My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 490 Commission
"The chief inspector of Daliang City's police station has asked you for help. She knows you are a good person and hopes you can get her out of here safely. Her father will certainly be grateful to you. At the same time, you can also gain the friendship of the chief inspector of the police station, which will be of great help to your future exploration in Daliang City. At least you don't have to pay taxes to the police station, and you don't have to worry about those blind police officers harassing you."

"Of course, you can also keep this delicate young lady for yourself, or disguise yourself as a human trafficker in Daliang City and sell her to someone else. Then use this clue to find the chief detective of the police station, and you will surely get a lot of money from her."

"So, no matter what choice you make next, you won't be at a disadvantage. This is a business that guarantees a profit regardless of drought or flood."

"So, are you going to accept the other party's request for help?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the options on the screen and curled his lips, thinking that this copywriting package had no good intentions. Not only did it try every means to deceive him into doing bad things, but now it was even trying to tempt him onto the path of crime. He must not let the other party get what he wanted, and he must teach it a lesson.

Well, he can't do that yet.

But he doesn't have to obey the other party's orders and can do whatever he wants based on his own ideas.

"You accepted this rich lady's request for help."

"You helped him up from the dirty ground and asked him where his family home was."

"You have obtained a new map, the mansion of the Chief Inspector of the Police Station."

"Do you want to send him back home immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo opened the inventory and searched, finally found an ordinary teleportation talisman, then clicked to use it.

This teleportation talisman was a prop he got from Jiang Miaozhen. Later, he used the innate ability of Tathagata Zang to analyze the production formula. He bought a lot of materials with Hua Xianghuo and spent a day to make nearly a hundred teleportation talismans.

The range of the teleportation talisman varies greatly depending on the color and grade of the talisman paper.

It is estimated that ordinary yellow talisman paper can be used to move about half a kilometer at most. The purple talisman can be used within two kilometers, and the black talisman can cover a range of up to five kilometers.

As for the golden teleportation talisman, Jiang Xinghuo was reluctant to spend the incense money, so the effect was not clear for the time being, but he estimated that a distance of a hundred or eighty miles should not be a problem.

"You have used the Moving Talisman (Common Item)."

"The cinnabar talisman instantly burned to ashes, and the mysterious force of space surged out, enveloping you and the rich girl, and disappeared into the sewer in the blink of an eye."

"You have been teleported to the residence of the Chief Inspector of the Police Station."

"The Chief Inspector was furious at home. He had already sent out all his patrol officers. He was determined to find his daughter even if he had to turn the entire Daliang City upside down."

"When it saw its daughter returning safely, it was so excited and happy that it couldn't express itself in words. At the same time, the Chief Inspector also learned from his daughter that you had saved it from the ghost, so he was very grateful to you and expressed his friendly attitude."

"You have obtained the detective's warrant from the police station."

"This is the Chief Inspector's gift to you. Although it cannot compare to your life-saving grace, this Inspector's Certificate may be of some help to you. You can mobilize all the patrol officers below the level of Inspector in the Patrol House to work for you. This is equivalent to having a team of spies distributed throughout the city."

"After the Chief Inspector has calmed his daughter down, he invites you to sit in his study. He may have something to discuss with you. Do you want to go with him? Or do you want to reject his invitation and leave here in time with the Inspector's Certificate he gave you?"

This time, the game gives two options: accept the invitation and leave the mansion.

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and decided to accept the invitation to stay and see what the other party wanted to say before deciding what to do next.

"You accepted the chief inspector's invitation, came to the study on the second floor, and obtained a file from him."

"You looked through the files and found a large amount of drawings and data recorded in them, all of which were about the route distribution map of the Worry-Free Cave, and even many secret passage entrances that had long disappeared."

"You learned the whole story through communication with the other party."

"Worry-free Cave was first built during the reign of the Lord of the Secular World. It was originally used for flood control and water discharge. However, it later became a paradise for criminals and a notorious den of filth in the secular world. It also poses a serious threat to the public security of Daliang City. Especially after the Lord of the Secular World fell in the Forbidden City, the number of criminals in Wuyou Cave has increased even more than before."

"So, ever since he took over as Chief Inspector, he has been thinking about completely destroying this place of filth and restoring peace to the citizens of Daliang. The kidnapping of his daughter has only strengthened his determination."

"The route and data recorded in this file are the data that he entrusted his trusted subordinates to find out, combined with fragments of information extracted from ancient books, combined with reality and history."

"However, because those ancient books are too old, and the whereabouts of the craftsman who renovated the sewer system are unknown, there are still some unclear points about the structure of the Wuyou Cave in Guifan Tower, especially several places marked as dangerous in the ancient books. It has sent people to explore them many times, but in the end they were all trapped inside, with no one found alive or dead. After many fruitless explorations, it can only give up this idea temporarily."

"Now, perhaps God really has favored it in the dark, allowing it to meet you who have been cursed, abandoned and exiled by the secular world. You are rejected by everything in the secular world, including death. Death is just a game to you. Therefore, it wants to entrust you to go to those places and find out the secrets hidden there so that it can make corresponding preparations to avoid any problems when clearing out the Worry-Free Cave."

"Do you want to accept the commission from the Chief Inspector?"

After reading the information given in the text, Jiang Xinghuo thought that this trip was worthwhile. He was just worrying about not having a map of Wuyou Cave and didn't know how to explore next, and this plot was triggered.

As long as he accepts the commission from the chief inspector, he should be able to obtain maps of those places, and then he can go and explore them at will.

This was a matter of great benefit to him, at most he would just die a few more times. Just as the other party described in the text, death was just a game to him, and he could use the number of deaths to stack the probability to get what he wanted to know. "You have accepted the commission of the Chief Inspector."

