"If you browse a book, you must buy it. Browsing Magic Books is prohibited; they may only be read after taking them away. Violators will be liable for substantial compensation."
A notice stood at the entrance to the fourth floor, bearing these words in several languages, including the common human language and several strange scripts Yang Yi could not read.
But Yang Yi had the system. After it identified the corresponding scripts, learning options appeared in his activity log.
[You may spend 1,000 Conch Coins to learn the ghoul language.] [You may spend 1,000 Conch Coins to learn the abyss language.] [You may spend 300 Conch Coins to learn the fishman language.] [You may spend 5,000 Conch Coins to learn the ancient Ilian language.]
There were four languages in total. Apart from the fishman language, which looked like random claw prints, the others were much like foreign scripts, either pictographs or combinations of characters.
Yang Yi simply learned them all. There was no reason not to.
Learning a language for a few thousand Conch Coins was unbeatable value!
Once he finished learning them, the two began searching the shelves, taking books that interested them.
There was really little to hesitate over. Any book they had not read was worth buying a copy of.
By reading books, players could learn more about this world.
Even writing created for entertainment was inseparable from its cultural context. Reading it could not only ease their moods but also greatly benefit their sanity and physical and mental well-being, especially on this excessively vast sea.
But books with strange titles warranted some consideration, such as the one Yang Yi held, titled "Simple, Effective Suicide Methods: Teaching You How to Kill Yourself Properly, the One Hundred Percent Effective Edition."
It was written in the ghoul