The System is Abstract, Luckily, So Am I

Chapter 148 : Why Aren't All the Options for This Question Given?

Because he had already eaten half of Zhou Baowei's chicken steak, Lin Li only had a few bites of dinner before returning to his room.

He took his textbooks to the living room, and Lin Li began to prepare to study.

"What are you doing?" Wu Min, who had just finished washing the dishes and was about to go back to the master bedroom to rest, stopped in the living room and asked Lin Li when she saw his actions.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm preparing to focus on studying," Lin Li pointed at the desktop.

"Your computer desk in your room is so big, can't it be used as a desk? Why don't you study in your own room?" Wu Min asked.

"If I do that, I'm afraid you won't notice how hard I'm working, and then you'll forget to cry and praise me for being sensible and then crazily increase my living expenses and pocket money," Lin Li said smoothly.

Wu Min: "..."

Wu Min missed Lin Li's childhood a little.

Lin Li was occasionally abstract as a child, often occasionally, and always often.

—This child had been in this unreliable state since he was young.

The nostalgia was not because Lin Li was different as a child from now, but because when Lin Li was a jerk as a child, Wu Min could use a feather duster to whip this kid until he cried out, shouting sorry Sister Min, sorry mom, I absolutely won't dare next time.

As for why he said he wouldn't dare next time, it was because Lin Li would definitely dare next time.

But now, her naughty child was bullying her for being old and weak. Wu Min took out a feather duster from the wall cabinet. As expected, Lin Li grinned without any fear, "Mom, I'm so old now. Isn't it inappropriate for you to still use this to whip me?"

"I'll buy a bigger one another day," Wu Min nodded, agreeing with Lin Li's statement.

Lin Li: "?"

Sister Min is also a genius.

Then Wu Min denied herself again, "No, it's not a matter of the feather duster anymore. I need to buy a whip with barbs, or a mace."

Lin Li: "?"

Even a cultivator is afraid of being a black slave.

Lin Li was like a Disney movie, suddenly starting to sing without any warning, "Goodbye mom, I'm sailing far away tonight, don't worry about me, I have the oars of happiness and wisdom~~"

If it weren't for the fact that he could only dance ballet, Lin Li would have shown off his dance moves.

"A wise child can't earn only five yuan in seven hours," Wu Min shook her head.

Lin Li: "..."

The feeling of being unable to refute is so uncomfortable.

"Alright, you study hard. Your room is empty now, I'll help you clean it. It's full of dust, so dirty," Wu Min said with disgust.

Actually, Lin Li didn't think his room was dirty. Unfortunately, the standards of the two generations seemed to be different.

Wu Min, who was about to enter the room, stopped again and asked Lin Li, "Is there any privacy that you need to deal with yourself first?"

The child is grown up and needs his own space. She is not at home most of the time, so who knows what he has hidden.

One of the things Lin Li feared as a child was coming home to find that his room had been completely reorganized.

Because this meant that many of his secrets might have been made public.

When Lin Li was a child, he liked to pick up magazines from andrology hospitals on the street because the last page would have some erotic jokes.

It could be considered an enlightening publication.

He was scolded twice for this as a child.

"Sister Min, what privacy is there to talk about between you and me? That's being too distant," nowadays, who still kept physical things? Good things were all hidden away and wouldn't be discovered, so Lin Li didn't care at all.

"Alright, then you study hard. I'll close the door to clean, so I won't disturb you," Wu Min nodded.

"So mom, can you cry and give me an increase in my living expenses and pocket money later?" Lin Li did not forget his original intention.

The door closed. Wu Min even slammed the door, and the sound was deafening.

Lin Li: "..."

So real.

Then wasn't it for nothing that I came to the living room to study?

Lin Li was not short of money now. He still had a lot of the relief funds issued by the Demon Suppression Division, and Lin Li only planned to spend the money on the cutting edge. But the problem was that there were cutting edges everywhere in life. Just like today, many processes required money to save effort or to get through. If this continued, he would sooner or later eat up all his savings.

