Chapter 244 : The Three of Us Living a Good Life is More Important Than Anything Else

Is the security check considered a cultivation formation by the system?

Reasonable.

Lin Li, who had already been trained into the shape of the system, wasn't much surprised looking at this suddenly popped-up task. Instead, he directly began to think about how to complete it.

After all, the rewards were quite generous. Not only did it give a complete formation, but it also gave random materials, meaning he could really use or create formations from the cultivation world in reality in the future.

Formations are great. The cultivation world is full of wonders; there must be a way to turn Bai Bufan into a fragrant, soft little piece of dog shit.

Lin Li first looked back to confirm.

OK, only Ding Sihan and Chen Yuying were behind him.

Then, time reversal!

And so, under the bewildered gaze of the security inspector, Lin Li began to walk backward out of the security gate.

[Seek out and personally experience... (2/100; 1/4).]

As he backed out through the security gate, the number immediately changed.

Lin Li blinked, stopped backing up, and walked towards the security gate again.

Forward, backward, forward, backward—

Secret Technique: Repeated Side Steps!

The number increased quite quickly.

Mainly because there weren't many people today. Only Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan were lined up behind Lin Li. Seeing Lin Li suddenly go crazy, although they didn't know the reason, they felt it was reasonable. He wasn't affecting anyone else at the moment, so Lin Li didn't have much psychological burden.

And because he was holding his phone, the security gate kept beeping.

This caused the staff member who was originally checking the luggage X-ray machine to stand up, thinking something was wrong with the machine.

As for the security inspector waiting for Lin Li beside the security gate: "?"

No, didn't I just send away a kind-hearted, willing-to-share, but intellectually unknown fucking kid?

Why is there another one? What the fuck are you doing?

"What are you doing?" The security inspector hesitated for a moment and asked with a look of doubting life.

"Sis, I discovered something very magical. As long as I pass through this gate, it beeps," Lin Li gave this discovery that was enough to shock the scientific community, continuing to stall for a little time.

Security Inspector: "?"

Now it wasn't just the security gate beeping; the security inspector felt her brain buzzing too.

But she didn't dare to mock him, afraid he might be a special needs person.

However, Lin Li didn't play for long—mainly because Ding Sihan kicked him. So he stepped onto the small platform and let the security inspector scan him with the metal detector according to the normal procedure.

[Seek out and personally experience... (19/100; 1/4).]

From a certain perspective, the task was already one-fifth complete.

And it also proved that the "number of times" part of this task was quite easy to complete. If the security inspector didn't mind giving Lin Li another two or three minutes, he could finish these hundred times.

Brushing it this many times was enough for now; there was no need to continue.

But Lin Li still frowned slightly.

Because just now, the number of task times was already 19. But when the security inspector scanned him with the metal detector, and it emitted a slight beep when it scanned the phone in his hand, it met the basic conditions of the security gate earlier, yet neither of the two numbers in the task changed.

Lin Li originally hoped to rely on the handheld metal detector to increase the number of task "types" by one.

After all, although the principles of the two had similarities, both involving electromagnetic induction, the difference was that the security gate also involved a pulsed magnetic field, while the handheld metal detector involved magnetic field disturbance.

Is such a strong magnetic field still not enough?

But now, not only did the type not increase, even the number of times didn't increase.

In other words, the system didn't recognize the handheld metal detector as a formation?

Or did it not belong to the "high-level" formations emphasized in the task?

But theoretically, there shouldn't be any difference in the technical content of the two, right? Isn't a movable formation more high-level?

Unfortunately, all rights of interpretation belonged to the system.

Does it have to be fixed?

Lin Li shifted his gaze to the luggage X-ray machine next to him.

However, although he really wanted to, he suppressed the idea of crawling inside.

This kind of X-ray machine had curtains on both sides because it used X-rays, so there was still a bit of radiation.

Lin Li wasn't worried about the radiation; this little bit of radiation basically wouldn't cause any harm to a person. But if Lin Li crawled in, it would be an accident for the staff.

This was different in nature from repeatedly side-stepping under the security gate. Doing this would result in the security inspector being scolded at best, or fined and fired at worst. Better not cause trouble for others.

Then Lin Li's eyes lit up.

He now knew how to complete this task.

The number of times went without saying. He could brush it 19 times just now, and he could easily reach 100 times by finding opportunities later. At worst, Lin Li could just buy a security gate and put it at his door to entertain himself.

