This Field Has Never Lacked Talent

Brave Bull, fearless in the face of hardship. Come on, System.

You have used "Random Limb, Organ Enhancement Opportunity."

The strength of your right hand has increased to 200% of its current level, and you have gained the ability "Power Charge."

Power Charge: After completely paralyzing your right hand for one hour, you may accumulate one use. For one hour after activation, the force, abilities, and techniques output by your right hand will be doubled. Neither the paralysis nor the skill activation can be interrupted. Power Charge can store up to 3 uses.

Lin Li: "..."

Lin Li looked at his right hand. Like his build, it was rather lean. There was no visible change, but it had gotten stronger? Seemed like it.

Was this a Qilin Arm? Could he use it to jerk off in the future and get double the pleasure? No, wait, that didn't seem to rely on brute force.

It would have been great if he'd gotten this ability before high school. He would have chosen shot put for the high school entrance exam's PE test. With Power Charge, he could use the equivalent of four times his current strength. Getting a perfect ten on that event definitely wouldn't have been a problem.

"A Qilin Arm is great. And an ability awakened through probability, great. So. Damn. Great!" Lin Li remarked through gritted teeth.

There hadn't been any little bull in the prize pool, so he couldn't strengthen his little bull. Fine, Lin Li had accepted that. But now there was a little bull in the prize pool, and it still hadn't strengthened his little bull. Hadn't adding it to the prize pool been pointless? System, when you said random, you really meant random, huh? Couldn't you learn something from Tencent? This was one of those times when he'd allow it to be unreliable.

His dream of becoming a big-horned bull had been shattered, but no matter what, this was still better than ballet. At least this ability had appeared in the abilities section of his system panel.

Name: Lin Li (Blood Crow Slayer)

Age: 17

Constitution: Spiritual energy absorption speed increased by 200%; Charm Technique resistance increased by 100%; Yang Energy concentration within the body increased by 50%; memory increased by 100%; Mecha Synchronization Index +20

Passive Ability: Empty-Handed Blade Catch

Active Ability: Power Charge

System Currency: 450

Finally, there were no more blank entries.

The increase in his right hand's strength hadn't appeared under Constitution. Lin Li understood it as the Constitution bonuses being permanent buffs that stacked additively rather than multiplicatively, while the right-hand strength increase was a one-time increase to the base value.

There were upsides and downsides.

Suppose his right hand's original strength was 1. Whether it was a buff or a base-value increase, a 100% boost would make it 2. But if he later received another 100% strength buff, the former would become 300% of 1, or 3, while the latter would become 200% of 2, or 4.

But suppose he physically raised his strength by 0.1 through the Body Tempering Eight Section Exercise. A buff would double that to 0.2, while the base value would not receive any additional increase.

Still, Lin Li didn't care whether it was a base-value increase or a buff. He had only done a few simple tasks and gotten this kind of return. He was already very satisfied.

Lin Li was like an old-fashioned whistling kettle—even with his ass on fire, he could keep whistling. If he found half a cup of water in the desert, he would look around for a pessimist and snatch their half cup too.

By the time he returned to the classroom, Bai Bufan was already sitting in his seat.

"Did you have a pink afternoon? Sigh, I got blocked by several bloggers again at noon. Why, exactly?" Bai Bufan let out a deep sigh.

"Because you're too kind."

"Bufan, can I punch you?" Lin Li immediately asked.

He had to test it out.

"Though I don't know why, no." Bai Bufan shook his head.

"Thank you. A double negative means yes." Lin Li smiled in relief and walked over to punch Bai Bufan with his right hand.

"If I said yes, were you going to say, 'Thank you for agreeing to my request,' and then punch me again?"

"You got it right. Your reward is a punch." People on the same wavelength as him really were hard to fool, but fortunately, Lin Li always had a reason to throw a punch.

"Fuck your mother!"

Bai Bufan shook his slightly throbbing hand and asked in surprise, "Lin Li, how did you get so strong? Have you been eating Popeye Spinach behind my back?"

Bai Bufan had originally been stronger than Lin Li, but just now, catching Lin Li's fist with his palm had hurt like hell. Even when he pushed back, he couldn't move it.

As for why Lin Li had randomly punched him, that wasn't important. He couldn't be bothered asking. Between boys, this was pretty normal.

—During breaks, when someone in the last row was doing homework at their desk, there was a good chance one of their bros would slap a Tathagata Palm right onto their back.

"That's what abstinence does. You wouldn't understand since you've never abstained." Lin Li looked at his right hand with satisfaction. When he truly exerted force, he could indeed feel the difference clearly.

That was somewhat comforting.

"You look more like you've been building up strength by not abstaining every day." Bai Bufan gave him the finger.

"It doesn't matter. From now on, I'm a strong man. All rebellious subjects must die." Lin Li patted his chest. "Hehehe, Bai Bufan, from now on, you have to be my dog, or these fists will serve you."

"A true strong man would never bully the weak. Lin Li, I, Bai Bufan, will never acknowledge you!" Bai Bufan declared indignantly.

