Chapter 280: Offering a white and yellow intertwined salute for the birth of the king

That was a big problem.

Of course, Lin Li wasn't talking about the dean, but the doctor in front of him.

He had just thought about what to write on his tombstone.

*Don't complain about your dean in such an easily misunderstood part! *

It turned out he was worrying for nothing, how embarrassing.

Lin Li now really wanted to throw this doctor out of the operating room and then shyly say, "Ah, ah, ah, ah, such a simple surgery didn't succeed, I'm so embarrassed."

But a false alarm was better than real bad news. Confirming that he didn't need to do anything else, Lin Li packed his things and left the clinic.

"Son, I don't understand this stock, and I don't like looking at it. Can you change it to some opera for your dad to watch?"

"Dad, this isn't a stock, this is an ECG, it can't be changed!"

When Lin Li passed the door, the old man waiting was still performing stably.

Eager to return home, after threatening the driver to return quickly by using shitting in the car as a weapon again, Lin Li checked his gains from this task.

The "Low-grade Spirit Stone" was really just a "Low-grade Spirit Stone".

But it was indeed reasonable for array materials to include spirit stones.

The "Vermilion Spirit Sand" was a semi-liquid, semi-solid liquid sand contained in a small porcelain bottle, vermilion in color, with crystal clear flow inside.

The "High-grade Array Core" was a diamond-shaped crystal the size of a thumb, covered with fine runes that looked very impressive but were incomprehensible.

The "Star Array Disk" was the largest object among these five materials, about the size of Lin Li's fully opened hand. It was a disk, also covered with dense patterns, still flowing like a galaxy, with a core the size of a thumb embedded in the center, very similar to the array core, extremely brilliant inside, emitting obvious light.

Both the array disk and the array core were very hard; cracking walnuts wouldn't take any effort.

While eating walnuts, Lin Li threw the walnut shells into the trash can and then put these materials back into the warehouse.

*Don't know how to use them. *

When injecting spiritual power into the array disk, he could see the galaxy flowing faster, but that was it; Lin Li didn't know what to do next.

Except for getting them covered in his saliva, Lin Li couldn't do anything.

Without relevant basic knowledge, this is how it is. Even if Lin Li's talent in this area increased by 50%, he hadn't reached the heaven-defying level of being able to think of how to use materials just by seeing them.

Lin Li manifested the "Spirit Gathering Heavenly Array".

A gorgeous array core, a full palm in size, appeared and stood in front of Lin Li. More than a dozen materials that Lin Li didn't recognize appeared at the same time and moved toward the surroundings, stopping only after encountering walls or beds. Illusory array patterns connected the materials through the air.

Lin Li reached out to touch the array core, and then he could feel the specific orientation of the other materials, but when he wanted to control them, he felt strenuous.

*Can't do it. *

Lin Li manifested the "Spirit Spring", and he could find that the spiritual energy escaping from the spring eye was absorbed and gathered at the array eye, then formed a tiny drop of spiritual liquid, adhering to the bottom.

Sure enough, his guess about the purpose wasn't wrong; this array, as its name suggested, was for gathering spiritual energy.

In an immortal cultivation world with spiritual energy, it was probably a very basic array that every immortal cultivator must know, but in the modern world, it seemed very chicken-rib-like.

If it was just to gather the spiritual energy from the "Spirit Spring", any empty shell could do it.

"What's needed most is basic knowledge." After putting everything back into the warehouse, Lin Li sighed slightly.

Whether it was sword techniques or array essentials, what Lin Li needed most now was theory.

With theory, perhaps he could use his talent, as well as the spiritual energy that shouldn't exist, to try to create usable arrays in the modern environment and with modern materials.

Even a low-end one would do.

These materials all looked like they had something to them, but the problem was that he, the owner, didn't have anything.

Worrying was useless; this thing could only be hoped for from the system, so Lin Li threw these thoughts directly to the back of his mind and continued to chisel the "Qiankun Ring".

Sunday night.

Late at night.

"Can't chisel anymore." Lin Li threw the ring aside and rubbed his head.

The ring became harder to expand the space the further it went. The spiritual energy consumed didn't change, it was just that the difficulty became greater, and it was more time-consuming and labor-intensive.

So far, the interior was only the size of a shoebox.

And dozens of low-grade spirit stones had been consumed just like that. This thing was still quite hungry for spirit stones, and Lin Li's inventory was nearing depletion.

