40-something now.

The campus was still shrouded in a thin layer of mist, and it was especially quiet downstairs at the girls' dormitory, with few people around; the occasional bird call broke the silence.

As for the dormitory door, the dorm manager would open it at 5:30, so there was no conflict.

Lin Li had parked his bike at the entrance and walked over, carrying the five breakfasts for their dorm today—one person didn't eat.

So from far away, Lin Li saw Chen Yuying standing on the steps in front of the building, holding her makeup case.

Her long hair was draped casually over her shoulders, she was wearing a sky-blue long-sleeved shirt, dark blue-green high-waisted straight-leg pants, and a pair of white sneakers on her feet.

Like that fresh breeze on an autumn morning.

"Hello, food delivery here." Lin Li approached with a smile, then said, "Class Monitor, why aren't you wearing your school uniform again?"

"Days when you don't wear a school uniform are the ones you can cherish," Chen Yuying said with a smile, curling her hair.

"Are Ding Sihan and the others up?"

"Not yet, why?"

"Then I'm the first person to appreciate this outfit today, no wonder the almanac said it was a good day to go out, the great luck is right here." Lin Li said with a smile.

"Unfortunately not, our dorm manager auntie has already complimented me just now." Chen Yuying said with regret.

"What's your dorm manager auntie's Douyin ID? I'll find a truckload of bread men to cyberbully her." Lin Li was angry when he heard this.

"Flower Blooms Rich, the Douyin ID is the phone number, the one at the door, if you're too lazy to search, I can share it with you directly."

Chen Yuying pointed to a column at the door, which had the information of the dormitory's safety officer.

It was clearly an act of aiding and abetting others to commit violence, yet she was so understated, and even had a smile on her face.

Hmph hmph, no matter how beautiful she looked on the outside, the Class Monitor was still a bad woman at heart.

Lin Li followed Chen Yuying into the dormitory building; unfortunately, in this forbidden zone where boys were stopped, there was no Great Emperor, nor any ominous red hair, and it was no different from downstairs at the boys' dormitory.

The dorm manager auntie that Lin Li intended to cyberbully lived in the room closest to the door on the first floor; at this moment, the sound of cooking oil and the fragrance were wafting out of the room.

"Do you want to eat breakfast first?" Lin Li asked.

"No need, let's do makeup first."

Chen Yuying pointed to the empty small table and chairs on the first floor and said to Lin Li.

"That works, I'll leave this face of mine, worth 1,800 per jin, to you."

"Your skin only weighs about 100-130 grams, so 1,800 per jin is only a little over 300 yuan, you have to say it's more expensive next time." Chen Yuying opened the case and said with a smile while taking out foundation, eyeshadow, and lipstick.

"It's only because it's cheap that I can be so unashamed and carefree every time! If it were any more expensive, I couldn't afford to lose face."

After Lin Li sat down, Chen Yuying rubbed on some primer and began to apply it to Lin Li's face.

Reaching out, touching.

Her fingers brushed lightly over Lin Li's cheeks, carrying a trace of coolness; in that instant, both of them seemed to tremble imperceptibly.

A faint, refreshing fragrance also lingered at the tip of his nose as the young girl's body drew near.

Lin Li widened his eyes; looking closely, did Chen Yuying's face actually have no flaws either?

What about teenage acne?

Was it all slaughtered by the hard-working skincare routine every night?

Thinking of Chen Yuying's skincare routine and the time it took at night, Lin Li felt it made sense.

This face was meant to be hers.

Appreciating Chen Yuying's face at close range, Lin Li suddenly shook his head slightly, his eyes a bit angry.

What kind of shitty pinnacle of art halls is the Louvre? It didn't even house this face of Chen Yuying's, yet it dared to be so self-righteous?

He would look up the Louvre's Douyin ID when he got home tonight and cyberbully it along with the dorm manager auntie.

It was an easy task anyway.

As long as Nansang Middle School gave the word, Lin Li would be willing to support it as the new top hall of art.

