Chapter 17 The Master's Ruler



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 it difficult and let them go.

"I'll drive the car." Xie Xingyu asked a few people to wait on the roadside 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 her big black eyes. She raised her hand and pointed to a milk tea shop not far away: "Can I buy a cup of milk tea?"

Chen Chu was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding why the girl had to ask him before drinking milk tea, but he still nodded and said, "Of course."

"Thank you." Lin smiled brightly, holding up her long skirt, she ran towards the milk tea shop. Halfway through, she suddenly seemed to remember something, turned around and shouted loudly: "Do you want to drink?"

Chen Chu smiled and shook his head, and Lin An turned around and ran towards the milk tea shop.

When Xie Xingyu drove over, he noticed that someone was missing and asked curiously, "Where's Zhenzi?"

"I'm going to buy milk tea." The mall is having an event today, and it's the weekend, so there's 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 vitality by the lich just now. It's only a short while ago that she has the mood to drink milk tea." Xie Xingyu clicked his tongue.

Chen Chu recalled 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 Xin 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 in charge of driving, Lin An was the co-pilot, and Chen Chu was sitting in the back seat with Wu Lich. On the way, Lin An 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 remembering if it's the first time.

"Divination money?" 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'll go."

Lin Xi was so frightened that she nearly dropped her milk tea. However, Chen Chu, who was closest to her, acted 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 changed from a beautiful loli girl into a 300-pound fat man, and she stuttered while speaking.

If she hadn't known that there were only a few of them in the car, she wouldn't have dared to recognize them.

"Ahhh..." 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 cover such a huge body?" Xie Xingyu complained. Loli was not prepared at all during the process of transforming into a dinosaur, and he was seriously injured.

"What's going on?" Lin looked at Chen Chu, subconsciously thinking that Chen Chu should know.

"The lich's ability is to steal other people's life force and convert it into a certain power in order to fulfill the lich's wish. 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'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 not good-looking, 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 few days of rest will heal the cold. 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 give me money to spend?" Lin Xin suddenly had a bold idea, "People all over the world spend money every day anyway, why can't they give it to me? Just give me one dollar a day, I'm not greedy."

The righteous priestess suddenly became speechless, as if someone had choked her throat. Her face turned red and she couldn't say anything to refute 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 didn't just say that to fight the lich.

"By the way, how did you find out 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 are energy fluctuations, you, an F-class, shouldn't be able to detect them." 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 its superpowers, but Lin Xi, an F-class superpower user who had just awakened, should not be able to detect it.

"I took advantage of the situation to get out." Lin Xian said.

"Taking a share?" The two looked at Lin Nan in surprise.

"Yes, I can tell fortunes." This was the first time that Lin Yan openly admitted in front of others that she could tell fortunes. After all, it was not strange to be able to climb TV sets, and fortune-telling was nothing special. "I was telling fortunes for people at a comic convention, and I happened to tell fortunes about a lich. She was the only one in the entire venue who was not unlucky. It was obvious that she was not a good person."

"Wait... Even if you can take spoils besides climbing the TV, how can you say that Lich is the only one in the entire venue who didn't suffer any misfortune?" Xie Xingyu felt that this logic didn't make sense.

Chen Chu also looked at Lin Xi with confusion.

"Because I only have bad luck." Lin Nan said.

"Just bad luck? Can you elaborate on it? I don't quite understand." Xie Xingyu felt that his ability to understand was not enough at this moment.

"It means exactly what it says. I can tell fortunes, but only for unlucky people. In simple terms, 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 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 lich's bad luck, so you are sure that she is a lich?" Chen Chu sorted out the logic.

"Yeah, that's it." Lin 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 unlucky. Who could she complain to?

The lich also looked constipated. If she had known earlier, she would have sucked her own life force as well.

"So the divination fee you just mentioned refers to..." Chen Chu looked at the milk tea in the girl's hand.

"It was the first time I made money from stealing radishes. Ten yuan was just enough to buy milk tea." When Lin Yan 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 to No. 106 Chunfeng Road. Lin looked at the house number at the gate and felt that she had seen it somewhere before: "This address looks familiar."

"We're here." Xie Xingyu parked the car and two men in black uniforms immediately came out from outside 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 then drove away.

"Gone?" Looking at the car going away, Lin stood there with a confused look on her face, "Don't I have to record my statement?"

Chen Chu laughed and said, "No need."

"No need to record a statement?" Lin Xian confirmed again.

"I have 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 Nan here? It was obvious that she had nothing to do here.

"Now that you're here, you might as well go and apologize." Xie Xingyu found an excuse for Lin Xi.

"Apologize? Who should I apologize to?" Lin Yan was confused. Why should she apologize?

"Assistant Tan waited for you for the whole morning, and not only did you not come for the interview, you didn't even call us. Isn't that inappropriate?" Xie Xingyu said.

"Interview? No. 106 Chunfeng Road?" Lin 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?

