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"..."
The raven thought to itself, "You have no relation to them, so why should they let you drink water?"
Here, you don't have to follow any of the traditional drinking culture of Yan State. Who cares about social etiquette? You'd be lucky to get a drink of water...
"How could they possibly let you drink it..."
Just as she was about to complain, she discovered that several tiny, shrunken strings, carrying several bottles of unknown contents, had quietly returned to Li Ji's hands.
"I didn't say I was drinking it, did I?"
Li Ji's lips curled slightly as he casually picked up a wine bottle and tossed it into a corner with the sound of it hitting the wall.
With curiosity in mind, the raven looked closely and was shocked to see three simple characters printed in bright red on the bottle that had been tossed into the corner:
[96%]
Raven: "?"
She looked at Li Ji's confident expression, then glanced in surprise at the empty bottle in the corner.
no……
The water you're talking about, is it this kind of water?
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Water of Life
Inside the dimly lit wine cellar sat several people who were already completely drunk.
Li Ji was like a war god, accompanying Ling while also getting those Dulin men to drink heavily.
Even Shu frowned at the sight.
Li Ji has now drunk his sixth barrel of wine, while two of Du Lin's men opposite him are already unconscious.
Based on the amount of water Li Ji released, an ordinary person would definitely be in the hospital receiving emergency treatment by now.
96% water – also known as the water of life.
However, this "water of life" is just a nickname; its real name should be distilled spirit, or distilled vodka!
As the world's highest-proof and strongest liquor, its alcohol content is as high as 96%, which is exactly what is written on the bottle.
If you lower the concentration, this stuff can even be used as medical alcohol for disinfection.
Even so, Brother Dulin continued to gulp down the wine mixed with the water of life.
"Brother, you're not drunk after drinking so much! That's amazing! This is a vintage wine that the theater troupe leader has been treasuring for five hundred years!"
He even watched as Li Ji pulled out handfuls of money.
"Brother, the person I admire most in my life is someone who can drink like you. A reward, a generous reward!"
He mumbled incoherently, as if he was just one step away from passing out drunk.
And Ling, who was standing to the side, seemed to be in the same state.
Fueled by alcohol, she lay on top of Li Ji. Perhaps because she was too hot, she pulled her clothes down a bit, allowing Li Ji to have a clear view of her from her elevated position.
It felt like if there weren't other people around, Ling would have done something strange.
"Everyone says that people from Dulin can drink a lot, and it's really true, but how come you're drunk too?"
Seeing this, Li Ji wanted to take out a bottle of water to help Ling sober up, preparing for the final wave of drinking.
But before he could even take it out, the bottle was snatched away from him by the Dulin people.
"What kind of lousy water are you drinking... Is this even fit for you... Burp~ Watch me make you drink it all, you're not cut out for water. Drink alcohol, all of you drink alcohol!"
Du Lin snatched the water bottle from Li Ji's hand and gulped it down, causing his already flushed face to turn even redder.
"Wait a minute, this plain water...why does it taste like nothing?"
He smacked his lips, trying to figure out what this tasteless thing was.
But as soon as I lowered my head, I stared wide-eyed at the 96 on the bottle.
Then his vision went black, and he collapsed onto the barrel of wine behind him, falling into a deep sleep.
……
"Okay, that's all!"
Li Ji looked at the unconscious Du Linren in front of him, clapped his hands, and stood up as if nothing had happened.
"Wake up, stop pretending."
He supported Ling with one hand and patted her slightly flushed cheek with the other, saying, "If you get drunk so easily, you've been drinking for nothing all these years."
Li Ji held onto Ling's shoulders with both hands and swayed him left and right, but Ling remained stuck to Li Ji like a limp rag, showing no signs of waking up.
"I don't want to, carry me away."
Ling suddenly changed her attack, snuggling into Li Ji's arms instead of leaning against him. Her dark blue tail gently brushed against Li Ji's face as she spoke with a slightly tipsy expression.
As she spoke, she scooped up a glass of wine from the side, brought it to her lips, and drank it down in one gulp. She even scooped a glass for Li Ji after she finished.
"It's delicious! Why didn't you bring it out sooner if it's so delicious...?"
"..."
Upon seeing this, Li Ji immediately cut off the live stream's video and audio without saying a word, leaving only the wailing audience outside.
[Eating alone?]
[At least let me hear a sound!]
[Brothers, please report this live stream.]
Li Ji did this not for any other reason than he realized that Ling might actually be drunk.
Isn't this just a clear indication that she herself secretly drank the water of life?
And it looks like they drank quite a bit.
As he spoke, he glanced at Ling's status bar—Ling, who should have been at full health, was now in a state of [0/24, mentally disoriented, drunk].
But there's nothing we can do about it.
The water of life... who wouldn't get dizzy after drinking too much of it?
Seeing Ling clinging to Li Ji like an octopus, the other two members of the Sui family couldn't sit still any longer.
"Get up, I'll carry you on my back. You should feel better on the way."
Chongyue was also having a bit of a headache, so he stepped forward and put Ling's arm on his shoulder.
However, Ling stubbornly pulled her arm away from Chongyue's shoulder and hugged Li Ji again.
"I don't want my older brother to carry me."
She uttered those six words briefly, then hugged Li Ji with a silly grin on her face.
"PhD……"
Chongyue looked at Li Ji somewhat awkwardly. He remembered that his younger sister's drinking manners were quite good, so it was indeed a bit uncomfortable that she was making a scene at this time.
"It's alright, I have another plan."
Li Ji waved his hand, then pulled out a bottle of drink that looked exactly like the color of the sanity potion from who-knows-where.
He handed the drink to the drunkard in front of him and then raised his glass to clink with his.
"Here, cheers."
"Hmm? Cheers!"
Ling mumbled a response, and after speaking, the two of them raised their glasses and drank them down in one gulp.
However, after drinking the sanity potion, Ling still lingered in Li Ji's arms, stroking his cheek with her tail.
"Stop making a fuss now that you're awake."
Li Ji first looked at Ling, whose status bar had been restored to normal, then pointed to Chongyue and Shu behind him, "They're both watching."
"That's true, then let's continue next time when no one is around."
The two parted ways, and Li Ji restarted the live stream.
At this moment, viewers who had regained access to the live stream saw Ling Du starting to straighten his clothes on the screen.
This caused the already non-stop barrage of comments to surge even more.
[Can you visualize it now?]
[Oh no, it seems we've already entered the after-sex cigarette phase. ???]
[Math teacher: What's the process?]
[Raven: There are cows? I won't play.]
[The raven is the latecomer, isn't it? Who should be shouting "There's a cow here!"?]
[So, the childhood friend actually won... The "sudden arrival" trope failed miserably! ??]
"Wow, Doctor can really drink! I used to think that Doctor was so weak, he couldn't possibly drink much..."