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"Is there something wrong with those people's heads?"
"I already paid. Why were they still staring at me...?"
"They said I was showing off? How? Since when was paying for my groceries showing off?"
Jiang Fu muttered under his breath.
He quickened his pace and left the supermarket behind.
In his previous life, he had spent three years bedridden.
He had passed most days listening to audiobooks, watching shows, and letting short videos play automatically.
Aside from his parents and younger brother, he had rarely seen another living soul.
Now, faced with so many people at once, he still wasn't used to it.
Especially when they stared straight at him.
It made his skin crawl.
Jiang Fu wondered whether going so long without talking to anyone
had made him afraid of people.
Yesterday, after returning from the Wilderness Area, at the entrance to the Safety Passage and the Martial Artist Guild's Trading House,
he had felt uneasy under the stares of so many martial artists.
At least he'd had someone to lean on in his arms then. That had given him a little sense of security.
But now,
Jiang Fu was alone.
"I should've skipped the checkout and walked straight out like everyone else!"
He used his spirit power to tug down the brim of his cap.
Then he darted off in another direction.
In a corner by the street, he found the Blue Abyss Emperor Crab leg and Blue Ringed Octopus Venom Gland he had hidden earlier.
By then,
word of a mutated beast at the supermarket had drawn plenty of people over to watch the commotion.
So there were no pedestrians in this street corner's surveillance blind spot.
Jiang Fu multiplied the interior space of the backpacks he had bought by ten.
Then he packed the crab leg and venom gland into separate backpacks.
Once that was done,
Jiang Fu looked up at the sky.
The morning had been clear, but gray clouds now covered it.
A light breeze blew, carrying a chill.
Jiang Fu picked up his pace.
He sped through the city and soon returned to Blue Shore Manor Residential Area.
It was only noon.
The living room was quiet.
Shi Jiu was curled up in a corner of the sofa, wearing fluffy cream-colored home clothes.
She held her phone in one hand, but she had fallen asleep.
Jiang Fu set down the backpacks and took off his mask and duckbill cap.
After a moment's hesitation,
he walked over to Shi Jiu and took the phone from her hand.
Then he slipped his arms beneath her and gently lifted her.
Her breathing was soft and even, her sleeping face peaceful.
As if she had sensed his familiar presence,
the faint crease between her brows smoothed away in an instant.
Her fair, delicate cheek nuzzled unconsciously against him.
A faint, refreshing fragrance reached Jiang Fu.
It felt as though a feather had brushed his heart, leaving it tingling.
Next time I go to the M78 Nebula to hunt Ultraman, I'll have to cover up my scent...
Right, what was that thing for hiding scent called again...?
I'll check the Martial Artist Forum later.
I heard Darkseid and Captain America are getting married soon...
His thoughts wandered all over the place.
Carrying Shi Jiu, Jiang Fu reached the room on the second floor.
He laid her gently on the bed.
The weather was still a little chilly.
He tucked the quilt around her, placed her phone on the bedside table, and closed the door behind him.
The moment it shut,
he thought he heard a disgruntled mumble.
Jiang Fu let out a small breath.
"Oh no. I'm getting used to carrying her."
Whenever he saw her asleep alone on the sofa,
he couldn't resist picking her up.
Jiang Fu shook his head.
With a spring in his step, he returned to the living room downstairs.
He sorted the spoils of war he had brought back.
The snacks and little cakes went on the coffee table.
He left the ingredients alone.
He would deal with them when Shi Jiu woke up.
The snake venom was probably why she had fallen asleep at this hour.
Thinking of the snake venom,
Jiang Fu glanced at the backpack holding the Blue Ringed Octopus Venom Gland.
...This thing should be worth quite a bit.
But Jiang Fu had no intention of selling it.
Tier 2 Blue Ringed Octopus poison, smeared on a blade, would make a deadly weapon.
Jiang Fu also cut open the eight enormous king crab legs.
He threw away the excess
and put only the choicest portions in the refrigerator.
After putting everything neatly in order,
Jiang Fu took out the red box.
He removed the Vitality Pill inside.
A layer of wax sealed the pill.
Beneath it was a dark red substance that looked like congealed blood.
"Now isn't the time to take the Vitality Pill."
"I'll get the most out of it if I wait until the multiply-by-ten effect ends!"
Jiang Fu quietly put the pill away.
Then
he rubbed his stomach.
He had eaten plenty that morning.
He wasn't hungry yet.
"Time to try out... my Sequence!"
The thought of his Sequence sent a thrill through Jiang Fu.
He changed into his home clothes.
Taking the fishing rod and small stool he had bought that morning,
he ran to the pool behind the villa.
Space was the river, and time was its water.
At the pinnacle of all worlds, he could Fish the Heavens!
A Concept System Divine Sequence.
Fishing Fanatic Never Returns Empty-Handed!
Jiang Fu didn't know how to fish.
His casting form was far from proper, too.
But all he needed was to get the hook into the water.
The instant Jiang Fu cast his line,
the world around him, heaven and earth itself, seemed to spin and shrink at tremendous speed.
They condensed into a tiny point of light.
The point shot backward and joined countless others,
forming the phantom of a vast, surging river.
It vanished in a flash.
"Huh? There's a countdown?"
Jiang Fu hadn't noticed the river.
But a countdown had appeared on the Sequence Screen in his mind.
During those sixty minutes,
the power of his Divine Sequence could hook any item of any grade.
"Good luck multiplied by ten for sixty minutes!"
"Chance of hooking a high-grade item multiplied by ten for sixty minutes!"
Once the effects took hold,
Jiang Fu sat on the small stool and fished at his leisure.
But fishing alone felt a little dull.
So he took out his phone and used his spirit power to float it in front of him.
He began browsing the Martial Artist Forum.
"The thing that hides your scent is called Breath Concealing Spray... Straight to the point. No fancy name."
"One hundred milliliters a bottle, and it costs a hundred and sixty-six thousand?!"
Jiang Fu grimaced.
That was expensive!
"Spray it on before entering the Wilderness Area, and it hides every scent you give off."
"It lasts twelve hours."
"Oh, right. There should be some Breath Concealing Spray in the backpacks belonging to those seven martial artists who chased me!"
There had been all sorts of odds and ends in those backpacks.
Jiang Fu hadn't recognized them, so he had tossed them all into a corner.
Now,
he rummaged through the backpacks with his spirit power.
Sure enough, he found a bottle of Breath Concealing Spray in a corner.
More than half of it had been used.
"...Multiply by ten!"
Without hesitation, Jiang Fu multiplied that partly used bottle by ten.
Now he had ten bottles of Breath Concealing Spray, each with less than half left.
"Hm?"
Suddenly,
Jiang Fu felt the fishing rod twitch in his hand.
He reeled it in without thinking.
A sword shrouded in purple light appeared at the end of his line.
"That's... a sword!?"
Jiang Fu's eyes lit up.
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