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Chapter 296 Three Generation-Level Stones, The Question of the Ghost Bell (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Agubaru was actually quite uncertain about when Caesar would emerge from its belly. If Caesar were to disappear forever, it could only weep and lament, howling to the heavens:

"Friend, it's delicious."

And the facts are indeed converging towards this possibility. More than half a day has passed, and there is still no sign of Caesar flying out on the phoenix. The speculation in Agubaru's mind is gradually being confirmed.

"No! Shark doesn't want to eat people!" The 300-meter giant shark was terrified and trembling. It was so frightened that it started to talk nonsense, "Friends don't taste good, but rippers do... Friends don't taste good, but rippers do."

If it were to actually eat a human, then its very existence would be transformed. Having lived on the seabed for over a thousand years, this Abyssal Shark has never preyed on humans. Even when it surfaced and was fortunate enough to encounter a group of fishermen, it merely poked its head out, curiously observing the fishing boat bobbing on the sea.

As the brightly lit fishing boats sailed away, the fishermen's high-pitched songs grew softer and softer, and the last glimmer of light in the night disappeared on the horizon, the shark thought to itself how wonderful humans were, so lively and bustling, unlike it, where it was difficult to even find a member of its own kind.

To avoid the trouble of eating his friend alive, Agubaru simply closed his eyelids and took a nap.

It thought that if it ate Caesar while it was asleep, it would just pretend it never happened when it woke up. After all, it was a shark, which was barely considered a fish, and fish only had a seven-second memory. When it got light, it should forget about yesterday.

Looking into the distance, the 300-meter-long giant shark resembled a dark blue floating fortress, suspended motionless in the air, while the tides around its body rose and fell.

Its mouth was still wide open, leaving Caesar an escape route.

If Caesar really does disappear without a trace, Agubaru still has a backup plan. It will take a month to fully digest the legendary whale, which means that the miniature world within his body can be maintained for at least another ten days.

For the next ten days, as long as Caesar stays obediently inside the legendary whale's belly, he will be in no great danger.

Meanwhile, Agubaru could approach Xia Pingzhou and ask him to release the Queen's statue to search for Caesar inside his stomach and see if he could be retrieved.

Even if we can't retrieve the Queen's statue, we can ask the rest of the Brigade for help, since Ripper still owes them a favor. If we can lure Ripper into Shark's stomach and have him swallowed whole, that would be a good option, but then Xia Pingzhou would automatically explode on the spot on September 1st.

Fortunately, the situation was not that complicated. About five minutes later, a sudden bird-like shriek rang out from its body, followed by a burst of flames swirling out of its throat.

As the intense heat dissipated, Caesar lowered his arm from his forehead and looked up at the giant shark that was facing away from the sun.

"Aguru, turn back to normal!" he shouted. "It won't be good if someone finds out!"

"oh oh."

Yagubaru was stunned for a moment. In fact, in this uninhabited sea area, there might not be any other people within a radius of several kilometers. The only possibility of being exposed was being found by satellite surveillance.

With a length of over 300 meters, it floated in the air. In the satellite's monitoring view, it was like suddenly seeing a dark, heavy cloud in a clear sky, which was extremely abrupt.

It shrunk to two meters in size, then flew forward like a rocket and arrived beside the phoenix.

The air pressure in the sea area has risen considerably, the seawater no longer churns for no reason, and the atmosphere has stopped hissing.

"What's going on?" Agubaru stopped and looked at Caesar with curiosity.

Caesar's hair and clothes were soaked through, the firelight of the phoenix warming his body. He lowered his head, closed his eyes, and let out a long sigh of relief. The feeling of basking in the sunlight after escaping death was still lingering in his mind.

He recalled the vision he had seen inside Abbasah's belly, riding the phoenix down Abbasah's throat, where he saw a bottomless abyss, as vast as the universe.

From small items like seaweed, guns, cola cans, and leftover cakes, to large items like trucks and containers, everything floats in the abyss, slowly decaying into nothingness.

The reason the truck appeared was because Caesar and Yagubaru had encountered a gang fight when they were on their way to the mafia to find business.

The other party drove a large truck into us, but at the last second, opened the door and fled. In desperation, Agubaru had no choice but to swallow the entire truck whole. Everyone present was stunned, and the other party roared as the monster fled in panic.

Afterwards, Caesar chuckled dryly, pointed at Agubaru, and claimed that this was his fragment of a strange tale—"The Great White Shark"—telling everyone not to panic. Then he summoned the Strange Tales Catalogue.

Agubaru cooperated by shrinking his body, and Caesar squeezed him into the catalogue, slamming it shut with a "snap," nearly crushing him into tiny pieces. The gangsters, watching this scene, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Caesar shifted his gaze from the truck. At this moment, in this bottomless abyss, the most striking thing was, of course, the legendary whale that was two hundred meters long.

The whale still had vital signs, but its eyes looked as if it were dead, and its body rose and fell in the cosmic environment as if it had lost gravity.

Caesar was deeply shocked. He rode the phoenix and plunged into the mouth of the legendary whale, where he saw the miniature garden falling apart.

The afterglow enveloped the world, painting the sea a dangerous and dazzling red. The islands had been moved, leaving the sea empty as the tide rose.

An endless flood submerged this monotonous world. Schools of bright red fish floated in mid-air, frantically pounding against the whale's belly with resounding thuds, driven by their will to survive. The sounds from all directions converged, like a symphony of apocalypse being played.

Finally, with the help of the Phoenix, Caesar successfully achieved his goal.

After a long while, Caesar suddenly opened his eyes, curled the corners of his mouth at Agubaru, and raised his right hand.

"Got it," he said.

Agubaru turned his head and saw that Caesar was holding three cards on his right index finger, and the back of the cards was flashing with orange light.

