My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 555 Destruction
"What are your options next?"

"Will you choose to leave here quietly with the Kuiniu drum, or hide in the dark and beat the Kuiniu drum in your hand to shake those two big guys into the magma?"

The game gives two options: leave the mine with the Kuiniu drum, or strike the Kuiniu drum to plot against the two mighty gods.

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment and felt that there was no need to take action against these two big guys. He had already obtained the Kuiniu Drum, and also found out the truth about the deaths of those monsters. They were all secretly killed by the natural disaster believers in the City Lord's Mansion.

As for why the City Lord's Mansion did this, it would be difficult to find the truth here. I guess I have to go to the City Lord's Mansion to find clues.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo no longer hesitated and directly chose the first answer, taking the Kui Niu Drum and leaving the Tianhuo Mine first.

"You unfold your limbs and transform into a dark cloud that covers the sky and the sun, flying toward the outside of the Tiankeng Canyon. At the entrance of the canyon, you can see quite a few people heading in."

"But these have nothing to do with you. Without the influence of the Kuiniu drum, there will be no more earthquakes inside the tiankeng canyon."

"As long as those people don't commit suicide by jumping into the tiankeng, there is a high probability that there will be no danger to their lives."

"Where are you going next?"

"Would you like to go back to the city and wander around, or head straight to the City Lord's Mansion?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose to go to the City Lord's Mansion again. If he didn't turn the place upside down, the truth would probably never come to light.

"You chose to go to the City Lord's Mansion."

"On the way, please wait..."

"Are you planning to go to the main gate of the City Lord's Mansion or the corner gate in the backyard?"

"You choose to go to the main gate of the City Lord's Mansion."

Jiang Xinghuo planned to go to the main gate first to see if he could find a chance to enter the City Lord's Mansion. Otherwise, he would have to climb over the wall through the back door.

But ever since he took the Xiantian Turen Pill, his strength has declined significantly. Facing those vicious and cruel Liaoyuan people, he is no match for them at all. He might end up being skinned, bones dissected, and all the blood drained from his body like before.

While Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about these things, he controlled the game character to move forward.

Soon, a reminder message indicating arrival at the City Lord's Mansion popped up.

"You came to the outside of the City Lord's Mansion, but your behavior of wandering outside the gate of the City Lord's Mansion attracted the attention of the Liaoyuan people. They suspected that you had ill intentions, so they came towards you again with the fire sticks in their hands."

Damn, it’s the same old thing again!
Isn't there anything new?
Jiang Xinghuo chose to run away sincerely and controlled the character to come to the back of the City Lord's Mansion.

"What are you going to do next? Are you going to climb over the wall and sneak into the City Lord's Mansion again?"

When Jiang Xinghuo was hesitating whether to turn over, he saw the game text on the screen change again.

"You noticed that the corner gate of the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion suddenly opened, and several Liaoyuan people came out pushing a wooden cart. I don't know what was on it, but it was piled up two or three meters high and covered tightly with broken bamboo mats. They were heading towards an alley in the north of the city. What do you plan to do now?"

"Would you choose to rush out and lift up the bamboo mat on the wooden cart to see what is piled underneath, or would you secretly follow these Liaoyuan people to see where they are going?"

The game gave two options, Jiang Xinghuo chose the second one, intending to see what they wanted to do first.

"You followed the Liaoyuan group and found that they were heading to the Renrenfang in the north of the city. That was where the mining city burned corpses. Then you realized that the things covered under the bamboo mats were actually bloody corpses with hideous wounds all over their bodies. It was obvious that they had been tortured inhumanely."

"You have arrived at the Refiner's Workshop."

"The boiler in the refinery burned non-stop 24 hours a day, and the billowing black smoke covered most of the sky."

"Soon after Liaoyuan pushed the corpses into the Human Refining Workshop, they walked out and planned to return to the City Lord's Mansion."

"You waited until the Liaoyuan people left before you walked into the Renren Workshop and started chatting with the master chef. He was also happy to have someone to chat with while he was working late at night."

