Chapter 1: Choosing an identity at the beginning
淦 (gàn), crossed again!
Xia Ji opened his eyes and saw that he was standing next to a large river, and there was an endless stream of boats on the river, and there were wooden boats moored along the river, and many sailors were resting on the boats.
There are many steps at the foot that lead to the water's edge, and the wooden boat is from which the cargo is dismounted.
Two piles of topless porters are fighting for customers, and the crowd is watching for several floors, and from time to time there are cheers.
This is the South Gate Wharf of Clear Water City.
Xia Ji sighed deeply, knowing that he would never be able to go back, from a programming ape of a game company, after a heart attack, he continued to shuttle through the heavenly world.
"Greenhead!"
Xia Ji silently recited and summoned his golden finger.
Goldfinger is a quick puzzle mobile game interface, which was developed by Xia Ji himself, and he became one after an accident.
In the consciousness space, there are four icons neatly arranged.
They are soap clothes, order sticks, iron rulers, and paper, which are all commonly used props for catching fast.
Xia Ji chose soap clothes.
Lines of handwriting quickly appeared on the rightmost piece of paper.
"Initialization is complete, gold status begins to generate ......"
At the same time, the soap suit was draped in a layer of pale gold, which really blinded Xia Ji's dog eyes.
"Identity generated, start loading ......"
"Your personal information is as follows:"
"Name: Xia Ziyu. Occupation: Catch fast. Residency ......"
Xia Ji looked at the journal on the paper to understand his new identity in this world.
The soap suit in the golden finger can provide Xia Ji with a legal identity in the new world, and the status level is divided into public, gold, platinum, and diamond.
Because the last mission was not completed ideally, and there was not enough experience to exchange for a high-level status, this time Xia Ji could only start with a lower gold-level status.
The pleadings are in the form of a journal that records the tasks and the facts of the case.
Xia Ji chose the form of paper again, and the task was written on the top.
Mission: Clear Water City Suspicion
Sub-task 1: Investigate the water snake incident.
Requirements: 0/1 of the Hydrotick Fragment.
Description: It lurks near the docks, waiting for the moment when humans relax, and quietly infiltrates to deliver a fatal blow......
Bonus: Very little experience.
Experience, equivalent to the energy of the fast-catching system.
XP can be exchanged for a higher level of status, or to upgrade skills, or to keep items for the next world.
After completing the identity and task, Xia Ji looked at the crowd gathered by the dock, they were arguing fiercely.
"There really is a water dragon, Chen Si was killed by the water dragon!" A sturdy porter shouted. (Monsters of myth and legend.) Wounded bow only - "Chu Ci Big Move")
"Wang Laosan, your bird's beak knows how to talk nonsense, how can there be such a monster in the world!" A sailor laughed.
"Chen Si obviously fell into the water and died, but the county lord issued a notice, don't talk nonsense!" A middle-aged man who looked like a shopkeeper frowned.
"I'm not talking nonsense, that water dragon, I saw it with my own eyes, as tall as an eight-year-old child, with a green face and fang......s," Wang Laosan was still chattering.
"Wang Laosan is making up stories again, Lao Tzu has been running a boat for several years, and he has never seen a water snake, and you can still bump into it as a picker!" The sailor scoffed.
"Look, what is this? This is the nail that the water snake landed on the shore, I secretly picked it up! Wang Laosan's face turned red and he took out a piece of green curly nails.
Everyone craned their necks to look, they had never seen such strange nails, maybe they were really watery.
Xia Ji was overjoyed, he couldn't imagine that it would be so easy.
What Wang Laosan has in his hand must be a fragment of a water dragon, as long as he takes it, he will complete the first task.
"Show me." Xia Ji walked towards the crowd.
Seeing Xia Ji, who was wearing a fast soap suit, approaching, Wang Laosan showed a scared look.
"Wang Laosan, let you spread rumors, the yamen came to arrest you!" Someone whispered.
Wang Laosan was so frightened that he turned around and ran, ran out of the crowd and into the streets.
Xia Ji was unfamiliar with the terrain, chased after a while, and chased people away.
"I knew it wouldn't be that easy."
But it's all here, and you still have to work hard.
Xia Ji returned to the dock and found a small leader of the boat gang and ordered him to find Wang Laosan.
Wang Laosan is a porter, and if he wants to make a living at the dock, he naturally has to listen to the words of the boat gang.
How dare the little leader of the boat gang offend the grandfather of the yamen, and hurriedly took a few of his men to find Wang Laosan.
Xia Ji thought to himself, fortunately, this time the beginning is a gold-level identity, and the identity of the yamen to catch a fast is very convenient to handle the case.
If it's a public-level identity, it's much more difficult to start as a civilian.
It was not a matter of time and a half to find Wang Laosan, Xia Ji entered the South City Gate and came to the North and South Streets of Qingshui City.
The smell of the roadside vendor's cutlet made Xia Ji a little greedy, so he bought two skewers of fried golden and tender cutlets, and nibbled on them while walking.
Xia Ji walked along the street and came to the county office, which is the place where the new identity works.
