Chapter 344

Zhuo Yongfei was stunned.

Wang Yuezhi, how the hell did you manage to draw such a conclusion from the scenery?!

Is this even human language?

"It's okay, it's okay, Yuezhi. The action of force is mutual; when you are pulling a dump, the dump is also pulling you. You have it to pull you, and taking a step back, even if it doesn't pull you, I am willing to pull you..."

But being roommates after all, Zhuo Yongfei still reached out to pull Wang Yuezhi, trying to comfort him.

"No, they all have Chen Yuying to pull them, only I don't..." Wang Yuezhi remained unmoved, still choking back sobs.

Zhuo Yongfei widened his eyes, pointing at him like a husky.

Hey! That's slander!

Pretty girls don't go to the bathroom; this is a consensus shared by everyone.

Besides, Chen Yuying's family seems very wealthy, so how could she need to do such dirty work herself? There must be a maid to pull it for her!

Sigh, thinking of this, Zhuo Yongfei couldn't help but feel a bit self-pitying.

—Realizing that he had to rely on himself to take a dump for his entire life, Zhuo Yongfei couldn't help but feel a heavy, tragic sense of "poop-stiny."

Eh? By the way, why did Newton have to wait for an apple to hit his head to discover universal gravitation?

Back then, he didn't have a phone or a tablet, so wasn't the bathroom the most suitable time for thinking? Did he never wonder why poop only falls down after coming out and doesn't shrink back in?

It couldn't be that this kid Newton was also passing the time by reading the ingredient list on a shampoo bottle or counting how many wall and floor tiles were in the bathroom, right?

Sigh, I even made mistakes over the woman on the shampoo bottle when I was a kid.

While Zhuo Yongfei's mind was wandering and drifting everywhere, Wang Yuezhi had already walked toward the restroom with a mournful face.

Zhuo Yongfei, having come back to his senses, had no choice; after all, he couldn't exactly ask Chen Yuying to come and pull Wang Yuezhi.

Time heals all wounds. Shaking his head, Zhuo Yongfei prepared to return to the classroom to continue discussing the blackboard newspaper, but just as he turned around, he heard footsteps behind him again.

Looking back, it was Wang Yuezhi, pinching his nose and wearing a grim expression as he walked out of the restroom.

"So smelly..."

Zhuo Yongfei: "..."

"Didn't I just tell you it was very smelly inside!!"

"Yuezhi, why don't you go to the administration building? The restrooms there are the best in the school; this kind of scene almost never happens."

Lin Li and Chen Yuying walked on other floors, and their head-turning rate was still quite high. With the buff of being new faces combined with being a handsome man and a beautiful woman, both men and women would curiously take a look.

The last person to have such a high head-turning rate was the Hypno-shroom.

"That wall painting focusing on yellow content is quite nice. It wouldn't be bad if we made a high-end version. Old Jian's blanket ban on yellow, gambling, and drugs is too excessive."

As the lunch break was about to officially begin, the two had finished a lap and were walking through the skywalk back to the freshman teaching building, Lin Li said leisurely.

Actually, directly copying it wouldn't matter, because generally, everyone wants to do something different from the original.

"That's called 'Autumn Wheat Field,' right? What do you mean by focusing on yellow content?" Chen Yuying said helplessly.

"Same thing."

"Coming out of your mouth, it's not the same thing at all!"

"I've been found out."

Returning to the classroom, Chen Yuying and the girls began to discuss the inspiration she had recorded, while Lin Li returned to his seat to start studying the competition PPT.

He still had to work hard to ensure he could make it into the main competition.

Learning it would also allow him to better guide Chen Yuying.

—Now that he was first in the grade, it wouldn't be appropriate to keep playing dumb and asking Chen Yuying simple questions.

The lunch break bell officially rang, and Chen Yuying came over to sit next to Lin Li with her books.

Ding Sihan, who had lost her deskmate, turned her head and gritted her teeth, but in the end, she didn't come over to be a third wheel.

