317: Chapter 317 Waste System

Lin Xiao looked up at the ceiling and let out a slow sigh of relief after confirming there was a camera.

"Are you... alright?"

He asked, still on high alert.

"I'm fine, I'm fine!"

The old lady straightened her clothes, stood firm, and said with a smile, "Oh, young man, thank you so much!"

It seemed like he wasn't being extorted.

Luckily, his luck was pretty good...

Just as Lin Xiao was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the old lady spoke again: "Young man, I see you're quite a good person—handsome and kind-hearted too..."

Hearing this, Lin Xiao had a faint, bad feeling.

He wanted to find an excuse to interrupt, but it was already too late.

"I have a granddaughter who's twenty-eight this year. She's great in all aspects—highly educated and very pretty!"

The old lady grabbed Lin Xiao's hand and began to talk incessantly, "Young man, I see you're out with a friend, so you must be single, right? How about getting to know my granddaughter?"

"I..."

Lin Xiao wanted to refuse.

But the old lady didn't give him a chance to speak at all, "What a fine young man! Young people as good as you are rare these days!"

Her words immediately caught the attention of the other old ladies nearby.

Nowadays, there was almost no elderly person who didn't worry about their children's marriage.

Hearing about a suitable young man, they were even more proactive than when they were scrambling for free eggs.

"Oh, don't say, this young man really is quite handsome!"

"I have a grandniece who just graduated from university this year, and her conditions are good too. Why not get to know each other?"

"Old Li, your grandniece is still young, don't compete with us!"

"That's right, better take a look at my younger daughter. She's twenty-six this year, works at a bank, and is very beautiful!"

"..."

Lin Xiao was so overwhelmed by their enthusiasm that he couldn't get a word in edgewise.

He was completely unable to escape.

He looked to Zhang Xiaofu for help, only to find Zhang Xiaofu snickering on the side, with no intention of coming to help him at all.

In that case, don't blame him for being impolite!

"Um, ladies and grandmas, I have some business to attend to today and have to leave first. How about I give you my contact information, and you can contact me anytime?"

Lin Xiao said with a smile.

The old lady also smiled, her face full of wrinkles, "Alright, young man, so you're willing to go on blind dates?"

"Of course I am!"

Lin Xiao's attitude was very earnest.

After he recited a string of numbers, the old ladies all took out their phones to record them.

Taking advantage of their distraction, Lin Xiao quickly slipped away.

He didn't even bother to check out and hurriedly left the supermarket.

Zhang Xiaofu was originally laughing and enjoying the drama.

It was only when he heard the old ladies discussing that string of phone numbers among themselves that he belatedly realized the number Lin Xiao left was actually his!

These old ladies were incredibly skilled with their smartphones.

Soon, his phone began to ring.

There were text messages, phone calls, and WeChat friend request notifications.

"Brother Lin, you're too wicked!"

Zhang Xiaofu quickly took a few fast steps to catch up with Lin Xiao.

He put his phone on 'Do Not Disturb' mode, ignoring all messages and calls without exception.

After Lin Xiao left the supermarket, the system's notification sound rang in his mind.

[Congratulations Host, task completed!]

Uh.

This task was completed just like that, inexplicably?

Lin Xiao belatedly realized that the 'subdue' mentioned in the task probably meant 'winning over' rather than 'overpowering'.

Capturing the hearts of the old ladies with his personal charisma also counted as a success!

The lucky wheel opened once again.

He stared intently at the Superpower category, but the pointer perfectly missed it again.

Finally, it stopped on the 'A Box of Biscuits' option.

If it wasn't instant noodles, it was biscuits. Why would he need such things?

Did the system really think he was a survivor in an apocalypse?

Before the system could issue the reward, Lin Xiao spoke up: "This box of biscuits should be enough for three days. That previous task for three days' worth of food counts as completed now, right?"

[Ah? This...]

[It doesn't seem to follow the rules. That task required you to collect the supplies yourself.]

"So these biscuits don't count as collected by me?"

[It seems... they do count, but, that's not right...]

The doomsday system felt a bit dizzy.

Logically speaking, this definitely didn't meet the requirements, but it didn't know how to refute him.

It was just very difficult to deal with.

Why had the gossip system never mentioned before that this host would be so difficult to handle!

If it had known it would be like this, it wouldn't have come to fill in no matter what.

Otherwise, a minor bug would be the least of its worries; it would be a real problem if it crashed completely!

"Hey, hey, don't play dead. Hurry up and open the lucky wheel for me!"

Lin Xiao urged impatiently.

The doomsday system really had no choice and decided to just give up too.

It directly opened the lucky wheel once more.

Lin Xiao still stared at the Superpower category.

But things didn't go as he wished; he still didn't get what he wanted, and the reward he obtained this time was even worse.

Only a bottle of mineral water.

Another useless item!

Now he no longer doubted his luck but firmly believed that this must be a problem with the system!

This doomsday system must be a useless system!

No wonder it hadn't bound a host of its own and was filling in for others everywhere!

Naturally, he didn't say these words directly to the system.

As the saying goes, don't hit someone where it hurts; he couldn't be bothered to argue with a useless system.

After figuring this out, he stopped paying attention to the doomsday system.

In any case, his little Xiao Gua should be back before long.

"My god, why are they still calling!"

Zhang Xiaofu took out his phone and found that calls and various messages were still constantly popping up on the screen.

He clearly hadn't responded for a long while; how could these people be so patient?

And looking at the number of calls and messages, it seemed to far exceed the number of old men and ladies from earlier.

He opened a few messages in confusion only to find that his phone number had already spread through all the major matchmaking groups!

"This is too terrifying..."

Zhang Xiaofu clutched his hair in a breakdown.

From the looks of it, the only way was to change his phone number.

But he had used this number for many years, and he had even paid a high price for it back then. He didn't want to change it!

"Let's go."

Lin Xiao patted Zhang Xiaofu's shoulder, "We still have serious business today!"

Zhang Xiaofu gave Lin Xiao a resentful glare and silently put his phone on airplane mode.

He didn't believe that after three to five days like this, anyone would still contact him!

About half an hour later, Lin Xiao and Zhang Xiaofu returned to the school.

He had thought that finding Lin Yu in such a large campus would be a troublesome task.

But unexpectedly, as soon as they reached the main gate, they saw Lin Yu standing there, with quite a few people surrounding him and cheering.