Yucheng's rebuttal left Hu Tao speechless. Qiqi's existence made her explanation seem rather unconvincing.
Zombies had a documented history in Liyue. Generally, a freshly deceased body was used as material to create a zombie devoid of reason. Its creator would then give it specific edicts, and the zombie could act according to those edicts.
Hu Tao considered this practice a desecration of corpses. In her view, bodies should be cremated and then laid to rest in the earth.
For this reason, Hu Tao had made repeated attempts, calculating the precise yin hours and moments to abduct Qiqi with Coconut Milk. She intended to cremate her according to procedure, then stuff her into a grave prepared outside the city-a grave Hu Tao had built herself.
However, every attempt was stopped in time by Baizhu from Bubu Pharmacy. Whenever Baizhu arrived, Qiqi was already bundled into a sack with only her little head poking out, watching in confusion as Hu Tao strenuously dug a pit for the cremation.
After so many attempts, even Qiqi's not-so-clever little head occasionally had a flash of inspiration, allowing her to recall which times she should hide to avoid being caught by Hu Tao.
Perhaps the powerful will to live Qiqi displayed had touched Hu Tao, making her feel that Qiqi was more than an ordinary zombie. After she carefully investigated everything that had happened to Qiqi, the accident, the mysteries of the adepti, and all the coincidences left Hu Tao uncertain.
Since Qiqi wanted to live so badly, she naturally could not be forcibly buried. In the end, Hu Tao treated her as an exception that came along once in a thousand years.
Yet she had never expected that someone would now want to follow Qiqi's path and revive a person who had been dead for