My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 2 Bandits
Looking at the various different information in his pupils, Jiang Xinghuo looked thoughtful. He was not a fool. With such a strange phenomenon in front of him, how could he not realize the problem?

Jiang Xinghuo closed his right eye slightly, a light flashed in his iris, and the densely packed words in front of his eyes disappeared. Everything returned to normal. Unless you observed it very closely, you couldn't tell that there were two pupils.

He opened WeChat and wanted to ask the game manufacturer. After all, the game and the activation code were made by them, but he found that the other party had deleted their account and lost contact.

Jiang Xinghuo felt more and more that something was wrong, so he searched the Internet again. He did find a lot of keyword content, but it was all irrelevant information and nothing useful at all.

It seems that there is no hope of tracing the origin of the game for the time being. In this case, let's just continue playing. Apart from anything else, the fact that it allows people to have extraordinary powers is enough to attract people.

Moreover, the game is only a beta version now. In the near future, more people may download it and participate in this game to gain various magical super powers.

By then, the whole world will usher in a change. He is just lucky to have been exposed to the game content earlier than most people. In order to prepare for the future, he decided to put more effort into the game.

"You have received a gift from your ancestors and awakened your dormant talent."

"You walked out of the ruins, and you felt full of strength. You couldn't wait to conquer the world. You firmly believed that you were the pioneer of a new era."

"A double fork in the road appears before you."

"Looking into the distance on the road on the right, there seems to be a prosperous town at the end, but because it is too far away, you can't see the details of the city clearly."

"The road on the left is deserted, with weeds growing everywhere, white paper money scattered all over the ground, and incense ash filling the air. I don't know where it leads to."

"Which path will you choose to continue your journey?"

Three options: left, right, and stay where you are.

Jiang Xinghuo thought it was interesting. There were obviously only two paths, but three options were given. Out of curiosity, he chose to stay where he was, and the text began to move forward.

"You are a natural adventurer, but you feel a little tired physically and mentally, so you decided to rest for a while before setting off again."

"But you rested there for too long, which attracted a corpse-digging dog. By the time you realized something was wrong, you had already been dragged into the collapsed grave on the side of the road."

"Your throat was bitten."

"You are dead."

Ok?
Jiang Xinghuo was stunned. Damn it! He had just entered the game and hadn’t had time to do anything, so how could he suddenly be bitten to death?
Why learn something else but learn from that old thief Miyazaki?

Jiang Xinghuo continued to play while complaining, because even though the character died, the game was not over.

"You are dead."

"Your consciousness fell into chaos and you came to the world of the dead. You followed the long procession of the dead to the shore of the River Styx. You saw countless souls boarding the ferry and being sent to the kingdom of the dead."

"But you were stopped. The ferryman of the underworld ship looked at you. You are a dead person from the land of exile. You carry a forbidden curse. You are not accepted by the world of the living, and you are also rejected by the kingdom of death."

"Fortunately, the ferryman has pointed out the way home for you."

"But the road to the netherworld is long. You will need eight hours in the real world to walk out of the vast netherworld and return to the world of the living. You cannot perform any operations during this time."

Jiang Xinghuo understood that these eight hours were the death penalty, or the cooling-down period. After each death, he could not log into the game within eight hours. Although he was in high spirits, he could not change the rules of the game.

Now I have to wait for eight hours, which means it will be six in the evening. I definitely can't play during the day, so I have to quit the game first. Jiang Xinghuo flipped through WeChat, replied to some messages, and processed a few online orders. He wanted to take a break while there were no customers.

Unexpectedly, from the moment he put down his phone, the store door opened and closed non-stop, from around nine in the morning until around seven in the evening. He was almost never idle and didn't even have time to eat lunch.

After closing the shop at night, Jiang Xinghuo did some calculations. After deducting all the capital, he made a net profit of nearly 9,000 yuan today, which was almost his income for most of half a month.

While slurping noodles, Jiang Xinghuo took out his mobile phone, opened the game, and read the description of Tathagatagarbha. It was indeed true that it could greatly enhance one's fortune. The income for one day was only this much, and the income for one month was unimaginable.

After finishing his meal, he cleaned up briefly and started playing the game immediately.

"After an eight-hour journey, you finally returned to the human world from the underworld. You are standing at a fork in the road again, with mixed feelings in your heart. So this time, which road will you choose?"

It’s still the same three options: left, right, and stay where you are.

Jiang Xinghuo would definitely not choose to stay where he is. He didn't want to wait another eight hours just after coming online.

This time, he chose the road to the right.

"Someone once said that truly strong people learn from failure. Your last failure didn't defeat you. In order to avoid repeating the same mistake, you chose a new path."

"You took the right path."

"You met a gang of bandits passing by."

"You were robbed by bandits."

When Jiang Xinghuo saw this line of text, his heart skipped a beat. Was he afraid that he was going to be in trouble again?
"After the dawn, the world was in chaos, with ghosts and gods ruling the country. Every mountain had thieves and every mountain had thieves. Wars were raging, bandits were rampant, and three or five people dared to call themselves gangs, and a dozen guns dared to set up camp on a mountain. The officers and soldiers were helpless."

"The bandits asked you to hand over your money, but you were penniless. They were furious and searched you. They found that you didn't cheat them, so they cursed you and said 'poor bastard' and let you go."

"You had the courage to ask them why they let you go."

"The bandits said that if a poor fellow like you who doesn't have a penny on him is killed, it won't be enough to pay for the money, and it's a waste of bullets. It's better to let you go. Next time when you have money, I'll rob you on this road!"

Jiang Xinghuo was speechless, thinking what kind of bullshit logic this was, but no matter what, he had managed to escape a disaster.

"The bandits let you go, and you passed this road frequented by bandits without any danger and came to the end of the path."

"Congratulations! Although it took a little longer, you finally made it through this initial stage."

"Exile, there is a prosperous town in front of you. Do you want to enter the city?"

Looking at the new game text that popped up, Jiang Xinghuo's eyes lit up.

According to the previous text, the focus of this game is exploration and adventure. Since the focus is on exploration, you must go to places where it seems that there are plots taking place.

"You entered the city and saw a wooden sign erected in the open space next to the city gate. On it was written the name of the town and the geographical location of the city."

"You have successfully arrived at the important town of Beiyang - Dragon City."

(End of this chapter)