Chapter 268: Protect the environment, everyone is responsible

"Following the wind is not as fast as your hand." Zhou Baowei on the side was annoyed.

While he was still tempted, the suspect had already acted, really slow hands have nothing.

Feeling Zhou Baowei's annoyance, Lin Li finally realized that rectifying the style of Nansang Sect is indeed imminent.

Someone stole takeout yesterday, someone stole a camera today, someone will have to steal butts tomorrow.

"Bai Bufan, do you want me to bring you the matching charging and bracket, anyway mine has been stolen?" Lin Li smiled.

"How embarrassing," Bai Bufan reached out, "but if you are so polite... bring it here, it can be considered turning waste into treasure."

"I heard that the real turning waste into treasure is sending internet-addicted children to internet addiction schools, but they were electrocuted, and then paid 1.04 million." Zhou Baowei raised his hand and said.

"That's very turning waste into treasure."

"Hurry up, don't waste time, tape for you, stick it on the wall, and then cover it with these grasses, I still have to go down to set the bait." Lin Li skipped the middle steps and ordered

Bai Bufan received the order and began to properly set up the action camera.

——He placed it in Zhou Baowei's hands.

Haji-Fan, would you rather choose to offload the work than finish it?

Zhou Baowei looked at this scene and stood up—well, he stood up his middle finger.

"But what about the bait you mentioned earlier? How do we know if the people in the 'surveillance' are stealing takeout or just picking up their own?" Bai Bufan confirmed this point.

"See those two takeout bags?" Lin Li gestured toward the takeout next to the milk tea.

"I see them. I wanted to complain about it just now—what kind of idiot orders takeout this early? It'll be cold by the time they go to get it at noon." Bai Bufan nodded and commented with a sneer.

"Those two are the ones I ordered." Lin Li stared at Bai Bufan.

"I guessed as much," Bai Bufan smiled. "That's why I cursed on purpose. I don't have this kind of inexplicable malice toward ordinary strangers."

Lin Li: "?"

Broken halberd, recognizing the sword seed through the wine.

Lin Li stepped forward, brought the takeout he had ordered in advance to his side, and then took out a takeout tamper-evident seal from his bag.

"You even got your hands on a seal? Are you planning to add 'toppings'? I happen to have some natural crystalline products from the nasal waste recycling system right here." Upon seeing this, Zhou Baowei's eyes lit up, and he said expectantly.

Nowadays, all takeout regulations require the use of tamper-evident seals, primarily to prevent delivery riders and others from tampering with the food between the merchant and the customer.

It is precisely people like Zhou Baowei, Bai Bufan, and Lin Li that they are trying to guard against.

"It's just boogers, stop with all the bullshit," Bai Bufan glanced at Zhou Baowei with disdain, but then nodded expectantly, "I can go pick up a couple of cigarette butts too."

"Can you show some respect? It's not 'boogers'; I prefer to call them nasal minerals or nasal gems."

Zhou Baowei looked like he was preparing to take out the little snacks he kept hidden in his nose to show Bai Bufan.

"Hold on, you two. Let me clarify something here: intentionally adding dirty things to takeout for that idiot to steal and eat—if the consequences are serious, it could be considered intentional injury or even the distribution of dangerous substances. That's illegal." Lin Li immediately educated the two.

"Meaning, if that idiot gets sick from eating the stolen takeout, legally, it's our responsibility."

"If the other party latches onto this point, we'll be the ones in trouble."

Lin Li said slowly.

"Ah? Is that so? Then forget it... I'll just eat it myself." Zhou Baowei shook his head in fear upon hearing this.

For a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy who is relatively obedient, the concept of breaking the law is terrifying.

"No, no, no, no, no," Lin Li wagged his index finger with a devious smile: "We have to add toppings, otherwise why did I ask for this seal?

