It was the mall security who came to check the situation. Xie Xingyu came out to explain a few things, and the security guard saw that there was nothing wrong so he didn't make things difficult for them and let them go.
"I'll drive." Xie Xingyu asked a few people to wait on the side of the road while he drove the car over to the parking lot nearby.
Chen Chu lowered his head and sent a message, informing the law enforcement team to go to the headquarters to receive the lich. Halfway through typing, he suddenly felt a hand gently pulling his clothes.
Chen Chu turned around and saw the girl looking at him with a pair of big black eyes. She raised her hand and pointed at the milk tea shop not far away: "Can I go buy a cup of milk tea?"
Chen Chu was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding why the girl had to ask him before she wanted to drink milk tea, but he still nodded and said, "Of course."
"Thank you." Lin smiled brightly, holding up her long skirt, she hopped towards the milk tea shop. Halfway through, she suddenly seemed to remember something, turned around and shouted loudly, "Do you want some?"
Chen Chu smiled and shook his head, and Lin Xi then turned around and ran towards the milk tea shop.
When Xie Xingyu drove the car over, he found that someone was missing and asked curiously, "Where's Zhenzi?"
"I'm going to buy milk tea." There is an event at the mall today and it's the weekend, so there is a huge flow of people. The milk tea shop is doing good business and Lin Xi is still waiting in line.
"If I remember correctly, she was almost drained of her life force by the lich just now. It's only been a short while since she had the mood to drink milk tea." Xie Xingyu clicked his tongue.
Chen Chu remembered what the girl had said before: "It's OK as long as you're not dead." He couldn't help but smile: "You have a good attitude."
At this time, Lin Yan had already got the milk tea. Seeing that Jie Xingyu had already driven over, she hurriedly ran back with the milk tea in her hand: "Okay, we can go now."
Several people got in the car and left. Xie Xingyu was responsible for driving, Lin Yan sat in the passenger seat, and Chen Chu sat in the back seat with Wu Lich. On the way, Lin Yan did not rush to drink milk tea, but took a photo of the milk tea with her mobile phone and then posted it on WeChat Moments.
"Do you have to post on WeChat Moments even when you're drinking milk tea now?" Xie Xingyu asked. It was just an ordinary bubble milk tea, nothing special.
"This cup of milk tea is different." Lin Xi replied while editing her Moments.
"What's the difference?"
"I bought this with my first fortune." Anything is worth commemorating if it's the first time.
"Divination gold?" Xie Xingyu didn't understand and was about to ask again when there was a sudden "bang" sound from the back seat. Xie Xingyu looked in the rearview mirror and couldn't help but swear.
"I go."
Lin Xi was so frightened that she nearly dropped her milk tea. On the contrary, Chen Chu, who was closest to her, behaved the calmest, as if he had known about it for a long time.
"You...how did you become like this?" Lin Yan pointed at the lich in the back seat who suddenly turned from a beautiful loli girl into a 300-pound fat man, and she stuttered when she spoke.
If she hadn't known that there were only a few of them in the car, she wouldn't have dared to recognize them.
"Ahh..." The lich seemed to realize what had happened. He covered his face in fear and screamed, "Don't look at me, don't look at me."
"What are you covering? Can you hide such a huge body?" Xie Xingyu complained. There was no preparation at all for the process of the loli turning into a dinosaur, and he was seriously injured.
"What's going on?" Lin Wei looked at Chen Chu, subconsciously thinking that Chen Chu should know.
"The lich's ability is to steal the life force of others and convert it into some kind of power to fulfill the lich's wishes. She uses the power to change her appearance, but these changes are only temporary and false. Once the power disappears, her original form will be revealed." Chen Chu explained.
"No wonder I couldn't drag her in the passage before." At that time, Lin Xi thought that she had lost too much vitality and was too weak, so her strength decreased. Now she realized that she really couldn't drag her.
"Devouring other people's vitality just to become more beautiful?" Lin Xi murmured.
