My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 823: A Night of Trouble

"You accepted the invitation of the five elders of the National Martial Arts Association and agreed to go to the National Martial Arts Association to have a chat sometime in the future. The cook was also killed on the spot by the five elders. They stabbed him three times and made six holes in his body, destroying all the tendons and joints in his body. Then they threw him on the street and left him to die."

"At the same time, you also handed the owner of Baisheng Hall to the five elders of the National Martial Arts Association. However, since this matter is serious, the owner of Baisheng Hall cannot just deal with it like this. You must convene a National Martial Arts Conference and explain his crimes in front of all the disciples of the National Martial Arts Association. Then, according to the old rules of the martial arts world, not only must the door be closed and the plaque removed, but also all the martial arts practitioners must be invited to come to the public trial to give justice to the person who was killed by the conspiracy."

"The five elders of the National Martial Arts Association asked if you were interested in attending the public trial?"

"What are you going to choose now? Do you choose to go over and watch the fun? Or do you choose to stay here and continue the unfinished task?"

"You choose to stay in Lingnan City and continue to complete the task of the clay figurine craftsman."

"The five elders took the owner of Baisheng Pavilion away from here, and the farce came to an end. The chef, whose bones were broken, lay on the street, dying. He looked extremely pitiful. How do you plan to deal with him?"

"Will you choose to let it go and save its life? Or will you choose to cut the grass and root it out completely and eliminate the trouble forever?"

"After all, it has paid enough for its actions. All its bones and muscles are broken and it has become a disabled person. It can no longer move freely like before. The best outcome is that it will starve to death on the street in the deep winter night."

Looking at the two options given in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo chose the latter without much thought, directly wiping out the root of the problem and completely taking the life of the cook.

"You have killed, cook."

"You gained incense +100."

"You have the body of the cook."

"The body of a cook (waste material), a dead body with all its bones and muscles broken, has almost no use value. Even a corpse driver would not use this body as his research subject, because its bones and muscles are completely broken. If he wants to refine it into a zombie, the cost will far exceed the original value of this body."

"But at this moment, you suddenly saw several forensic officers in white coats coming over. They wanted to take the body back and use it as teaching material for students in the anatomy class. I wonder if you would allow them to take it away?"

"How are you going to respond to the requests made by these forensic officers?"

"Will you reject them outright and collect the body for your own use? Or will you choose to do them a favor and let them carry the body away?"

"This body is your trophy. Without your permission, these forensic officers dare not act rashly."

"Of course, it's not because they have noble morals, but because they saw the palm thunder you used to kill the cook, so they didn't dare to take the body away in a big way."

"Under normal circumstances, these medical examiners might even create a few corpses on their own initiative in order to find materials for dissection research, but they dare not even think of doing so in front of you."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the content of the text and was too lazy to throw the body into his backpack. He simply gave it to these forensic officers to save himself the trouble of cleaning it up later.

"You were very generous and gave up the body without charging any fees. You just let the medical examiners carry the body away. You did what you had to do without any hesitation or taboo."

"You have lost the body of the cook -1."

"The forensic officer in charge felt a little embarrassed when he saw you being so generous. He fumbled around for a long time and finally took out a rusty brass key. He said it was the key to the underground anatomy room of the abandoned medical school in the south of the city. The medical school has been abandoned for more than ten years, but the internal facilities are still well preserved. It's just that this place is said to be not very clean, and many people have suffered a lot of harm in it. If you are interested, you can go and explore it."

"You have unlocked a new sub-map - Abandoned Medical School."

"This medical school was once the most prestigious medical school in Lingnan, but for some reason it fell into decline overnight. All the teachers and students in the school suddenly disappeared mysteriously, with no one to be seen alive or dead, as if they had never appeared. We tried summoning spirits, hypnotizing mediums, and using both Eastern and Western methods, but in the end we still couldn't find the truth. Only an empty building was left standing in the city, and the two nearby streets were completely blocked, turning it into a weird place that people shudder at the mention of."