His system was also a useless thing. It made a cultivator still trapped in the secular world. Couldn't it just inexplicably smash him with a mountain of gold and silver?

Suppressing other thoughts, [Enhanced Memory] was activated, and Lin Li began to study.

Twenty minutes passed, and his memory began to fade. The first round of studying was over. Only then did Lin Li turn his gaze to the phone with the breathing light on the side.

Bai Bufan hadn't replied to the morning's message at all, but now he finally deigned to reply.

「Bai Bufan: Baowei said you were delivering food today? Did you not study at all and were deliberately disgusting me?」

「Bai Bufan: You really are a face-saver. I knew you couldn't last.」

"Heh—" Lin Li sneered.

Baowei is such a tattletale.

「You have initiated a video call」

"Hello?" Bai Bufan answered, but his face was not in the frame. It was the ceiling.

—Bai Bufan would avoid exposing any of his weaknesses in front of the screenshot kid, Lin Li.

"Shh—I'm muting you now. You watch for yourself," Lin Li only said this sentence, then muted his phone, put it aside to face himself, and immediately started the second round of studying.

Another twenty minutes passed. When Lin Li turned his head, he was surprised to find that Bai Bufan had not hung up the phone in a fit of anger. Instead, he had revealed his head and was staring straight at Lin Li.

He seemed to be still gritting his teeth.

Spending twenty minutes watching me study, Bai Bufan has lived this life.

When another twenty minutes passed, and Lin Li turned his head, Bai Bufan was crying. Tears streamed down both his cheeks, and he stared at him blankly.

Spending forty minutes watching me study, Bai Bufan will also have a next life.

Lin Li finally unmuted.

Then he sneered.

His eye sockets weren't red, the tears were unevenly distributed, and his crying was contrived. It was obviously fake. Eye drops could do it in a second.

"Crying? Crying also counts as time."

Bai Bufan: "?"

"When Baowei cried, you became a warm man. I f*cking cried, and you tell me crying also counts as time? Is my status even lower than Baowei's? I don't accept it! Didn't you say yesterday that you couldn't bear to see your bros cry!" Bai Bufan broke down.

Lin Li closed his eyes.

The meaning was simple.

If he closed his eyes, he wouldn't be able to see.

"Damn!! I'll study! I'll study too! I'll out-study you, you f*cking piece of shit!"

The boy's red face was better than any love words. Bai Bufan hung up the video with a red face and made a great vow.

"The ancestors of the Bai family should really get up and kowtow to me. It's a good thing Bufan met me and turned back from his wrong path. The ancestral graves are really smoking," Lin Li smiled and shook his head.

Then he added in his heart—just kidding, you guys better not really get up.

Lin Li continued to study.

He studied for a total of two hours. The hour with the [Enhanced Memory] session was for memory-based learning. The remaining time without strong memory was for doing some science problems.

To get a high ranking in the monthly exam, he needed to be well-rounded. Rote memorization alone was not enough.

Then, under Wu Min's hesitant and reluctant gaze, he had her scan her face for the food delivery account and went to participate in the late-night snack rush hour food delivery.

Considering that Wu Min went to bed quite early, Lin Li only delivered for two hours at night and came back around eleven o'clock. The number of completed tasks only increased by 2, reaching 13.

It was worth mentioning that after two hours of hard work, his balance had increased from 5.0 to 4.0.

Lin Li's biological clock was actually a little sleepy, but he didn't sleep. Instead, he continued to study.

When twelve o'clock arrived and a new week began.

【Update complete.】

As expected, his system would be updated at midnight every Monday.

Lin Li looked at the system interface, looking for what had been updated.

Last time it was updated, the system's UI had an extra option, but there was no text, and it was also grayed out and could not be selected.

But this time, although there was still no text, it could be selected. However, after selecting it, the new interface was just a blank space with no operable options.

The new function represented by this option was still a semi-finished product, and it was probably a semi-finished product that was still a long way from being finished.