Fortunately, the "Spirit Spring" hadn't shown any signs of drying up yet and could still be developed sustainably, so there was no need to rush to use the "Luck Talisman" and "Random Quality Spirit Stone" to open blind boxes again.

"Chiseling during the day, chiseling during evening self-study, and still chiseling after coming home from school. I've been chiseling you for two days, does it feel good, hmm?" In the gap of recovering his spirit, Lin Li talked dirty to the ring.

"Old Lin, look at what you've made inside here, it won't even close." Lin Li shook the ring and 'answered'.

A shoebox-sized space, at least it finally had more meaning and could hold quite a few things.

Now, Lin Li packed some food supplies into it.

Then, while resting, he waited for 12 o'clock to arrive.

【Update complete.】

October 28th, 00:00.

Monday.

"Happy 18th birthday to me." Hearing the system's notification, Lin Li snapped his fingers, opened his eyes, and said to himself with a smile.

The phone also popped up a message at this time, followed by the vibration of a phone call.

"Happy birthday, son." Wu Min's voice appeared on the other end after he picked up. "As expected, you're still not asleep."

"I was woken up by your call, Sister Min."

"Forget it, your mom knows what kind of person you are. I transferred 520 to you, just take it as a birthday gift."

"Thanks, Mom." Lin Li didn't have the habit of celebrating birthdays, nor would he ask for birthday gifts, so he had no objection.

"Wu Min: Transfer '5', waiting for you to receive."

Lin Li: "..."

Putting the phone on speaker and looking at the message on WeChat, Lin Li was silent.

"Mom, why is it only five yuan?" Lin Li opened his mouth.

"Oh, my hand was fast, Mom missed a two-zero, sorry, I'll make it up to you right away." Wu Min said apologetically.

"Wu Min: Transfer '20', waiting for you to receive."

"Made it up, go ahead and receive it."

Lin Li: "..."

*《Carelessness saves Wu Min five hundred yuan》. *

"Heh, Mom, if you give this money in installments, I'm going to go to the rooftop to attack the concrete downstairs in a while, and then I'll go see you in installments too."

Lin Li opened the bedroom window and shook it outside, making the sound of the wind more obvious.

"Wu Min: Transfer '1800', waiting for you to receive."

*Threat effective. *

"Alright, take this money and have a good time with your classmates on the weekend. If it's not enough, ask Mom for more." Wu Min said with a smile.

"Thanks, Mom." Lin Li nodded with a smile and received it.

Lin Li naturally wasn't short of this money. In fact, just comparing the current balance in his card, Lin Li might have more than Wu Min—Wu Min would save in fixed deposits and use it to buy steady wealth management.

But after all, the source of his money wasn't convenient to talk about, and he hadn't found a suitable reason. In order not to arouse suspicion, even if it was living expenses, Lin Li still received it every week.

*The son will save this money for her first, and return it to Sister Min when she grows up and marries a wife. *

"Did you clean up the house yesterday as I told you? The living room and bathroom all need to be cleaned." After chatting for a while, Wu Min turned to ask.

During the routine weekend call last night, Wu Min said the house needed a big cleaning, remotely controlling Lin Li to do the work.

"Cleaned, cleaned, didn't I take photos for you? It's clean." Lin Li said leisurely.

"Okay, then Mom is going to rest. You hurry up and sleep too, you have to get up for school in the morning."

"Okay."

After saying goodnight to each other, Lin Li hung up the phone.

There were messages from others on his phone.

"Yang Liang: Happy birthday, Lin Li, transfer '88'."

"Yang Liang: Uncle knows you definitely won't accept a large amount, but this is less than a hundred yuan, there's no need to refuse again."

"Lin Li: Thanks, Uncle."

"Yang Liang: Nothing to thank for, Lin Li. You're eighteen now. If Uncle catches you in any entertainment venue again, I won't put a mask on you. When others take pictures, everyone will know, so you understand what Uncle means, right?"

"Lin Li: Received, I'll bring my own then."

"Yang Liang: Uncle didn't mean that at all!!!"

"Lin Li: Don't worry, Uncle, it's been so long since I've been to that kind of place, I won't go again."

"Yang Liang: Good, Lin Li, you're a man now, you have to be responsible for your words. Uncle believes in you."

"You recalled a message."

"Lin Li: 'Rose' 'Rose' 'Rose'"

"Yang Liang:?"

