The System is Abstract, Luckily, So Am I

"You don't trust your buddy?" Lin Li was truly disappointed, looking at Bai Bufan speechlessly. "What would I gain from lying to you?"

"Mm-hmm, then swear an oath." Bai Bufan nodded perfunctorily.

"The feeling of not being trusted is really disgusting." Lin Li was somewhat angry.

"Mm-hmm, then swear an oath."

"You know what kind of person I am—usually I can joke around with you very casually, but if you touch my reverse scale, I'll let you know what true darkness is. I'm the type with a childish face but wolf nature—pure and innocent on the surface, but smooth and perceptive inside.

I never lack thunderous methods nor bodhisattva heart. I have both Buddha and demon in my heart, but I've deeply sealed away the demon, leaving only Buddha. I originally wanted to face everyone with a bodhisattva heart, but you insist on making me unseal the demon in my heart. So I want to ask you, Bai Bufan—when you face a true demon manifesting in the world, can you still suppress it?"

Lin Li was really, really angry.

"Mm-hmm, I'm actually braised chicken. Lord Childface Wolf, please swear an oath." Bai Bufan was impervious to both oil and salt.

"I can swear this oath, but from now on we'll cut all ties." Lin Li said coldly.

"Mm-hmm, then swear an oath."

Lin Li took a deep breath.

Little guy, I'm sorry! I can't bear to part with you, but I can't bear to part with my reputation either.

"This is your choice, Bai Bufan. You'll regret it!" Lin Li was really, really, really angry.

"I swear—" Lin Li sneered, staring straight at Bai Bufan. "If I participated in that massage parlor case over the weekend, may my—"

Looking at Bai Bufan's expectant eyes, Lin Li's lips trembled, then his raised finger slowly lowered.

Damn, damn, he still couldn't do anything!

Bai Bufan, this beast, chose to betray him to seek the truth. But if he also betrayed his chicken roll for so-called reputation, what difference would there be between him and Bai Bufan? They'd both just be beasts!

Lin Li was from the Animal Protection Association. Bai Bufan could hurt him, but he absolutely couldn't hurt his cute moo-moo.

So Lin Li and Bai Bufan stared at each other, and stared, and continued staring.

Sometimes silence was also an answer.

When Lin Li noticed Bai Bufan's mouth was starting to crack, he was about to crack too.

General Yu directly possessed him. Lin Li pointed at Bai Bufan and forced himself to be serious: "Don't say it!"

But this sentence was like a fuse, directly igniting Bai Bufan. Bai Bufan collapsed on his desk and began convulsing all over.

I heard there were people in the world who actually died from laughing. Lin Li watched this scene worriedly, praying in his heart for his good brother.

Was there a risk of not dying?

Hopefully something would happen.

Best if he could depart this world and die badly.

Damn, hurry up and die!

Failure always ran through life—this was life. Bai Bufan regrettably survived.

After laughing for a long time, just before the English teacher was about to lose her temper, he barely managed to sit up straight.

He looked at Lin Li: "I was wondering why you were even more enthusiastic than them when giving me the Arabian Goggles treatment earlier, even though I clearly didn't mess with you over the weekend. Turns out I was cursing you all along."

"Damn, it all matches up. I was wondering why you rushed out right after evening study hall ended last week—was that also for this?"

"Sort of. I went to gather intelligence." Lin Li wasn't ashamed at all. Being discovered was being discovered. Honestly, Lin Li didn't mind his few buddies knowing about this, as long as strangers didn't know.

And with Lin Li's mindset, even if the whole world knew, he'd just have a headache for a while and then wouldn't care.

"Wait, so when you swore earlier about hand-to-hand combat with suspects, that was actually... you! So you went to enjoy yourself behind my back!" Bai Bufan's eyes widened as he belatedly realized, questioning Lin Li.

"I didn't go behind your back. I went alone, and you don't have legs—do you need me to carry you? Walk yourself." Lin Li regained his composure and scoffed.

Bai Bufan: "?"

"I really didn't curse you wrong! I cursed you too lightly this morning! How could you sneak off? You're not human, your Xiling chicken roll isn't clean anymore—" Bai Bufan was heartbroken.

"Don't slander someone's innocence out of thin air. Use your brain and think—if I'd gone that far, would I still be able to get this money and these rewards?" Only on this point did Lin Li need to set the record straight.