Lin Li turned his head, and after confirming there was no one in the last row, he leaned in slightly and asked: "Hello, may I ask, can I touch your leg?"

Chen Yuying: "?"

Lin Li is actually quite polite.

"You know it's presumptuous, too? No." Chen Yuying shook her head with a smile.

"Oh, then I'll ask again next time."

"Pervert, it won't be allowed next time either," Chen Yuying pouted, then rested her face on her arms, looking straight at Lin Li, and changed the subject: "Lin Li, it seems I can't change my seat to in front of you."

"Hm?" Lin Li looked at the young girl upon hearing this, slightly surprised: "You wanted to sit in front of me?"

He hadn't even thought of that himself.

"I originally had that idea, thinking I'd give you a surprise after the big cleanup." Chen Yuying nodded, then pursed her lips:

"Originally, when I told Mr. Xue I wanted to try sitting by the window, he was very supportive, but when he heard I wanted to sit with Ding Sihan in the window seat in front of you, the teacher hesitated, though he didn't refuse."

Lin Li laughed out loud.

Just hesitated? Old Jian is still too doting on you, baby.

"But I asked Huang Yi and Jiana, and they don't have any plans to change seats for now either, so I thought about it, and just let it be." Chen Yuying continued.

Huang Yi and Zhou Jiana were the students in front of Lin Li and Bai Bufan. Although they were close, they weren't very abstract and belonged to the category of normal classmates. Lin Li and Bai Bufan wouldn't take the initiative to joke with them, so they didn't interact much on a daily basis.

"Normal, who would be willing to leave me? You know my charm; it has you head over heels." Lin Li nodded and gave a wicked smile.

"That's true," Chen Yuying laughed when she said this, "They said they've already gotten used to hearing the random things you two say every day, which is one of the reasons they don't want to change."

"Holy crap, so they've been listening the whole time? Next time I have to charge them!" Lin Li suddenly felt he had lost out big time.

Heh, two repressed girls.

But Lin Li himself was also a repressed guy.

—When he was a kid, he would wet the bed and be too lazy to get out of bed, too lazy to even lift the quilt, and would just stew in it for a day. He was very repressed.

"So, there's no way to sit any closer." Chen Yuying returned to the topic.

"It's okay, baby, love can overcome long distances." Lin Li looked at Chen Yuying affectionately.

Chen Yuying just started to blush—

Lin Li: "My friend's long-distance girlfriend got pregnant automatically just because of the depth of her love for him. This is the best proof. He often brags to me about it."

Chen Yuying picked up a book and slapped it on the shoulder of the atmosphere-destroyer Lin Li, saying shyly and angrily: "Self-study!"

Damn it, it clearly wasn't her who brought up the topic first.

Evening self-study ended.

"Zeyu, why have you been looking out the window all night?" Lin Li stood up to head out the door, and asked as he passed Qin Zeyu, "Are you reading a novel on your MP4? Do you want me to help you download a few?"

Although Qin Zeyu was only separated from Lin Li by two biological entities, the bodies of the "pigs and dogs" were too bulky, making it impossible to see what Qin Zeyu was doing.

"It's nothing." Qin Zeyu waved his hand, his expression somewhat dejected.

Lin Li raised an eyebrow. Although he didn't know what had happened, he had his own business to attend to, so he didn't ask.

After leaving the school gate, he rode his bike directly toward Old Friend Road.

—Dengzi had contacted Lin Li at noon, saying that one person had been confirmed and wanted to sell Lin Li the criminal plans of several repeat offenders he knew about, but it required a face-to-face meeting.

Approaching the road section mentioned on his phone, Lin Li saw from afar Dengzi and a man wearing a hat smoking in a corner, with an electric scooter parked nearby.

Lin Li wasn't afraid of it being a trap, so he rode straight over.

Even if he went over and three or even thirty hatchet men suddenly jumped out from the side of the road, Lin Li was confident he could handle them without injury.

As for if there were three hundred, well, well, well, so you're ambushing me like this, are you? Then he would have to pilot a mech to break through.