Baowei, what I meant just now wasn't to tell you to back down. It's that if we're lucky and that guy steals our takeout, we absolutely cannot admit we added anything once we meet. We have to bite the bullet and insist we didn't add any filth.

Even if we want to see his reaction after being disgusted, we can hint at it indirectly, but never blurt out self-incriminating things like, 'Hey buddy, the stuff you just ate had our nasal gems in it.'"

Zhou Baowei: "?"

So that was what the warning meant?

His own mind was still too innocent; he had underestimated Lin Li.

"Fine..."

"And don't worry, Bufan and I have extensive experience with the police. If we end up framing you as the mastermind, we have plenty of ways to bail you out." Lin Li gave Zhou Baowei another shot of confidence.

Zhou Baowei was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when he realized something was wrong: "Why the hell am I the mastermind again!"

"That's not important, Baowei, shut up for a second. Lin Li, I have another question: what if the takeout thief doesn't steal ours?" Bai Bufan asked at this moment.

"That is important!"

"Then that's just his luck; he wasn't fated for our surprise.

But we have surveillance anyway, so we'll definitely be able to tell if he steals someone else's." Lin Li ignored Zhou Baowei and explained to Bai Bufan:

"As long as we see someone looking anxious because they can't find their takeout, we can go down immediately to find them. Once we confirm it was stolen, we can have them ask their delivery rider what the packaging looked like, then check the 'surveillance' in our hands to find out who took it."

"Even if we don't know their face, we can go by their clothes and height; we'll always be able to follow the trail."

"Good! Then let's get to it!"

Bai Bufan was already impatient.

The camera was set up quickly. It wasn't exactly hidden—although it was mostly covered, the lens was quite large. If someone looked for it intentionally, they would definitely find it within a few minutes.

But at the point of picking up takeout, who would expect someone to have installed a 'mini-surveillance' camera there?

Just in case, Lin Li placed another action camera in the corner. Although it was more hidden, the field of view was relatively limited.

The three of them immediately returned to the dormitory carrying the two bags of takeout.

When Zhou Baowei saw Bai Bufan and Lin Li carrying the takeout, wearing gloves, and holding disposable chopsticks from the dorm into the restroom, he couldn't even imagine what kind of heaven-defyingly disgusting things these two bastards were about to do.

"Truly disgusting."

Zhou Baowei, who was collecting nasal gems while staring at the surveillance, commented.

Because they weren't sure if their preparation would be chosen by the lucky winner, the three didn't put too much effort into the takeout. After adding what needed to be added, Bai Bufan went down to place the takeout outside the iron fence.

It was getting close to mealtime, and the number of takeout bags by the wall had increased. Bai Bufan mixed theirs in with the others.

After granting the software permissions, Bai Bufan and Zhou Baowei returned and sat on either side, using their own phones to watch the two surveillance feeds, waiting for the thief's grand entrance.

Hopefully, he would still steal today so their efforts wouldn't go to waste.

"Not even an adult yet and already working as a security guard." Bai Bufan looked left and right, staring at the monitor, and suddenly couldn't hold back.

"Isn't that great? Saving forty-four years of taking the long way around."

"Knock, knock, knock."

Someone was knocking on the dorm door. Lin Li, who was standing, went to open it.

It was Wang Ze.

"Wang Ze? Didn't you go to eat?" Lin Li asked, puzzled.

"I already ordered takeout. Just came to check on you guys." Wang Ze walked in with his hands behind his back, paced around to inspect the room, and said.

"If you have something to say, spit it out." Lin Li responded impatiently, knowing he wouldn't come without a reason.

"Ahem," since Lin Li asked so sincerely, he would answer with mercy. "Lin Li, hehe, I'm about to fall in love."

He then looked at Lin Li expectantly, waiting for a reaction.

"Don't go throwing trash into the river; river management is already a hassle. Can you protect the environment a little?" Lin Li frowned.

Wang Ze: "(; o_o)?"

You motherfucker.