It doesn't matter. Love, believe, wait.

It seems that besides Hollow Knight: Silksong, GTA6, and Black Myth: Wukong being released on Xbox, I have another thing to look forward to.

Did you ask?

Is there any news?

Lin Li clicked on the [Store]. For the two product slots, the buttons to change the products for free both lit up.

He first bought a spirit stone and a "Limit-Breaking Talisman", leaving 790 system currency.

"With Bai Bufan going bald after the age of sixteen as a pledge, give me a high-grade spirit stone!"

【Low-grade spirit stone】.

Useless Bai Bufan.

But he was used to it, so there were no ripples.

Considering that the daily income of spirit stones from the first product slot was very important to him, Lin Li chose to change the "Limit-Breaking Talisman" for free—he already had three of them, and he wouldn't be like Baowei and couldn't control his mouth, needing to break the limit of holding in his poop. He felt that this inventory was already enough.

This way, even if something good was refreshed, he could change it without any worries.

Damn it, it's all Zhou Baowei's fault. Why do I default to using this item to hold in poop?

【You have refreshed 「Ability Enhancer (+1)」: 100 system currency (limit 1 per day), do you want to replace it?】

【Ability Enhancer (+1): Designate an owned ability to use, permanently enhancing the effect of that ability, with a maximum enhancement to 「+1」.】

So it's an item that acts on the system.

Without much hesitation, after analyzing the pros and cons for three seconds, Lin Li chose to replace it.

I'm sorry, "Limit-Breaking Talisman". You were a great teammate, but now I have to take my talents elsewhere.

Lin Li bought one on the spot.

As expected, the product slots shared one free chance. Now both buttons were grayed out. The system was really stingy.

【Passive Abilities: Bare-Handed Blade Catch, Soul Wall】

【Active Abilities: Power-Up, Enhanced Memory, Imitation, Heal】

These were the six abilities he currently possessed.

The most used was undoubtedly [Enhanced Memory]. And the ability that felt good and had the widest applicability, and could also be linked with other abilities, was [Power-Up].

He would first enhance [Enhanced Memory], and then enhance [Power-Up] tomorrow. The two passive abilities that were useless in the modern world were directly skipped. As for [Imitation] and [Heal], he would consider them based on his future 'economic situation' and the system's mission issuance.

【You have used the Ability Enhancer (+1) on 「Enhanced Memory」, 「Enhanced Memory」 has been upgraded to 「Enhanced Memory (+1)」】

【Enhanced Memory (+1): After use, memory becomes five times that of normal, lasting for thirty minutes. A use is accumulated every eight hours, with a maximum storage of 3 uses.】

Compared to the original, the duration was only increased from twenty minutes to thirty minutes.

The change was small, but the increase was quite large. Originally, he could only have super memory for one hour a day. Now he had one and a half hours. Unfortunately, the storage limit did not change.

The purpose of staying up late was to confirm the system's update time. After these operations, Lin Li glanced at the messages on his phone and found that Bai Bufan had left him a message.

「Bai Bufan: I've been studying until now, and there's a question that has stumped me. Can I ask you?」

「Lin Li: Go ahead.」

Chen Yuying had told him that the ones who understood first should help the ones who understood later. At the same time, don't underestimate the questions that the weaker ones can't answer. Maybe you can find and fill in the gaps.

Lin Li followed the teachings and prepared to pass on the knowledge.

This is the passing of the torch. This is the meaning of education.

「Bai Bufan:

A fisherman caught a mermaid at the seaside. Why did he let her go?

A. The mermaid was too ugly.

C. The mermaid's breasts were too small.

D. The fisherman was kind-hearted.」

F*ck the meaning of education.

"Idiot."

Lin Li felt that he shouldn't have wasted his time on Bai Bufan. His sincerity was really fed to the dogs. He didn't even reply to the message and turned over to sleep.

Relying on Bai Bufan was worse than relying on a dried-up pile of dog poop on the roadside.

(End of Chapter)