Dominating the Pugilistic World With My Detective Skills

Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations

“Flap, flap, flap…” Just as Ye Weiming thought that he had lost his criminal suspect and was feeling frustrated, a white pigeon flapped its wings and landed on his shoulder.

This kind of white pigeon was a unique form of communication in the game. It was known as pigeon mail.

The moment the white pigeon landed on his shoulder, it instantly disappeared. It was replaced with a message blinking in his message column.

Zhang Cuishan didn’t run away. He detected someone escaping from a hidden corner of the escort agency, so he went to chase after the person. He didn’t have the time to inform anyone about it. He had the highest cultivation level among everyone at the escort agency, so only he detected the person’s movement.

Although we didn’t manage to catch the person, we have successfully found him. We will continue searching for information within the Hangzhou city. If you would like to work with us, please meet us at the Broken Bridge on West Lake tomorrow between 5pm to 7pm.

——Yin Bukui

After exchanging blows with the man in black, Ye Weiming was more than 90% certain that the massacre of Dragon Gate Escort wasn’t committed by Zhang Cuishan or the Wudang disciples.

Since both of them had the same goal of seeking the truth about the Dragon Gate Escort massacre, working together with Wudang was quite a good decision.

After understanding this crucial factor, Ye Weiming immediately replied to Yin Bukui’s message. He only replied with three words, “See you there!”

Then, he went back to the escort agency and continued collecting the corpses. After he filled up his bag, he searched the entire escort agency carefully once again to confirm that there weren’t any more clues. Then, he executed his Eight Step Chasing Toad and ran out of the Hangzhou city.

He dug a grave and buried the corpses. Then, he went back to the escort agency and continued collecting the corpse. After that, he went out of the city to bury them again…

The entire process took half of his night. When Ye Weiming finished burying the last corpse, the sky was already starting to light up. The small humps on the ground where he buried the corpses had been flattened into grass patches because the system refreshed itself.

Maybe it was fated that for small characters like Du Dajin, no one would remember his name in the future. There wouldn’t even be a trace of his existence left in this world.

Ye Weiming took in a deep breath of the refreshing morning air. He didn’t return to Hangzhou city. Instead, he executed his Eight Step Chasing Toad and ran in the direction of Xi Zhao Mountain.

He didn’t find any clues in Dragon Gate Escort, so Ye Weiming was too lazy to stay inside Hangzhou city and waste time searching for useless information. Instead, he would rather look at the secret scripture Old Man Li left behind before he met up with Yin Bukui. He could use this time to strengthen his ability as much as possible.

He had a feeling that the mission wouldn’t be just as simple as investigating a case.

The path from the outskirts of Hangzhou to the Xi Zhao Mountain was very simple; he just needed to walk along the banks of West Lake in the South direction. Along the way, there were a bunch of humans known as the West Lake pirates. They would attack you spontaneously and their levels were between 10 to 12. They were just normal monsters, so there was nothing much to say about their abilities. One could say that they were just slightly vicious, normal people. With Ye Weiming’s ability now, killing them was extremely simple.

Compared to their unbearable abilities, their drop rate was still acceptable. On average, for every pirate you killed, they would drop some bronze coins. They didn’t drop that many, but if you killed many monsters, you would still earn quite a decent amount of money.

It should be known that when you killed animal monsters, no money would be dropped.

They would drop realgar wine too. Almost every pirate would drop a bottle of realgar wine when they were killed. When a player drank the wine, their attack would +5 for the next hour. There was a chance that they would enter the drunk stage too. In that case, movement -5 and reaction -5 too. (The probability of getting drunk was based on the alcohol tolerance of individual players.)

Its effects were quite useless but they could be exchanged for money at shops in the cities and towns. That was a sizable amount of income too.

Ye Weiming experimented with his collecting corpse technique on the bodies of these pirates. However, the results weren’t ideal. He collected 10 corpses but he only received one ‘The Study of Knife Skills’.

The Study of Knife Skills: The diary of a pirate on West Lake. It can be used on specific knife skills and can increase the proficiency of the skill by 5 points!