"When you were chatting with him, you learned that in the past two years, the City Lord's Mansion has sent some ownerless corpses to the Refining Workshop almost every month. They said that they were prisoners who wanted to riot and escape from the prison. After being executed on the spot, they were sent here to be destroyed to avoid causing infectious diseases such as plague."

"But it has checked the bodies and found that most of them were ordinary citizens of the mining city. Even if they committed some petty theft, it was not a capital crime. But it has no influence and dares not speak out. It can only do what the superiors say. As for whether there is any secret behind this, it is not something it, a boiler operator, should know."

"Private investigator's notes, trigger."

"You remember seeing a case like this in the private detective's notebook. The case involved a horse-riding fairy from outside the border who had a family background in martial arts. For unknown reasons, he was suddenly arrested in the mining town and charged with home kidnapping, robbery and murder."

"The elder of the spirit didn't believe that his child would do such a thing, so he spent a lot of money to hire a private detective to come to the mining city to investigate. However, the City Lord's Mansion ruled the case as an ironclad case. The private detective did not find any evidence to overturn the verdict, so he could only tell the elder of the spirit the whole story. As for what happened afterwards, it was not something he could know."

"After all, he can't afford to offend these two forces. If he wants to save his life, he can only pretend to be deaf and dumb."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You found that the private detective seemed to have used an invisible potion when recording this case. He could use the invisible potion to hide the things he really wanted to write down."

"If you want to know what the private detective has hidden, just buy a bottle of the most common revealing potion, add a few drops of rooster blood that has been aged for more than three years, and smear it on the paper, and you can see what the other party has written."

Seeing the hint in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo immediately went to the niche shop and spent 100 incense sticks to buy a bottle of revealing potion, and then spent 50 incense sticks to buy three drops of pure Yang rooster blood. "You mix the pure Yang rooster blood with the revealing potion, and then apply it evenly on the private detective's notes."

"I saw the words on the notebook slowly fade and finally disappear without a trace, and then a brand new notebook appeared on the paper."

"This is a note that the private detective recorded using a special method after returning to Xishen City. Even if someone knows that he used an invisibility potion, without adding the three drops of pure yang rooster blood, no one can see this hidden note."

"You learned from reading this note that after the private detective returned to Xishen City, he recorded all the information he had investigated in the mining city out of the ethics and principles of the detective profession."

"The reason why that disciple of Chu Ma Xian was accused of kidnapping and murder was because he discovered a secret about the owner of the mining city."

"The Lord of the Mining City was originally a monster born in the disaster of the skyfire that burned the city. His power also came from this disaster. If he wants to improve his strength on this basis, ordinary practice will not work at all. The only possibility is to cause another skyfire disaster to burn the city, and use the power born from the disaster to make further progress and gain more powerful practice and power."

"However, the disaster of burning the city with skyfire is a disaster that can only be encountered but not sought. Only a real skyfire meteorite can cause such a devastating disaster. The more people are killed or injured, the greater its power will be."

"For this reason, Taoist Huoyun took great pains to bind the Skyfire Meteorite in the ground veins of the mining city, hoping to use the millions of lives of the entire mining city as the price to make his own strength gain a new leap in the disaster."

"But the energy of the Skyfire fragments has long been lost over the long years and merged with the dragon energy of the mining city's earth veins. In order to trigger the power of the Skyfire contained in the earth veins, a large number of monsters and demons must be sacrificed until the power of the earth veins exceeds the range that can be tolerated. At that time, the entire mining city will be submerged by the magma containing the power of the Skyfire, and naturally a new disaster of the Skyfire burning the city will occur."

"That Chu Ma Xian disciple accidentally discovered this conspiracy, and was framed by Huo Yun Daoist for murder and robbery. He was imprisoned deep in the prison of the mining city, and the elders of the Chu Ma Xian disciples agreed that he would only be detained for two or three years, and would be released secretly after the storm died down."

"But in fact, Taoist Huo Yun has other plans. He doesn't want his plan to go wrong, so he is temporarily cooperating with the Immortal Xu. When he really starts a disaster of burning the city with heavenly fire and his strength is improved, he won't have to be afraid of anything anymore and can completely crush everything with his own strength."

