Dominating the Pugilistic World With My Detective Skills

Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations

Fight a boss?

Ye Weiming thought of something and asked immediately, “Do you mean the leader of the West Lake pirates, Chen Ming?”

The Divine Constable Bureau did issue the mission of exterminating West Lake pirate Chen Ming. The difficulty of this mission was four-star. In the description, it didn’t say whether Chen Ming was a boss or an elite monster. It just mentioned that this person was hard to find and that no one knew the exact location of his hideout. The local authorities couldn’t do anything about him either.

At first, Ye Weiming wanted to take this mission. But, in the end, You Jin introduced the five-star Dragon Gate Escort mission to him that had an intermediate martial arts skill as a reward. However, there was also a punishment if he failed.

To prevent making mistakes due to distractions, he could only give up this mission that had a normal reward in comparison.

After entering the underground palace and realizing that there were a huge number of West Lake pirates congregated here, Ye Weiming guessed that this could be Chen Ming’s hideout. Now, when he heard that the lady with the scar was going to fight with a boss, he confirmed his hypothesis.

The lady with the scar was slightly surprised. “Didn’t you come for him?”

Ye Weiming just smiled and didn’t reply to her when she asked him about his motive.

The lady with the scar instantly understood the situation. “I was too rude. So, what do you think? Are you interested in working together?”

“We can work together.” Ye Weiming thought for a moment before answering, “If you can wait for me to go back and accept a mission first.”

“There’s no need for such trouble. We can form a team first and I will share the mission with you.” The lady with the scar was still as straightforward as before. Before Ye Weiming could say anything, she had already sent him an invitation to form a team.

Ding! Player Youyou has sent you a team request.

Ye Weiming couldn’t tell that this lady was so open-minded while her name was as delicate and elegant as her looks. Ye Weiming accepted the request and asked casually, “Isn’t this your clan’s mission? You can share your clan’s mission with others?”

“No!” Youyou replied without hiding anything, “Since I’ve already thought of killing this boss, I will definitely accept all the missions related to him. The authority’s reward mission is one of them.”

It was indeed true that anyone could accept the reward missions given by the authorities. However, this was only applicable for missions lower than five-stars. For missions like the Dragon Gate Escort, other players couldn’t accept them except for clans that were related to this mission like Wudang and Shaolin.

Exterminating West Lake Pirates

Mission level: four-star

A huge number of pirates have appeared at West Lake, Hangzhou. They have been committing crimes and stealing from merchants. Their leader, Chen Ming, is an evil and ruthless criminal. However, his whereabouts are extremely secretive, so the local authorities can’t catch him. Please catch him or kill him.

Mission rewards: 4,000 EXP, 400 Cultivation, 5 Gold.

The mission the lady shared seemed exactly the same as the one he saw in the Divine Constable Bureau. Ye Weiming looked at the method of reward distribution. It was to be distributed by the leader.

Hmph…

Biting his tongue wasn’t Ye Weiming’s style. However, before he could voice his objection, another notification popped out.

Ding! Player Youyou has transferred the leader role to you. You are the leader of the team now.

What the hell! This lady is really open-minded!

It looked like she really only wanted to get the item from her mission.

After taking over the role as the leader, Ye Weiming immediately changed the allocation mode to equal distribution. “Since we are doing this mission, we should do it completely. Let’s clear all the paths one by one and try our best not to miss any pirates. We will fight the boss right at the end.”

Youyou smiled when she heard this. “Are you planning to upgrade your level along the way? You can do it, I don’t mind.”

“Not only that!” Since Youyou was so generous, Ye Weiming didn’t plan to hide his intentions either. “Based on my experience from my previous mission, besides the fixed rewards, there is also another hidden mission. I feel that since this mission is called ‘Exterminating West Lake Pirates’, if we kill all the pirates in this underground palace, the rewards we get might be even higher than from killing one boss.”

Ye Weiming wasn’t making a groundless statement.

Let’s use Chou Ba’s mission as an example. Based on the mission, as long as he found Chou Ba and held him back for a while, naturally You Jin would come and reinforce him after some time. But, if that happened, he wouldn’t be able to get the items the boss dropped and he would only get the fixed rewards stated for the mission. Yet, Ye Weiming and his partner killed Chou Ba. Thus, the rewards they received were more than two times higher than the fixed reward.

In actual fact, Ye Weiming had realized this point when he was still in the Novice Village. At that time, the blacksmith in the village asked the players to collect 10 portions of chicken meat for his pregnant wife for nourishment.

At that time, the Novice Village was full of players. The lowest level chicken would be mutilated by the players around it the moment it appeared in the game. The other players would impatiently complete their mission the moment they collected 10 portions of chicken meat. Then, they would receive a steel sword and happily go off to complete higher level missions and kill higher level monsters.

Only Ye Weiming continued killing chickens. When he collected the meat dropped by 10 hens, he went to complete his mission. In the end, he received a better quality fine steel sword and even received a mission to send a verbal message to Soymilk Little White. Then… he became a member of the Divine Constable Bureau.

Ye Weiming even guessed that there was such a setting because the game wanted to tell the players, in an obscure manner, that the rewards for working diligently and just dealing with the assignment were different in most circumstances.

Ye Weiming didn’t think as thoroughly as Ye Weiming. She didn’t even ask him for a reason. When Ye Weiming said that he wanted to kill all the pirates, she just started loading her crossbow.

They continued moving forward. After making their first turn. They discovered seven West Lake pirates occupying the middle of the tunnel. There was a huge distance between them and the pirates, so Ye Weiming excitely activated the active effects of ‘Daizhong Way’.

The tips of the fingers on his left hand touched each other as though he was calculating something. ‘Daizhong Way’, activated!

555×13=

After activating the sutra, to Ye Weiming’s surprise, a math question appeared in front of him.

What was happening?

Did he have to correctly answer this math question if he wanted to activate the active effects of ‘Daizhong Way’?

What kind of weird martial arts is this!?

When ‘Daizhong Way’ was activated, a West Lake pirate shouted angrily. He raised his huge knife and charged towards them.

Fortunately, Ye Weiming wasn’t fighting alone. Youyou, who was beside him, shot an arrow out and accurately hit her target. She took 56 drops of blood away from the pirate.

Even though her attack hit the pirate, she didn’t successfully shift the hatred of the pirate away from Ye Weiming. The West Lake pirate continued charging towards Ye Weiming with bloodshot eyes.

“Whiz! Whiz! Whiz!”

Youyou shot another five arrows when she noticed that she failed in shifting the pirate’s hatred. This instantly took away half of the pirate’s blood.

As for Ye Weiming, he was still nervously calculating.

Youyou had no choice but to take a step forward and fight with the pirate. While she evaded her opponent’s attack directed at her head, she grabbed the pirate’s wrist and kicked him in the crotch. Then, she threw him over her shoulders and pinned him down. She aimed her crossbow at the pirate’s forehead.

At this moment, Ye Weiming finally got the answer to the math question.

7,215!

However, immediately after that, another math question appeared in front of him.

111×15=

???

Are you done?

Ye Weiming felt helpless as he started calculating again. By this time, Youyou had pulled the trigger once again.

Poof! Poof! Poof!

There was another series of shots. Ye Weiming, who was still in the midst of calculating, received a notification from the system that his target was dead. He had failed to activate the active effects of ‘Daizhong Way’!