Chapter 113 - 105: Some fall in love in the wind, some watch the sea at night, some are considered a calamity

"You really don’t appreciate it," Lin Li resumed talking normally. The progress bar started moving again. So frustrating! "It doesn’t look like fake abs to me, is it really possible to slim down like this?" After getting a closer look, Qu Wanqiu seemed skeptical and patted her own belly through her clothes, "I’m pretty slim too, how come I don’t have a six-pack?" Because you’re actually not slim. But the charming Lin Li would never say that, so he could only say it to himself. Though his own abs indeed look better now. After all, the Body Refining Eighth Rank Technique is all about improving the physique, and the nourishment of Spiritual Qi is the same. After half a month, the abdomen lines will definitely look good. "It’s because I’ve been working out, so there’s some sign of training, and an important reason is that I’m holding my breath. If I let it out, it wouldn’t be this tight — ha— ha! Ha!" The three girls, including Yu Yu who finally dared to open her eyes a bit, all laughed. Because Lin Li had been holding his breath and tightening his belly, but his sentence was too long, and he ran out of breath, couldn’t continue speaking, and started gasping. "See, my abs don’t look as good as they just did," Lin Li patted his belly again. The progress bar jumped up again. Honesty and self-deprecating humor, it seems, are also a type of charm, and Lin Li’s little tactic worked again. Hahaha, fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls are really easy to fool! This task is really easy to complete, in less than two minutes it’s already halfway done, so Lin Li could understand the lackluster rewards. Just see it as a freebie to sync Mecha indices, originally thought it was meaningless to him, but now it’s not right — he can redeem combat Mechas from the shop. Hearing Yu Yu’s laughter, Lin Li suddenly thought of something. He changed his title again to "Thunder Attractor." Once again, when Lin Li looked at Yu Yu, she was looking at him as well. More importantly, the stalled progress bar started moving forward steadily at a weak speed. This time it can really be confirmed. "Thunder Attractor" really treats big thunder as thunder, but the problem is it only treats big thunder as thunder, non-big thunder is instantly expelled from the thunder category, seems a bit too extreme. Those with thunder attributes get a sense of closeness from the title with me, at this moment my ’charm’ in this task should come from this sense of closeness. Could it be because I spoke about big thunder when discussing with Bai Bufan, so the system automatically corrected this bug within a bug? If only I’d talked a bit more during the discussion. Lin Li checked the "Thunder Attractor" title description again. "...Meanwhile, any moveable related objects or people with thunder attributes around you will subconsciously approach you and have a weak sense of closeness, this effect strengthens as the duration of wearing the title increases, reaching its limit after three days." Weak and has a limit. Darn it! Still a bit disappointing. Huh? My thunder technique can absorb... huh? How does this thing absorb? Can it output after absorbing? How exists in my body? After achieving mastery of my thunder body technique, can I double the output? Can I produce and sell all by myself? Can transfer it from one person to another? As a pile of questions swarmed suddenly, Lin Li’s mind couldn’t process them all. What is this Purity and Righteousness Thunder-Controlling Body, if it’s like I imagined, it’s basically a holy grail for gynecology, the gospel of tiptoes down! Girls might even establish a Lin Clan! "So how do you train? Lin Li? Lin Li? What’s keeping your mind wandering?" Qu Wanqiu’s voice grew louder and louder. Lin Li snapped back to reality, this is all speculation, better focus on the task at hand. Besides, these guesses are hard to verify. "Since you’re asking so sincerely, I’ll gladly tell you," Lin Li began. Even he was amazed at himself for early rising these past half months, why wouldn’t these gullible little girls admire him? "..." "Above all, unwavering self-discipline, strong determination, and relentless courage." "That’s the fundamental reason for my drastic change in such a short time." Lin Li finally ended the self-praise segment and then frowned, looking at Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu: "You two don’t believe me, do you?" The rate of progress increased rapidly initially but slowed down with my explanation, now there’s only a weak increment from the "Thunder Attractor". "No we believe you, haha," Ding Sihan clapped. Hmm. Don’t believe. "I opened my heart with difficulty only to be met with doubts, truly