Qing Jiuliu

> *“I have nothing but one wish: to die of alcohol poisoning.”*
>
> —**Qing Jiuliu** in his first appearance, Chapter 453

Qing Jiuliu is a former award-winning actor and part-time drunkard that became Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing's companion in the Meat Elysium world.

## Appearance

He initially looked like a hobo because of his unkempt appearance and unshaven face. Later, once he shaves and fixes himself up, he's said to be very stunning, dazzling males and females alike.

## Personality

A lackadaisical attitude toward life and the world transferring system. By the time Lin Sanjiu first encountered him, he had given up on survival and just drank the days away.

Surprisingly though, he has survived over six worlds. When asked about if he wanted to die, he said:

> *"We’ll all die one day. I just wish that my death would come along either when I’m drinking, smoking, or when I’m having a good night sleep in a nice, soft, and comfortable bed. Girls… I’d prefer to not have them around me when it’s time for me to return to His side. They would be too sad if they saw me die.”*
>
> —**Qing Jiuliu**, Chapter 454

## Evolving Ability

### Insolvent Drunkard's Light Of Hope

* To drain the liquids from someone or something by touch.
* Can be used to drain someone's body of blood or absorb beer through its bottle without opening it

## Special Items

* Fantasy Creatures Exhibition Specimen#12 (c.459); Lin Sanjiu gave this item to him.
* My Hand Which Runs Through Your Black Hair; given by Lin Sanjiu whe he was about to transfer to the other world (c.504).

## Story

### Meat Elysium

When Lin Sanjiu first found him, he was passed out drunk on the floor in a building. Lin Sanjiu had only recently made it out of Harry's Farm Pocket Dimension, only to find out that her grand prize, Ji Shanqing, had disappeared along with the building she left him in.

Running into another posthuman after so long made her happy, but this quickly shifted to disappointment and frustration when Qing Jiuliu showed no care for anything nor answered any questions that might lead her to the grand prize. Only when Lin Sanjiu began to store away every single one of his beer bottles and cigarettes in her cards did he start to give a panicked reaction and answer all her questions. To her disappointment, he had not seen Ji Shanqing, and he swore that there had been no pocket dimension outside of the building when he had entered it.

Lin Sanjiu then proceeded to look for the building with Ji Shanqing and dragged Qing Jiuliu along with her, giving him only a little bit of booze or cigarettes over the journey in order to keep him going. Just when they found another building, they were ambushed by a powerful posthuman who had the ability to absorb just about anything into his velvet curtain ability. Lin Sanjiu lost one of her longtime favorite Special Items, Vibroblade, to him and had difficulty in even defending. However, the man's ability didn't work on Qing Jiuliu. Using her Empty-Handed Kleptomaniac, Lin Sanjiu interrogated the man and found out a lot of new information. First, the man's ability didn't work on Qing Jiuliu because of its one weakness, which was actors; Qing Jiuliu was actually the most famous award-winning actor in his origin world. Second, she learned that the man ambushed her because he was part of a mysterious organization that tasked him along with many other candidates to look for a tall woman in the vicinity and to kill her.

The interrogation was interrupted by Irezumi, the man's arbiter. Fearing that Irezumi would come after them for learning the organization's secrets, Lin Sanjiu used the Empty-Handed Kleptomaniac to take the velvet-ability man's consciousness; she threw him toward Irezumi and promised to never tell anyone about what she learned. However, Irezumi said he still had to kill them and gave chase. Sanjiu and Qing Jiuliu hid in a room in the nearby building until Irezumi left but feared he would come back again. Lin Sanjiu tricked Qing Jiuliu into having some of his beard cut off and used it to make herself a disguise; Qing Jiuliu decided to shave off the rest. When Irezumi came back, he was fooled by their disguises and convinced by Qing Jiuliu's outstanding acting skills. He thought they looked strong and decided to make them both his candidates for the trials since he had already forsaken the velvet curtain man. In their conversation, Irezumi inadvertently let slip that he had one other candidate; his description lead Sanjiu to suspect that the other candidate was the missing Ji Shanqing. She agreed for her and Qing Jiuliu to be candidates in order to get more info about him.

Irezumi revealed to them their task for the trial, which was to find a tall woman who had last come from Red Nautilus after having destroyed one of their organization's branches. Lin Sanjiu and Qing Jiuliu both realized he was describing her and that this whole man-hunt trial was all about capturing and killing Lin Sanjiu. Irezumi told them to start looking for the target before he left. Realizing that he must be secretly watching them while remaining hidden, they decided not to run or even pretend to look for the target, instead wasting the day away by being idle. In the night while in the building, just when Irezumi had enough of them and came to confront them about their laziness, they were put under the spell of a Siren by someone. Lin Sanjiu captured the item and gifted it to Qing Jiuliu since his good looks would only amplify the effects of the Special Item when he used it. Irezumi shouted and ridiculed the two for not making any efforts to complete the trial and proceeded to place tracking devices on both of them before leaving, having had enough of wasting his time on them.

Outside, Lin Sanjiu and Qing Jiuliu were attacked by Sunny and Queenie. They were able to overpower Sunny, and Qing Jiuliu convinced Queenie to give up fighting, promising that he would make it so that she and Sunny never parted even after death. He sucked the blood out of her head with his ability so as not to damage her body, thus giving her a quick death. He and Lin Sanjiu merged the duo's corpses and altered some parts to try and pass the finished product as Lin Sanjiu's corpse.

They continued to search for Ji Shanqing in a vehicle, but due to Lin Sanjiu's terrible driving, they nearly rammed into a powerful posthuman, Magus. Magus said she was not mad and warned them to be careful before continuing on her way while lugging a gunny sack. The duo arrived at a hotel and found Irezumi there, who revealed to them that his other candidate posed as a councilor officer to find the target but ended up offending a powerful posthuman who shoved him into a gunny sack and set off. Lin Sanjiu realized with horror that she had just missed Ji Shanqing, and to her dismay, Irezumi refused to help retrieve him, as he had guaged that Magus was too powerful to go up against. Ms. Manas in Lin Sanjiu's head suggested they turn over the merged corpse so that the trial can end and Irezumi would have no choice but to seek Shanqing to relay him the details of the next trial's task. Irezumi was delighted when presented the corpse and tested them with some questions, to which they passed easily. The trial officially ended and he even confirmed with Cyrus, the other arbiter that came to this world. They both agreed that it was better to forsake Ji Shanqing anyway since the task of getting back was seemingly impossible. Lin Sanjiu wanted to persist, so she and Qing Jiuliu parted ways.

When they next met, it was on Magus's turf. Magus held a special interest in Lin Sanjiu and was surprisingly compliant in letting her have her friend back. She led Sanjiu to a room that, to her surprise, was filled with piles of sleeping people, all the people who had offended or been rude to Magus. Among them were Qing Jiuliu and Irezumi, both unconscious.

TBC