"I see you're just sour grapes because you can't get any," Wang Ze scoffed.

"I can't get any?" Lin Li responded with a contemptuous laugh, too lazy to say more. He thought for a moment and deduced: "Did a girl actually add you?"

"That's right! Although she's the only one, I've been chatting with her on and off all morning. We really hit it off! This girl is great, she's a keeper!" Wang Ze said excitedly.

Lin Li: "?"

Who added him?

Lin Li or Bai Bufan?

"What did the girl use to add you?" Lin Li asked.

"QQ. She even liked my ab photos and commented 'wow'. Look, all my preparations were meaningful!" Wang Ze immediately went to Lin Li's side to share.

Lin Li clicked on the girl's QQ.

Gummy Bear.

Age 1; Switzerland; Stories always end, don't look back; Atmospheric girl avatar, one sun, one moon, one star.

Space visible for three days. The most recent post was from this morning, some scenery photos from the sports meet, no photos of her.

Before asking for more information about 'her', Lin Li looked back and saw Bai Bufan pressing his thumb against his nose, eyes glued to the surveillance camera, looking very serious.

Identifying the true gender of a QQ owner in one second.

Lin Li rubbed his brow.

This move was a bit 'the student surpassing the master'. He hoped Bufan wouldn't take it too far, or Lin Li would have to tell Wang Ze the truth himself.

"What have you guys been talking about?" Lin Li asked.

"At this stage, just some awkward chatting. I tried to gather the courage to ask her to eat lunch, but she was a bit shy and said she had something to do at noon." Wang Ze looked slightly embarrassed.

Lin Li: "..."

She was indeed busy at noon; she had to work as a security guard.

"You haven't even seen her photo, and you already asked her to eat?"

"Can you not be so superficial, Lin Li? Setting aside body and looks, what kind of person do you like?" Wang Ze retorted.

"I can't set them aside." Lin Li shook his head.

It's the same old saying: without outer beauty, who the fuck cares about your inner beauty.

Wang Ze: "..."

Rotten wood.

Those with different Daos cannot work together.

Before Wang Ze could say anything else, Zhou Baowei slammed the table: "It's here, it's here! The target appeared, took our takeout, and left! Awesome! We hit the jackpot!"

"Right, right, right, I saw it on my end too! I was just about to say it." Bai Bufan, who had a different view on the other side, also nodded.

Lin Li stepped forward to take a look and immediately snapped his fingers: "Let's go, downstairs!" "Ah? What are you guys doing?" Watching the three of them walk past him quickly toward the door, Wang Ze was the one who was confused now.

"Are you coming or not?" Lin Li had already pushed the door open and walked away, only turning back to ask.

"Coming, wait for me." Wang Ze nodded.

Although Wang Ze had no idea what Lin Li was doing, he decided to come along first.

Even if it was just to go for a walk downstairs at the dormitory building, he had to come.

After playing games all morning, Wang Yuhui sat up from his bed and stretched his limbs.

His stomach was a bit hungry; it was time to get his takeout.

Wang Yuhui rolled out of bed. He was the only one in the dorm; his other roommates were probably still participating in class activities.

He was too lazy to participate; he wasn't interested in the sports meet at all.

Arriving at the first floor, Wang Yuhui took out his phone and pretended to look at it, while actually using his peripheral vision to scan the spot where everyone usually left their takeout.

!

Very good, there were already over a dozen bags. If there were few, Wang Yuhui wouldn't have taken any for safety reasons.

And now, there wasn't a single student or delivery rider here; it was a god-given opportunity.

So, continuing to pretend he was playing on his phone, Wang Yuhui walked over, grabbed a random takeout bag that looked neither shabby nor luxurious, and left as soon as he got it.

This way, even in the worst-case scenario where he was caught by the owner, Wang Yuhui could always say he was playing on his phone, wasn't paying attention, and accidentally took the wrong one.

