My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 10: Seven Heroes and Five Gallants
Near noon, Jiang Xinghuo and his group arrived in the capital. When old classmates met, they naturally exchanged greetings.

But Jiang Xinghuo saw an unexpected figure.

Lin Tianshou.

It was the person from the relevant department last night, he seemed to be the team leader of the Abnormal Folk Affairs Investigation Bureau.

He also checked this department afterwards, but there was no relevant information on the Internet. If the other party had not come in a police car, Jiang Xinghuo would even think that he was impersonating a staff member of a state agency.

But unlike yesterday, when Jiang Xinghuo saw him for the first time today, information began to surge in his small pupils.

"Your Tathagatagarbha has discovered the traces of your compatriots."

"You have discovered the inheritor of the relic 'Qi Men Wu Dun', the Five Elements Great Dun, the true teaching of Qi Men. Anyone who possesses this relic can freely manipulate the changes of the five elements."

what's the situation?
Jiang Xinghuo was puzzled. Could he be the player who controlled the fire in the mall that night? If that was the case, why didn't he notice it last night?
At this time, Lin Tianshou also discovered Jiang Xinghuo, and the two nodded to each other as a greeting.

Jiang Xinghuo later learned from his classmates that Lin Tianshou was the bride's uncle, had a special identity, worked in a confidentiality department, and came to attend their wedding specially.

Jiang Xinghuo then realized that it was a confidentiality department. No wonder he couldn't find it.

But this is also expected. For a game that can give people superpowers, the government cannot be unaware of it, nor can it turn a blind eye to it. There must be corresponding measures, and he doesn't need to worry about it.

After lunch, a group of people began to decorate the new house. There was another lively party in the evening. It was not until after eleven o'clock in the middle of the night that they returned to the hotel to sleep.

Jiang Xinghuo returned to the room, took a shower to get rid of the smell of alcohol on his body, then lay down on the bed, took out his cell phone, and started today's game.

"You, the future king of the secular world, have walked into this city again. Even though you are exhausted physically and mentally, you have not given up your inner beliefs because of the potential dangers."

"But after experiencing several dangers and deaths in a row, you still learned valuable lessons and experience from them."

"You know that with your current strength, there are some places you can't go to, such as the Wong Tai Sin Temple in the south of the city. You need enough time and practice to deal with that yellow-skinned fairy."

"So, where are you going to hang out next?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the options that popped up on the screen and made the one that seemed the safest choice.

"You chose to take a quick tour and walk around the city."

This time, Jiang Xinghuo did not choose a fixed location, but just wandered around to see if any tasks were triggered.

"You were hanging out in front of a wedding wine shop, and you were spotted by a drug addict. He had no money to buy opium recently, and the pawn shop meat cabinet offered him a good price. He was looking for the right unlucky guy."

"It rushed towards you holding a rusty kitchen knife."

"Tathagata's talent is triggered."

"It stepped on a piece of watermelon rind and fell flat on its face, with its head hitting the blade of the kitchen knife."

"You get the spoils of war, incense +5."

"..."

Jiang Xinghuo wandered around Dragon City and found that the largest number of people in Dragon City were not ordinary people, but a group of crazy people who were high on opium.

He walked around for more than ten minutes and killed six or seven groups of drug addicts. The total number of incense sticks almost exceeded a hundred. The people here are really simple and honest, comparable to those in Gotham City.

But at the same time, Jiang Xinghuo also discovered a problem, that is, if he did not choose to go somewhere, but just wandered around, it seemed difficult to trigger important plot options. Just when he was considering whether to go back and make a new choice.

The game text suddenly changed.

"Yellow Spring Lantern effect, triggered."

"You found a seriously injured person in a remote alley behind the police station. He was sitting in a corner with a pale face and seemed to want to ask you for help. Do you choose to help him?" Here comes the job! !
Jiang Xinghuo was delighted. The mission was finally triggered. Of course he had to do the mission. There was no reason to refuse.

"You go up and ask, and the other person asks you for help."

"The seven heroes and five righteous men are the righteous men of the world, and their chivalrous spirits are passed down through generations."

"Drilling Sky Rat, the leader of the Seven Heroes and Five Gallants, has lived on Xiankong Island in the south of the Yangtze River for generations. He has the ability to carry a tripod and hang a flag on his back, climb a pole and drill into the sky. His lightness skills are unparalleled in the world. He has always taken it as his duty to help the poor and the needy, and to eliminate violence and protect the good. He enjoys a high reputation in the Jianghu and Green Forest."

"I came to Longcheng this time to visit a friend."

"Unexpectedly, the news leaked out, attracting the police station to encircle him. He relied on his superb skills to break through the siege, but was injured by Huang Xian and infected with evil sores and pus."

"You asked him what he should do?"

"He said that the yellow fairy sore on his body can only be cured by the scissors of the old tailor in the funeral shop. It lives in the third to last tailor shop on the right side of Funeral Street."

"All you have to do is light the soul-breaking incense at the window and wait for a while, then you can go in and get the scissors."

"You have obtained the incense of breaking the soul at the fifth drum of cockcrow."

Jiang Xinghuo got the so-called "Soul-breaking Incense" and continued to wander around the city, and soon triggered the option about the funeral clothing shop.

"You have been wandering around Dragon City for a long time but found nothing. Where do you plan to go next? The Wong Tai Sin Temple where the people of the city gather, the bustling Fuchun Teahouse, the Funeral Street in the west of the city, or the Qushui Canal in the north of the city?"

"You chose to go to Funeral Street for a stroll."

"You have come to Funeral Street in the west of the city."

"The people on this street are mostly engaged in the funeral industry. They make coffins, paper clothes, suona music, mourners, people who sew corpses for burial, spirit tablets, paper cows and horses, and dig graves..."

"You can find any business that has anything to do with the dead on this street."

"You have entered Funeral Street."

"Because of the burning of paper for memorial ceremonies, this street is always filled with smoke. People can't recognize people on the road, and people can't distinguish objects. There are often evil creatures, corpses parading on the street, blending in with the crowd, and secretly attacking pedestrians who come here."

Seeing the text on the screen, Jiang Xinghuo felt something was wrong. With the intensity of this game, he might die a few more times.

"You were walking on a funeral street covered in thick fog, and suddenly a blurry figure came towards you. You didn't notice that it was a vicious creature that had risen from the dead. You couldn't dodge in time, and you were bitten directly. The corpse poison invaded your heart veins."

"You are dead."

"You see the ferryman of the Styx again, but death still refuses your arrival..."

"You have triggered the talent effect of the scapegoat."

"You can return to the human world from the underworld at any time. You no longer need to travel eight hours. But you must be aware that the effect of the scapegoat can only be triggered once within 24 hours."

But just when Jiang Xinghuo was about to go back, new text messages appeared in the game.

"Yellow Spring Lantern effect, triggered."

"You found a glittering strange substance at the Yellow Springs Ferry of the Styx. Do you choose to pick it up?"

"You choose to go forward and pick it up."

"You have obtained Chishiro's relics."
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Second update, in the evening.

(End of this chapter)