Thinking It Over Is Terrifying: Lin Li Had Never Appeared Alongside Aliens

After leaving Bai Bufan in the dorm to send him any useful information, Lin Li immediately headed to the classroom.

Once the lunch-break bell officially rang, if he was still walking between the dorm building and the teaching building, his name would appear twice on the bulletin board.

Senior High, Class 1-4.

The resentful spirit Kou Kou was gone, but there were clearly far more people staying in the classroom to study than there had been yesterday.

"Wang Ze, can you tell me why you're showing up here at a time like this?" Lin Li stroked his chin and sized up Wang Ze, the Right Protector, who could be seen before he had even entered the room. "You get it? I pushed open this door expecting to see a luminous pearl, but instead I got hit with a pile of shit."

Wang Ze: "..."

Highly aggressive, and even more insulting.

"Can't I study too? You're allowed to set fires as the governor, but I'm not allowed to light a lamp as a commoner?" Wang Ze said, glaring wide-eyed.

"Let me see what you're studying. Mo Xie is now Chu Mu's only soul pet... Oh, you're reading Pet Charm."

"Hehe, it's good. I love it." Wang Ze scratched his head and laughed. "Bufan recommended it to me. He said it was really, really good."

Lin Li nodded. Looking at Wang Ze's smile, he smiled too.

Go ahead and laugh while you can.

Once he saw Mo Xie reincarnate countless times just to hear Chu Mu tell him once more, 'I'll call you Mo Xie,' hopefully he would still be able to laugh.

"Alright, go see your luminous pearl. I sacrificed my nap time for you today, buddy. I was worried Wang Yuezhi would stop you from having a happy and pleasant noon, so I came here specifically to escort and protect you!" Wang Ze put away his novel and waggled his eyebrows at Lin Li.

Now he understood. The extra people in the classroom today might have come to watch him.

Hopefully, they would observe the monkey civilly.

Only those who often watched monkeys knew how deep the tricks of the trade went.

Chen Yuying had looked over the moment Lin Li entered. Lin Li naturally walked toward her and asked, "Class Monitor, same as yesterday? You sit in Bai Bufan's seat? I'm afraid asking questions here will disturb the others."

"Sure." Chen Yuying nodded.

"What do you mean, same as yesterday? What did I miss?" Ding Sihan, who normally never came but was sitting in her seat today, asked in surprise, staring eagerly at Chen Yuying.

At that moment, Ding Sihan was like a Gossip-Eating Cha desperate for some gossip.

Pretty cute. It would definitely be fun to stab her to death with a pitchfork—so thought Lin Li's brain.

"Yesterday, Lin Li and I talked about..." Chen Yuying paused. She couldn't say what they had discussed yesterday, so she looked at Lin Li and tentatively asked, "What did we talk about again?"

Lin Li and Ding Sihan: "?"

Weren't you one of the people involved? You had to ask someone else what you talked about? Something was off. There was a problem. This gossip was even sweeter, and she wanted it even more! "What did we talk about yesterday? Let me think too." Lin Li amusedly rubbed his chin before finally choosing to brush it off.

"We talked about breakfast outside school. I came up with a Lin Qimi Three-Star List. Class Monitor, let's go. Once the bell officially rings, it won't be appropriate for us to move around."

"Mm." Chen Yuying briefly packed up the homework she had planned to do at noon, then got up and left her seat.

"Can I join your study session?" Ding Sihan asked sincerely.

"Wait a moment."

Lin Li began patting his pockets and searching everywhere.

"Lin Li, are you looking for something?" Ding Sihan asked in confusion, also looking down at the floor. "Did you lose something?"

"The excuse to reject you suddenly disappeared. Help me find it." Lin Li nodded solemnly.

Ding Sihan froze.

Should she call Lin Li tactful or straightforward?

If he was straightforward, he had at least given her a wind-up before casting the spell. If he was tactful, though, there was no way to tell that wind-up was a wind-up at all.

