Chapter 281: A real man should be piloted by a mecha

Fortunately, it was completed.

Lin Li let out a long sigh; the system was still quite good to him in the judgment of these tasks, very anthropomorphic.

Perhaps it was a birthday gift from the system to him.

【You have received "Half-price product purchase opportunity" *1】

【Half-price product purchase opportunity: After use, specify any product currently in the 【Mall】, you have obtained a chance to purchase at 0.5 times the price, the price is rounded up to the tens digit (i. e., original price fifty purchase needs thirty system currency)】

Looking at the subsequent popped-up messages, Lin Li raised his eyebrows.

Then he realized that this would be a super prize worth 500 system currency.

Speak of Cao Cao, and the wife arrives.

He made a fortune.

Lin Li had originally planned to wait for Wang Yuhui's delivery task to be completed during the day, gather one thousand system currency, and redeem a mecha he had been looking forward to for a long time to take a look.

But now that he had this prop, it meant he only needed to spend five hundred to take it down.

His mood instantly became great.

If it weren't for the fact that someone might be watching him at the entrance behind him, Lin Li's hands would probably have been unable to help reaching down, humming softly.

Now, there was half of the maximum stay time in the apocalypse left, three hours.

Pressing the signal transmitter Shi Dongchen gave him, it didn't take long for him to walk out of the tunnel entrance.

After looking for Lin Li for a circle, he finally saw Lin Li and let out a sigh of relief, then asked: "Brother Lin, were you looking for me? Is there anything?"

"The beautiful lady's room doesn't need to be left empty by you guys anymore, it's useless, you can take it back and use it yourself."

"You asked me before if I was interested in the weapons or technology of your world, right? I'm relatively free now, you can introduce it to me." Lin Li said to him with a smile.

"No need, keep the room for... Okay, okay! I'll go prepare it right away!" After hearing the first half, Shi Dongchen, who intended to retain the room to try to deepen the relationship, nodded excitedly after hearing Lin Li's subsequent appeal.

After explaining a few words to the personnel on duty at the entrance, Shi Dongchen came to Lin Li's side and started to introduce him orally first.

On the technical side, Lin Li didn't gain anything. There were no scientists among the survivors here, and no one mastered any high-end technology.

As for those civilian basic technologies, either the two worlds had similar ones, or some terms were different. Plus, Lin Li's knowledge reserve in this area was too small, making it a bit like a chicken talking to a duck, unable to explain or understand.

As for weapons, the shelter did have many good things that were hard to get, at least for Lin Li living in the East.

After all, in reality, Lin Li had no way and wouldn't try to obtain these illegally.

"Give me some of these weapons and usable ammunition when the time comes."

Lin Li played with the firearms in his hand, tried a few shots, and said to Shi Dongchen.

This kind of thing brought back to reality was indeed useless to Lin Li, but in the apocalypse world, putting it in the "Qiankun Ring" and taking it out at any time was definitely a superior substitute for the weapons at hand.

You don't have to use it, but you can't not have it.

And putting it at home wouldn't fear any risks. The style, color scheme, and details of the guns were different from reality, more like toy guns, and wouldn't arouse suspicion. Ammunition and such, just put them separately.

"No problem!" Shi Dongchen had no objection.

He wasn't afraid of Lin Li making requests, but afraid of Lin Li having no requests. After Lin Li looked at and picked through the weapons, Shi Dongchen took out a box and opened the lock on it.

There was only one thing in the box, an irregular blood-red stone.

"What is this?" Lin Li asked.

"This is something collected when eliminating mutants more than a year ago. I think you might also be interested in it, Little Brother Lin." Shi Dongchen said.

"Hmm?" Lin Li moved the box over and looked. It was indeed two pieces, one half the size of a fist, and the smaller one that was completely blocked was only the size of a thumb.

Lin Li picked it up and examined it carefully. The stone would emit a jumping red light that was not obvious. It wasn't hard itself, and his fingernails could make a mark on it. Lin Li felt he could even crush it.

As for extraordinary elements, he didn't feel any.

"Is this the core of the mutant... uh, what do you call it?"

"We didn't name it, so let's call it the core."

"What's the use?"

