36, Junior High School Graduate

It took a few days of wandering around the mall.

In the end, Lin Zichen successfully found an old man to act as his personal shopper.

This old man was a local landlord, owning several properties for rent. On his days off, he'd stroll through the mall in his boxer shorts and flip-flops, helping to tidy tables or dig through trash bins for empty bottles to sell.

He wasn't short of money, but he just liked collecting trash to save up.

Every time he found an empty bottle, he felt an immense satisfaction, elated to the point of bliss.

All Lin Zichen had to do was tell the old man that all the empty bottles from his house would be his, and the old man happily agreed to help him with the purchases.

With the personal shopper settled,

the thirty thousand yuan he had was quickly spent.

All on devouring Phantom Squid Meat, consuming thirty jin in a row, directly boosting the progress of the Phantom Squid album to 33%.

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In the half month of summer vacation that followed,