My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 828 Lord Lawyer and the Executioner
Jiang Xinghuo scrolled through the text records again. There were indeed a lot of plots in Lingnan City, but there were many sub-maps that he had not unlocked. Moreover, he had triggered tasks in the Lingnan area when exploring other places before.

In addition to the tasks related to the sea god, there are also tasks related to the South China Sea Tanka Village. When he was doing tasks in the Songhua River area in Kanto, he triggered clues about the Lingnan Tanka Village, but because the place was too far away, he never came here.

There are also many clues on Mount Luofu, especially his limb-splicing appearance, which has a close connection with the great god Marichi on Mount Luofu.

All in all, it will take more than a day or two to fully explore the Lingnan map. It will take at least a few months to get a rough idea of ​​it. Coupled with the new maps that are constantly being unlocked, the Lingnan region is really lively.

"Where are you going next?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the several options given in the game text and finally chose to go to the abandoned medical school.

Such places are often high-incidence areas for supernatural stories, and this is even more so in the secular world, where strange things happen frequently, and perhaps there are some big surprises waiting for you.

"You chose to go to the abandoned medical school."

"On the way, please wait..."

"On your way, you passed by the Fuchun Teahouse in Lingnan. You remembered the iron box on your body. It was something you tricked from the old escort master using the human-ghost fusion technique. As long as you light a sky lantern in a specific room in the Fuchun Teahouse, you can find the consignee of this escort and complete this escort mission. Do you want to go in now, light two sky lanterns, and then quietly wait for the arrival of the owner?"

"Please note that the maximum deadline for this escort is one month. Seventeen days have already passed. You need to deliver the escort to the owner in one piece within the remaining thirteen days. Otherwise, the escort mission will be considered a failure. Not only will the escort agency not receive the corresponding wages, but it will also have to compensate the other party for their losses. In addition, its reputation in the escort industry will be completely ruined."

"Of course, these things have nothing to do with you, because you are not a member of the escort agency. You just used the other party's corpse to trick the things into your hands. You can take them for yourself and treat them as your own private trophies. Even if the escort agency loses everything, your family is destroyed, and your reputation is ruined, it has nothing to do with you."

"So the choice is entirely up to you. The life and death of the escort agency has nothing to do with you."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the game text and did not rush into the Fuchun Teahouse, but to be on the safe side, he opened the skill panel, activated the nuclear clone of the Nine-Death Cicada, hid the iron box on the nuclear clone of the cicada shell, and hid in the private room of the Fuchun Teahouse. He also paid a reward of 1000 incense sticks for this, and did not allow anyone to disturb him. Then he controlled the character's body to continue moving towards the abandoned medical school.

In this way, even if something really happened and he was trapped in the medical school, he would not miss the mission, and he could still control the nuclear clone to continue operating outside.

After all, this is an incarnation transformed from a mythical-level skill. There are not many places that can completely isolate the connection between the original body and the incarnation. Although the abandoned medical school is weird, it is unlikely to affect the magical powers of Nine Deaths Cicada's level.

"We are still on our way. Please wait..."

"You have arrived at Tianyi Lane."

"Tianyi Lane was once a gathering place for clinics and medicine shops in Lingnan City. It was also the original site of the abandoned medical school. However, since the teachers and students of the medical school mysteriously disappeared overnight, Tianyi Lane and the two nearby streets have become a no-go zone. All clinics, medicine shops and hospitals have moved to other places, leaving only empty streets and shops standing alone on the streets."

"Do you want to enter Tianyi Lane immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without much thought. Since he was already here, why not go back? Even if there were mountains of swords and seas of fire, the worst result would be death. He could come back to explore again at any time.

"You walked into Tianyi Alley, but I don't know if it was an illusion, but the moment you stepped into Tianyi Alley, you felt a chill. Although it was broad daylight and the sun was strong, you still felt a bit of chill. When the sun fell on you, you couldn't feel any warmth, only a biting chill and coldness."

"Do you want to keep going?"

