Global Evolution: I Super Double Up on my evolution-Chapter 438 - 210: The Arrival of Jing University’s Campus Competition!_1
Looking at the names on the pillar, Su Yan took a deep breath, trying to calm his emotions as much as possible.
Xu Yike, Xu Erke, Xu Sanke... Su Yike, Su Erke, Su Sanke... The similarity in these names can no longer be dismissed as mere coincidence. The home where I’d spent over half a year... Whether it was my parents, my sisters, or even the Twisted Tree Spirit and Yingying Grass, not to mention those three squirrels—everything about them was problematic. Nothing was straightforward. It’s too difficult. This really is too difficult.
Although he had anticipated this, now that it was an established fact, Su Yan couldn’t help but feel a renewed wave of distress. For a moment, he felt like a clown, played for a fool by everyone around him.
After all this trouble... So... who am I, really? Why are there so many creatures, all coincidentally plotting around me?
Su Yan was utterly puzzled.
After calming himself slightly, Su Yan turned to Ji Yue beside him and asked, "That large box of Soul Beads you just gave me, where exactly in the Taoist Temple did you find it?"
"That box of Soul Beads, I found it in a room on the left side inside," Ji Yue answered without reservation.
A room on the left... Hearing Ji Yue’s words, Su Yan swam straight into the Taoist Temple, heading for the room on the left. Ji Yue, seeing this, followed closely behind.
Soon, Su Yan swam into the room Ji Yue had mentioned. It looked very simple. The first things he noticed were a bed, a table, and a stack of yellow paper on the table that wouldn’t disintegrate even if soaked indefinitely. He only noticed other small items like stools, inkstones, and writing brushes a moment later.
The owner of this room seems to have had a taste for leisure and elegance. I just wonder who it could be. Was it Xu Qingge? Or Xu Zhi? Or perhaps Xu Yike? Whoever it was, it definitely wasn’t the other two named Erke and Sanke.
Without realizing it, Su Yan instinctively projected the personalities of his own two little sisters onto the other two names on the pillar—Xu Erke and Xu Sanke—attributing to them a dislike for studying.
This room likely belonged to Xu Zhi. After all, the name ’Zhi’ means ’paper,’ which connected to the stack of yellow paper on the table. Su Yan speculated. How accurate this speculation was, he couldn’t know.
"My Lord, the box of Soul Beads you asked about just now, I found it right beneath that bamboo bed," Ji Yue, who had followed him in, said, pointing to a bamboo bed in front of them.
Hearing this, Su Yan immediately used his Five Senses Perception to probe under the bed. It was completely empty, with nothing there. However, he could distinctly sense a faint trace of Yin Energy lingering under it. This indicated Ji Yue hadn’t lied.
With this thought, Su Yan looked at Ji Yue behind him and voiced a question that had been on his mind. "I have a question for you. This ancient building, steeped in history, is located in a pitch-black cave, very well hidden. Logically, even if some creature discovered such a bottomless, dark entrance, they probably wouldn’t rush in, right? After all, there’s a risk of something going wrong. So, what possessed you to enter the cave and then discover this underwater town?"
Having spoken, Su Yan stared intently at Ji Yue’s eyes, closely observing her pupils.
Ji Yue looked somewhat embarrassed. "My Lord, you might not believe this, but when I swam over this cave entrance, I was inexplicably drawn to it. I felt an irresistible urge to get closer. The closer I got, the stronger the pull, and before I knew it, I’d ventured deep inside."
After listening to Ji Yue’s explanation, Su Yan fell into thought. While the Female Water Ghost spoke, her pupils didn’t fluctuate in the slightest... This suggested, to some extent, that she was probably telling the truth. She wasn’t lying.
Su Yan no longer dwelled on this matter, instead focusing all his attention on the surrounding ancient buildings. His gaze swept around and landed on the Brothel up ahead, and he decided to check that place out first. He chose the Brothel not out of curiosity, but simply because it was closer.
"My Lord, isn’t this place... a little inappropriate?" Ji Yue frowned, seeing Su Yan’s destination.
Su Yan ignored her. In fact, he quickened his pace and, in a few strokes, swam into the colorful Brothel. The architectural style inside was typical of a Brothel, forming a semicircle that faced the main entrance. The overall structure had two floors. The first floor was filled with drinking tables, each accommodating three to five people, with larger ones seating seven or eight. The second floor consisted entirely of rooms, their doors visible from below.
Seeing the second floor of this Brothel, Su Yan could already picture ancient beauties standing by the railings, smiling coquettishly and beckoning alluringly to the customers downstairs.
He strolled around casually, then went upstairs and pushed open each door to look inside. Finding nothing of interest, Su Yan quickly left the Brothel and headed towards other buildings.
「Over the next while,」 he visited each household in turn. He found the same situation everywhere: every house was deserted. The furniture inside was intact, showing no signs of water damage.
