Nothing to do today, check the life and death book

Some people say that a new day is a new beginning, but who knows that a new day will not be an end.

Wu'an City is still bustling with traffic and people coming and going.

What’s different from before is that today’s sky presents a visual feast.

In the first half of the day, the sun was shining brightly and the sky was cloudless; after noon, the sky changed rapidly, and clouds seemed to appear out of thin air, covering the sky above Wu'an City in less than an incense stick of time.

Surprisingly, these clouds gathered together and appeared orange, just like a sunset cloud.

But as time passed, the orange clouds gradually turned red, and with the help of the wind, the red clouds gathered together to form a skull-shaped pattern.

Perhaps it was because of the red color! The pattern looked like it was on fire, and one could even see the edges of the pattern moving, like flowing clouds of fire.

"The devil is coming! The devil wants to eat people! Everyone run!" The beggar who was begging for food on the street jumped and shouted.

In his excitement, even the broken bowl he used to eat from accidentally fell to the ground and broke into eight pieces.

"Who is here spreading rumors and misleading the people? Come, capture him!" An unquestionable voice commanded from the carriage that had stopped for a moment in the middle of the street.

There was a commotion, and two guards brought the beggar over.

"Mayor, the person has been brought here. Please make your decision," the guard said with a bow.

The curtain was lifted, and the city lord in a blue brocade robe leaned out of the carriage. His right hand passed across his waist, and a small bag of crystals was held in his hand, which he handed to the beggar.

"I didn't expect that there are such poor people as you in this prosperous Wu'an City. Here, take it. If you still look unambitious after a month, don't blame me for expelling you from this city." The city lord threw the crystal bag to him without paying attention to his trembling hands.

Then, he glanced at the people gathered around him, pointed at the skull pattern in the sky and said, "Please rest assured, I am the new lord of Wu'an City appointed by His Majesty himself. As long as I am here, no demon or ghost will dare to set foot in Wu'an City."

"Look, look, this is the new city lord, so majestic..."

"What's so great about that! Look at the strange phenomenon in the sky. Why didn't it appear earlier or later, but today..."

As the people around him pointed and talked, the city lord felt helpless, "Alas! I have always heard that Wu'an City is a peaceful place, why did such a strange phenomenon appear today?"

Following his instinct, he looked up at the sky. Faintly, he seemed to hear a roar. Without giving him a chance to identify it carefully, the skull pattern suddenly pressed down.

"Run! They're really eating people!" The people around ran away in panic.

"How dare you!" The city lord shouted coldly, raised his hand to take the knife from the guard's hand, pointed his sword at the blade and muttered a few words, then swung the knife and chopped it up as the pattern appeared.

A bright light shot up into the sky, and a huge sword shadow immediately met the skull pattern. There was no fierce collision. Once in contact, the skull pattern was instantly dispersed, and the sword shadow directly sank into the clouds.

Sitting near the window on the second floor of a street restaurant, Le Jinxi and Sui Yi held their glasses of wine and watched everything.

Sui Yi gulped down the wine in the glass and muttered, "This city lord is really quite capable. His simple move is comparable to that of some of the sect's elders."

"Nonsense, do you think Feng Huang would choose a useless person to be the city lord?" Le Jinxi glanced at him and silently prayed for his IQ for two seconds.

After drinking the wine in the jar, both of them were slightly drunk.

"Tonight, Senior Brother Nai and Fatty are recuperating in Haiyue Pavilion, and Senior Brother Di Yan has also left. Now it's just you and me. How about going out for a walk?" Sui Yi raised his eyebrows at him, as if there was something else he meant.

"Oh~ what's going on?" Le Jinxi asked, touching his chin.

“Hehe! Don’t ask yet, you’ll know when you get there,” Sui Yi smiled and pulled him out.

They walked straight ahead out of the East City Gate and unknowingly came to a mound on which grew some trees with bronze trunks in groups of three or two. At the tops of the trees, red fruits as big as grapes hung from the branches.

Looking around, Le Jinxi asked in confusion: "Why did you bring me here?"

Sui Yi pointed to the red fruit above and asked, "Do you know what kind of fruit this is?"