"Monthly salary of 20,000, two days off a week, five insurances and one housing fund, supplementary medical insurance, no need to punch in or out, no attendance check, car, room and board supplement, 16 months salary at the end of the year..." Lin Yan listed all the benefits in the interview notice in one breath.

她雖然篤定了那則面試通知是騙人的,但不代表她不被裏面的福利所吸引,如此優秀卓越的福利,着實是讓人見之難忘啊。

林媗每念出一個福利,臉上的神情便激動一分,她一把抓住陳初的胳膊,緊緊的握着:“學長,這些福利都是真的嗎?!”

陳初身子僵了一下,他不着痕跡的後退一步,抽回手:“什麽福利?”

“就是我剛才說的那些啊。”林媗怕自己說不清楚,當即拿出自己的手機,從垃圾桶裏複原了那封被她早就删除且舉報了的郵件,打開展示給陳初看,“學長,這家公司是這裏對吧,是你們公司對吧?”

林媗不傻,如果這家公司真的存在,而陳初和解星宇又直接把車子開到了這裏,更提到面試的事情,這一切只有一個解釋,他們也是這個公司的。甚至這家公司能給她發面試通知,也和陳初有關。

陳初掃了一眼郵件內庡容,看完之後,他忽然就明白為何林媗沒來面試了。譚助忽略了一個重要因素,林媗是剛覺醒的異能者,她甚至還沒有開始接觸異能界,對特殊辦事處并不了解。站在一個普通人的立場,這麽一封郵件,只能是騙子公司。

“是真的。”陳初點頭。

“我要面試,我要進你們公司。”聽到了肯定的答案,林媗直接蹦了起來,陳初剛剛抽回去的手再一次被林媗死死抓住,而且這一次是雙手死死的抓着,陳初想抽都抽不回去,“學長,我錯了,是我有眼不識泰山,原來這個世界上真的有如此優秀卓越,讓員工有歸屬感的公司。請原諒我的年少無知,見識淺薄,再給我一次機會吧。”

“……”陳初。

十分鐘後,助理辦公室,沒有穿新西裝的譚助理迎來了遲到了一個禮拜的面試。因為陳初提前進去解釋了一番,譚助理并沒有太為難林媗,簡單的問了幾個問題之後,就遞給了林媗一張入職表格。

林媗飛快的填完,恭恭敬敬的遞了回去。譚助理掃了一眼,便收進了檔案袋裏。

“譚助,我什麽時候可以來上班?”林媗對這份工作充滿了積極性。

“沒事不用來,有事會給你打電話的。”譚助冷漠道。

“那……工資從哪天開始算?”林媗小心翼翼的問着。

陳初在後面一整個無語,這丫頭,一點小心思全寫臉上了。

譚助斜了她一眼,表情冷漠,語氣卻很大方:“從今天開始算。”

從今天開始算,也就是說我今天就有工資,一個月兩萬塊,按一個月22.5天的平均工作日算的話,一天就是888.88元,如果按一個月30天算的話,也有666.66元。兩個數字都很美妙,很吉利。

發財了,發財了。

“譚助。”林媗驀的沖到辦公桌前,大聲的表着決心,“我一定為咱們公司抛頭顱灑熱血,肝腦塗地,在所不辭。”

“也不用這麽嚴重,好好工作就行。”譚助有點吃不消新員工的熱情。

從辦公室出來,林媗走路都是飄的,她運氣也沒有很差嘛,找的工作就很好嘛,還是帶編制的,一定是她平日裏做好事的福報。

嘿嘿嘿……

“你覺得她還要笑多久?”解星宇一邊開車一邊和坐在副駕駛的陳初小聲說話,“不就一個月兩萬的工資嘛,在咱們部門這是底薪吧。”

“她還是普通人的思維。”陳初倒是有些理解林媗的心情。

“也是,她能力只有F級,如果不出任務,就只是個普通的行政人員,這個工資也算不錯。”

車子在林媗的傻笑和兩人時不時的交談中,停在了綠葉大學門口。

“嘿,別傻樂了,到你們學校了。”解星宇出聲喊道。

林媗回神,看向車外,發現果然已經到了自家學校門口:“這麽快就到了,謝謝你們送我回來。”

“去吧,去吧。”解星宇不耐煩的揮揮手。

林媗開門下車,走了兩步,忽又跑了回來,擡手敲了敲副駕駛座的窗戶。陳初疑惑的按下車窗:“怎麽了?”

“忘記和學長說謝謝了,謝謝學長又救了我一次。”這一次如果不是陳初,她肯定沒法把巫妖拖出通道,“以後如果有什麽我可以幫忙的地方,請一定要告訴我。”

陳初還沒回答,一旁的解星宇卻笑了出來:“小丫頭,有心是不錯的,但你的實力差太遠了,照顧好你自己吧,不給陳初添麻煩就是最大的幫助了。”

林媗頓時有些尴尬,雖然對方說的也沒錯。

“好,我會的。”陳初笑着應了一聲,化解了女孩的尴尬。

林媗笑着揮了揮手,轉身跑進了校園,雀躍的背影,像只無憂無慮的鳥兒。

解星宇發動車子離開:“我們現在去哪兒?”

