They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 84 Adeline in the Newspaper

Ria pried open its mouth to examine its throat, then pulled out and examined each of the translucent organs one by one, but ultimately found nothing inside.

He had always been curious about where the mythical creature kept its things. If it was hidden on its own body, and the mythical creature was parasitic on Ria, then it was as if those things were stored in Ria's own body.

Koria had no idea about any of this, and didn't even know where Little Swarth usually stayed when he was inside her body.

He was completely unaware of the presence of the mythical creature within his body.

Of course, if he could perceive it, then their relationship could not be described as "parasitism" and "being parasitized".

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it "symbiosis".

Before its arrival, Ria would feel nauseous and vomit due to excessive absorption of faith; after its arrival, this discomfort successfully disappeared.

This led Ria to wonder if those beliefs had been eaten by mythical creatures.

Or perhaps it numbs its own nerves, causing the host's body to no longer resist those foreign beliefs and no longer produce an exclusionary reaction.

This situation just didn't feel right, but Ria didn't think it was a bad thing. Anything that could keep him alive was a good thing, and in this world, being able to stay like this in his current state was already the greatest fortune.

As for Little Swarth—the owl-like form currently outside is only a small part of the mythical creature, but it can only grow to this size at most; any larger and it will become distorted, extending countless jet-black tentacles.

A thin mist even forms in the air a few millimeters from the edge of the tentacles, making them look like products of an alien dimension.

So Ria is very concerned about the fact that it seems to have grown a little bigger. If it's just growing bigger from eating too much, that's fine. But if it's because it came into contact with meme cards, then that's quite intriguing.

"Goo?" Little Swarth scratched its severed head with its paw, not quite understanding what its host was thinking, but it seemed to know that its host was looking for two meme cards, so it showed the stored cards to Ria.

Its transparent throat undulated slightly, and two cards slid out from inside. But miraculously, after passing through such a sticky place, they didn't get wet at all and remained perfectly intact.

Ria picked up the two cards and examined them closely, while Little Swarth took the opportunity to reconnect his bones and return to his normal appearance.

It jumped onto the table, looked around, and then turned its gaze to the car window, its pupils reflecting the receding scenery outside.

Little Swarth found this amazing and began to wonder why it remained still while the scenery outside kept moving, and whether the scenery outside could remain still if it started to move.

This physics problem was giving it a headache. It felt that it might grow a brain and soon become the first mythical creature to discover this phenomenon, which should be named after it.

It ran to the window and scratched at the windowsill with its two front paws, while Ria examined the two meme cards, trying to figure out what differences still existed.

The back of the "Black Merchant" sign features a gray background with a white square border, and in the center is a top hat pattern composed of several large and small white gears.

The emblem of the Order Association is two gears, one large and one small.

Ria didn't know the connection between the two organizations, but James had told her in his spare time that the Order Association was founded before the Guardians. "These two organizations are really at odds with each other, from their names to their symbols. The Guardians are even bolder, which shows that the Guardians are powerful and have no fear of the Order Association."

The Keepers of the Secrets were all people with extraordinary powers, so they shouldn't have needed to be afraid of the investigators. But even so, the Keepers of the Secrets did not eliminate a group of ordinary people.

Aside from being wary of the mysterious items within the organization, the only other reason to keep them around was to ensure they still had a use.

Both organizations can solve extraordinary problems, but their approaches are very different.

"Hmm... I still can't see the difference between the two cards except for the patterns on the back." Ria compared the two cards many times but didn't find anything unusual.

Moreover, having new meme cards won't suddenly turn him or Little Swarth into werewolves. To add new memes, one can only continuously portray new identities until they are recognized by the Extraordinary.

He put away the meme cards. Sitting in a car all day is something that makes you drowsy in any world, let alone here where there are so few entertainment options.

Feeling bored, Ria asked the train attendant if books and newspapers were sold on the train. Upon receiving an affirmative answer, she was overjoyed and bought several thick stacks of newspapers for entertainment.

The news articles in these newspapers can help him quickly learn about the world and broaden his horizons. They also make it easier for him to quickly expand his topics when interacting with others, so that he doesn't appear to outsiders as a naive and easily fooled college student who has just entered society.

Lia wasn't actually interested in political news; he always preferred reading more entertaining short stories and jokes. But now he had to read all the news and memorize it.

An article introducing a tourist attraction happened to mention Adeline, which he was about to visit.

The newspaper described Adeline as a large industrial city, geographically located in the center of a coal-producing region, where the steel industry is highly developed, and the Manlawi Steel Bridge, which is quite famous throughout Enderles, is a must-see.

Moreover, many universities are located there, providing a considerable pool of talent for Adeline's development.

The Gottawell Canal runs through the entire city of Adeline, dividing it into North Adeline and South Adeline. The newspapers described the city's prosperity and development in such a beautiful way that it seemed to be a completely different world from the town of Wins that Ria had first encountered.

One can fully feel the author's pride in his hometown from the words of the plagiarist; this can be described as an article with a very strong subjective consciousness.

But even in a city like this, Endeles still suffers from the same problems.

That is, sunny days are rare and rainy days are many. In such an environment, people rarely use umbrellas when they go out in the rain because they don't know when the rain will stop or when it will rain on their heads again.

Moreover, such weather makes many people prone to depression. The rapid development and high-intensity work make people more likely to suffer from mental illness than people in ordinary places.

"Snapped."

Ria closed the newspaper; he had been reading for a long time and was about to take a break. Little Swarth remained squatting motionless by the window, his eyes fixed on the outside.

Unlike before, it had changed its gaze from the scenery outside the window to the distant, continuous mountain range.

(End of this chapter)