Jiang Xinghuo still chose yes. The more bizarre the place is, the more it proves that there are weird things in it and the greater the hidden danger is. Similarly, the greater the secrets and rewards hidden there are. So there is absolutely no reason for him to retreat.

“You chose to move on.”

"You walk on a dark and deserted street. At first, you don't feel much except for the coldness. But as you go deeper, you start to feel like you're being watched. The Mengtou Technique is automatically activated, and you suddenly feel a sense of alarm in your heart, as if some fatal danger is about to befall you."

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo didn't bother to think about anything else. He immediately opened the skill panel, found the Nine Deaths Cicada and chose to use it. The moment he activated the Nine Deaths Cicada, the new game text popped up.

"Suddenly, you heard a burst of exciting suona sounds, and a series of illusory figures swept across the sky at a speed that was beyond your sight. Before you could react, two sharp and bright knife lights had already arrived in front of you and instantly cut across your neck. Although you used the Nine Deaths Cicada to avoid the fatal blow, the murderous aura contained in the two blades still frightened you. If you hadn't used the Nine Deaths Cicada to avoid the attack of the two knives, I'm afraid you would have been beheaded by now, and even your soul would have been cut off by the blades. Even if you are an exile rejected by death, if you die under the two knives, you will not be able to return to the secular world within seven days."

Looking at the content of the game text, Jiang Xinghuo was also shocked. Fortunately, he had the Mengtou Jutsu to protect himself and activated the effect of the Nine Deaths Cicada in time. Otherwise, according to the game text, he would have to wait for seven days of cooling down.

But then again, this was the first time he had encountered such a situation. He had died countless times in the game, but the worst thing was only a 48-hour cooldown. He had never encountered a situation where he had to cool down for seven days before he could get back online.

More importantly, this was not attribute damage caused by some high-level monsters, but a passive effect brought about by two knives from unknown origins.

"You deployed the Nine Deaths Cicada to dodge the fatal attack and at the same time created a safe distance. Only then did you realize that what appeared in front of you were actually two paper figures. They looked like two muscular men with red scarves wrapped around their heads and half of their bodies naked. In their arms, they each held a rusty ghost-head knife. Although the blades of the two ghost-head knives were covered with rust, the half-inch blade edge was extremely bright and reflected a dazzling light in the sun."

"You are off, Sky-Watcher's Eye."

"You have discovered the Paper Executioner."

"You have discovered the beheading ghost-head knife."

"Paper Man Executioner (Excellent Consumable Item), a paper man made of paper covering a dead person's face. The curse mark on its body can be activated by touching its eyes with blood. After sensing the breath of life, it will indiscriminately kill all living things in front of it. However, this item can only be used three times after being activated, and it will automatically be destroyed after three times." "Current remaining times: 0/3."

"However, just as you found out the identity of this paper man, a burning spark suddenly ignited on the paper man and quickly spread to the surroundings. In the blink of an eye, it was burned to a pile of ashes, leaving only two ghost-head knives on the ground."

"Do you want to go forward and collect the ashes from the two burning paper figures?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes and controlled the character to go forward and pick it up.

"You have obtained it, Paper Man Ashes."

"Paper man ash (excellent material), the product left after burning a paper man, has many uses. Dissolved in water and consumed, it can suppress evil and calm nerves. Mixed with plant ash, it can isolate evil spirits from harassing you. Applying it on your face can suppress your yang fire and temporarily turn you into a living dead."

"You put away the paper figurine ashes and looked at the two ghost-head knives on the ground. The Sky-Watcher's Eye flashed with silver-white light, and you quickly understood the information of the two ghost-head knives."

"Beheading Ghost Head Knife (Rare Item), a ghost head knife forged and blessed by Lord Luling in ancient times. There are nine of them, which were given to the nine great criminal officials. These nine criminal officials and their families were ordered to guard the nine states for generations, punish evil and promote good, eliminate villains, and maintain peace in the world."

