169: A pornographic book from the catacombs?

Splash...

Shen Bei surfaced, grabbed a reef, and climbed up.

Shen Bei's swimming skills weren't great, actually.

But he could swim.

The sea was also quite calm, with no undercurrents, which was extremely lucky.

He had a premonition that once Oleg realized something was wrong, he would definitely conduct a large-scale search along the coastline.

Shen Bei didn't care about other believers.

But he was extremely wary of Oleg.

Frankly speaking, a single punch could blow him up.

Therefore, when Shen Bei fled, he didn't head straight for the coastline, but instead circled around and landed from another spot.

According to Shen Bei's estimation, it should be about 10 kilometers from the dock.

But this was by no means a safe distance.

A Five-Rank Martial Artist could fly through the air.

Although the flight altitude wasn't high, and the speed couldn't compare to running at full sprint on the ground, the speed of crossing the sea was definitely much faster than swimming.

Shen Bei, with his twin blades on his back, plunged into the dense forest.

Hidden Breath Technique activated.

His life magnetic field was restrained, completely isolating him from being discovered by Vicious Beasts and causing any commotion.

He walked all the way south.

At the same time, he also had to observe the sky to avoid being discovered by Oleg flying overhead, noticing the swaying vegetation.

Gradually.

The sky brightened completely.

Shen Bei's walking speed in the Hidden Breath Technique state was not fast.

According to his estimation, he still had about a day's journey to the agreed-upon meeting point.

Just then.

Shen Bei faintly heard the sound of something breaking through the air.

He quickly lowered his posture and looked up.

A figure hovered a hundred meters above Shen Bei.

It was none other than Oleg!

He was looking around.

All he saw was unchanging green.

"This shouldn't be..."

Oleg's mind was a bit muddled.

Ever since he discovered the footprints on the shore, he had confirmed that the fake Luo Chengyuan had landed.

And entered the dense forest.

Oleg felt that this, on the contrary, gave him a chance to catch him.

After all, there were Vicious Beasts within the dense forest!

Humans passing through were walking chunks of meat!

There would definitely be battles and chases, leading to trees shaking and continuous roars.

This would make it much easier to locate the fake Luo Chengyuan.

But he had searched all the way.

There were indeed some swaying grass and trees.

But when he chased after them to investigate, they were all fights between Vicious Beasts.

The fake Luo Chengyuan seemed to have died out of thin air or melted into the air.

Why the hell didn't he trigger the Vicious Beasts' alert?

"It's too strange!"

Oleg's face was filled with deep annoyance; he really couldn't understand what the hell all the Vicious Beasts everywhere were doing?

Haven't they woken up yet?

Then, Oleg's figure paused, and he flew directly to another area.

Shen Bei slowly got up and gave Oleg the middle finger.

"It would be great if there were flying Vicious Beasts nearby... I really want to see Oleg being torn apart by flying Vicious Beasts, looking disheveled."

He continued walking.

Along the way, Shen Bei brushed past many Vicious Beasts.

He even appeared clearly in front of them, walking past swaggering.

In the eyes of the Vicious Beasts, they couldn't sense any life magnetic field from Shen Bei.

They just stared at the human-shaped rock rolling past, slightly confused.

Of course, there were also cat-like ones, curious about everything.

They kept poking Shen Bei's body with their claws to play.

They made Shen Bei dizzy and lightheaded, almost spitting blood.

Shen Bei didn't dare to make a sound or resist.

He was afraid that if the Hidden Breath Technique was dispelled, and his life magnetic field was exposed, he would directly poke a Vicious Beast's nest.

That would inevitably attract Oleg's attention.

About five hours later.

Shen Bei hid near a cliff, spread out his map, and checked his bearings.

He found that he had walked off course a bit by just blindly walking.

"No big deal, at most it's just a waste of a little time and effort."

Just then.

Below the cliff.

Shen Bei suddenly saw a Black-Striped Sawtooth Tiger, light-footed, carrying a corpse of an Otherworlder in its mouth, leaping back and forth and entering a cave.

In the Earth Cave World, Vicious Beasts not only eat humans, but eating Otherworlders is also a common occurrence.

They treat both sides equally, which is very fair.

But what Shen Bei was curious about was that the Otherworlder's corpse had a small satchel.

This greatly piqued Shen Bei's curiosity.

The last time he killed the Otherworlder Crimson, he obtained the Undead King fruit, which led to the Super-Modified Adrenaline potion.

He had killed several Otherworlders in the Earth Cave, but perhaps they were too poor, as he hadn't picked up anything.

Now that there was something readily available to pick up, Shen Bei naturally wouldn't miss it.

Moreover, with the Hidden Breath Technique, there was no need to worry about any problems in snatching food from the Black-Striped Sawtooth Tiger's mouth.

Soon.

Shen Bei arrived at the cave below the cliff.

The cave was not deep.

He could hear the sound of the Black-Striped Sawtooth Tiger gnawing on bones.

Shen Bei went straight in.

The Black-Striped Sawtooth Tiger seemed to be stunned for a moment, looked up at Shen Bei, hesitated for a while, and continued to eat.

Shen Bei pulled at the Otherworlder's corpse that was pressed under the Black-Striped Sawtooth Tiger's body.

He untied the satchel.

And casually patted the tiger's butt.

He walked away gracefully.

That's how calm and casual he was.

Can't you pat a tiger's butt?

That's because you don't know how to do tricky operations.

Leaving the cave.

Shen Bei walked and opened the satchel.

There were some sundries and food, none of which were valuable.

He discarded them directly.

What remained in the end was only a strange book.

To call it a book wasn't quite right either.

It was 'paper' made from some kind of animal hide.