"Who says I don't have principles? Even with this power, I'll still follow them. I don't hit children or women." Lin Li shook his head, but before Bai Bufan could emphasize that he was only fifteen, Lin Li immediately added:

"Unfortunately, your wife isn't a child, and your son isn't a woman. So if I punch them, I'm sure you'll understand."

Bai Bufan: "?"

"What if I have a daughter?" Bai Bufan thought for a moment and asked.

"Sorry, sorry. I suddenly remembered I don't hit the elderly either, but your daughter isn't elderly." Lin Li sincerely apologized for his lack of rigor.

He had almost been unable to wipe out the whole family.

"You're quite polite. I acknowledge your heart of a strong man, but now I absolutely have to sentence you to death—parentheses, to be carried out repeatedly." Bai Bufan gave him a thumbs-up.

Night came quickly.

The moment he left the school gates, Lin Li took out his phone.

When he had gone out to eat in the afternoon, Lin Li had used his account to privately message the bloggers Bai Bufan had found and chatted with them.

But the results had been less than ideal.

It was obvious that they were in that line of work and accepted delivery service.

But they also seemed to understand that the internet was much more "dangerous" than reality. After all, everything left traces online, so they were extremely cautious.

Any remotely professional "gaming companion" shop insisted from beginning to end that it only offered wholesome services and refused to budge.

The nighttime prices were suggestive, and their tone was full of implication.

Still, honestly, Lin Li instinctively considered one thing about shops like these—what if they deliberately priced vegetarian dishes like meat dishes?

Some poor sucker placed an order and happily waited for a night of special service, only to reach for a leg and get slapped across the face by the gaming companion, who said, "Sir, please conduct yourself with dignity."

Once the customer came to his senses and tried to make trouble for the merchant, the head office could simply say, "Our prices and service offerings were clearly listed. What do you mean, customer?" The customer couldn't exactly call the police and say the prostitute he hired had changed her story and claimed she wasn't a prostitute, could he? At most, he could report the unreasonable prices to the consumer association.

There was precedent for this kind of thing.

Luo Jincheng, a ruthless man who had trafficked 160 jin of drugs in one month, a modern drug lord, was ultimately sentenced to only ten months after being arrested.

As for why a crime that should, in theory, have earned him the equivalent of Louis XVI getting his head chopped off ten times in Dongda had only gotten him ten months, it wasn't because he had some enormous network or powerful connections.

It was because the bastard had sold 160 jin of rock sugar.

He infiltrated addict groups and told everyone he had a large amount of "rock sugar" for sale. The group members eagerly responded, saying they understood, they understood—what he was selling was rock sugar. They even praised Luo Jincheng for being careful. Rock sugar was exactly what they wanted.

The transactions were carried out with both parties satisfied.

After getting a taste of sweetness, the customers all left glowing reviews. They asked whether Luo Jincheng's family was still alive and even tried to obtain his address so they could meet him and give him gifts.

But not a single one dared call the police.

Luo Jincheng's most brilliant move was including a rock sugar inspection certificate in the delivery, along with a packet of cheap tea. The former proved that what he sold was indeed rock sugar, with no deception involved, while the latter gave his outrageous pricing an excuse.

—After all, tea prices were notoriously opaque. As long as Luo Jincheng said he believed it was good tea, selling one packet of rock sugar for a thousand was perfectly reasonable.

Because investigating the case took time, he had been detained for ten months before the official verdict. If he had been found innocent, he would have received substantial compensation for those ten months.

So the Demon Suppression Division forcibly gathered seven customers who had bought rock sugar and accumulated the transaction amount to the seven thousand needed to open a case. Only then was he sentenced to those ten months.

All one could say was that this drug lord really was a genius.

Having seen what that guy had done, Lin Li suspected that these gaming companion shops were playing the same game.

Wasn't it another new kind of honey trap?

And gaming companion prices had no reference standard to begin with, so it couldn't even be classified as fraud.

When Lin Li asked whether they had physical stores and said he could go there to buy and enjoy the service in person, they unhesitatingly said no and refused, only accepting outcalls.

One of them simply blocked him outright:

"Due to the other party's privacy settings, they are unable to receive your messages."

The other party had actually been perceptive enough to realize he was fishing.

Lin Li stared at the exclamation mark before him, at a loss for words.

Damn it, I've become Bai Bufan.

Adding a Protruding Organ was purely for a gag and to pad the word count. Not really. I never intended to strengthen the little bull from the start.

Actually, I saw all of your absurd ideas from that chapter—strengthening the sphincter, strengthening the little bull, strengthening calf meatballs, strengthening the appendix...

But if I really wrote that, it would be a bit too much for the protagonist. The appendix would be fine.

Absurdity that is too vulgar is not good absurdity.

There's no need to make a gag just for the sake of making one.

If there's a chance to strengthen supporting characters later, that might be fine. My idea and central theme are that bodily absurdity should stop at the right point, while spiritual absurdity should never stop.

I hope everyone understands.

That's all.

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