Chapter 388: Lin Li still likes to play friendship-growth mini-games

Wu Min: "?"

Is the face-changing so fast?

Lin Li is so good at changing his face, Wu Min thinks he is very suitable to be a plastic surgeon.

I'll ask later. If Lin Li has an interest in this area, I'll just send Lin Li to study abroad in South Korea after he graduates from high school.

It just so happens that Wu Min has some connections in South Korea; she knows Zhang Liang and Han Feizi, so she can introduce them to him later.

Yes, this South Korea has already perished.

Yes, the meaning of Wu Min sending Lin Li to study abroad right now is also to let him perish.

"Speak human language, Lin Li, are you going or not?" Wu Min put down her phone and made a final confirmation.

"Going," Lin Li nodded, took a deep breath to prepare his draft, and then spoke:

"But after all, I have never been a teacher, and I don't know if I teach well. Teaching poorly isn't actually anything, but I'm most afraid of teaching too well, just like you said, Mom, teaching him everything I have and producing a second Lin Li. If that happens, does Aunt Zhenzhen have any hope left in her life?"

"Besides, I don't know if I have any passion for this kind of thing, whether it's a three-minute heat, plus whether their child's personality matches mine, whether they can accept..."

"Because of these factors, my idea is to have a trial lesson."

"I can not charge money, go to her house first to try being a tutor, and then it's a two-way choice."

"If it's suitable, I can continue to be a tutor if there's an opportunity later, and I'll also charge money without being polite. But if it's not suitable, I don't teach well or I don't like being this tutor, then I won't continue."

"Say it in advance, so you have an explanation, Mom, and I'll be comfortable too."

Although there was a mission pushing him, it was impossible for Lin Li to rashly agree to be this tutor directly.

After all, even if it's just going once a week, it would take up a lot of his already limited time, and in a situation where Lin Li himself is not short of money, continuing to be a tutor after the mission is completed is meaningless.

But right now, he didn't know if the system would have subsequent tutoring missions, so Lin Li couldn't say for sure that he would only teach once.

So the wording just now was perfect. If there's no mission, then just say he doesn't like being a tutor and walk away. If there are subsequent missions, then consider an appropriate extension.

"That makes sense. Then I'll tell her according to what you said." Wu Min raised her eyebrows after listening, approved of Lin Li's statement, and picked up her phone again to start contacting.

"Okay, but Mom, who am I teaching, and what is their educational background?" Only then did Lin Li start to care about the content and quality of the 'job':

"Currently, the master's and doctoral student quotas under my name are full, and I'm not accepting new resumes for the time being. If Aunt Zhenzhen has any needs, I suggest submitting them to other doctoral supervisors."

The son's words are like farts, this is my Wu Meili, skr~

Wu Min finished sending the message on her phone before looking at Lin Li:

"She has two children. One is a middle school student, just started the first year of junior high, probably not used to it. Anyway, the grades have slipped quite a bit compared to elementary school, which is why she's a bit anxious. That's the one you'll mainly be teaching."

"There's also a child in the first grade of elementary school. You don't really need to worry about that one. Just keep an eye on him to finish his homework and then let him go to the living room to watch TV."

"Okay, that's no problem." Lin Li nodded. Everyone below the first year of high school is an ant. "When does the trial lesson start? Tomorrow? I'm free both morning and afternoon."

Wu Min looked at the message reply she received on her phone for a while, then shook her head: "Probably no time this week. I've already pushed Aunt Zhenzhen's WeChat to you. You guys discuss it yourselves. Anyway, there's no rush, waiting until winter break is fine..."

"Okay."

After there were no other matters, Lin Li returned to his room.

Then he chatted simply with Wu Huizhen. Winter break was too far away, so Lin Li simply made an appointment for next week.

However, the specific time hasn't been set yet. Currently, Lin Li plans for Friday night. If there are new arrangements by then, he'll adjust according to the situation. Both sides' time is easy to balance, and there's no rush.

The remaining time passed quickly with chatting, watering the group, and cultivating.