As for the types, the X-ray machine next to him had already given Lin Li the answer.

Hospital.

Lin Li could completely go to the hospital to legally and safely get an X-ray. Moreover, machines like a chest CT scanner, whether in terms of cost or size, far exceeded the security gate in front of him. They were all detection-oriented, and compared to metal, wasn't detecting diseases more in line with the system's understanding of evil and filthy things?

From any angle, it should satisfy the detection formation requirement.

Unless the system was limited to metal detection, or his speculation about the types was flawed.

And as long as the direction was right, and X-ray counted as one type, then wouldn't an ultrasound diagnostic device involving ultrasound waves and an MRI scanner involving nuclear magnetic resonance fill the vacancies for the remaining two types?

—The Nansang County Hospital was a Grade 3A hospital and had an MRI scanner. Although it was the type with a relatively low magnetic field strength, at least they had one.

However, the application form for this examination, unlike ultrasound and CT, might be a bit troublesome to get a doctor to prescribe for a healthy person like himself.

He would see if he could go to the hospital and use it under the guise of a physical examination for peace of mind.

This way was reasonable, legal, and safe.

His thoughts were clear. He could make an appointment when he got back tonight. Tomorrow was too rushed, so he would try next weekend.

If it failed, he would try to study the system's correct definition of a formation again.

So now, Lin Li could do more important things.

"Bufan, take a sip of water." Lin Li reached out to Bai Bufan.

He almost forgot to mock his bro. As for the 100-time task, there was no need to continue now; he wasn't in a hurry at all.

Bai Bufan: "?"

"Do you have to rub salt in my wound?"

"I'm rubbing cumin."

"Get lost."

Then, Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan also passed the security check, picked up their bags, and came to the two of them.

"Our ticket gates should be the same, right? 3A and 4A?" Lin Li asked.

The four of them didn't buy their tickets together. Lin Li and Bai Bufan bought two, and Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan bought two.

After all, there are no four-person seats on the high-speed rail.

Lin Li actually didn't mind sitting with Ding Sihan and Chen Yuying, leaving Bai Bufan to sit alone.

Bai Bufan minded.

"For the same train, it's definitely the same ticket gate," Chen Yuying nodded, then checked her phone: "We're in Car 04, what about you guys?"

"02." Because they bought them at different times, the cars were also different.

"By the way, Bufan, want to try First Class on the way back? Go check out the prestigious Car 01?" Lin Li asked.

"1000% no! The only one who can stop you is me!" Bai Bufan shouted coldly upon hearing this.

These were all lines from Kamen Rider Zero-One, which fit the scenario quite well.

Lin Li smiled coldly: "I'll pay the difference."

Bai Bufan smiled flatteringly: "First Class is not worthy of my status, I want to sit in Business Class."

Very Bai Bufan, but Lin Li refused, because late love is cheaper than grass.

The four discussed what to eat after arriving in Pingjiang City in the waiting hall for a while. In the end, they left it to Ding Sihan, the little expert at online restaurant scouting. Then ticket checking began. They scanned their ID cards through the turnstiles and headed to the departure level.

Because it wasn't the starting station, the high-speed rail hadn't arrived yet.

"With my status and position, I actually have to wait for the high-speed rail?" Bai Bufan, with little ability but a big temper, immediately complained upon seeing the train hadn't arrived.

"Then do you want to jump down and hide, and when the high-speed rail comes, stick out your leg and trip it to teach it a lesson?" Lin Li pointed at the tracks and suggested sincerely.

"I want to see that," Ding Sihan's eyes lit up upon hearing this.

Lin Li looked at Chen Yuying, and Chen Yuying had no choice but to nod as well.

Bai Bufan: "..."

You motherfuckers.

"Forget it, I'm afraid I'll trip the high-speed rail into pieces. We're taking the Fuxing Hao, it's quite a precious thing. It'll be troublesome to repair, and I can't afford to pay for it," Bai Bufan waved his hand.

"Come on, I've calculated it. The Hexie Hao is 130 yuan a catty, and the Fuxing Hao is only two or three hundred a catty. The shoes on your feet could buy two catties of Fuxing Hao. Don't think it's some valuable thing."

Lin Li wasn't so reverent and directly laid out the data.

Bai Bufan: "..."

Who the fuck buys bullet trains by the catty!