It was a superposition of an excessively long wind-up and a zero-frame opening move.

"I can't find that." Ding Sihan shook her head expressionlessly, hands on her hips.

"Then I'll keep looking myself."

Chen Yuying first let out a soft laugh, then said to Ding Sihan, "Sihan, what are you talking about? If you have any questions, can't you just ask me directly like usual?"

"Exactly, Ding Sihan. I only have this little bit of time at noon, and you still want to stick your hand in? I seriously suspect you're targeting me. I've decided: when I get married, you and Wang Yuezhi will sit at the same table.

Oh, right. Yuezhi happens to want to teach someone, and you happen to want to study. The two of you can form another study group. Wouldn't everyone be happy?" Lin Li clapped his hands, conveniently proposing a perfect suggestion.

"No way!" Ding Sihan shook her head furiously.

Wang Yuezhi, who appeared to be doing homework nearby, paused. The lead he had clicked out of his mechanical pencil snapped and flew into the air.

He had really gone to Xue Jian about it.

But just as Lin Li had expected, Xue Jian had no intention of stopping it. He only felt that Lin Li was becoming more sensible by the day.

—If Lin Li could somehow hit his head hard enough to lose one day of memories, he would like him even more.

"I'll keep my eye on you, Lin Li. You can never take my place as her girlfriend..." Ding Sihan had turned into a resentful spirit as well.

But she was nothing compared to Kou Kou's red-clad level. With Ding Sihan's cultivation, one strike of Lin Li's peachwood sword would make her behave.

Lin Li and Chen Yuying returned to their seats and sat down.

"Lin Li, if there's anything you don't understand, ask me about it now," Chen Yuying said.

"Alright, let's start with the Geography Homework." Lin Li took out the assignment left over from yesterday's geography class. Most of it had already been completed.

The two began a normal tutoring session.

Lin Li frowned slightly. He was not very satisfied.

The progress bar was increasing, and it was indeed faster than when they were merely chatting, but overall, the improvement was limited. The rate was still quite slow. So far, the accumulated progress probably had not even reached one percent.

At this rate, how long would it take to finish? And judging from the task's reward, this did not seem like a task that should require a huge amount of time.

The recent geography material was about climate. Theoretically, understanding it also counted as learning about this "world."

Lin Li looked at the task panel again.

Did "initial understanding" mean the focus was on the world's overall framework rather than its "minor details"? Or did he need Chen Yuying to guess that this was not actually their current world, but the so-called All Women World?

Guessing was useless. He had to test it.

"Class Monitor, I actually find what you're explaining a little hard to understand. Could we start with something more fundamental?" Lin Li asked.

"Sure. Just tell me what you don't understand." Chen Yuying nodded and simply took out Lin Li's geography textbook and opened it.

Good lord, the earlier pages looked brand new, while the recent lessons had quite a few notes.

Why had all the figures in the illustrations been drawn with mustaches, and why had their eyes been colored pitch-black? They were almost unrecognizable.

"The textbook knowledge might still be too complicated. What I want to ask might be just a tiny bit more basic." Lin Li spoke slowly again, laying the groundwork.

"Huh? Even this is complicated?"

"Mm."

"Then... then go ahead and ask. If it's outside the textbook, even if you say it's basic, I'm not too sure." Chen Yuying's eyes were clear and bewildered at that moment.

The girl who consistently ranked near the top of her grade had begun to feel unsure of her own knowledge.

Because the simpler something was, the harder it could be to explain. The 1+1 in Goldbach's Conjecture still puzzled mathematicians to this day.

Most importantly, the person before her was Lin Li. Chen Yuying always felt that something would be wrong.

"First of all, I'm not sick."

The moment Chen Yuying heard that opening line, her heart skipped a beat.

We're cooked!

Sure enough, Lin Li took a deep breath.

"What is the name of the planet we live on?"

Chen Yuying: "?"

You didn't say the geography would be this basic!

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