CHAPTER 121: CHAPTER 121: RE-ENTERING THE SECRET REALM, OBTAINING AN ALL-TERRAIN OFF-ROAD MOTORCYCLE!

The slightly salty sea breeze brushed through Lin Yue’s hair.

Treading on the golden sand beneath his feet, he looked at the endless expanse of pale blue seawater behind the gate, feeling a bit dazed.

When was the last time I saw the ocean?

There wasn’t any ocean in the Otherworld; at first, there weren’t even lakes or rivers. Not until the last earthquake did a large lake and a river like a gigantic crack appear in the desert.

But before he had a chance to see them, the water turned dark green, and even the mutant creatures stopped drinking it.

Now, seeing Earth’s incredibly blue ocean and hearing the sound of waves crashing against the rocks nearby, his mood seemed to be cleansed.

But... isn’t this Ancient Secret Realm Gate a bit too close to the shore?

Lin Yue looked around and estimated that it was only about a dozen meters away.

He glanced up at the sky.

On the other side of the sun, the brightness of the pale full moon was clear even during the day.

Good heavens, what if the tide comes in...

"Puchi~"

Bai, seeing such a vast amount of seawater, seemed extremely excited, quickly running towards the ocean as if to take a dip.

But just as it was about to touch the water, it suddenly stopped and quickly ran back.

"Puchi! Puchi!"

Bai looked at the vast ocean with terror, warning Lin Yue about the dangers within.

"Bai, even without those monsters, the ocean is the most dangerous place," Lin Yue said, patting Bai’s head. The ocean was full of the unknown and danger.

The only thing not present was the various materials he needed.

As for the seawater, Lin Yue hadn’t thought of any use for it yet. Even if there was something to be done, it would be the last thing he would collect.

He looked up at the distance, and on the coastline that wasn’t too far away, stood buildings of various sizes.

"A coastal city?" Lin Yue pulled out the telescope and examined the buildings, noting most were already in ruins. "I wonder if there’s any leftover materials?"

"Puchi~" At this moment, Bai seemed to have discovered something, calling out to him from a distance.

Lin Yue quickly walked over and unexpectedly found an iron lump with only the tip exposed, buried under sand.

Iron Spear tapped it, and it emitted a crisp sound.

Use 1 survival point to appraise it?

[Twin-cylinder four-stroke sports ATV (Damaged)]

ATV? Wait, isn’t that an all-terrain vehicle! A four-wheeled off-road motor vehicle!

Though named "ATV", this vehicle could travel across steep slopes, beaches, creeks, and any terrain where ordinary cars struggled, truly embodying the spirit of "off-road" vehicles!

Good heavens, to find such a thing here!

Lin Yue was thrilled beyond belief.

Previously, he thought about going somewhere but always found it too far and exhausting by foot, needing either a vehicle or a road.

But now, having found this ATV, his tasks were significantly reduced.

[You’ve acquired: ATV (Damaged)]

Though it was damaged.

The ATV was quite large; even with a 42-cubic-meter Storage Space, Lin Yue still found it insufficient.

He ran to the Ancient Secret Realm Gate, opened the door, and directly placed the ATV in the yard, quickly closing the door and rushing back.

"Puchi?" Bai didn’t understand why his owner left, but the sand under his feet was too hot, so he had already run to the distant road.

Lin Yue looked around and found nothing worth taking, so he set up an Iron Spear here and tied some yarn to it.

The vast stretch of sand made it easy to lose track of the Ancient Secret Realm Gate location, and Lin Yue did not want to find himself trapped here unable to locate the gate.

Walking out from the sand, Lin Yue first removed his hiking boots to shake out the sand inside before catching up with Bai, who had already gone ahead.

The beach wasn’t far from those tall buildings, only about four to five hundred meters away. Lin Yue kept a vigilant eye as he closely followed Bai.

"These look more like apartment buildings," Lin Yue observed the row of red-brown ten-story buildings overlooking the beach, muttering to himself.

He also noticed that beneath the buildings seemed to be various shops, marked with English letters.

In an English-speaking country? The first instance was nearly in Tokyo, but these last two times seemed similar to places in Europe.

And as he neared those shops, seeing a map on a metal sign lying on the ground, Lin Yue finally understood where he had arrived.

Australia!

Good heavens, he had come here.

Lin Yue recalled those documentaries and news of giant snakes, spiders, lizards, blue-ringed octopuses, and felt his hair rising.

However, it seemed these creatures and the people who lived here had all vanished.

Inside the Secret Realm, there were no original Earth’s creatures.

Even the large rats encountered initially, in hindsight, only looked somewhat like rats, but were definitely not creatures Earth once had.

Things like the Monster Winged Dragon, giant insects sucking human blood, and enormous creatures like mountains with long tentacles that flew seemed like nightmares from some horror story, not originally endemic to Earth.

Meanwhile, creatures in the Otherworld seemed like randomized combinations of Earth’s traditional flora and fauna.

Mutant Sheep was like wolves and sheep, Spotted Wolves like sika deer and wolves, and Tiger-striped Shadow Deer were like tigers and deer.

Could it be that creatures from the two worlds swapped places? And some entity, no, perhaps a system transferred Earth’s original creatures to the Otherworld?

Lin Yue speculated as he walked up a step, touching the glass on the door’s edge.

[You’ve acquired: Thick Organic Glass X1]

Bank.

Unconsciously, Lin Yue seemed drawn by the word BANK.

Banks, with the strongest internal and external facilities.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be called a bank.

And "strong" happened to be Lin Yue’s favorite word right now.

"What could be inside the bank? Strong multilayer glass and... the vault!"

Lin Yue and Bai entered through the modernized bank’s grand doors.

His hand touched the camera beside the door.

Took it.

He approached the counter and, upon seeing the ATM machine nearby, thought for a moment and collected three of them.

Not for anything else; they had screens, were alloy-made, and had operating systems.

No reason not to take them.

As for the money inside... money in the Otherworld was less useful than a piece of toilet paper.

Lin Yue turned on the flashlight and walked to the dust-covered counter, reaching for the ultra-thick burglar-proof glass and storing it in the Storage Space.

These were excellent items; rather than being covered in dust, better for him to use them.

Without the glass, Lin Yue easily hopped into the counter where he quickly found some good stuff.

"To think, there’s so much of this stuff here?!"

He exclaimed in surprise.