Wait, What the Hell Did I Fish Up?

"Ten bait—enough for me to fish for thirty days!"

"Still, it's a little too little!"

Ever since Lin Yan had obtained good stuff from a Fine Blind Box last time, he had been unable to stop thinking about this bait.

Training?

Still training?

How could training compare to fishing?

Over the next few days...

Lin Yan was either fishing or on his way to fish.

"Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained one month of Fruit cultivation."

"Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained one month of Armament Haki cultivation."

"Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained one copy of Jin Ping Mei [Volume One]."

"Ding! Congratulations, Host..."

Generally speaking...

Lin Yan preferred stockpiling things and opening Fine Blind Boxes once he had gathered enough.

Like cracking open sunflower seeds and holding them in his hand...

Then stuffing them all into his mouth in one go.

There was no need to describe the sheer satisfaction of that mouthful!

Unfortunately, the itch in his heart was unbearable.

So he simply stopped stockpiling.

He opened a Fine Blind Box whenever he fished one up—fish one up, open one.

However...

Among the rewards he had received, an oddball appeared.

"Wait, what did I just get?"

Lin Yan suddenly raised his head.

He hurriedly looked toward the system inventory.

In the very next second...

Lin Yan was momentarily stunned.

"Jin... Jin Ping Mei???"

Surprise flashed through Lin Yan's eyes before they went blank.

This, this, this...

Wasn't this that... little dirty book that had once swept the whole country?

Lin Yan's expression turned solemn as he spoke passionately, "System, get out here! What the hell is this thing I fished up? Would I, Lin, read this kind of book?"

What a joke.

I'm a man with pride and backbone!

Who would be interested in this kind of book?

"Then... esteemed Host, would you like to destroy Jin Ping Mei?"

The system issued a prompt.

"Emmm..."

The moment he heard it was going to be destroyed...

Lin Yan, who had just declared, "Would I, Lin, read this kind of book?" immediately hesitated.

He stroked his chin before saying with righteous dignity, "Forget it. It was something I got from fishing, after all. No reason to turn down free loot."

As he said this...

Lin Yan put on a mature, worldly air.

He indicated that he merely wanted to take a look, nothing more.

Really.

Believe me.

You have to believe me!

As an outstanding young man of the twenty-first century with unwavering willpower...

He had seen all kinds of scenes in those little videos.

He could be called battle-hardened, so he did not believe a mere Little Mei could do anything to him.

Looking at it occasionally after meals could even benefit his health.

Hadn't the older generation said so?

If you wanted health and longevity, smoke, drink, eat fatty meat, sleep late, wake up late, never exercise, and make more friends of the opposite sex.

Taking advantage of his free time...

He looked around.

After making sure no one was nearby...

He secretly took out Little Mei.

He opened to the first page.

The dazzling, soul-stirring words immediately filled his vision.

Of course...

The first page naturally could not attract an experienced driver like Lin Yan.

But afterward...

As the plot gradually deepened, the pace steadily tightened, and the soul-hooking, life-stealing scenes began to emerge...

Lin Yan kept turning the pages.

Gradually...

The prowess of the foremost of the "Four Great Forbidden Books" revealed itself.

Lin Yan shuddered all over and found himself unable to stop.

"Damn, this is exciting!"

"I never thought I'd still get to enjoy benefits like this after transmigrating to the Pirate World!"

Lin Yan's Adam's apple bobbed, and his eyes went wide with fascination.

He kept reading Little Mei.

The more he read, the better it felt.

The more he read, the more absorbed he became.

Fishing?

Could fishing compare to Little Mei?

This fishing...

I might as well not fish at all.

It had to be said...

Little Mei, the foremost of the Four Great Forbidden Books, truly deserved to be called a masterpiece.

Lin Yan was now, at the very least, one of the New World's top fighters.

But as a normal man...

Who could resist upon seeing this kind of book?

It was hard.

I meant my fist—my fist was hard!

Meanwhile...

At the port of this archipelago...

Izo, commander of the Whitebeard Pirates' Sixteenth Division, arrived.

One had to know...

These waters were all territory of the Whitebeard Pirates.

The Whitebeard Pirates' flag had even been planted on the island.

Now, residents within their own territory had been threatened by other pirates.

Izo's expression immediately darkened.

He promptly led the members of the Whitebeard Pirates' Sixteenth Division over.

Because of the distance...

The journey took a full day.

However, when they arrived at the scene...

Izo was slightly stunned.

The imagined village devastated and plundered by pirates...

Was nowhere to be seen.

Aside from the faintly scorched smell in the air...

It was not nearly as ruined as he had imagined!

What was going on?

Izo was puzzled.

After settling the villagers...

Izo began asking about what had happened.

When he learned...

That someone named "Lin" had helped them and wiped out the Battleaxe Pirates...

Izo was slightly shocked.

He had heard of the Battleaxe Pirates.

Their bounty was 150 million, and they were decisive killers, bloodthirsty to the extreme.

The only thing left in places they targeted was ruin.

If it had only been Battle Axe himself, that would have been one thing.

The key was...

They had...

An entire pirate ship's worth of men!

For such a powerful pirate crew to vanish into thin air overnight...

Without even leaving behind bodies...

Was truly inconceivable.

"Lin?"

Izo narrowed his eyes and committed that name to memory.