Chapter 480: Lin Li is no longer a virgin
Looking at the sorrowful expression on Hu Fei's face.
For a split second, Lin Li was still a bit dazed.
Damn, how is there a cuckold situation?
I've been gone for two months, and my home was actually stolen?
Wait a second, who was the "Big Sister-in-law" again?
The Beautiful Lady?
Oh, then it's fine.
Shi Dongchen, you were truly starving; you could even eat that. You will succeed in whatever you do in the future.
Lin Li searched his memory. The last time he left, in order to complete the mission—namely, "make the Beautiful Lady sleep soundly"—he had laid the Beautiful Lady flat in a room Shi Dongchen had cleared out for him in the shelter. After posing her in a sleeping position, he used clothing as kindling and set her on fire.
Once the "sleep soundly" requirement was met, he covered the Beautiful Lady with a quilt and extinguished the sparks on her to prevent a fire in the shelter, and then he left.
With a heart as cold as iron, he never looked back.
He even told Shi Dongchen that they could do whatever they wanted with that room, as he no longer needed it.
Considering that Hu Fei's brain was a little problematic, this so-called "occupying the Big Sister-in-law" was probably just some misunderstanding.
Avoiding Hu Fei's attempt to hug his thigh and wail once more, Lin Li retracted the mecha into the system and then asked, "Hu Fei, how long have I been gone?"
Hu Fei: "Big Brother, my name isn't Hu Fei, it's Hu Xiaojing."
"It's all the same," Lin Li waved his hand. "So, how long has it been?"
"It's been decades, Big Brother! TAT!!" Hu Fei choked up again as he said this. "The chocolate bars you gave me have all been eaten by me..."
Lin Li: "(;゜o゜)?"
"No way? Decades? For real?" Lin Li frowned.
Could it be that when he went to an apocalyptic world, the time flow was one day in reality to a few minutes in the apocalypse, but when he went to a cultivation world or an all-female world, the time flow in the apocalyptic world reversed to a few minutes in reality to one day in the apocalypse?
Although Hu Fei's appearance wasn't much different from when they last met, Lin Li hadn't forgotten that he was an Awakened; it wasn't impossible for him to "remain forever young."
"It's true! Big Brother! Without you and the chocolate bars, I, Xiaojing, have been living like a year for every day!! Big Brother!!" Hu Fei nodded heavily, accusing him with a miserable voice.
Lin Li: "..."
You motherf—
"So, how long has it actually been? A few dozen days?" Lin Li confirmed. "Or was it exactly two months?"
"Mm-hmm, Big Brother, I don't know the exact number, but it should be around two months." Hu Fei answered seriously.
Lin Li nodded.
So, when the other world isn't a system target, the time flow is the same as in reality?
If it's been two months, it's normal that the things he brought over were eaten up. After all, back then he didn't have the "Departing Fire Sword-Nurturing Gourd," and he had to painstakingly carve out space in his "Universe Ring."
The amount of things he could bring each time was actually very limited.
"What about Shi Dongchen and Ye Jing? Are they not in the shelter?" Lin Li asked again.
Conversing with Hu Fei was exhausting; if possible, Lin Li still hoped to communicate with normal humans.
"Mm, they are both outside searching for supplies. I just returned with a team," Hu Fei nodded.
"We have already sent them a signal. Ye Jing went quite far because she is responsible for security, but that traitor Shi Dongchen, who is occupying the Big Sister-in-law, didn't go far. After receiving the emergency signal, he will return immediately."
"But it will take some time, Big Brother. Why don't you come in and rest for a while?"
After thinking about it, Lin Li didn't refuse, so he followed Hu Fei into the underground shelter.
Two months had passed, and the interior of the shelter hadn't changed much. The survivors remaining inside were still in a worrying state, sallow and thin.
Among them, those who had memories of his last visit now had light in their eyes.
What they were expecting went without saying.
The room where Lin Li had briefly stayed appeared before his eyes as they went deeper into the shelter, covered by a curtain used to block the view.
Before Hu Fei could say anything, Lin Li scanned with his spiritual sense to make sure no one was there, then pulled back the curtain.
The layout inside was exactly the same as before.
The ashes of the "sleep soundly" had been wiped away, and a human skeleton stood inside the room.
The skull had a huge gap, and the parts of the body were also missing, but it was clearly meticulously cared for. There was no disgusting, filthy flesh on the skeleton; it was wiped very clean, and there were obvious signs of repair.
If nothing went wrong, this was the "Beautiful Lady."
Hu Fei also verified Lin Li's guess, angrily and sadly tattling:
"Big Brother, look, this is what that beast Shi Dongchen did. He kept the Big Sister-in-law under house arrest in the room, wouldn't even let her wear clothes, made her do lewd things all day, and often snuck into the Big Sister-in-law's room alone in the middle of the night. When I questioned him, he actually had the nerve to say he was helping the Big Sister-in-law take a bath. Shi Dongchen, that guy, is unrighteous and inhumane—"
"Big Brother, as long as you give the word, I will go and take that bastard's life immediately!"