The characters looked as if they were branded on with a red-hot thin iron wire.

The character lines were dark, with a yellowish-brown tinge.

He opened it.

The words inside gave Shen Bei a headache.

He didn't recognize any of them.

Shen Bei had followed Professor Gu Xinrou to learn the Otherworlder language before.

Just learning the language alone made Shen Bei's heels tingle.

Let alone the writing.

Only from a few quite simple strokes, Shen Bei understood the meaning of a few words:

"This character, translated, should mean 'suck'."

"This character means... 'big'. Yes, it's 'big'."

"Let me look at this one."

Shen Bei pointed at one of the characters in the leather book and analyzed it: "Translated, it seems to be pronounced 'ji ba' (dick)?"

Wait--

Shen Bei's mouth twitched.

A goddamn erotica?

These are all 'tiger and wolf' words (explicit terms)!

Eye-scorching!

Shen Bei spat, thinking he had found something good.

As it turned out, it was unseemly, unseemly indeed.

Shen Bei snorted, then carefully put it away.

No other meaning.

Shen Bei planned to study the Otherworlder language thoroughly, translate this erotica.

Then, with literary critique, read it thoroughly!

Exotic customs, we need to understand them from multiple angles!

"Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated, right?"

Shen Bei found a grand reason for himself.

...

The next day.

Shen Bei rushed back to the valley, finally arriving.

After climbing the ridge.

He jumped down to the platform and saw Qi Chuanyu and the others hiding in the waterway.

"Holy crap! You're finally back!" Du Ziteng quickly waved and pulled Shen Bei in.

Qi Chuanyu looked outside, then retracted his head, saying with some surprise, "You won't believe it, but we saw a foreigner fly past the outer perimeter of the valley, and it scared the crap out of us!"

Shen Bei feigned tension and said, "Oh? A foreigner? You didn't misread it, did you?"

"No, absolutely not!" Liao Zhongyang confirmed, "We all saw him! Luckily, he didn't see us."

Shen Bei rubbed his chin, "It seems there are foreign forces here."

Niu Yanben nodded, "Yeah, yeah, Shen Bei, do you think we should go scout for information?"

Shen Bei's mouth twitched.

Scout for what, a hammer!

I just barely escaped, wouldn't going back be suicide!

Shen Bei waved his hand, "We have to go back. We've been out for more than ten days, and Qianjin Camp might even be holding a funeral for us."

The four exchanged glances.

Du Ziteng quipped, "Then when we attend our own funeral, do we have to pay for the meal?"

Shen Bei rolled his eyes, "That's a question worth discussing, but not now. Let's go home!"

Zha Tian Gang packed their bags and began to return along the waterway.

On the way.

Shen Bei asked them a few questions about what they had done these past few days.

Qi Chuanyu truthfully said, "We advanced 10 kilometers along the southern coastline."

"That slow? Kindergarten kids walk faster than you." Shen Bei was a bit surprised and disdainful, crawling like turtles?

"This isn't slow!" Qi Chuanyu said, somewhat displeased:

"We have to draw maps. The coastline is easy enough, but the direction of the dense forest, where there's water, what plants there are, Vicious Beasts, even what the rocks on the ground look like, all have to be recorded."

"Oh, right." Niu Yanben excitedly interjected, "We found a very powerful adhesive on a tree!"

"Huh?" Shen Bei was a bit confused, "What's that for?"

Niu Yanben, showing off immensely, pulled out a water bottle and shook it, "Do you know which Vicious Beast was stuck on the tree at the time?"

"Oh?"

"A Six-Stage Vicious Beast, the Titan Earth-Shaking Bear! It probably scratched an itch on the tree and got stuck to death!"

Shen Bei was startled.

An adhesive force that even a Six-Stage Vicious Beast couldn't break free from, that's pretty impressive!

"It's probably worth money; you've hit the jackpot." Shen Bei congratulated him.

Niu Yanben said proudly, "I plan to name it Niu Liu's Glue!"

Shen Bei grunted, shrugged, and said nothing more.

"Hey, hey? I want to ask, what's with the twin blades on your back?"

Qi Chuanyu licked his lips, a greedy look on his face, "You didn't rob someone, did you?"

Niu Yanben gave a thumbs-up, "These twin blades are indeed powerful."

Shen Bei smiled smugly, "This story is a long one."

"Then make it short."

"The process was simple. I accidentally fell off a cliff and met an old man. He saw that I had extraordinary bone structure and would definitely achieve great things in the future, so he insisted on giving me a battle weapon. It was really annoying. You guys can't relate to this kind of trouble, nor can you feel it."

"Damn it!" Du Ziteng barely controlled his tone and facial expression, "Your ability to lie without a script is truly amazing."

Qi Chuanyu scoffed, "Not a single word of truth. As if anyone would be envious of your twin blades."

Shen Bei asked, "If I give them to you, do you want them?"

"Yes!" Qi Chuanyu answered without hesitation.

Shen Bei crossed his arms, looking at him meaningfully.

"I... I... I want a hammer!" Qi Chuanyu added.

A few hours later.

Everyone successfully escaped the waterway.

Hiding and sneaking, holding their breath in pits, it took another day to get out of the mountains and return to the swampy deadwood forest.

They dug out the Black Bat's corpse.

They built a simple dragging cart.

They put the corpse on it.

At the same time, everyone also collected various sundries, and when they couldn't fit anymore, they put everything on the cart.

They passed the Red Valley.

They marched all the way towards Qianjin Camp.

But when they were still 20 kilometers from Qianjin Camp.

Shen Bei and the others could no longer proceed.

On their path.

There was actually... an army of Otherworlders, setting up camp!