He walked to the dormitory building with the takeout, and just like yesterday, nothing happened.

Awesome.

Stealing takeout was just that simple and safe.

It wasn't that he was actually short on money for a meal, but Wang Yuhui really enjoyed the feeling of taking advantage of others. Especially when he thought about the person whose takeout was stolen—when he was eating happily, the victim would be anxious but could only vent his anger helplessly—it felt even better.

Be anxious, be anxious, worry yourselves to death.

Just thinking about it made Wang Yuhui want to laugh.

This felt even better than his usual behavior in class, where if he saw someone lose something, he wouldn't remind them but would instead look for a chance to kick it into a corner.

Harming others without benefiting himself, but it felt good.

It was a pity he could only enjoy this tonight and tomorrow noon at most; once the sports meet ended, there would be no more chances.

Back on the fourth floor, Wang Yuhui used his key to open his dorm door.

He noticed out of the corner of his eye that four very tall students had just come up the stairs; he hadn't seen them on this floor before.

But Wang Yuhui didn't care; they were obviously from another class visiting, which was normal.

Open door, close door.

Wang Yuhui sat at his desk with the takeout, pulled a stack of tissues from his roommate's desk to put in his own tissue box, and prepared to feast.

First, look at the receipt.

Mr. Lin, ending in 9749.

It was a spicy hot pot.

Not bad, a type of food rarely provided by the cafeteria; Wang Yuhui really wanted to eat it.

"Mr. Lin, you're going to have no lunch today, hee hee." Wang Yuhui said with a light chuckle.

The dormitory doors at Nansang Middle School had peepholes, and they weren't one-way. But usually, for the sake of privacy, dorms would choose to cover them with stickers or posters. In dorms where the peephole cover was already missing, they would just stuff a wad of tissue into the peephole.

At this moment, the wad of tissue used to plug the peephole of 403 was poked out by an index finger and fell lightly to the floor, but Wang Yuhui didn't notice at all.

The index finger retracted, and in its place was an eye carrying the same smile as the one on Wang Yuhui's face.

Wang Yuhui tore off the seal, opened the packaging, took out the separated rice and dishes, and was surprised to find a bowl of seaweed egg drop soup included.

He opened the spicy hot pot itself; the steam wasn't as thick as the two portions he stole yesterday, but it was okay, it hadn't gone cold yet.

The spicy hot pot was generally yellowish-brown. He took a look, and sure enough, it was a sauce-based broth, and it looked like there was too much peanut butter or something similar.

He took a sip of the seaweed egg drop soup first. Wang Yuhui frowned slightly, feeling the soup tasted a bit strange. Why was the texture a bit astringent? It seemed to have a gamey smell? Or was it a pungent smell?

Never mind.

The soup was a freebie anyway; he couldn't have such high standards for it. After gulping it down, Wang Yuhui prepared to deal with the main dish.

"Holy shit, this is medium spicy?" After eating a piece of pork rib, Wang Yuhui hissed and took another big gulp of soup, then complained.

This spicy hot pot wasn't just spicy; it was spicy to the point of being bitter and astringent, especially the sauce smeared on the meat and vegetables. It tasted really strange.

"Your mother, Mr. Lin, are you sick? Ordering it this spicy, you deserve to not have lunch." Wang Yuhui cursed angrily.

Rather than blaming himself for not being able to handle spice, he blamed Mr. Lin.

After hesitating for a while, Wang Yuhui gave up the idea of going down to get another portion.

Spicy is spicy, just drink more water.

He took out his phone to put on a video and started eating.

Little John Khan, start!

But this was the worst-tasting takeout Wang Yuhui had ever eaten. What kind of stuff was this spicy hot pot made of?

He hoped that Mr. Lin, the sucker, would give the shop a bad review after losing his takeout.

