Chapter 323

"Wednesday is actually the best at pretending. It doesn't present itself as disgustingly as Monday and Tuesday. But it's not like Thursday, which makes people feel relieved, nor like Friday, which makes people feel happy.

You want to scold it, but you can't find the words. It's really a bottom-tier day; it's the 'mistress' (xiao san), disgusting!"

"That's true."

"Indeed."

"Does Wednesday have a TikTok account? I'm going to cyberbully it."

"I have Wednesday's payment QR code."

Wednesday, in the hallway, the brothers from Class 4, Grade 1, were cyberbullying Wednesday.

The sky was dim, and it was drizzling.

However, the wind wasn't strong, and the rainwater wasn't flooding into the hallway, so Lin Li and the others were still leaning against the hallway railing, staring at the dripping rainwater on the edge of the fence.

Having checked the weather forecast, it was only going to rain for a while today; it wouldn't rain on the weekend, so it wouldn't affect the outing.

"Lin Li, which drop do you support?" Bai Bufan asked.

"The one on the left, I think it's about to swallow the small water droplet next to it and flow down." Lin Li answered.

"I think the one on the right. Although your analysis is very reasonable, the environment on the right is bad now, but it's closer to the outside. As long as some rainwater drifts over, it will immediately overtake. Your vision is still too short-sighted."

"The rain won't blow in." Lin Li, who could manipulate the wind, sneered.

Everyone chose their recognized contestants and cheered for them.

At school, as long as you aren't studying, everything you look at is interesting.

There wouldn't be anyone who hasn't stared at water droplets on windows or walls on a rainy day, hoping that the droplet they had high hopes for would be the first to flow to the bottom, right?

However, the results of the competition hadn't come out yet, and Xue Jian walked over first.

The next class was math.

Because it was break time, Xue Jian came early. He didn't call for everyone to enter the classroom yet, just used a thumbtack to pin a piece of paper onto the class bulletin board and shouted to the class:

"The midterm exam results are out. Those who want to see the rankings can take a look themselves."

"Results are out? Let's go, let's go see." Hearing this, Wang Ze and Lin Li turned and walked into the classroom.

"Holy crap, you guys aren't watching because your water droplet was overtaken? Are you guys sore losers!" Bai Bufan, Zhou Baowei, and the others laughed and cursed, then followed.

On the bulletin board side, it was the classic scene of boys crowding together, while the girls had no intention of coming up at all.

It wasn't that they were in a hurry to see, just finding an opportunity to squeeze together. Class 4, Grade 1 is like this; it's hopeless.

"Wang Ze, if you please, trouble you to stick your butt a bit more to the east, so I can exert force~" In this situation, you couldn't really use brute force, so Lin Li didn't squeeze in, taking the opportunity to pat Wang Ze's butt and said.

"Got it, take it easy, don't just use brute force, you have to use finesse~" Wang Ze nodded upon hearing this, but stuck his butt in the opposite direction toward Lin Li, his tone also assimilated.

"Then hold it steady, our treasure here has to serve you. Aim well, here we go!!"

"Auv! Don't say, it really is like that. Nine shallow ones are decent, one deep one is authentic~"

"Can that be wrong? I'm just matching your style, don't mind me, I'm just using my heart. Your rear hill is really top-notch! Worth it!"

"Alright, watch out for the end, don't shoot inside, don't waste it, put it all in our mouths, I'll take a sip~"

"Hey, good, you know how to eat! You're really an expert!"

The bulletin board wasn't crowded anymore.

Com-plete-ly not crowded.

My! God! What! A! Dirty! Talk!

Except for Lin Li and Wang Ze, all the boys, when this heaven-defying language began to assault their ears, automatically pulled back a meter. Their eye corners, mouth corners, temples, and other facial areas all began to twitch uncontrollably.

——"What entered my ears!! Why are my ears bleeding!!"

——"Danzo, why don't you come and collect my eyes too, ahhh!"

——"Damn, these two meeting, it really is 'high mountains and flowing water' (a perfect match), 'chess rivals meeting.' This kind of bullshit can only come out of their mouths."

——"I'm so scared to die now, I'm afraid my life-flashing-before-my-eyes will make me listen to this again."

