Lin Li thought Bai Bufan was completely digital illiterate, and scoffed as he retorted.

Bai Bufan, Zhou Baowei: "(;☉_☉)?"

Seems like it.

But.

Is it really because your phone got heavier that you can't hold it steadily? I'm too embarrassed to call you out.

"Don't mind this idiot, Baowei, download it quickly. Do you have data? If not, I'll set up a hotspot for you. I haven't even used up the rollover data from last month, you can use it to download." Bai Bufan urged Zhou Baowei.

"It's my phone running out of space." Zhou Baowei revealed the real reason.

"Go download it in the hallway; the hallway has more space. If that doesn't work, roll over to the school gate." Bai Bufan pointed outside.

Zhou Baowei: "..."

Are you serious?

"Isn't your phone 256G? Normally it shouldn't fill up so easily. Do you like taking photos so much? Doesn't seem like it. What did you download?" Bai Bufan pulled his hand back, confused.

Zhou Baowei answered in a second: "It's the hundred-something gigabytes of lewd pictures and books Lin Li sent me before."

Bai Bufan: "?"

So you two have this kind of bond even with me in between you?

"I'm sitting right between you two; my life is ruined." Bai Bufan stepped forward and snatched Zhou Baowei's phone, "Hurry up and delete some! Lust is a blade that scrapes the bone, don't bring such dangerous stuff into the campus!"

Unable to resist Bai Bufan, Zhou Baowei sighed and painfully lightened his phone's weight: "I'm sorry, ipx-934."

Lin Li heard this and slowly fell into contemplation:

"Bufan, you mean... if lust is a bone-scraping knife, then when Hua Tuo was scraping Guan Yu's bone to heal him, was he constantly playing adult videos for Guan Yu?"

Bai Bufan: "?"

"According to unofficial history, that's how it was."

Bai Bufan is an expert on Three Kingdoms; he had to believe it.

The evening study session ended in this light and playful atmosphere.

Before biking home, Lin Li first stopped by the usual ramen shop.

"What'll it be, friend?" At this hour, there weren't many guests, and the owner, originally sitting on a chair playing on his phone, got up to ask when he saw Lin Li.

"Scallion oil noodles with two poached eggs," Lin Li ordered first, then made a request, "Boss, do you have any delivery seals? Can you give me a few?"

"What are you going to do with those?" The owner seemed a bit puzzled.

"My takeout was stolen…" Lin Li briefly explained the day's incident, "...so, in case that thief continues to steal, I'd like to give a little surprise and need some delivery seals for assistance."

"Thieves are indeed very annoying, they deserve many slaps," the owner shared some empathy after hearing this, "Feel free to take some from the counter."

Lin Li was a regular customer, and there was basic trust, plus the seals weren't contraband, anyone could buy them on the market.

If I really did something bad, I wouldn't involve him as an accomplice anyway.

"Thanks, boss."

"Adasi [bro], I'm behind you, eagle-like in my support, with the power of Deyang motors, and the speed of a reviving number train." The boss joyfully patted his chest.

Lin Li took a deep breath, glancing at the halal sign, then repeatedly confirmed his memory, and tentatively asked: "Boss, you should be Hui, right? Why is there an accent? It wasn't there before."

"Been overloading on short videos with snack-slang, it's a bit overpowering, friend." The boss spread his hands, embarrassed.

Lin Li: "..."

"Boss, how do you speak like this, with such a strong flavor?" Lin Li asked curiously.

"It's simple," the owner replied without any accent this time, "kid, if Northeastern Chinese places a random word in a random part of the sentence, then the literal translation of this snack-slang, randomly places an analogy in a random part of the sentence.

For example, in standard Mandarin: Can you be more generous?

In snack-slang, it would be like: Hey friend, dig the meat from the ant's leg into your stomach every day?"

Lin Li: "..."

You don't say, you really don't say.

...

The next day, Thursday.

Lin Li packed two fully charged sports cameras and portable Wi-Fi into his backpack, changed into a short-sleeve and shorts, and casually threw on a jacket before biking to school.

There was a 3000 meter prelim in the morning and a 1500 meter in the afternoon.

Even though for Lin Li, he was confident he could easily take first place wearing loafers and tight pants.

But he still wanted to give the basic laws of this world some face, pretending to take it seriously.

Today there was no opening ceremony, so upon reaching school, Lin Li headed straight to the track.

From a distance, he saw Wang Yuezhi doing warm-up exercises on the stands, his expression slightly stiff, looking very nervous.

There was still more than an hour until the competition started, but being an impromptu recruit, it's understandable.

"It's over, Lin Li, it's over, over!" Just upon approaching the class spot, before he had the chance to greet Chen Yu Ying, Lin Li heard Bai Bufan's dog-like howls.

"What happened?" Lin Li turned to look at Bai Bufan, who was running towards him, asking in confusion.

"Wasn't it because we didn't ask you to bring breakfast this morning? I went to the cafeteria for breakfast, ate noodles at that single window.

I swear, that window lady, at the start of the term, she used to call me handsome little guy, but this morning she just called me little dude, Lin Li, don't you know what this implies?"

Bai Bufan wailed in pain and despair.

Lin Li felt a bit relieved: "It implies she's finally stopped lying."

"Yeah, I swear, she stopped—" Bai Bufan originally wanted to empathize, then froze.

(;☉_☉)?

Was it really that she stopped lying?

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