A useless corpse was exchanged for a clue to a new map. This deal was truly worth it.

Jiang Xinghuo put the key away, planning to go over and check after the clay figurine maker completed his task to see if he could gain anything.

The reason why he chose to kill the cook was not because he was petty, but mainly because he was worried about the consequences, even though his muscles and bones had been broken and he had become a disabled person who could not take care of himself.

But this is in the secular world, and no one knows which cloud will bring rain. If it really encounters some great opportunity and luckily heals its wounds, it will definitely come back to seek revenge on itself. Even if it cannot pose any threat to itself, it will bring a lot of trouble. So it is better to cut the grass and eradicate it once and for all.

After dealing with things here, Jiang Xinghuo tapped the screen and continued to scroll down the text content.

"When you were about to leave, the door of the clay mansion suddenly opened, and a paper crane flew out and landed on your shoulder. Some words were faintly visible on it. Do you want to open it and take a closer look at what was written?"

“You unfolded the paper crane on your shoulder.”

"A note appeared in your hand. It was a letter written by the child to you. It used simple lines to mark the specific layout of the clay figurine house, including the locations of the statues and how to crack the clay statues."

"It turns out that the statues placed by the clay figurine craftsman have all been consecrated. You need to use something to cover up the aura of the statues first, so that you can successfully avoid the detection of the statues."

"Moreover, ordinary filthy things have no effect on these statues. Black dog blood processed with secret medicine is necessary. Only this kind of evil-breaking medicine can obscure the spiritual light of the statues and not cause their anger."

"You can go to the City God Temple in the north, spend some money to burn three incense sticks in front of the City God statue, and then go to the temple priest to ask for a basin of black dog blood processed with secret medicine."

"Where are you going next?"

"Do you want to go to the City God Temple immediately to ask for the black dog blood? Or do you choose to explore somewhere else?"

"You chose to go to the City God Temple."

"On the way, please wait..."

"You have arrived at the City God Temple."

"Do you want to enter the temple to burn incense?"

"You walked into the City God Temple and saw an endless stream of pilgrims coming to worship. Outside the temple, a sea of ​​people were kneeling. They were all citizens who came to pray to the City God to fulfill their wishes."

"The belief in the City God has a long history in the Lingnan region, and can even be traced back to the ancient tribal period. Some people say that the City God is a secular god evolved from the heroic spirit after death, some say that the City God is a secular god formed by the beliefs of the world, and some say that the City God was originally an incarnation of the Kitchen God in the secular world, and later this belief was gradually spread throughout the secular world."

"Although the origin of this belief is hard to trace now, the City God is a rare benevolent god in the secular world, and he blesses believers who come to worship sincerely. The secret medicine you are praying for this time, black dog blood, is the material given to believers by the City God of Lingnan. It has the ability to exorcise evil spirits and suppress evil spirits. Mixing it with the soil to build a house can ensure that it will not be disturbed by evil spirits. Sprinkling it at the door can also prevent sneak attacks. Applying it on the body can also cure the situation of evil spirits possessing the body."

"You have entered the City God Temple." "You have lost the incense -300."

"You have obtained, Incense for Offering to God +3."

"You only need to insert three incense sticks into the incense burner to complete your offering to the City God. Do you want to insert the incense into the incense burner immediately?"

"You inserted the incense in your hand into the incense burner, and the power of the incense spread out and lingered around you."

"You have obtained the blessing of the City God."

"Blessed by the City God (status), when you face evil monsters, the City God's Dharma Image will be briefly activated, giving you a chance to escape, and there is a chance that you will learn the corresponding magic from the City God's Dharma Image."

"You can now go find the temple priest of the City God Temple and make a reasonable request to him."

"You found the temple keeper, told him your purpose, and asked for a basin of black dog blood. The keeper readily gave it to you."

"You have obtained the black dog blood processed by secret medicine."

After getting the black dog blood, Jiang Xinghuo also quit the game. It was too inconvenient to take action in broad daylight, so it would be better to wait until night.

night.

seven o 'clock.

