Chapter 37: Please, let me take another puff, just one puff

Lin Li screamed while "silently" moving toward the door.

Although his banner was still in Xue Jian's hands, Lin Li really didn't plan to take it.

Taking the banner and losing his life is not a good deal; it's better to run away now.

He was very close to the door; the dawn of victory was right in front of him. Come on, work hard!

"Stop."

When Lin Li had already run to the door, he heard the whisper of the Grim Reaper from behind, and in a trance, he saw Ox-Head and Horse-Face smiling kindly at him.

It's over.

Bad news: he will never see Xiao Jing again from now on. Good news: he can go visit the "Boss".

"Eh, the illness is over! I'm better!" Lin Li ended his performance, turned around mechanically and slowly, stood obediently and honestly in place, and looked at Xue Jian: "Teacher, I was really blind just now. Believe me, I never lie."

Lin Li didn't see Xue Jian's gaze.

Because Xue Jian was already sitting in his seat at this time, pressing his forehead with his fingers, his palm blocking his eyes. He didn't respond to Lin Li's words.

"Come here." A few seconds later, Xue Jian suddenly said.

How to write the obituary?

Can anyone watch a thirty-second ad to revive me?

Moshi Moshi, waiting online, very, very urgent.

Fortunately, all the browsers he uses are incognito... wait, no! The forbidden manga hasn't been deleted, and it will show his collection of manga! 363848, go, all my inheritance is left here.

With the determination to die, Lin Li walked toward Xue Jian with a drooping face.

However, Xue Jian still didn't look up; it seemed he didn't dare to face Lin Li's gaze either.

He stretched out a trembling hand, unlocked his phone again with his fingerprint, and then said in a trembling voice: "Take the phone, flip through it, and look at more chat records."

After a pause, he added in a trembling voice: "I beg you."

This was the first time Lin Li had seen Xue Jian show such a "fragile" side, like an octogenarian. At this time, who could bear to refuse this request?

Lin Li could bear it.

—But Lin Li was actually just a bit cowardly and didn't dare to pick up the phone.

At this moment, he was like a bomb disposal expert, keeping his distance, sliding the screen from afar with his finger.

"..."

"Xue Jian: Where are all my banners? Are they all gone?"

"Wife: Didn't see them. I guess they were hidden in those boxes when we moved last time and weren't brought over. I've looked everywhere. Why are you looking for this stuff?"

"Xue Jian: It's about my dignity. Look again, look again."

"Wife: Really can't find them."

"Xue Jian: Then do you have photos kept? I changed phones, and the previous photos weren't transferred."

"Wife: Why would I keep photos of your banners? Am I sick?"

"Xue Jian:... Then go help me make one. Hurry, I still remember the content of one banner..."

"..."

OK, Lin Li had already understood what Xue Jian wanted to express to him.

Although not bringing homework is treated as not doing it, Xue Jian really did it.

It's just that the homework was lost, so there was no way, he had to copy a copy now, and he only saw him copying the homework, which was indeed a misunderstanding.

Xue Jian is a good student.

He really is; Lin Li is crying to death.

Thinking about it, he is a teacher who can be a head teacher in a key middle school, and his age and qualifications are there; banners can still be had.

"Teacher, I've finished reading, I understand, you really have them." Lin Li said cautiously, afraid that a loud voice would make Xue Jian react.

"Thanks." Hearing the word "thanks" from Xue Jian, Xue Jian stretched out his trembling hand again and handed Lin Li's banner to him. "Take it home, pay attention to safety on the road."

From beginning to end, Xue Jian didn't look up at Lin Li, but Lin Li didn't feel disrespected at all.

"Thank you, teacher." He took it cautiously and thanked him.

"Go quickly." Xue Jian waved his hand.

Lin Li turned and left without a moment's delay, because he suspected that Xue Jian was currently suppressing his second personality, or the beast sleeping in his body. If he didn't leave now, he wouldn't have a chance.

Riding a bicycle.

Lin Li didn't ride toward his home immediately. He first went to an ATM to deposit most of the money into his bank card, and then started wandering around Xiling Town, looking somewhat aimless.

Where's the dead rat? Come on, one.

However, after riding like this for half an hour, the system Lin Li was looking forward to didn't give any response.

It didn't tell him if there was a chicken farm nearby.

Could it be that his luck was too bad, and he hadn't been able to open a place where a chicken farm was hidden?

Because it was only half an hour, and he was actually going in circles, Lin Li had been wandering around the Xiling central area.

Would these places be too urbanized, which was the root cause of not triggering it?

It was too late today, and he had wasted too much time in the office. He would try riding to further and more remote places tomorrow night. If it still didn't trigger like this within a week, Lin Li could basically determine that the system wouldn't notify him proactively, and the mission to find the chicken farm would have to rely on him finding a new way.

Lin Li rode his bike back home.

He materialized the spirit stones without hesitation.

The spirit stones weren't as big as he imagined. In fact, the size of one spirit stone was even smaller than an egg. Five spirit stones could barely be held in one hand, but they were very light; the total weight was not even as much as an egg.

Lin Li had originally thought they would be the kind that were very big, the size that could only be held one in one hand, and then heavy. It seemed he had thought too much.

And it didn't trigger any heaven and earth phenomena.

Crystal-like luster, crystal clear flow inside, the shape was between regular and irregular.

Lin Li leaned in and smelled it; there was even a faint fragrance, quite appetizing.

This time it was really good stuff. Even if he sold this stuff, there would definitely be collectors interested in it.

But Lin Li couldn't possibly do that.

"Eh, it's really worth the ticket price to die!" Lin Li showed an excited smile; he could finally see what this spiritual energy was all about!

But then Lin Li encountered another problem.

This spirit stone is a "three-no" product. No production date or shelf life, and it didn't give him an instruction manual.

This is basic knowledge in the cultivation world.

But he wasn't.

How should this spiritual energy be taken out?

As the saying goes, a clever woman cannot cook without rice.

The "Eight-Stage Body Tempering Technique" did indeed write about how to use the spiritual energy absorbed into the body, but it didn't talk about the handling of spirit stones.

Lin Li tried to take a bite tentatively; it was very hard, and his teeth hurt.

"This stuff can't be like the Golden Core in novels, can it be swallowed into the abdomen to be refined?"

Lin Li looked at its size; it could indeed be swallowed. He held it in his mouth, but stopped before swallowing.

Forget it, Lin Li spat it out again.

This thing smelled appetizing, but swallowing it might really mean "opening the stomach" in a physical sense.

If he couldn't digest it after eating it, he definitely wouldn't be able to poop it out, and he wasn't on the "must-eat list" in Chengdu.

"A person can't be suffocated by urine!"

Lin Li gritted his teeth and decided to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. He materialized the "Eight-Stage Body Tempering Technique," flipped to the second chapter, held the spirit stone in his mouth, and started practicing.

As the movements were set, the technique began to actively guide his body.

"Oh~~~~"

Lin Li couldn't help but hum.

It works!

Asking for monthly tickets.

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