Chapter 265 : Protecting the Environment is Everyone's Responsibility

"A tailwind isn't as fast as your quick hands," Zhou Baowei, who was beside him, said in frustration.

While he was still tempted, the suspect had already acted. Truly, if you're slow, you miss out.

Feeling Zhou Baowei's frustration, Lin Li finally realized that rectifying the atmosphere of the Nansang sect was indeed an urgent matter.

Yesterday someone stole takeout, today someone stole a camera, tomorrow won't someone steal an ass?

"Bai Bufan, should I fucking bring you the matching charger and stand too, since mine has already been stolen anyway?" Lin Li smiled.

"How could I accept that," Bai Bufan reached out his hand, "but since you're insisting... bring it over, it's like turning waste into treasure."

"I heard that true turning waste into treasure is sending an internet-addicted child to an internet addiction treatment school, and when they actually get electrocuted to death, you get compensated 1.04 million," Zhou Baowei raised his hand and said.

"That's very much turning waste into treasure."

"Hurry up, don't waste time. Here's the tape, stick it on the wall, then use these grasses to cover it up a bit. I still have to go set the bait," Lin Li skipped the intermediate steps and directly ordered Bai Bufan.

Bai Bufan received the order and began to properly place the action camera.

—He placed it in Zhou Baowei's hand.

Haji Fan, instead of completing the work, you choose to transfer the work, huh?

Seeing this scene, Zhou Baowei stood up, of course, with his middle finger.

"But what about the bait you just mentioned? How do we know if the people in the 'surveillance' are stealing takeout or taking their own?" Bai Bufan confirmed this point.

"See those two takeouts?" Lin Li pointed to the takeouts next to the milk tea.

"I see them. I wanted to complain just now, what kind of idiot orders takeout this early? Won't it be cold by the time they pick it up at noon?" Bai Bufan nodded and commented with a sneer.

"I ordered these two," Lin Li stared at Bai Bufan.

"I guessed," Bai Bufan smiled. "So I deliberately scolded. I don't have this kind of inexplicable malice towards ordinary strangers."

Lin Li: "?"

Breaking a halberd and drinking wine to recognize a sword seed (bitch).

(Translator's Note: A parody of a poem, changing "hero" to "bitch").

Lin Li stepped forward, brought the takeout he had ordered in advance to his side, and then took out the takeout seals from his bag.

"You even got these seals? Are you going to add some special ingredients? Just right, I have some natural crystalline products from my nasal waste recycling system here," Zhou Baowei's eyes lit up when he saw this after installing the camera, and he said expectantly.

Nowadays, all takeout regulations require sealing with a seal. The main purpose is actually to prevent riders and others from tampering with the takeout on the way from the merchant to the customer.

It's to guard against people like Zhou Baowei, Bai Bufan, and Lin Li.

"Boogers are boogers, why so much bullshit," Bai Bufan looked at Zhou Baowei disdainfully, but then also nodded expectantly. "I can also go pick up two cigarette butts."

"Can you be a bit more respectful? What boogers, I prefer to call them nasal ore or nasal gems."

Zhou Baowei seemed ready to pull out the little snacks hidden in his nose to show Bai Bufan.

"Wait a minute, you two. Let me clarify here first. Deliberately adding dirty things to takeout and letting that idiot steal and eat it, if the consequences are serious, it will be considered intentional injury or even dropping dangerous substances, which is illegal," Lin Li immediately educated the two.

"That means if that idiot eats this stolen takeout and gets sick, legally it's our responsibility."

"If the other party holds onto this point, we'll be the ones in trouble."

Lin Li said slowly.

"Ah? Is that so? Then forget it... I'll just eat it myself," Zhou Baowei shook his head in fear upon hearing this.

For obedient fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys, breaking the law is a very terrifying concept.

"No, no, no, no, no," Lin Li wagged his index finger, his smile eerie: "We have to add ingredients, otherwise what did I get these seals for?

