Lin Yi froze, then looked up.
Wei Liang was staring at him in disbelief, the books in his hands slipping to the floor.
"Lao Lin, you..."
"Holy shit, let me explain!"
"I'm not listening, I'm not listening... shit, stay away from me!" Wei Liang was about to pick up the books and run, but the moment he saw Lin Yi move, he abandoned everything else and hurried to the nearby shelves with his remaining books to return them.
Lin Yi stood rooted to the spot, looking at "Super Showdown!! Cheng Yaojin VS Ximen Qing" beside his hand, then at Wei Liang's retreating back. He smacked his lips speechlessly, thinking that after this, any attempt to explain his XP really would only make things worse...
"Haah..."
He let out a long sigh, helplessly gathered up the books he could make no sense of, then went to pick up the ones Wei Liang had not dared retrieve.
But as he bent down to pick them up, the open pages of one book suddenly caught his attention.
Two female warriors were fighting on the pages. Several panels featured extremely racy close-ups of their clothes being torn apart in combat, but Lin Yi's attention was on a few other panels showing wide shots of the battle.
The background looked very much like mountain wilderness, with something of the feel of S City University's Wooded Belt...
And when he began focusing on that mountain wilderness, he actually noticed some lines that differed from the manga's own brushwork...
"This..."
Without worrying about anything else, Lin Yi quickly set aside the books in his hands and leaned closer to study the lines in the mountain wilderness.
Mu Daxian had once said that Hentai Manga was a medium for transmitting information, and Lin Yi believed this might be