“送我回家。”陳初靠在椅子上閉目養神。

“不是說好了陪我買家電的嗎?結果最後是我自己掏錢買的電視機,等等……”解星宇頓了一下,“電視機呢?”

陳初睜開眼,思索了片刻:“樓頂?”

林媗回到宿舍,第一件事情就是打開自己的系統面板。她要趁着今天運氣好,趕緊把獎抽了。

商城界面裏,依舊是一堆的馬賽克,林媗對于系統這種看個價格都要功德值的行為實在是深惡痛絕,卻又無可奈何。

“我要抽獎。”林媗道。

“确定要抽獎嗎?不花費一點功德值看看商品的價格嗎?或許你買的起呢?”系統道。

“你越這麽說我越不看。再說,抽獎只需要99點功德值,以我現在的功德值,我都可以抽四十回了。”林媗今天大賺了一筆,再加上之前累積的功德值,現有功德值4004點。

這個數字還真是有點不吉利,必須趕緊花掉。

系統見林媗堅持,沒有再勸說,開啓了抽獎頁面,所有商品飛速旋轉着。

林媗毫不猶豫,擡手點出。

“恭喜宿主,抽中謝謝參與獎。”

“……”謝謝參與就不用恭喜了吧,我謝謝您嘞。

沒事,抽獎嘛,也不能次次都抽中,再抽。

林媗再點。

“恭喜宿主,抽中謝謝參與獎。”

“我就不信麗嘉邪了,再來!”林媗和系統杠上了,開啓了瘋狂抽獎模式。

“謝謝參與!”

“謝謝參與!”

“謝謝參與!”

……

不得不說,賭博這種東西真的是有毒,就連林媗這麽摳的人,轉眼就浪費了足足990點功德值,獲得了十連“謝謝參與”。

“我要看商品價格。”林媗抽獎抽的眼都紅了,“我的運氣一定是用在找工作上了,所以今天不宜抽獎。”

“請選擇你要查看的商品價格,并支付一點功德值。”系統。

林媗在滿屏的馬賽克裏随意的點了一個,價格立刻顯露出來:3009功德值。

但也只顯露了價格,商品其他地方依舊被馬賽克捂的嚴嚴實實的,連道具長什麽樣子林媗都不知道。

要3009點功德值?一共就剩3013點功德值,這要是花出去了,不是就只剩4點功德值了。

有點貴啊。

“是否查看商品屬性,只需10點功德值。”系統。

“我看完還買得起嗎?”林媗問。

“可以下次購買,商品屬性一經查看,可保留三天。”系統。

“什麽意思?只保留三天?是說我就算花了功德值查看屬性,也只能看三天,三天後商品屬性會被重新屏蔽?”林媗不屑道,“你屏蔽就屏蔽,屬性看過一遍我就記住了。”

“呵呵”系統。

林媗從這兩個欠揍的語氣詞裏感受到了濃濃的惡意:“該不會三天之後,系統商場裏的商品會變換位置吧。”

系統裏的商品都是統一被打了馬賽克的,林媗只能通過位置來記憶它們,可一旦位置被打亂,對應的商品也就不對。如果她不想買錯,就必須重新花十點功德值查看屬性。

“宿主放心,若無新商品上架,商城不會随意變換商品位置。”系統道。

“那我怎麽知道你上不上新,上了幾個新,多久上一次新?”林媗問。

“想實時掌握商城信息嗎?請訂閱商城快訊,一天只需一點功德值。”系統。

“你但凡有個實體,我一定要揍你。”林媗已經是脾氣很好的人了,但她這一刻真的很想摔點什麽。

林媗深吸以口氣,強迫自己冷靜下來,她算是明白了一件事情,在花功德值這件事情上,她是永遠算不過系統的。就算她的專業是算賬,但也算不過電腦啊。這種在專業上被人打擊的感覺,真的很糟糕。

“我要看這件商品的價格。”林媗想了想,又選了一個商品查看價格。

價格顯示4590點功德值,遠遠的超出了林媗現有的功德值總數。

不能再看了,再看明天系統的運行都要維持不了。

“是否購買商品?”系統。

這個購買,指的自然是價值三千多功德值的商品。

Lin Xi hesitated. It was really expensive to spend 3009 merit points to buy a product. After the purchase, she only had 3 merit points left. But if she were to draw a prize, the system would definitely use up all her merit points.

Lin Yan gritted her teeth and finally decided: "Buy it."

After clicking Buy, the number representing the merit value in the lower right corner began to decrease rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, only the single digit 3 remained.

"The product has been placed in the inventory. Please check the properties yourself." System.

Lin Xian 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 without distinction, and stop at teaching.]

【Hint: Mencius said, "A wise man uses his brightness to make others bright."】


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