"Appearing in front of ordinary zombies will make them more crazy. Suppose a zombie, on the left is a person, on the right is the core, they will prioritize rushing to the right."

"Secondly, I used Hu Fei to test it. Using this thing to contact their wounds as awakened ones will be absorbed into their bodies, and then it will make them feel better."

"As for ordinary people like me, there is no reaction when contacting wounds."

"I don't know anything else. After all, we don't have much energy to spend on this kind of thing."

"I've kept these two pieces for a long time, but they've never been of any use, so I plan to give them to you, Little Brother Lin."

Lin Li laughed. The word "give" was used cleverly.

But Lin Li wasn't polite either.

"Then I'll accept it, although I don't know if I can take it away."

Involving the extraordinary of this world, this thing definitely had research value.

If it was given to him, he would take it; if it wasn't given to him, he would ask for it.

Seeing Lin Li accept it, Shi Dongchen was even happier than Lin Li, and then took Lin Li to find the big gold nugget in the shelter.

More than twenty centimeters long, more than ten centimeters high and wide, except for the flat bottom, the other sides were irregular, and there were obvious gaps just chiseled out recently.

When holding this hundred-jin gold, Lin Li deeply felt the weight of responsibility.

He felt that he couldn't even put it under the bed.

"Then I'll take it all away?" Lin Li asked.

Since he was already here, it would be too troublesome to take it away in batches.

"Of course, it's entirely at your disposal."

He couldn't put it in the ring, so he could only hold it when returning.

After chatting about what should be said, Lin Li sent back the slingshot and catapult he brought as "gifts," and promised to continue purchasing supplies to give away when he came later, then said goodbye to Shi Dongchen, refused to stay, and left the shelter.

One reason was that Lin Li still didn't want to set the return point inside the shelter.

The second reason was that Lin Li was going to test the mecha.

So Lin Li held the gold and found a tall ruined building a hundred meters away as cover.

【You have selected "A+ Battle Armor (Lin Li Perfect Mold)" to use "Half-price product purchase opportunity", and it has been used successfully.】

【You purchased "A+ Battle Armor (Lin Li Perfect Mold)".】

The mecha was in hand.

This thing wasn't suitable for testing after returning to reality, because Lin Li wasn't sure how tall this armor was.

The actual floor height of his old residential area was estimated to be less than 2.4 meters. Since it was his perfect mold, it was undoubtedly taller than him. If it exceeded this height, he couldn't materialize it at home.

And testing it outside the residential area had too much risk. Who knew if someone would be enjoying the night view in the middle of the night without turning on the lights.

Then this world was the most suitable.

When the armor was materialized, Lin Li knew his choice was correct.

Roughly estimated to be about three meters and five in height.

It was a humanoid mecha like Gundam, with an overall black color scheme, honeycomb-like patterns all over the main alloy, and mercury-like liquid with metallic texture flowing at the exposed joints.

Two huge mechanical arms were hung with two machine guns with great oppression, the pitch-black muzzles were very oppressive, a strange-shaped 'knife' was hung on the outside of the left leg, and thrusters were mounted behind the mecha, not knowing if it could fly.

It was too cool.

Lin Li reached out to touch it, originally wanting to feel the charm of this technology and metal, but at the moment of touching, the chest armor of the mecha cracked, revealing the internal cockpit, and then Lin Li felt a suction force pulling him toward it.

Lin Li didn't resist and took the initiative to exert force, cooperating with this force to enter.

The chest armor closed, and the front became pitch black. Gel-like jelly substances began to surge from all directions to completely wrap Lin Li.

Extremely slight stinging sensation came, and Lin Li's vision was no longer pure black.

"Access successful"

"Pilot: Lin Li"

"Mecha synchronization index: 60 (120%)"

When the mechanical female voice sounded inside the armor, Lin Li's vision recovered.

It was the vision of a mecha more than three meters high, and as long as he focused, the vision would automatically zoom in on where he wanted to see. A holographic map being drawn in real-time floated at the edge of the vision, and automatically locked onto several suspected enemies and started analysis.

The sense of technology was full.

Looking down, Lin Li saw his mechanical arm, and his ten fingers moved flexibly with his thoughts without any obstruction.

Moving his legs was the same.

The four limbs were simply as flexible as if they were growing on his own body, not clumsy.

