Chapter 10 Into the city
The rain on the beach is sometimes so strange, and it comes and goes quickly. When Qianyunsheng arrived in Hong Kong, it was still cloudy and rainy, and when they woke up the next day, the sun was already shining.
The crew was excited, and although the voyage was shorter than expected, the two months without seeing a fishy smell still made the crew hungry and thirsty.
What's more, there are already well-dressed women standing on the dock, just like delicate flowers waiting to be picked. So, the crew members, who had just received their wages, flew out like a swarm of stinky flies.
Although the old captain told his crew not to spend the hard-won silver taels, and that he might be able to get a wife after saving a few times, his cunning eyes had already betrayed his true thoughts.
If these crew members really saved money honestly one by one, as he said, instead of spending every copper on their bodies in the short time they spent on the shore as they are now, how could anyone be willing to follow him to sea again?
What's more, this time the ship has to be repaired, and it will take more time to be at the dock. As a result, the crew has more time. The old captain felt that the next time he set sail again, the pockets of these crew members would be cleaner than their faces.
Qian Yunsheng didn't bother to care about these careful thoughts, you must know that for mortals, birth, old age, sickness and death may already be the whole of their lives.
But for immortal masters like Qianyunsheng, there are many more things to worry about than these extremely simple desires. I am like a mud bodhisattva, how can I still take care of others?
Today he also has an important matter, which is to go to the tooth shop with the old captain.
This is the place where all captains and immortal masters must go when they return, and the old captain must go there to cancel the contract he made with Qian Yunsheng, and Qian Yunsheng can hang the information of his acceptance of employment back to the tooth shop.
Of course, the old captain had already settled the thirty spirit stones that he had said before, and he had already settled it with Qian Yunsheng in private. What I have to do today is to get the final formalities done.
Today's passage into the city is particularly strange, and the queue is particularly long. Qian Yunsheng stood in the crowd of people coming and going with his hands behind his back, looking at the latest notice that had just been posted on the notice board at the city gate.
There were even people sent by the city lord's mansion on the side of the notice, who were afraid that some of the people who were illiterate or did not pay attention to the people who came and went, and read aloud over and over again in a rather neutral voice:
"In recent days, traces of demon attacks have been found in many places in and around Linhai City, causing many deaths and injuries inside and outside the city......"
"The demons are cruel, and the characteristics of the deceased are often hideous, and there is a ...... of dehydration"
"The current city lord's mansion reminds everyone entering the city to be careful and vigilant, especially at night, guard the door, and don't go out......"
"And the city lord's mansion offers a reward for catching demons, and those who provide clues will appreciate fifty spirit stones at one time, and those who catch demons, whether they live or die, will appreciate one hundred spirit stones at one time..."
"A hundred spirit stones, it's almost time for me to go to sea. Qian Yunsheng looked at the list and said secretly: "It's really big!"
Although the first tongue offered such generous conditions in the city lord's mansion, the favorable conditions often mean that more dangers will be faced.
Now he is anxious to find the Nine Secluded Land, and since he is originally an "evil cultivator", he naturally subconsciously will not consider taking the risk of exposing himself with just these hundred spirit stones.
In addition, Qianyunsheng knows more than ordinary people that this world is a mixed world composed of the spirit world, the demon world, and the human world. Although the barriers between the interfaces block a lot of low-level communication like mortals in the human world, if there is a powerful force, the barriers between the interfaces are not incomprehensible.
Therefore, in fact, for the City Lord's Mansion, it is first necessary to find out what kind of demon it is: is it just some "evil cultivator" who has practiced the wrong or vicious exercises like himself, or is it a great power from another world.
And the gap and difference between the two and the risk gap contained in them are huge.
This is also the fundamental reason why he is not interested in exploring the situation, he knows too little about the situation now, and if he makes a rash move, the risk and output are likely to be completely disproportionate.
Qian Yunsheng secretly pondered to himself, if there were only a few "evil cultivators" who did not form a climate, with the still important status of Linhai City, I am afraid it should have been done a long time ago.
And now that even the notice has been posted to show everyone, it shows that this is definitely not a simple demonic phenomenon. Thinking of this, Qian Yunsheng rubbed his head and sighed in his heart, this world is really getting more and more dangerous.
In the Southern Wilderness before, listening to the facts of those who escaped one after another and what he saw himself, he could basically piece it together, and there was obviously a great war going on over there.
Some people even said conclusively that the battle in the Southern Wilderness was an immortal-level war, and the legend said that there was a shadow of the soul clan in the middle.
Soul Race, what an ancient name for a race!
I'm afraid that any information about the soul race is more than 10,000 years old, and people have never seen the true appearance of this race in these 10,000 years.
It's not peaceful on the Nanban side, and it seems to be the same on the East China Sea side now. In addition to this strange incident, rumors of other strange things are also spreading more and more in the market.
What's wrong with this world?
He strung all the information together like beads, and it seemed that he could only come to the conclusion that the world was becoming more and more abnormal, which also gave him some faint bad premonitions.
The Captain Elder hurriedly emerged from the crowd, holding two gray tokens in his hands.
He looked up and finally saw that Qian Yunsheng was reading the notice, so he stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve to prevent the two of them from being separated in the crowd. Then he pulled him back and squeezed towards the gate of the city.
The old captain complained to Qian Yunsheng as he walked: "Today, these defenders of the city don't know what medicine they have taken wrong, and they feel like demons when they catch anyone." ”
"If it weren't for the fact that I still have a little friendship with their Steward Cao, I don't know if this procedure can be completed today. ”
Qian Yunsheng was pulled by him, looking at the chatter and complaint of the old captain who was usually sleek, and couldn't help but smile in his heart. It seems that these soldiers have made the old man angry, otherwise how could even a person like him lose his temper?
The two men did not squeeze into the crowd that was already standing on one side and lined up in a long line to enter the city. Instead, under everyone's envious eyes, with the old captain's token, he successfully entered through a small door on the side.
More than a month of life at sea is estimated to have suffocated the old captain, and when he returned to human society, he was chattering endlessly, not without pride: "Money can make grinding ghosts, with this brand, how much time has been saved for us!"
Qian Yunsheng didn't say anything, and looked at him talking there with a smile.
Walking through the city gate and into the street, Qian Yunsheng and the old captain both had their eyes lit up.
The appearance of people coming and going on the street, the cries of small traders and vendors, the crisp sound of bells, steamed buns and the gurgling of boiling water underneath make up a particularly fireworks scene.
Qian Yunsheng stared at these familiar pictures in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Life at sea is really hard, but fortunately, I'm finally back!"
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