Chapter 27: The Incredible Legend of Liyue
"Hey, have you heard? There seems to be some unrest outside of Liyue Harbor recently."
"Ah? What do you mean by unrest? You haven't listened to too many storytellers and your mind is not clear."
The friend who was chatting with me was immediately confused : "How could you know that there is trouble outside the city recently when we are ordinary people?"
"No, you have to believe me, it's really not peaceful out there."
My friend was anxious: "Everyone in the city has been saying recently that the trees outside Liyue Harbor have basically become spirits that sneak into the city in the middle of the night to capture people for food. How could you not know about this kind of thing?"
"ha?"
The other man looked his fat friend up and down and said, "Why haven't you been arrested yet? Logically, arresting you should be enough to feed you for a day."
"Listen to me, you bastard!"
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"It is said that the trees that have become spirits will suck those people dry, put them in cages made of branches and vines, and hang them on the trees to intimidate other creatures and tell them that this is their territory!"
"Uh, don't tell me you've actually seen it."
"how do you know!"
…
Nonsense, if you haven't seen it, how could you prepare so many weird things to show off in front of me.
"Let me tell you, that night, after I had a few drinks, I wanted to go outside and enjoy the cool mountain breeze."
The fat friend looked at his companions mysteriously: "Then I saw vines coming out from all directions and directly trapped a skinny person!"
"real or fake?"
Although my friend likes these supernatural things, he has never boasted since he was a child, which in a sense can be considered a virtue.
"Really? How could I lie to you about this? If you still don't believe me, let's go out and see for ourselves tonight!"
"Thank you very much. You are not afraid of death, but I am."
Such conversations have become the norm in Liyue Harbor recently. As a port with thousands of merchants, basically everything big and small will be related to business.
However, some of Liyue's legends related to traditional culture have disappeared in this era.
And now that such a "unique seedling" has suddenly emerged, it will naturally attract everyone's attention.
"Ding ding~, sir, the coffins you ordered from our Hall of the Dead have all arrived. They are all fine items made of the finest wood."
"If it is convenient, please give the smart, beautiful, kind and lovely master of the Wangsheng Hall a hundred times the price."
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Hu Tao glanced at the dozens of coffins neatly arranged nearby, walked briskly to Gu Sanqiu's side, and poked his cheek with her finger.
"Sanqiu, it's so rare that you still remember me when such a good thing happened. I am so moved that I almost cried."
"So many coffins! This is a big business that our Wangsheng Hall hasn't seen in a long time!"
"Strictly speaking, your Wangsheng Hall doesn't have any big business coming in regularly. This is something Qixing should be thankful for."
Gu Sanqiu ignored Hu Tao who was treating him like a balloon, and instead raised his hand calmly. The green vines and branches lifted a dried corpse into the coffin, nailed the coffin lid shut, and affixed the incense burner and the unique spell of the Wangsheng Hall.
Well, it's mainly to prevent these strange creatures from hurting ordinary people after they rise up. They are quite powerful, and they will only be more powerful after becoming zombies.
"Sanqiu, why don't you just cremate them ? It would be much more convenient."
Walnut tilted her head and thought carefully for a while: "Wouldn't it be better for you this way? After all, there are so many people and so many coffins, and now is a peaceful time."
"Cremation? This kind of thing is beyond my ken."
Gu Sanqiu smiled and said, "How can the gold content of the urn be higher than that of the coffin board? Don't you think so?"
"you mean……"
At the same time, somewhere in Liyue Harbor, several well-dressed and well-built people were smashing everything in the room angrily.
Tea bowls, antiques, chairs, landscape rocks...Oh, this thing seems impossible to smash.
"What on earth does that brat want to do? Don't we know what he thinks he is planning?"
"If we don't go and save them, then in the end no one will dare to work for us anymore. Everyone will think we are the kind of bastards who don't care about the lives of our subordinates. How will we survive in Liyue Harbor then?"
"Then continue to send people. We will work together. I don't believe that a young man like him can cause any trouble. This is Liyue Port, which is protected by the law. He, a worshipper, won't dare to do anything reckless!"
"Protected by the law? Haha, believe it or not, once this matter is exposed, the other party will be protected by the law."
The quarrel was still going on, or rather, it had already started when Gu Sanqiu spread the supernatural legend of "trees eating people".
They knew what Gu Sanqiu wanted to do, and the other party also understood that if they really killed all of these people, the loss would be just a drop in the bucket.
So the other party did not choose revenge in the conventional sense, but chose a strategy of destroying the heart!
These people are there, someone dies every day , and every day there are subordinates who expect to be rescued by their superiors and senior managers and die in anger. Will you save them?
People from other forces are watching your actions, and the rest of your subordinates are also watching you, wanting to see whether the higher-ups they work for treat them as human beings. Will you save them?
Although strictly speaking, most of those guys at the top may not regard their hardworking subordinates at the bottom as human beings, they still have to maintain the necessary fig leaf.
What they are discussing now is how to save people, but for Gu Sanqiu, how could he give these guys more time to think of countermeasures?
"Report——"
A servant knocked on the door outside: "Master, a lot of coffins appeared in the courtyard for no reason. The family has sent people to ask for countermeasures. What should we do!"
"What!"
A noble lord stood up suddenly and, at the signal of others, called the servants into the room.
"Tell me in detail what happened!"
"Master, Master, I can't give you the details."
The servant's lips trembled: "Those coffins appeared out of nowhere. If we hadn't dodged quickly, they might have broken several people's legs."
"There is also the Gu family's unique corpse-suppressing seal on it, but the spell on it is slowly disappearing!"
"Master, make a decision quickly. The family guards and worshippers have surrounded the coffin. If there is no other solution, we can only report to the police. Human life is at stake, Master!"
What!
Cold sweat instantly broke out on the noble lord's forehead. They knew what the Corpse-Suppressing Seal was. If such a thing really rushed out of his house, this alone would be enough to give him a headache!
And the seal that suppresses corpses is disappearing, isn’t this a sign that the corpses are rising?
That bastard Gu Sanqiu, he probably raises and suppresses the corpses himself. He goes through so much trouble just to make them uncomfortable!
"Report——"
"Master, help me!"
…
The continuous noises outside the door instantly woke up some of the people who were gloating.
This was a shrill sound that I had never heard before, and it sounded like a soul-calling sound...
That little lunatic Gu Sanqiu, did he put coffins in all of our homes?