"So purely green?"

Lin Li showed a meaningful smile.

"Your mom!"

Bai Bufan couldn't take it anymore.

But Bai Bufan wasn't the only one who couldn't take it:

"Bai Bufan! Lin Li! Go stand in the back for class! Stand separately! You haven't listened for even one minute since class started!"

...

Several familiar boys in the class all knew about this after English class ended.

As for how they found out, it wasn't because Bai Bufan was a loudmouth. Lin Li was quite certain that as long as he asked, Bai Bufan absolutely wouldn't deliberately spread it.

They were true friends.

Rather, when they came to ask him as a group, Lin Li thought that since Bai Bufan already knew, continuing to hide it was too clownish, so he just told them.

But he did ask them not to tell others.

—Lin Li didn't have good relationships with all the boys in class. Some classmates were just classmates. Although there was no animosity, they couldn't be called friends.

After all, not everyone could accept Lin Li's personality, and Lin Li likewise found them uninteresting.

Being interesting was the true meaning of life.

The result of telling them was that Lin Li not only received no mockery or teasing, but after their shock, a bunch of people looked at him pitifully with admiration, envy, and endless exploratory desire.

This was new knowledge they desperately craved.

To make Lin Li tell them this content, everyone conspired to make Zhou Baowei, who had unknowingly cursed Lin Li this morning, also have a relationship with the door frame—Bai Bufan, the recent victim, became the most excited perpetrator at this moment.

When would this cycle of revenge end?

"Mr. Lin, your great revenge has been repaid! Please impart more knowledge to us!" Several people sincerely asked in the stairwell corner.

Zhou Baowei, covering his crotch and walking pigeon-toed, had no complaints and was also in the queue, looking at Lin Li.

His eyes held no selfish desire, only the thirst for knowledge and exploration that countless teachers hoped to see in their students' eyes.

Pure.

Rounding it off, this was also an innocent heart.

Although he disliked door frames, if loving it could exchange for him and his brothers hearing stories, he was willing.

Sacrifice the small self to achieve the greater self.

Lin Li didn't hide anything, telling all the parts he could as thoroughly as possible.

Then in his brothers' eyes, he saw heartfelt reverence and longing.

[Your demon-slaying deeds have reached the ears of fellow disciples of Nansang Sect.

Junior brothers all feel proud of your actions and are filled with longing, hoping that someday they can slay demons and eliminate evil alongside you.

Sect prosperity is the disciples' responsibility. Cultivating talent for the sect is also your duty.

Teaching a man to fish is better than giving him fish, but teaching fishing cannot rely solely on empty theory—it requires practical action to know one's depth.

The demon-slaying mission still weighs on your shoulders. Since this is so, why not bring fellow disciples and jointly plan great demon-slaying endeavors?]

[Task Triggered!]

[Task Four: Bring at least one fellow disciple to jointly cooperate deeply with the Demon Suppression Bureau in clearing out a pleasure demon cultivator stronghold.]

[Reward: Constitution Improvement: Image charm increased by 10%; Random Pill × 1; System Currency × 50.]

Lin Li, who was telling "Lin Li's Magical Adventure Story," froze when he saw the message that popped up.

Your grandpa.

This could also activate a task?

Taking people to brothels—would heaven strike him with lightning?

What kind of "become supreme" system was this? This system just came to him to help massage parlors boost their performance, right?

But thinking about it carefully, it wasn't bad. This task could be completed alongside Task Two—it was a task that could be "freeloaded."

The preparation bell just rang. After agreeing to continue the story next break, everyone went to use the bathroom or return to classrooms.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan returned to their seats.

"Bufan, if—I mean if—I have to go anti-prostitution again, would you be willing to come with me? I'll pay the expenses." Lin Li looked at Bai Bufan.

Bai Bufan suddenly turned his head.

Staring straight at Lin Li, he almost answered instantly:

"The name Bai Bufan sounds terrible. From now on, I'll be called Lin Bufan. What child doesn't take their father's surname? You're right, aren't you, dad?"

Lin Li: "..."

He gave a thumbs up.

A real man can bend and stretch.

"Dad, what were you just saying?"

"I was saying, are you willing to..." Lin Li was about to repeat.

"Yes, I do!" Bai Bufan tightly grasped Lin Li's hands, crying with joy as if being proposed to.

(End of Chapter)