Taking a deep breath, suppressing the urge to shout, Lin Li started the adaptation and practice of this armor.

The plasma light blade swept across the building, the wall was cut and broken in the splashing sparks, and it landed with a huge sound.

The sound was loud, but the zombies nearby were all dead.

Lin Li inside the mecha had unstoppable excitement on his face.

After spending more than half an hour, he should have figured out most of the mecha's situation.

Under the two arms of the armor, each was a rifle, with a total ammunition capacity of four thousand rounds, and now 3996 remained.

The long-range attack module was more than just these two. Pulse cannons were folded and hidden in the shoulders, consuming energy when fired, so the ammunition display was infinite, related to electricity.

Four small reconnaissance drones were mounted on the back, not equipped with weapons, but could self-destruct when necessary.

Close combat module, there was a long spear that could be taken out from the palm of the right hand, and the plasma blade that he had just seen on the outside of the left leg and was now using in his hand.

Defense module, it was the telescopic energy shield attached to the front of the left arm.

In terms of speed, without using thrusters, the action speed of the battle armor was not fast, even a bit clumsy.

Obviously, for traveling, it was more suitable for low-altitude or high-altitude flight.

High-altitude flight could stabilize at a speed of sixty or seventy kilometers per hour, which was considered good for a heavy mecha and thrusters that were tiny in comparison. The limit speed was two hundred kilometers per hour, but after a few minutes, the thruster would show an overload warning.

The battery dropped from 100% to 98% in half an hour—almost all of it dropped when testing the limit speed.

Without considering the time flow, it was actually six o'clock in the morning, but Lin Li had no sleepiness at all.

This mecha was too cool to pilot.

A real man should pilot a mecha!

This was the best birthday gift!

Mount Everest is 8848 meters high, the highest Gundam in the world, Lin Li's Gundam is 3.6 meters, but it is the Gundam with the highest technical content in the world now!

The only pity was that the rifle ammunition was limited, and Lin Li had no way to replenish it now, so he didn't want to use it at all.

Another "problem," when Lin Li was inside the armor, using the system to materialize things also materialized them inside the armor, and they couldn't appear directly on the mechanical hand.

The hatch opened, and Lin Li was sent back to the ground by the magnetic hatch. Lin Li immediately put the mecha back into the 【Warehouse】.

He was about to be forcibly repatriated to the modern world. If the mecha didn't go back when he went back, he would really be red-warmed.

Now his self-protection means in the apocalypse world had greatly increased, and he could consider further exploration actions later.

But next time for sure.

Now it was time to go.

Returned to the bathroom.

Pressed the backup machine timer, two minutes and fourteen seconds, stayed in the apocalypse for nearly six hours, calculated, the time ratio really fell again, only 1:160.

Sooner or later, the flow rate of the two worlds would be completely consistent, right?

But that wasn't something Lin Li needed to consider now. After changing to his new title in the main title slot, Lin Li looked at the mirror in the bathroom.

The facial features of himself in the mirror completely disappeared, all turned into skin, looking like a yellow-skinned braised egg with hair, quite creepy.

No matter what expression he made, it was like this. At most, when he opened his mouth in his vision, the facial contour would change accordingly, and no facial features would appear.

In other words, the debuff of not being able to see his face clearly also took effect when he looked at himself?

Lin Li took out his phone and took a selfie in the mirror. Looking at the photo on the phone with the naked eye, it was the same effect.

Opening the network disk to watch movies, all those with real people acting, regardless of gender, had their facial features invisible, but 3d and 2d animations were completely unaffected.

Only involved real people.

Lin Li removed the title.

So the facial features of real people could be seen.

However, Lin Li went to look at the photos of himself he took in the album, and it was still in the faceless state.

Lin Li thought for a while, so... this was what he looked like in others' eyes when wearing the title?

It turned out that this title didn't grant a new identity, but directly stripped away the original identity.

Lin Li originally thought it was another face that looked completely different from himself, making people unable to recognize him but not feeling strange, like Superman's glasses.

Now it seemed not.

Then the practicality was much weaker.

When really using this title, he must wear a mask on his face, otherwise, as long as he was seen, it would cause panic.