"Holy crap!!" Wang Ze, who was continuing his dirty talk with Lin Li, suddenly stopped, and the next moment said in shock.

"What? I haven't finished yet." Lin Li was surprised.

"No, Lin Li, are you the grade first? Ah? Ah?" Wang Ze widened his eyes, turned his head to look at Lin Li, grabbed his collar, and said "ah" three times in a row.

"What? What place? Midterm grade rank? What a joke! This old thing is at most grade first!"

The brothers who were keeping a safe distance from the 'Nantong' surged up after hearing this. None of them were in a hurry to see their own rankings anymore; following Wang Ze's finger, they found the row where Lin Li was.

They saw the number "1" in the "Grade Ranking" column.

"Holy crap!!" Now the others followed Wang Ze in saying "holy crap."

Lin Li just blinked and gave a contemptuous smile.

It wasn't that calm, though.

Regarding entering the top ten, Lin Li had already known in advance—when Xue Jian posted this notice, the system had sent a notification that the task was completed.

That meant he was firmly in the top ten.

Squeezing over to look was just to see who won between himself and Chen Yuying.

Now, if it was the grade first place, then the answer was already beyond doubt.

Regarding entering the grade top ten, Lin Li wasn't surprised; his astonishing perseverance and sweat had no audience, although there was indeed some small help from cheats.

But regarding directly taking the grade championship, he was still a bit surprised.

How lonely it is to be invincible.

However, afterward, Lin Li also felt some regret.

He should have deducted more points, controlled his score a bit, and not taken first place.

Not leaving himself room for improvement is the same as not leaving the system room for tasks, right?

If he had taken second place this time, then for the next monthly exam, the system would most likely have given him a task to take first place.

He was still too unwilling to improve; it was equivalent to maxing out his level in a leveling novel all at once, and there would be no way to write the rest. If you round this up, he lost a hundred million.

Forget it, it's fine. Lin Li adjusted his mindset very quickly; he took the test, so be it.

Maybe the system will provide some different tasks next time.

Lin Li took a look at Chen Yuying's grades; they were quite stable, about the same as last time, improving by one place—grade fifth, class second.

Lin Li pulled away Wang Ze's hand, patted his collar in disgust, pushed aside the bystanders, walked onto the steps of the podium, and looked down at everyone:

"From now on, I want this sky to no longer cover my eyes, I want this earth to no longer bury my heart, I want all living beings to understand my will, I want all the Buddhas to vanish into smoke!"

"Teacher, please stand up first, thank you."

"Class Monitor, you stand up too, thank you."

"Bufan, Baowei, you few pieces of trash, sit down where you are."

"OK, that's it, everyone look at me. I'm not targeting anyone, I'm saying that everyone sitting here is trash!" Lin Li's "map cannon" (blanket attack) was very rigorous.

"Teacher, I report, Lin Li went to the teaching building to steal test papers last week, these grades have water in them." Bai Bufan raised his hand to report to Xue Jian.

"Need to check Lin Li's academic qualifications to verify the water content." Wang Ze nodded.

"That's very juicy, I want to eat it." Zhou Baowei swallowed a mouthful of saliva and also offered a greedy remark.

However, Xue Jian just pretended not to hear.

Too lazy to reply.

Having no human rights is like this. Giving up on sowing discord, Bai Bufan, Zhou Baowei, and the others finished looking at their rankings. With a while left before class, they returned to the hallway to chat.

"Holy crap, Lin Li improved by four hundred places in two months, and suddenly topped the grade at first place. This beast must be cheating." Bai Bufan cursed, "I suspect Lin Li is a novel protagonist, has a system, the kind that helps him counterattack."

"It really looks like it." Zhou Baowei nodded, "But it could also be rebirth; he knows the answers."

"Rebirth is impossible," Bai Bufan looked into the classroom with disgust, pointed at Lin Li, and frowned at the others: "If he were still this kind of asshole after rebirth, then Lin Li wasted his rebirth."

——At this time, Lin Li was still preening and showing off in the classroom, shouting arrogantly.

"That's true." Zhou Baowei was persuaded, "Too childish. It should be a system."

"Then the author is an idiot, why didn't he choose me as the protagonist?" Bai Bufan attacked the Heavenly Dao.