After chatting with Yang Liang, Lin Li looked at the messages popped up by "Three People and One Dog".

"Bai Bufan: Lin Li, happy birthday 'poop' 'poop'"

"Bai Bufan has initiated a 'Happy Birthday' group collection, you need to pay 888 yuan."

"Bai Bufan: A small token of my heart, please don't mind."

"Bai Bufan: Where are you? Pay the money first?"

Lin Li: "..."

Only his speech was in the group, after all, the "three people" didn't have phones.

As for why he had to speak in the group, it was because private chats couldn't do "group collections".

"Lin Li: Idiot."

Sure enough, after seeing Lin Li's reply, Bai Bufan immediately chatted with Lin Li privately.

"Bai Bufan: stars-804. 'Image' magnet:? xt=..."

"Bai Bufan: The big breasts you like, 3D, 'Image' magnet:? xt=..."

"Bai Bufan: Short film, the plot is okay. 'Image' magnet:? xt=..."

"..."

He was screen-spammed by a series of popped-up messages.

Lin Li: "..."

*What kind of stuff is this? It's all fucking links. *

Lin Li, who wasn't interested at all, long-pressed, selected all with disgust, and forwarded and saved them while suppressing his nausea.

"Bai Bufan: This is all I've collected recently, offering a salute for the birth of the king!"

*What kind of salute is this fucking offering? *

Besides Bai Bufan, Wang Ze, who also brought his phone this week, also sent his blessings.

*Heard his senior sister also brought her phone. *

After dealing with everything, Lin Li looked at the system.

Monday, the system also updated, adding a chance to refresh the product column.

This time, Lin Li didn't rush to use it.

Because he currently had 830 system currency, and after the school morning meeting reported Wang Yuhui's matter during the day, task five should be completed, and he would get another 100 system currency.

If he went to the apocalypse later and could complete task two of sending the beautiful lady home, he could get another 100, which would be 1030 system currency.

Enough to redeem a mecha.

And after this mecha was redeemed, Lin Li wouldn't be able to save up or redeem a second one in the short term, so using the free refresh chance on its column was the most appropriate.

And the historical system currency acquisition amount would reach 2800, unlocking column five, which might also be used for refreshing.

And if task two wasn't completed, then he would just replace the "Quality Upgrade Talisman" column.

So he would save it for now.

Standing up, Lin Li changed his clothes, brought his things, and headed to the bedroom.

*Departure. *

A white light flashed, and outside the dilapidated building, the sky was dim.

Checking the watch he left on the ground, fifty-nine minutes had passed, longer than the last time. He calculated it, and it followed the 1:170 ratio.

His stay time had become six hours, half an hour more than the last time.

Checking the "Qiankun Ring", it was still in his hand, and the things inside had been successfully brought over.

After confirming these, Lin Li returned to the stronghold where he had parted with Hu Fei and the others. Hu Fei, Ye Jing, and Shi Dongchen were already there.

Two vehicles resembling heavy-duty pickups were parked downstairs, and there were remains of several zombies around. Hu Fei was covered in a lot of blood and was squatting by the car eating.

"Big Brother! Big Sister-in-law!"

Seeing Lin Li, Hu Fei immediately stood up and shouted, not caring about the few zombies attracted by this.

And when Ye Jing and Shi Dongchen saw Lin Li dragging two large bags of supplies again, their eyes also shone.

In their eyes, Lin Li was making multiple trips in one day, bringing a large amount of supplies.

*He's too good to them. *

"Thank you for your hard work, Brother Lin!" Shi Dongchen immediately greeted Ye Jing and Hu Fei to come forward and take the heavy supplies.

Then Shi Dongchen pointed to the two cars parked behind and introduced them to Lin Li: "Little Brother Lin, we've already gotten the cars you wanted for you. Both vehicles are fully fueled, and we've prepared a lot of spare fuel."

"One is enough for me." Lin Li nodded, then asked about what he was more concerned about: "Do you have any clues about the beautiful lady's identity information and address?"

Upon hearing this, Shi Dongchen's expression immediately became helpless and apologetic: "Sorry, Little Brother Lin, the beautiful lady... she's slightly different from when she was alive.

Plus, there aren't many means and technologies we can use nowadays. After going back and discussing it with everyone, if she only has those things in the bag, there's no way to confirm her identity information, let alone her address."

Shi Dongchen was already being very tactful.

