The rain at the beach is so strange sometimes, it comes and goes quickly. When Qian Yunsheng and the others arrived in Hong Kong, it was still cloudy and rainy, but when they woke up the next day, the sun was shining brightly.
The crew members were all excited. Although the time to go to sea this time was shorter than expected, the two months without seeing any fishy smell still made the crew members hungry and thirsty.
What's more, there were already well-dressed women standing on the pier, just like delicate flowers waiting for people to pick them. So, the crew members who had just received their wages flew out like a swarm of smelly flies.
Although the old captain kept telling his crew not to waste the hard-earned silver, as he might be able to find a wife after saving a few times, his cunning eyes had already given him away. Real thoughts.
If these crew members really saved money honestly one by one as he said, instead of spending every penny they had in the short time they docked at the shore like they do now, how could there be anything left? Who would be willing to follow him to sea again?
What's more, we have to repair the ship this time, so we need to spend more time at the dock. Therefore, the crew has more time. The old captain felt that when they set sail next time, the crew members’ pockets would be cleaner than their faces.
Qian Yunsheng didn't bother to worry about these little thoughts. You know, for mortals, birth, old age, illness and death may already be their entire life.
But for immortal masters like Qian Yunsheng, they have much more to worry about than these extremely simple desires. I am like a clay Buddha, how can I care about others?
He has another important thing to do today, which is to go to Yahang with the old captain.
This is the place where all captains and immortal masters must go when they return. The old captain must go there to terminate the contract he made with Qian Yunsheng, and Qian Yunsheng can re-link the information about his acceptance of employment back to Yahang.
Of course, the old captain had already settled the salary with Qian Yunsheng privately for the thirty spiritual stones agreed upon before. What we have to do today is mainly to complete the final procedures.
The passage into the city was particularly strange today, and the queue was extremely long. Qian Yunsheng stood in the crowd with his hands behind his back, looking at the latest notice that had just been posted on the bulletin board at the city gate.
There were even people sent by the city lord's palace next to the notice. They were afraid that some of the people coming and going might be illiterate or careless, so they read loudly over and over again in a strong voice:
"In recent days, traces of demon attacks have been found in many places in and around Linhai City, causing many casualties inside and outside the city..."
"The demons are cruel in their methods and look at the characteristics of the dead, often with hideous faces and signs of dehydration..."
"The city lord's palace now reminds everyone entering the city to be careful and vigilant, especially guard the door at night and not go out..."
"The City Lord's Mansion offers a reward for capturing the demon. Anyone who provides clues will be rewarded with fifty spiritual stones at a time. Anyone who captures the demon will be rewarded with a hundred spiritual stones at a time, regardless of life or death..."
"One hundred spiritual stones, it's time for me to go to sea." Qian Yunsheng looked at the list and thought to himself: "It's really a big deal!"
Although Zha Yu offered such generous conditions to the City Lord's Mansion, generous conditions often meant facing more dangers.
Now he is anxious to find the Land of Nine Netherworlds, and since he is an "evil cultivator" in the first place, he will naturally not consider risking exposing himself with just these 100 spirit stones.
In addition, Qian Yunsheng knows more than ordinary people that this world is a mixed world composed of the spiritual world, the demon world, and the human world. Although the barriers between interfaces block a lot of low-level communication between mortals in the human world, if someone powerful takes action, the barriers between interfaces are not insurmountable.
Therefore, in fact, for the City Lord's Mansion, the first thing to do is to figure out what kind of monster it is: whether it is just some "evil cultivator" who practices deviant or vicious skills like himself, or whether it is a big monster from another world. able.
The gap and difference between the two, as well as the risk gap contained in them, are huge.
This is also the fundamental reason why he is not interested in exploring. Too little is known now. If he takes action rashly, the risks he faces are likely to be completely disproportionate to the output.
Qian Yunsheng secretly thought that if there were only a few insignificant "evil cultivators", Linhai City should have been settled long ago due to its important status.
And now that even notices have been posted to clearly inform everyone, it means that this is definitely not a simple demonic phenomenon. Thinking of this, Qian Yunsheng rubbed his head and sighed secretly, this world is really getting more and more dangerous.
Previously in the Southern Wasteland, after listening to the people who escaped one after another and the facts he saw, he could basically piece it together. It was obvious that a huge battle was going on there.
Some people even said with certainty that the battle in the Southern Wilderness was an immortal-level battle, and there was a shadow of the Soul Clan in the legend.
The Soul Clan, what a race with such an ancient name!
Any information currently recorded on the Soul Clan is probably more than ten thousand years old, and in these ten thousand years, people have never seen the true appearance of this race.
The Nanman side is not peaceful, and now the East China Sea side seems to be the same. In addition to this strange incident, more and more rumors of other strange things are spreading in the city.
What's wrong with this world? Qian Yunsheng had doubts in his heart.
He stringed together all the information like beads, and it seemed that he could only come to the conclusion that the world was getting more and more abnormal, which also gave him a vague premonition.
The old captain hurriedly emerged from the crowd, holding two gray tokens in his hand.
He looked up and searched around, and finally saw Qian Yunsheng reading the notice, so he stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve to prevent the two of them from being separated in the crowded crowd. Then, they pulled him back and squeezed towards the city gate.
As the old captain walked away, he complained to Qian Yunsheng: "The city defenders didn't know what kind of medicine they took today. Everyone they caught looked like a monster."
"If I hadn't had some friendship with their Manager Cao, I don't know if this procedure would have been completed today."
Qian Yunsheng was pulled by him and couldn't help but smile inwardly as he watched the usually tactful old captain complain endlessly. It seemed that these soldiers had made the old man very angry. Otherwise, how could someone like him lose his composure?
The two of them refused to squeeze into the crowd that was already standing aside and waiting in a long queue to enter the city. Instead, despite the envy of everyone, and with the old captain's token, he successfully got in through a small door on the side.
More than a month of life at sea must have exhausted the old captain. After returning to human society, he was chattering endlessly and proudly saying: "Money can make the devil go. With this brand, we have saved so much." Time!"
Qian Yunsheng didn't say anything and looked at him with a smile.
After passing through the city gate and walking onto the street, both Qian Yunsheng and the old captain's eyes lit up.
The sight of people coming and going on the street, the cries of vendors, the crisp sound of bells, the sound of steaming buns and the gurgling of boiling water for the noodles below, all together create a particularly pyrotechnic scene.
Qian Yunsheng stared at these familiar scenes in front of him and couldn't help but sigh: "Life at sea is really hard, but fortunately, I'm finally back!"
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