Chapter 698 Departure, Bearded Strait!
Su Jiu finally flicked Little Foolbird’s forehead a few times. He stood up and looked at his slightly wet right knee. His gaze fell on Lin, who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead. Casually, his eyes swept over her slightly darkened white stockings.
“Such a big person, still so childish…”
Su Jiu found it amusing, but he couldn’t say the last word “pee.” Lin, the girl in the black sweater, who bounced up like a rabbit, tugged at his clothes. She lowered her head, covered her mouth, and spoke in a low voice:
“I did not! Do not slander me, or I will kill you even if I die.”
Lin felt warm beneath her, her face flushed. She was filled with shame. When she was pressed against again for the second time, she had instinctively relaxed, trying to adapt. She hadn’t expected that…
She had relaxed too much due to the high pressure…
And leaked.
Biting her lip, Lin was grateful for her long hair that could hide her distressed face. Her eyes were cast down, staring at her toes, as if trying to find an excuse to save face.
It must be due to drinking too much soda that night. How could she leak just by being touched there?
She was not human!
“Alright, you didn’t.”
Looking at the blushing girl before him, Su Jiu patted her head as if comforting a child. He took out a new pair of black leggings from his ring and handed them over, stifling a laugh.
“Put them on, or they’ll smell.”
“I just don’t want my body to be stained with the aura of a con artist. Don’t misunderstand.”
After a moment of silence, Lin lowered her head and emphasized, reaching out to take the black stockings. The moment she took them, she darted into the bathroom like a whirlwind.
“This Little Foolbird…”
Su Jiu shook his head, changed out of his Crow Feather Attire into a black cartoon dinosaur hoodie and low-waisted denim shorts with blue and purple striped nylon socks, looking like a hot girl.
After all, this set of Crow Feather Attire was too conspicuous. Although it could resist damage, they weren’t going to fight the Ancient God Sect. Wearing this attire would easily cause unnecessary trouble.
The bathroom was filled with mist, and the toilet door was obscured.
Lin changed out of the white stockings soaked with pale yellow liquid. A chill spread to her thighs. Her gaze fell on the slightly yellowish water stains on the crotch, and an extreme sense of shame surged in her heart…
No matter how she tried to deceive herself, it was useless. She had actually leaked in front of that con artist, and even onto the con artist’s leg!
Ahhhh!!!
Lin looked at the flushed, drunken-looking girl in the mirror. She desperately wanted to deny that this was an expression she would show, but when she forcefully calmed down and snuck a peek…
The girl in the mirror was also shyly peeking.
This appearance was like a young pomegranate in early June, showing the shyness of a teenage girl who has pretended to be cool for a long time in front of her crush, only revealing it when she’s alone.
This was something Lin, who had never had friends and had been a shut-in for decades, found hard to accept.
“This expression is too stupid!!”
“Thump thump!!”
A moment later, a sound like demolishing a building came from the bathroom. Su Jiu could even feel the ground shaking. He looked at the misty toilet and shouted:
“Can you make less noise when you take a bath? Otherwise, people will think a monster has broken in!”
The commotion inside seemed to be voice-activated. As soon as Su Jiu finished speaking, she became more careful, leaving only the sound of her quietly bathing.
Ten minutes later, the door of the steamy bathroom was slowly pushed open. A petite figure wrapped in a bath towel walked out. Without saying a word, she sat on the sofa and started playing with her phone.
Su Jiu looked at the bathroom and found that the walls and floor were full of pits, and flying broken tiles were everywhere. He then turned to look at Lin and saw a red mark on her forehead, as if she had fallen and bumped it.
Instantly, Su Jiu understood what had happened.
Just as he was about to laugh, Lin put down her phone, looked at him, and pointed to her head very seriously, whispering, “I just fell accidentally.”
“I know.”
Su Jiu blinked and nodded.
I’m trying my best to cooperate with your act and conceal it.
As evening approached, someone knocked on Su Jiu and Lin’s door. Upon opening it, Lin Chujiu walked in, followed by two students and her cousin Su Ze.
