My name is Lin Meng, and I’m a treasure seeker.
This profession goes by different names in different regions, such as “spirit reader” and “sheep herder.” It’s one of the Eight Outcast Trades, outside the traditional three hundred and sixty occupations. Strictly speaking, it belongs to the Thieves’ Guild.
“There’s a code even among thieves.” Third Master Lin told me over and over when I was a child that our trade had two rules: “Never profit from the dead, and never steal from the living.” Everything we take is a natural treasure born of the world, something that belongs to no one.
Eight years ago, at Wushan, Third Master Lin died before my eyes. After that, I gave up the trade and wandered from place to place.
Eight years later, in Qinglong Village, someone set me up and I was poisoned with a Gu. To save myself and unmask the mastermind, I had no choice but to return to the game...