"On the contrary, I think the author is very smart, very good, and very powerful." Wang Ze shook his head. Noticing Bai Bufan's disdainful and disgusted gaze, he lowered his voice and explained:

"A sycophant has everything. If I suck up to him now, the protagonist position might just be given to me."

"Actually, that's not the case. Where would you change the protagonist temporarily? That's a guaranteed flop, so it's meaningless for you to suck up now." Bai Bufan denied.

"Hiss—that also makes sense." Wang Ze was persuaded, gave up, and nodded: "Then the author is still an idiot."

"Yes, the author should be an idiot." Having persuaded his comrade, Bai Bufan was very gratified.

"No," Wang Ze shook his head again, but the direction of his rebuttal was already different: "Bufan, it feels like there is no author. If there were an author, why can we still scold him?

If there really were one, shouldn't he be furious right now, appearing with a big truck to run us over?"

"Who knows? Maybe he's an 'M', or he's just using our dialogue to pad the word count."

"Maybe he even thinks he's very humorous, very witty, and very capable for playing the 'breaking the fourth wall' trope. After publishing, he squats and watches the comments, wanting to see readers praise him, but after refreshing for a long time, there isn't a single comment. Finally, half an hour passes, he sees a message notification '1', excitedly clicks it open, but only sees a comment like 'what a low-IQ plot,' and then he breaks down but doesn't dare to scold the reader, so he can only shed little pearls (tears) in his quilt like a coward, hehe."

Bai Bufan's words were pearls of wisdom.

"Oh, that's reasonable again." Wang Ze was relieved.

Inside the classroom.

Lin Li had good hearing and heard all these conversations, but he didn't go out to complain or show off—it wasn't that he didn't want to, but he had been stopped by Xue Jian.

"Lin Li, Yuying, are you two changing your mottos for the honor roll? If you don't change them, I'll use the ones from last time." Xue Jian asked this after announcing the candidates for the honor roll this time.

"Teacher, I want to change." Lin Li's motto last time was still "Bai Bufan is right," of course he had to change it.

"What are you changing it to?" Xue Jian glanced at him sideways.

"For the grade first place list, write 'I am grade first, I want to use a cigarette butt to burn everyone's butt.' For the improvement list, write 'Boys have thick skin, boys get burned twice'." Lin Li had a draft ready long ago.

Xue Jian: "..."

Taking a deep breath, Xue Jian closed his eyes and didn't open them again, but used his hand to accurately pat the side of Lin Li's shoulder:

"Even if your grades are good, you can't use a cigarette butt to burn other people's butts. Rejected. Change it to something normal, something more like a human being."

"What? Can't burn them?" Lin Li looked shocked, pointed at Chen Yuying, and protested:

"Then teacher, I report, the Class Monitor uses a cigarette butt to burn my butt in the bathroom every day. She told me that if your grades are good, you can burn people whenever you want. Our Nansang Middle School is a school of 'strength-firstism.' My grades are bad, so I have to endure it!"

Chen Yuying: "?"

Hearing this, Xue Jian didn't even lift his eyelids: "Burned many times?"

"Yes!"

"Then did you pay for her cigarettes?"

Lin Li: "(; o_o)?"

"No, didn't pay." Lin Li answered stiffly.

"Then pay for the cigarettes, and say thank you." Xue Jian firmly refused to open his eyes, seemingly really not wanting to look at Lin Li, just giving a fair and impartial verdict, suspected of being possessed by Captain Dragonfly.

The class burst into laughter.

Lin Li handed the breakfast money he had collected in the morning to Chen Yuying, and Chen Yuying actually took it!

You really took it, baby.

"You'll return it to me later, right?" Lin Li asked in a low voice.

"No."

"Return half, half is fine."

"None, it's my cigarette money."

"Class Monitor, don't get caught by me when I'm smoking in the future, otherwise, your butt is finished." Lin Li could only make a threat.

The only response was a "tch," the threat was ineffective.

Lin Li sighed.

With assholes like Bai Bufan and Wang Ze, even if he were a novel protagonist, he would be one from Yu Hua's pen.

At this moment, Lin Li wanted to let out a classic roar from Yu Hua—

"God!"

"Go fuck yourself!"