"Baowei, what I meant by those words just now wasn't to make you back down, but if we're lucky and that guy steals our takeout, then when we meet, we absolutely cannot admit that we added ingredients. We must insist that we didn't add any dirty things.

"Even if we want to see that guy's reaction after being disgusted, we can hint at it indirectly then, but absolutely do not carelessly say self-destructive things like 'Bro, the food you just ate had our nasal gems in it'."

Zhou Baowei: "?"

So that's what the warning just now meant?

My mind is still too pure, I underestimated Lin Li.

"Okay..."

"And don't worry, Bufan and I have rich experience going to the police station. When the time comes, if we confess you as the mastermind, we have plenty of ways to get you out," Lin Li gave Zhou Baowei another shot in the arm.

Zhou Baowei was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he suddenly realized something was wrong: "Why the fuck am I the mastermind again!"

"That's not important. Baowei, you shut up first. Lin Li, I still have a question. What if the takeout thief doesn't steal our two?" Bai Bufan asked at this time.

"This is very important!"

"Then consider him lucky, not destined for our surprise.

"But anyway, we have surveillance. If he steals someone else's, we'll definitely be able to see it too," Lin Li also ignored Zhou Baowei and explained to Bai Bufan:

"As long as we see someone anxiously unable to find their takeout, we can immediately go down to find him. After confirming it was stolen, ask him to ask his delivery rider what the packaging of his takeout looked like, and then check the 'surveillance' in our hands to find out who took it."

"Even without a face, relying on clothes and height, we can always follow the vine to get the melon."

"Good! Then let's do it quickly!"

Bai Bufan was already a bit impatient.

The camera was quickly set up. It definitely couldn't be considered very hidden. Although it was basically completely covered, the camera lens was still quite large. If someone deliberately looked for it, they could definitely find it in a few minutes.

But at the point of picking up takeout, who would think that someone had artificially placed a "mini surveillance camera" here?

Just in case, Lin Li placed another action camera in a corner. Although it was more hidden, the captured footage was relatively limited.

Then the three immediately carried the two bags of takeout back to the dorm.

When Zhou Baowei saw Bai Bufan and Lin Li carrying the takeout, wearing gloves and holding disposable chopsticks saved up in the dorm, walking into the toilet, he couldn't even imagine what heaven-defyingly disgusting things these two animals were going to do.

"Really disgusting."

Zhou Baowei, who was collecting nasal gems while staring at the surveillance, commented like this.

Because they weren't sure if their preparation would be chosen by the lucky guy, the three didn't put too much effort into the takeout. After adding what needed to be added, Bai Bufan went down and placed the takeout outside the iron fence.

At this time, it was also getting close to mealtime. The number of takeouts by the wall had increased by a few, and Bai Bufan mixed them together.

After granting the software permissions, Bai Bufan and Zhou Baowei, who had returned, sat on opposite sides, using their own phones to check the two surveillance feeds, waiting for the thief's grand entrance.

Hope he still steals today, don't let the three of our efforts go to waste.

"Becoming a security guard before even coming of age," Bai Bufan looked left and right, staring at the surveillance, and suddenly couldn't hold it in.

"Isn't that great, saving forty-four years of detours."

"Knock knock knock."

Someone was knocking on the dorm door. Lin Li, who was standing, went up and opened the door.

It was Wang Ze.

"Wang Ze? Didn't you go eat?" Lin Li asked somewhat confusedly.

"I've already ordered takeout, came to see you guys," Wang Ze walked in with his hands behind his back, paced back and forth for an inspection, and then said.

"If you have some bullshit to say, say it quickly." One doesn't visit the Three Treasures Hall without a reason. Lin Li responded impatiently.

"Ahem," since Lin Li asked so sincerely, he would mercifully answer, "Lin Li, hehe, I'm about to fall in love."

Then he looked expectantly at Lin Li's reaction.

"Don't throw trash into the river randomly. River management is already troublesome enough, protect the environment a bit, okay?" Lin Li frowned.

