Chapter 446: Never Felt Playing in a Band Was Fun Before

Lin Li thought that asking someone for a ton of their little-brother juice just an hour after meeting them was also a rather impolite behavior.

Is the unit of measurement for little-brother juice really tons? This Zhu Ning didn't even salt the salt.

Upon hearing the other party's request, Lin Li couldn't even muster any anger, merely revealing a somewhat helpless smile as he looked at Zhu Ning and asked gently: "Miss Zhu, may I ask, just what do you take me for?"

Zhu Ning: "A life-saving benefactor, of course."

Lin Li: "......"

Couldn't tell.

"Miss Zhu, do you know what the concept of a ton is? Asking me to give you a ton of little-brother juice is telling me to go die." Lin Li explained somewhat helplessly.

Theoretically speaking, a male only produces a few milliliters at a time; that kind of anime volume almost doesn't exist in reality. On this basis, neither abstaining nor indulging, with normal frequency, the total expelled in a lifetime probably adds up to only a few dozen kilograms in weight.

A ton...... Zhu Ning wanting to kill herself didn't need to be this roundabout.

But considering Zhu Ning could say this number, it was very obvious that it was because she had zero understanding of this matter.

One can only say the deviation in her knowledge was too large.

The establishment of physiology classes in the all-female world is imminent.

No choice; looking at Zhu Ning who had frozen stiff and slumped into a lump upon hearing this, Lin Li could only continue giving her a physiology knowledge lesson:

"Miss Zhu, this number is impossible. Actually, human males......"

After listening seriously to Lin Li's popular science explanation, Zhu Ning realized she had made a huge blunder, and her face couldn't help but turn slightly green.

"S-sorry...... I heard this stuff numbers in the tens of millions, so I thought there was a lot of it......"

"It is numbered in the tens of millions, only it's not the same as what you understood," Lin Li waved his hand. "No need for self-reproach; you just need to know the actual situation now."

After pondering for a moment, not waiting for Zhu Ning to speak again, Lin Li took the initiative to say:

"How about this: doing this thing frequently in the short term easily harms the body, and reserves are also limited. My foundation in this aspect is a bit better, but only a bit better. I'll provide for you according to my own situation.

Rest assured, I'll do my utmost; I won't just go through the motions."

Task Five's description was "strive to satisfy," and the word "strive" actually has quite a high fault tolerance, because Lin Li had previously seen stronger keywords like "spare no effort."

Similarly, if a task required him to "spare no effort," Lin Li would still give up on that task.

Unnecessary.

For this sacred matter, what's important is to enjoy this beautiful process, not for the result, desecrating this process — even the Little-Brother Sprite would look down on it.

So although he didn't have to cut it off, Lin Li would still follow his own rhythm. Whether this task could be completed depended on whether the System was sensible or not.

"Mr. Lin, please don't say it like that. You being willing to give is already very good. It turns out it would still cause harm to you? Then you must absolutely not harm yourself——"

Zhu Ning hurriedly explained her thoughts.

"Mm, I'll do it in moderation." Lin Li nodded.

Hearing this, Zhu Ning asked somewhat at a loss for a moment:

"So...... do I need to avoid suspicion now?"

"No need," Lin Li paused upon hearing this, and said with a smile: "Because I don't plan to produce while I'm in this world."

It wasn't that he lacked casting materials; Lin Li's phone's secondary album still had some selected static and dynamic materials — why put them in the secondary album? If Chen Yuying happened to take a peek at the album on a whim, although she wouldn't say anything, Lin Li would inevitably still feel embarrassed.

But although he had materials, the current environment was truly terrible.

Doing it in this kind of environment didn't conform to the Rites of Zhou; it belonged to the collapse of rites and music.

If piety isn't absolute, it's absolutely not pious.

Of course, none of these needed to be said to Zhu Ning; Lin Li put forward a more presentable explanation:

"Miss Zhu, to tell the truth, your focus right now seems to be placed in the wrong spot."

"Leaving aside whether the preservation of my little-brother juice after production is a problem, the more important issue you need to consider right now is how to return to your Alliance."

"I also once wanted to leave here, but according to my own exploration and attempts, the height of this Silent Canyon far exceeds a hundred meters, and there are no passages at the bottom either.

And the fact that there are so many mecha wrecks here, as well as corpses of your kind, also corroborates that going back up after falling is probably not easy.

So I gave up. But I can give up, because I can return to my world at any time. But what about you?

If you have no way to go back, even if I really gave a ton of little-brother juice, what use would it be?

You can't take it back; it would just rot here, meaningless. In the short term you might survive relying on me bringing you the survival supplies you need, but when I can no longer come to this world, you'll probably have trouble just staying alive.

Or do you already have a way to leave, or are you certain your Alliance nation will send people to rescue you?"

Lin Li's gaze held anticipation.

After all, if they could leave, Lin Li definitely also wanted to go take a look at this world.

The features on Zhu Ning's semi-transparent head froze for an instant upon hearing this, and then her entire gel-like body seemed to dim a few degrees:

"...... You're right."

