My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 162: Seedling Gu
Allowed in but not out?
Looking at the text information given by the storyteller, Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a while and finally decided to go there and take a look.

As for the issue of being allowed in but not allowed out, perhaps it will have some effect on the living beings in the secular world.

But for players like them, it is not a problem at all.

Even if you are trapped in the City of Joy, as long as you find a way to commit suicide, you can leave the City of Joy through the shrine.

"You have chosen, go to Xishen City."

"You were walking alone on the road, passing through a forest, when you suddenly met a bandit passing by."

"I opened this mountain and planted this tree. If you want to pass through here, you have to leave money to buy your way through. If you don't say a word, I will kill you and not bury you!"

"The bandit asked you to hand over all the incense and offerings you have, or he would cut you into pieces and throw you into the mountains to feed the wolves."

"What are you going to do?"

"Are you going to follow their words and hand over all the incense and offerings on your body, or are you going to just take their lives?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought to himself that he was so unlucky that he encountered bandits who were robbing people not long after leaving Beiping City. If he killed them, it might attract some wild monsters.

But if I pay them for the passage, it would not be worth it. Jiang Xinghuo opened the object frequency column and started to rummage around in it.

I want to see if there is any way to get rid of them without attracting the attention of those evil spirits.

Don't tell me, he actually found something.

"You removed two grenades."

"You pulled the fuse of the grenade, waited two seconds, and then threw it directly into the group of bandits."

"There was a loud explosion. Half of the twenty or so bandits were killed. The rest were injured and dizzy from the grenades."

"You take this opportunity to take out the evil star bite."

"With the help of the Wind and Rain Breathing Technique, the cold sword light raged like a violent wind, harvesting the lives of the remaining bandits in an instant."

"You have killed the bandit x25."

"You have obtained, Incense +1300."

"You consumed two grenades."

"You went forward to search the bodies of those bandits and found that there was still one fish that escaped."

"It turns out that when this bandit was young, he once rescued a Miao Gu Master and his wife."

"Later, the Miao Gu Master planted a death-substitute Gu in the bandit's body to thank him for his kindness. The death-substitute Gu could save his life at a critical moment."

"However, this death-substitute Gu is a one-time use. Once activated, it will disappear without a trace."

"Do you want to let this gangster go?"

Seeing the last sentence of the game text, Jiang Xinghuo seemed thoughtful. This should be the key to triggering the subsequent plot.

If you choose to kill this bandit, the subsequent plot will go in one direction. If you choose to let this bandit go, the subsequent plot will probably go in another direction.

Just like a fork in the road, different choices will lead to different places and will give different answers.

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it for a while and finally decided to let it go.

Anyway, it won’t have any impact on me. Even if I let it go and it doesn’t trigger the subsequent plot, I won’t suffer any loss.

"You chose to let go of the bandit who robbed you." "The bandit looked at you in disbelief. Having escaped from a desperate situation, he was so grateful to you that he couldn't express it in words. In order to repay this kindness, he was willing to tell you the residence of the Miao Gu Master."

"You can go find that old Miao Gu Master. Perhaps you two will become close friends who have met too late."

"You have learned the residence of the Miao Gu Master."

"According to the information given by the bandits, the Miao Gu Master's residence is not far from here, at the end of a narrow path."

"Do you want to go explore?"

"You have chosen, go to the Miao Gu Master's residence."

"You walked along the road for more than half an hour and saw a narrow path that extended from the side of the road and led into a dense forest where no one could be seen."

"You've taken this narrow path."

"However, just as you reached the edge of the woods and wanted to go deeper, you felt a pain in your calf. You didn't know what stung you, and a tingling sensation immediately spread throughout your body."

"This unknown toxin is very strong. Your immunity to poison cannot eliminate it. You can only suppress the toxin and let you live a little longer, but you will still die in the end."

"You are dead."

"Do you want to activate the ability of the scapegoat?"

Jiang Xinghuo was greatly surprised when he saw the blood-red font on the screen. Ever since his immunity to a hundred poisons was upgraded to immunity to a thousand poisons, this situation has never happened before, except for the corpse poison at the corpse king level.

Moreover, he was quite curious in his heart about what kind of poisonous insect it was that could not even protect the body from thousands of poisons.

However, due to the limitations of the text's perspective, he was unable to see the true face of that thing.

"Scapegoat (1/4)."

"You activated the ability of the scapegoat and came back to life. Looking at the scarecrow that was corroded and rotted by the toxin, you couldn't help but feel a little scared."

"You know that if you don't prepare and continue to rush in headlong, you will most likely repeat the same mistake. Fortunately, you remembered that you got a piece of top-grade realgar ore from the Resentful Dragon Girl, and it can come in handy now."

"You took it out, the realgar ore."

"You hold the realgar ore in your hand and continue to move deeper into the forest. A poisonous snake covered in black crawls out and tries to attack you, but is forced back by the realgar ore in your hand."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You discovered it, the black snake poison."

"Black snake poison (excellent), one of the ten deadly poisons circulated in Miaojiang. It requires one hundred extremely poisonous silver ring snakes to be placed in a pot and raised, using their own blood as nutrients. All the silver ring snakes are made to kill each other and devour each other. The two poisonous snakes that survived are the black snake poison."

"Moreover, the lives of the two black snakes are connected. Unless both snakes are killed at the same time, even if one is killed, it can be resurrected again."

"Soon, you found the Miaojiang Gu Master's residence hidden behind the trees in the lush and dense forest."

"Do you want to go in and explore?"

"You chose to explore. You pushed open the door of the Gu Master's hut, but surprisingly, there was no one inside."

"The furniture was also covered with thick dust, as if no one had taken care of it for a long time."

"You explored the house carefully and found a lot of things."

"You have obtained: a suicide note from a Miao Gu Master, a fine Gu-breeding bowl, a young eye-brightening Gu egg, a young stone Gu egg, a method of performing the Thousand Swordsmanship, and a brass key..."

(End of this chapter)