disappointing." Lin Li felt a bit regretful. "Aw, Lin Li what you said is too fake, waking up before 5 every day for at least an hour of boxing, including weekends, and doing it consistently, who would believe that." Qu Wanqiu had an I-want-to-believe-but-it’s-too-ridiculous expression. "Seeing is believing, tomorrow and the day after, I’ll stick to waking up before 5 and boxing for an hour, whether it’s true or not, you can witness it yourselves, how about that?" Lin Li said with a smile. Lin Li felt that nothing could demonstrate his charm more than letting them witness his efforts firsthand. Because Lin Li still didn’t know how many people were watching Emiya Shirou’s high jump under that sunset. Anyway, he definitely had to complete his training tasks in the next couple of days, so whether he let them watch or not didn’t matter much. Being seventeen, satisfying that little vanity wasn’t a bad thing at all. "Using challenges on me is useless; Yu Ying and I have to get up early to do our makeup, so we might really be up by five," Ding Sihan said with more confidence. "That’s even better. Just wait and see tomorrow," Lin Li got up, walked to the window, pulled the curtain aside, and pointed to a corner of the field outside the base: "I’ll be training here tomorrow morning. It’ll be convenient for you to verify." "What? Are you serious?" Ding Sihan was taken aback by Lin Li’s confident and assertive demeanor. "You wouldn’t just wake up early for appearances and foolishly stand there for an hour, would you? It’s unnecessary." "I’m not that bored. You’ll see if I’m serious about training when the time comes," Lin Li chuckled. "Alright! If you really can do it, I’ll call you ’Bro’ for a day!" "Can you change it to ’Dad’?" Lin Li’s words escaped before he thought about it. But it didn’t matter. Since he had the "Lightning Inducer" as a backup, he would complete the task sooner or later. But. Hold on. Why did the progress bar just tick up again? Is it a problem with the system’s logic, or did one of the three girls misjudge his charm? "Fine by me!" Ding Sihan nodded, "But if you don’t do it, or if you’re not serious at all, you’ll have to call me ’Mom’ and be my servant for a day. If I say head east, you head east!" "No problem." "I want to join in, too! Count me in, count me in! I’ll be Lin Li’s second mom," Qu Wanqiu raised her hand. "You better be ready to be my second daughter," Lin Li said calmly. Chen Yu Ying slowly came out of the bathroom with a face mask on. Upon learning of their bet, she looked amused. "Yu Ying, whose side are you on?" "I don’t think Lin Li would gamble on something he’s not confident about," Chen Yu Ying said after rubbing her cheeks and pondering for a moment. "The class president understands me," Lin Li had barely spoken when there was a knock on the door. "Who is it?" Lin Li asked. ... On the first night of the autumn trip, Xue Jian planned to check on every room belonging to his class, ensuring they didn’t play too late or get too wild, and to remind them once again about safety and the rules they had to follow. His first stop was Chen Yu Ying’s room, as there were some things he needed to discuss with her. Despite having a universal access card issued by the base, he couldn’t just enter girls’ dorms, so Xue Jian knocked on the door. "Knock, knock, knock." "Who is it?" "It’s me, Teacher Xue," Xue Jian replied. "Oh, okay, wait a minute, teacher. I’ll open the door for you right away." "Alright," Xue Jian nodded instinctively and waited. Wait a second. Xue Jian paused. He took a step back and looked at the room number. This was indeed Chen Yu Ying’s room. Who kept answering him just now? He must have heard wrong. How could he vaguely hear Lin Li’s voice, that troublemaker? Xue Jian cleaned his ear with his pinky, uncertainly saying, "Lin Li?" "I’m here." It’s really you! Xue Jian quickly pulled out the universal access card, swiped it, and entered the room. He looked at Lin Li, who seemed startled standing right in front of him, and loudly demanded, "How did you get in this room!" But Lin Li’s gaze was on Xue Jian’s feet, and he stepped back a few paces. An icy sensation spread, and as Xue Jian looked down, he realized he had accidentally kicked over a basin full of water. Xue Jian’s feet felt cold, and so did Lin Li’s heart. "Teacher, you’re here to wash your feet too, huh? If there’s nothing else, I’ll leave first," Lin Li tried to slip past Xue Jian. "Halt." Xiling’s young man, stand at attention! Get ready to be scolded~ ... Yu Yu sat twisting her hands on the bed, not knowing what to do, Chen Yu Ying stifled laughter, Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu mopped the floor, Xue Jian scolded, and Lin Li got scolded. The six people depicted a harmonious scene, each with a promising future.