Deities Are All Just My Food
Chapter 589 - 292: Lin Baici, The Man Worth a Million for the First Incense Offering!_1

Chapter 589: Chapter 292: Lin Baici, The Man Worth a Million for the First Incense Offering!_1

The cold wind swept across the river, carrying chunks of ice downstream.

"Quick, get on the boat! Quick, get on the boat!"

The deckhands on board were shouting loudly.

Shangqingfu City was engulfed in thick smoke, as if it had fallen; the sight was visible even from here. The deckhands were very afraid; if not for the fact that taking the boat without orders was punishable by death, they would have fled already.

Now, seeing Zhao Decheng arrive, they cried tears of joy.

"What should I do now?"

Zhao Decheng was on the verge of tears. The wealth he had accumulated over the years was gone. How would he survive in the capital?

He hoped the king would spare him on account of being the central palace lady’s cousin!

Wait,

From the way Lin Baici spoke, it seemed the king had turned into a zombie...

Zhao Decheng was distressed and hadn’t figured out what to do when the mountain man with one ear suddenly shouted.

"The zombies are coming again!"

"What?"

Zhao Decheng jumped, turning his head abruptly.

Indeed, a horde of zombies, like a migrating pack of wolves, hurried toward them. Some zombies fell and before they could get up, others trampled over them.

Some became a pile of mush, others with broken bones still managed to rise, their vitality terrifyingly strong.

"Move aside, this is my boat, let me get on first!"

Zhao Decheng shouted, pushing and shoving, trying to be the first one on the boat.

When they left the city, Lin Baici had used Muscle Buddha to block the door, holding off the zombies and buying everyone time to escape. But after Lin Baici left, Muscle Buddha couldn’t last forever, so the zombies caught up again.

Lin Baici grabbed Zhao Decheng, stepping on the steep gangway, and sprinted onto the deck in a few strides.

He saw a cannon on the deck and immediately commanded, "Fire the cannon!"

The deckhands looked at Zhao Decheng.

Slap! Slap!

Zhao Decheng rushed over, vigorously slapping their faces: "Lin Sir’s words are my commands, get to it!"

The boat was a frenzy of panicked activity.

"Don’t push!"

"You lowlifes, step aside, let us board first!"

"I beg you, please take my son first!"

Some refugees from the city, having seen Lin Baici slay zombies with incredible might, followed the crowd and successfully made it to the dock.

Most of them were of able-bodied age, and there were also a few women; the elderly and children were nowhere to be seen.

Splash! Splash!

Several people were jostled off the gangway and fell into the icy water.

"Damn!"

Lin Baici cursed and flung his Bronze Sword.

Swish!

The Bronze Sword swept through the air like a streak of light, whistling by.

A blacksmith, confident in his strength, swung his fists wildly and stepped forcefully onto the gangway, trying to force his way onto the boat. But the moment he set foot on the deck, the Bronze Sword sliced through his neck.

Swish!

A red line of blood burst open, then dispersed into a mist of blood.

The head, with eyes still wide open in death, first landed on the gangway with a soft thud, and then fell into the water, causing a splash, followed by the body.

Splash!

This scene deeply shocked the people below.

"Board the boat in the current order, anyone who pushes forward again, I’ll send them to feed the fish in the river!"

Lin Baici roared.

The commotion immediately subsided, and no one dared to breathe too loudly, fearing they might upset Lin Baici.

The blacksmith’s corpse was the perfect example, Lin Baici’s sword strike was terrifying.

"Exploring God’s Ruins, indeed, intelligence alone is not enough; strength is fundamental!"

Gu Qingqiu sighed. She had been frail and sickly since childhood, so becoming as fearsomely powerful as Lin Baici seemed too difficult.

"The good news is, we’re all together!"

Gu Qingqiu felt lucky to have encountered Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao right at the start of her journey and had already decided to offer a million incense sticks at Shaolin Temple to Buddha.

Boom!

The cannon fired, but the cannonball flew over the zombies and landed in the reeds.

"You guys are firing way off target, aren’t you?"

Xia Hongyao was speechless.

Though Zhao Decheng didn’t understand Xia Hongyao’s words, he could roughly guess their meaning and promptly explained, "That cannon is only for scaring people."

Bandits, especially refugees, seeing a cannon and hearing the booming fire, usually lose half their courage, making it easier for the officials to quell rebellion.

"Quan Sangin, technically speaking, these are all your kin, aren’t you going to save them?"

Lin Baici estimated that roughly three hundred zombies were chasing them and had already gotten within thirty meters, and it looked like they would reach the dock shortly.

There were still some who hadn’t boarded. Those who had fallen into the water had been desperately swimming towards the shore, but now, with no time left, they started swimming towards the opposite bank.

"Sir Lin, shall we pull in the gangway?"

Zhao Decheng urged, sweating profusely. Although he held the highest official rank, he was well aware that Lin Baici had the final say.

"Pull it in, otherwise we won’t make it!"

"If those monsters get on the boat, we’re all going to die!"

"It was so hard to escape to this point, dying now would be too unfair!"

The people on deck complained, pleaded, and a few even knelt before Lin Baici.

"Quan Sangin, if you don’t take action, I’m going to pull in the gangway!"

Lin Baici asked one last time.

They were Quan Sangin’s compatriots, and if he didn’t care about their lives, why should Lin BaiCi?