The excited emotion generated by the little-brother juice rapidly cooled:

"...... Too many messy things happened in too short a time; my brain couldn't turn the corner for a bit. I actually forgot the most important thing.

'Silent Canyon'...... Silent Force Field. We still haven't found a suitable countermeasure. The kilometer-plus height difference, plus the special rock wall structure, makes climbing hopeless as well......"

"Therefore, falling into this place, the generally accepted outcome is death — in fact, without your elixir, I, having endured the impact force and the Silent Force Field, should have died already. Rescue or whatever is unrealistic, and there won't be any."

Zhu Ning's words were heavy.

Indeed, she had completely mistaken the primary and secondary, the focus.

Thus a brief silence enveloped the two.

Lin Li didn't have much to say either. So this canyon was a full kilometer deep? That did indeed exceed Lin Li's capability range a bit.

Go buy a hot air balloon in reality?

The gourd could fit it, but the procedures and such would probably be rather troublesome, right?

And at over a kilometer, it's also hard to guarantee no accidents during flight.

"Let's consider staying alive first," Lin Li could only say.

"After you finish telling me the specific details of this canyon, I'll figure out how to leave, but before that, you can't die, so first tell me—do food and water sources mean anything to you? If so, what kind do you need?"

Zhu Ning looked up upon hearing that, but her gaze first fell on the phone in Lin Li's hand.

A barely perceptible ripple appeared on the surface of her body, as if she were trembling.

"Mr. Lin Li..." Zhu Ning began to speak, but what she brought up was not about food, but a hesitant, curious question:

"You mentioned earlier 'according to my exploration and attempts,' and you detected the fact that the height exceeds one hundred meters—did you use the real-world equipment you brought to detect that?"

"Yes," Lin Li thought, and the small drone was immediately taken out from the "Lihuo Yangjian Hu," landing steadily on the tarp:

"It flew to over a hundred meters in altitude, but unfortunately, there was still endless thick fog and rock walls above, and I didn't see the edge of the canyon."

Zhu Ning's attention immediately locked onto this drone.

"Can... you demonstrate it?"

"Yes."

Lin Li had no objection; in front of Zhu Ning, he simply demonstrated how to operate the drone and even let her try it herself.

"No internet, so no real-time video transmission; otherwise, it would be more convenient."

When the drone disappeared into the fog and returned, the two examined the footage recorded by its mounted camera, and Lin Li added:

Zhu Ning played with it using her "hand" for a moment, then looked up at Lin Li: "Mr. Lin Li, I have a bold request."

Lin Li: "You know it's bold, yet you still bring it up?"

Zhu Ning: "..."

Seeing Zhu Ning stunned for a moment, Lin Li chuckled and asked: "Is it related to my little partner juice?"

"... No, it has nothing to do with it."

"Alright, then it's not bold—go ahead and ask."

Though Lin Li had stirred her emotions somewhat incoherently, Zhu Ning quickly refocused on the matter at hand, pointing at the drone and saying:

"This 'drone,' I can take it apart to look inside, I want to study its internal structure."

Lin Li raised his eyebrows slightly, then nodded: "Yes."

A small trifle of a thing; I can afford to lose it.

"Thank you!"

After receiving permission, Zhu Ning examined the screws on the drone, and then I saw her "hand" gradually adjust its shape until it became a perfect screwdriver matching the screw threads, and she began unscrewing.

Meanwhile, Lin Li, who had just taken out the hardware toolbox from the "Lihuo Yangjian Hu," watched this scene, somewhat surprised.

"Zhu Ning, can people in your world change their bodies into any shape and also possess hardness?"

Just now, Zhu Ning's body turned into a screwdriver—if it were soft and limp, it couldn't possibly turn screws.

"We can undergo arbitrary shape changes to a limited extent,"

Zhu Ning, upon hearing this, stopped what she was doing with her hands and explained to Lin Li:

"For example, the whole body can become a cube, a rectangular prism... but if we want to purely stretch ourselves lengthwise into a narrow cylinder several meters long, we cannot stretch to that degree—it exceeds our limit."

"Although we appear as a blob of soft tissue, we actually have the concept of limbs and a head, and these five limb regions are the areas where shape change is most freely possible."

Zhu Ning shook the "screwdriver":

"But shape change comes at a cost—transforming consumes our nutrition, roughly equivalent to stamina, and the higher the precision and the more details, the faster stamina is depleted. Usually, to preserve stamina as much as possible, everyone just goes limp into a blob.

I maintain a form similar to yours so that you feel more accustomed, and also because the elixirs inside my body are continuously supplying me with inexhaustible nutrition and stamina.

But no matter how much nutrition I have, I cannot undergo shape change like you—for example, the hair on your head, my body simply cannot support such fine-grained shape change.

As for hardness, we can indeed generate a certain hardness, but it is actually quite limited and cannot be sustained..."

Upon hearing this, Lin Li suddenly understood.

I originally thought Zhu Ning and her kind could change shape as freely as Ditto, but now it seems completely impossible to reach that level.