"Brother Bufan!" As soon as Lin Li parked his bike on the side of the road a few meters away, Dengzi immediately stood up and waved.

"Mm."

After locking his bike, Lin Li walked over.

The man's situation could be seen more clearly. He probably didn't want to reveal his identity, so he was wearing a hat and a mask late at night—to smoke while wearing a mask, there was actually a hole in the middle of it.

"Brother Bufan, do you smoke?" Dengzi took out a cigarette and handed it to Lin Li.

"I don't smoke."

Lin Li reached out and pushed the cigarette back.

The "smoking is harmful to health" warning on the cigarette box was quite conspicuous.

But this thing was like the buffering icon on a small website; it was useless.

I've already bought the cigarettes, and you're reminding me that smoking is harmful to health? Heh, smoke it hard!

I've already started watching the small website, and you're still making me buffer? Heh, charge it hard!

"Is this the one selling the information?" Lin Li got straight to the point, looking at the man and asking.

"Yes, this is Brother Sheng." Dengzi introduced.

"Hello, buddy. May I ask what information you have to sell me?"

"I know a few people who plan to pull a job recently. I've already scouted the location and gathered the information; I'm just waiting for the target to leave this week so they can go steal in the middle of the night. I asked Dengzi, and it should meet your requirements." Li Cheng nodded upon hearing this and gave a brief introduction.

"Can you give me the specific location and time?" Lin Li raised an eyebrow.

The mission required him to stop it, so Lin Li believed what he needed was to find the villains during or after the theft and punish them, rather than knowing the intelligence to prevent it.

The latter might work, but Lin Li hadn't experimented with it and couldn't guarantee it.

"I can." Li Cheng nodded, his expression calm, but he didn't explain much more to Lin Li, just continued:

"Even if there's a small chance they change their plans at the last minute and I don't know, I can tell you their address and how they fence the stolen goods, which can allow you to bring them to justice. It counts as a fallback."

It seemed his information channels were very well-informed.

"Fine, we'll see if it's a mule or a horse when the time comes. How much money do you want?" Lin Li nodded and looked at the man.

Li Cheng raised one hand and spread his palm, revealing five fingers.

"Five thousand?" Lin Li asked.

"Heh—" Li Cheng laughed, "Fifty thousand."

Lin Li also laughed: "Brother, I'm a student. Can I get a discount?"

Seeing Lin Li was making a joke, Li Cheng smiled and replied: "Even if you were a 'little student,' it wouldn't work."

Lin Li smiled and pointed at Li Cheng. Seeing that the other party was satisfied with this price, Li Cheng smiled and reached out, preparing for a happy cooperation.

—Then he watched Lin Li turn around, get on his bicycle, and ride away with a creak-creak, without even looking back.

Dengzi, Li Cheng: "?"

"Brother Bufan? Why did you leave?"

"Wait, no? Little Brother Bufan! Come back!"

Lin Li ignored them.

The two hurriedly got on their electric scooter, beep-beep-beeping as they pulled a drift to block Lin Li.

Although Lin Li stopped, he didn't get off the bike. He looked at Li Cheng in front of him, his eyes calm, and shrugged:

"Brother, those thieves work themselves to the bone and don't even know if they can fence fifty thousand worth of goods. You open your mouth and ask for fifty thousand? Someone who didn't know better would think they were going to rob a bank."

"The price is negotiable. I can accept a little less." Li Cheng hurriedly emphasized.

He hadn't intended to sell one piece of information for fifty thousand; the asking price was definitely meant to be high to start with. Who knew this Bai Bufan wouldn't play by the rules at all? He didn't even haggle, he just left.

"At this price, I don't even have the interest to haggle." Lin Li shook his head.

Lin Li's net worth had already gone from forty million to forty-two or forty-three million—the price of gold had risen again recently.

But fixed assets and liquid assets are different concepts. Lin Li currently had less than fifty thousand in disposable cash on hand.

These gold pieces couldn't be flooded into pawn shops in large quantities, and Lin Li didn't want to take the risk of attracting attention—in fact, to this day, Lin Li had never recycled gold at the same shop twice.