The thought of pinching Chen Yuying's cheeks rekindled as he looked at her again.

What about the butt, what about Bai Bufan's butt, save me!

Unlike Lin Li, who was thick-skinned and could stare at Chen Yuying without any concealment, Chen Yuying only met his gaze for a moment before immediately shifting her eyes away, her long, dense eyelashes trembling like cicada wings in summer.

With steady breathing suppressing a faint blush, Chen Yuying used her left palm to support and fix Lin Li's face, while her right hand began to apply makeup, her eyes focused.

Both of them were very focused.

"No moving around from now on." Chen Yuying said gently.

"Can't my heart move either? That's a bit hard, but I'll try." In order not to let his lungs move around, Lin Li, who had already stopped breathing, began to pinch his left chest, trying to keep his heart from moving around too.

Chen Yuying: "?"

Looking at Lin Li, whose face was gradually turning blue, Chen Yuying blinked, withdrew her hand, tilted her head to look at him, and in Lin Li's gradually surprised and questioning eyes, she clenched her fist and gestured downwards, smiling and encouraging:

"Mm-hmm, that's right, it can't move, keep it up, tell me when it stops."

Lin Li: "Eh?"

It wasn't that there were fewer bad people, it was that the bad people had changed their nature!

Which gutter-dwelling beast brought Chen Yuying up like this!

Being able to do such a thing felt like the work of someone born to a mother but not raised by a father.

"Class Monitor, you said you could do makeup, but you didn't say in advance that you were a mortician and could only do makeup for dead guys!?" Lin Li couldn't hold it together.

"I'm not playing anymore, Class Monitor, I don't want you to do my makeup anymore, where's Ding Sihan, is she up yet, where's the dorm manager auntie, can she do makeup?"

"Alright, don't move, the real start is now." Chen Yuying said with a smile, "Tell me if you feel itchy anywhere."

"Will you help me scratch it? Hey, don't say that, I suddenly feel all over my body..."

"I'll withdraw my hand and let you scratch it yourself."

"——I don't feel itchy all over my body."

Time flies like an arrow, the sun and moon move like a shuttle, the white horse passes the crevice, time passes in a flash.

Chen Yuying let out a long sigh, patted her hands which were stained with a little makeup, and took a step back.

"Look up."

"Look down."

"Turn your head left, turn your head right."

Carefully examining her work, Chen Yuying nodded with satisfaction: "All done."

"Very good, Class Monitor, at least you didn't say anything about making me spin in circles." Lin Li got up and said with a smile.

There was a mirror on the wall on the first floor of the dormitory, and Lin Li walked over to take a look.

His face was covered in white foundation, exaggerated blue diamond-shaped eyeshadow was drawn around his eyes, and a huge, exaggerated red smile was outlined at the corners of his mouth.

But it wasn't as funny or ridiculous as he had expected.

This makeup look of Lin Li's actually didn't look like a circus clown, but rather more like the movie version of the Joker who would kill people, especially when Lin Li deliberately didn't smile and revealed a fierce look in his eyes.

It was even a bit handsome.

"Perfect." After admiring it for a few minutes, Lin Li gave Chen Yuying a thumbs up.

"As long as you're satisfied."

Chen Yuying nodded, her hands crossed behind her back, and there was still a sense of excitement on her face after being complimented. "Alright, Class Monitor, you take the breakfast up, if it keeps getting cold, it really won't taste good, I'm going to the boys' dorm to change clothes too, see you at the playground later?" After putting the makeup remover she borrowed into her school bag, Lin Li picked it up and put it on his back, saying.

"Okay."

Chen Yuying nodded, waved goodbye to Lin Li, and turned to go upstairs with the breakfast.

Lin Li headed to the boys' dorm to change clothes and put on his wig.

On the way over, he took a few selfies with his phone.

Really handsome, Lin Li.

No wonder the three elements of photography are portrait, portrait, and portrait.

How could he have had this confidence back in his bamboo pole days?

He felt like the kind of person who would flip through the Tieba forum for a long time without seeing himself, only to turn around and see that all the confessions were photos of him.