"At this point, the conspiracy between the Taoist Fire Meteor and the mining city has become clear. It is a trick set up by the other party to increase their own strength. The purpose is to sacrifice all the citizens of the mine and set off an unprecedented disaster of burning the city with heavenly fire."

"If it really succeeds in carrying out this conspiracy, I'm afraid there will be another top master in the secular world who is as powerful as the Taoist master."

This text is a rough summary of the clues that Jiang Xinghuo has found in the past few days. It not only reveals the conspiracy of the mining city lord Huoyun Taoist, but also triggers the subsequent development of the plot.

"Exile, the nameless person from the other side of the starry sky, you have now seen through the conspiracy of Taoist Huoyun, so what choice will you make next?"

"Are you planning to pretend that you don't know about this, and just go with the flow and watch the mining city being destroyed by the skyfire, so that the lineage of the Taoist Tianzai will have another extraordinary fighting force, causing endless troubles for other Taoist masters?"

"Or should we choose to expose the conspiracy of the Taoist Hui Huoyun in front of other citizens of the mining city and let other monsters in the mining city go and cause trouble for him?"

"Be careful. Since you come from a race of exiles that have been cursed and spurned by the secular world, your words will not be easily accepted by the native creatures of the secular world. In fact, they may even have the opposite effect, attracting the hatred and curses of those monsters and demons."

"Of course, you can also choose to find another way and seek help from outside forces to deal with Taoist Huoyun."

"The Chu Ma Xian disciple imprisoned in the City Lord's Mansion is a very suitable target. You can sneak into the City Lord's Mansion and rescue the Chu Ma Xian disciple. Its words are often more trustworthy than those of an exile like you."

"How exactly are you going to choose?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the three options given by the game, and the first one he ruled out was the first answer. If he chose to pretend that he didn't know about it, not to mention the survival of the mining city, the subsequent plot would obviously not be able to continue, which would be a hundred disadvantages and no benefit to him.

Therefore, this answer is definitely not the one to choose.

The remaining two answers are also obvious.

The second one is obviously a thankless task and is likely to have a counterproductive effect and be killed by the evil spirits in the mining city.

That leaves only the last one.

Find another way.

However, if you choose this answer, you have to enter the City Lord's Mansion, find the prison and rescue the Chu Ma Xian disciple imprisoned inside. Only in this way can you use the opponent's power to lure its elders in Guandong to kill Huo Yun Taoist.

In this way, he could also take advantage of the situation to reap some benefits, and perhaps even improve his reputation in the mining city.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo no longer hesitated and chose to go directly to the City Lord's Mansion to rescue the imprisoned Chu Ma Xian disciple.

"You returned to the back of the City Lord's Mansion and secretly climbed over the wall to enter the City Lord's Mansion. Perhaps because it was too late, the security in the mansion was much laxer, and you were not surrounded by a group of Liaoyuan people like you were during the day."

"You sneaked into the city lord's mansion, used your talent of seeing through walls, and began to search around for the location of the dungeon."

"Not long after, you found the entrance to the dungeon. It was right below the seventh small rockery in the back garden. Although you found the entrance to the dungeon's secret passage, you didn't know how to open the mechanism outside. You could only open the small pupil of your right eye to decipher the mechanism's principle structure."

"But it will take quite some time to decipher it. Do you want to try to decipher it first?"

Things have progressed to this point, it would be a shame not to give it a try. Let's give it a try first, just in case it works. If not, it's not too late to think of other ways.

"You opened the small pupil of your right eye and began to decipher the mechanism of the entrance to the secret passage."

"But the mechanism outside the secret passage is very complicated and cannot be cracked in a short time. At the same time, you heard footsteps outside the back garden. What are you going to do next?"

"Will you choose to hide aside for the time being and wait for these people to come and enter the dungeon with them, or will you go over and kill the people outside and continue the unfinished operation of cracking the mechanism?"

I drank two small beers, and my alcohol tolerance caused me to feel dizzy. I even suspected that I was allergic to alcohol, rather than having a poor alcohol tolerance. Otherwise, why would I feel dizzy after just a little bit of alcohol? I'll check it out another day. I'm going to sleep now. Please bear with me...

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