“And these nine ghost-head knives can not only cut off a person’s flesh, but also cut off a person’s three souls and seven spirits. All the souls that die under these nine ghost-head knives will become incomplete souls, and can only be reincarnated as clam worms or moths, living in the morning and dying in the evening. After thousands of lives, even if they can be reincarnated as humans, they will be stupid and foolish. Only when their souls are complete can they escape this kind of life.”

"But in order to prevent the Nine Judges and their descendants from using this divine weapon to kill innocent people, Lord Luling cursed the Nine Judges and their families. Once someone uses this knife to bully others and kill innocent people, they will be cursed, and the entire family will die a miserable death and sink into the sea of ​​suffering for generations."

"But then time passed, Lord Luling disappeared from the secular world, and the nine judges also grew old and died. The world changed like the sea and the earth, and these nine ghost-head knives also disappeared in history. I didn't expect that you would find two of them here now. Maybe it's your fate."

Jiang Xinghuo read the text twice and found a Lord Luling mentioned between the lines. Judging from this title, he was a powerful figure from ancient times, just like Lord Zhenwu, Lord Tianji and others.

And judging from the meaning of the name, this Lord Luling should be a master who wields powers such as punishment, otherwise he would not have created a tool like the beheading ghost-head knife.

"Now that you have these two ghost-head knives, where do you plan to go shopping next? Do you choose to go deeper into Tianyi Lane? Or do you choose to go into the house where the paper man appeared and take a look?"

The game gave two choices. Jiang Xinghuo thought about it for a moment and chose the latter. He could explore Tianyi Lane at any time. He now wanted to see what kind of secrets were hidden in the house where the Paper Executioner lurked.

According to the description in the game text, the Paper Executioner needs to be activated manually before it can be used. If no one activates it, the paper man cannot pose any threat to you at all.

"You chose to go to the room where the paper man appeared to find out what was going on."

"You walked into the dusty room, and the smell of decay immediately hit your nostrils. It was obvious that no one had been here for a long time. Not only had the solid wood furniture become rotten, but even the floor was covered with a thick layer of dust, more than an inch thick."

"You looked around the house carefully and finally found a body covered in dust in the corner. Although the body had been dead for an unknown period of time, it had not decayed. Instead, it had become dehydrated and had become a mummy. On the ground next to the body was a letter with scribbled handwriting and a strangely shaped brass ruyi."

"You have found: a corpse of a criminal (rare), a suicide note from a criminal (common), a dragon-shaped brass Ruyi (special), and a cowhide body bag (rare)."

"The body of a criminal officer (rare material). The descendant of one of the nine great criminal officers under Lord Ritsu-ling. He died here for unknown reasons, but the body is still well preserved, as if it had been soaked in preservative fluid. For coroners and forensic doctors, it is a very rare research material."

"In addition, this criminal officer was very powerful when he was alive. The muscles in his arms were swollen and powerful. If we use the corpse-driving method to refine him into a corpse, I'm afraid it will not be weaker than an ordinary copper and iron corpse."

"Do you want to collect this body? Or do you want to devour it using the limb-joining method?"

"You chose to devour the body of the criminal officer using the limb splicing method."

"You activated the limb splicing method."

"You have devoured the body of the torturer."

"Your limb splicing aspect level is slightly increased by +1."

"You have obtained the Qionglong Brass Ruyi."

"Qiulong Brass Ruyi (special item), a brass Ruyi that looks like a Qiulong. Its surface is inlaid with several broken pearls, but it does not emit any abnormal smell. It looks like an ordinary Ruyi. It should not be a magic weapon, but more like a token of trust."

"A cowhide body bag (rare item), a leather bag made from the skin of a barbarian cow from the underworld. On it are talismans made from the hair of a dead person. It can be freely enlarged or reduced. It can be used not only to store corpses, but also living things. However, after a living thing is put into a body bag, it is in danger of melting into dirty blood."

"You picked up the suicide note from the criminal again. Do you want to open it and read it carefully?"

"You read the suicide note left by the criminal."

"You have discovered a clue to the cause of the incident in the suicide note left by the criminal officer..."

(End of this chapter)