Dominating the Pugilistic World With My Detective Skills - Chapter 31

Chapter 31: Weak Chicken Swordsman

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

As they went downstream, the Qiantang River got wider. Ye Weiming walked out of Zhang Cuishan’s cabin and saw Yin Bukui and the other Wudang disciple sitting at the ship’s bow with the wind blowing against them. He smiled. Then he walked over and took the initiative to greet them.

Yin Bukui asked, “Brother Ye, how’s your chat with Fifth Uncle-Master?”

Ye Weiming nodded slightly. “Swordsman Zhang Five doesn’t know much about the truth either. I couldn’t get much information from him. How do I address this brother?”

Only these two Wudang disciples were left. Ye Weiming felt that he needed to make friends with this comrade.

The Wudang disciple who used the same weapon as Zhang Cuishan gave a strange expression when Ye Weiming asked for his name. On the other hand, Yin Bukui laughed loudly and helped him to answer. “Oh him? He is very famous in ‘Eternal Justice’. Brother Ye, have you heard of Xuan Small Pen?”

When he heard Xuan Small Pen’s name, Ye Weiming’s eyes turned wide. He looked at the handsome youth in front of him and exclaimed in surprise, “You’re Weak…” Halfway through his sentence, he stopped himself. It was a little disrespectful to say the other person’s nickname so blatantly.

When Xuan Small Pen saw Ye Weiming’s reaction, he waved his hands casually. “I am Weak Chicken Swordsman. That’s right, it’s me. Please take care of me in the future.”

There were a million concurrent players online in ‘Eternal Justice’. Sometimes, a player would appear on television when he completed the first blood of a mob. Most of the players were used to such an act. However, the way this brother appeared was a little different. That was why Ye Weiming had such a deep impression of him.

He was the first player in the game to get killed by roosters. This was where his nickname came from!

When he noticed that the other party didn’t mind, Ye Weiming finally asked the question that he had always been curious about. “Everyone says that there are more humans than chickens in the Novice Village. How did you manage to die to it?”

“That is only true for the first two hours of the game.” Xuan Small Pen shook his head and said, “After entering the game, the first mission I received was a writing mission. It lasted for two hours. However, the reward for the mission was not bad. I managed to get 3 points of Enlightenment for it. When I went to complete the chicken mission, there were already very few people in the village.”

So you got pecked to death?

Ye Weiming felt that this wasn’t a solid excuse. After all, a chicken was just a chicken. How could it be fiercer than a human?

Xuan Small Pen continued, “Halfway through my mission, I noticed a bastard teasing a female player. I couldn’t bear seeing his actions so I went to scold him. But, that brat actually started fighting with me. I managed to defeat him in the end but my health was almost empty after the PK. It was still at the start of the game so I still didn’t know that I had to be aware of my health. Due to my carelessness, I killed a hen, and three roosters came out immediately to attack me. After that, I got the nickname ‘Weak Chicken Swordsman’ and a girlfriend.”

What the f**k! He saved a beauty and managed to escape singlehood?

What a good plan!

After introducing Xuan Small Pen, Yin Bukui changed the topic and asked, “Brother Ye, what do you think of Shaolin’s ambush?”

“Brother Yin, are you trying to test me?”

Yin Bukui quickly replied that it wasn’t his intention. Then he explained, “We are on the same boat and our target is the same. Communicating our thoughts with each other will help us to complete the mission faster and easier, don’t you think so?”

Ye Weiming smiled calmly when he heard this. He replied, “Based on the storyline, what happened is reasonable. Since we’re able to find evidence regarding the Dragon Slaying Sabre, Shaolin disciples will also be able to find evidence on the Dragon Slaying Sabre. Even if we don’t talk about the mysterious Flying Eagle Cult, Yu Daiyan is still the last person who came into contact with the Dragon Slaying Sabre. The Shaolin Temple has enough reasons to believe that Wudang has information about the Dragon Slaying Sabre.”