"Fuck me to death!"

——Yu Hua, "Crying in the Drizzle"

At night, Lin Li returned home.

He hung his wet raincoat directly on the hook on the wall at the entrance—although the old residential area wasn't safe, it was safe enough; the neighbors wouldn't take this kind of thing.

"Wu Min: Grade first? You?"

He took out his phone and saw the message Wu Min had sent him after seven o'clock in the evening.

It must have been that Xue Jian sent the report card to the parent group, and then Wu Min looked at it when she got off work.

"Lin Li: I went to steal the test papers before the exam."

"Wu Min: Oh, oh, then Mom is relieved."

"Wu Min: 'Transferred 500', keep up the good work, continue to steal next time, maintain the ranking."

Lin Li nodded with gratification. She actually supports it? The source of his own moral corruption and lack of quality had been found.

Since ancient times, indulgent mothers have produced spoiled children.

Stool didn't send him a message today.

However, he had communicated with him yesterday and the day before yesterday, and he was currently trying to find a way to help him contact some real hoodlums and informants from other schools.

Because he said that right now, the school was indeed quite well-behaved. Their school had also been visited by the Demon Suppression Division and the community, and even the most lawless group had relatively restrained themselves.

As for daily small evil acts, of course there were some, but Lin Li still had to go to school, so there was no way and no point in managing them.

It's fine, wait and see.

After walking into the house, Lin Li materialized a mirror.

This was a magic treasure he had just obtained today.

【You have received a reward: Physique improvement: Comprehension increased by 20%; Spiritual sense/spirit increased by 100%; Random magic treasure *1.】

This was the task reward.

【You have obtained a magic treasure: Heavenly Secret Mirror】

【Heavenly Secret Mirror: After refining, one can peek into the heavenly secrets from within.】

The introduction was very short. The actual object was a handheld mirror with an ancient style, with complex and numerous patterns. The back was engraved with ancient seal script: "Those who observe impermanence, observe it with impermanence," which looked very high-end.

The mirror surface was copper-colored, but it wasn't a copper mirror. In fact, the so-called mirror surface part didn't reflect light at all; it couldn't be used as a mirror at all.

Returning home, Lin Li began to refine it.

Grabbed it with one hand, refined it in an instant!

Shallow refining for the purpose of establishing a connection wasn't difficult. Very quickly, Lin Li also built a connection with the "Heavenly Secret Mirror."

Like other magic treasures, when this equivalent-to-master-recognition segment ended, more detailed information flooded into his mind.

The method of use was to provide spiritual energy for it to absorb. When it absorbed to a certain degree, the mirror would reveal some heavenly secrets or give some guidance.

Every time it revealed a heavenly secret, the mirror surface would shatter on its own, but it would repair itself like the "Duck Blood Bottle." During the repair period, it couldn't be used.

And in its complete state, carrying it with you could also gain a bit of luck and receive a little protection from the Heavenly Dao.

Deepening the degree of refining could reduce the amount of spiritual energy required for each revelation of heavenly secrets, reduce the time it was shattered and unusable after the revelation, and also increase its spiritual energy absorption speed.

Lin Li materialized a low-grade spirit stone and placed it on the mirror, and he could feel the spirit stone's spiritual energy being drawn and absorbed by the mirror.

It didn't need manual assistance to absorb; this point gets a good review.

The absorption speed was quite fast. In a few minutes, the spirit stone was empty, but the mirror didn't have any reaction; clearly, it wasn't enough.

Lin Li didn't provide any more spirit stones; he'd let it go to the cultivation world to absorb later.

After the takeout arrived and preparations were made, Lin Li prepared to head to the cultivation world.

A white light flashed.

The stay limit increased by another half hour, reaching exactly seven hours.

"Boom!!!"

As soon as the white light disappeared, Lin Li saw a purple thunderbolt fall from the sky onto the ground outside the mountain, emitting a thunderous roar!

Looking up, he saw that the originally peaceful and bright sky was now covered with purple thunder arcs, constantly flashing and shifting.

It had quite an oppressive feeling of "purple clouds pressing down on the city, the city is about to be destroyed."

Thunder rolling, I'm so scared... sorry, wrong scene.

"Bastard!"

