The System is Abstract, Luckily, So Am I

Chapter 94 : This Thunder Attractor Feels a Bit Off

What a heaven-defying mission.

Time rewound. Lin Li took a few steps back.

He looked at the bulletin board where the mission had just been triggered.

A bright yellow poster was stuck on it:

[Hiring Food Delivery Riders!]

[Work close to home, freedom and high pay!]

Lin Li: "..."

Huh? Is it asking me to be a food delivery guy?

This is a high-risk profession on Douyin, second only to truck drivers. One wrong move and it's all "we are all living with all our might~~".

Also, System, how much did Meituan pay you? I'll have Ele.me double it.

Wait.

There really is an Ele.me.

Lin Li had already spotted the Ele.me ad.

It wasn't very conspicuous because its recruitment ad was posted below Meituan's.

It was actually a business war!

There were so many empty spaces on this bulletin board, but Meituan's ad deliberately covered Ele.me's ad. Their intentions were malicious!

—A high-end business war, as expected, is often conducted in a simple and unadorned manner. The business wars in TV dramas are just what ordinary people imagine with their golden hoes.

Lin Li seriously suspected that if he had entered the building from the other side where the Ele.me ad was posted, the mission activated by the system would have been for the Ele.me Escort Agency?

Speaking of which, compared to food delivery guys, aren't couriers more like an escort agency?

He didn't understand, but he respected it. Since the mission had already been issued, it wouldn't be changed. The top priority was to think carefully about how to complete it properly.

...

Lin Li returned home. After operating for a while, he threw his phone aside and looked up at the ceiling with some helplessness, "I can't register."

Lin Li encountered a very serious problem.

Although the regulations stated that one could be employed at sixteen, most platforms, in order to avoid all possible risks, strictly stipulated that even the lowest-requirement crowdsourcing jobs required one to be over 18.

He couldn't register at 17.

The current Lin Li couldn't even enter the Meituan Escort Agency.

He was still almost two months away from being an adult. Did he have to wait two months to do this mission?

Lin Li looked at the mission and frowned slightly.

[Mission 4: Perfectly complete thirty sect missions issued by the Meituan Escort Agency.]

"Wait, it doesn't seem to require me to join the Meituan Escort Agency myself. I just need to perfectly complete thirty missions issued by Meituan," Lin Li muttered to himself. "Using someone else's account to deliver food should also work? As for 'perfectly complete,' does it mean getting a five-star rating?"

This was feasible to a certain extent.

However, it wasn't as simple as, for example, asking his mom to register a rider account for him under the pretext of wanting to experience the hardship of earning money. Lin Li searched and found that when a rider went online to accept orders, facial recognition was required.

And during the order-taking process, there would also be occasional random recognition checks.

This meant that if he used an account registered by someone else, that person had to be nearby. When recognition was needed, he could go find them.

If he really wanted to use his mom's information to register, he would have to wait until she was at home.

The direction Lin Li was currently thinking in was that the positions offered by the Meituan Escort Agency were not limited to just food delivery.

If he became a customer service representative and completed the task of dealing with customers, wouldn't that also count as completing the mission?

Wait.

Doesn't Meituan also have a public review panel? It's responsible for evaluating whether some negative reviews are unreasonable customers or the merchant's problem, and finally determining whether to display them.

Does this count as a mission from the escort agency?

Thinking of this, Lin Li immediately clicked on the review panel.

[User review: [One star] I clearly ordered warm, but it was scalding hot when I drank it.]

[Merchant evidence: He can still type, which proves he's not dead. He's lying. Request to block.]

Lin Li: "..."

Don't block.

[User review: [One star] There's no minced meat in the minced meat with eggplant [Image]]

[Merchant evidence: We use pre-made dishes. The second ingredient on the list is meat [Image]. Request to block.]

Although you are honest, don't block.

[User review: [One star] Didn't read the notes.]

[Merchant evidence: He ordered a 7.8 yuan combo meal and asked for twenty packets of ketchup, ten packets of small pickles, and five pairs of chopsticks.]

You know, I rarely side with the merchant. Allow blocking!

You people who eat combo meals are really something (pointing fingers).

...

After being a fair and just official for a few minutes, when he looked at the system, it cruelly responded with a (0/30).

It seemed that this kind of entertainment-based thing couldn't be considered a mission issued by the escort agency, unless Lin Li became an internal reviewer who actually decided whether to display it.

He still had to consider registering with someone else's information or completing it as a part-time customer service representative.

Anyway, there was no hurry. At worst, he would just wait until the end of October, after he turned eighteen, to complete it.

Lin Li looked at the [Warehouse]. There was still a [Thunder-Containing Seed] inside. Unlike the pill, it had no introduction.

But fortunately, he still had the [Pure and Righteous Thunder Control Technique]. After materializing it, he could find the paragraph describing the [Thunder-Containing Seed].

[It absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to nourish pure lightning, which can be freely taken and used. An explosive formation can also be set up inside to be used as an offensive Dao treasure.]

Lin Li ignored the offensive Dao treasure part. He didn't understand the so-called formations at all.

A spiritual energy power bank?

But there was no spiritual energy in the modern world. Was it a one-time use? Or did he have to 'charge' it with his own spiritual energy? The latter was a luxury Lin Li absolutely couldn't afford. He didn't even have enough for himself.

Materialize.

A smooth, brownish-brown bead, with arcs of electricity constantly flashing around it.

Lin Li held it for a few seconds before putting it back into the [Warehouse]—even with his Thunder Body circulating, he couldn't withstand the current it released. His palm was in unbearable pain.