I saw that on the left and right walls of the county government were written "what you eat, what you eat, what you use", which is to remind officials at all levels to treat the people well.
Xia Ji entered the archives of the Yamen Torture Room and checked the case file.
"In the eleventh year of the Great Saturday, twelve porters at the South Wharf of Qingshui City died violently, and the cause of death is unknown."
"In the seventy-third year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Qingshui River soared, and seven sailors from the Dajiang Boat Line at the south pier of the city drowned, and the cause of death was unknown."
"In the eighty-fifth year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there was a baby crying in the Qingshui River, and there were bamboo baskets floating on the river, and those who went to save the baby drowned."
……
It's all headless unsolved cases, all of which appear near the pier in the south of the city.
Xia Ji was terrified, it seems that this world is not as simple as imagined.
Why are they all at the docks? Is the dock close to the sea?
Xia Ji looked at the case file carefully, and found a pattern, the year when these unsolved cases occurred, there happened to be a tsunami, could it be that the monsters in the sea flowed into the river along the sea, and then attacked the people by the river?
Xia Ji had a preliminary understanding of the task of [Clear Water City Suspicious Cloud].
Xia Ji closed the case file and left the yamen.
Xia Ji came to the north of the city and stopped in front of a magnificent mansion.
There are two mighty stone lions on the left and right of the gate, and the four black characters of "Golden Bull Martial Arts Hall" on the plaque, the silver hook and iron stroke, the strength is extraordinary.
According to the journal, Han Hu, the owner of the Golden Bull Martial Arts Pavilion, is also a famous figure in Qingshui City.
Han Hu once served in the border army, it is said that he is still a fierce general who beheaded several people, and after retiring, he opened a museum to teach apprentices, and the martial arts he taught were biased towards battlefield killing, strong and practical.
As long as you pay the tuition, everyone can enter the Golden Bull Martial Arts Hall to learn kung fu.
Xia Ji's identity as "Xia Ziyu" also learned swordsmanship in the martial arts hall, but he only learned the moves, not the internal skills.
Xia Ji came to the martial arts hall to learn a little new skill, which can be regarded as a branch free mission.
The gate of the martial arts hall was a little deserted.
Xia Ji entered the gate of the martial arts hall, passed the front porch, and came to the big field, which was the place where the apprentices practiced martial arts.
Xia Ji was outside the door of the big field, listening to the silence inside, gently pushing the door open, looking inside, it was empty and there was no one.
Xia Ji was stunned.
This is really unexpected, according to the log information, the Golden Bull Martial Arts Hall is the most lively martial arts hall in the city, and there are hundreds of apprentices practicing in the big field every day.
What happened? Why is there no one?
Xia Ji walked through the porch behind the large field and came to the garden.
In the center of the garden, there are several boulders piled up to form a rockery, and a large locust tree next to the rockery hangs a string of swings, swaying slightly, a quiet scene.
After the garden, it is the residence of the owner of the Han Tiger Pavilion.
Xia Ji was about to walk through the garden when he suddenly felt that something was wrong here.
As for what was wrong, Xia Ji couldn't say it for a while.
Xia Ji looked around the garden and finally found something unusual.
It's a swing!
The swing is swaying slightly.
There's not a hint of wind in this yard, so why is the swing swinging?
Xia Ji thought to himself, maybe his nerves are rough and he can't feel the wind, and it is natural for the swing to be blown by the breeze.
Xia Ji looked at the big locust tree again, and saw that the leaves on the branches did not move at all, and there was really no breeze at all.
Xia Ji looked at the swing again, and the swing swing was even greater.
The whole courtyard was silent, and the air seemed to be stagnant, but the swing kept swinging, as if someone was really sitting on it, and this scene was really strange.
Xia Ji swallowed in his throat, obviously there was some external force pushing the swing.
But there is not even a single fly except air on the left and right sides of the swing, so what is pushing the swing?
Xia Ji's hand pressed on the handle of the knife, wondering if he would go to the swing to take a look.
After thinking about it, he still didn't think it was too much, and slowly took a few steps back, and was about to go around the swing, when he suddenly heard a strange gurgling sound, which seemed to be the sound of some kind of liquid stirring.
The strange sound came from the direction of the rockery.
Xia Ji looked at the rockery and found that there was a small hole in the middle of the rockery, which could probably accommodate one person to drill through.
The entrance to the cave was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly, and I didn't know what was hidden inside.
First of all, the swing was windless and automatic, and then there was a strange sound from the rockery, Xia Ji only felt that his scalp was numb, and the muscles of his whole body were tense.
Xia Ji couldn't hold back his curiosity any longer, grabbed the saber in one hand, and slowly approached the entrance of the rockery.
Xia Ji made up his mind, so he took a look at it from a distance, and if there was anything strange inside, he would run away as soon as possible.
Xia Ji walked seven or eight meters away from the entrance of the cave.
Glance at it.
Glanced at it again.
It's still dark and faint, and I can't see anything clearly, but Xia Ji trusts his instincts, and there is something in it.
Living Stuff!