The beautiful lady was now not just slightly different from when she was alive; she was now just a skeleton. Without molecular-level identification technology, there was really no way to confirm her identity.

Let alone her address.

So Lin Li wasn't surprised by this answer, just nodded with regret.

"Okay, thank you, I'll think of a way myself."

"Little Brother Lin, although we really can't find the beautiful lady's home, we are willing to be her family! We sincerely invite you and the lady to join the shelter, we will definitely treat you with the highest standard of etiquette!

The shelter can become your new home!"

Seeing this, Shi Dongchen opened his mouth eagerly.

This was the only rhetoric Shi Dongchen could think of on the way back and forth.

It was obvious during the day that Lin Li was far less eager for gold than Ye Jing had described this morning, so Shi Dongchen was worried that the shelter would no longer have any attraction for him.

The policy had long since changed from avoiding the other party knowing about the shelter's information at the beginning, to now wishing Lin Li could become a part of the shelter.

If Lin Li was willing to come, it wouldn't matter if they gave him the leadership.

Settling for second best, if they couldn't be Lin Li's family, being his mother's family would also be fine.

But hearing Shi Dongchen's statement, Lin Li wanted to shake his head, but raised his eyebrows. *It seems, it's somewhat feasible? *

*A home isn't immutable. If the beautiful lady suddenly moves, will the system recognize it? *

*An unreliable idea meets an unreliable system, perhaps it's reliable. *

But to make the plan more reliable, Lin Li thought for a while and asked:

"Shi Dongchen, in your world, did you need contracts or something when buying a house before?"

"Of course you needed them before the apocalypse."

"Then does your shelter have contracts?" Lin Li asked.

"Things without binding force after the apocalypse were abandoned long ago. Why did you suddenly ask this, Brother Lin..."

Shi Dongchen didn't know why Lin Li asked this, and answered cautiously.

"The beautiful lady just told me that she is willing to move to your shelter, she plans to move."

Before Shi Dongchen, who was stunned for a moment, could have his eyes shine, Lin Li continued:

"Like this, you go back first by driving one car with the things, then clear out a single room, one with a bed, and then draft a contract, the content of which is to formally transfer the ownership of this room to the beautiful lady, making it the beautiful lady's private property.

These supplies will be the payment the beautiful lady pays for this, and then sign and stamp it directly. The process should be as formal as possible, close to the situation before your apocalypse..."

Shi Dongchen: "?"

Then he nodded with slight hesitation: "No problem."

Although he didn't know why Lin Li had such a request, it was always right to agree first.

"..."

"Then do it now, I'll wait for you to come back after you finish." After instructing some details, Lin Li signaled.

"If we need formal signing and stamping... do we need to take the beautiful lady away first?"

Shi Dongchen had already come to a pickup truck, and after Hu Fei loaded the supplies brought this time into the space behind, he asked.

Lin Li shook his head, then rummaged through the snake-skin bag and handed a hand to Shi Dongchen:

"If I give you the whole person, I can't try other things. This hand is for you. That way, signing and stamping won't be a problem, right?"

Shi Dongchen: "..."

*A bit hardcore. *

"Hmm, no problem, absolutely no problem." No matter how much Shi Dongchen was cursing in his heart, he had to smile on the surface.

"Go." Lin Li then let Shi Dongchen take Hu Fei away.

"Ye Jing, teach me how to drive the vehicles in your world."

Lin Li left Ye Jing behind, and after the two left, he opened the other pickup truck, sat in the driver's seat, and signaled.

He hadn't driven a car yet, and there were differences between the two worlds, so he definitely had to learn first.

"Okay." Ye Jing nodded, immediately came to the passenger seat, and began to guide: "Your left foot is..."

When the car zoomed out, Ye Jing fastened her seatbelt.

Lin Li drove the heavy-duty pickup, swaying left and right on the road, crashing through everything.

He also attracted and crashed into quite a few zombies.

"..."

Half an hour later.

"Driving is quite fun." Lin Li said with a smile.

"But riding is quite not fun." Ye Jing, who was pale on the side, didn't agree.

Lin Li smiled. In fact, Ye Jing didn't need to worry. With the help of comprehension and possible mecha index, although there were many differences between the vehicles of this world and the modern world, he soon felt handy.

If it weren't for the limited performance of the modified pickup, Lin Li felt he could do some high-difficulty moves.

There was deliberate speeding behind.

He also learned to drive. Before Shi Dongchen came back, Lin Li found a room with a bed nearby with the beautiful lady, and then started exercising.