This point was noted in the Pure and Righteous Thunder Control Technique. A beginner using a Thunder-Containing Seed needed to use a formation to weaken and control its current.

Lin Li, in his current state, couldn't handle this kind of lightning rich in spiritual energy at all.

But the good news was that even if it was a one-time use power bank, it should be fully charged right now.

He'd consider absorbing it after his Thunder Body was fully formed or he found a way to weaken the output.

Then, Lin Li changed his title to [Thunder Attractor].

"Holy shit, electronic devices are also considered thunder-attribute objects?" The moment he changed it, Lin Li let out such an exclamation.

Because he could now vaguely sense the existence of the electronic devices around him, like a radar had been turned on.

The range of this perception was not far, only about a two or three-meter radius. Lin Li could only barely perceive the electrical appliances in his room.

And it wasn't clear. He couldn't pinpoint the exact location, only a vague direction and sense of distance.

Lin Li threw his phone on the bed, then closed his eyes and spun around in place ten times. The world was spinning, and he should have been disoriented.

"This clearer one should be the computer. If the computer is in this direction, then the bed is over here. This thing is the phone."

Lin Li closed his eyes, muttered to himself, and slowly adjusted his body to face the direction of the bed, and reached out to grab his phone.

—Different electronic devices gave him different perceptions.

"Kouyi! I'm also a strong person with a magnetic field, kouya!"

Lin Li, who had accomplished all this, opened his eyes, somewhat elated.

This title was much more useful than he had imagined, and it completely crushed the humorous thing that was the [Blood Crow Killer].

Lin Li continued to experiment with this title.

...

Perception would be blocked by physical objects—walls, schoolbags, clothes, all could obstruct his perception.

The perception distance was very short, about a four or five-meter radius without any obstruction—standing by the window, he couldn't receive the 'signal' from the utility pole outside.

The appliance had to be powered on to be perceived—after turning off the power at home, Lin Li could only perceive items with their own power sources, such as phones and batteries.

The strength of the perception depended on its 'thunder-attribute' content, and the perception of the same object would also change—between a computer on standby and a computer running a game, perhaps because of their different power consumption, the feeling was also different.

As for the [Thunder-Containing Seed], the perception of it was as conspicuous as a '0' in a group of straight men, outshining all others.

Deliberately perceiving these things would consume his energy. His mental power should be the main factor affecting this title's ability—towards the end of the test, Lin Li clearly felt a little tired in his head, and all the perception results he had tested before had become worse than at the beginning.

Mental power, or rather, divine sense, was the fundamental factor affecting the effect of this ability.

Rubbing his swelling head, Lin Li took out the piezoelectric igniter from his pants pocket.

Press.

The improvement in his insight made the still-fleeting arc of electricity much clearer in Lin Li's eyes.

And after pressing it a few times, he found that this arc of electricity, which should have been randomly scattered, showed signs of twisting towards him.

Attraction also worked on unconscious lightning.

He didn't know what the effect would be after wearing it for three days.

Lin Li first checked the weather forecast to confirm that the probability of a thunderstorm tonight was zero—lest a bolt of lightning twist and turn through the window and strike him precisely while he was sleeping at night.

He had used his brain too much tonight. After confirming this, Lin Li washed up and went to sleep.

...

Thursday, the day the autumn outing officially began.

[Low-grade Spirit Stone*1]

Today was another low-grade spirit stone, no surprises.

"Grandpa Zhou, last night, you explained everything to that auntie, right?" Lin Li mentioned this after going downstairs and meeting Zhou Youwei.

"Don't worry, I've already let him know your true colors completely, hehe," Zhou Youwei sneered.

"OK, then I'm relieved." Although the term 'true colors' used on him was a bit strange, if it was the sharp-tongued but soft-hearted Little Zhou, it was normal.

Lin Li threw himself into the practice of the Eight-Section Body Tempering exercise.

He only practiced the odd-numbered chapters.

The one and a half spirit stones in the [Warehouse] were not used for now, saved up.

Because Lin Li was hesitating whether to practice the Thunder Technique first or the spiritual energy chapter of the Eight-Section Body Tempering exercise.

The former could bring tangible 'immortal technique' growth. After his Thunder Body constitution was enhanced by 100%, the future would be even more promising. But the latter could improve his utilization of spiritual energy.

From a long-term perspective, the latter was undoubtedly the most cost-effective.

But the immediate benefits were sometimes really not that easy to ignore.

He'd save them in the [Warehouse] for now. After all, he also needed a certain amount of spirit stones for emergencies.

Sigh, if only the gambler could win once and get a high-grade spirit stone, achieving spiritual energy freedom, or if Yang Liang's side could act faster and supplement him with five spirit stones, he wouldn't have to be so conflicted.

[For one consecutive month, rise before the hour of Mao (5-7 a.m.) and diligently practice the Eight-Section Body Tempering exercise for a cumulative total of at least half a shichen (one hour) before the hour of Chen (7-9 a.m.). (6/30)]

Unknowingly, one-fifth was already completed.

...

Lin Li arrived at the classroom.

Entering from the front door and handing the breakfast to Chen Yuying, he subconsciously raised his head because he sensed that someone had brought an electrical appliance.

He looked at Yu Yu, and Yu Yu also seemed to have noticed his gaze and looked at him.

Lin Li slowly typed a question mark to the system.

Yu Yu was a girl in the class. Her biggest feature was being the biggest.

Why... did he sense thunder on Yu Yu's body?

"..."

"..."

Damn it, could this [Thunder Attractor] be a conceptual-level title?

(End of Chapter)