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Chapter 96 Water Ghost? A Giant Water Monkey [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

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[Major Event in Wangyou County - River Monster Eats People; Hidden Quest Possible, Come Quickly!]

【Wow, there's a river monster in Wangyou County too?】

[Upstairs, what do you mean by that? What do you mean there are river monsters in Wangyou County too? Do you have them where you are?]

Yes, in Black Mountain City, a river monster was seen eating people last month, but it was dealt with quickly.

[How did you handle it? We had no idea that the players from Black Mountain City were hiding so well.]

[Get out of here! It's not that we hid it well; it's that we players didn't even have time to react before the Black Mountain City government took care of it. We were wondering why such a big event didn't trigger a quest. Damn it.]

How did they solve it? I'm very curious.

[Human sacrifice: The prefect of Black Mountain City arrested dozens of people that very day, then found some unknown sorcerer, performed the ritual, and threw the people into the river.]

[Damn it, those bastards! All the people they captured were innocent children from outside the city.]

That damned prefect, he moved way too fast.

They're not giving us players any time to react at all!

By the time we learned what had happened, the children had already been thrown into the river.

【rough.】

[You beast!]

Most players have grievances about what the Black Mountain City Prefect has done, and even some players who work in government offices are dissatisfied with the actions of that NPC prefect.

That prefect was never a good person.

It is common for the common people to be exploited and oppressed.

They all knew that unless their interests were involved, they would rarely despise an NPC so much.

This time, however, the NPC truly crossed their moral line.

They knew these people were just a bunch of data.

But this game is too realistic.

Every NPC is fleshed out and has real personality. After playing for a while, it becomes really hard to tell whether this world is real or fake.

Therefore, what the prefect of Black Mountain City did was unacceptable to them.

Most importantly, instead of recruiting players to fight the water monster, he chose to capture innocent villagers' children as sacrifices.

What is this if not an animal?
……

[The prefect of Black Mountain City, hahaha, that guy was a beast, a monster.]

[Agreed. When I first started playing, I got scammed by him, especially the martial arts schools in Black Mountain City. There were over a dozen schools, big and small, all of which were his adopted sons.]

[My god, is he childless? He can't have sons, so he's taking in all sorts of adopted sons, right? His adopted sons are just as beastly as he is.]

【plus one. 】

[Once I level up, he'll be the first one I kill.]

[This is a bit difficult. The prefect has a bunch of underlings, including many martial artists at the fifth rank, which is level 50. If I remember correctly, the player levels in Black Mountain City are generally quite low, with the highest level being only in the early thirties. I've also never heard of any major quests being triggered in Black Mountain City.]

There's nothing we can do; that corrupt official is doing it on purpose, suppressing our leveling up.

【That’s right. 】

[This guy is blocking my level up; he's doomed.]

[Sigh, why is the prefect of Black Mountain City a villain, and not a good person like the magistrate of Forget-Worry County?]

Why is there such a big difference between the upstream and downstream sections of the same river?

[Hilarious! Please, this is set in a feudal dynasty. Good officials like the magistrate of Wangyou County are a minority.]

【Grass. 】

[Fellow players of Black Mountain City, I am the Mongolian top laner, a former Black Mountain City player. I am currently level 41, have acquired two Xuan-level martial arts techniques, and am equipped with a Xuan-level weapon. Wait for me, wait for me to reach level 50, and I will restore peace to Black Mountain City.]

Holy crap, that's awesome.

Are they really going to rebel?

【Take me one. 】

[I will follow you to the death.]

【charge.】

[Are you trying to stir things up? I have to show my support!]

【+1. 】

……

Wangyou County.

"Chief Constable, we have confirmed the identities of the victims."

"A total of eighteen people died, including five extraordinary individuals and thirteen laborers, all of whom were workers involved in the expansion of the outer city."

"Among the thirteen workers who died, three were young men, the only breadwinners in their families. They, alas."

The constable who reported the incident looked utterly helpless.

Whatever they say or do is meaningless now. No matter how much they do for the victims' families, the dead cannot be brought back to life.

This is especially devastating for the families of those three young people; their only breadwinner is gone, and their future is bleak.

"They all died while working for the government, and they deserve full compensation."

"Do those three families have any male members?"

"some."

"That's good, as long as there are descendants, there is hope."

“Their compensation should be increased by 10%. Also, instruct the brothers patrolling that area to pay close attention to their surroundings. If they find anyone trying to take advantage of the family's misfortune, don't show any mercy, just arrest them. I don't care if they are relatives or neighbors, arrest them all.”

"By the way, tell the supernatural people near their homes what I mean."

Lu Yuan gave the instructions.

"Oh, Chief Constable, you want to mobilize those supernatural beings?"

"Wow, Chief Constable, you're a genius! How could you think of that?"

The constables were greatly alarmed.

He could foresee that once the chief constable's intentions were revealed, the safety of the three orphaned mothers and children would be guaranteed.

There are far more extraordinary people than any of their officials.

A brilliant idea.

"Stop with the nonsense, just go."

"As ordered."

After the constable left...

The constables who had previously inquired about the incident also came over.

"Chief Constable, I've found out."

"There really is a monster in this river, and it's not a big fish, but a very strange creature."

The constable reviewed the information and said with a serious expression.

"What creature?"

"monkey."

"Huh? A monkey? Are you serious? Don't tell me it's a water monkey."

Lu Yuan smiled; under normal circumstances, he wouldn't smile.

"Chief Constable, I'm not joking."

"It's a monkey, but not a water ghost."

The legend of water ghosts has been circulating in Lingnan for a long time.

However, the "water ghosts" mentioned by people in Lingnan are not the vengeful spirits of those who died from drowning, but a kind of creature, the water monkey.

Water monkeys are not monkeys, but rather a species that resembles a monkey in appearance, with long hair, long claws, and long teeth.

On land, it is powerless and can be easily killed by a child, but once it falls into the water, it becomes incredibly strong, able to easily drag away five cows, and even create huge waves that can sweep people into them. It can also spit out bubbles with a hallucinogenic effect; once touched, one will lose their mind and be mesmerized by the water.

Legend has it that water monkeys live by sucking human blood.

It is a monster.

In many sections of rivers where too many people have drowned, there are also wild temples dedicated to water monkeys.

However, the water monster that appeared this time could not possibly be a water monkey.

Because the body size didn't match, and the method of cannibalism was also wrong.

"It is a very large monkey."

"According to the strange man's account, the giant monkey was thirty feet tall, with extremely long arms and very long, sharp claws. Several people were swallowed whole, while the rest were strung up by its claws and dragged into the water where they disappeared."

“The water stains on the shore were brought by the monkey when it jumped ashore.”

"It is said that the monkey can also control the waves."

"Attack the Inhumans who are trying to rescue them."

"This is the record I wrote. Please take a look, Chief Constable."

"no need."

Lu Yuan didn't take the record; instead, he looked behind him, searching for someone.

Where is Old Sun?

"Officer Sun, he's on leave today, he should be at Wanchunlou."

"Taking a vacation? What kind of vacation is this? I'm already at work, why shouldn't he be?"

"Go, go to Wanchunlou and bring him here for me."

"Yes."

……