Chapter 16: The Underground Palace Of Leifeng

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

As a man, it was impolite of him to stare at the flaws of a woman. Ye Weiming knew that he was in the wrong, so he wouldn’t reply to her with a ‘why can’t I look at you’ gaze. Instead, he obediently retracted his gaze and stopped looking at her.

He was frightened. He was just being a gentleman!

The lady didn’t seem to have the intention of pursuing Ye Weiming’s unreasonable actions. She directly got up from the ground and walked towards the forest, not far away from Leifeng Pagoda.

However, before Ye Weiming could heave a sigh of relief, he saw the lady coming back after walking around the edge of the forest. There were a bunch of dried branches and leaves in her hands.

After that, the lady started building a fire on the ground outside the entrance of Leifeng Pagoda while Ye Weiming looked at her from the corner of his eyes. Then, she took out a white chicken that had been stripped of its feathers and stuck a wooden stick through it. Looking at her actions, she seemed to be planning to barbecue outdoors and would only leave after she finished eating!

Ye Weiming felt frustrated when he saw the lady’s actions.

He had been working for the entire night and was extremely hungry too. Hence, he decided that he wouldn’t wait for her anymore.

I can’t provoke you, but I can hide from you, right?

He got up from the ground and rushed to West Lake using his Eight Step Chasing Toad. He used the lake water to wash his face first. Instantly, he felt more refreshed. Then, he took out the steamed buns from his bag and ate three of them in one go. He also gulped a bottle of realgar wine down.

Why did he have to wash his hands before eating his steamed buns?

Don’t forget that he had been dealing with corpses the entire night. Although there weren’t any bacteria or viruses in the game, he still felt it would be a bit weird if he ate the steamed buns without washing his hands.

After using the simplest food to fill up his stomach, Ye Weiming took out his shovel and started digging by the side of the river.

This was the biggest side effect of his collecting corpse technique. He only had two ways to deal with the corpses he collected.

The first way was to pass it to the autopsy room. However, the autopsy room wouldn’t keep all kinds of corpses. It would only take a corpse that was a piece of evidence or could provide evidence for a crime before the case was solved.

Otherwise, he would have to bury the corpse.

If he threw it on the street, his chivalrous points would be deducted!

After close to an hour, Ye Weiming finally buried all the corpses successfully. When he felt that the lady had probably already finished her food and left, he went back to Leifeng Pagoda. He saw a bonfire that had already been extinguished.

That lady was indeed gone.

To prevent unnecessary trouble, Ye Weiming walked around the Leifeng Pagoda once. He didn’t see any other players in this area. Finally, he stepped into the pagoda. He followed what Old Man Li said and twisted the semicircle-shaped dragon stone carving on the left side of the wall.

A soft tap was heard. The two tiles on the floor in the middle of the pagoda popped out, revealing a straight iron chain stairway heading downwards.

After going down the stairway into the underground palace, he realized that the tunnel within the underground palace was still quite spacious; it was able to fit two people walking side by side. There were piles of coal burning on the walls around him. The coal brightly lit up the underground world.

Ye Weiming twisted a dragon stone carving that looked exactly like the one above on his right-hand side. The tiles on the floor moved back down and the hole was closed.

He moved forward through the tunnel. After turning a corner, he discovered two corpses lying on the ground. They were the West Lake pirates who were roaming around outside a moment ago.

There were West Lake pirates entrenched in the underground palace of Leifeng Pagoda?

Old Man Li didn’t mention this in the letter he left behind.

Although he was puzzled, Ye Weiming still unconsciously hastened his pace. He saw the dead West Lake pirates and their bodies were still warm. Thus, it wasn’t hard to reach this conclusion. He wasn’t the first player to enter this place. There was already another player who had been in this underground palace before him!

Could it be that the clue in her hand wasn’t the only clue left behind by Old Man Li?

Ye Weiming passed through two forked roads as he was deep in thought. He noticed that there were increasingly more pirate corpses. What made him more worried was the fact that the fellow who came before him seemed to understand the underground palace very well. The path the person took was the one that went straight into the depth of the palace. There were also other pirates wandering in the other forked roads, but there were no signs of fighting.

For a moment, Ye Weiming felt extremely anxious when he saw someone ahead of him in his treasure hunt. He unknowingly started executing his Eight Step Chasing Toad, and in an instant, his speed increased exponentially. When he passed through two more forked roads, Ye Weiming finally heaved a sigh of relief.

In front of him were three different paths. On the map Old Man Li drew, he had to take the road on the right to find the treasure. Yet, the pirates on the road on the left had all turned into corpses.

Did this mean that from this forked road onwards, the person moving in front of him was taking a different path?

That was a good thing!

That person can do his own thing while I find my treasure. No one will disturb each other. How harmonious can this be?

Ye Weiming pulled out his long sword and was just about clear his path by killing the pirates on the road on the right. Suddenly, he heard hurried and messy footsteps coming from the left side. The sound was extremely shrill in this enclosed tunnel. Soon after, he saw a lady wearing a black, sexy outfit with short hair cut till her cheeks retreating while fighting. It was the lady with the scar who he met outside the pagoda a while ago.

Before this, Ye Weiming was still curious why the lady had stayed in this area and didn’t want to leave even after the pirates had left. Now, he knew that her destination was also the underground palace.

However, the color of the lady’s face wasn’t good. She was a little green. It was obvious that she had been poisoned. Behind her, more than 10 pirates were waving their swords and chasing after her.

By right, those players who had learned movement skills before would have an easy time escaping these ordinary small monsters. Players like the scar-face lady, who were well-versed with concealed weapons, could keep the pirates at a range so that they wouldn’t be able to attack her. But, maybe it was because she was poisoned, the lady’s footsteps seemed a little light. Her speed was slowed down until she was almost the same speed as the pirates who were chasing her. She couldn’t get rid of her pursuers.

When she saw Ye Weiming’s figure appear in front of her, the lady with the scar was stunned. However, she didn’t have the mind to worry about this now. She ran past Ye Weiming without stopping. As for the pirates who were chasing closely behind her, they arrived in front of Ye Weiming.

When he saw the pirates blatantly revealing their weakness, Ye Weiming waved his sword without thinking and stabbed the throat of the first pirate who appeared.

-286!

A huge critical hit number popped out on top of the pirate’s head. Instant kill!

The moment Ye Weiming started fighting, he was like a stone that was thrown into the lake. Ripples were formed immediately. Very soon, the pirates’ hatred was shifted to him because of that sword attack. They waved their knives and swords and started rushing towards him simultaneously.

Ye Weiming didn’t care about these reckless hunks who had almost zero attacking power. Especially in this narrow space, the advantage of having a greater number was restrained. In addition, these pursuers had been chasing the lady with the scar for half a day. Their blood was already depleted, so under Ye Weiming’s vicious attacks, he very quickly turned all of them into his experience points.

He picked up the items that the pirates dropped. He realized that the pirates in the underground palace had higher experience points and drop rates than their counterparts outside. This was a good place for cultivation.

Ye Weiming turned his head and discovered that the lady with the scar hadn’t gone far. She had sat down some distance behind him. After throwing a pill into her mouth, she crossed her legs and sat down on the ground. Then, she started meditating on the spot.

“Erm…” Ye Weiming asked in a joking manner, “The underground palace is a secretive place. Aren’t you afraid that I will take this chance to take your life so that I can get what’s inside the underground palace alone?”

The lady with the scar calmly glanced at Ye Weiming. She spoke four words softly, “Do what you want.”

Then, she closed her eyes and stopped looking at him. She was boldly letting him decide her fate.