It recognized the three fragments of the legend. The first card depicted a towering tower reaching into the clouds, the second a colossal beast covered in black mud, and the last a massive cruise ship.

All three are fragments that the Royal Court team used.

"The Tower of Babel, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Titanic?" Yagubaru murmured in surprise.

He initially thought Caesar was just daydreaming, but unexpectedly, he actually found the fragments left behind by the Royal Court team for Caesar. Indeed, the saying "fortune favors the bold" is true.

"I haven't found the other generation-level fragments of the Royal Court team; they've probably returned to nature. But I'm already satisfied with finding these three," Caesar hummed. "Great! Great! Shark's breakfast is ready!" Yagubaru exclaimed with delight, opening his mouth to reveal a row of sharp teeth.

"What are you doing? I didn't find this for you to eat." Caesar was stunned and quickly put away the fragments.

"Please feed me."

"No! I have to save it for battle, at least until we wipe out the Light-Eating Bees."

"Oh, okay then." Yagubaru pouted. "By the way, aren't you a B-rank Oddity Envoy? How come you need so many fragments? You might as well give them to Shark to eat, that would be a more efficient use of resources."

After this period of training, Caesar's level of Oddity Envoy has been raised from C to B.

A B-rank Oddity Envoy can be bound to a maximum of three Generation-level or higher Oddity Fragments. In other words, besides 'Phoenix' and 'Christmas Sleigh', Caesar can only be bound to one more Generation-level fragment, which is obviously not enough to accommodate the three fragments of 'Tower of Babylon', 'Loch Ness Monster', and 'Titanic'.

“Keep it for now.” Caesar summoned the Book of Strange Tales and held it in his hand. “I think I can become an S-rank Strange Tales Envoy like Li Qingping within a month. Then I can use all five generation-level fragments I have.”

After saying that, he stored the three generation-level oddity fragments in his hand into the catalog.

“Alright,” Agubaru said with a sigh, “I admit your father was right, you are indeed a genius among the oddities.”

Whether it was due to the king's blessing or his own extraordinary talent, Caesar broke through a realm every few days after mastering the cultivation method.

If he maintains this pace of progress, he might actually reach the pinnacle of the Mysterious Envoy in a month, beyond the reach of even the most monstrous or genius-level talents.

Caesar's talent in Strange Tales is probably comparable to Mario's talent in Exorcist, to the point that he's almost worthy of being recruited into the Salvation Society.

Agubaru snapped out of his jumbled thoughts, transformed into a palm-sized little shark, and landed on Caesar's shoulder.

"By the way, which fragment do you plan to bind first?" It patted his head with its fin.

"I haven't decided yet." Caesar shook his head. "We'll see. I don't know which fragment will be more useful when facing those bee-like creatures."

He thought for a moment and said, "But I will try my best. After we deal with the Light-Eating Bees, we still have to fight against that organization called the 'Salvation Society' and rescue your friend, right?"

“To be honest, even five generation-level fragments might not be enough to fight the Salvation Society,” Agubaru said.

"Why? Could it be that they have some kind of mythical wonder?" Caesar was taken aback.

“Yes.” Agubaru nodded and said calmly, “Those like the Monkey King, the World Tree, Zeus, etc., don’t they sound amazing? I heard that each of them can beat up six or seven Calamity-level ability users. Even I, Shark, tremble in fear in front of them.”

“Really?” Caesar raised an eyebrow and murmured, “I thought it was just a fragment of a legend. My father also said that he had never seen a mythical tale.”

“Are you scared?” Agubaru said. “It’s not too late to back out now.”

“What’s there to be afraid of?” Caesar shook his head, his eyes shining. “Besides… witnessing mythical tales is every tale maker’s dream.”

"What if he dies?" Ababaru suddenly asked.

"Would you die with me?" Caesar said softly. "If someone dies with me, I won't be afraid. If you weren't here, Agubaru, I'd probably die with Li Qingping, right? I've thought about it, and it doesn't seem so hard to accept."

Agubaru was taken aback.

After a moment of silence, it nodded, thinking to itself that its third unit could die with it, but its main body was not so simple. If it were that easy to die, the Salvation Society would have already destroyed its body and disposed of the evidence.

"Let's go, I'm hungry too. Let's go back to Hokkaido and have a big meal. Miss Ripper transferred a lot of money to me, and I don't think we'll be able to spend it all in a while."

"Shark wants to eat sashimi!"

"I'll buy you whatever you want to eat, just don't secretly eat my fragments of strange tales."

Meanwhile, in another corner of the world, Gu Wenyu opened his eyes from his hotel room bed. He stretched out his restraints, pulled out his slightly vibrating phone, and glanced at the screen.

[Ghost Bell: How is Kino?]

[Black Chrysalis: Don't worry, your son is great, and he might even find a girlfriend. Uh... isn't there a saying that a woman pursuing a man is like piercing a thin veil? Although neither of them really looks human.]

[Black Chrysalis: By the way, Mr. Kino and I have worked together to find the murderer of your wife. His nickname is "Father of Puppetry," and he's characterized by wearing an oversized trench coat.]

[Ghost Bell: Father of Puppetry?]

[Black Chrysalis: That's right. By the way, I have some good news for you: this guy is also a member of the Salvation Society.]

After sending the message, a notification popped up in front of Gu Wenyu's eyes.

[Main Quest 2 (Phase 3) Completed: Help the supervillain "Ghost Bell" find clues about the Rainbow Wing members.]

[Quest rewards obtained: 1 skill point, 1 attribute point, 1 split point.]

Main Quest 2 has been updated to the next stage: Help the supervillain "Ghost Bell" kill four Rainbow Wing members belonging to the "Salvation Society faction."

　Ask for monthly ticket orz
　　
　
(End of this chapter)