Upon receiving her boyfriend's order, Li Mo's black figure vanished from the street in an instant. Immediately afterward, a series of chaotic noises erupted from the nearest house, followed by terrified screams that echoed throughout the street: "Monster! Monster!!"
The eerie and panicked sound attracted the attention of many people in the surrounding houses. Some people quietly lifted the curtains and peeked out, only to see Yin Xiu standing calmly on the street.
Just as I was wondering what was going on, the window of the house next to the strange man was suddenly flung open. A man screaming in terror was pinned to the windowsill, while inside, a man in black of unknown origin was holding him, smiling and looking down at the man below, asking, "Boyfriend! Can I throw him down here so you can ask him?"
Yin Xiu stared at him expressionlessly. "Do you think this is okay?"
Li Mo smiled and nodded. "I think it's a good idea."
Then, amidst the man's terrified screams, they threw him off the second floor.
The man yelled and prepared himself to fall and hurt himself, but for some reason, when he hit the ground, he didn't feel any pain. Puzzled, he looked down and suddenly discovered that there was a dark, sticky thing under him, with eyes on it.
"Monster!!" The man screamed and scrambled to his feet, moving away from the dark, gooey mass.
"Shut up! Be quiet!" Yin Xiu frowned and held the knife horizontally to the man's neck, instantly silencing his terrified screams. "I won't kill you, I just want to ask you something."
The man froze, his expression blank. He glanced at the man in black climbing out of the window, then at the icy figure in front of him, and immediately shut up, not daring to make a sound.
"Is your city's god still alive?" Yin Xiu asked calmly when he saw that he had quieted down.
The man shook his head, paused for two seconds, and then nodded.
"Is he here or not?" Yin Xiu stared straight at him, his eyes sharp and dangerous. He gave a symbolic fierce look, then glanced at Li Mo as he slowly walked to his side. He reached out and patted Li Mo's head as a reward.
"The original... the original is gone... but recently a new god has come..." the man said tremblingly, his eyes wandering around, unsure where to look. In any case, he dared not look at the two men in front of him who were patting each other's heads.
"A new god has arrived recently?" Yin Xiu raised an eyebrow, seemingly guessing something. "Is that new god surnamed Ye?"
"Yes, yes, everyone calls him God Ye!" the man nodded hurriedly.
"I knew it." Yin Xiu sighed heavily. "So what trouble has this Ye Shen caused in your city? Why is your city so desolate now?"
When Ye Shen was mentioned, the man had a lot to say. "Our original god of the City of Immortality disappeared one day, and since then, the High Priest has been in control. We were following the High Priest and waiting for the god's return, but one day a man named Ye Shen suddenly appeared and said that the City of Immortality would not last long. If we continued to follow the High Priest, everyone would die in the City of Immortality."
"He took away a portion of the believers of the God of Immortality, using his infinite lifespan to buy most of the resources and lifespans in the City of Immortality for his followers. As a result, we now have neither resources nor lifespans, and can only wait at home for the High Priest's orders."
"I see." Yin Xiu's reaction seemed indifferent, and he did not express any opinion to either of them, but the man opposite him became excited.
"But it's alright, the High Priest said she won't let that false god continue like this! She will give us weapons! She will lead us to take back everything we've lost!"
Looking at the confident man in front of him, Yin Xiu said coldly, "Impossible. With his personality, he must have bought a suitable house to build a fortress long ago, and he has also prepared weapons. You won't be able to steal anything from him."
The man opposite him was taken aback. "That's alright. The High Priest said that the false god cannot trade lifespan. He can't trade his lifespan to his followers. As long as we hold on, those who can't get lifespan will compromise and come back to seek the High Priest's help."
Yin Xiu seemed to be deep in thought. "But your supplies are running out. Won't you die even faster than them?"
The man choked and fell silent instantly. It seemed that their only options were to seek refuge with that man or wait to die.
"Alright, I have a general understanding of the situation. Tell me where the person surnamed Ye is." Yin Xiu waved his hand dismissively, not wanting to linger here any longer.
"Um... in the center of Changsheng City, just a little bit next to the main city, they've raised a flag for Ye Shen. You'll see it when you get there." The man pointed.
Yin Xiu nodded, "Alright, send him back."
Then she turned around and walked in the direction the man pointed.
Send it back? How do you mean to send it back?
The man stood frozen in place, noticing that the strange man beside him hadn't left but was instead staring at him with a smile.
"I... I can go back by myself..." The man was on the verge of tears.
"No, this is my boyfriend's instruction." Li Mo smiled, and then a stream of dark liquid suddenly appeared around him, wrapped the man up and stuffed him into the second-floor window, thoughtfully closing the window behind him. He then turned and jogged after Yin Xiu.
Those huddled in the houses watching the spectacle mostly understood that after a god arrived in Changsheng City, a monster had also appeared.
This Changsheng City has never been this lively in the past hundred years!
"Boyfriend! I've taken him home!" Li Mo hurriedly returned to Yin Xiu's side, enthusiastically reporting the result.
"Okay, okay." Yin Xiu glanced around at the buildings to see if there were any flags, gave a perfunctory reply, then raised his hand and symbolically touched the air twice, his attention mainly focused on a house in the distance.
Taking advantage of Yin Xiu raising his hand, Li Mo consciously lowered her head and buried it under Yin Xiu's palm, letting her boyfriend pat her head; she couldn't miss out on the reward she deserved.
"Is that it?" Yin Xiu squinted and noticed a flag flying on the roof of a large house with a red roof and white walls not far away. The flag was cut out of the shape of a leaf and hung on a pole, fluttering in the wind like a leaf dancing in the air.
It would be hard for Yin Xiu not to recognize him.
"It's that one." Li Mo nodded, touching Yin Xiu's hand. "There are many people in that house."
"Let's go find him." Yin Xiu withdrew his hand, grabbed Li Mo, and quickly walked over there.
There were signs of habitation in several houses near this one, and it was as quiet as the rest of the City of Immortality, but the sense of being watched was much denser, as if they were being monitored by the sudden visitors.
When Yin Xiu arrived at the house, he saw a sign hanging on the double doors with words written on it.
Ye Shen instructed that, as a sign of respect, anyone who visits this place must shout: "Ye Shen is my eternal god!"
Only then can I open the door for you.
Yin Xiu stared silently at the words above and at the tightly closed door in front of him, then immediately turned around and said, "Let's go through the window."