Shameless? No, Toothless~

I wasn't some great saint.

No sooner did he think of it than he acted. Du Bei entered Bibi Dong's secret chamber and immediately tagged her in the group chat.

[Bibi Dong: What do you want with me?]

[Already an Uncle: Come to your secret chamber. There's a gift from me waiting for you there.]

[Little Princess: What does that mean? Why are you suddenly giving each other gifts? Weren't you two mortal enemies before? "Confused"]

[Bo Saixi: What does that mean? Did the two of them have some sort of grudge before? Isn't Bibi Dong the Pope of your continent? Who would dare provoke her?]

[Big Goose: It's complicated. Hard to explain in a few words. Want to go to the secret chamber and talk together? It'll be easier to explain there.]

[Little Princess: I'm almost at Soto City, so I won't be going. We can talk about it another time.]

[Bo Saixi: The place where we got the key before? It certainly was a strange place, but I don't want to go in.]

While everyone in the group chatted about other topics.

Inside Bibi Dong's private secret chamber.

"Isn't this our esteemed Pope? You finally decided to come in? Don't tell me you missed me?"

Seeing Bibi Dong finally appear, Du Bei grinned and teased her, reaching out to pat the Magic Mirror beside him.

Du Bei paused the scene playing within it.

"Bastard! Du Bei, where's your shame?"

Bibi Dong strode forward and grabbed Du Bei by the collar. Their faces were extremely close, so close that they could even feel each other's warm breath.

But Bibi Dong was in no mood to care about that now.

Pointing at the scene in the Magic Mirror, her face flushed crimson as she gritted out through clenched teeth.

"You actually played this kind of film in my secret chamber, and deliberately turned the volume up so loud. Do you really think I wouldn't dare do anything to you?"

Faced with her threat, Du Bei was not the slightest bit flustered.

Instead, he calmly reached out and pried her fingers off his collar one by one.

Then he straightened his clothes.

"Why are you getting so worked up?"

"Didn't you ignore my messages? If I hadn't done this, wouldn't you have stayed out forever? I had no choice."

Seeing Du Bei's expression of this is all your fault,

Bibi Dong was nearly angered into laughter. She jabbed a finger hard into Du Bei's chest.

Her words squeezed out from between her teeth.

"So all of this is my fault, then?"

"Isn't it?"

Du Bei looked utterly justified. Then, without hesitation, he reached out and pulled the lovely woman before him into his arms.

"Alright, enough of that."

"There's something important I need to tell you. Listen first..."

"..."

The next morning.

Looking at the run-down village before them, the group of three glanced around in all directions, seemingly unable to believe that this was their destination.

After a long while, Xiao Wu finally asked hesitantly.

"Uncle? Is this Shrek?"

"Why does it feel like we came to the wrong place? What's the difference between this place and a village that never received poverty relief? Could the information Master gave us be wrong?"

Faced with Xiao Wu's doubts,

Du Bei was actually somewhat uncertain himself. Shrek had indeed been rather shabby in his previous life, but had it really been this ridiculously decrepit?

What was the difference between this place and an abandoned village?

Why wasn't there a single person in sight?

"Xiao Wu, you two rest for a bit. I'll go into the village and take a look, maybe find someone to ask..."

With that, Du Bei headed into the village.

After circling the outskirts of the village for quite a while, he finally found an elderly man cooling off beneath a large tree not far away.

"Sir, is this Shrek Academy?"

Du Bei bent over and asked politely.

He even skillfully pulled ten Soul Coins from his pocket and placed them on the bench beside the old man.

The movement was smooth and practiced beyond compare.

Yet what no one could have expected was that the moment Da Ming Ancestor saw Du Bei's face, he instantly shot to his feet!

"Black Hand Gang Reconnaissance Department outer member—Number: 02776! I have been awaiting the boss here for a long time!"

After speaking, he struck his chest with one hand and stood at attention in an extremely standard salute. He had clearly practiced the movement more than once.

It was as if he had prepared solely for this very moment.

"You are?"

Du Bei looked at the elderly man before him hesitantly. He had never imagined that there was some sort of reconnaissance department on his side...

And the old man before him did not possess even the slightest bit of soul power.

Hadn't the Black Hand Gang only recruited low-level soul masters and Soul Masters with at least some soul power before? Why were they recruiting ordinary people with no soul power here?

He was utterly baffled.

"Who recruited you?"

"Didn't I say we only recruited people with soul power? Sir, what's going on with you? Did someone fool you?"

As he said this, Du Bei nearly wanted to slap himself. It felt like he had said something pointless.

After all, only internal Black Hand Gang members could learn his appearance through one-time-use photographs. And after being seen, those photographs would immediately be burned.

The old man before him knew what he looked like, and his movements were so standard. He was clearly a Black Hand Gang member.

But what was this outer member business?

"Boss, wait a moment."

"I'll call the group leader over to speak with you. He should know more than I do..."

Seemingly noticing Du Bei's confusion, the old man immediately pulled a wooden whistle from his robes.

As a piercing whistle sounded.

"..."

On the other side of the village, the people plowing the fields froze when they heard it.

"Old Zhao's whistle?"

"Could it be that the great figure mentioned in the letter has arrived?"

The young man who had been preparing tea on the ridge between the fields immediately stood straight when he heard the whistle from the village, pricking up his ears to listen carefully.

Once they confirmed that it really was the whistle, everyone reacted.

Excitement instantly flared in the young man's eyes!

"The faith of the Black Hand Gang! Are we finally going to meet him?"

"Will that ray of light finally shine upon our village? Wonderful!"

He immediately stopped caring about the work in his hands.

Handing it directly to the children nearby, he said hurriedly, "Ah Hu, hurry and have the children call their families back to the village!"

"Tell them that great figure has arrived. I'm going to welcome him right away! We can't let him think we've neglected him! Go, go!"

The sturdy-looking child named Ah Hu immediately widened his eyes upon hearing the young man's words!

"Really, Village Chief?"

"I'll go right now..." The child named Ah Hu did not even bother with the wooden stick clenched in his mouth. He immediately ran toward where the children were gathered.

The excitement on his face was no less than the young man's.

It was clear just how much weight Du Bei held in these people's hearts. He was practically like the Angel God worshipped by Spirit Hall! Their fervor was extreme—perhaps even more excessive!

"..."

Beneath the large tree in the dilapidated village.

Du Bei had already called Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing over. The three sat beneath the tree to cool off as he drank the tea poured by the old man and asked,

"So the so-called Black Hand Gang Reconnaissance Department was organized by your village chief on his own?"

"And your village isn't the only one with this kind of reconnaissance department?"