Mountain Green Daoist's angry voice came, and then he saw the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gather, gradually constructing a huge creature.

——Rag-like membrane wings, a tail like a burnt crocodile tail, thick enough to be a roof beam, a body like a cross between a toad and a rhinoceros, the whole back covered in bumps flowing with asphalt-like mucus, the head shrunk into the shoulders, a single eye like a burning coal, one hand almost atrophied, and one hand holding a spiked lava hammer.

Lin Li's pupils shook.

Eh?

This mutated giant lizard, isn't it the first boss in "Dark Souls 1," the Asylum Demon, that big butt!?

The moment the Asylum Demon appeared, it swung the giant hammer in its hand toward Mountain Green Daoist, while Mountain Green Daoist just looked up and sneered.

Thunder light gathered in his hand, and brilliant thunder light instantly surged into the Asylum Demon's body from all directions. Not only was its movement fixed, but gradually, cracks emitting purple light appeared on the Asylum Demon's skin.

"Boom!!"

As the purple light gradually became brilliant, the Asylum Demon exploded completely, the momentum was monstrous, shattering into pieces of flesh.

Lin Li: "(; o_o)?"

This is...

The next second, the shattered flesh around gathered again, turning back into the Asylum Demon, but this time, it began to kneel and kowtow to Mountain Green Daoist.

But Mountain Green Daoist stepped on its small head, directly crushing it again until it dissipated into spiritual energy.

It wasn't over yet.

A human holding a sword and shield then appeared in front of Mountain Green Daoist.

"Heh—" Mountain Green Daoist sneered.

"Aren't you a warrior? Ah? You pant like a dog after two swings, and have no strength after rolling twice? What kind of dungeon are you coming out of with this cultivation! You should just stay in the death row!"

"That bastard demon hits you once and you die, what damage are you doing to it?"

"You really are a useless thing!!"

Mountain Green Daoist reached out and poked the "Undead's" head, saying one sentence for each poke, questioning him with anger at his failure to meet expectations.

"..."

Lin Li lowered his head and began to hold back his laughter.

He already understood what Mountain Green Daoist was doing.

This behavior of the Daoist was essentially the same as getting "red-warmed" (angry) by a game—smashing the keyboard, throwing the mouse, punching through the screen, going to take a shower, or even stealing the blue buff—it was a venting behavior.

It's just that in reality, everyone can only rely on this indirect way to vent, but Mountain Green Daoist himself can conjure up characters or monsters from the game and "personally" destroy them.

This was obviously more satisfying.

Lin Li was a bit curious.

Are the characters conjured like this realistic?

If they were realistic, Lin Li had a bold idea...

Forget it, temporarily put away this dirty idea.

Consider it when he can conjure them himself one day.

Speaking of which, he had only been gone for half an hour, right? Mountain Green Daoist actually found the Asylum Demon? That actually shows quite a talent for recognizing the way—roughly speaking.

Sighing, Mountain Green Daoist slapped the Undead's head away, then let out a long sigh of relief, sat back in the computer chair, and stared fixedly at the bonfire at the respawn point in front of him.

The bonfire is the warmest place in the world.

Seeing that Mountain Green Daoist didn't look at him, he hadn't even noticed he had arrived until now? He must be really angry.

Lin Li, who could be considered the culprit, stood honestly and carefully said: "... Grandpa~"

His voice was like a child's, attempting to awaken Mountain Green Daoist's kindness.

"Lin Li? You're back?" Mountain Green Daoist turned his head. After seeing Lin Li, he flashed in front of Lin Li, then seemed to smile with relief, reached out and sucked the computer over, pointing at the screen and questioning:

"Come, Lin Li, tell Grandpa, is this "Dark Souls" really a casual and relaxing game like Angry Birds?

Why do I feel that the only thing this game has in common with Angry Birds is the word 'angry'?"

Very good, the old man didn't make a move on him.

Lin Li gave two awkward laughs, not daring to look him in the eye: "Grandpa, maybe it's a little bit not casual..."

"You kid, good, good, you kid—" Mountain Green Daoist smiled kindly.

Lin Li held up the takeout:

"Grandpa, today is also brand new food that hasn't been brought before."

"Since things have come to this, why don't we eat first."

(End of chapter)