This bookstore in the outpost was selling most of the Subterranean Sea's published books. The bookstore's four walls were also covered in books of a variety of sizes.0

However, it was deserted compared to the other shops throughout the outpost, and it was all because the majority of the explorers didn't really care about the knowledge that they contained. 0

The newly arrived books with white covers didn't attract any attention except for the attention of explorers with "special interests" searching for pornographic books.0

"Ugh, it stinks… it's so smelly," Lily said with her face scrunched and her nose covered by her tiny paw as she moved away from the new pile of books.0

"That's the smell of money—the smell of the expensive purple-ringed octopus ink. It's a scent...1