Hearing this made him want to buy two catties of bullet train to take home as a souvenir.

When giving gifts during the New Year, opening with "I bought you two catties of Fuxing Hao" would give him so much face.

Bai Bufan had originally pondered whether to bring a box of You Suan Ru or Wang Zai milk when he met his future father-in-law for the first time. Now it seemed there was a better choice.

"As for you, Bai Bufan, there's no need to belittle yourself. Your parts are also very valuable. On the black market, fresh corneas are thirty thousand, a heart is over a hundred thousand, a liver is over a hundred thousand, lungs are over a hundred thousand, kidneys are fifty or sixty thousand..." Lin Li counted on his fingers, as familiar as if enumerating his family treasures.

Bai Bufan smiled in relief.

Baowei's corpse that had a ghost marriage really didn't lose its organs unjustly.

This damn Lin Li had been eyeing them for a long time, having already checked the prices in advance. Everything was ready, all he needed was for his brother to die.

"How did a bunch of precious organs make up a piece of trash like me?" Bai Bufan stretched and sighed in disappointment.

"Mhm," Lin Li nodded.

"..."

"..."

"Now you're cherishing your words like gold? Just an 'mhm'?" Bai Bufan turned his head and glared fiercely at Lin Li.

"What else? Was there anything to complain about or refute in that sentence just now?" Lin Li was confused. "Aren't these organs on you just 'scattered they are a sky full of stars, gathered they are a pile of shit'?"

Bai Bufan: "..."

Bai Bufan felt he was asking for it by asking this question.

...

"Thank you for your company, we part ways here. I don't know which fallen leaf will drop into the fleeting years of memory the next time we meet. I will miss the four of you," Lin Li looked sadly at Ding Sihan and Chen Yuying and said.

Ding Sihan, Chen Yuying: "..."

Point of silence number one: It was just the high-speed rail arriving.

Point of silence number two: When Lin Li said this, he was looking at their legs.

So what he would miss were the four of them (the legs).

Lin Li's eyes darting back and forth were very obvious, looking left and right, sharing his favor equally.

Because of this, when Ding Sihan raised her leg to kick him, Lin Li dodged it with 100% accuracy.

"See you in half an hour, you pervert."

Splitting into pairs, Lin Li and Bai Bufan headed to Car 04.

Amidst the smiles of the attendants, Lin Li boarded the high-speed rail.

The system didn't beep this time.

I finally get to ride a 'mecha' of this level, and with the Class Rep no less, and the system doesn't pop up a task?

Or do I have to be in the same car as the Class Rep for you to show some face?

The two had no luggage, so they skipped the luggage area at the entrance and headed to their seats.

As soon as they walked in, they heard the loud sound of TikTok playing on speaker.

That's the flavor.

"Lin Li, do you know what the modern version of the Farmer and the Snake is?" Bai Bufan turned his head and whispered.

"What?"

"Lending a power bank to someone whose phone is dead, and they start playing TikTok on speaker."

"Reasonable," Lin Li nodded, then said regretfully: "Too bad I didn't bring my earphones."

"I brought mine, I can lend them to you later," Bai Bufan patted his pocket.

"Are they wired?"

"Who uses wired ones these days? They're definitely Bluetooth," Bai Bufan said in surprise.

"Then it's useless, it can't solve the current problem," Lin Li shook his head regretfully.

"Wait, how were you planning to solve it?" Bai Bufan was taken aback at first, then narrowed his eyes.

Hearing this, Lin Li made a motion of pulling a string taut, then moved it towards his own neck.

His gaze was aimed at the few middle-aged people playing their phones on speaker.

Bai Bufan: "..."

A very hardcore solution.

As long as he strangled everyone playing on speaker, the car would indeed be quiet.

"Good thing you didn't bring them."

Because the tickets were bought last night, the DF seats in the 3+2 layout of the high-speed rail were basically full, so the two were in AB.

A little trivia: The reason there is no E seat on the high-speed rail is due to international convention. Seats A and F are window seats, C and D are aisle seats, and B and E are middle seats. But the high-speed rail isn't wide enough for a 3+3 layout, so they just skipped E.

Yasuo's most uncomfortable episode.

(Translator's Note: A reference to the League of Legends character Yasuo, whose E skill is a dash).

After finding the row on their tickets, they found that two people were already sitting in seats B and C.