Did his image charm really only increase by 30% and not 300%?

Lin Li had to share it.

!

"Lin Li: Sister Min, are you awake?"

"Wu Min: No money."

"Lin Li:?"

"Lin Li: 【Image】, who's asking you for money, I'm letting you appreciate your son's magnificent beauty."

"Wu Min: It's alright, quite handsome, are you having a sports meet?"

Although Wu Min didn't go home much, she would have a phone call with Lin Li every weekend, so she naturally knew about things like the sports meet.

"Lin Li: Yes, Mom, I suddenly feel like I'm quite suited to dyeing my hair green, I want to dye it during the winter break, at worst I'll just get a haircut when school starts."

Green was still conservative; Lin Li felt that he could now pull off the colorful black.

"Wu Min: Let's forget about that, I heard from an expert that dyeing your hair affects your height, you're not at that age yet."

"Lin Li:? Mom, what kind of marketing account are you reading again, what kind of shitty expert, what does dyeing your hair have to do with height?"

"Lin Li: Mom, if you believe this, when you get old, you should buy health products from me, you're definitely going to buy them, so it's better to keep the fat water from flowing into outsiders' fields, let's have an internal circulation and help Xiling boost its GDP."

"Wu Min: Your mom isn't stupid, that expert is me, if you dare to dye it, and dare to dye it green, I'll dare to break your legs."

Lin Li: "(; o_o)?"

Fuck, this time the expert was telling the truth.

Dyeing your hair really affects your height, and it's a one-time impact of half a meter.

Wu Min could indeed be considered an expert.

Because a Ph. D. is actually an expert in one field and not necessarily knowledgeable, so a Ph. D. should be called a "Big Specialist."

So working backwards, Wu Min's junior college degree naturally makes her an expert.

Since the expert said so, Lin Li could only give up on the winter break green hair plan.

After all, his height was a major weapon for him to attack the boys in his class, and it was still useful.

"Knock knock knock." At the dormitory door.

"Lin Li? It's really you." The one who opened the door was Bai Bufan, still sleepy-eyed.

"Why so serious?" Lin Li asked with a sinister smile.

Bai Bufan: "Ah? Eh? That, what... I'm fine, thank you. And you?"

Lin Li: "?"

People without culture are truly terrifying.

Talking to this idiot was a bit of a waste of time.

"The sun is shining on your ass, damn it, and you're still sleeping, get up, get up, give me a spot to change clothes." Throwing his school bag directly onto the stomach of Zhou Baowei, who was still lying on the bed, Lin Li urged while sitting down to take off his shoes.

Zhou Baowei sat up and raised his middle finger, which he was used to.

Besides, what did it have to do with him if the sun was shining on his ass, he didn't need photosynthesis.

Bai Bufan, who was on the side, stared at Lin Li's face for a long time, feeling a bit sour.

What he wanted to see was the Joker, not a clown.

"Lin Li, you make me really want to hit you like this, I feel like you're provoking me." Bai Bufan had eaten a lemon. "Do you know that I'm actually the successor of Batman and Spider-Man, I inherited half of their mantle each.

You wearing the same Joker makeup in front of me is undoubtedly a provocation."

"Aren't your parents and uncle still alive? What mantle did you inherit?" Lin Li asked, raising his eyes.

Bai Bufan: "..."

"What part did you inherit, damn it."

"Ignorant and stupid! What I inherited is Batman's lack of superpowers, and Spider-Man's lack of money." Bai Bufan explained.

Lin Li: "..."

"How is what you inherited any better than what I assumed?"

Bai Bufan then wailed: "Not having superpowers is one thing, but the pain of not having money is something you, this newly minted rich brother, won't understand.

Zeyu, you like digital stuff, I'm planning to change my headphones recently, do you have any recommendations for brand new thousand-yuan headphones for about ten yuan?"

Qin Zeyu, who was brushing his teeth and rinsing his mouth: "(; o_o)?"

