Dominating the Pugilistic World With My Detective Skills

Chapter 10: Dragon Gate Escort

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

The levels of the missions in ‘Eternal Justice’ weren’t anyhow given. Based on Ye Weiming’s observation, one-star missions were delivery missions that didn’t have any difficulty. Two-star missions required one to fight small monsters. Three-star missions would require one to solve some simple puzzles or kill some elite monsters.

Ye Weiming had never handled the higher stars mission, so he couldn’t form any conclusion about them yet. However, based on this pattern, there would most probably be someone as powerful as Chou Ba appear during a five-star mission. Ye Weiming did kill Chou Ba but he knew how he managed to finish this magnificent feat.

His abilities had increased compared to the past, but if he was to fight with Chou Ba face to face now, Chou Ba would still press him to the ground.

The only difference was that he would be able to take five blows instead of three.

In other words, there was no difference.

Of course, compared to the difficulty of the mission, the most important reason was that the rewards for this mission were just disappointing!

5,000 EXP and 500 Cultivation were just slightly higher than the rewards for a four-star mission. Only the monetary reward was better. It was higher than the monetary reward for the other five-star missions.

100 gold could be considered a huge sum of money at this stage of the game.

But, the problem was, at the starting stage of a game, the crucial thing was to solidify one’s foundation. There was no need for such a huge sum of money.

The basic life skills of the players weren’t even properly trained yet. Hence, even if one had the money, one couldn’t buy any good things. Once a player’s level increased, 100 gold was still a good sum of money but the things one could buy with it would decrease in amount.

Also, missions that involved protecting someone were the most troublesome missions. Thus, no matter how Ye Weiming looked at it, this mission wasn’t worth it.

You Jin looked at Ye Weiming with his deep gaze for a long time. In the end, he opened his mouth and said, “If you’re not very interested in money, I can replace the monetary reward with an intermediate sword skill.”

Ding! Changes made to the mission:

Dragon Gate Express

Mission level: Five-star

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Mission reward: 5,000 EXP, 500 Cultivation, one intermediate sword skill.

Punishment for the failure of mission: Three months of salary will be taken from you. During these three months, you will not be able to enjoy any welfare of the clan besides your personal apartment.

What the f**k, do they have to be so ruthless?

One intermediate sword skill is not, bad but why do you have to add a punishment?

Is this a military pledge?

Not having three months of salary wasn’t totally bad. Ye Weiming was just a ninth-grade constable, so his salary was only 10 gold. He would be able to earn it back by completing a few missions. However, the fact that he wasn’t able to enjoy the welfare given by the clan was a little too much.

The welfare of a clan referred to the preferential policies a clan provided for its players. Players could use their money as well as their clan contribution, or for the Divine Constable Bureau, it was called merits, to exchange for this welfare. The prices of these items were much lower than the market rates.

For instance, one could get medicine that wasn’t available in the market, equipment, as well as time spent in practice rooms that could double the effect of your cultivation when one used them.

If he wasn’t able to use this welfare for three months, it would be detrimental to the improvement of his abilities.

It was just an intermediate sword skill. Was it worth the risk?

Ye Weiming pouted unhappily. Then…

Ding! You’ve successfully accepted the mission ‘Dragon Gate Escort’. Please head to Dragon Gate Escort in Hangzhou as soon as possible to understand the situation.

When he saw Ye Weiming accepting the mission silently, You Jin nodded in approval. Then, he took out a letter from his clothes and passed it to Ye Weiming. “This is the help letter sent by the chief of Dragon Gate Escort, Du Dajin. There might be some clues inside that can help you with solving the case.”

Ding! You received the item ‘Help letter from Dragon Gate Escort’.

“Thank you, Commander You.”

The letter of the Dragon Gate Escort: Content of the letter ‘On the third day of the last month, the Dragon Gate Escort received a weird…’

It seemed that the system was still very thoughtful. They were worried that their players couldn’t understand traditional Chinese characters, especially cursive script, so if the content of something was written in such characters, the system would directly translate it for them.