Midnight, twelve o'clock, December 1st arrived.

【Update complete.】

The system update at the beginning of the month arrived as scheduled. Lin Li looked at the system interface, which still had no title.

After the update at the beginning of last month, the interface had a total of five buttons: "Return," "Terminate," and "Current Reset Price: 200 System Currency." These three were buttons that could be used normally. In addition to these, two buttons appeared at the beginning of last month that had no text and were dark and could not be pressed.

Now, after a month, these two buttons also lit up, but there was still no text.

Lin Li took a look and didn't care anymore.

Curiosity kills Schrödinger. Even if these two buttons could be pressed, they still had no text. Unless he was facing some life-and-death crisis and needed to treat a dead horse as a living horse, Lin Li would never take this risk to try.

The new opportunity had been refreshed. After tidying up a bit in his room, Lin Li put on his protective suit and tiptoed to the bathroom, preparing to set off.

Theoretically, the most suitable departure time is when Wu Min is not at home, so he doesn't have to be as careful as he is now, and he can prepare more perfectly.

But Wu Min took a leave of absence and won't go back to work until Tuesday, and the opportunity will be refreshed again on Monday, so it would be a waste not to use it.

Just using this time to simply see the situation is enough.

White light flashed.

Endless darkness instantly swallowed Lin Li.

The crossing was successful. Because Lin Li could feel that he was definitely not in the bathroom, his feet stepped heavily on sticky, cold, unknown matter, sinking almost to his ankles, but before his eyes was a dead silence.

The air was heavy, cold, and a bit pungent. The oxygen content didn't seem high enough, and Lin Li could feel his breathing frequency accelerating.

"Snap."

It wasn't easy to take out his phone while wearing a protective suit, and it was too slow. Accompanied by a snap of his fingers, flames surrounded by electric arcs rose on Lin Li's hand. Under the system's amplification, although he had only learned it for a week, the effect was quite remarkable, illuminating the surrounding environment.

Relying on the firelight, Lin Li could see that under his feet was a sticky mud swamp similar to a marsh. It wasn't as sweet as shit but stickier than shit, and every time he lifted his feet, it was a bit laborious.

There seemed to be hard objects embedded in the silt, grinding against the soles of his feet.

"Where did you bring me to this time."

Clearly, as he expected, this was a brand-new world. After Lin Li sighed, he didn't waste time and started exploring.

With fire for lighting, he could see thin, flowing gray-white mist permeating the air. These mists would occasionally disturb violently in a certain area, forming short-lived vortices, as if invisible turbulence was surging within them. When the flames approached, they would also flicker as if rolled into the wind.

Lin Li simply kept walking in the same direction. The mist was sometimes thick and sometimes thin. After walking a few dozen meters, he saw a rock wall.

The rock wall itself was black and dark red, its surface smooth or full of sharp edges, with suspected fungal substances that seemed to glow faintly clinging to it, spreading like blood vessels. The rock wall was extremely high, extending upward, and finally disappearing into the darkness, unable to see the top.

Lin Li raised his eyebrows and chose to walk in the opposite direction.

Then, after a few minutes of difficult trekking, he arrived at the opposite rock wall.

"So, am I at the bottom of a canyon?"

This time Lin Li walked along the rock wall for a while, completely unable to feel the end, so he couldn't help but put forward a hypothesis.

His current situation was very much like being at the bottom of a very deep canyon, and the rock walls on both sides corresponded to the canyon walls.

Lin Li immediately looked up at the sky. Where the firelight couldn't reach, it was still a piece of darkness.

Is it day or night in this world right now? If it's night, it's normal. If it's day... then the canyon he is in is a bit too deep.

Is his current altitude, based on this world, negative or positive?

Lin Li decided to probe.

Although he didn't bring a drone because he wasn't well-prepared for coming today, it didn't matter; he is the master of the mecha.

The a+ combat armor appeared in front of Lin Li in the next second, and the cabin door opened automatically.

However, Lin Li then raised his eyebrows—the speed at which this cabin door opened was too slow compared to the past.