It was the first time for both Lin Li and Bai Bufan to take the high-speed rail. They stood to the side and confirmed several times that they hadn't gone to the wrong seats before Lin Li reached out, patted the bro in seat B, and asked:

"Sorry to bother you, bro, are you in the wrong seat?"

"Oh, oh, yes, yes. Bro, can we swap seats? I want to sit with my girlfriend. My seat is over there." The other party nodded, first pointing to the girl next to him, then pointing not far away.

Lin Li suddenly understood upon hearing this.

Then he looked at the girl in seat C for a long while, and finally shook his head at the bro: "Not swapping, I want to sit with your girlfriend too."

This is real black silk, not leather pants, nor leggings. It's worth sitting next to.

Bro: "?"

And the bro's girlfriend, upon hearing this, pretended to casually glance at Lin Li.

Then her eyes lit up.

Then she considerately said to her boyfriend: "Forget it, they are two people sitting in these seats, they definitely wouldn't want to swap one. You should just go back to your seat."

Bai Bufan, observing all this from behind: "?"

You can do that?

Bro, your girlfriend seems to want to fall in love.

But it wasn't a big problem. As long as these two people trusted each other, then all three of them were safe.

In the end, the slightly green-hatted man returned to his own seat.

The two also went in and sat down. Lin Li was by the window, and Bai Bufan sat in the middle.

So Bai Bufan could feel the resentful gaze from the woman on his right.

Fuck, why are you looking at me? Look at Lin Li! I don't want to sit here either, I have no choice!

Bai Bufan could only lower his head, his eyes on the black silk, his nose on the black silk, and his heart only on the black silk.

Thank you, Lin Li.

Setting aside the sound of phones playing on speaker, the high-speed rail experience was still very good.

Lin Li enjoyed the scenery outside the window for half an hour, and Bai Bufan was stared at resentfully for half an hour. Of course, he stared back too.

The broadcast in the car had already started announcing in advance that they were about to arrive in Pingjiang City.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan didn't know that it would still take several minutes to arrive after this broadcast, but getting up and going to the door early wouldn't hurt.

The girl in seat C didn't seem to be getting off at this station. Seeing that Lin Li and Bai Bufan were actually leaving, her eyes widened first, and then she finally couldn't hold back and asked Lin Li in a low voice:

"Hello handsome, can I have your WeChat?"

Lin Li frowned upon hearing this: "If I give it to you, what will I use?"

Woman: "?"

By the time her brain could process this, Lin Li and Bai Bufan had already walked far away.

Fuck?

What the hell?

"There are really more and more shameless people in this world. A WeChat account can sell for at least several tens of yuan, and she just reaches out and asks a stranger for it?"

Lin Li, at the door, was still complaining to Bai Bufan.

Regarding his bro who strictly adhered to male virtue and pretended not to understand, Bai Bufan just smiled.

Then the more he smiled, the more unhappy he became.

"Shut the fuck up, Lin Li, so annoying."

Lin Li: "?"

Bai Bufan gritted his teeth. When would a Feifei ask him for his WeChat so he could experience this feeling?

Arrival. The two met up with Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan.

"How was the taste of your first high-speed rail ride?" Chen Yuying asked with a smile.

"Public morals are degenerating day by day." Recalling the woman just now, Lin Li shook his head.

Chen Yuying: "?"

After understanding the whole story, the two girls only found it funny.

Chen Yuying laughed a bit happier than Ding Sihan.

Pingjiang Station was a city-level station after all, quite large. The four of them walked for quite a while before getting out.

The place for lunch had already been decided, so Ding Sihan directly called a taxi.

"Qu Wanqiu's sacrifice was valuable. At least the four of us fit perfectly in a taxi." Lin Li laughed darkly and wickedly, deciding to start the segment of talking bad about people behind their backs:

"Let's just the four of us play together from now on. I've actually been annoyed with Qu Wanqiu for a long time."

When he saw Ding Sihan smiling and taking out her phone, Lin Li knew this little woman was going to snitch.

[Ding Sihan: @Qu Wanqiu, Lin Li just said he's been annoyed with you for a long time.]

[Bai Bufan: I testify, not a single word was changed.]

[Qu Wanqiu: Where did this random cat or dog come from, daring to be annoyed with me?]

[Lin Li: bro, everyone, I just created an awesome four-person group chat. All the big shots in this group will be there, but, hey, guess who didn't get an invitation?]

