Chapter 142: The Land of Heritage
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After Fang Ning had finished telling the System, he observed Vigilante A’s movements through the System View.
When he saw Vigilante A took out a large surgical mask and put it on, he immediately wanted to vomit blood.
Fang Ning said, “Are you an idiot? Just because I said ‘be discreet’, you think people wouldn’t recognize you with your surgical mask? Not even the darkest night would be able to cover up your tall, upstanding figure and flaring aura, who do you think you’re fooling?”
Vigilante A stopped after hearing that.
The System said, “What else do you want? The more I wear, the more cumbersome it is…”
Fang Ning did not know how else to respond, “Are you playing dumb? Haven’t you already mastered the art of disguise? Why don’t you just change your look again?”
The System answered, “I can’t. The principle told me that as we have attained the Reputable Figure status, we would lose all our reputation if we use a new disguise and would need to restart. However, if we cancel the disguise and turn back into your original appearance, it is fine.”
Fang Ning said, “So you’re basically saying you could only maintain two accounts right now?”
The System said, “If it’s easier for you to understand, then yes, so I can only wear a huge mask to avoid people from recognizing me.”
Fang Ning immediately started spewing blood again, “Fine, your principle is a freak, I can’t deal with it.”
The System said, “If you don’t have other concerns, I will go now, I think Long Fan’s gonna die soon…”
Fang Ning had already given up as he waved his hand, “Go do whatever you want, if you broke Vigilante A, we can just create another one…”
The System said, “Don’t worry, Vigilante A is now basically a money generator, I won’t break it so easily…”
[The System consumed 10 Morality Bar to use the Legendary Skill Thousand-mile Assistance. Arrived at the Land of Heritage.]
Just as Fang Ning was getting ready to look at the System Map, a new notification popped up.
[Your ally Long Fan had died. Due to failing to assist your ally, the System’s reputation dropped slightly.]
Fang Ning immediately looked out through the System View. There was a wisp of white smoke rising above nearby treetops that soon disappeared. Needless to say, that was the smoke left behind by Long Fan after its death…
The System moaned, “Tch, it’s all your fault dilly-dallying…”
Fang Ning ignored it. Long Fan could be revived, and reputation could be earned back, so he continued looking at the System Map.
There were think undergrowth and trees where Vigilante A had appeared. The woods were familiar. With his excellent memory, Fang Ning could easily recall that they were at the Truth Department’s Land of Heritage. There were plenty of woods within the region of Land of Heritage, similar to what they were looking at.
At this point in time, Vigilante A was hiding inside the crown of a huge tree, but Fang Ning soon spotted something weird.
Between the treetops not so far away, a white-tailed monkey was hanging upside-down on a branch, staring at Vigilante A’s direction. It was obvious, it saw Vigilante A’s appearance.
The monkey was sizing up Vigilante A, its gaze was not filled with fear, but curiosity and wariness.
Fang Ning said, unable to come up with a way to evade an encounter, “Look, you’ve been exposed as soon as you arrived.”
The System said, “Shut it. Come out and help me communicate with the monkey. Ask if it knows anything about the Blood Porcupine demons. The information shown on the map is limited.”
Fang Ning said, “I thought you were gonna just attack… This seems to be the first time you had tried to assess the situation before killing any monsters.”
The System said, “Didn’t I say most of the creatures here were stronger than Anderson and that I wouldn’t break the identity of Vigilante A?”
Fang Ning felt a great relief washing over him. He did not immediately approach the monkey, but instead, he used his precious game book to show the information of the monkey.
[ Hou Dabai 1 Sex: Male, Likes: Vegetables and fruits. Age: N/A. Identity: Monkey King of the Whitetail Monkey Tribe.]
[Alignment: Neutral Righteous.]
[Power Level: Pond-level Powerhouse. Description: Size of one-and-a-half swimming-pool, depth unknown, but not very dangerous.]
Fang Ning was very surprised to see the stats, ‘This really is a place of heritage. Such a mystery, a simple monkey king is really a pond-level powerhouse, that’s already stronger than Anderson by half his strength.’
He brainstormed a little and asked for his body back, then retrieved one banana and waved it at the monkey. Of course, the banana was from the System Preservation Area.
In his mind, to make the monkey tell him things, he would need to bribe it. Since it likes fruits, might as well give it what it wants.
The Whitetail Monkey rolled its eyes and even sneered at him with its gaze.
‘Wha-? This monkey doesn’t like bananas? Does it, like, want carrots or something?’
Fang Ning retrieved a carrot and waved at the monkey.
The Whitetail Monkey turned away, showing its disdain.
‘F*ck me, this monkey is even pickier than humans,’ thought Fang Ning. He started taking out all sorts of fruits, like a watermelon, a pineapple, mandarin oranges… but the monkey was still not tempted.
Fang Ning was a little tired. He was confused, ‘My precious game book would never lie to me, but why does the chimp not feeling anything I offered?’
‘Isn’t there that saying that says ‘the best way to get through to animals is through their stomach?’
Fang Ning murmured to himself, “The monkey doesn’t want fruits, maybe it wants meats?”
As he said it, Fang Ning produced a plate of steaming roast chicken.