"The Chief Inspector doesn't know what you are thinking. He just thinks that you are standing up for justice and are willing to take the risk to explore Wuyou Cave for the citizens of Daliang City. I am also very moved."

"Your reputation in Daliang City has been improved by +5."

"When you explore Daliang City in the future, there is a certain chance that you will trigger a hidden unknown mission. If you gain the favor of the citizens of Daliang City, you can get their help."

"You have obtained the Ghost Fan Tower map fragment +3."

"This fragment of the map records three hidden places. If there were no map to guide us, we would be confused in no time. Even if we passed by these places, we would not be able to find them."

"And in order to increase your chances of success in exploration, the Chief Inspector has also given you some firearms and props for self-defense, which can better help you deal with the emergencies that follow."

"You have obtained a brass revolver (excellent), a box of antidote for knife sores (excellent), a gas mask (excellent), a pair of cloud-stepping boots (rare), and a set of firearms defense cloak (excellent)."

"Brass revolver (excellent item), a brass revolver with eight rounds of ammunition. It has an effective killing range of up to 40 meters and has a critical hit effect on defensive monsters. Number of bullets: rounds."

"Detoxifying knife and sore medicine (excellent item), a top-quality medicine that has miraculous effects on treating both internal and external injuries. It is made from a variety of precious medicines. It can heal wounds without leaving scars and can also slightly improve the quality of muscles and bones."

"Gas mask (excellent item). The chief inspector of the police station specially sought out a master craftsman to make this mask. It can effectively filter out the foul smell in the sewers and the toxin particles in the air."

"Cloud-Stepping Boots (rare item), the personal collection of the Chief Inspector of the Patrol Office, is a magical tool obtained from the Wind-Controlling Immortal. After wearing them, you can greatly increase your walking speed, up to 70%."

"Firearm Defense Cloak (Excellent Item), a cloak that can directly block firearm damage. Although the Worry-Free Cave is a place of filth and dirt, there are many experts who are good at firearms. This cloak can greatly increase your chances of survival when facing them."

"Be careful. Although the firearms cloak can resist the burning and penetrating damage caused by firearms, it cannot offset the concussion caused by bullets hitting your body. You have to bear the aftermath of the concussion yourself."

"So just because you have this cloak doesn't mean you can challenge the power of those firearms without restraint."

"You must know that firearms are the most powerful weapons in this era. They are also the only weapons that can allow a person to defeat the strong with the weak, and even kill monsters with a weak mortal body."

Jiang Xinghuo put away these things. Although some of them were of no use to him, they were delivered to his door. If he refused, it would be very tactless.

"What are you going to do next? Are you going to return to Wuyou Cave to complete the commission given to you by the inspector of the police station? Or are you going to pretend to accept the commission and then run away secretly with the treasure given to you by the inspector?"

"If you choose to run away, you may offend the chief inspector of the police station, and you may even be restricted from entering Daliang City, but you don't have to take the risk of exploring those dangerous places."

"Although Wuyou Cave is a dirty and filthy place that never sees the sun, it is also a dangerous place where hidden dragons and crouching tigers are hidden. When the Lord of the Secular World and several of his confidants went to Jiangnan, they came here to explore, and several of their confidants almost died here. You have no obligation to take risks for those irrelevant people, so why bother to accept this death..."

The game text was still persuading Jiang Xinghuo to run away, but Jiang Xinghuo just thought the copywriter was talking nonsense and ignored the misleading words in the conversation.

However, he noticed that the last paragraph mentioned the Lord of the World, which reminded him of a few words he had seen when he was exploring Peking. It said that the Lord of the World had taken a few confidants to the south of the Yangtze River on New Year's Eve, but when they returned, all of their confidants died outside. Only He and the Immortal of the World returned with serious injuries and had to recuperate for a long time. (Chapter 381)
This made Jiang Xinghuo even more interested. A place that could make the guards around the Lord of the Secular World suffer a loss was definitely not an ordinary place.

"You took the gift given by the Chief Inspector of the Police Station and left the mansion. Then you crushed the teleportation talisman in your hand and teleported yourself back to the Worry-Free Cave."

"A disgusting, foul smell hit you in the face, and you immediately hung the scented towel over your face to block out the smell outside."

"Where are you planning to go next?"

"You took out the fragment of the map that the inspector of the police station gave you, and compared it with the fragments you already had. You found that there was an overlapping area, which was the remains of the Lord of the Five Grains Reincarnation."

Jiang Xinghuo felt a little regretful. He had thought there would be three more new maps, but he didn't expect that they would overlap with the maps that had already been unlocked. This meant that he had one less place to explore.

However, the text message that popped up next gave him some comfort.

"When you compare them, you will find that although the two maps overlap, they are also slightly different. It seems that there is an unknown secret passage marked on the map. However, since the map is too old, it is not very obvious. You can only go there and find out for yourself."

"Do you want to go to the remains of the Lord of the Five Grains Reincarnation immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation and controlled the game character to walk towards the depths of the sewer. On the way, he met some monsters hiding there, but unfortunately, he did not meet the ghost goblin again, so that the last two "Ghost Goblin Ears" had not been found yet.

After about half an hour, there was no plot in the middle, and the journey was relatively safe. Occasionally, I encountered a few ignorant little creatures, and I killed them easily, which was also a good thing.

Finally, he arrived at the destination of this trip, the remains of the Lord of the Five Grains Samsara House.

"You have arrived at the Grain Wheel House."

"This is the relic left by the Lord of the Five Grains Reincarnation in the Worry-Free Cave. It is also the Five Grains Reincarnation House he built with his own hands. The door is half-open with a gap. You walk over and look inside, but you can't see anything clearly. Do you want to push the door open..."

(End of this chapter)