My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 643: The Survivors of Tanka Village
After reading the secret letter in Linglong's letter, Jiang Xinghuo finally understood what was going on and secretly felt lucky.

If I failed to resist the temptation and was attracted by the ability of immortality and released the blood of the ancient god, I would probably become his slave.

He thought of the Lice Fairy he met in the underworld, who also possessed the ability of immortality.

Moreover, this ability was also bestowed by the ancient gods. Although I don’t know if there will be any consequences, it is better to be careful. However, this ability is indeed attractive.

If you are suffering from a terminal illness now and neither modern medicine nor secular medicine can cure you, then if you meet someone who makes such a condition again, will you still have the courage to refuse him/her entry?

The older generation always said that nothing is more important in the world except life and death.

When faced with the real threat of death, how many people can face it calmly? So many kings, generals, and geniuses, have finally fallen into confusion and pursued the illusory immortality.

What's more, the former is just pursuing delusions that one does not know whether they exist or not.

But what he is facing is immortality which is within his reach.

"Immortality... is really attractive..."

Jiang Xinghuo breathed a sigh of relief. Even though his life span was much longer than that of an ordinary person now, he would eventually die if he continued like this. Unless he could thoroughly establish a path, he would have no chance of achieving immortality in the literal sense.

But setting up a landmark is not something that can be accomplished in a day, especially in today's secular world, where all kinds of monsters and demons are causing trouble. It is not easy to set up a landmark based on legends. It can only be done slowly over time.

The mission of the letter-delivering ghost was temporarily over, but this mission also led to more subsequent missions.

He also had to go to the Huangliang Village in the underworld and have a good talk with the village chief. He had been invited, and if he didn't go, the other party would think he was scared.

"Where are you planning to go next?"

"Will you go to Lao Yanzhi Hutong to find out what's going on? Or will you go to the sewer to find the Master of the Five Grains Reincarnation? Or will you go to the mass grave in the suburbs and head to Huangliang Village?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked down at the screen of his mobile phone, thought about the clues in his hand, and finally chose to go to Lao Yanzhi Hutong.

"You chose to go to Lao Yanzhi Hutong."

"You triggered the map of Old Rouge Alley."

"On the way, please wait..."

"You have arrived at Old Rouge Alley."

"Lao Yanzhi Hutong was once a place of romance, but now it is in ruins. However, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Although this place is no longer as luxurious as it used to be, there are still many people living here."

"Follow the location marked on the map and walk into the alley to find the specific location of the courtyard."

"But when you get to the end of this alley, you won't find the yard."

"According to the location marked on the map, the yard should be further inside, but the road ahead has been blocked and there is no way to pass through."

Ok?
When he saw this, Jiang Xinghuo narrowed his eyes slightly, thought of something, and immediately opened his backpack to find the half-broken guide incense.

"Do you want to use the remaining half of the guide incense?"

"You have already used the guiding incense."

"You stick the incense stick into the ground and light it. The incense will quickly fly around. A faint path will appear within your field of vision. Do you want to go over and take a look?"

This guiding incense stick is a prop obtained together with the map of Lao Yanzhi Hutong and the key of the tiger-head copper lock.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't understand the purpose of this half stick of incense at first, but when he saw the game text saying that there was no road ahead, he knew the specific purpose of this half stick of guiding incense.

“You went down that path.”

"You found a non-existent road with the guidance of the guiding incense. The courtyard marked on the map was on this path. An ordinary, dilapidated courtyard soon appeared before your eyes."

"You walk over and see a copper lock with a tiger head hanging on the door. Do you want to take out the key from your backpack and hand it in?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation.

"You have used, the brass key."

"You used the brass key to open the tiger-head copper lock on the door, pushed open the door and walked into the dusty and deserted yard."

"You have obtained the tiger-head bronze lock."

"Tiger-head copper lock (common item), a lock developed by the master locksmith of the Fuchunhua Bureau. Only the corresponding key can open it. No other key will work, and it can prevent forced destruction by external force."

Jiang Xinghuo put the tiger-head copper lock into his magic bag.

To put it bluntly, locks are meant to protect you from good people, not bad people. Don't be fooled by what the game text says, they can prevent forced destruction by external forces.

He didn't believe that an ordinary item could withstand the attacks of those monsters. At the very least, they could climb over the wall and enter the yard. There was no need to go through the front gate.

"You walked into the dusty yard. Perhaps because someone lived here not long ago, there was not much dust in the yard, but the furnishings were very simple. Apart from a low house, there was only a dry well and a dead tree outside."

"You walked to the side of the dry well and looked down. You saw that the well was covered with weeds, but you could vaguely see a lot of piled-up skeletons. Among them were the bodies of exiles from the same race as you, as well as the bodies of other monsters and demons in the secular world."

"Do you want to use your limb splicing form to devour these corpses in order to improve the quality and level of your form?"

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You found the remains of the exile 'Bone Man' among the corpses below."

"Bone-attaching Man (rare relic), an alternative inheritance among corpse-chasers. Ordinary corpse-chasers control the corpses of other creatures, but Bone-attaching Man controls his own corpse and bones, and has the ability to be reborn after death."

"Every time a bone-attached person dies, his body can be preserved. If another monster devours his body, then the monster will become his puppet. The duration of control depends on the target's cultivation level. During the control period, the target cannot make any effective resistance."

Tsk, there is such a talent. Doesn’t that mean that as long as the opponent dies enough times, he will have the opportunity to control a large number of monsters?

This is much more pleasant than the ordinary corpse refining technique, and it is also much simpler, more convenient and faster.

"Are you going to devour these bones again?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose No. Less trouble is worse than more.

It is not known whether the bone-attached man's talent will have any effect on him, but if it does, it will be troublesome.