Xia Ji didn't dare to approach the cave, thought about it, picked up a pebble on the ground, aimed at the entrance of the cave, and threw it hard.
The pebbles whirred through the air, bouncing into the cave accurately, but there was no movement.
Xia Ji picked up another stone and was about to throw it again.
Suddenly, with a snort, a stone shot out of the cave, drew a parabola, and landed at Xia Ji's feet.
This time Xia Ji was even more nervous, he also threw a stone with the mentality of giving it a try, and he didn't expect that the things inside would fight back.
Xia Ji didn't dare to try again, took a few steps back, and was about to leave.
"Senior Brother Xia, are you hitting me with a stone?"
At this moment, a petite woman rushed out of the cave with her skirt in her hand.
The woman was about twelve or thirteen years old, with delicate features, round cheeks, and a little baby fat.
The information of the character appeared in the journal, this is Han Hu's daughter Han Yun, and the apprentices of the martial arts hall call her the little junior sister.
"Ahem, little junior sister, what are you doing here?" Xia Ji was slightly embarrassed.
"You wait."
After Han Yun finished speaking, he turned around and ran into the cave, and when he came out, he had a few more small turtles in his hands.
It turned out that she was hiding in a cave just to raise turtles.
"What is there to keep this grass turtle?" Xia Ji glanced at it.
"Raising it well can send you to the end." Han Yun snorted.
Where did this little girl get so angry? Zu'an from?
"I'm about to go to the master, come with me." Xia Ji said again.
"If I don't go, I don't want to see that woman." Han Yun pouted.
Xia Ji was stunned for a moment, and then checked the character information to understand.
"That woman" refers to Han Yun's stepmother, Han Hu has been widowed for many years, and recently accepted a new concubine, I heard that she is very beautiful.
"By the way, this swing will move on its own, do you know what's going on?" Xia Ji pointed to the swing.
"It's just a normal haunting." Han Yun said.
"It turned out to be haunted, I'm afraid it's the wind blowing, so I'm relieved." Xia Ji said.
"It's all because the woman is not good, and the house has become weird since she came." Han Yun said.
Xia Ji doesn't talk much about other people's family affairs.
"Senior Brother Xia, what are you doing here to find my father?" Han Yun said.
"Of course I'm learning kung fu, I want to learn internal skills, if the master doesn't agree, you have to help me say more good things." Xia Ji said.
"Then it's a good time for you, my father printed hundreds of copies of the [Black Flame Gong] secret book, and everyone distributed one, and now everyone is busy practicing internal skills." Han Yun said.
No wonder when Xia Ji came, no one could see him in Dachang, so they all got up at home to practice internal skills.
"Why did Master do this?" Xia Ji wondered.
[Black Flame Gong] is Han Hu's most cherished cheats, known as the treasure of the Golden Bull Martial Arts Pavilion.
Even the closest disciples have to go through a rigorous assessment before they can be taught.
It's really puzzling why it suddenly went against the norm.
"I don't know, three days ago, my father called all the apprentices outside the hall, and said that they would be treated equally, and then he sent down the secret book, one for each person, and the senior brother went in to persuade a few words, and was scolded by my father." Han Yun looked dazed and didn't understand his father's approach.
"That...... Do you still have cheats? Xia Ji said.
"My dad has a lot left, you go get it." Han Yun said.
"That's great." Xia Ji said.
"Senior Brother Xia, you are a fast catcher, can you check that woman?" Han Yun hesitated and said.
"Why?" Xia Ji said.
"I always feel that there is something wrong with that woman, and my father seems to be controlled by her!" Han Yun said.
"No, Master Han's martial arts are strong, how can he be controlled by a woman?" Xia Ji didn't believe it.
"It's true!" Han Yun said.
"And what's unusual about your father?" Xia Ji said.
"Suddenly announcing the cheats, is it abnormal, my dad is a baby [Hei Yangong], and suddenly became so generous, it must be the pillow wind blown by that woman." Han Yun said.
"Did your father take it out himself, and didn't your father say it himself if you want everyone to learn it?" Xia Ji said.
"It's my dad who said it himself, but my dad is not usually like this, he must be confused!" Han Yun argued.
Xia Ji smiled, this little girl hates her stepmother too much, so she imagines an enemy.
Han Yun was so anxious that he grabbed Xia Ji's arm and shook it a few times: "Senior Brother Xia, my father is really weird, you can see it!" ”
Seeing Han Yun's anxious appearance, and thinking of the strange swing, Xia Ji also had a trace of doubt and curiosity.
Moreover, Xia Ji also needs to meet Han Hu in order to get the cheats.
"You kid, you love to think cranky, if I go to see Master, you don't have to follow." Xia Ji smiled and rubbed Han Yun's head.
"Who's a child, you're not a few years older than me." Han Yun was not convinced, but he was obedient and did not follow.
Xia Ji walked into the round arch and came to a large house in the backyard, and there was a coughing sound in the house.
"Master, apprentice Xia Ziyu to meet you." Xia Ji said.
"Xiao Xia, come in." Han Hu's deep voice sounded.