Chapter 56: The Appearance of Paper Dolls

Early the next morning, just as the sky was brightening, Li Erniu and Zhang Dazhuang pulled a donkey cart of corpses to the outside of the Ding-character graveyard.

Lin Feng had slept very late last night, so he only climbed out of bed, sleepy-eyed, when the old lame man came to knock on the door.

"Something big seems to have happened in the city last night, be careful today!"

Seeing Lin Feng's appearance of not having woken up yet, the old lame man immediately reminded him.

"Alright, I know."

Lin Feng naturally knew what had happened, but he didn't care much about it.

After simply washing his face, Lin Feng came outside and chatted with Li Erniu and the others.

"The city was in chaos yesterday, many people died inexplicably. I heard that *gui* were causing trouble in many places, and later the sky was burned into a big hole by fire..."

I don't know if it was because he was too shocked, but Zhang Dazhuang changed his usual steady appearance and kept describing what he saw and heard last night to Lin Feng.

"How is this world supposed to be lived in! The heavens don't open their eyes, there are droughts everywhere. I heard that in many places this year there was no harvest, and many disaster victims are so hungry they've started eating people!"

Li Erniu was even more pessimistic about the future. When they left the city this morning, they saw people fleeing from disaster on the road again.

"Disaster victims again? Where are they from? How many?"

Hearing him say this, Lin Feng's movements stiffened, and then he turned his head to ask him in detail.

"This time it's from the west, but there aren't many people yet, and I haven't heard much news."

Li Erniu thought for a while and then said to Lin Feng.

"Hmm."

Lin Feng continued to drag the corpses off the donkey cart and nodded slowly.

Previously it was several states and counties in the east, and now it was the west. The scope of this drought was absolutely terrifying.

With such a large-scale drought, problems would sooner or later appear with food, crops, and drinking water.

Developing according to this situation, even Lin Feng, an outsider, understood that the time of successive natural disasters was the time of chaos in the world!

The Great Xia Dynasty would definitely have even greater chaos happening next; just thinking about it made one's head ache.

Lin Feng suddenly remembered a sentence: "The world is like a furnace, and all living beings are firewood in the furnace."

Dragging a corpse, Lin Feng walked slowly into the graveyard, but even if he knew that, so what?

He couldn't change the status quo, and he didn't have the ability to change it. *Gui* couldn't do everything either.

"Clunk—clunk—"

Raising the hoe to dig a grave pit, Lin Feng threw this dead corpse into the pit and then directly buried it.

The moment it was buried, the corpse wanted to struggle, but was knocked back by Lin Feng with a hoe. A corpse that hadn't even turned into a Small *Gui* couldn't make any waves under his hands.

As the grave mound formed, the *Zhong Shi Yang Gui Jing* opened in front of him, and this person's life story appeared before Lin Feng's eyes.

The corpse owner's status was lowly, belonging to a night-soil worker in Luohe City who was hated by people and dogs alike.

The so-called night-soil worker was someone who had to walk through streets and alleys every morning before dawn to wash chamber pots for every household in the city and collect the products of the five grains.

This profession was a profession hated by people and dogs, but even so, in order to get such a job, he had still broken his head to get it.

Not only did he have to do it himself, but he also had to pay a share to the boss.

Such a person naturally had a difficult survival, but his memory was something Lin Feng valued because of his encounter before death.

Last night, he went to work relatively early. Before he started working, he saw paper dolls walking out of a shop.

At that time, he thought he was seeing things, but then he discovered his face was covered by a piece of paper. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull it off, and he was eventually suffocated to death in the alley.

"Paper doll?"

"It seems this should be the method of a paper-folding master, but the people of the Ghost Suppression Division actually didn't notice this shop..."

Lin Feng frowned and pondered slowly. He had buried two Ghost Suppression Division corpses earlier and didn't know the information about that shop.

If it wasn't for this night-soil worker encountering it, I'm afraid no one would know that such a paper doll shop existed.

"Paper doll, paper-folding technique, one of the inheritances of the Hundred Craftsmen of Heaven. Some special paper money, paper dolls, and paper horses are made by this inheritance."

"Why did they come to Luohe City? To do business? To grab territory?"

Lin Feng was very interested in the inheritance of the Hundred Craftsmen of Heaven. After all, these skills were precious skills accumulated by the people and *gui* of this world through thousands of years of contact.

After thinking for a while, Lin Feng walked out of the graveyard with the newly harvested five years of internal energy, after all, there were still a few corpses outside that needed to be buried.

"Brother Lin, we two will go first. There is a lot of work in the office today, we have to go back first."

Seeing Lin Feng come over, Li Erniu immediately said to him.

"Alright, just leave it to me!"

Lin Feng naturally didn't care; he nodded and began to continue working.

The death methods of the other three corpses were similar; they were all killed by encountering *gui* last night, but later those Small *Gui* were suppressed by the Ghost Suppression Division, so these corpses were sent to the graveyard outside the city.

"Blacksmithing skills, hiss, didn't expect an apprentice's corpse to be able to harvest such a proper skill."

This time Lin Feng's harvest was not bad, nearly ten years of internal energy, plus a blacksmithing skill.

However, this skill didn't have much use for him at the current stage, just like the stone-hitting skill; currently, there was no room for it to be exerted.

"Calculating, my internal energy is already nearly 120 years of cultivation. I always feel that if it continues like this, some special situation will happen..."

Carrying the hoe back to the small courtyard, the old lame man had already prepared breakfast.

It was still thin porridge with pickled vegetables. Lin Feng wasn't picky and finished eating messily in a few mouthfuls.

"I heard what you said just now, the west is also in chaos."

While eating, the old lame man looked uncertain, and then said this to Lin Feng.

"Indeed, there is a great drought everywhere these days. If it continues like this, Luohe City will also start to lack food."

Lin Feng knew what he was worried about. After all, the last time disaster victims fled here, it caused quite a bit of chaos.

"A sin, these heavens really don't give people a way to live!"

The old lame man sighed long, and then began to clean up the bowls and chopsticks. He had seen too many people like him and had become a bit numb.

"Woof, woof—"

On the other side, Wangcai saw Lin Feng finish eating and immediately leaned over. This guy was already used to how Lin Feng would pour medicine for it next.

"You are still the one who thinks openly, as long as there is something to eat."

Lin Feng looked at it wagging its tail like a windmill and scolded it with a laugh.

However, he also began to decoct medicine, using internal energy to catalyze the medicinal power for Wangcai, strengthening its muscles, bones, and skin!

After doing these, Lin Feng walked toward Luohe City. Today he wanted to go into the city to buy some things, and by the way, take a look outside that paper doll shop.

This skill was much more brilliant and practical than the blacksmithing skill he had harvested. If he could get his hands on it, it would be of no small help to some of his subsequent experiments and strength improvement.

This time there was no donkey cart to sit on, and Lin Feng didn't want to run too fast to attract others' attention, so he walked leisurely on the road.

At the same time, he was also carefully observing the situation on the road. There were not many pedestrians on the main road, and he didn't see people like disaster victims.

But when he arrived outside the city gate of Luohe City, he immediately saw the disaster victims gathered together by the government soldiers.

The number of these people was not many yet, only about a few dozen. Everyone looked disheveled and filthy.

At this moment, they were gathered together, picking up some waste materials around to build shacks, looking as if they wanted to live outside the city. ===== CHAPTER 57 =====