Brand new thousand-yuan headphones for about ten yuan?

This was no longer a question of whether he understood digital stuff or not.

What Bai Bufan said might be human language, but it was unlikely that Bai Bufan was speaking human language.

"You inherited the mantle, didn't your mentor teach you how to solve problems, you also inherited the talent for going to sea!

Didn't Spider-Man make a living by being a welfare girl? When he had no money, he would take photos of himself in uniform and sell them to the media for everyone to see to support his family." Lin Li pointed out a bright path.

The sea is truly a wonderful thing; you can watch it when you're happy, jump into it when you're sad, go into it when you have no money, and get on it when you have money.

"Don't smear it, damn it, there's a fundamental difference between Spider-Man and a welfare girl, he doesn't have a doujinshi." Bai Bufan was angry when he heard this and defended Spider-Man.

"Reasonable."

Lin Li nodded; his thinking was indeed a bit narrow.

Spider-Man could only be considered a fake welfare girl.

After all, he was the only character in the two-dimensional world without a doujinshi; even Dong Zhuo and the Big Spray Mushroom had them, but Spider-Man didn't, sigh, how pathetic.

At this time, Zhou Baowei, who had just gone to the bathroom, poked his head out: "Bai Bufan!"

"What's wrong?" Bai Bufan narrowed his eyes vigilantly.

"Is the urine you left in the squat toilet still useful? If it's useless, I'll help you flush it, if it's useful, I'll help you put it in your rinsing cup." Zhou Baowei said with an innocent voice.

Everyone else in the dorm started laughing.

Bai Bufan: "?"

"Fuck, I just forgot to flush it, you could have just helped me flush it, couldn't you!" Bai Bufan roared.

"I still had to ask, after all, it's your personal item." Zhou Baowei was very polite, and after saying that, he shrank back.

"So respectful."

Lin Li was moved by the bond between the people in this dorm.

This was respect.

This was recognition.

"He's holding a grudge against this guy; last time he didn't flush after taking a shit, I asked him if he was using the squat toilet as a rice cooker to keep his midnight snack warm, and now he's caught the chance."

Bai Bufan sighed.

Lin Li had also changed into his Joker suit; rented clothes were one-size-fits-all, so it was naturally impossible for it to fit perfectly, and it was a bit big.

But fortunately, it was the Joker character, so it could be explained in any way.

If it was big and baggy, it was a disheveled Joker; if it was tight, it was a social spiritual clown.

Accompanying Bai Bufan and the others to the cafeteria for breakfast, after eating, the classic "Athlete's March" of the sports meet was already playing everywhere on the Nansang campus.

All the teachers and students began to head to the playground.

When they found the class's position, another Joker was already standing in the line.

Bumping into outfits isn't scary, whoever is ugly is embarrassed.

Anyway, Lin Li wasn't embarrassed.

Wang Yuezhi wasn't embarrassed either.

After looking Lin Li up and down for a while, Wang Yuezhi shook his head with regret and pity:

"Lin Li, you will never be able to understand the soul of a Joker, and you will never be able to become a Joker."

Now there was no need to worry about Lin Li not learning from him and running off to be alone with Chen Yuying, so Wang Yuezhi didn't need to indulge Lin Li like he did the past two days.

Speak your mind!

"Especially this makeup of yours, it's completely devoid of humor."

Lin Li wanted to say something but stopped.

Forget it.

Lin Li was afraid that if he said this makeup was done by Chen Yuying, it would give Wang Yuezhi's friend more material for a Joker.

At this time, girls from other classes passed by Class 4 of Grade 1.

They hadn't walked more than a few meters.

A faint voice came from the direction they were leaving.

"Wow, did you see that Joker just now, so handsome, the Joker next to him, such a clown."

"..."

"..."

Lin Li tilted his head and scratched the back of his head when he heard this; he was even embarrassed by the compliment, hehe.

Wang Yuezhi tilted his head and scratched the back of his head when he heard this; he was even embarrassed by the compliment, hehe.

(End of chapter)