The moment Strange returned, Schiller and Pamela presented him with this idea. Like Pamela, Strange's first reaction was: How could anyone possibly agree to something this outrageous?
But Schiller explained that, first of all, Yinglong had confirmed that Chiyou was already dead. What remained now was entirely his corpse, and there was no way he could come back to life.
The few times he had come out causing trouble before, it was because someone had controlled his corpse, not because he had truly revived. And the person controlling him did not truly want Chiyou and the Yellow Emperor to fight another life-or-death battle; they wanted to bring him back to life.
In the minds of most Chinese people, the myth went like this: the Yellow Emperor won, Chiyou lost, and Chiyou was killed. When people believed he was dead, then he was truly dead.
But if his corpse could be shown to the public and people were led to believe that he was still alive, then he might really come back to life. That was what the Black Hand was after.
Although Chiyou had also left descendants across the land of China, it was hard to say exactly what he would do if he came back to life. According to Yinglong, though, he would most likely still want to settle things with the Yellow Emperor in a fight to the death.
The Divine Spear Bureau naturally could not allow that. Back then, they had gone to untold lengths to silence everyone who knew about that war and prevent the Black Hand's scheme to revive Chiyou from succeeding. After all, if he fought the Yellow Emperor again, wouldn't ordinary people still be the ones to suffer?
But that did not mean the matter was over. Chiyou's corpse did not decay, and