Ye Weiming scanned through the letter quickly. Basically, it said that the Dragon Gate Escort received a job to escort a human. The person who gave them this job, Master Yin, gave them 1,000 gold. They had no reason to reject him. The only requirement he had was to personally send this human, who couldn’t move, to the leader of the Wudang Sect, Zhang Sanfeng.

The entire trip was still relatively smooth. However, when they reached the bottom of Mount Wudang, they met the fake seven swordsmen of Wudang. The joints of the unlucky fellow were shattered by these bad guys. The skill they used was the Strong Golden Fingers from Shaolin Temple. The person whom they were escorting was the third direct disciple of the founder of Wudang Sect, Yu Daiyan.

This made the situation complicated. Master Yin, the person who gave them the job, threatened them that if they made a mistake during this escorting, he would annihilate the entire Dragon Gate Escort. Also, the seven disciples of Zhang Sanfeng were as close as brothers. The small Dragon Gate Escort couldn’t afford to provoke any one of them. Now, they had offended two batches of powerful people. Dragon Gate Escort was extremely frightened. This was why he hurriedly wrote a letter to seek help from the officials.

You Jin noticed that Ye Weiming had finished reading the letter so he said casually, “Du Dajin is a disciple of the Shaolin Temple. Since he sought help from us, he should have asked for help from his clan too. Maybe he was just looking for additional protection when he sent this letter to us. You might be able to complete this mission without doing anything.”

Hmph…

If he could complete the mission so easily, why would it be five-star? Is there a problem with your intelligence or do you think that I’m stupid?

But, Ye Weiming didn’t care about this matter too much. He had already accepted the mission, so he would just handle whatever that came along.

He kept the letter and directly boarded a horse carriage and hurried his way to Hangzhou.

When Ye Weiming reached Hangzhou, it was already close to sunset. He got some snacks on the streets to fill up his stomach and bought two sets of grass mats again. One set contained 99 grass mats. He also bought some bottles of realgar wine to protect himself. He would use this in the Leifeng Pagoda.

The sky started turning dark. Ye Weiming finally moved his body and rushed towards the Dragon Gate Escort.

He used his Eight Step Chasing Toad skill and his running speed almost doubled. However, Hangzhou was a huge city so even with his speed, when he reached the Dragon Gate Escort, the sky had already turned entirely dark.

The moment he stepped onto the street outside the Dragon Gate Escort, he heard the sound of weapons crashing into one another and shoutings.

So fast?

His heart scrunched up. Ye Weiming hurriedly transferred his internal energy into his legs and his speed accelerated even more. In an instant, he reached the main gate of the Dragon Gate Escort. He looked in through the door and his heart turned cold.

In the huge courtyard, a bunch of players dressed as monks and a bunch of players dressed as priests were fighting each other. On the other side, around seven NPC monks were fighting with a young man that had a metal hook in one hand and a judge pen in the other.

The floor was filled with corpses. Fresh blood almost splashed on every single inch of the Dragon Gate Escort.

Ding! The Dragon Gate Escort has already been annihilated. There are no survivors at all. Your mission has changed.

Massacre of the Dragon Gate Escort

Mission level: Five-star

Investigate the cause of the annihilation of the Dragon Gate Escort. This case is related to the two big clans, Shaolin Temple and Wudang Sect, so please be careful!

Mission reward: 5,000 EXP, 500 Cultivation, one intermediate sword skill.

Punishment for the failure of mission: Three months of salary will be taken from you. During these three months, you will not be able to enjoy any welfare of the clan besides your personal apartment.

Shaoling, Wudang…

This is the true face of the five-star mission, right?

Ye Weiming took this mission a little more seriously. He didn’t recklessly join in the duel between the two bunches of people. Instead, he stepped forward and walked inside the courtyard. He quickly scanned the corpses that were laid on the ground.

Just as Ye Weiming was trying his best to look for clues as fast as he could, he saw two Shaolin disciples blocking his way. “Mister, we’re completing a mission. Please make way for us.”