Lin Li glanced at the system; no mission was given.
It really was "pulling out and being heartless"; the value of the Beautiful Lady seemed to be gone in the eyes of the system.
Or was it that the Beautiful Lady couldn't move anymore, so she was no longer beautiful in the eyes of the system?
But it didn't matter. The purpose of coming in to find her was to see if he could trigger a system mission again. Since it couldn't be triggered, the Beautiful Lady had lost her value in Lin Li's eyes.
Lin Li and the system were tied together by fate; if it pulled out, Lin Li pulled out too.
"No need," Lin Li smiled indifferently. "She and I have already broken up, so what's between her and Shi Dongchen is a free romance."
Hu Fei: "o. o?"
Hu Fei was speechless for a moment.
Finally, he said gloomily: "Then the Big Sister-in-law... then this bad woman is too fickle."
"A woman who has been loved by a lion, how could she still fall in love with a hyena? I really can't understand..."
Lin Li couldn't hold it in and laughed out loud.
Although Hu Fei's brain wasn't good, he was indeed amusing.
Manifesting the "Departing Fire Sword-Nurturing Gourd" in his hand, Lin Li gently patted the gourd, and a box of food appeared before him. Lin Li tilted his chin:
"Hu Fei, these are all yours. Feel free to keep them; they are a gift to you personally. As for the shelter, when Shi Dongchen returns, I will give him another batch of supplies for him to distribute."
He hadn't known before that the system would switch the "return" destination after one month, thinking he would come back in November, so he had actually promised Shi Dongchen and Ye Jing that he would bring them more supplies.
After all, he had gotten gold worth 40 million—now worth over 50 million—from them, which was the greatest guarantee for his carefree and unrestrained life in reality. Even if in their eyes the supplies he brought over were already worth more than the price, for Lin Li, the accounts weren't calculated that way.
"Big Brother, I love you!"
Hu Fei first leaned in to see what was specifically in the box, and after discovering that it was indeed the good stuff he hadn't eaten for half a month, he immediately showed a simple and honest smile:
"Big Brother! Can I be your Big Sister-in-law? Xiaojing has nothing to repay you with, I can only offer my body..."
"Get lost." Lin Li laughed and kicked Hu Fei lightly.
But Hu Fei immediately curled into a ball and asked Lin Li seriously: "Big Brother, which way should I roll?"
He chatted with Hu Fei in this room for a long time.
He also gained a rough understanding of the changes that had occurred in the shelter during his two-month absence.
Although the supplies he brought back were used sparingly, after the survivors in the shelter divided them up, there wasn't much left. What Hu Fei got individually could have lasted until now if he had been frugal, but he had taken the initiative to take it out and share it with everyone.
Over the past two months, six survivors had been lost, most of them when Shi Dongchen discovered he had "disappeared" and they still held onto a fluke, wanting to go out and search for him, being relatively aggressive and reckless, resulting in several battles with zombies.
However, because of the commotion of the battles, they had absorbed a few more survivors who were scattered outside.
In two months, there were two more Awakened in the shelter. One came from the newly absorbed people, similar to Hu Fei, being physical-oriented, but he could strengthen his body in a short time and was even better at fighting than Hu Fei when strengthened.
The other was another survivor in the shelter who spontaneously awakened; the awakened ability belonged to the elemental side of ice. The combat ability wasn't very good, or rather, it hadn't been developed, but it was quite useful as a refrigerator.
After talking with Hu Fei for a full three hours, Lin Li was starting to feel restless when there was finally movement at the entrance—
"Lin Li!?" Shi Dongchen ran over from the entrance in a hurry, panting.
"It's me." Actually, it was a question that didn't need answering; Lin Li stood up and nodded.
"Wow! It really is you," Shi Dongchen stood still in front of Lin Li, his hand seeming to want to reach out and touch Lin Li but quickly putting it down, nodding excitedly: "Too... too great."
"Did you not receive the signal at first? Hu Fei told me you shouldn't have gone too far, and I thought you would be back quite early." Seeing Shi Dongchen's expression change slightly, Lin Li immediately added: "Of course, I'm not blaming you, just curious, no need to panic."
Hearing this, Shi Dongchen's expression eased slightly, and he immediately explained:
"It's because the team I led today didn't go out by car, and on the way back, we found that the zombies seemed active and were gathering in the direction of the shelter, so to avoid them, we spent a lot of time."
"Plus, we only received an emergency signal and didn't know if it was good or bad, so we subconsciously observed outside for a while before coming in, which wasted more time. Sorry."
"I see." Lin Li nodded.
The thing that transmitted information in the doomsday shelter was the signal transceiver he had used before, which indeed couldn't transmit specific information. ===== CHAPTER 481 =====
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