Buying an 1/8th mission progress that wasn't 100% for fifty thousand, Lin Li felt it wasn't worth it.

Taking a few steps back, the public security on Old Friend Road was better, but the mission range was Nansang. At worst, Lin Li could find a weekend to go fishing in other towns in Nansang with worse security, and that would be the end of it.

"Then you name a number." Li Cheng gritted his teeth and said.

Lin Li held up four fingers.

"Four hundred?!" Li Cheng was a bit agitated, eyes widening: "Little brother, this is a bit insulting to me."

Lin Li: "?"

Is haggling fifty thousand down to four hundred only a "bit" insulting?

Your bottom line is probably a bit low.

But Lin Li was too lazy to find this person's limit, so he shook his head: "Four thousand."

Hearing this number, Li Cheng's expression improved a lot, but then his brows furrowed, he shook his head, made a clicking sound with his mouth, then tilted his chin at Lin Li and asked sincerely:

"Buddy, do you know what's most important when you're out on the streets?"

Lin Li: "It's getting out."

Bai Bufan had already asked him this question once, so Lin Li could naturally answer in a second.

Li Cheng: "..."

"It's loyalty and righteousness! Do you know that those few people are actually my dearest friends and brothers..." Li Cheng had the words "add more money" written all over his face.

But Lin Li just shook his head calmly: "That's the number, that's my budget."

"Oh, add a little more. Four fingers is too few, and it doesn't sound good. Let's round it up, add one more finger, and I'll give you a 10% discount, okay?" Li Cheng held out his palm and negotiated.

"Absolutely not." But Lin Li was exceptionally firm.

"Why?"

"Because five fingers won't do."

Dengzi, Li Cheng: "..."

"Four thousand five, that's the limit. If you don't accept, we'll pretend we never met. I'm leaving." Seeing the other party silent, Lin Li also made an appropriate concession.

"... Oh, fine, fine." After a moment of silence, Li Cheng waved his hand helplessly and sighed:

"I have a buddy who used to be in the underworld. He was extremely poor back then, then he got caught and spent several years in the slammer. Now that he's out and has washed his hands of it, he's actually made a fortune."

Lin Li didn't know why he suddenly wanted to say this and wasn't interested, so he didn't respond.

It was Dengzi, sitting behind Li Cheng, who asked curiously upon hearing this: "How did he make a fortune?"

Li Cheng: "He took a look at the wanted posters when he was bored and found he knew everyone on them."

Dengzi: "(；o_o)?"

Holy crap, is that how you make money?

"I was envious after I found out, which is why I came to you guys to do this business, being a traitor and an undercover agent," Li Cheng's eyebrows drooped, somewhat dissatisfied: "Who knew, I could only earn four thousand five, I can't make a fortune at all..."

"Brother, then why don't you let your brother go into murder and drug trafficking, and then slaughter them after they've been fattened up?" Dengzi was silent for a moment, then smiled and suggested.

"I've tried persuading them, but they're all scared. Not one of them dares to." Li Cheng shook his head regretfully.

"Holy crap?! Brother, you actually tried to persuade them?" Dengzi got off the scooter on the spot and retreated several steps.

This is what you call bad company!

"So, are you doing this deal or not?" Lin Li looked at Li Cheng calmly, ignoring his dissatisfaction.

"Do it, do it, do it," Li Cheng nodded. Four thousand five is four thousand five, "How do I get the money? Alipay, WeChat, or a bank card number?"

"Either is fine."

"Then WeChat, WeChat. Here, scan me." Li Cheng took out his phone, revealed the payment code, and didn't forget to be cautious: "This money is clean, right? Not dirty money?"

Lin Li didn't move, but shook his head: "First of all, the money is definitely clean, but I won't give it to you now. I don't know if the information you're giving me is actually useful. I'm not familiar with you, and it's not appropriate to be familiar.

I will give you the money immediately after I confirm the information you gave me is useful to me and I've stopped and caught those petty thieves."

