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Chapter 225 - 32: Great Tang Night Watchman: Starting from Gu Huoniao (Daily Request for Subscriptions)

Chapter 225: Chapter 32: Great Tang Night Watchman: Starting from Gu Huoniao (Daily Request for Subscriptions)

Night watchman?

Xu Shu looked at the man before him, whose style was distinctly characteristic, and couldn’t help but pause.

If he remembered correctly, "night watchman" also existed in the real world; it was the name of a Second-order profession within the Transcendents, specific to the Taoist route.

Xu Shu didn’t know much about this path before and still didn’t understand much now. The reason he had such a reflexive reaction was because, not long ago, he had made a good friend, a Fourth Order Ability Taoist—"Dongxuan True Monarch" Melanie!

That Taoist with a neither fully western nor fully local name.

Yes, the current president of the Astronomy Association, the fool who couldn’t even give out money.

For this reason, Xu Shu had specifically researched a series of profession names on the promotion network.

Their First Rank title was strange, called "Orphan"!

However, Xu Shu suspected that this "Orphan" might differ somewhat from real orphans like himself, whose parents had died early on.

Most likely, it bore a bizarre explanation similar to "Rascal, rampant killer."

The Second Rank was more normal, called "night watchman."

And the Third Rank profession was named "Heavenly Master."

He wondered if this Night Watchman Office that the ominous guy belonged to just happened to share the name, or if it really was the Transcendent profession "night watchman"?

If it was the latter, that would be interesting. Xu Shu now speculated that this world’s Transcendent path might mainly focus on the "Taoist" route.

And ordinary people from the Martial Arts circles would follow the "Martial Artist" path.

Because the other party occupied the main profession, it made it difficult for "Martial Artists" to advance. Even a prodigy like me has to fall at the peak of Half-step Second Rank Late Great Perfection and can progress no further, right?

Does this mean that in a legendary world, one can only mainly follow one path?

Is that so?

That doesn’t seem quite right. After all, Wang Teng was both a "Martial Artist" and a "Warrior" with Dual Cultivation.

In [Sword Qi Tempest], I also developed the Divine Soul Ring Doctor stream and even reached the top.

There must be other rules I don’t know about.

I should explore slowly!

Xu Shu pondered, then his mind continued the legend:

——

["Does it smell nice??" you ask him.]

["What? No, my name is Ominous, with a double surname."]

["Forget it, it’s a good name, don’t change it again in the future."]

["Oh, you mean that, my name does carry a bit of a curse! Not very auspicious indeed! But a name is given by my parents, and of course, I will not change it again, please understand, young master."]

[As he speaks, he puts on his hood again, covering his too-bright red hair, showing that Ominous doesn’t share your dirty thoughts.]

[It’s quite normal, after all, in this world, the term ’bra’ hasn’t been invented yet. You’re traveling south through Jiangnan, rubbing through the little indecent clothes of your junior sister and her mother day and night. On this journey toward the south, with the waters of the Yangtze and your master’s tears, aren’t you a bit perverted?]

[You don’t dwell on this matter, because your visit here is to investigate the Lin Family massacre.]

["You’re from the Dali Temple, do you have any clues?" you directly ask him.]

[Ominous points to the nearby, the broken flagpole of an escort agency and tells you, "The incident occurred about four days ago. Initially, it was just a few broken eggs, a dead mule, two old servants who left without a goodbye, which nobody noticed. It only got attention when these incidents connected and eventually swept through the entire agency, affecting everyone!"]

["Young master, please look here, the blood-written message on the ground. It has faded now, with only a trace of the bloodstain left, but before that, it read..."]

["’Death to those who step ten paces outside’?" you quickly guess.]

["Why would young master think so? That’s not it."]

["Damn it, it really isn’t?" You are surprised. Although there is no Yue Buqun but Yue Chaoqun, no Dongfang Bubai but Dongfang Wucan, and the historical background is completely different, it still feels like the famous martial arts story "Laughing in the Jianghu" from your previous life!]

[Ha-ha, miscalculated, huh? You have today too! That’s what you get for messing with stuff, stuffing everything into the Tai Chu Scroll! You reap what you sow!]

Xu Shu glanced at this sentence, his lips twitching slightly, but didn’t pay it much attention.

He knew the [Tai Chu Scroll] was essentially just a program for a large-scale simulation game, created based on a myriad of scripts and fantastical settings he had added from childhood to adulthood.

The often appearing dialogue boxes, which seemed like conversations, were fundamentally just "personalized popup hints"—merely superficial displays that did not affect the gameplay itself.

Moreover, the "popup hints" appeared with a cheeky tone, which was really just a reflection of Xu Shu’s past mischief.

These sentences had also been personally designed and entered by him, taking a long time. Sometimes, when inspiration struck him at night, he would perfect a few lines with the aim of creating "an intelligent, not merely single-game dialogue experience."

So indeed, Xu Shu had really stuffed it full.

So, what actually was written in the blood on the ground?

Xu Shu questioned it in the legend.

[Ominous replied: "It read: ’Old thief Du Yuan, return my son’s life!’"]

[Slightly startled, you think, "Lin Yuantu worked in the palace under the Dharma name Du Yuan, could it be that Lin Yuantu’s old enemies have come to seek revenge?"]

[Ominous then says, "However, what’s strange is, from the more than two hundred people in the Lin Family, from the Darts Masters to the washerwomen, none survived, all bodies lie here..."]