Chapter 235: Chapter 196 Now that I’ve watched this, what do I watch during the Spring Festival Gala?
"Lin Li, when you usually help everybody pick up their packages and go into the courier station, does the owner look happy? After all, you’re the perfect kind of delivery guy."
Bai Bufan stared straight at Lin Li, his words harsh.
"Ah, right, right~"
Lin Li draped an arm over Bai Bufan’s shoulder, pulling him away from the balcony door and leaning against the railing, while he slapped the second mosquito dead with a smack.
Curse all you want, as long as you’re willing to keep feeding the mosquitoes, curse however you like.
After all, the mission requires an attempt to attack fellow sect members by demons, and excluding himself, wasn’t he left with only Bufan?
Remember, human rights are forever greater than animal rights. Bufan is man’s best friend, but just a friend!
Turn the balcony lights up high so that in addition to mosquitoes, other demons attracted by the light might just want to violate Bai Bufan, helping to speed up the mission’s completion.
"I want to go back and use the air conditioner! Not bro, we just showered, if we sweat, wouldn’t that be pointless? Let’s go home, bro, let’s go home." Bai Bufan was still struggling in Lin Li’s arms, insisting on going back.
"It’s already October, and the weather is gradually cooling down. It’s everyone’s responsibility to protect the environment; for every minute we don’t use the air conditioner, a polar bear gets more habitat, and more underwear can be sold by people at the South Pole! Could you be any less selfish?"
Lin Li decided to persuade Bai Bufan with positive energy.
"Polar bears have been using AC for tens of thousands of years; isn’t it finally my turn?" Bai Bufan retorted, confidently defending himself.
Lin Li: "..."
Indeed.
"Moreover, why are they preaching environmental protection to us commoners? Since childhood, I’ve heard ’no trade means no killing,’ but I’ve never even seen shark fins. Tell that to the big shots; if they fly private jets one less time, how much less emissions would there be?"
"Old folks won’t like hearing such talk."
"And Lin Li, do you know the most absurd thing?" Bai Bufan added.
"What?"
Bai Bufan laughed, but it looked more like he was angry, pointing at the air conditioning unit humming loudly:
"You just said that our purpose of not using air conditioning is to protect the environment, but for heaven’s sake, could you turn off the air conditioner first before talking about protecting the environment?
Our behavior of running the AC inside while standing outside is utter wastefulness, and should the polar bears drown because of people like you, they wouldn’t rest in peace."
"..."
Lin Li scratched his head.
Wow, quite true indeed.
"You’re right." Lin Li nodded, being a sensible person.
"Then hurry up and go back, this place is remote, and there are way too many bugs." Seeing that Lin Li was listening to reason, Bai Bufan nodded and shooed away the mosquitoes in front of them.
"Don’t move!" Lin Li’s sudden shout startled Bai Bufan.
"What? Is there something on me?"
"I’ll deal with all the bugs; just don’t move." Lin Li concentrated on exterminating the mosquitoes, having come prepared with tissues so as not to dirty his hands too much.
Luckily the place was remote, and it seemed this mission could be completed soon.
Bai Bufan: "?"
"Why do I feel like... you brought me out here... just to watch me feed mosquitoes?" Bai Bufan questioned.
"How could that be? Why would I do something so silly?" Lin Li immediately waved his hand and extended his own: "I got bitten too."
Lin Li naturally couldn’t wear the [Blood Crow Assassin] now, lest it include Bai Bufan in its range. So indeed, mosquitoes considered him a target too, and Lin Li had tried killing these mosquitoes, confirming they didn’t count towards the mission.
"Then why aren’t we going back?" Bai Bufan was more confused.
"We can’t go back." After finishing, Lin Li turned his head, eyes filled with wistfulness and a smile on his lips.
Bai Bufan looked back, surprised.
Inside the room was Ding Sihan, who first found the remote to turn off the air conditioner, then walked to the balcony door, gave them a "you fools" look, sighed, shook her head, locked the balcony door from the outside, nodded to Lin Li, and left.
Bai Bufan: "?"
"No! No!"
It was too late by the time Bai Bufan went to knock on the door.
"You called her?" Bai Bufan looked at Lin Li in disbelief.
"Yeah, you made a good point earlier; it’s wasteful to have the AC on while we’re outside, so I asked Ding Sihan to turn off our room’s AC." Lin Li nodded.
"Then why did she lock the door?"
"It’s tiring to keep holding onto you; this way, I can let you go and set you free." Lin Li released his grip, feeling relieved, "Great, now the door can’t be opened from this side."
"Haha, hahaha." When people reach the ultimate limit of speechlessness, they burst into laughter. Without a phone on him, Bai Bufan couldn’t even call Ding Sihan to come back.
Bai Bufan gave Lin Li a thumbs-up.
Then, not struggling, he leisurely leaned on the railing: "Let’s chat then, it’s true we haven’t really had a deep conversation, Lin Li, so where should we start?"
Resigned.
With the AC unit off, the balcony wasn’t as hot and noisy, as long as they didn’t sweat.
And indeed, they hadn’t really had a night chat with Lin Li.
"I don’t want to chat, I want to play on my phone, do whatever you like, nothing to chat about with you." Lin Li leaned against the short side of the balcony, began scrolling on his phone.
"?"
Bai Bufan, upon hearing this, turned his head, glaring at Lin Li.
— he didn’t bring his phone.
Bai Bufan said, word by word: