Chapter 276: Protected My Merit Well Today As Well

"What am I pinching? It's my dignity, tat……"

Lin Li, the doctor: "?"

Looking at Bai Bufan gazing up at the heavens in despair, both Lin Li and the doctor laughed.

It really was dignity.

"Mr., improperly dressed, no service." Lin Li said with a smile.

"Then what counts as proper?" Since he'd already been found out, Bai Bufan didn't care anymore; he stood sprawled on the machine, even deliberately wiggling his toes, matching lines with Lin Li from *God of Gamblers*.

"At least you'd need a tie around your neck connected to the ceiling."

"Then I have…… you motherfucker, don't go changing the lines! That motherfucker's still a tie?" Bai Bufan's words cut off halfway, and he said angrily.

But when the height data came out, Bai Bufan smiled smugly:

"Sigh, I'm only 181.2; last time I measured my height, I was already 180.7, only grew half a centimeter.

But then, my last measurement was in mid-August, only two months have passed till now; if I only grew half a centimeter in half a year, I'd want to die, you know, right, Mr. Lin 'Point Three' Li."

Bai Bufan walked to Lin Li's ear and let out a demon's whisper, measured and deliberate.

"Heh, I don't give a damn at all." Lin Li heard this, turned his head away, let out a huff, then sneered.

"Mr. Lin, your blood pressure seems a bit high." At this moment, the doctor across from Lin Li stopped pumping the sphygmomanometer, and instead said in a low but serious voice.

Lin Li: "?"

Bro, seriously?

"……"

Lin Li turned his head, locking eyes with Bai Bufan; both blinked.

"Mr. Lin, you seem to care a bit." Bai Bufan spoke solemnly.

"……"

"Shit!! Doctor Liu! There's no need to say this kind of thing right now!!"

"Hahahaha!!"

After a brief silence, the two simultaneously lost it.

The doctor's "blood pressure's high" really carried too much authority; it was irrefutable.

Lin Li raised his left hand, the one without the cuff, and punched Bai Bufan hard.

Of course, data caused by short-term emotional fluctuation naturally couldn't count, so the doctor measured Lin Li again.

Data normal.

The two left the room; Lin Li looked at Bai Bufan, and under a psychological effect felt his angle of looking down on him had shrunk, so he reminisced like *In Search of Lost Time*:

"I miss my fifteen-year-old self; back then I was omnipotent, growing a bit every day."

"Old fossil, pretty much time to hit the road; don't stand here reminiscing."

Bai Bufan's words weren't polite in the slightest; then, suppressing a smug smile, he patted Lin Li's shoulder and said with a sense of superiority:

"Lin Li, want me to recommend you a height-increasing drug? Otherwise I'm afraid I'll surpass you, and then you'll lose face."

"Most height-increasing drugs are an IQ tax; providing sufficient nutrition is more important than anything." Lin Li had zero interest in this stuff, so he replied disdainfully, "You keep eating that stuff, and the bad news won't just hit the bodybuilding circle, Bufan."

"Mine isn't an IQ tax, and it's not hormones; the effect was immediate after I used it." Bai Bufan denied, slightly agitated.

"That's because you could originally grow very tall; it's mostly just a placebo effect."

"Absolutely not; it's the drug's credit, I'm certain."

"Give it a rest; if such a drug really existed, everyone would buy and eat it."

"Because there are side effects; many people can't tolerate them." Bai Bufan shook his head.

"Huh? What side effects?" Lin Li looked over.

"Hurts the feet."

"Hurts——"

Lin Li: "(；o_o)?"

"How the fuck do you use a height-increasing drug to grow taller, Bai Bufan! You bastard! Look me in the eyes and talk to me!"

After Lin Li reacted, he grabbed Bai Bufan by the collar and loudly demanded.

"Put it in your shoes; if you have to take shoes off for height measurement, put it in your socks; immediate effect, but walking feels like stepping on an acupressure mat, a bit uncomfortable." Bai Bufan said regretfully:

"Precisely because of this drawback, I gave up long-term use; otherwise I should be 185 by now."

Lin Li: "……"

Can't even roast him; it really is immediate, works the moment you use it.

"Only an opponent like you is worth growing taller for." Lin Li acknowledged, "But I'll pass; my soles are ticklish."