Yin Bukui nodded seriously. “You’re right. Even if Yu Daiyan didn’t reveal any information when he was being interrogated and tortured, outsiders might not believe that the Wudang Sect doesn’t know where the Dragon Slaying Sabre is. My thoughts were too extreme in the past. I actually didn’t think about this.”

Ye Weiming shrugged and continued, “Actually, the storyline is just a way to explain the situation. I feel that the system doesn’t actually want the players to complete the mission easily so they increased the difficulty of the mission. They let the disciples from Shaolin and Wudang fight first before letting the black figure appear so that the winner can proceed to the next round.”

At this moment, Xuan Small Pen suddenly opened his mouth, “I don’t understand which side the black figure is on. He decided to interfere with the situation but he chose to attack both sides. No matter how I look at it, it’s conflicting.”

“Maybe the person just wants to save Zhang Cuishan. If the Shaolin disciples get injured, the Shaolin NPCs will be held back. If the Wudang disciples died, Zhang Cuishan would not have to care about them anymore. Remember what happened just now? Zhang Cuishan lifted the two of you, each in one hand, and ran away. If all seven of you were alive, he wouldn’t be able to carry all of you, right?”

He waved his hand and continued, “I’m just making wild guesses. After all, we don’t know anything about the black figure. Who knows what the truth might be?”

“Actually, to tell you the truth, the missions for the seven of us are linked. As long as one person manages to complete the mission alive, all of us will be able to get the rewards. The only difference is that the person with the highest contribution will get more rewards.”

After sharing his mission honestly, Ye Weiming and Yin Bukui started chatting with each other. Ye Weiming finally knew that Yin Bukui’s master was the sixth swordsman of the seven swordsmen of Wudang, Yin Liting. He seemed to be a talkative person and always liked to tell Yin Bukui the interesting things that happened in the pugilistic world.

For instance, he told Yin Bukui that the sect master of the Flying Eagle Cult is Yin Tianzheng. He was originally one of the four guardians of the Ming Cult. Then, Yin Bukui started talking about another one of the four guardians, Golden Lion Xie Xun. They said that Xie Xun was a famous murderer in the pugilistic world. He had some grudges with his master, Hunyuan Thunderbolt Hand Chen Kun. He would go around killing people and after that, he would leave behind the message ‘The murderer is Hunyuan Thunderbolt Hand Chen Kun’ written in blood…

The three of them talked for more than an hour before Ye Weiming left in satisfaction. Xuan Small Pen couldn’t help but ask Yin Bukui, “Why were you so talkative today? You’re not like this usually.”

“Actually, what I told him is old news in the pugilistic world. They’re not secrets.” Yin Bukui explained, “Plus, ultimately, the storyline is to service the game. They will never allow the players who knew that the ‘Nine Yang Manual’ is in the ‘Lankavatara Sutra’ to find it there. They also won’t let the players find the lost sword skills from the Five Mountain Sword Sects Alliance just by breaking open the stone walls of the Reflection Cliff.”

“Actually, from the moment we came down the mountain, the main plot didn’t change, but many of the details are entirely different. In the real storyline, players like us don’t exist. Zhang Cuishan took Yin Susu’s boat to Mount Wangpan right after the massacre of the Dragon Gate Escort too.”

“Now, Ye Weiming’s and our target are the same. By revealing some necessary information to him, we will be able to gain some benefits too, right?”

Xuan Small Pen still felt a little frustrated as he said, “But that way, he would get more benefits than us.”

“So what?”

Yin Bukui shook his head lightly. “Even if he’s able to get 10 more points of benefits from what I told him and we only get 5 points each, we still profit.”

“You need to have a wider perspective. The ‘Eternal Justice’ is a game with a million concurrent players online. If our skills can increase by one point, we will be able to gain more advantages. If other people got more benefits than us, it wouldn’t matter.”