My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 52 Coffin Town

"You killed the robbers who were robbing the road."

"You continued walking forward and saw the ruined temple where you woke up at the beginning. You walked into the ruined temple and explored it, and found some things that you had overlooked before."

"You have obtained a spiritual tablet."

"Spirit tablet (common item), a willow wood tablet made by funeral craftsmen. As long as you write the person's birth date on it, it can temporarily conceal the person's yang energy. Duration: 10 minutes."

"You have been given a tattered shroud."

"Tattered shroud (common item), the clothes worn by a dead person. Wearing it can slightly resist the attacks of evil spirits."

"You have obtained a blue brick to suppress corpses."

"Corpse-suppressing blue brick (excellent item). Although there is only one blue brick used to build a tomb and it is not heavy, it is like a mountain pressing down on those evil creatures that have risen from the dead."

Looking at the lines of game text that popped up, Jiang Xinghuo felt a little curious. This dilapidated temple was his birth point when he entered the game.

However, I didn’t find these things in the previous times. Could it be that someone put them here later, or do I have to explore the Dragon City map and then come back to find them?
Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a while but had no idea. The text perspective was too restrictive for players. They could only see what the text wanted them to see, and nothing else.

He could only use the limited fragments to piece together some ambiguous information. After putting these things away, Jiang Xinghuo continued on his way.

"You left the ruined temple."

"You kept walking along the path. You didn't know how long you had walked before the city behind you disappeared into the fog."

"And at this moment, a fork in the road appears in front of you, with the left and right roads clearly separated."

"Look at the road on the left. It is lined with willows and cypresses. A narrow path passes through the shade of the trees. In the dense forests on both sides, there are graves everywhere, some new and some old."

"You look to the right again. The broad road leads to nowhere, and there is fog ahead, so you can't see anything."

"At this time, you see that there seems to be a stone tablet buried in the weeds at the left intersection. However, due to the erosion of wind and rain over the years and the obstruction of the weeds, you can't see clearly what is written on it. Do you want to go closer and take a look?"

Jiang Xinghuo stared at the screen, did not refuse, and directly chose to go. This was obviously a task clue that triggered a new plot.

"Walk to the stone tablet, pull out the messy dead grass around it, and wipe off the dust on the stone tablet. Three bloody characters will immediately appear in your eyes - Coffin Town."

Jiang Xinghuo was quite surprised when he saw the words "Coffin Town". He had wanted to explore the Maoshan map, but unexpectedly he ended up outside the Coffin Town by accident.

This really proves the old saying, if you plant flowers with care, they will bloom; if you plant willows by accident, they will grow into a shade.

"You saw the words on the stone tablet. It turns out that this is the entrance to Coffin Town. You just need to follow the path forward and you will enter the town in no time."

"You still have the coffin maker's letter in your arms. Are you willing to go in and fulfill its unfulfilled wish?"

Jiang Xinghuo's original intention was to go to Maoshan first, and then use the body of a zombie to explore other maps.

However, now that we are outside Coffin Town, we can't just ignore it and miss this mission plot.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Xinghuo made up his mind and prepared to choose the road on the left and enter Coffin Town.

"You've made your choice."

"But since you have acquired the skin of the coffin maker, your appearance can change into that of the coffin maker, so you'd better think about what to do after you meet the coffin maker's grandfather [Master Coffin] later."

"You have two choices."

"The first is to visit the Coffin Master in the image of an exile and tell him the whole story." "The second is to change into the skin of a coffin maker and visit him. This way, you may have a chance to replace the coffin maker, become the grandson of the Coffin Master, and inherit everything he has."

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo's mind moved. He opened the magic bag, changed into the [Coffin Maker Skin], then controlled the character and walked onto the road on the left.

As for moral responsibility, Jiang Xinghuo didn't take it too seriously. Are you kidding? Would you talk about morality with an NPC in a game?
Everything players do in the game is to enhance their own strength and explore more secrets.

What's more, the creatures in this world are full of malice towards players, so Jiang Xinghuo has no psychological burden at all to deceive the old man.

"You walk along the path, and you feel the surrounding gloomy air. It is estimated that it will take about two hours to reach your destination, Coffin Town."

"However, if you can have a good mount, the travel time will be greatly shortened."

"Are you going to summon the griffin?"

In order to allow players to speed up their journey and save time, a new text pops up in the game.

But after thinking about it, Jiang Xinghuo rejected the option of using a griffin to travel. Although using a griffin to travel could save a lot of time, it would also miss many options.

It was a two-hour journey, and he didn't believe that there would be no accidents at all. Could it be that the game would allow players to pass this journey safely?

That is obviously unrealistic.

"On the way..."

"We are still on the road..."

Jiang Xinghuo put his phone aside, closed his eyes slightly, and waited quietly for the subsequent plot branches to be triggered.

Just like that, about twenty minutes later, a reminder sound suddenly came from the phone.

"coming!"

Jiang Xinghuo immediately opened his eyes, picked up the phone next to him, opened it, and saw a new game text pop up on it.

"You were walking on a small path, and suddenly you heard a strange noise coming from deep in the woods. You looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a tomb in the middle of the woods. It was not small, and was made of bluestone. I guess the tomb was either rich or noble in its lifetime."

"A grass-headed god in a shroud was pushing away the bricks on the grave with his dark blue hands, then pushing away the lid of the coffin, clinging to the eaves of the tombstone, and crawling out of the grave."

"It crawls on the ground in an extremely strange and twisted posture, like a giant spider, quickly swooping towards you."

"Tathagatagarbha, trigger!"

"You have gained insight into the origin of this grass-headed god.

"Grass-headed God (Excellent), he was originally the county magistrate of this place when he was alive, and was blessed by a weak law. After his death, he was buried on a node of the Yinsha of the earth vein. His corpse absorbed the evil spirit and the earth's energy, so he resurrected from the dead. Because he was blessed by the Golden Law, he is also immune to magic."

"How are you going to deal with this resurrected grass-headed god?"

Immune to magic? ?

Jiang Xinghuo blinked his eyes, which meant that thunder magic could not be used, so the only solution was physical means.

Moreover, the game text said that it was a resurrection from the dead. If that was the case, then I really had something in my hand that could restrain the opponent.

(End of this chapter)