"Really looking forward to the future, Little Lin; come on, what's next? Surgery? Or ENT?" Holding the checkup form, glancing at nearby departments, Bai Bufan asked.

"Let's do blood work first, then I plan to go for CT and ultrasound first, get the fasting-required items done; the rest we can do slowly after breakfast, I'm already a bit hungry." Lin Li thought and said.

Energy consumed from waking up isn't the same as being hungry, especially for someone like Lin Li who's formed the habit of waking up at four-something and eating breakfast steadily every day; today he woke at the same time but didn't eat breakfast, so he really was a bit hungry now.

"Makes sense; you put it like that and I'm feeling it too; let's go, I'll check where to draw blood." Bai Bufan nodded.

Drawing blood takes quite a bit of time per person, so there's a queue here.

Although they could cut in line, they'd still have to wait for Bai Bufan after finishing, so when Lin Li handed in the forms, he directly told the staff it was for two people together.

"Holy shit, three tubes at once?" Sitting on chairs in the corridor, the two watched the blood-drawing work; Bai Bufan clicked his tongue in amazement.

"Probably a lot of indicators to test; after all, you can't reuse one tube of blood over and over."

"Sometimes I really understand people who faint at blood; the red color really is creepy to look at." Bai Bufan nodded, then commented.

"It's fine." Lin Li didn't feel much; the beautiful lady had already successfully desensitized him to this kind of scene.

"Right, Lin Li, what's your blood type?" Bai Bufan remembered this question and turned to ask.

"Full of hot blood." Although I knew he was asking about blood type, Lin Li has always been unwilling to speak plainly.

Bai Bufan: "..."

"That vampire is probably scared of you now, after all, sucking in a mouthful would scald his mouth full of blisters." Bai Bufan gave a sharp critique with a twitch at the corner of his mouth.

"That's really the case." Lin Li nodded, but then suddenly remembered something and turned his head, asking Bai Bufan: "Bufan, let me ask you a question—if a person is bitten by both a vampire and a zombie at the same time, what would he become?"

"What?" Bai Bufan instinctively countered.

"Vampire, because zombies are from the Qing Dynasty, with unequal treaties." Lin Li explained calmly.

Bai Bufan: "?"

Bai Bufan first blinked, then his upper teeth began to bite down hard on his lower lip, his breathing became noticeably louder, and his nostrils began to constantly expand slightly with his faintly trembling body.

This is Bai Bufan's endurance battle.

Actually, one can sympathize with the vampire—after all, vampires can't supplement vitamin D by sunbathing, so they can only drink blood.

"Just laugh if you want to." Looking at Bai Bufan like this, Lin Li said lightly.

"No way, I damn it! This really can't be laughed at! If you laugh, you'll really lose virtue!" Bai Bufan gritted his teeth and said to Lin Li.

Who the hell knew that eating melon would end up eating at one's own home.

The ditch's cleaning, with its hundreds of billions in subsidies, is the biggest source of domestic dark humor jokes—it really should die.

So Lin Li just quietly watched Bai Bufan.

"Lin Li, hurry up and tell me a joke!" In just over ten seconds, Bai Bufan's body trembled more and more violently, he clenched his fists, and with difficulty said to Lin Li:

"There was a male deer running very fast, and it turned into a highway." Lin Li responded in a half-dead tone.

"Hahahahaha——" Bai Bufan burst out laughing upon hearing it, seemingly even laughing to tears, laughing while slapping Lin Li's shoulder:

"I damn it, Lin Li, this joke, hahaha, this deer, actually turned into a highway, wow! Cleverly using the homophony of 'road' and 'deer', what an excellent pun, truly making one unable to suppress laughter.

So funny hahahaha."

Bai Bufan's reaction made Lin Li laugh too: "You damn well better be laughing at this joke."

"Otherwise, what else could I laugh at?" Bai Bufan said matter-of-factly, then finally let out a breath.

Hope the Buddha was fooled past.

If it's really deducted, don't deduct your own—you're more sensitive, deduct Lin Li's, he's rotten pants, already desensitized.

……

Not long after, it was the two of them—Lin Li drew out blood that was completely normal, with no golden light or immortal aura drifting about to show anything extraordinary.

It seems this person lacks the bearing of a great emperor.

After drawing, pressing a cotton ball on the puncture site, the two went to the next location.

