After having Bai Bufan stay in the dorm to send him useful information, Lin Li immediately headed to the classroom.
Once the official lunch break bell rang, if he was still walking between the dormitory building and the teaching building, his name would appear twice on the bulletin board.
Class 4, Grade 1.
The vengeful spirit Kou Kou was no longer there, but the number of people staying in the classroom to study during lunch today was obviously much more than yesterday.
"Wang Ze, can you tell me why you're appearing in this place at this time?" Lin Li stroked his chin, examining the right guardian Wang Ze who could be seen before even entering the door, "Can you understand? I just pushed open this door, originally planning to see a luminous pearl, but instead got hit with a feeling like seeing a pile of shit first."
Wang Ze: "..."
Highly aggressive and extremely insulting.
"Can't I want to study too? Only officials are allowed to set fires, but common people like me aren't allowed to light lamps?" Wang Ze widened his eyes.
"Let me see what you're studying? Mo Ye is now Chu Mu's only soul pet... Oh, so you're studying 'Demon Hunter.'"
"Hehe, it's good, love reading it." Wang Ze scratched his head and smiled. "Bufan recommended it to me, said this book was really good."
Lin Li nodded. Looking at Wang Ze's smile, he also smiled.
Smile slowly for now.
When you see Mo Ye go through countless reincarnations just to hear Chu Mu say "Let's call you Mo Ye" to him one more time, I hope you can still smile.
"Alright, go see your luminous pearl. Buddy, I'm actually sacrificing my lunch nap time for you today. I was worried Wang Yuezhi would prevent you from having a happy lunch, so I specially came to escort you!" Wang Ze put away his novel and winked at Lin Li.
Now he understood—the extra people in the classroom today might be here to watch him.
Hopefully they'd observe the monkey in a civilized manner.
Only those who frequently observe monkeys know how deep the intricacies go.
Chen Yuying's gaze had looked over when Lin Li entered. Lin Li naturally walked toward her and asked, "Class monitor, same as yesterday, you sit in Bai Bufan's seat? I'll ask you questions here—I'm afraid of affecting others."
"Sure." Chen Yuying nodded.
"What is the same as yesterday? What did I miss?" Ding Sihan, who usually wasn't around but was at her seat today, said in surprise, looking eagerly at Chen Yuying.
At this moment, Ding Sihan was like a melon-eating creature thirsting for gossip.
Pretty cute—stabbing her to death with a steel fork would probably be quite fun, came the thought from Lin Li's head.
"Yesterday Lin Li and I talked about..." Chen Yuying's words paused. Yesterday's content couldn't be shared, so she looked at Lin Li and asked tentatively, "What did we talk about?"
Lin Li, Ding Sihan: "?"
Aren't you a party involved? You need to ask others what you talked about? Something's wrong, there's a problem—this melon is even sweeter and more tempting!
"What did we talk about yesterday? Let me think too." Lin Li stroked his chin somewhat amusedly, finally choosing to deflect.
"We talked about breakfast off-campus. I gave a Lin's Rice Three-Star Rating. Class monitor, let's go. Once the bell officially rings, it won't be appropriate for us to move around."
"Mm." Chen Yuying simply packed up the homework she was preparing to do at lunch and left her seat.
"Can I join your study group?" Ding Sihan asked sincerely.
"Wait a moment."
Lin Li began feeling his pockets, searching everywhere.
"Lin Li, are you looking for something?" Ding Sihan asked curiously while also helping to look at the ground, "Did you drop something?"
"The excuse to reject you suddenly disappeared. Help me find it." Lin Li nodded matter-of-factly.
Ding Sihan froze.
Should this be called tactful or direct?
Call it direct, and he at least gave her a casting animation. Call it tactful, and this casting animation didn't look like a casting animation at all.
It was a superposition of overly long casting time and zero-frame startup.
"I can't find that." Ding Sihan shook her head expressionlessly, hands on her hips.
"Then I'll continue looking myself."
Chen Yuying first laughed quietly, then said to Ding Sihan, "Sihan, what are you talking about? If you have questions, can't you just ask me directly like usual?"
"Exactly, classmate Ding Sihan. I only have this little lunch time, and you want to interfere. I seriously suspect you're targeting me. It's decided—when I get married, you and Wang Yuezhi will sit at the same table. Oh right, Yuezhi happens to want to teach people, and you happen to want to study. You two can form another study group—wouldn't that make everyone happy?" Lin Li clapped his hands and conveniently made a perfect suggestion.
"I don't want to!" Ding Sihan shook her head vigorously.
Wang Yuezhi, who seemed to be writing homework nearby, paused. His mechanical pencil's lead broke and flew into the air.
He had actually told Xue Jian about this matter.
But just as Lin Li had predicted, Xue Jian had no intention of stopping it and only felt that Lin Li was becoming more sensible.
—If only Lin Li could inexplicably hit his head, lose a day's memory, he'd like him even more.
"I'll keep watching you, Lin Li. You'll never replace my position as best friend..." Ding Sihan also transformed into a vengeful spirit.
But compared to Kou Kou's red-robed level, Ding Sihan's cultivation was something Lin Li could settle with one peach wood sword strike.
...
Lin Li and Chen Yuying returned to their seats and sat down.
"Lin Li, ask me about anything you don't understand now." Chen Yuying spoke.
"Good, let's start with geography homework." Lin Li took out yesterday's geography assignment, most of which was already completed.
The two began a normal tutoring session.
Lin Li frowned slightly—he wasn't very satisfied.
The progress bar was increasing, and the speed was indeed faster than just chatting, but overall, the improvement was very limited. The increase speed was still quite slow. So far, the accumulated portion probably hadn't even reached one percent.
At this rate, how long would it take to complete?
Judging from the mission rewards, this didn't seem like a mission that required a lot of time to complete.
Geography's recent content was about climate. Theoretically speaking, understanding this also counted as gaining some understanding of this 'world.'
Lin Li looked at the mission panel again.
Did "preliminary understanding" focus on the overall framework of this world rather than 'minor details'?
Or did it require Chen Yuying to accidentally reveal information that this wasn't actually the current world, but the so-called all-female world?
Speculation was useless—he needed to test it.
"Class monitor, what you're explaining now is somewhat difficult for me to understand. Can we start from the basics?" Lin Li asked.
"Sure, just tell me directly what you don't understand." Chen Yuying nodded and simply took out Lin Li's geography textbook to flip through.
Good grief, the front part looked brand new, but the recent lessons had quite a few notes.
Why did all the people in the illustrations have beards drawn on them with their eyes colored pitch black? She almost couldn't recognize them.
"The knowledge in the textbook might also be too complex. What I want to ask might be a tiny bit more basic." Lin Li said slowly, laying the groundwork.
"Huh? This is also complex?"
"Mm."
"Then, then try asking. Outside the textbook, although you said basic, I'm not very sure." Chen Yuying's eyes now held some clarity and confusion.
The girl who was consistently in the top ranks of her grade felt unconfident about her knowledge reserves.
Because simpler things weren't necessarily easier to explain—the 1+1 in Goldbach's conjecture still puzzles mathematicians today.
Most importantly, the person in front of her was Lin Li. Chen Yuying always felt something would be wrong.
"First, I'm not sick."
When Chen Yuying heard this opening, her heart skipped a beat.
It's over!
Sure enough, she saw Lin Li take a deep breath:
"What is the name of the planet we currently live on?"
Chen Yuying: "?"
You didn't say it was this basic geography!
(End of Chapter)