"What do you know? What do people like you who are naturally good-looking know?" Lin Yan's words once again touched the lich's pain. "Do you know how I have been through since I was a child? Just because I was ugly, my classmates isolated me, laughed at me, and called me a sow behind my back. But since I got superpowers and became good-looking, they are all willing to play with me. Girls envy me, boys admire me, and I am the focus wherever I go."
"So, you can steal other people's vitality to achieve your own goals." Chen Chu asked coldly.
"So what? I don't want to kill them. I just want them to catch a cold. A cold will be gone after a few days of rest. People catch colds every day in this world anyway. What's the big deal?" the witch shouted.
"According to your logic, if I had your ability, could I ask everyone in the world to spend their money on me?" Lin Yan suddenly had a bold idea. "People all over the world spend money every day anyway, so why can't they spend it on me? Just give me one dollar a day. I'm not greedy."
The self-righteous witch was speechless in an instant, as if someone was choking her throat. Her face turned red and she couldn't utter a word of rebuttal for a long time.
Chen Chu looked at Lin Xi's serious expression, and suddenly felt that Lin Xi was serious. She really wanted it so much, and she was not saying that just to fight against the lich.
"By the way, how did you discover that the lich was devouring vitality?" Chen Chu suddenly remembered this.
"Yes, how did you find out? It's hard to detect a lich devouring its vitality. Even if there is energy fluctuation, you, an F-level, shouldn't be able to detect it." Xie Xingyu was also a little curious.
If he and Chen Chu were present, with their perception, they might be able to detect that the lich was using his superpowers, but Lin Xi, a newly awakened F-level superpower user, should not be able to detect it.
"I found out through divination." Lin Xi said.
"Divination?" The two looked at Lin Xi in surprise.
"Yes, I can tell fortunes." It was the first time that Lin Yan openly admitted in front of others that she could tell fortunes. After all, being on TV was not uncommon, so being able to tell fortunes was nothing special. "I was telling fortunes for someone at the comic convention, and I happened to tell fortunes about the lich. She was the only one in the entire venue who didn't suffer any bad luck. It was obvious that she was not a good person."
"Wait... Even if you can tell fortunes besides watching TV, how can you say that Lich is the only one in the entire venue who didn't suffer any bad luck?" Xie Xingyu felt that the logic didn't make sense.
Chen Chu also looked at Lin Xi with confusion.
"Because I can only predict bad luck." Lin Xi said.
"You can only predict bad luck? Can you elaborate on it? I don't quite understand what you're saying." Xie Xingyu felt that his understanding was not enough at this moment.
"It means exactly what it says. I can tell fortunes, but I can only tell fortunes for unlucky people. To put it simply, if you are or are about to be unlucky, I can tell you. But if you are lucky or have no bad luck recently, I can't tell you." Lin Yan explained, "At that time, the lich was absorbing the vitality of everyone in the venue, so everyone was unlucky, and the lich was the only one who was not unlucky."
"You can't predict the bad luck of a lich, so you are sure that she is a lich?" Chen Chu sorted out the logic.
"Yeah, that's it." Lin Yan lowered her head and took a sip of milk tea, squinting her eyes happily. It was sweet and delicious.
"Is this possible?" Xie Xingyu didn't know whether to say that the people in the venue were unlucky or that the lich was more unlucky. She was arrested because she was not unlucky. Who could she complain to
The lich also looked constipated. If he had known, she would have sucked his life force as well.
“So the divination fee you mentioned just now refers to…” Chen Chu looked at the milk tea in the girl’s hand.
"This is the first time I made money from fortune-telling. Ten dollars is just enough to buy milk tea." When Lin Xi mentioned making money, she immediately became excited and her whole body was glowing.
Just ten dollars, can you be so happy
Twenty minutes later, the car drove into No. 106 Chunfeng Road. Lin Yan looked at the house number at the gate and felt like she had seen it somewhere before: "Why does this address look familiar?"