Lin Li truly couldn't trust this Brother Sheng.

"But I'm not familiar with you kid either," Li Cheng was also somewhat dissatisfied upon hearing this. Not a single part of tonight's deal had gone smoothly, and his volume rose slightly:

"Who knows if you'll still give me the money after you take the information?

What if you take the information, catch the people, and don't give me the money? Won't I have worked for nothing?

No, it has to be money in one hand and information in the other."

The two looked at each other, neither showing any intention of backing down.

"How about this, buddy." But Lin Li had a way; after all, it wasn't just the two of them here.

Lin Li looked at Dengzi.

"Don't we have Dengzi as our bridge and intermediary?

I'll transfer the four thousand five directly to Dengzi now, then you tell me the information. After I achieve my goal, I'll have Dengzi transfer all the money to you. We should both be able to accept this, right?"

"You know Dengzi, so you should also be clear about some of Dengzi's information and know which school he's at."

"Anyway, if this money doesn't end up in your hands, you can't find me, but you can go to his school to camp him out and beat him half to death."

"By the same token, if this information ends up being wrong and I find out you two teamed up to scam me, I can also go to his school to camp him out and beat him half to death."

"If the information is useful but you don't get the money, and he scammed both of us, we can go to his school together to camp him out and beat him half to death."

"How about it?"

Dengzi: "(；o_o)?"

Although the words were crude but the logic was sound, and this was the idea he had intended to propose as an intermediary, Brother Bufan, isn't your rhetoric a bit too violent?

Why is it that no matter what happens, I'm the one who ends up half-dead?

"Fine." Li Cheng thought for a few seconds, then nodded and accepted the proposal.

And Lin Li directly took out his phone and transferred four thousand five to Dengzi in front of Li Cheng.

"Can you say it now?" Lin Li tilted his chin.

"Yes," Li Cheng nodded, "The location they're going to steal from is the home of a household head named Zhang Wenbing in Building 4 of Fengsheng Residential Quarter. They've already gotten their hands on the front door key, and the planned action time is Wednesday in the early morning, because they've scouted it, and there won't be a single person in their house at that time..."

Li Cheng recounted the intelligence he knew, and finally said:

"Little brother, if you want to catch them in the act, you should go and camp out after twelve o'clock, around one o'clock. Also, if you want me to provide more information in the future, just pretend to be passing by. Don't be too deliberate, or you'll be found out and betrayed."

"If you don't catch them in the act, you can come find me again, and I'll give you other intelligence on the two of them so you can catch them, ensuring your money isn't spent in vain."

"Good, I've remembered it all." Lin Li nodded with a smile.

This mission had been hanging in the mission log for a long time, and now it could finally have some new progress.

"Then, happy cooperation?" Li Cheng reached out his hand.

"Happy cooperation." Lin Li and Li Cheng shook hands.

"I hope you two aren't playing me, otherwise I really will beat Dengzi half to death." Li Cheng applied a little pressure to his hand.

"I hope you two aren't conspiring to scam me, otherwise I will also beat Dengzi half to death." Lin Li smiled and nodded.

Dengzi: "..."

Damn it, here we go again.

There's no share of the handshake for me, but I'm the one who gets beaten?

Dengzi covered their joined hands with his own: "The cooperation will be happy, it will be happy. Everyone, violence can't solve all problems, there's no need. Let's make money in harmony, make money in harmony—"

The three withdrew their hands.

"Violence can solve all problems. Fists are the truth; if it can't be solved, it's just because the fists aren't big enough." Li Cheng, who was involved in the streets, was somewhat disdainful of Dengzi's words just now.

And Lin Li, who was already prepared to leave, looked at Li Cheng upon hearing this, his expression slightly contemptuous:

"Buddy, what if a mosquito lands on your balls?"

Li Cheng, Dengzi: "(；o_o)?"

Dengzi looked at Li Cheng's crotch.

"..."

"..."

Li Cheng's eyes suddenly became clear:

"Mm, violence can't solve all problems. Little Brother Bufan, you're right!"

(End of chapter)