Aboard the Nightmare Star, on the Sea of No Light.
Yang Yi received the payment from Deputy Cult Leader Ma Dabao, a total of one hundred thousand Conch Coins.
At the same time, this also meant that the One-Eye God Statue selection had been rigged, with the winner already decided: One-Eye himself.
There'll be a lot to do tomorrow. I have to work on the God Statue and photograph the books to upload them...
As he thought, his gaze slowly shifted toward the little house glowing on the wall.
"Cui Xiya, there's something I'd like to discuss..."
Early the next morning.
Cui Xiya had changed into the black dress she had altered herself. It fit perfectly and had lovely lace patterns. Combined with the light shining through, it was simply perfect.
She was flipping through books on the desk, taking photographs to record their contents.
Yang Yi had told her last night that as long as she photographed all forty books and sent him the pictures, she would get 10,000 Conch Coins in pocket money.
That was no small sum. It could buy ten bottles of Holy Water in the Holy Capital, enough to cover three months of her food and drink!
But she ate other foods now, too. Perhaps she could buy something else, like some tasty pastries...
Suddenly, a drumming sound came from inside the Captain's Quarters.
"All right, stop pounding!"
Yang Yi sat up, and the drumming stopped abruptly.
He lifted the black gauze bed curtains he had specially ordered to block the light, got up, and headed outside.
Cui Xiya was still taking photographs. Only the last book, which taught people how to commit suicide, remained.
It described many "gentle" methods of suicide, progressing from poisoning, suffocation, bloodletting, beheading, and gouging out the heart to