Even if the other party can only control you for a short period of time, you will suffer a huge loss if you hand over the good things in the magic bag. Don't let that mean you lose even your wife.

"You refused to devour those skeletons and came to the dead tree not far away. You discovered the mystery of the tree through the vision of Tathagata."

"You have found the dead pear tree."

"Jiupiri tree (rare material), a magical fruit tree that has the ability to fly in the air and walk on the moon. After taking it, you can master the ability to fly in the air without any external force, but the speed is not fast, only about the same as an ordinary person running fast."

"However, the pear tree in front of you is already dead. With the spiritual fertile soil and spring water, there may still be a chance to revive it, although the chance is not great. Do you want to transplant it to another place?"

As soon as Jiang Xinghuo saw the description in the text, he immediately chose to transplant the sapling into the magic bag, and irrigate and cultivate it with fertile soil and branches of the spiritual spring. As for whether it could survive, it depended on luck. Anyway, he would not lose anything.

Then, Jiang Xinghuo controlled the character and walked into the low house.

"You walked into the house. Unlike the clean and tidy outside, the furnishings inside the house were covered in dust, as if no one had lived there for several years. Only the table by the window was exceptionally clean. Do you want to explore the house?"

"You explored the house."

"Exploring, please wait..."

"You didn't find anything valuable in the house, except for a few broken and rotten furniture, and two old salted and air-dried fishing nets. Judging from the marks on them, they must have been used frequently."

"But Beiping is located in the center of the secular world and is not near the sea. What are these fishing nets used for?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought there was nothing wrong with what he said. Beiping City was not near the sea, and the old fishing nets that had been salted and dried seemed to have no use.

Could it be that those who died in the mass grave came from the seaside?

Jiang Xinghuo controlled the character to search the house again, but still did not find any valuable goods.

"You have activated the talent of the Qilin Blessing Technique."

"Your luck has temporarily improved."

"You found a handwritten book in the gap between the table and the wall. The handwriting was messy and there were many Fujian and Guangdong dialects mixed in. Fortunately, you used the talent of Longtan Inkstone to decipher the contents recorded in it."

"You deciphered the contents of the manuscript and discovered the identities of those who died. It turns out that they all came from Luofu City in Lingnan, and were the remnants of a Tanka village on the South China Sea outside Luofu City."

"The reason why they are called the remnants of the Tanka Village is that the Tanka Village was destroyed by the ominous creatures in the sea, and hundreds of villagers in the village died at the hands of those evil spirits. In order to escape the pursuit of those evil spirits, the remaining people ran all the way from Lingnan to Peking, but in the end they still couldn't escape this disaster and all died in the pursuit of those evil spirits."

"However, this handwritten book does not record the specific reasons why they were hunted down. There are only some black copper coins and armor blades stuck in the pages, as well as a map leading to the Nanhai Tanka Village. The specific reasons for who was who are all recorded in the ancestral hall of the Tanka Village."

"If someone can find what they left behind and is not afraid of death and wants to find out the truth, then they can go to their Tanka Village. There is the truth of everything. If the person who found this book does not want to get into trouble, then just remember not to set foot in their village."

"You have obtained the map of Nanhai Tanka Village."

"You have obtained copper coins and armor blades of unknown age."

The game text ends here and there is no subsequent content.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the content details of the copy and the map, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Through the description in the text, we can determine that those who died in the mass graves in the suburbs were all boat people from the Nanhai boat villages, the kind who specialized in going into the sea to look for pearls.

When he was exploring the Songhua River area in Kanto, he also triggered similar tasks and clues.

The cause of death of the villagers in the Tanka village in Guandong was that there was a Yinmu Cave under the Songhua River, and those Tanka people were poisoned by mercury and all died there.

The boat people in the Nanhai boat villages are probably in the same situation. Who knows what they encountered in the sea that brought them such a devastating disaster.

But then again, the creatures they provoked were really tough. It was not enough for them to kill an entire village, they even spared no effort in killing the boat people who had fled to Peking. They were determined to kill them all.

Jiang Xinghuo put away the clues and mission props he found. This mission could not be completed for the time being, and he could do it when he went to Lingnan later.

"After you leave this yard, where are you going to go next?"

"Would you choose to find a place to have a good rest for the night and wait until tomorrow to discuss anything? Or would you continue to head to other places under the cover of night?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked up at the time. It was already past ten o'clock in the evening. There was no need to continue exploring. If there was anything, he could wait until tomorrow morning to deal with it. Then he went to bed!
Silent all night.

After getting up the next morning.

Jiang Xinghuo picked up his phone and saw that a new message had come in the game in the middle of the night. He clicked on it to check the details and found that it was actually related to the Peking detective.

"When you were resting last night, the chief inspector of Peking sent out his patrols to search for you in the city. However, because your hiding place was quite secret, the patrols did not find any trace of you."

"What choice are you going to make now?"

"Will you go to the inspector in Beiping to meet him and ask him what he wants? Or will you just pretend you don't know and go explore somewhere else?"

"Anyway, you have the Compassion Jade Pendant on you, so even if you walk past them in public, the police won't be able to tell who you are."

The game gives two options: go over and leave.

Jiang Xinghuo also began to wonder in his heart why the other party wanted to find him. Could it be that what happened last night happened again and it discovered that he had sneaked into its study?
It shouldn’t be!

It seemed that he had not revealed any flaws.

Is that because of something else?
Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a while and finally decided to go over and take a look. The worst result would be death there. As long as he didn't die, it would be possible to trigger new plot clues and tasks.

"You chose to go to the inspector's residence in Beiping to see what he wanted to do."

"On the way, please wait..."

"You have arrived at the residence of the Beiping Inspector..."

(End of this chapter)