Wang Ze: "(；☉_☉)?"

Your mom.

"I think you're just saying the grapes are sour because you can't eat them," Wang Ze scoffed.

"I can't eat grapes?" Lin Li just responded with a disdainful smile, too lazy to say more. Then he thought for a moment and deduced: "Did a girl really add you?"

"That's right! Although only one added me, I've been chatting with her on and off all morning, and it feels like we're hitting it off! This girl is okay, we can get along!" Wang Ze said excitedly.

Lin Li: "?"

Who added him?

Lin Li or Bai Bufan?

"What did the girl use to add you?" Lin Li asked.

"QQ, she even liked my abs photo and commented 'wow'. See, all my preparations were meaningful!" Wang Ze immediately came to Lin Li's side to share.

Lin Li clicked on the girl's QQ.

Gummy Bear.

Age 1; Switzerland; The story will always end, don't look back; Atmospheric female avatar, a sun, a moon, a star.

Qzone visible for three days. The most recent post was sent in the morning, some landscape photos of the sports meeting, without her in them.

Before asking for more information about "her," Lin Li chose to turn his head. He saw Bai Bufan pressing the web of his hand against his nose, staring fixedly at the surveillance camera, looking very serious.

Instantly seeing through the true gender of the QQ owner.

Lin Li rubbed his brow.

This move was a bit of the student surpassing the master. He hoped Bufan wouldn't play too far, otherwise Lin Li might even have to take the initiative to tell Wang Ze the truth.

"What did you guys chat about?" Lin Li asked.

"At this stage, it's just awkward chatting. I tried to muster up the courage to ask her out for lunch, but she's still a bit shy, saying she has something to do at noon," Wang Ze looked slightly bashful.

Lin Li: "..."

She is quite busy at noon, she has to be a security guard.

"You haven't even seen her photo and you asked her out for a meal?"

"Can you not be so superficial, Lin Li? Putting aside figure and looks, what kind do you like?" Wang Ze asked back.

"I can't put them aside," Lin Li shook his head.

As the saying goes, without external beauty, who the fuck cares about your internal beauty.

Wang Ze: "..."

Dead wood.

Different paths, cannot work together.

Before Wang Ze could say anything else, Zhou Baowei slammed the table: "He's here, he's here! The target has appeared, took our takeout and left! Awesome! Hit the jackpot!"

"Yes, yes, yes, I saw it here too! Was just about to say," Bai Bufan, with a different view on the other side, also nodded.

Lin Li stepped forward to take a look, and immediately snapped his fingers: "Let's go, downstairs!"

"Ah? What are you guys doing?" Looking at the three people who bypassed him and walked quickly towards the door, Wang Ze was now somewhat confused.

"Coming or not?" Lin Li had already pushed the door open and walked far away, only turning his head to ask.

"Coming, wait for me," Wang Ze nodded.

Although Wang Ze had absolutely no idea what Lin Li was up to, he'd come first and talk later.

Even if it was just going out to walk a lap under the dorm building, he had to come.

...

After playing games all morning, Wang Yuhui sat up from his bed and stretched his limbs.

His stomach was a bit hungry, time to get takeout.

Wang Yuhui rolled out of bed. He was the only one in the dorm; his other roommates were probably still participating in class activities.

He was too lazy to participate, not interested in the sports meeting at all.

Arriving on the first floor, Wang Yuhui took out his phone and pretended to look at it, while actually using his peripheral vision to size up the place where everyone defaulted to putting takeout.

Very good, there were already over a dozen takeouts. If there were few takeouts, Wang Yuhui wouldn't take one for safety's sake.

And right now, there wasn't a single student or delivery rider here, it was simply a godsend.

So, continuing to pretend to play on his phone, Wang Yuhui walked over, casually picked up a takeout that looked neither shabby nor luxurious, and left after taking it.

This way, even in the worst-case scenario where he happened to be met and stopped by the takeout owner, Wang Yuhui could always say he was playing on his phone, didn't pay attention, and accidentally took the wrong one.