"We're here." Xie Xingyu parked the car and two men in black uniforms immediately walked out of the car. They nodded at Xie Xingyu, walked straight to the back seat, pulled the lich out, handcuffed him, put him in another car, and drove away.
"Gone?" Looking at the car going away, Lin Yan stood there in confusion, "Don't I have to record my statement?"
Chen Chu looked amused and said, "No need."
"No need to record a statement?" Lin Xi confirmed again.
"I have already explained what happened clearly over the phone. The law enforcement team will verify it on their own later. You don't need to repeat it again." Chen Chu said.
"Then why am I here?" Lin asked, "Can't I just leave when I'm at the mall?"
Lin Xi had been thinking that she was going to take a statement, so she followed Chen Chu and the others here.
“…” Chen Chu was stunned by the question.
Yes, why did he bring Lin Yan here? It was obviously none of her business anymore.
"Since you're here, you might as well go and apologize." Xie Xingyu found an excuse for Lin Xi.
"Apologize? To whom should I apologize?" Lin Yan was confused. Why should she apologize
"Assistant Tan has been waiting for you for the whole morning. Not only did you not come for the interview, but you didn't even call me. Isn't that inappropriate?" Xie Xingyu said.
"Interview? No. 106 Chunfeng Road?" Lin Yan looked at the direction of the gate, then looked at Jie Xingyu, and her memory slowly began to wake up. Interview plus a familiar address, isn't this the address of the fraud company
"A monthly salary of 20,000 yuan, two days off a week, five insurances and one fund, supplementary medical insurance, no need to punch in or out, no attendance check, car allowance, housing allowance, food allowance, and 16 months' salary at the end of the year..." Lin Yan listed all the benefits in the interview notice in one breath.
Although she was certain that the interview notice was a lie, it did not mean that she was not attracted by the benefits contained therein. Such excellent and outstanding benefits were truly unforgettable.
Every time Lin Yan read out a benefit, her expression became more excited. She grabbed Chen Chu's arm and held it tightly: "Senior, are these benefits real?!"
Chen Chu's body stiffened for a moment. He took a step back without leaving a trace and pulled his hand back: "What benefits?"
"That's what I just said." Lin Yan was afraid that she couldn't explain it clearly, so she took out her mobile phone and restored the email that she had deleted and reported long ago from the trash can, opened it and showed it to Chen Chu, "Senior, this company is here, right? It's your company, right?"
Lin Yan was not stupid. If this company really existed, and Chen Chu and Jie Xingyu drove here directly and mentioned the interview, there was only one explanation for all this. They were also from this company. Even the fact that this company sent her an interview notice was related to Chen Chu.
Chen Chu glanced at the content of the email, and after reading it, he suddenly understood why Lin Yan didn't come for the interview. Assistant Tan overlooked an important factor. Lin Yan was a newly awakened superpower. She had not even started to contact the superpower world and did not know much about the special office. From the perspective of an ordinary person, such an email could only be from a scam company.
"It's true." Chen Chu nodded.
"I want an interview, I want to join your company." Hearing the affirmative answer, Lin Yan jumped up directly. The hand that Chen Chu had just pulled back was once again tightly grasped by Lin Yan, and this time it was tightly grasped with both hands. Chen Chu couldn't pull it back even if he wanted to. "Senior, I was wrong. I didn't recognize the great man. It turns out that there are such excellent companies in the world that make employees feel a sense of belonging. Please forgive my youth and ignorance, and give me another chance."
“…” Chen Chu.
Ten minutes later, in the assistant's office, Assistant Tan, who was not wearing a new suit, came for an interview that was a week late. Because Chen Chu went in early to explain, Assistant Tan did not embarrass Lin Yan too much. After asking a few simple questions, he handed Lin Yan an entry form.
Lin Yan quickly filled out the form and handed it back respectfully. Assistant Tan glanced at it and put it in the file bag.
