Chapter 98 - 97: Hu Tao

Although the rain had stopped that night, the croaking of frogs in the pond had decreased a little. Although they were still noisy, at least they were not as annoying as before. Although the wind slime is a monster, it has become docile after training. As long as you don't stimulate it with sharp objects, generally nothing serious will happen. So after getting Baizhu's consent, Qiqi picked up a split wind slime and treated it as a new toy. Qiqi didn't sleep, or rather, after becoming an immortal and a zombie, she no longer needed sleep. She had slept for a very long time before, and she would have nightmares when she closed her eyes. "Woo?" The wind slime flapped its wings slowly and floated quietly beside Qiqi. Its eyes were wide open as it watched Qiqi fiddling with something quietly. "Qiqi's nails are sharp, so they will hurt you." There was no expression on Qiqi's face. She raised her hands slightly stiffly. Her fingers were wrapped with bandages that she had asked for from Baizhu. During the day, she realized how powerful her fingers were. It hurt a lot when she poked her eyes. So you can't poke the wind slime. "Huh~" The Wind Slime seemed to understand what she said and flew around her happily, its eyes curved into crescent shapes. "Ah... Stretching." Qiqi's little brain was not very smart. When she realized that her limbs were starting to stiffen, she remembered that she didn't seem to have done any stretching exercises today. This was one of the very few things she would never forget, probably. Soft gymnastics is the secret to making Qiqi's body as flexible as that of an ordinary person, but if she slacks off one day, she might become stiff again. Jumping off the bed with a grunt, Qiqi came to the lobby of Bubu Pharmacy and wanted to do some stretching exercises outside the door. But I saw a sneaky figure. Bai Luo. At this moment, he was trying to put the medicine pot in his hand back to its place. It was obvious that something had been cooked in the pot, but he had scrubbed it clean, so she couldn't tell what it was. After noticing Qiqi was looking at him, Bai Luo burped and made a gesture to keep quiet. "Hmm..." Qiqi bit her finger and watched for a while, but she didn't pay too much attention to him because Mr. Bai said that as long as he didn't steal the herbs, he could do whatever he wanted with the things here. He has money. Qiqi didn't know what money was, but she knew that money could buy lots of coco milk. Yeah, looks pretty good. Ah... gymnastics. After feeling the stiffness between the movements, Qiqi realized that she seemed to be doing stretching gymnastics. So she stopped paying attention to Bai Luo, came to the eaves alone, and began to do stretching exercises with a little stiffness. But she didn't know that above the Bubu Pharmacy, a pair of eyes were already staring at her, as if they were planning to do something. "One, two... seven, seven." "Two two... seven seven." "Three, two..." Halfway through the stretching, a figure suddenly dropped down from above Bubu Pharmacy, the plum blossom pattern in it's eyes filled with a certain passion. "Qiqi! I'm here..." Before she could finish her sentence, two fingers had quickly enlarged in front of her eyes, and a pair of gauze-wrapped fingers poked her eyes hard. "Ouch—eyes! Eyes!" Looking at the girl covering her eyes and kicking her legs on the ground, Qiqi looked at her fingers again. Well, it works. Qiqi was very measured in her actions. It was estimated that the discomfort in the eyes would disappear in about a week, but before that, Hu Tao felt that she still had one thing to do. The sack was put directly on Qiqi's body. Without waiting for her to struggle, Hu Tao carried her out of Bubu Pharmacy overnight. In order to prevent her from being suffocated, Hu Tao even let Qiqi stick her little head out. But she didn't realize how boring her behavior was. Because zombies cannot be suffocated to death. After leaving Bubu Pharmacy, Hu Tao did not stop, but took out her shovel from the sewer next to Third Round Knockout and left Liyue City. [Those who don't know Third Round Knockout, check the end of chapter] "Little Qiqi, the land of bliss is where you should go. As for me, Hu Tao, I have already calculated it in advance. I will bury you at an lucky time so that you can be reborn into a wealthy family. Maybe you can even become a young lady." Hu Tao herself actually didn't really believe in the so-called reincarnation. She said that just to stop Qiqi from struggling too much and let her be cremated and then buried. She had already prepared the grave in advance, but unfortunately it had rained in recent days and the small pit was filled with rainwater, otherwise she would not have come out tonight with a shovel. However, digging the hole tonight should be much easier. After all, after the rain, the land in the mountains will be much moister, but your clothes might get dirty. "Um?" Carrying the hopeless Qiqi on his back, Hu Tao looked behind her with a slightly strange look. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she always felt that someone was following her. However, she knew the area very well and knew where she could hide and where she couldn't hide, so she knew better than anyone that there was no one behind her. Hmm? You ask her how she knows where to hide and where not to hide? Because she often hides herself. Besides, it had just rained, so if someone had walked on the ground, there would definitely be footprints, right? But she didn't see any traces. "strange..." Scratching her head, Hu Tao thought it was an illusion and continued walking forward carrying Qiqi on her back. It can't be a ghost, right? If it is, then it would be bad luck to meet her. Everyone knows that this is what she does. When they arrived at the place chosen in advance, Hu Tao had already started digging a hole, not to bury Qiqi, but to add firewood. Qiqi is immortal. If she is buried alive, I'm afraid Qiqi will crawl out by herself as soon as Hu Tao turns around and leaves. Therefore, cremation is her only and most effective option. After all, that little wooden box is its permanent home. After digging for a long time, Hu Tao found the firewood that had been prepared in advance from the side. Fortunately, she had the foresight to cover it with something in advance. Otherwise, if you use wet firewood, it may not be cremation, but smoke. "Huh?" Hu Tao came with firewood, and found something wrong when she came back. Well, the pit is still there, the shovel is still there, the firewood is still there, and Qiqi is also there... Hmm? Where is Qiqi?! Where did a big Qiqi like her go? The firewood and shovel were thrown aside, and Hu Tao immediately began to look for Qiqi, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't see Qiqi's shadow. "Strange, how could such a big Qiqi go..where is my shovel now?" On a rainy night, the girl looked at a pile of firewood and a pit and began to doubt her life. ________________________________________ Third-Round Knockout is a point of interest located in Chihu Rock, Liyue Harbor, Sea of Clouds, Liyue. It is a tavern owned by Degui. Zhiruo is a waitress there, while Iron Tongue Tian works there as a story teller. According to Xu Liushi, a sailor aboard the Alcor, the name "Third-Round Knockout" stems from an incident in which he got drunk after having three bowls of the tavern's specialty, wine-fermented sweet rice balls. Before then, the tavern had no name. The tavern's name in Chinese (三碗不过港/三碗不過港 Sānwǎn Bùguògǎng) is likely a reference to a very famous and iconic story in The Water Margin (水浒传/水滸傳), one of China's "Four Great Classical Novels". In that story, Wu Song, a fugitive who was traveling back to his hometown to find his older brother, took a rest at a tavern called "After Three Bowls, Do Not Cross the Ridge" (三碗不过岗/三碗不過崗 Sānwǎn bùguò gǎng), because the wine there was very strong. He took this as a challenge and drank eighteen bowls of wine. When Wu Song was about to leave, the owner warned him there's a tiger on the ridge, he didn't believe it however. He then encountered the tiger for real, fought it and killed it with his bare hands. The story is known as "Wu Song beats a tiger (武松打虎 Wǔ Sōng dǎ hǔ)". This establishment appears to be a favorite of Zhongli's. 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