Not Familiar

The building covers a ground of 100,000 square meters with a century of history and a collection of tens of millions of books.
As the most impressive university library in City A, its usual popularity goes without saying.
Even with a relatively perfect reservation system, the highly coveted seats of the reading room and the self-study room still cannot meet the demand of the visitors.
Especially the secluded treasure spot of the main building that is near the windows, with outlets, and not exposed to direct sunlight.
The effort that students use to snatch a seat there could almost compete with the top experts of a large hospital. 

In addition, the canteen is far away, takeouts cannot be brought in, the supermarket only has a small stock of convenience food, and the library proclaims that students should not be away from their seats for more than 30 minutes.
With all the kinds of difficulties added up, calling Library A at lunchtime a rat’s nest would not be an exaggeration.

However! When there are difficulties, there are also business opportunities!

On this day, Li Ting came to the small open space behind Block C of the West Building, which is the main building in Library A.
When he arrived carrying 3 layers of giant thermal containers in his hands, it was already filled with refugees-, no, students waiting under the tree that had received the text message in advance.
As soon as they saw him, every one of them had eyes that glowed green as if they were wolves who smelled meat.

Under enthusiastic gazes, Li Ting calmly opened the lids of the containers with one hand and pulled up the payment QR code from the phone with the other.
He stepped forward…scanned one, gave a rice bowl, scanned another one, gave another rice bowl, until the cheerful beeping sounds that came one after another mixed in with the stertorous sounds of people gobbling up and wolfing down food. 

“Hey…this bowl doesn’t seem right, I ordered the three-fresh rice bowl.
This is chicken? It’s five yuan more expensive.” One of the students questioned the lunchbox he had just received.

The mechanic-like meal handling process was not interrupted by this small complaint, in fact, Li Ting did not even turn his head.

“No more three-fresh, only chicken, give it back if you’re not eating it.”

The complainer shut their mouth decisively.

“Um…bro,” When the last rice bowl was distributed, a boy with a bowl cut said to Li Ting, “Are you free this afternoon? Can you save a seat for me on the seventh floor? My girlfriend will be coming over later to study, I already told her ok.”

Li Ting didn’t say a word, he lowered his body and packed the bags on the ground.

“The usual price.” The boy was anxious.

Li Ting closed the empty thermal containers. 

“Plus ten?”

Li Ting looked around.

“Plus another five?”

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Li Ting looked at his watch. 

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The boy’s face twitched a few times.
He saw that quite a lot of people had already finished their meals and were returning together like a school of fishes, he bit his teeth.

“Fine, eighty, giving you fifty as a deposit first, transferring it now!” 

Li Ting finally nodded slightly when he heard the melodious “ding-ding” from his phone.

He turned around, lifted the containers and stuffed them into a large bush, then walked straight into the elevator of the building and pressed 7F.

Most of the books on information science, engineering, and law are on the sixth to ninth floors of Library A.
This is usually one of the areas of major outbreaks, let alone this period of time like the end of June.
Li Ting, who is not wearing any takeout delivery uniform, blends perfectly into the students of University A with his refreshing T-shirt and jeans.
In fact, he looks more outstanding than many of the other boys.

He came to the hall on the seventh floor with familiarity but did not rush into the reading room.
Instead, he silently stood by the door and glanced inside.
Since it was lunchtime, there were still a few seats left in Area A, but there were more or less some personal items placed on them, showing that the owner is only temporarily away and will soon return. 

Third from the left, fifth from the right, second from the front, eighth from the back… Li Ting counted four seats.
He took out his flip phone that only has a 4-inch screen and took a few pictures.
After confirming that although the picture is blurry, the general content can be seen clearly, Li Ting opened the door and walked in.

He knocked on the information desk, the administrator who was busy dealing with affairs looked up and couldn’t hold back but rolled his eyes immediately after seeing him.
He cursed quietly: “You’re here again…playing with illegal profits, you really aren’t afraid that the securities will throw you out.”

Li Ting is completely immune to such impolite personal attacks, and nodded without changing his expression: “Illegal profiting is indeed not good, but compared to some people’s embezzlement and theft, I don’t know who would be easier to get thrown…”

The rest of the sentence was interrupted by the person who jumped up and tried to cover his mouth: “I-, I didn’t…” 

“You didn’t succeed because you were found out by me…” Li Ting swiftly dodged past those salty trotter hands as he impatiently exposed the other, and then knocked on his watch to signal that he was in a hurry.

The face of the threatened administrator turned ten times darker than the guy with the bowl cut just downstairs.
He concealed his writhing anger and unwillingness, said: “Even if I want to help you, I can’t just randomly cancel other people’s reservations anymore.
Recently, people from the Computer Science and Technology department came to upgrade the system again.
Work-study students like me don’t have permission to enter deep into the server-side, and suspicious operations would also get screened by the system.”

Seeing that Li Ting was silent, the other party continued to emphasize because he was afraid that Li Ting did not believe him.

“It’s true, the old version of the reservation system was so wasted that it always dropped reservations by itself, which is just perfect for us to mess with, but now this new system has a very high safety factor.
Just to confirm something, you will have to log in, again and again.
Not only can we not mess with it, but also annoying to death, the