"Assistant Tan, when can I come to work?" Lin Yan was full of enthusiasm for this job.
"Don't come if there's nothing else. I'll call you if there's anything." Assistant Tan said coldly.
Chen Chu was completely speechless. This girl's little thoughts were all written on her face.
Assistant Tan glanced at her with a cold expression, but his tone was generous: "Start from today."
Starting from today, that is to say, I have a salary of 20,000 yuan a month. If we calculate based on an average of 22.5 working days a month, it is 888.88 yuan a day. If we calculate based on 30 days a month, it is 666.66 yuan. Both numbers are wonderful and auspicious.
Get rich, get rich.
"Assistant Tan." Lin Yan suddenly rushed to the desk and expressed her determination loudly, "I will sacrifice my life for our company, no matter what it takes."
"Don't be so serious, just work hard." Assistant Tan was a little overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the new employee.
Coming out of the office, Lin Xi walked with a light look on her face. Her luck wasn't that bad, as she had found a good job with a permanent position. This must be the result of the good deeds she did in her daily life.
Hehehehe…
"How long do you think she'll keep laughing?" Xie Xingyu whispered to Chen Chu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, while driving. "It's just 20,000 yuan a month. It's the base salary in our department."
"She still thinks like an ordinary person." Chen Chu understood Lin Xi's feelings to some extent.
"That's right. Her ability is only F-level. If she doesn't go on a mission, she's just an ordinary administrative staff member. This salary is not bad."
The car stopped in front of the gate of Green Leaf University amid Lin Yan's silly smile and the occasional conversation between the two.
"Hey, stop laughing like an idiot, we're at your school now." Xie Xingyu shouted.
Lin Yan came back to her senses and looked outside the car, and found that she had indeed arrived at the gate of her school: "We are here so soon, thank you for sending me back."
"Go, go." Xie Xingyu waved his hand impatiently.
Lin opened the door and got out of the car. She took two steps and suddenly ran back. She raised her hand and knocked on the passenger window. Chen Chu pressed the window in confusion: "What's wrong?"
"I forgot to say thank you to you, senior. Thank you for saving me again." If it wasn't for Chen Chu, she would definitely not be able to drag the lich out of the passage. "If there is anything I can help with in the future, please let me know."
Before Chen Chu could answer, Xie Xingyu laughed and said, "Little girl, it's good to have the intention, but your ability is far from enough. Take care of yourself. Not causing trouble for Chen Chu is the greatest help."
Lin Xi suddenly felt a little embarrassed, even though what the other party said was not wrong.
"Okay, I will." Chen Chu responded with a smile, resolving the girl's embarrassment.
Lin Xi smiled and waved, then turned and ran into the campus. Her excited back looked like a carefree bird.
Xie Xingyu started the car and left: "Where are we going now?"
"Send me home." Chen Chu leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.
"Didn't you agree to accompany me to buy home appliances? In the end, I bought the TV with my own money. Wait..." Xie Xingyu paused, "Where is the TV?"
Chen Chu opened his eyes and thought for a moment: "The rooftop?"
When Lin Yan returned to the dormitory, the first thing she did was to open her system panel. She wanted to take advantage of her good luck today and quickly draw the prize.
The mall interface was still filled with mosaics. Lin Yan hated the system's behavior of requiring merit points to look at a price, but she could do nothing about it.
"I want to draw a lottery." Lin Xi said.
"Are you sure you want to participate in the lottery? Don't you want to spend some merit points to see the price of the goods? Maybe you can afford it?" said the system.
"The more you say that, the less I'm going to watch it. Besides, it only takes 99 merit points to draw a lottery. With my current merit points, I can draw forty times." Lin Xi made a fortune today. Adding the merit points accumulated before, she now has 4004 merit points.
This number is really a bit unlucky, so it must be spent quickly.
Seeing that Lin Yan insisted, the system stopped trying to persuade her and opened the lottery page, with all the products spinning rapidly.
Lin Xi raised her hand and pointed out without hesitation.