"It’s not worth wasting energy on these people!"

Quan Sangin looked at those people with an ice-cold, indifferent gaze. He didn’t care about the people inside God’s Ruins, let alone those in the real world.

"Pull in the gangway!"

Quan Sangin rebuked, but the boatmen didn’t move, looking at Zhao Decheng, then at Lin Baici.

This scene embarrassed Quan Sangin; he really wanted to kill someone to establish authority, but he also felt that doing so would be pointless.

Lin Baici waved his hand.

Zhao Decheng, as if pardoned, shouted hoarsely, "Withdraw the gangplank, set sail!"

The boatmen chanted their work song, pulling on the ropes, starting to raise the sails.

The official boat began to move, slowly proceeding, starting to leave the dock.

"Don’t leave us behind!"

"Xiba, may you all die a horrible death!"

"I’ll haunt you forever even as a ghost!"

The twenty or so people who didn’t make it onto the boat cursed loudly and even picked up stones to throw at the boat.

"A bunch of lowlifes! Someone bring the cannon over and blast them to death!" Zhao Decheng’s face turned ashen.

"If you want to live, you better start running!" Kim Myungjin shouted.

Seeing no chance of getting on the boat, these people started running in other directions, with the smarter ones making a tough choice, clenching their teeth and diving into the river.

The zombies came, tirelessly rushing forward, so those already too tired to go far were quickly caught up to.

The zombies pounced, biting and killing; those few who jumped into the water, however, did manage to save their lives because the zombies stopped upon reaching the water’s edge.

"Do these things fear water?" Kim Jinsoo sensed an opportunity to use this to eliminate the zombies.

Finally on the river, everyone let out a sigh of relief on the official boat.

"Don’t celebrate too soon, these zombies can evolve. If we can’t purify this rule pollution within a few days, there’s a high probability we’ll face even stronger zombies!" Gu Qingqiu let out a cold laugh.

"How do you know the zombies can evolve?" Kim Jinsoo was unhappy with Gu Qingqiu and retorted instinctively, seeing her as weak and someone who would have died long ago without Lin Baici’s help.

"Didn’t you see that baby zombie just now?" Kim Myungjin said mockingly.

Everyone fell silent, recalling the baby zombie that had infected Li Zaicheng—they were all shaken.

"Not just that one. I mean all zombies will evolve and become stronger!" Gu Qingqiu explained, "At the Jimin Xuan Medical Hall before, those zombies hid in shadows not touched by the sun and only roamed after dark. I thought they feared the sunlight, but today, they attacked in the morning!"

"How can we clear this god-forsaken game?" Choi Sunsil’s question made everyone look to Lin Baici for an answer.

"Xiba!" Quan Sangin felt depressed, even his own team members thought he wasn’t as capable as Jiuzhou Man.

After Lin Baici had sent away Zhao Decheng and the other God Ruins Aboriginal, he finally said, "I think there are two possibilities. One, kill the Goryeo king, who is very likely to have become a zombie. Or two, find Li God Doctor, or whoever is behind all this, and kill them."

"Where do you think Li God Doctor is?" Kim Myungjin tried hard to analyze but had no clue.

"He might have already turned into a zombie!" Kim Jinsoo suggested, "Let’s go kill that king first. If we bet right, we win!"

"Ha!" Gu Qingqiu scoffed and then looked at Lin Baici, "What do you think?"

"You go first." Lin Baici noticed the expression on his female schoolmate and thought she might have some ideas.

"How about we say it together?" Gu Qingqiu smiled slightly.

Lin Baici nodded twice.

Without saying a word, Gu Qingqiu held up three fingers, then bent them down one by one for a countdown. When the last finger, her ring finger, fell to form a fist, they both spoke.

"North!"

Seeing his answer, Gu Qingqiu’s face lit up with a satisfied and relieved smile, "Lin Baici, our child would be incredible!"

"What?" Lin Baici was startled. Was this flirting? But from his female schoolmate’s expression, it obviously didn’t mean that.

"When I’m interested in having children, I hope you can lend me an Ova!" Gu Qingqiu put her hands together in gratitude, "I would be most thankful!"

"..." Lin Baici really wanted to ask, ’Are you sick or something?’

Back at Haijing Museum’s God’s Ruins, this girl was a bit crazy, and Lin Baici thought she was okay now, but it turned out to be an illusion.

Gu Qingqiu’s thought processes were indeed abnormal, sometimes good, sometimes bad.

"Qingqiu, stop messing around!" Xia Hongyao was startled, "Little Linzi isn’t a stallion, is he?"

Gu Qingqiu shrugged her shoulders. Was there a difference between people and horses?

Oh well.

Such philosophical debates were beyond Xia Hongyao’s comprehension.

"..." Both Kim Myungjin and Hua Yue Yu were holding back their frustration—wasn’t I first? Why should you get pregnant before me?

The first child of Lin Baici has to be mine! Hua Yue Yu decided to eat more high-protein food after getting back to build up her body in hope of having a healthy baby boy.

Kim Myungjin recalled the last encounter with Lin Baici in the woods. It’s a pity, she thought, I shouldn’t have eaten it.

"What does going north mean?" Quan Sangin chimed in, "If you can purify this rule pollution quickly, I’ll have surgery to have your child, no problem!"

"..." Kim Jinsoo and others were scared. Leader, you’re not serious, are you?