"Hello, is this the noodles you ordered?" The server carried a bowl of noodles over to Lin Li and asked.
"Yes." Lin Li nodded.
The server set down a large bowl of noodles and smiled at Lin Li.
"We're running a promotion at the restaurant recently. If you top up one hundred yuan, you'll get twenty yuan free. If you're interested, sir, you can get a card at the counter."
"Okay." Lin Li replied, then picked up his chopsticks and prepared to eat.
Getting a card was out of the question. There were too many scams these days. Although Lin Li was not short of this little bit of money, he had no desire to be fooled.
The news on television continued, reporting on the exotic beast that had appeared in the suburbs. To ordinary citizens, it was a major event, attracting countless people's attention.
After finishing dinner, Lin Li walked out of the restaurant. He did not head home immediately, but planned to take a stroll in a nearby park.
On the way to the park, several more police cars passed by him.
Lin Li glanced at the departing police cars and thought, So much time has passed, yet they're still mobilizing personnel. Could this situation be different from what I imagined? Is it extremely difficult to resolve?
Lin Li continued toward the park. When he arrived, he casually found a bench beneath a roadside tree and sat down.
The matter of the exotic beast appearing in the suburbs continued to ferment online. Netizens on all sorts of platforms were discussing it.
Lin Li opened his phone and skimmed through it. The actual situation known to ordinary people was more or less the same, consisting basically of what had been reported in the news.
After logging into the Exotic