Then Lin Li tested it again. In the unrecognizable state, no fingerprints would be left. Although hair could be pulled out normally, once the title was removed, these body fragments would immediately disappear out of thin air.

If Lin Li relied on this to embark on the road of illegal crime, Conan would be stunned if he came.

Long pants, shorts, and underwear all counted as pants. Small damage to the pants didn't affect this judgment, but once the damage exceeded about 50%, it wouldn't be recognized as pants.

Here, let's mourn for three minutes for the underwear that sacrificed itself into fragments for the owner's experiment.

As for wearing it in the sub-title slot, when it took effect by 50%, the facial features were looming, fingerprints were half, and the hair left a complete one.

I don't know what the result would be if I took this hair for testing.

Lin Li used the refresh chance on the mecha column.

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【You have refreshed the "Seven-Colored Treasure Garment": 600 System Currency (daily purchase limit 1), do you wish to replace it?】

【Seven-Colored Treasure Garment: After refining, wearing it on your body can greatly absorb and neutralize damage received, as well as grant immunity to low-level spells.】

A defensive magic treasure has been refreshed.

It feels like it shouldn't be bad; after all, the price is right there.

But I don't have an urgent need for it right now, and even if I did, I couldn't afford it. I'll replace it and leave it here for now; I'll consider it later once I'm well-off or manage to get a second half-price item.

Having finished these things, Lin Li let out a yawn. The excitement of piloting the mecha had passed, and exhaustion began to wash over him.

After tidying up the protective suit and other items, Lin Li went to sleep.

"According to unofficial history, Zhang Liao led eight hundred brave warriors to crush Sun Quan's army of one hundred thousand. This matter has no false or exaggerated components, but there is a hidden story!"

"Picking up where we left off, after Lu Bu was captured by Cao Cao in Hefei, he said, 'I am willing to surrender,' but he wasn't actually killed. Instead, he was secretly rescued by Zhang Liao. Of course, Zhang Liao wasn't being kind; Lu Bu was imprisoned by him and turned into a 'hot weapon,' mating with hundreds of local women with magnificent figures every day until they were pregnant."

"After sixteen years, Lu Bu had already sired thousands of little Lu Bus with the local strong women. Through the law of survival of the fittest, Zhang Liao gradually cultivated an army of super little Lu Bus to garrison Hefei."

"The brat Sun Quan didn't know about this and dared to send troops to attack Hefei at this time. So, these little Lu Bus followed Zhang Liao in an all-out assault, which is how the legendary feat of 800 men crushing an army of one hundred thousand was created!"

"What?!"

"If it were eight hundred little Lu Bus, perhaps... it really could be done!"

"No wonder the Wei Kingdom won; eight hundred little Lu Bus are indeed too terrifying. But why are there no records of this group of little Lu Bus in later history?"

"Sigh," Bai Bufan sighed upon hearing this, "According to unofficial history, this battle completely awakened the bloodline of the eight hundred little Lu Bus. As everyone knows, Lu Bu was a 'servant of three surnames,' so they became the sex... of two thousand four hundred families."

"Two thousand four hundred families? That would break them, right!"

"Yeah, so they were used up in a few years, and then there was no more news."

"Damn!"

A little bit of unofficial history every day, and life doesn't feel like you want to die.

Lin Li walked into the classroom with a smile, meeting the gaze of Chen Yu, who had been watching the door as if waiting for someone.

So, he first placed her breakfast on her desk.

"Lin Li, happy birthday. I didn't bring the gift to school; I'll have to give it to you later." Pressing her hands on the breakfast, Chen Yu looked at Lin Li and spoke with a smile.

"If you didn't bring it, that means you didn't write it. Class Monitor, I've used this excuse to death before. You should call your parents right now and have them bring it over," Lin Li said with a cold laugh upon hearing this.

"I really did prepare it; I just didn't bring it to school." Chen Yu shook her head, pursing her lips, but there was still a smile in her eyes.

"Heh, I don't believe you."

"Don't you dare bully my Yingbao!" Ding Si, who was to the side, leaned over and spat softly while pointing at Lin Li's nose.

"Ding Si, you didn't bring one either, did you?" Lin Li looked at Ding Si upon hearing this.

"Of course I didn't *not* bring one."