Then he materialized the "Remote Cockpit" and found that its operating efficiency was also extremely slow.

Lin Li pondered for a moment, withdrew the cockpit, and simply jumped into the cockpit himself to accelerate the entry process.

Matter like slime wrapped around him again, and then Lin Li saw the root cause of why the mecha was like this—the screen was full of red warning signs.

"Silent Field! Power system blocked!"

"Silent Field! Energy weapons temporarily unusable!"

"Silent Field! Neural link system blocked!"

"..."

Various miscellaneous translucent warning messages mixed with some terms Lin Li didn't understand occupied his entire field of vision.

After Lin Li ignored them with one click, he found that although the mecha could still be operated normally, it was as if a 0.1x speed key had been pressed, and its movements were extremely sluggish.

As for the originally planned flight, it was even more wishful thinking, and even the drone behind it couldn't be activated.

The process of logging out of the mecha was still fast, but unlike the gentle ones in the past, it was more like the emergency system that directly sprayed Lin Li out.

Afraid that this environment would cause irreversible damage to the mecha, Lin Li immediately withdrew it into the 【Warehouse】, then took out his phone and flashlight.

They could still be used normally, and all functions were unaffected, but in the current environment, the area they could illuminate was really limited.

Seeing this result, Lin Li was silent for a moment, then frowned slightly:

"Damn it, could this be the all-female world I've been longing for?"

The technological level of this mecha is clearly higher than his phone, but why did the current environment affect the mecha and the remote cockpit, but not his phone?

The most reasonable explanation is that this so-called "Silent Field" is specifically targeted at technology belonging to this world.

Holy crap.

System, you can bring Uncle Lin to an all-female world, Uncle Lin is very happy, but you brought Uncle Lin to this place without any trace of life, Uncle Lin is very unhappy.

Isn't this a wasted trip?!

But Lin Li quickly calmed down:

"It doesn't matter, Lin Li, oh Lin Li, don't forget, you were also like this when you first went to the cultivation world, there wasn't a single person."

This place is mostly also a forbidden area of this world, and then I will meet three mecha super-masters who have no physical bodies and only souls left. They are also lonely here to suppress the demons of this world.

And as long as I appear, they will be crazy about me, and explode all their lifelong learning and lifelong gold coins to me..."

Lin Li, who was fantasizing like a goblin, paused his words and shook his head:

"No physical body is still too terrible, better to have a physical body. In the mecha world, you can't do anything without a physical body. You can't just upload your consciousness into the mecha..."

With such expectations, Lin Li started to explore along the canyon based on himself.

The findings of the exploration also continuously verified Lin Li's hypothesis.

—Lin Li gradually found a large number of mecha wrecks, in various forms, and in some places, they even piled up like mountains.

And in some of the wrecks, Lin Li could even find structures and parts similar to his own combat mecha.

Corrosion, weathering, burial by silt, covered by peculiar suspected fungi or crystals, flickering with strange pale light in the light, this is the ending of these mecha wrecks.

Judging from the degree of erosion, the time span of their falling here should be very large, some for a long time, and some even look like mechas that fell down just a few days ago.

"Strange."

Lin Li stood on a mecha wreck and looked down, frowning.

Until now, Lin Li hadn't seen any living creatures.

It's not strange that there are no living things in this environment. These mechas don't look like they landed on their own but fell here, and falling is enough to kill them. But what's strange is that Lin Li hasn't even found a single corpse until now.

Most of the cockpits of these mechas are open, and a few are still closed.

But regardless of which type, even the mechas that looked like they hadn't fallen long ago in Lin Li's eyes, when Lin Li went up to check, except for the glue-like slime colloid similar to his own mecha that had completely changed color, quality, and smell, there were no corpses.

Even the mechas that looked like they hadn't opened their cockpits due to malfunctions, and the pilots inside shouldn't have had the opportunity to come out, were the same.

"So 'Remote Cockpit' is standard in this world? Everyone only needs to work from home?" ===== CHAPTER 389 =====