Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 142 The Millennium Zombie King

Li Xuan had been cultivating for five months, and his internal magical power was almost depleted. Recovery in the real world was very slow, so he decided to go directly to the mission world to recover.

He stood in the garden, looking at the green seedlings that had grown to six centimeters tall, and said, "Time to get to work. Give me a more interesting job so I can grow a bit."

The green seedling swayed its leaves, bursting with green light, and Li Xuan vanished instantly...

A half-shaved head, a rat-tail braid, a gray linen coat, and straw sandals.

As soon as Li Xuan opened his eyes, he saw people with pigtails walking around. They were sallow-faced and thin, some wearing short jackets, sweating profusely, loading and unloading heavy bags under the supervision of the foreman...

This is a seaport.

He was a little stunned. How did he end up in the Qing Dynasty again?
The dock was crowded with people, including foreigners coming off cruise ships, as well as fake foreigners dressed in suits, carrying canes, wearing top hats, but sporting a half-shaved head and a tail.

It must be the late Qing Dynasty.

Otherwise, given the Qing Dynasty's desire for control, from officials to peddlers, it was a matter of "keep your hair or lose your head," or "keep your head or lose your hair." Unless you were a Taoist priest or a Buddhist monk, everyone had to shave their heads almost completely bald, leaving only a tuft of hair the size of a copper coin at the back of their heads...

Now there's a two-tone hairstyle, which means you don't have to shave it so drastically; you just need to shave the top of your head forward.

He reached into his pocket and found that his funds were still plentiful. He then grabbed a man who looked like a laborer and asked, "I'm a little seasick after getting off the ship. Excuse me, what place is this?"

The man, with dark skin and a somewhat disoriented expression, said, "Guangdong, this is Shagang."

Seeing that he seemed a bit off, Li Xuan asked, "Brother, why are you so downcast? Did something happen?"

The man said, “My sister wrote from home saying that my mother is seriously ill and we have no money to buy medicine. I’ve been away from home for three years, working as a laborer at the docks, and I haven’t been able to save even half a tael of silver.”

As he spoke, he suddenly burst into tears, wiping them away with his dirty hands. He said, "I know I'm a useless person, but my poor mother carried me for ten months and gave birth to this worthless thing."

Li Xuan was silent for a moment, then took out a handful of loose silver from his pocket and stuffed it into his pocket, saying, "Brother, you are very filial. Take this money and go home quickly."

In the late Qing Dynasty, one tael of silver could only buy fifty catties of rice.

Purchasing power was far less than imagined. Looking at the scene of these laborers at the dock receiving their money from the supervisors, it was all in copper coins, which clearly indicated that the laborers were paid by piecework.

He had sufficient funds for his mission, so he took out some loose silver.

The man was stunned, not knowing what Li Xuan had stuffed into his pocket. He reached in and grabbed something hard and crumbly, pulled out two pieces of silver, and almost knelt down when he saw what it was.

Silver, silver?

The clearest view of silver he ever saw in his life was when the steward presented a tray of large silver ingots when the town lord was taking a concubine…

The man was terrified and immediately knelt down before Li Xuan, crying, "Sir, you are of noble status, please don't joke with me, please take this back..."

Besides cargo, the dock also sees many people from other places coming and going every day.

Those with power, influence, and wealth have a particular fondness for toying with the poor. For example, they might throw a piece of silver on the ground and wait for some unlucky person to pick it up. Then they would falsely accuse the person of stealing the money, call the authorities, and either break their hands on the spot or imprison them until they die if they have money to buy their release.

The law? These people are the law!
As long as there are poor people in this world, the docks will never lack laborers!
When the man saw the silver, it was as if he could see the scene of his hands being broken.

He had to stop because Li Xuan was wearing a pristine white shirt—something poor people couldn't afford to wear…

He can't afford to offend him...

Li Xuan said earnestly, "Brother, your mother is sick at home, so bring money to treat her! Why don't you muster up the courage to take a gamble and see if I'm a good person?"

The man was stunned. In the past, these high and mighty people never looked at them when they spoke, and it even felt like getting close to them would infect them with their "poisonous aura." How could Li Xuan be so close to him, even pressing his shoulder?

He mustered his courage, put the loose silver in his hand into his pocket, and kowtowed vigorously: "Thank you, sir!"

Just then, a black notebook appeared, displaying the text: [Contact an indirect character to unlock the world's story introduction.]

The black notebook flipped through the pages as Li Xuan watched an entire movie video. As expected, it was a horror movie called "The Thousand-Year Zombie King".

This drama tells the story of the late Qing Dynasty, when the people were suffering, war raged everywhere, and corpses littered the land, which led to the emergence of many zombies.

The leader of the Maoshan sect, along with his four disciples—Wind, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning—and a group of nominal disciples, descended the mountain to exorcise demons and uphold justice. On their journey, they encountered the tomb of a great general and went to investigate, only to find that the corpse had become an extremely powerful zombie. The nominal disciples were all slaughtered by the zombie. At a critical moment, one disciple cut the iron chains, triggering a methane explosion. In the ensuing fire, he became separated from his disciples…

The four apprentices arrived at a large village, but could not find their master or the sect leader, nor could they find any zombies. So they simply became long-term laborers for the local powerful family, the "Jiang Family".

But then zombies appeared and slaughtered everyone.

In their panic, the four disciples encountered their sect leader again, and engaged in a life-or-death battle with the zombies that night. In the end, the sect leader paid the ultimate price to eliminate the zombies...

It took Li Xuan more than an hour to finish watching the movie.

But in the man's eyes, Li Xuan only lost focus for a second before recovering.

Looking at the man in front of him, and thinking about the "indirect plot character" mentioned in the black notebook, Li Xuan asked, "Where is your hometown?"

The man said, "My hometown is in Dafangbo Village, Fukang County, north of Guangdong, on the banks of the Yellow River."

"I see," Li Xuan asked again, "What kind of trade did you do back in your hometown?"

The man said, “I’m a half-baked carpenter. I was learning to make coffins from a master craftsman at a coffin shop in Fukang County. But fewer and fewer people were buying coffins, so the shop owner kept the master craftsman and told me to go out and find work on my own. So I went to the docks in Guangdong to move goods.”

Seemingly afraid that Li Xuan wouldn't believe him, he quickly added, "There have been bandits entrenched outside Fukang County for many years. The government only knows how to collect taxes and doesn't know how to suppress the bandits. We ordinary people are exploited by the bandits every time we go in and out. As a result, we don't even have enough money for a coffin. If we die accidentally, we can just get a straw mat from the county and buy a spot to be buried. If we really have no money, we can only throw our bodies into a mass grave in the deep mountains under the cover of darkness..."

Black Notebook: [Please save the life of the Maoshan Sect Leader, kill the Great General Zombie, and eliminate the Jiang Family Corpse Horde.]

While Li Xuan was chatting with the man, the black notebook issued this task.

Although the movie mainly tells the story of the head of the Maoshan sect leading his disciples to track down zombies, it also involves a powerful Jiang family in Dafangbo Village.

If someone dies in the Jiang family, they will seal the body in wax and store it as a memento. As a result, the family has a lot of corpses hidden in their home, and any body affected by them will turn into a zombie.

(End of this chapter)