"Congratulations to the host, you won the Thank You for Participation Prize."
“…” Thank you for participating, no need to congratulate me, I just thank you.
It’s okay, it’s a lottery, you can’t win every time, just try again.
Lin ordered again.
"Congratulations to the host, you won the Thank You for Participation Prize."
"I just don't believe Li Jia is evil, let's do it again!" Lin Yan argued with the system and started the crazy lottery mode.
"Thank you for participation!"
"Thank you for participation!"
"Thank you for participation!"
I have to say that gambling is really addictive. Even someone as stingy as Lin Yan wasted 990 merit points in a blink of an eye and received ten consecutive "Thank you for participating".
"I want to see the prices of the goods." Lin Yan's eyes turned red from drawing lots. "I must have used my luck to find a job, so it's not a good time to draw lots today."
"Please select the price of the product you want to view and pay a little merit." System.
Lin Xi randomly clicked on one of the mosaics on the screen, and the price was immediately revealed: 3009 merit points.
But only the price was revealed, and the rest of the product was still covered tightly with mosaics. Lin Xi didn't even know what the props looked like.
3009 merit points? There are only 3013 merit points left. If I spend them, I will only have 4 merit points left.
It’s a bit expensive.
"Do you want to view the product attributes? It only requires 10 merit points." System.
"Can I still afford it after I see it?" Lin asked.
"You can buy it next time. Once you view the product attributes, you can keep them for three days." System.
"What do you mean? Only keep it for three days? Does that mean that even if I spend merit points to check the attributes, I can only see them for three days, and the product attributes will be blocked again after three days?" Lin Yan said disdainfully, "You can block it if you want. I will remember the attributes after I have read them once."
"Hehe" system.
Lin Yan sensed a strong sense of malice in these two provocative interjections: "Could it be that in three days, the merchandise in the system mall will be moved to another location?"
All the products in the system were mosaiced, so Lin Yan could only remember them by their positions. But once the positions were messed up, the corresponding products would be wrong. If she didn't want to buy the wrong ones, she had to spend ten points of merit to check the properties again.
"Host, rest assured. If there are no new products on the shelves, the mall will not change the position of products at will." said the system.
"Then how do I know whether you have updated anything new, how many new products you have updated, and how often you update them?" Lin Xi asked.
"Want to get real-time mall information? Please subscribe to the mall newsletter. It only requires one merit point a day." System.
"If you have a physical body, I will beat you up." Lin Yan is already a person with a good temper, but at this moment she really wants to throw something.
Lin Yan took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down. She finally understood one thing. She would never be able to beat the system in spending merit points. Even though her major was accounting, she could not beat the computer. It was really bad to be beaten in the professional field.
"I want to see the price of this item." Lin Xi thought for a moment and selected another item to check the price.
The price showed 4590 merit points, which far exceeded Lin Xi's current total merit points.
We can’t watch this any longer. If we do, the system won’t be able to maintain operation tomorrow.
"Do you want to buy the product?" system.
This purchase naturally refers to merchandise worth more than three thousand merit points.
Lin Yu hesitated. It was really expensive to spend 3009 merit points to buy a product. After buying it, she only had 3 merit points left. But if she were to draw a lottery, the system would definitely use up all her merit points.
Lin Yan gritted her teeth and finally decided: "Buy it."
Click to buy, and the number representing the merit value in the lower right corner will decrease rapidly, and in the blink of an eye only the single digit 3 will be left.
"The product has been placed in the inventory. Please check the properties yourself." System.
Lin Xi quickly opened the inventory and checked the product properties.
[Name: Master's Ruler.]
[Guide to use: Point the ruler at the other person and ask a question. If the other person answers incorrectly or cannot answer, you can hit the other person's palm ten times. The ruler represents the teacher's majesty. You should teach everyone until they are taught.]
[Hint: Mencius said, "A wise man makes others wise by his own wisdom."]
(End of this chapter)