"So this tube is only five milliliters? I thought it was a lot, turns out these three tubes are only fifteen milliliters?" Bai Bufan recalled the doctor's earlier explanation, raised his eyebrows and said: "Donating blood requires drawing two hundred or even four hundred milliliters—quantifying it suddenly makes this number seem exaggerated."

"Donating blood means donating a whole bag, which is naturally a lot." Lin Li nodded.

"Hot-blooded youth Lin Li, you'll come of age the day after tomorrow—does that mean you can go donate blood then?" Bai Bufan asked, "This is the best time to release all that hot blood, whether physically or mentally."

"I won't donate blood." Lin Li shook his head upon hearing that.

"You're disloyal! What kind of hot-blooded youth are you, you're a worm!" Bai Bufan immediately took the moral high ground and sneered coldly.

Lin Li shrugged.

Who knows what will happen to one's blood once it's inside another person's body—maybe it'll just explode and die.

But one can't say that outright; fortunately, Lin Li always has his reasons:

"Because I'm very clear—being a male, as long as you've donated blood, your blood is very likely to help someone else's little swimmer, I'm not gay, personally I find helping other males' little swimmers rather off-putting, so that's why I don't donate blood."

Bai Bufan: "(；o_o)?"

This reason left Bai Bufan stunned.

But Lin Li seems to have said something not wrong.

Remember, every morning, the red blood cells in the blood vessels often have a conversation roughly like this—

Red blood cell 1: Buddy, want to go hang out at Dick's?

Red blood cell 2: Okay, let's go!

Bai Bufan thought of this, nodded with a smile, and gave a thumbs-up: "Your reason convinced me, reasonable."

Arriving at the chest CT room, next door was a chest fluoroscopy room, but since the two tests are similar in items and both involve X-rays, the latter is not included in the package.

"Bufan, do you have any pregnancy preparation plans lately?" Walking to the door, Lin Li turned back and said to Bai Bufan:

"You've got a problem?"

"No joke, it's written here—CT has a certain probability of affecting sperm and egg quality, so after the scan, your little tadpoles over the next three months might have issues, making pregnancy at this time very irresponsible." Lin Li pointed to the notice at the door.

"Does it affect glue application?"

I heard it's true, Bai Bufan immediately became much more serious, stepped forward and carefully read the pre-scan precautions.

Fortunately, it doesn't.

"Half a lifetime without pregnancy plans, rest assured." Bai Bufan nodded, then hesitantly stared at Lin Li: "Then again, you—won't you be preparing to go somewhere for artificial insemination within half a year?"

"Get lost."

"Lin Li, if you go astray, remember to definitely bring me along." Bai Bufan pleaded, "I still want to see Feifei one more time, even if it's just to give her deformed little tadpoles."

"Idiot." Lin Li laughed and scolded, then asked:

"Bufan, I won't queue with you for this—I'll wait for my B-ultrasound item, which isn't in your package nor mine, it's extra I bought, so when I get there I'll also have to queue.

I heard the wait is quite long, so after I finish here I'll go straight over, then after you finish your CT, if I don't come back, you just go find me there?"

"Sure." Bai Bufan nodded, no objection.

The queue-jumping Lin Li was soon called by name.

"Hello, I'm the doctor in charge of CT examinations, my surname is Zhang." The machine and control room are separated by glass walls, the doctor from the control room walked over and said.

"Doctor Zhang, hello."

Every staff member in the institution had a name tag on their chest; the doctor was called Zhang Qiang.

"What should I do now?" Lin Li asked, since he had never undergone a CT scan.

"Do you have any metal objects on or inside your body? Metal items brought in will affect the results."

"Then I can't put my head into the machine." Lin Li said with concern.

"Huh? Did you have a steel plate implanted in your head for some reason? Your head?" Zhang Qiang asked curiously upon hearing that.

Lin Li: "No, I have a will as strong as steel in my head."

Zhang Qiang: "..."

Your mother.

"Doctor, I'm just joking, relax a bit—I have nothing on me, I already checked before coming in." The shameless Lin Li chuckled, then lay down honestly on the examination bed.

"Alright, during the scan, please keep your body completely still, don't move. We'll use voice prompts to tell you when to hold your breath. The whole process will take about 5–10 minutes. Please relax—I'll help you adjust your posture slightly..."