"Your mother, the toppings in the spicy hot pot are like boogers. Does anyone actually reorder from this shop? How is it still open?" Using his chopsticks to pick up a piece of unknown topping covered in sauce, Wang Yuhui gave a sharp critique.

"Damn, it tastes like boogers too. This shop is really something. What the hell is this..." Wang Yuhui tasted it, but it was all sauce, he couldn't taste the actual flavor, so his expression was hard to describe.

Now, his resentment toward this stranger named Lin had reached its peak.

Low-energy, can't even order takeout properly.

The most unpleasant meal he'd ever had.

Just make do with this meal; steal something better this afternoon.

His chopsticks reached into the rice, and there was a light click.

This wasn't the texture of rice or a packaging box.

Wang Yuhui frowned, pushed the rice aside, and was shocked to find a piece of cardstock underneath.

Wang Yuhui lifted the lunch box; there really was a square, brownish cardstock at the bottom.

"Putting a 'good review' card inside the rice? This shop is truly fucked!" Seeing this, Wang Yuhui was genuinely angry. The quality control was outrageous. If he had ordered this takeout himself, he wouldn't let it go until the shop refunded him in full and compensated him a few dozen yuan.

Just as he was about to throw the rice away, Wang Yuhui noticed there seemed to be words on the front of the card.

"Hmm?"

Wang Yuhui used his chopsticks to fish the card out.

Then he read the words on it nonchalantly.

"You dog bastard, is your daddy's takeout... g-good... good to eat..."

Wang Yuhui froze.

Then his mind went blank.

There was another line below, but Wang Yuhui couldn't read it anymore.

——"Come, look at the door, your daddy is right outside."

"Click."

Wang Yuhui turned his head. The door he had just closed was being opened with a key, and the peephole, which had been missing its tissue, now had an eye staring at him.

Damn!

For a split second, Wang Yuhui wanted to rush over and hold the door shut, but it was too late.

"Click, creak—"

The lock opened, the door pushed wide.

But what he saw was his roommate, Mao Jiaqi.

Wang Yuhui's feeling of suffocation subsided. After taking a deep breath, a wave of anger surged in his heart, and he cursed angrily: "Mao Jiaqi! Are you sick? You scared the hell out of me, don't you know how to make a sound?"

Mao Jiaqi, who had been cursed at, looked at Wang Yuhui with a slightly compassionate and mocking expression, shook his head and said: "Wang Yuhui, I'm here to bring you some good news."

"What? Speak." Wang Yuhui frowned.

"You weren't scared for nothing."

Wang Yuhui: "?"

Mao Jiaqi stepped aside and opened the door completely.

The space opened up, and the four people behind him walked in.

It was exactly those four students Wang Yuhui had noticed out of the corner of his eye who had never appeared on the fourth floor.

And at this moment, the four of them were looking at him with devious smiles on their faces.

"Who, who the fuck are you?" The heart that had just settled down was now hanging again. Although Wang Yuhui already had a guess in his heart, he still fearfully looked for that last glimmer of hope.

Without a doubt, this was Lin Li and his three companions.

As for Mao Jiaqi, he was Wang Yuhui's roommate who had returned during Lin Li and the others' surveillance.

After learning the rough truth of the matter, he followed Lin Li's instructions to open the door for them at the right time.

"Since you asked so sincerely, I will tell you with mercy." Lin Li heard this, first adjusted the camera in front of him, then said in a low, slightly mocking tone: "The four of us are the 'Handsome-as-Hell' combination, and I am 'Handsome'."

Bai Bufan's smile stiffened for a moment, but then he immediately stepped forward and added flatly: "I am 'as'."

Wang Ze's voice was loud and hurried: "I am 'Hell'!"

"..."

Seeing that someone in the four-man group refused to follow the self-introduction, Lin Li and the other two turned their heads in unison, tacitly giving a death stare to the non-conforming Zhou Baowei.

Zhou Baowei: "(; o_o)?"

Your mother.

Is that polite?

(End of chapter)