[Qu Wanqiu: We already created a four-person group without you during the National Day holiday, hehe.]

[Ding Sihan: Don't say it out loud @Qu Wanqiu.]

[Qu Wanqiu recalled a message.]

[Qu Wanqiu: We didn't create a four-person group without you, I remembered wrong @Lin Li.]

"You guys still play with this idiot?" Lin Li pointed at Qu Wanqiu's message on the screen and said to the other three, "She sold out the fact that you guys isolated me right away."

No response.

Lin Li suddenly realized with horror that he really seemed to have been isolated.

Maybe they really did create a group behind his back. Sad.

But there was no time to be sad. The taxi arrived, and Bai Bufan took the lead and sat in the passenger seat.

Ding Sihan took the lead and was the first to enter the back seat. When Lin Li took the lead and wanted to follow into the back seat, he was pulled out by Chen Yuying, making him honestly sit on the outside.

...

"The chicken leg is really too delicious. I suggest biologists deeply study the crossbreeding of chickens and centipedes to create a centipede chicken!"

It was already noon, so the destination of the taxi was the place for lunch, not the shooting club.

Bai Bufan was full of praise for today's restaurant choice, eating happily.

"What did you say, what Ding Dong Chicken?"

"Don't drag me into your lovesickness."

Bai Bufan moved his seat a bit.

"Little Ding Ding's most reliable time."

"I basically choose places above the baseline, okay? The few times I failed were because I was deceived by the internet!" Ding Sihan retorted.

"This place is really good. Should we eat here for dinner too?" Lin Li asked.

"Sure," Chen Yuying nodded.

"These spicy wings are also very good. We all ate them, aren't you going to eat?"

Getting a response, Lin Li smiled and pointed at the remaining red chicken wings on the plate, asking Bai Bufan.

"Too spicy, I can't handle it. You eat my two," Bai Bufan shook his head. There were eight chicken wings on this plate, originally exactly two for each person. But the dish was called spicy wings, and it was too spicy. Bai Bufan didn't want to come out to play and end up with diarrhea.

Take shit as a mirror, take Baowei as a mirror.

"But you haven't even taken a bite, how do you know if it's spicy or not?" Lin Li was still persuading.

"I can tell the taste just by smelling it."

Seeing that Lin Li still intended to persuade him, Bai Bufan stretched out a hand to block him and lowered his voice: "Don't persuade me to be GAY."

"What the hell, what does this have to do with being GAY?" Lin Li frowned.

"Persuading someone to eat spicy food and persuading someone to be GAY are essentially the same thing."

Bai Bufan explained.

Lin Li: "..."

Very well, Bai Bufan indeed made him lose the desire to persuade him.

In terms of persuading people, Bai Bufan was quite formidable.

Reasonable.

"I'm going to the restroom." He would eat the spicy wings later. Lin Li stood up and said to the three.

"Wait for me, I'm going too." The tag-along Bai Bufan, who was still gnawing on a chicken leg, looked up upon hearing this.

Lin Li didn't even pay attention to him.

So when Bai Bufan arrived at the restaurant's restroom, Lin Li had already washed his hands and come out.

When Bai Bufan passed Lin Li, Lin Li happened to be shaking his hands.

"You fucking shook water into my mouth," Bai Bufan, who got sprayed in the face, cursed.

"What water, it's urine," Lin Li said with a smile.

"Idiot."

After cursing, Bai Bufan went in to use the toilet.

One small step forward, one giant leap for civilization. Aim at the deodorant ball in the urinal, open the gate, release the water, precise shooting.

Afterwards, just like rinsing tripe in hot pot, shake it up and down seven or eight times.

Done.

Bai Bufan went to the sink.

Turned on the faucet.

The faucet made a dry, hoarse sound, but no water came out.

Bai Bufan patted the faucet, still the same result. It seemed the water was cut off.

The restaurant lost points on this.

Forget it, there's no water in the restroom, and he didn't pee on his hands anyway. Wiping with paper would be fine.

So Bai Bufan reached for the paper on the wall.

His hand suddenly stopped in mid-air.

Bai Bufan licked the corner of his mouth, and then his tongue also stopped.

The eyeballs in his sockets began to move downwards slowly but persistently, and a feeling of terror gradually overflowed.

Wait.

Wait TAT.

Wait TAT!!!!

If there's no water in the restroom, then what was on Lin Li's hands just now!?

(End of Chapter)