The scan officially began. Lin Li kept his eyes open but never looked at the machine; instead, he stared at the system.

He gazed longingly at the number 1.

Time passed, second by second.

"Okay, you can get up now—the scan is finished." After about five or six minutes, the machine's faint operational sound faded, and the doctor's voice came through the speaker.

【Seeking and personally experiencing… (100/100; 2/4).】

Seeing the number change, Lin Li lightly swung his fist.

Great, the direction of my task completion is correct—type increased by one.

I should be able to finish this task by tomorrow at the latest.

"You may leave now. Don't forget your belongings. If you feel any discomfort later, please contact us immediately." The doctor stepped forward holding Lin Li's items and said.

"Okay."

Lin Li nodded and left the room.

"How many are left for you?" Lin Li asked Bai Bufan before walking away.

"About four—of course, assuming there's no VIP like you cutting in line." Bai Bufan replied.

"Then it should be about half an hour from now—I'll go ahead first."

"Okay."

The ultrasound wasn't on this floor. Lin Li went upstairs and, following the map, arrived at the ultrasound clinic.

After scanning the code to get his slip, Lin Li handed it to the doctor in the ultrasound clinic and then waited in line at the door.

Lin Li stood out among those waiting outside.

After all, everyone else was either a pregnant woman or her accompanying husband or family member—seemingly pure check-up seekers—except for Lin Li, who was alone.

This caused the others waiting to occasionally glance at Lin Li, their eyes filled with curiosity and gossip.

They probably thought Lin Li had some story behind him.

The ultrasound clearly took much longer than the CT—on average, about twenty minutes per person, even though there were two machines here, the progress remained slow.

But Lin Li didn't mind; he played with his phone to pass the time, occasionally asking Bai Bufan about his progress.

However, until Bai Bufan messaged saying he had finished and was heading upstairs, Lin Li here still hadn't started, and he estimated it would be quite a while longer.

Lin Li had no choice but to keep admiring the women.

Some bloggers are really great—generous goddesses, very good indeed.

The person is both impressive and beautiful—it's really a pity Wang Ze didn't come to see.

"Eh? Lin Li?"

Lin Li, immersed in the downward video, heard this familiar voice.

He looked up, and Lin Li looked surprised and confused at Chen Yuying appearing around the corner, standing up: "Class monitor? Why are you here?"

Chen Yuying's eyes and brows also showed undisguised surprise.

"I..." she pointed behind herself, about to explain.

At that moment, Chen Zhongping and a woman with a slightly visible pregnancy walked out from the direction Chen Yuying was pointing.

"Yingying, what did you just shout?" Chen Zhongping asked, face full of confusion, as if he had heard something he didn't want to hear, while his gaze also turned to where Chen Yuying had just been looking.

Then Lin Li locked eyes with Chen Zhongping.

First came a brief silence.

When he clearly saw the situation before him, Chen Zhongping's eyes gradually showed a complex fan-shaped mix: three parts disappointment, three parts frustration at wasted potential, two parts regret, one part surprise, one part anger. He pointed at Lin Li and asked in disbelief:

"Lin Li! Whose belly did you get pregnant!"

Lin Li: "(；o_o)?"

Uncle, you're being rather impolite like that.

And what does the surprise in your eyes mean?

Upon hearing this question, which was like a thunderclap, the previously bored pregnant women and their families present instantly sparked with gossip-fueled excitement.

Lin Li was about to explain.

"Lin Li~~"

Before seeing the person, the voice came first—another person lazily called out Lin Li's name.

Naturally, it was Bai Bufan.

Feeling a bit hungry, Bai Bufan rubbed his stomach with one hand and walked out from the corner with the other, looking at Lin Li waiting in the area, and asked: "Lin Li, when's your turn? I'm kinda..."

His words cut off abruptly, because Bai Bufan had seen Chen Yuying and Chen Zhongping.

Eh?

How did the class monitor come here?

Afterwards Bai Bufan again noticed the scene was somewhat strange.

Everyone in the hallway, the class monitor and her father, Lin Li, including those completely unfamiliar pregnant women sitting there and their families, their gazes seemed to be looking at the same place.

So Bai Bufan followed their gaze, lowered his head to look at his own belly, his hand still rubbing on it.

Bai Bufan: "?"

Eh?

Why is everyone looking at their own belly?

Eh?

What happened?

(End of chapter)