Le Jinxi stared at the fruit for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I don't know."

"It takes exactly one hundred days for this fruit to mature from fruiting to maturity, so it is called the Hundred-Day Fruit, also known as the Three-Season Fruit. It is an indispensable ingredient for making many fine wines..." Sui Yi talked eloquently and said a long list in one breath.

"Uh... then what? Are you going to pick these fruits to make wine?" Le Jinxi looked at him in confusion.

"Hehe! Why do you need to brew it yourself? Just watch!" Sui Yi grinned with his big white teeth, closed his eyes, sniffed, and looked very proud.

With a big stride, he walked to the bushes on the side of the mound in three or five steps, and then grabbed the dead branches on the ground and rummaged around in the bushes. Not to mention, with his movements, two pheasant-like monsters jumped out of the bushes one after another.

Sui Yi was quick-witted and captured them in a matter of minutes. He threw them in front of Le Jinxi and said excitedly, "Look, we are in for a treat!"

"Is this... a chicken?" Le Jinxi stared at the two monsters on the ground in a daze. Their claws had five fingers, similar to human hands, and two thick long whiskers were raised on both sides of their pointed mouths. There was also a goat-like beard on their chins. If it weren't for the big cockscomb on their heads, it would be really hard to tell them apart.

"Of course it's a chicken. It's called a long-bearded chicken, also known as a drunkard chicken. Not only can it make its own wine, but it can also enjoy life without alcohol," Sui Yi said, turning his gaze to the hole in the grass.

With the power of the patterns on his hands, he carefully dug open the entrance of the cave. About ten feet away, containers made of stones appeared in front of him. The containers were sealed with mud. He didn't need to think about it. He knew what was inside just by smelling it.

I knocked the dirt off a container with my hands, and immediately the aroma of wine filled my nose, refreshing my heart.

"Hmm! This is the taste, authentic," he said, taking a big sip and praising it repeatedly.

Soon, a fire was lit on the open space on the mound. Next to the fire, Sui Yi was dealing with the two long-bearded chickens.

"Hey! I think this is not good! We stole their wine and now we want to eat them. Isn't it a bit too cruel?" Le Jinxi couldn't bear it and wanted to step forward to stop it, but was met with Sui Yi's resentful gaze.

"Okay, okay, I'm going to go drink," Le Jinxi ignored him and started drinking.

It must be said that this wine is truly unique. It tastes mellow and sweet with a fruity aroma. Once it enters the stomach, it is like a swaying flame moving through the body, and even the tendons and veins feel soft wherever it passes.

Even someone like him who is not interested in red, beer, white or foreign drinks couldn't help but be fascinated by it.

After about two incense sticks of time, the aroma of meat began to spread.

Sui Yi turned the long-bearded chicken on the fire from time to time and smeared the fruit puree in the container on it. After a while, when the chicken was roasted, the taste of the fruit puree also seeped into the meat.

"Jinxi, are you sure you don't want to try it?" Sui Yi pulled off a chicken leg, put it under his nose and sniffed it, then took a light bite with a look of satisfaction on his face.

"Damn it, you dare to seduce me, I absolutely can't tolerate this," Le Jinxi rushed forward and swung his big hand directly.

“No, no, no, if you don’t want to eat it, then don’t eat it. Don’t do it!” Sui Yi was so scared that he hid back and held the chicken in his hand to his chest.

When he came to his senses, the chicken in his hand had already run into Le Jinxi's hands.

"You...you don't want to eat?" Sui Yi asked.

Le Jinxi was stunned for a moment, then asked, "When did I say that? No! It must be your illusion."

"hehe!"

Sui Yi smiled awkwardly and said faintly: "I have seen shameless people, but I have never seen anyone as shameless as you."

The two of them laughed and chatted for a while, and by the time they were done, it was already evening.

"Listen, is there any sound?" Sui Yi stood up, shaking his body, and looked towards the other side of the mound.

"It seems like there is a sound," Le Jinxi responded, and he and she supported each other and went to the direction of the sound.

After seeing this, the two men sobered up immediately. In the grass, two hyenas were fighting over a corpse. Strangely enough, the corpse turned out to be a mummy.