Li Lin's acquaintance with Officer Ch'en needs to be traced back to four months ago.
After meeting Texas and failing to be adopted, Li Lin had been wandering the streets and alleys of Lungmen, relying on intuition to find opportunities everywhere. For example, freeloading internet access, freeloading food and drinks, eating free food samples and free drinks in supermarkets, and the like.
But how should I put it, walk the night roads too much and you'll eventually encounter ghosts (trouble).
Times when it clearly felt like there were no problems often ended up having some subtle issues. The reason Li Lin didn't trust his intuition much was because, after getting some internet time and heading back down to the sewers, even though it felt like the right path, he was cornered by a few punks. Because Li Lin's clothes looked relatively valuable, he was forced by a few drunk punks to strip them off, leaving only his underpants.
Then, the one who came out to stop it at this time was Officer Ch'en, who happened to be off duty. Officer Ch'en, on her way home from work, couldn't stand such a scene, came up and quickly and efficiently beat down the punks around Li Lin. Before Li Lin could even thank her, Officer Ch'en came to check Li Lin's identification. It turned out this person was completely a 'three-no's' product: no identification, no related evidence, no memory, and didn't know the common sense of this world.
So Li Lin was taken by Officer Ch'en to the Lungmen Guard Bureau to investigate his identity. But what the hell could they investigate about a transmigrator? Checking the records, everything was blank.
Coupled with Li Lin consciously avoiding cameras and crowds, hiding his tracks, after investigation from multiple parties, it was believed that this person Li Lin likely had major issues. After being detained for two days, the final conclusion reached was exile to the outskirts of Lungmen to fend for himself.
However, Li Lin didn't blame heaven or earth ; instead, he had quite pleasant conversations with Officer Ch'en while in the detention cell. Rather, although Officer Ch'en carried out Lungmen's decision, emotionally, she felt rather apologetic towards Li Lin. After all, Li Lin hadn't committed any crime nor done anything outrageous ; on the contrary, he actively sought work opportunities and helped Officer Ch'en think through some cases, so throwing him out like this was really doing him a great disservice. Li Lin, however, felt it didn't matter. After all, everyone has their duties.
Compared to other exiled criminals, the greatest benefit Officer Ch'en could secure was stuffing a sapper shovel into Li Lin's hands. After saying goodbye in the outskirts, Li Lin spent a month on the periphery of Lungmen, sometimes starving, sometimes full , and then ran into Exusiai returning from an official trip. The story began just like that.
The rest of the story, even the people at Penguin Logistics knew.
Exusiai found the homeless Li Lin in the wild, then initially planned to introduce him to Penguin Logistics, but it came to nothing due to much opposition, so she simply rented a place outside and took care of Li Lin. After a series of adjustments and minor incidents, Li Lin was finally allowed to barely join Penguin Logistics. If Li Lin hadn't performed exceptionally well that night, otherwise, he would have had to work as a laborer outside for a period before integrating into Penguin Logistics.
This story, overall, is very hard to put into words . If Officer Ch'en had even the slightest bit of leeway, or if Lungmen showed a little mercy beyond the law , Li Lin probably would have run to Officer Ch'en's side to freeload instead of coming to Exusiai's side. It can only be said to be a strange combination of circumstances .
"Didn't expect that Officer Ch'en could also show kindness~ My opinion of her has changed slightly. But being so ruthless even to the person she saved, I guess that's her style."
"Ya… Croissant, I didn't expect you actually had a past with that Officer Ch'en… Truly makes one sigh ."
"Miss Croissant, can you please not talk as if Officer Ch'en and I had an affair ?"
Although those legs are indeed powerful, I am innocent.
Facing the many Penguin Logistics employees and Francka from Blacksteel International who had joined in for some reason, Li Lin stated emphatically that he was completely innocent.
Rather, if not for his good temper, he might be full of resentment towards Officer Ch'en right now. He was originally doing fine as a wandering undocumented person in Lungmen, then got thrown in (detained) because of a brawl. Those few brawlers just finished their confinement and that was it, but he, on the other hand, was thrown outside.
Although Officer Ch'en was indeed fulfilling her duty, Li Lin felt that not being filled with resentment about it, or thinking about revenge or anything, already showed very good character. As someone who grew up in a peaceful world, he still had quite favorable feelings towards such a conscientious police officer. Even though he had just returned with difficulty only to be investigated again, Li Lin didn't feel Officer Ch'en had done anything wrong. At most, he just felt his luck was really somewhat poor.
"…I have some questions."
Texas, sitting on the chair, looked at the innocent-faced Li Lin, fell silent for a moment, then asked in a low voice:
"During your time in Lungmen, how exactly did you get online?"
"Hm? How did I get online? Sometimes, don't many people's computers inexplicably stop working properly ? But many people don't want to spend money, just getting angry about it. I would go over and say I'll help fix your computer, and then you let me use the internet for a while. I just got tricked out of my identification proof, so I need to compensate with labor, no money needed. Seriously, there are actually quite a lot of people like that."
"And then? How did you fix the computers? What did you do online?"
"The vast majority of computer problems can be fixed by restarting. If one restart doesn't work, then do it a second time. If it still doesn't work, then add hitting the computer case. If even that doesn't work, then changing the computer will definitely solve the problem. As for being online, what else could I do? Go online to various forums to search for information, discuss novel settings and opinions on data with netizens, look for some work that doesn't require identification to support myself first, basically just these things."
"That's it?"
"That's it."
Li Lin spread his hands, looking very innocent.
"Actually, I was quite famous back then, because I didn't charge money, and the results were good, many people rushed to find me. If not for Officer Ch'en throwing me directly into the Guard Bureau that time, I might have just started an electronics repair business after a while. Anyway, most electronics repairs here just need a restart and a hit."
"…"
No, we've never heard that restarting and hitting can fix things here?
Looking at Li Lin's matter-of-fact expression, several people with some knowledge of electronics secretly complained/criticized in their hearts .
Instead, Texas fell silent after hearing this grand theory. Taking out a cigarette from her pocket, she paused, then swapped it for a Pocky stick held in her mouth, only then did she look with a somewhat complicated expression at Li Lin, who was being teased in turns by Francka and Croissant, unsure what she was thinking.