I Don't Agree to the Terms

"Shanyuhai, what should I do next?" Wang Qi seemed a bit panicked.

Four corpses were lying haphazardly on the ground, blood pooled everywhere, the scent of blood relentlessly spreading.

These were the four hooligans who, under the direction of Gu Shanhai, Wang Qi had killed without drawing blood, and now a problem had followed.

That is, how to deal with the bodies.

Wang Qi was just a young lad, how could he have the ability to deal with such matters, to find a place to bury them?

But he'd need digging tools to do that, a shovel, a hoe, and the like, all made of iron, things he could not afford.

To dig by hand would mean he wouldn't finish even by dawn; did he think this was the Daoist Soldier World where at a minimum one is in the Qi Refinement Realm? Wang Qi was malnourished as it was, where would he get the energy for such labor?

There was certainly the option of just throwing them into the sea, but he didn't have the strength for that either, plus, to do so would create too much noise.

Even if he clenched his teeth and did it, it was impossible to carry the bodies over; he'd have to drag them, and traces, sounds, and so on would all be exposed, not to mention the blood scent inside the house.

"Ah, this... seems a bit tricky to deal with, given your strength, it doesn't look like there's a good solution."

Dismember the bodies? That was even less reliable; with the dull knife at his home, he wouldn't be able to chop the four men into sufficiently small pieces for further disposal.

"Wait, there's another way, I could offer these four corpses as a tribute to the Divine." Wang Qi had calmed down, and the protagonist's trait of pushing upward the more he was suppressed slowly began to show, as he came up with a half-baked idea.

"I should remind you that on the island, it's impossible to offer tribute to the Divine," Gu Shanhai kindly reminded him, besides, with Wang Qi's scant knowledge, he didn't even know how to conduct a tribute ceremony for the Divine.

"Not even you?" Wang Qi asked.

"My true form could ignore that rule, but you're planning to sacrifice these four corpses to my true form... isn't that a bit unsuitable?" Gu Shanhai quipped, as if being treated like a garbage can.

Upon hearing Gu Shanhai's words, Wang Qi felt a bit embarrassed; indeed, it was not quite right.

"I have no choice, this is the only way out, Shanyuhai, you must have seen the future," Wang Qi said, brazen-faced.

"I caught a glimpse, three out of ten ended up as roast suckling pig, another three were sold to the Divine, three were beheaded then thrown into the sea, and one got lucky and survived," Gu Shanhai glanced at the future and said.

"Wait, does that mean I don't need to offer tribute to the Divine to survive?" Wang Qi was somewhat incredulous; he had thought he was a goner.

"Yes, that's right, a descendant of the Royal Family took a fancy to you, and then you were kept for nightly revelries in the back house and died a month later," Gu Shanhai said with an enigmatic expression.

"?" Wang Qi was completely baffled; he was well aware of his own appearance, how could a noble lady of the Royal Family be interested in him, so he asked, "If I take this route to survive for the time being and then have you help me break the situation, is it possible to live longer or even shed my identity as a lowly commoner?"

"That... I wouldn't suggest it, you didn't have it good in that future," Gu Shanhai warned.

Didn't have it good? Was it because the noblewoman of the Royal Family was ugly? No problem, he could endure.

"After all, the person is a man. It's one thing for him to deal with you night after night, but to bring a crowd to torment you, now that's a sight too horrible to endure," Gu Shanhai elaborated further.

"!!!" Wang Qi was shocked; he had thought it was a woman, but it turned out to be a man, and then his face turned green. That option was definitely out.

If he chose that, his life would be over for good.

"Shanyuhai, teach me how to offer tribute to your true form." Wang Qi made up his mind; this was a dead end anyway, no matter if it worked or not.

"You're really planning to offer these things to my true form, but I have to remind you, my true form isn't like those Evil Gods, what you receive might be a bit odd..." Gu Shanhai hesitated before speaking.

At that moment, Wang Qi became wary; he knew their concepts differed slightly—at least, what was a life-or-death crisis for him might be trivial in the eyes of the other.

Therefore, the so-called oddity might indeed be bizarre.

"Can you intervene?" Wang Qi felt since they were now in this together, a bit of help shouldn't be an issue.

"Can't. If I could influence the outside world, do you think I would have been sealed here?" Gu Shanhai replied, somewhat irritated.

"No matter, as long as I can survive, I can endure any oddity!" Wang Qi declared nonchalantly, then asked further, "So if I want to offer tribute to your true form to remove my lowly commoner status, what should I offer?"

"Offer up ten pounds of homework, and you'll have no problem," Gu Shanhai nonchalantly suggested.

"Ten pounds of homework? What's that? Where can I get it?" Wang Qi was puzzled.

"When you offer to my true form, there's a chance to obtain something named 'homework.'"

"So, that means your true form is fond of something called 'homework,' and it's something your true form itself produces, what's the point?"

"'Homework' will make you... nevermind, we'll talk about it after you offer it next time, let me teach you how to offer it first."

Through their back-and-forth, Wang Qi quickly learned the relevant ritual to offer tribute.