Hearing Lin Li say this, Ding Si smiled and reached her hand into her drawer.

Lin Li reached out, surprised and unexpected.

Ding Si took out a comb.

A comb? That's fine, a comb is acceptable too; I happen to be missing one myself.

But Ding Si used it to tidy her bangs and said to Lin Li, "Of course I didn't *not* bring one, because I didn't prepare one at all."

"......"

Grabbing the air with his extended hand and refining it instantly, Lin Li smiled, "Ah Ding, you know, I didn't have any criteria for a partner before, but ever since I met you, I do."

"Is it because I'm too outstanding? Once you've seen the moon, you look down on fireflies, right? I can understand that," Ding Si continued, humming while combing her hair.

"Because you absolutely cannot have someone like you." Lin Li's voice came through his teeth.

"Tch."

Having played with Lin Li for so long, this kind of attack could no longer make Ding Si lose her temper.

"I guess I can only count on the Class Monitor then, so I'll just wait." Smiling and shaking his head, Lin Li left this sentence for Chen Yu and walked toward the back row.

For someone like Lin Li, who wouldn't normally celebrate a birthday in a grand way, gifts really weren't that important.

"What?! It's Lin Li, the first person in Class 4 of Grade 1 who can openly go to an internet cafe!" As Lin Li walked toward the back row, Zhou Bao exclaimed in shock.

"What?! It's Lin Li, the first person in Class 4 of Grade 1 who can use his own identity information to trade stocks!" Wang Ze, who was listening to unofficial history in the back, followed suit.

"What?! It's Lin Li, the first person in Class 4 of Grade 1 who got scammed while naked chatting at an internet cafe, failed at stock trading, ended up penniless, embarked on a path of illegal crime, and then had the opportunity to be sentenced to immediate execution!" Bai Bufan also widened his eyes.

Lin Li: "......"

Your mom.

As expected of you, Bai Bufan, you can even adapt your self-attacks to the situation.

But in this class, he really was the only one who could be sentenced to death right now; Bai Bufan wasn't wrong.

"I've already paid for today's breakfast!" But Lin Li, being the bigger person, said heroically while handing them their breakfast.

However, the ungrateful crowd did not show any gratitude.

"You collected the money yesterday, didn't you? If you don't pay, who does?" Bai Bufan asked with a cold laugh.

"You guys insisted on transferring it." Lin Li looked slightly innocent.

"Did you treat us yesterday?"

"Well, it wasn't my birthday yesterday either."

"......"

"Then we won't transfer the money for breakfast tonight."

"No." Lin Li shook his head.

"Why?"

"It's not my birthday tomorrow, so how can you not pay for tomorrow's breakfast?"

Bai Bufan, Zhou Bao, Wang Ze: "......"

Your mom.

They were so angry they laughed. What kind of multi-dimensional defense is this?

It feels like Lin Li is the kind of person who would hesitate even if a King gave him five gold coins.

After distributing the breakfast, he returned to his seat.

"Lin Li, have the physical examination results come out yet? I'm dying of curiosity." While digging into his breakfast, Bai Bufan asked.

Hearing this, Lin Li looked at Bai Bufan with a smile, "It's not because of curiosity, oh."

"What do you mean it's not because of curi—eh?"

Bai Bufan froze for a moment, then covered his mouth and started coughing.

So the reason I'm going to die isn't because of curiosity?

"Oh my, I'm scaring you," Lin Li looked at Bai Bufan like that, laughed, patted his shoulder, and then said seriously:

"Bufan, eat whatever you want to eat lately. If you don't want to attend class, you don't have to. Do what you want to do, don't restrain yourself anymore. Don't worry, I've calculated it; the money in your card is enough for you to live out the rest of your life carefree."

Bai Bufan: "......"

"But I only have seven hundred yuan in my card." Bai Bufan licked his lips and said seriously.

"Mm, I know~ it's enough!" Lin Li nodded, his smile bright and sunny.

People will laugh when they are extremely speechless.

So Bai Bufan laughed first before stretching out his hand to count on his fingers.

Then he stood up abruptly, grabbed Lin Li by the collar, and roared while shaking him:

"What do you mean seven hundred yuan is enough! Then how short must this damn carefree life of mine be!"

(End of chapter)