The Whitetail Monkey sniffed it and starting to look a little hesitant, but it shook its head still.
Fang Ning said, “You don’t want fruits, and you don’t want meat, so what do you want? Name me your price. I’m here to hunt those mutated Blood Porcupine demons, I wanna know about them.”
The Whitetail Monkey heard him and the wariness in its eyes immediately faded away, “Oh, the food you brought out was for information to hunt those porcupine demons? I thought you were the same with the other bad guys, trying to win me over with food and then take advantage of my family.”
Fang Ning clarified, “I don’t bully the weak, and I won’t domesticate wild animals.”
The Whitetail Monkey said, “Alright, I can tell you weren’t lying. I was just going to inform all you yellow skins, within three days, a great misfortune will come upon you, and it will be brought by these mutated Blood Porcupine demons.”
Fang Ning was shocked and was immediately reminded of Long Fan’s death. He said without giving away his reaction, “Tell me more.”
The duo kept conversing softly for a while as Fang Ning was informed about the mutated Blood Porcupine demons.
When they parted ways, the Whitetail Monkey stared at Fang Ning pitifully.
Fang Ning smiled helplessly, “I have given you so many fruits, but you didn’t want it. Are you regretting your decision?”
He said that, but he still asked the System to leave the cornucopia of fruits on the ground for the monkey to consume.
The Whitetail Monkey jumped in joy but its face immediately turned sour.
The Whitetail Monkey said, “I need to go send the information out, I can’t carry them.”
Fang Ning silently talked to the System and let the System take over.
Vigilante A immediately brought out a backpack. He beckoned at the fruits before they flew neatly into the backpack.
The Whitetail Monkey picked up the bag and said, “Hey, this is nice. Thank you. I will now go ahead and inform your kind. Be careful, especially with the bad guys who control the Blood Porcupine demons.”
Vigilante A waved goodbye with the Whitetail Monkey and left the forest, heading toward a meadow.
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In a wooden cabin, Qiao Zijiang was frowning. She was seated, wrapping her hands around her biceps.
There were other people from the Truth Department in the room. The three elders, Elder Xu, Qiao Anping, and Elder Hai were all there and looked strict.
Elder Hai’s wrinkles were deep with fury as he unleashed his wrath, “Damn it! We knew those people would come into the Land of Heritage sooner or later, but I didn’t expect them to also ignore the notice we put out through GASATO, and kept doing what they want!”
Elder Xu sighed helplessly on his side, “Isn’t it? Ever since we’d found this place, we have worked on it for twelve years. From the initial stage when we only have a tiny space, to having multiple bases as well as building a good cooperative relationship with the local fiends.”
“But those bastards just saunter in and started capturing rare creatures as pets or even ingredients, making humans the enemy of the whole forest. Only a few of them could distinguish the difference between people and continue being friendly to us.”
“Originally, we only needed to mobilize normal soldiers to defend against the occasional non-intelligent creature swarms, but now we also need to defend ourselves against the demons that have similar intelligence with us humans. If it continues to be like this, all our herb bases and cultivation bases would stop function stably.”
A reddish aura flashed around Qiao Anping and disappeared. He urged, “Let me attack them. We’ll kill them all! It was not easy developing this piece of land, why should we share this with them?”
Aside from the two elders, the other people from the Truth Department were all shocked to hear that.
Vice Principal Qiao was always known to be generous, justice, and easy to talk to. However, everyone knew his abilities were cultivated with the base of Killing Intent. However, if he was angered enough, his murderous look would be enough to frighten normal people to death.
Elder Xu shook his head and said, “This Land of Heritage is really valuable, but even on different continents there are multiple entrances to this place. It’s just that the ability to organize expeditions was the strongest in China’s Truth Department with the greatest number of people. We were the earliest to find it, the first people to explore it. Now that a dozen years had passed, it wouldn’t be weird for other people to discover other entrances. Now all of us had found its entrance, we could only try to compete for dominance in secret. We also can’t officially announce it to be under the Chinese governance.”
“After all, we are all members of GASATO, if we killed them just because they trespassed and captured the creatures, it would not be good for us if the news spread. Anping, you shouldn’t say this to outsiders.”
Qiao Anping felt stuck, he said with his hands opened, “We can’t do this, and we can’t do that, are we going to just watch as they wrecked our foundation?”
Elder Hai comforted him, “For now, we can only attack collectively with our strongest teams. Hopefully, it would intimidate them and stop them from making a mess for the moment.”
“And after that, we need to find the place they appear at after arriving from other entrances, set up a base and regulate it. Those who do not follow the regulations would be immediately kicked out, that’s a better way.”
Elder Xu nodded, “Brother Hai’s idea is something we can do publicly. Anping, you should try and control yourself. Your cultivation of Killing Intent seemed a little too aggressive now, be careful.”
Qiao Anping muttered, “I will, principal.”
After that, he turned toward Qiao Zijiang and said, “Zijiang, your scout, Long Fan, that kid who’s not afraid of death, did it find those people?”
Qiao Zijiang answered, “Even though it died on its way back, but it has already found those people in the information it was able to transmit. But there was also a herd of mutated Blood Porcupine demons. It was unknown why those non-intelligent demons would listen to their orders…”
