Chapter 217: Chapter 184: A rod-shaped shadow appeared on Lin Li’s face
"’Defend.’ requests to add you as a friend."
On October 1st, Lin Li, woken up by his 4:30 alarm, saw this message on his phone.
"Silently counting, fifteen days have already slipped away from my hand; like a drop of water on a needle’s tip dripping into the ocean, my days drip into the stream of time without a sound or shadow, making my head sweat and my tears pour down unwittingly."
"Brother Ping, I miss you so much."
"Ignore"
After reciting the elementary school text, Lin Li naturally chose to neither accept nor reject it, treating it coldly.
Nostalgia is nostalgia, but Song Luping is useless now. There’s no point in adding him until the system issues a task that requires him.
Even though Lin Li is a storytelling king, he can’t just make up stories everywhere.
Adding him back for nonsense is just trouble.
Switching back to his main account, he saw someone mass sending National Day greetings.
Lin Li smiled slightly.
"Lin Li: October 1st, a bright moon in the sky; friends and family, enjoy the moon and flowers; moments of reunion, screw it; reminiscing the past, full of blessings; a full moon, looking forward; National Day, may all things go well!"
"Wang Ze: ..."
"Wang Ze: Are you beating a dead horse?"
Lin Li was somewhat shocked; Wang Ze actually replied instantly. Was he already up at this time?
No, that’s not right.
Sometimes you already know the answer when you ask the question.
"Lin Li: Are you still awake?"
"Wang Ze: No shit, were you asleep?"
"Lin Li: You’ve wasted your whole life; I’ll carry the flag of the only male athlete in class four. I went to bed at ten last night and just got up."
"Wang Ze: A friendly reminder, it’s earlier to sleep at six in the morning than you who just sleep at ten at night; you’re the wasted one."
"Lin Li: ...Stupid."
"Wang Ze: I won’t say more; I need to go wash my hands."
"Lin Li: Hmm? What are you washing your hands for at 4 a.m.?"
"Wang Ze: The kid is too clingy."
"Lin Li: ...What the hell."
Like hell the kid is too clingy; this kid is probably in the billions.
Because it’s still raining today, even though it’s already 4:30 in the morning, outside is as dark as midnight. In this weather, morning exercise has to be in the living room.
The sound of my exercise isn’t too loud, thankfully, so it won’t wake Wu Min up.
Progress now is (24/30), today I can reach 25 after practice, and I’m expecting to finish the task by the 6th. We can say victory is at hand.
[Update complete.]
However, when pulling up the system, Lin Li saw this notification.
Then he was a bit puzzled.
Wasn’t there just an update yesterday? Why is there another today?
Does this mean updates happen not just on Mondays but also at the start of the month?
Well, updates are good; this means the system is becoming more humanoid. Lin Li first checked his [store].
Surprisingly, the free item refresh count hadn’t reset and remained darkened.
This update didn’t even provide the basic update benefits?
Unlucky.
Lin Li clicked on the unnamed interface that appeared, finally finding the update point—a button in the otherwise blank interface was lit up, suggesting interaction was possible.
So Lin Li clicked as swiftly as possible.
There seemed to be a blinding white light flashing before his eyes, making him instinctively close them.
The overwhelming white light soon faded, and Lin Li opened his eyes. The good news was that there were no Genshin graphics before him.
The bad news was that he was surrounded by ruins and rubble. It was just breaking dawn, a faint light filtering through the clouds, faintly revealing the surroundings that seemed to be a city turned to ruins. Strange howling noises echoed from afar, accompanied by a faint stench in the air.
Lin Li blinked.
Lin Li blinked, blinked again.
Lin Li blinked several more times.
Is this right, dude?
This can’t be right.
"Holy crap!!"
"Damn it!!"
"Where the hell did I end up? Is this still in the country?"
"Smack!"
Lin Li acted quickly, giving himself a slap, but the scene before him remained unchanged.
Looking down, Lin Li saw that he was still wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, along with indoor slippers he didn’t get to change out of.
"Did I just travel through space? So suddenly, dude? Damn system, couldn’t you have taken me earlier, now of all times? Are you kidding me?" Lin Li’s brain slightly short-circuited as the situation before his eyes was completely beyond what he had anticipated.
He immediately brought up the system again and opened the same interface.
Only now, the button he’d just interacted with became grayed out, but the second button lit up.
With a slight sigh of relief.
"Ah..."
Just as Lin Li was about to try pressing it, he heard a faint raspy sound coming from the distant corner, along with the sound of gravel being stepped on.
He was already here, no rush to leave. Lin Li turned his head, and since his phone wasn’t with him, he changed his title to [Light of Xiling] to brighten up the surroundings a bit.
His enhanced senses, courtesy of Spiritual Qi, receiving a considerable boost in capability, picked up the noise from far away, but Lin Li still sought cover.
Nothing is more important than personal safety.
An individual slowly came into view from around the corner.
But calling it a person was a stretch, considering no human has a head and neck forming a sharp angle.
Clumped dirty hair was glued together by some mucus, looking like a withered bush.
With a hole in the head and half the cheek sliced off, the mouth couldn’t close, with reddish-brown saliva dripping down.