He clapped his hands and the secret scripture disappeared. After using ‘learning through analogy’, his sword skill proficiency increased by 1 point!

He collected 10 corpses, but in the end, he only got 1 point of proficiency. No matter how he looked at it, Ye Weiming felt that he was making a loss.

Just calculating the amount of time he needed to collect the corpses and bury them, excluding the amount of money he spent to buy the grass mats, he would gain more things if he used the time to kill other monsters or cultivate!

Ye Weiming confirmed that it wasn’t worth the effort to collect the corpses of these small monsters. He didn’t want to waste his energy anymore, so he picked up his pace and charged towards his goal in a straight line. When he met pirates who attacked him on the way, he would kill them. If the monsters didn’t attack him, he wouldn’t offend them either. After all, his motive today was to look for treasure, not to kill monsters for experience points.

The closer he got to his destination, the more and more West Lake pirates there were. They became denser in numbers too. By the time he reached Xi Zhao Mountain, he realized that the entire mountain was filled with these kinds of pirates.

There were a huge number of monsters with ordinary abilities but good drop rates. Adding these factors together, this place fulfilled all the criteria of an exceptional cultivation location. Thus, many groups of players could be seen teaming up and killing monsters over here. It was a lively place.

Ye Weiming killed his way to the Leifeng Pagoda. Within his vision, he saw three teams of players killing the monsters. There was a female player among them. Her back was facing the pagoda and she was using a crossbow to shoot the pirates. When the pirates got near her, she would calmly kick them away and then continue shooting them. She was having fun killing them.

Ye Weiming felt his head hurting when he saw this scene.

He was here to look for treasure. If there were so many players around when he activated the underground palace, he wouldn’t need to search for treasures anymore. He would have a hard time trying to get rid of the players chasing behind him.

“Cock-a-doodle-doo!…”

Suddenly, the sound of a rooster was heard from afar. The pirates seemed to have received some sort of order and quickly rushed towards the secret paths to escape. The pirates that were near the pagoda charged towards the main gate and then disappeared the moment they stepped inside.

Within a few seconds, besides the pirates who were still fighting with the players, the others had disappeared without a trace.

After the remaining pirates were killed by the players, there were no more monsters present at the originally lively cultivation spot. Only a bunch of players were left awkwardly staring at each other.

“The West Lake pirates will only appear at night. After the rooster’s call, they will vanish and only appear again once the sun sets. Everyone, you can leave now.” The person who spoke was a player wearing the uniform of the Mount Hua Sect and he was brandishing a sword. However, his uniform wasn’t complete; he was only wearing a long gown. This was very different from the full set of clothes they received when the clans came to look for people in the Novice Village. Maybe the sword was part of the gift for entering the sect?

However, this was a piece of good news for Ye Weiming.

Without these monsters, the players wouldn’t stay here anymore. Once everyone left, he could search for his treasure in peace.

After the man in Mount Hua Sect uniform informed the other players, he left with his team without looking back. The other teams of players left after him too. As for Ye Weiming, he sat down on the spot and started regaining his internal energy.

This was very common for the players to do, so it didn’t arouse anyone’s suspicion.

Around 10 minutes later, Ye Weiming had regained all his internal energy. He opened his eyes and saw the beautiful lady, who was shooting the monsters outside Leifeng Pagoda a moment ago, sitting down cross-legged in front of the entrance of the pagoda. From her posture, she seemed to be regaining her internal energy too. If Ye Weiming wanted to enter the pagoda, he would most likely alert this lady.

Unconsciously, his gaze landed on the lady who was blocking the entrance. She was wearing a sexy black costume and her figure was amazing. Her even short hair, along with her exquisite features, gave her a smart and businesslike aura.

The most conspicuous thing was the thin and long scar on the right side of her face. It was like a crack that appeared on a beautiful porcelain vase. People couldn’t help but feel pity when they saw it.

Suddenly, the lady opened her eyes. Her gaze collided with Ye Weiming’s gaze.

They stared at each other. Ye Weiming could sense unhappiness, disdain, provocation, and indifference in her gaze.

In conclusion, her feelings could be summarised in five words:

What are you looking at?