Chapter 960: Chapter 444: Maybe There’s a Material More Comfortable Than Silicone_3
Xue Jian chuckled and said casually, "So you took a whole half an hour to digest?"
Bai Bufan: "(;☉_☉)?"
What?
Old Jian?
Couldn’t have watched for a whole half an hour, right?
Bai Bufan’s smile stiffened on his face. How should I handle this? Teacher Lin Li hasn’t taught this part yet...
With this thought, Bai Bufan moved his pupils, locking onto the approaching Lin Li: "What do I do, save me, what do I do, save me, what do I do..."
In the hopeful and pleading gaze of Bai Bufan, Lin Li took action.
He was angry and heartbroken:
"Bai Bufan, how many times have I told you not to sleep during evening study, why don’t you listen! I remember when I left, you were already asleep, right?
So you slept from six to nine now? Oh my god, not just half an hour, you slept a whole three hours!
You wasted an entire evening study like that! I’m truly ashamed of you! I’m disdainful to associate with you!!"
Bai Bufan: "(゜▽゜)?"
Son of a bitch.
Born.
Pure born.
...
After school, returning home, and practicing for a while, it was already midnight.
A new week had arrived.
[You have refreshed "AS Interference Attachment Bomb": 50 System Currency (limit 1 per day), do you wish to replace it?]
[AS Interference Attachment Bomb: Once it hits a target mecha, it will attach firmly, can be remotely detonated anytime, and it will automatically patrol if missed.
Upon detonation, it releases interference pulses and force fields. Depending on the mecha quality, interference effects range from slowed reactions to complete disablement, lasting for an hour, with some interference effects being irreversible and won’t disappear with the pulses.]
It’s a mecha-related item.
One piece of ammunition is 50 System Currency, which isn’t exactly cheap.
Although Lin Li has a collecting habit and likes to enrich his inventory, he didn’t buy it this time because he currently has 990 in System Currency, just a bit short of buying the "Proof of Telepathy".
Though Lin Li thinks this item isn’t as effective as the "Celestial Being’s Proof", it’s still a permanent positive buff. There’s no guarantee it will be on sale later, but buying early means enjoying early, so it’s a product that waiting might miss out on.
So, let’s save up some System Currency first.
Having used up this week’s free refresh opportunity, he tidied up a bit before heading to the "All-Women World".
This time, the maximum stay limit reached nine and a half hours, and regarding the real-time flow rate ratio, it should be 90:1 if nothing unexpected happens.
Checking the "capture device" he left last time upon leaving, as expected, it wasn’t triggered, and there was no abnormality around.
As it was anticipated, there wasn’t any disappointment.
The plan was to continue picking parts for a few hours and then leave early as before.
This month’s system world was thus a holiday for himself, which Lin Li didn’t feel disappointed about, more so found quite agreeable.
However, the system always lets Lin Li translate these damn surprises.
...
"I’ve hit my wife, hit my dad~ I hit my disobedient son~ hit my grandma, hit my grandaunt~ hit my third uncle and third aunt~ hit my buddies, hit my mom~ hit a row of them on the kang bed~ hit my grandpa, hit my sister~ hit my sister into a bloody mess~"
The phone in his pocket was playing a shout rap, and Lin Li, who had been dismantling and collecting parts for over an hour, continued listening to the song "Pacification Before External Conflict", leisurely working.
An anomaly arose.
"Boom—Buzz—"
A dull and intense sound of metal twisting emerged from afar and spread to this point.
This loud sound abruptly exploded at the bottom of the silent canyon, instantly overshadowing the shout rap.
After a while, a blast of air swept from the distance, though somewhat subdued, still stirring thick fog, slapping against Lin Li’s face.
Raising an eyebrow slightly, Lin Li immediately dropped the rusty connecting rod he was laboriously twisting and looked up.
The direction of this sound was clear, should be just ahead not too far.
This wasn’t the sound of any natural collapse of rock wall debris.
Lin Li looked at the mecha debris under his feet.
More like something freshly made.
Though Lin Li was fine with nothing happening, he didn’t mind if there was a change.
So, only after equipping himself with protective gear and other safety-enhancing equipment from the "Fire Separation Sword Nourishing Gourd" did Lin Li quickly head towards where the sound originated.
About ten minutes later, when the fog illuminated by the flashlight clearly churned, Lin Li more steadily took out a firearm—from the batch of weapons taken from the Doomsday World.
Approaching further, the flashlight beam successfully lit up a few meters ahead.
Sure enough, it was a newly crashed mecha.
At this moment, the mecha was sideways in the mud, with most of its body buried deep, forming a shallow pit.
The warning lights on the shell were still weakly flashing at this moment.
Some joints and broken conduits were still twitching nervously, emitting sizzling electric sounds.
White cooling vapor mixed with some unknown fluid’s smoke seeped continuously from the damages, filling the dim canyon bottom with the stinging smell of metallic scorch and chemicals.
At this point, the cockpit door was still sealed.
Standing still for a moment, seeing the system refused to sensibly issue a task, Lin Li had to carefully and quickly approach.
Walking halfway around this new mecha, the flashlight beam carefully scanned its entire silhouette.
Lin Li, experienced in scavenging in the canyon bottom, counted as "well-informed", noticed this mecha’s design style was somewhat similar to some of the wrecks, although not entirely the same.
Just when the flashlight beam swept over the cockpit door on the main body—
"Pss—"
Accompanied by a faint but clear hydraulic pressure relief sound, the evidently deformed yet structurally sound main cockpit door suddenly popped open a crack amid the white remaining smoke, through which a denser hot vapor and acrid smoke gushed out.
Was the mecha’s escape system still struggling to operate?
Lin Li wouldn’t assume someone was inside just because the door could open automatically since most cockpit doors of mecha wrecks at the canyon bottom were open, yet he never found any local human corpses within or nearby.
Given the canyon’s restrictive ability on mechas, Lin Li’s current assumption was these might be drones used for researching this place.
But Lin Li soon realized his judgment this time was mistaken.
Because there was a commotion inside the cockpit, then a figure appeared, wrapped in the door-expelled smoke, indistinct.
Seeing this, Lin Li’s steps nailed to the ground, slightly raising an eyebrow.
Could there really be someone? Was he finally about to see the first living being, the locals of this world?
Lin Li couldn’t help but feel a bit expectant.
After all, it was the All-Women World he’d been longing for.
In an instant, his mind imagined, a proud and competitive Asuka? An icy cold, emotionless Rei Ayanami? Or a chair-sticked Shinji Ikari?
The smoke continued to tumble as Lin Li shook his flashlight.
Then—
One, no, a mass of substance slithered out of the narrow hatch, accompanied by the smoke, and with a "plop", landed onto the mud beside the mecha, splattering some mud.
Lin Li was stunned.
His flashlight beam instinctively focused on it.
Without the hatch smoke, oh boy, now Lin Li saw it clearly.
Not a mature woman, not a little girl, not emotionless.
This wasn’t even a human being.
This was a large, semi-transparent gelatinous Slime.