“These are Half-King level students. They are familiar with the nearby waters and will act as our guides. Teacher Su Ze will also be joining us to research the monsters in the nearby waters.”
Lin Chujiu slightly turned sideways to reveal the man and woman behind her. Looking at their intimate actions, they seemed to be a couple. Su Jiu’s cousin was holding a cigarette with a dark expression, suggesting he hadn’t slept well for a long time.
It was likely that, like Lin Chujiu, he had been “cultivating” these past few days, staying up late and working overtime.
He noticed Su Jiu looking at him, then scratched his messy hair and took the cigarette out, coughing and saying, “Cousin Su Jiu, don’t worry, I’m just going to research. It won’t affect you.”
Su Jiu was a bit confused. “Shouldn’t research be done in the Cherry Blossom Country? Cousin, this ransom trip is very dangerous. If there’s nothing important, please don’t come along.”
Hearing this, Su Ze wanted to brush it off, but Lin Chujiu patted his shoulder and said softly, “Speak up. If the research is genuine, it might affect the progress of our trip.”
Listening to Lin Chujiu’s words, Su Jiu became even more confused. Even if the Great Serpent’s remnants were on land, what could affect their progress at sea?
“Forget it, since everyone here is family, I’ll tell you. While investigating the relics, I consulted a lot of historical records about Hyakki Yako in Sakura Country and found a turtle called the [Rotating Turtle]…” Su Ze said slowly.
Hearing this, Su Jiu was slightly surprised. He had encountered monsters with the [Rotating Turtle] bloodline before. It seemed that the people in Sakura Country called it [Leviathan]?
At a crucial point, Cousin Su Ze paused and scanned the people gathered around. He took out several printed copies from his pocket. From a distance, they looked like radar scans. He handed the copies to Su Jiu and continued:
“While cooperating with the Sakura authorities, I unintentionally discovered through radar that a large creature was heading towards Redbeard’s location at an extremely fast speed. Wherever it passed, it was accompanied by heavy rain and lightning, and magnetic field interference. Satellites could not detect its form…”
“But fishermen are said to have seen its appearance above the water from afar, near the port area. It was like the back of a mountain.”
…
It was night, with no moon.
On the boundless deep blue ocean, the steamship, with its mournful cries, gently swayed. Occasionally, the sea breeze would blow, and the sail emblazoned with the Sakura emblem fluttered lazily.
This was a light warship rented by Lin Chujiu, and it was steered by a few temporarily recruited old sailors.
“Life has finally become leisurely. Little Foolbird is cultivating again, so let’s talk about the essence blood after she stabilizes.”
Su Jiu sat on the railing, looking at the dark expanse ahead, swinging his legs. Beside him, E Huo was fishing with a sea rod, occasionally tapping the fox’s head.
“Wait… Fox? It seems to be a Battle General level?”
As if noticing something, Su Jiu turned to look at E Huo, his gaze falling on a small head peeking out of her pocket. The person and the fox made eye contact.
A moment later, she pointed at Popcorn in the small pocket and asked E Huo:
“Where did you abduct this little pet from?”
“This is Popcorn, E Huo’s Beast Pet!”
E Huo put down her fishing rod, took the little fox Popcorn out of her pocket, puffed out her chest, and said proudly.
“Uh, then don’t let it die.”
Su Jiu was very democratic towards children like E Huo. Raising a Battle General level pet was nothing. It was just that this little fox looked familiar. However, judging by its level, it should just be the same fur color.
After all, with Inari God living there for so long, it would be too strange if there were no others of its kind?
“How could I let it die! Popcorn only needs a little to be full.”
E Huo puffed out her small cheeks and put the little fox back into her pocket, turning her head away. She felt that her mother looked down on her. Her pocket money was enough to raise Popcorn!
Little foxes were easy to raise!
Reaching out and poking E Huo’s balloon-like body, listening to the “poof poof” sound of air escaping, Su Jiu couldn’t help but chuckle:
“A little bit, is that relative to your appetite?”
While Su Jiu and E Huo were conversing, a light seemed to be coming from ahead, illuminating the dark deck. Su Jiu stretched his neck to look and saw a ship with a pirate flag blocking their way.