Jiang Xinghuo logged into the game and controlled the character to come to the outside of the Clay Man’s House, and new game interactions soon popped up.

"What are you going to choose now?"

"Will you choose to use the black dog's blood to destroy the two door gods, then charge in with great fanfare and kidnap the clay figurine craftsman? Or will you choose to use the pre-planned roundabout strategy and control the evil spirits to disturb him?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose the latter. The extra time had already been wasted, so he might as well just go all the way. If he had chosen kidnapping, he would have done it long ago and would not have waited until now.

"You took out the basin of black dog blood that had been processed with secret medicine, and according to the method written on the letter, smeared the still steaming black dog blood on the facial features of the door god statues. As a result, the two statues became ordinary clay sculptures."

"You released two green ghosts. When they approached the gate of the clay mansion again, the two gate statues did not react at all, as if they did not sense the breath of the ghosts."

Become!

Jiang Xinghuo was delighted, this method really worked, but he couldn't be careless for the time being. According to what was written on the letter, the Clay Man House not only had door god statues guarding the house, but also many statues of other secular gods, and they all had to be solved with this method.

"You deployed the dimensional technique."

"You sneaked into the Clay Man's House quietly."

"In progress, please wait...

"..."

The game text stopped for about ten minutes before new content appeared on the screen.

"You smeared the black dog blood on all the clay statues of the secular gods in the Clay Manor. As a result, the Clay Manor lost the protection of these secular gods. Now you can do whatever you want."

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo breathed a sigh of relief. It was finally done. It was quite troublesome to deal with this little clay figurine maker.

"You gave the two green-robed ghosts orders. As long as no one is killed, you can scare the clay figurine craftsman as much as you want."

"The green-clothed ghost, who had let go of the resentment in his heart, also lost a lot of his hostility. He smiled and responded to your command, controlling the black gloomy wind, and howled in the clay man's house."

"There were gusts of cold wind, ghost laughter, and the roar and shouting of the clay figurine craftsman, mixed with a bit of fear and panic. However, you had already cracked the methods that the clay figurine craftsman had arranged in advance, so that when faced with the harassment of the two green-clothed ghosts, you were actually helpless for a while."

"But you also know that everything will turn into its opposite when it reaches its extreme. When fear reaches a certain level, it turns into anger. So you can't push the clay figurine craftsman too hard. If you really provoke him and he overcomes his fear of ghosts, then it will be more trouble than it's worth."

"So..."

"You, the somewhat wicked exile, began to torture the clay figurine craftsman. You would make a fuss every half an hour, then stop for a while, wait for another half an hour, and then continue to make a fuss..."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the game text and thought to himself that it would be better for me to die than for my friend to die. If the clay figurine craftsman didn't suffer a little, his plan would never succeed.

The game enters idle state.

But the plot is still moving forward. The two green ghosts keep harassing the clay figurine maker, but Jiang Xinghuo himself leisurely picks up another phone, lies on the bed and starts playing games.

Early the next morning.

After Jiang Xing became popular, he logged into his game account and took a look at the new game text that popped up.

"The sun rises, and the world welcomes a new day. The clay figurine craftsman was tormented to death that night. He couldn't fall asleep at all. He had to be on guard against the harassment of the two green ghosts at all times."

"It was not until the cock crowed at dawn that the two green-robed ghosts disappeared."

"The clay figurine craftsman looked around the courtyard and found that all the statues had been destroyed. Only then did he understand why there had been ghosts all night."

"The clay figurine craftsmen really want to cry but have no tears at this time, because these statues of secular gods are extremely complicated to make. Not only do they have to be made on specific festivals and times, but they also require special materials and decoration."

"Now that all the statues have been destroyed, it is impossible to remake them in a short period of time. So it now faces only two choices. Either it can just stand up and fight the two green-clothed ghosts, or it can ask someone to come and exorcise the ghosts. After it makes new statues, all the problems will naturally be solved."

(End of this chapter)