Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god

“Calling you stupid, you managed to think that we would also look for Zhu Qiansi and plan to meet up with us using this trick; calling you smart, you could so directly and brightly shout ‘I want to see Zhu Qiansi’ to the natives within this Willow Town, created and recreated by the threads of karma,” Li Nian said to Seagull with some helplessness. “You really are a strange person.”

“There’s no way around it, I actually realize now how reckless I was acting at the time,” Seagull said helplessly. “And I really panicked… I’m not used to this new body at all. Suddenly changing from male to female, I’m not a pervert or a mentally deranged madman. Of course I’d be anxious after the gender change, so I was a little emotionally out of control and my judgment declined.”

After Seagull finished his explanation, he suddenly felt a chill down his back for some reason.

Seagull looked at the person, it was the girl who called herself ‘Jiang’an Hall’ and ‘Old Yao’.

He nodded quickly: “Right, right.”

At the same time, Seagull told himself in his heart that the dangerous feeling of offending someone just now must have been an illusion!

Although his sixth sense was mostly accurate, there would be times when it failed.

“In short, it seems that you two are also planning to go to Zhu Qiansi’s side, so we’re going the same way,” Seagull exhaled. “If we can also meet up with the remaining three there, that would be great.”

“Hopefully, at least Snow Owl and Gaoshan should be fine,” Because of the existence of Flying Dagger, Lin Yu didn’t dare to be too certain. “However, we definitely can’t just go over like this… Although these natives created by the threads of karma still think they are living normally in Willow Town back then, you can’t guarantee what state Zhu Qiansi is in.”

“As the creator of this ‘illusion,’ there’s a high possibility that she remembers everything—and we’re facing her head-on right now. Not only is this the opponent’s home field, but even if we only consider raw strength… the ‘Zhu Qiansi’ of that time was probably not someone we could easily deal with.”

“Three hundred and fifty years ago, the human-form Zhu Qiansi had already forced the Taiching Founder to use the Hundred Tribulations Forbidden Incantation to kill her.”

Lin Yu analyzed logically, listening to Seagull nodding repeatedly.

“What Yao-jie said makes sense!”

Seagull immediately took action—he opened the curtain again and instructed the coachman.

“In a while, you don’t need to stop directly in front of Zhu Qiansi’s house, just stop one street away… no, two streets away will do.”

As Seagull spoke, the coachman immediately agreed.

“Alright, Miss Wan, as you wish!”

The level of this carriage driver also showed once again that the Wan family, which Seagull had merged into as "Miss Wan," should be quite prominent.

And "Miss Wan" herself probably had a very high status, otherwise, if they suspected that she had been possessed by evil, how could they let her go out to see a doctor with just a coachman?

Moreover, the coachman had no objections to her various seemingly strange instructions.

Soon, the carriage stopped steadily again.

“Miss, we’re here. You’ll have to walk a few steps. Do you need me to accompany you?”

The coachman’s voice came from behind the curtain, and Seagull replied casually.

“Of course not, I have my two friends with me.”

Seagull answered, then stepped out of the carriage under the escort of Lin Yu and Li Nian.

The street here was still that new and elegant style, but compared to the residential buildings, there were more shops selling stationery, calligraphy, paintings, tea, and other items for refined gentlemen, looking like a relatively high-end shopping place.

Looking along the street, most of the people walking here were also dressed neatly and appropriately. The men and women coming and going were often wearing relatively plain but well-fitting silk clothing.

The aesthetic of Willow Town’s upper class could be glimpsed.

Mixing in with the crowd, Lin Yu and Seagull didn’t seem out of place, but Li Nian seemed a bit out of place—but Li Nian didn’t care about these things.

The three of them hadn’t walked far when Lin Yu quickly discovered the location of Zhu Qiansi’s shop.

In the distance, a dozen people were gathered in front of a spacious storefront along the street, with a wooden sign hanging above the storefront that read “Apricot Grove Medical Hall.”

The door and sign were both antique and very elaborate.

But on the contrary, the people gathered in front of the storefront were not the elegant upper-class people lingering in front of other shops on this street—although there were a few who seemed to live nearby, the others were dressed as wealthy merchants, laborers, and vendors… the style was not uniform.

However, the interactions between these people could be described as harmonious, as if they were eagerly waiting for something.

And although they were at the entrance of the medical hall, Lin Yu had a premonition…

“Oh dear, it’s very likely that none of these people are here to ask for medicine, they’re all here to ask for a divination.”

As Lin Yu spoke, Li Nian asked.

“How can you tell?”

With Seagull here now, Li Nian didn’t act as intimately as before, but when Lin Yu spoke, Li Nian still chimed in.

“Even if all the people asking for medicine are family members, there should be a few patients mixed in, but these people don’t look sick at all,” Lin Yu sighed, “And if the elders in Zhu Qiansi’s family who run the medical hall are so skilled that they don’t need to observe, listen, inquire, and palpate, and can prescribe the right medicine just by asking a few questions to the family members, attracting so many people… wouldn’t the enthusiastic stall owner we asked earlier have reminded us?”

Li Nian blinked: “That seems to make sense, Yao-jie—since there are so many people, should we sneak in and take a look?”

“No, let’s find Gaoshan and Snow Owl to meet up with first.”

Lin Yu said in a low voice, then looked around at the other shops near the “Apricot Grove Medical Hall.”

Selling Xuan paper, selling calligraphy and paintings, selling antiques…

Scanning past one shop after another, Lin Yu quickly locked his gaze on a teahouse diagonally opposite the “Apricot Grove Medical Hall.”

Because it was a teahouse, this shop was different from the others—the second floor had windows open, obviously with tea seats featuring a view of the street!

And when Lin Yu saw this teahouse, he could be sure…

“If I were Captain Gaoshan, I would definitely choose to go into this teahouse!”

For a professional police officer, this was simply the best place to stake out and keep watch on the “Apricot Grove Medical Hall.”

Moreover, the teahouse itself was a very classic “information distribution center.” If used well, you might be able to gather some information you want to know from this teahouse.