The exercise was completed, and until Lin Li quietly walked two miles away, the task hadn't been completed.

But he had already said to the air before that this was the beautiful lady's new home.

It seemed the system didn't recognize it.

It seemed he still had to pin his hopes on Shi Dongchen's side.

More than an hour later, Shi Dongchen and Hu Fei drove back again.

"Is it done?" Lin Li asked.

"It's done, we made three copies of the contract, brought one over, you can take a look, if there's anything that needs to be changed, we'll change it now." Shi Dongchen nodded, and even took out a stack of paper for Lin Li.

It was printed, but the ink was uneven; it seemed the ink quality wasn't good.

Usually, there were many pits in contracts, but the one in his hand had no traps, and all terms were basically inclined toward the buyer: the beautiful lady.

Seeing the bloody skull handprint on the last page, Lin Li nodded, threw the bed he had just found onto a pickup truck, and opened his mouth:

"Then let's go, let's set off to your shelter now. You three sit in one car and lead the way in front, and I'll sit in one car with the beautiful lady."

"Okay."

The group then set off. Because there were quite a few zombies disturbed along the way, the speed wasn't fast.

*No wonder the time for driving back and forth was about the same as Ye Jing 'walking' back and forth. *

More than forty minutes later, they finally arrived outside their so-called residential area.

The rusty iron gate was sealed with heavy chains, vines drilled out from cracks in the wall, crawling all over the mottled wall like green blood vessels. The buildings were much more complete than the area Lin Li came from, but they could also be described as dilapidated.

The ground really didn't look like anyone lived there.

After assisting Hu Fei in dealing with the zombies that followed, Lin Li dragged the beautiful lady and followed them into the shelter through a hidden tunnel outside the residential area.

"Is this light specifically for me?" Lin Li pointed to the light source inserted in the narrow passage and said.

The light source didn't fit the surrounding environment; it looked like it was placed temporarily.

"Yes." Shi Dongchen nodded.

*At first it was very narrow, only allowing one person to pass; after walking dozens of steps, it only allowed one person to pass; walking to the end, it only allowed one person to pass. *

And there were even traces of people living there.

Letting Lin Li live in this place, waking up in the middle of the night to find pesticide, hitting the ceiling and fainting again, he couldn't die even if he wanted to.

But after all, it was the apocalypse, and Lin Li knew his thoughts were like "why don't they eat meat porridge".

It wasn't until he truly entered the underground garage area that the situation finally improved.

Lin Li saw several survivors, all sizing him up with curious, confused, surprised, and various complex emotions, either hidden or direct.

Everyone's state didn't look very good.

"Where is room 180?" Lin Li maintained the necessary vigilance, his heart set on his task.

The room information owned by the beautiful lady was clearly written on the contract.

"Over here." Shi Dongchen pointed forward.

It was actually easy to recognize; at a glance, he could lock onto the space blocked by a curtain that was the brightest, had no one around, and looked exceptionally clean.

"Okay, thank you." Lin Li nodded, then instructed: "I might leave the shelter to go outside later. Before I speak, please don't talk to me."

"We will definitely obey your wishes." Shi Dongchen nodded immediately upon hearing this.

He, who was originally prepared to say something, immediately signaled Ye Jing and Hu Fei not to follow, letting Lin Li and the beautiful lady enter the room alone.

The room was cleaned very cleanly—at least compared to the outside, and there was a bed that looked quite soft.

It seemed he didn't need to bring in the bed he had specifically collected outside to prevent the shelter from not having a decent one.

Pulling the curtain.

Lin Li started the last bed exercise as he did last time, doing it for half as long as the time recognized by the task last time.

So, bed exercise, completed.

Laying the beautiful lady flat on the ground in a sleeping posture, Lin Li put all the clothes he had collected in the hospital on her, and lit them with a lighter.

Staying for a while, they should be roasted.

So, deep sleep, completed.

Covering the beautiful lady with a quilt, extinguishing the sparks on her, and tucking in the corners, Lin Li left the room without a word, and left the shelter silently under the gaze of more survivors.

Under the gaze of the security personnel at the entrance, Lin Li opened the exit of the tunnel and walked out to the ground.

【Task two completed.】

【You have received rewards: Title: Pants on and don't recognize people; Constitution improvement: Image charm increased by 10%; Random system-oriented prop *1; System currency *100.】

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