Chapter 478 Incense and Responsibility

In a seaside town outside Chentang Pass, there is a girl named Qi Diaochan. She is just a very ordinary haenyeo. There is no saying that women cannot go out these days. In order to survive, both men and women have to work hard.

Qi Diaochan usually goes out to sea to fish. Although it is hard to be exposed to the sun and rain, at least he can eat well.

Today I went to sea with my father again. Looking at the sky, I knew it would be a good day with clear skies. If I was lucky, one day's harvest would save Qi Diaochan from going to sea for several days.

Probably due to luck, this time during fishing, I actually caught a huge clam offshore. When I pried it open, I found a round and flawless pearl inside, which was almost bigger than my thumb.

If such a treasure could be sold at Chentangguan, it would be worth a sky-high price. It would be enough for Qidiaochan's family to no longer have to fish and live a happy life ashore.

Qi Diaochan's father was also very happy. This way, his daughter could marry in a graceful manner, and she would not have to be trapped in this fishing village all her life, fighting for her life in the sea like her ancestors had done for generations.

However, the originally calm sea suddenly became rough.

As fishermen at sea, Qi Diaochan and his daughter both knew the sea very well, and they returned home as soon as they noticed something was wrong. Anyway, it is enough to get this pearl today, it is more important than any other harvest.

However, the disaster struck so quickly that there was no time to escape.

A 100-meter-high tsunami came from a distance and shattered the fishing boat in the blink of an eye. The current dragged Qi Diaochan into the seabed.

At the last moment of his life, Qi Diaochan just wanted to see where his father was, but there was only a dark sea.

"The Dragon King is angry, but why?"

"Obviously every time we go to sea, we make a good sacrifice. Why is it still like this?"

"It's not my fault, nor our fault... everything is the fault of the Dragon King. The Dragon King did not keep his word and did not protect us at all!"

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Before his death, Qi Diaochan suddenly felt endless resentment in his heart. It's obviously just a little bit away from living a good life. Obviously, I was extremely respectful to the Dragon King before, offering incense and making offerings every day. Why didn’t the Dragon King bless me?

It’s not just me. The fishing village has been worshiping the Dragon King for so many years, and villagers die tragically in storms every year.

The culprits of all crimes are dragons, those beasts who claim to be gods! However, the resentment of a mere mortal could not be turned into reality, so Qi Diaochan sank into the deep sea and completely lost her life.

As the saying goes, mortals suffer when gods fight. Tang Lin and the Four Golden Immortals of the Dragon King of the Four Seas fought on the sea. They moved mountains and filled up the sea. The huge waves of tens of feet were stirred up and turned into tsunamis, which began to wreak havoc everywhere.

Although most of the coast was wasteland at this time, many fishing villages were still affected. First, the people who went fishing at sea were overturned by dozens of small boats, resulting in heavy casualties. Then the fishing villages near the sea were almost completely destroyed by the tsunami, with the death toll approaching a thousand people.

Tang Lin discovered this when he was cleaning up the mess, and gave the first order to the Dragon King of the Four Seas who had just been defeated: "Find all the people who sank to the bottom of the sea due to accidental injuries."

The Dragon King of the Four Seas was stunned when he heard this order. How to make money from this? A tsunami will sweep hundreds to thousands of people into the sea, and even the Dragon Clan may not be able to find them all. No, how could their noble dragon clan become corpse collectors?

But Ao Guang wanted to make a suggestion, and Tang Lin glanced at him, as if he were looking at a loach that had been thrown to death on the chopping board.

Ao Guang trembled all over. He was a knifeman and a fish, so he could only agree. But Ao Guang didn't have to do it himself. There were many tribes in the East China Sea, so he could just send out a bunch of shrimp soldiers and crab generals to do it for him.

He originally thought that he could do business by fishing a few hundred people ashore, but who would have thought that Tang Lin would appear directly in the fishing village, not only rebuilding houses for the villagers, but also asking them to identify the corpses.

There are many people in the village, but everyone has familiar faces. If you ask the villagers a few questions, you will know which family is missing whom.

Seeing a group of passive and slow-moving shrimp soldiers and crab generals, Tang Lin ran directly to pinch Ao Guang's neck and said: "It doesn't matter if one person is missing. If you dragon clan didn't know right from wrong, would these mortals have died?!"

Ao Guang finally understood that the Taoist Lihuo in front of him was a madman. I have never seen an immortal care so much about the life and death of mortals, and this is not to save people, but to fish up the corpses, which has no use other than letting people bury them in peace.

Moreover, these mortals live along the coast and rely on the sea for their livelihood. They should have been prepared to be swallowed by the sea. Who can blame others for dying in the sea? There are so many mortals in the world, does it mean that everyone who drowns needs a dragon to save them?

This is the common idea of ​​gods in the world of gods - mortals are like ants, if one nest dies, another nest will soon appear.

But Tang Lin had a completely different idea. The Dragon King of the Four Seas was worshiped by the people along the coast. What did the people want? You can't just go to the Dragon King to ask for a son. Of course, what you want is good weather and a safe return from the sea.

You want to say that the Dragon King cannot save the world, but Tang Lin also admitted that this is indeed something that even a saint cannot do.

But, if you can’t do it, don’t brag!

Before accepting the incense offering, would the Dragon King say: "Look, I can't save all of you, and I don't even care about you. Whether you go to sea or live or die depends on your luck. But even if I am so cheating, you are still You must serve me well and don't lack the incense, otherwise I will get angry and kill you."

Of course this is impossible. Mortals are not fools. I heard you say this and still offer you incense? Of course, what the Dragon King said was "Those who believe in me and rebel against me will perish in the sea" to scare these mortals. Occasionally saving two people, or even a mortal being lucky enough to survive, would be regarded as a great achievement, and all mortals who died could be charged with disrespecting the gods.

Over time, mortals have resigned themselves to this extremely deceptive and unequal contract.

In Tang Lin's opinion, if you can't do it, then don't show off. It's not shameless to take advantage of mortals while treating them like ants.

The previous naming of the waterwheel also exposed the greedy nature of the dragon clan. They thought about merit rather than how this thing could really benefit mortals.

Tang Lin couldn't see such double standards. It might not have been possible before, but starting from today, if the Sihai Dragon Clan dared to ignore the coastal fishermen, then Tang Lin would demolish all their Dragon King Temples. How mortals die has nothing to do with the Dragon Clan, but you don't want to get any more incense. Everyone breaks up.

The corpses of fishermen were fished out one by one. It was actually a question of whether to do it or not. But if they really paid attention, it really wasn't a problem for the aquarium to fish out some corpses from the sea. And because of the special nature of this tsunami, ferocious aquatic animals such as sharks did not dare to approach, but they were all fished out without missing a beat.

Next, Tang Lin apologized to the people in front of the fishermen, pressing Ao Guang's head, and then started to condense golden lightning with Tang Lin's hands.