Carrying the takeout into the dorm building, nothing happened, just like yesterday.

Awesome.

Stealing takeout is just that simple and safe.

It wasn't that he was so short of money for a meal, but Wang Yuhui really liked this feeling of taking advantage of others. Especially when he thought of the person whose takeout was stolen getting anxious but only able to rage incompetently while he was eating happily, it felt even more awesome.

Get anxious, get anxious, die of anxiety.

Just thinking about it made Wang Yuhui want to laugh a bit.

This was even more awesome than his usual behavior in class, where he would see someone drop something and, instead of reminding them, try to find a chance to kick it into a corner.

Harming others without benefiting oneself, but it's awesome.

Unfortunately, he could at most enjoy it once more tonight and tomorrow noon. After the sports meeting ended, there would be no chance.

Returning to the fourth floor, Wang Yuhui used his key to open his dorm door.

From the corner of his eye, he noticed four very tall students had just come up the stairs, whom he hadn't seen on this floor before.

But Wang Yuhui didn't care. These were obviously from other classes visiting dorms, normal.

Open door, close door.

Wang Yuhui sat at his desk with the takeout. After pulling a stack of tissues from his roommate's desk next door and putting them in his own tissue box, he prepared to feast.

First, look at the receipt.

Mr. Lin, ending in 9749.

This was a spicy dry pot.

Not bad, it was a type of food rarely provided by the cafeteria, and Wang Yuhui quite wanted to eat it.

"Mr. Lin, you're going to have no lunch today, hehe," Wang Yuhui said with a light laugh.

The dorm doors at Nansang Middle School had peepholes, and they weren't one-way peepholes. But generally, for their own privacy, dorms would choose to cover them with stickers or posters. For dorms where the peephole cover was missing, they would directly stuff a wad of tissue into the peephole.

At this moment, the wad of tissue used to plug the peephole of 403 was poked out by an index finger and fell lightly at the door, but Wang Yuhui didn't notice it at all.

The index finger was withdrawn, replaced by an eye carrying the same smile as the one on Wang Yuhui's face.

Wang Yuhui tore open the seal, opened the packaging, and took out the separated food. It actually came with a bowl of seaweed egg drop soup.

Opening the main spicy dry pot, the steam wasn't as full as the two portions he stole yesterday, but fortunately, it wasn't cold yet.

The spicy dry pot was overall yellowish-brown. Looking at it, it was indeed a sauce-flavored base, and it looked like too much peanut butter or something similar had been added.

First taking a sip of the seaweed egg drop soup, Wang Yuhui frowned slightly, feeling the taste of this soup was a bit strange. Why was the texture a bit astringent? It seemed to have a bit of a gamey smell? Or a piss smell?

Whatever.

The soup itself was a freebie, he couldn't have such high expectations for it. After taking a big gulp, Wang Yuhui prepared to tackle the main dish.

"Fuck, this is fucking medium spicy?" After eating a piece of ribs, Wang Yuhui hissed and took another big gulp of soup, then complained.

This spicy dry pot was not only spicy, but even spicy to the point of being a bit bitter and astringent. Especially the sauce smeared on the meat dishes, it tasted really weird.

"Your mom, surnamed Lin, are you sick? Ordering it so spicy, you fucking deserve to not have lunch," Wang Yuhui cursed angrily.

Rather than blaming himself for not being able to handle spicy food, it was better to blame this Mr. Lin.

Then, after hesitating for a while, Wang Yuhui still gave up the idea of going down now to get another one.

Spicy is spicy, just drink more water.

Taking out his phone and starting a video to watch while eating, Wang Yuhui began to eat.

Little John Khan, start!

But this shop was the worst takeout Wang Yuhui had ever eaten. What the hell was this spicy dry pot?

He hoped that Lin sucker would give the shop a bad review after losing his takeout.

"Your mom, the small ingredients in the spicy dry pot are made like boogers. Does this shop really have repeat customers, can it stay open?" Picking up an unknown ingredient covered in sauce with his chopsticks, Wang Yuhui made a sharp comment.

"Fuck, the texture is also like boogers when eating it. This shop is really awesome, what the hell is this..." Wang Yuhui tasted it, but it was all the taste of the sauce, he couldn't taste its original flavor, so his expression was hard to judge.

Now, his resentment towards this unfamiliar sucker surnamed Lin had reached its peak.

Retard, doesn't even know how to order takeout.

The most unpleasant meal I've ever eaten.

I'll make do with this meal. I'll steal more carefully in the afternoon, steal something good.

His chopsticks reached into the rice, and there was a soft click.

This was not the feel of rice or the packaging box.

Wang Yuhui frowned, pushed aside the rice, and was shocked to find a piece of cardboard under the rice.

Wang Yuhui lifted the lunch box, and there really was a square brown cardboard at the bottom.

"Putting a good review card inside the rice? This shop is really dead mom!" Seeing this scene, Wang Yuhui was really angry. This quality control was too outrageous. If he had ordered this takeout himself, Wang Yuhui wouldn't let it go unless the shop refunded the original price and compensated him dozens of yuan.

Just as he was about to throw the food away, Wang Yuhui noticed that there seemed to be words on the front of the cardboard.

"Huh?"

Wang Yuhui used his chopsticks to pick out the cardboard.

Then he casually read the words on it.

"Dog bastard, is your daddy's takeout... d-delicious..."

Wang Yuhui froze.

Then his mind went blank.

There was another line of text below, which Wang Yuhui could no longer read.

—"Come, look at the door, your daddy is right outside."

"Click."

Wang Yuhui turned his head. The door he had just closed was being opened with a key, and an eye was staring at him through the peephole, which had lost its tissue at some point.

Fuck!

For a moment, Wang Yuhui wanted to rush up and hold the door, but unfortunately, it was too late.

"Click, creak—"

The unlocked lock, the pushed-open door.

But what he saw was his roommate Mao Jiaqi.

Wang Yuhui's feeling of suffocation subsided. After panting heavily, a surge of anger rushed to his head, and he cursed: "Mao Jiaqi! Are you sick? You fucking scared me to death, don't you know how to make a sound."

The scolded Mao Jiaqi looked at Wang Yuhui with a slightly compassionate and mocking expression, shook his head, and said: "Wang Yuhui, I'm here to bring you good news."

"What? Speak," Wang Yuhui frowned.

"You weren't scared for nothing."

Wang Yuhui: "?"

Mao Jiaqi stepped aside and fully opened the door.

So the space opened up, and the four people behind him walked in.

It was exactly the four people Wang Yuhui had noticed from the corner of his eye who had never appeared on the fourth floor before.

And at this moment, the four people looking at him all wore eerie smiles on their faces.

"Who, who the fuck are you guys?" The heart that had just relaxed a bit hung up again. Although Wang Yuhui already had a guess in his heart, he still searched for that last glimmer of hope in horror.

Undoubtedly, this was Lin Li and the other three.

As for Mao Jiaqi, he was Wang Yuhui's roommate who returned while Lin Li and the others were peeping.

After learning the rough truth of the matter, he followed Lin Li's instructions and opened the door for them at the right time.

"Since you asked so sincerely, I will mercifully tell you." Hearing this, Lin Li first adjusted the camera in front of him, then his voice was not loud, and his tone was slightly teasing: "The four of us are the 'Handsome and Compelling' group, and I am 'Handsome'."

Bai Bufan's smile stiffened for a moment, but then he immediately took a step forward and added lightly: "I am 'And'."

Wang Ze's voice was loud and rapid: "I am 'Group'!"

"..."

Seeing that someone in the four-person group refused to follow the self-introduction, Lin Li and the other two turned their heads together, tacitly giving a death stare to the unsociable Zhou Baowei.

Zhou Baowei: "(；☉_☉)?"

Your moms.

Is this polite?

(End of Chapter)