After spending a whole day carefree and happy with Fate in the amusement park, Precia started her novice mission with peace of mind.
It should be mentioned here that because Precia requested to delay the task, while not giving up the benefits of reaching the attribute requirements for the first entry into the main god space, the difficulty of the new world will increase by 50%.
It was the first time for Precia to travel through the world through the main god space. She felt that it was a very novel thing. This was an experience completely different from traveling through the world in the Garden of Time. Unfortunately, this experience was very short. When her curiosity just aroused, she had already reached her destination.
The world travel is complete and the mission has been issued.
Mission World: A Chinese Ghost Story
World difficulty: lv5-lv
Origin of the World: 0%
Introduction to the world: In an age of chaos, yin and yang are out of balance, immortals, gods and Buddhas disappear inexplicably, the forces of justice decline, the imperial power falls into the hands of others, treacherous ministers are in power, the people are living in misery, and demons take advantage of the situation to try to completely interfere with the human world.
Main quest: Balance above all else
Mission brief: Yin and Yang are out of balance, good and evil are reversed, the total number of intelligent life is decreasing year by year, and the reasonable continuation of the world is not guaranteed. The world consciousness (Heavenly Dao) hopes that you can press the overturned balance back to a balanced state as soon as possible.
Task Tips: Tilt Value Detector (Tiandao Version)
Mission Reward: For every 1% of the balance restored, you will receive 1,000 Lord God Points and 1 Merit Point.
Mission Penalty: None
Identity issuance begins, worldview is introduced, warning, please do not make mistakes.
Character template: Foreign tourist
Brief introduction to the identity: Ordinary tourists who come to visit the Ming Kingdom are given an additional Ming Kingdom Pass (for the entire territory) and silver bills of various sizes totaling one thousand taels.
Ming Dynasty Pass (Entire Territory)
Introduction: A pass issued by world consciousness.
She took out the so-called pass from her pocket, which was a palm-sized booklet with many bright red stamps on it. As a person whose appearance was slightly different from that of this era, if Precia didn't have this thing, she would probably be interrogated from beginning to end as soon as she entered the town.
As for the tilt value detector mentioned in the main mission, no one knows what kind of high-tech product it is. When Precia opened her eyes, it had already entered her eyes. There was a small dot in the upper right corner of her right eye. After touching it with her mind, various numbers and some annotations will be added to the scene seen by her right eye. It will return to normal when touched again.
After turning on the detector, Precia looked at her right hand, a small number 0 flashed in her eyes.
"Interesting." Precia blinked and looked into the distance.
Within the area she could see, small numbers popped up and moved little by little.
The most common color in the numbers is green, and the size of the numbers basically hovers between 1-10. The few light red ones are only around -0.5, but Tiandao has made a note next to the red numbers - it is recommended to clear them.
Her head turned slowly, and suddenly a group of bright red numbers flashed in Priscilla's eyes. She turned her head slowly back and noticed that it was a mountain in the distance. After a rough count, there were probably dozens of bright red numbers jumping there.
Focusing your attention, the numbers begin to expand and separate little by little, from being twisted into a ball to becoming an observable state.
-4399!
A purple-red number appeared in front of Priscilla's eyes, and the number was still increasing little by little, and was about to reach 4,400.
Precia's heart tightened and she memorized the geographical location of the mountain in her mind. When she figured out the basis for the size of this number, she would decide whether to go there or not.
For now, they still have to find an ordinary village or town to settle down first. According to the information in the world view, the danger level in the wilderness at night is a hundred times that in the daytime, and Precia doesn't want to die before she succeeds.
The detector released by Tiandao is absolutely suitable for finding gathering places, and Precia can also judge the degree of danger of the gathering place ahead by the distribution of numbers.
After taking another look at the world introduction and the main quest introduction, Precia lowered her head and walked towards the gathering place not far away while thinking.
'The key point is the decrease in intelligent life and the continuation of the world. So, red should represent a decrease in the total number of intelligent life, and green represents an increase. So red probably refers to murderers?'
"If 1 represents 1 intelligent life, then the one with more than 4,000 people killed more than 4,000 people? No, maybe doing evil also counts? A stable society is conducive to the reproduction of intelligent life. On the other hand, people who destroy social stability should also be red."
It was impossible to sort out all the key points at once, but Precia did find a reference standard that could be used temporarily, that is, those in green are not necessarily good people, and those in red are mostly bad people!
Moving forward, soon, a small town appeared in front of Priscilla. As the distance got closer, the number of people walking in her field of vision had affected her normal movements. She had no choice but to turn off the detector. Before turning it off, Priscilla found a direction where the majority of the objects were green.
"Look, what is that?"
"I don't know, you outsider? Stay away, stay away, you are such a shameless person."
Precia listened to the discussion and looked down at her clothes. She was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt, denim shorts, and a pair of sneakers. She had picked these out at the mall when she was with Fate. They were very normal casual clothes.
However, Priscilla also knew that those gossipers were not wrong. In this era, her clothes were already very indecent.
Ignoring what those people said, Precia walked towards the city gate. This was a relatively small town, and the city wall was not high, only about five or six meters. In front of the team entering the city at the city gate, there were two soldiers in armor who were checking the passes of the people entering the city, which was also the pass.
After Precia joined the team, the whispered discussions in the team became more and more exaggerated, and soon attracted the attention of the soldiers at the city gate.
After exchanging a few glances, a soldier walked towards Precia.
"You, take out your pass!" The soldier looked at Precia and said rudely, his hand on the hilt of his sword while he spoke, as if he would use force if she didn't obey.
Precia had no intention of fighting with these people, especially when she turned on and off the detector in seconds and found that the soldier's value was 5, she did not want to conflict with them and directly handed the booklet to the soldier.
After taking the booklet and flipping through two pages, the soldier scratched his head and shouted in dialect toward the city gate, "Brother Ma, come and take a look, what is this?"
The soldier named Ma Ge walked over in two steps and took the booklet. As an old soldier, he didn't know what the booklet was, but he recognized the big seal on it. It was the seal of the superior prefect here!
Bang! Ma Ge hit the soldier on the head, then handed the booklet to Precia with both hands, "This... This..."
Ma Ge was a little stuck and didn't know how to address Precia. After all, he didn't recognize any of these four words.
"Sir, you don't have to queue. Please follow me."
Under Marco's flattery, Precia smoothly cut in line and avoided waiting. During the whole process, Precia remained silent to avoid saying anything wrong. After all, the worldview only contained a very broad social thinking state, and there was no record of specific details or unspoken rules.
"Huh~" After sending Precia away, Ma Ge let out a long sigh and walked towards the edge of the cliff.
"Brother Ma, who is she? She looks like a foreigner."
"I don't know. I don't recognize the name, but there is the seal of the prefect on the booklet. I saw it when I posted the wanted notice last time." Ma Ge turned around and returned to his post. "We probably can't afford to offend this kind of person. There are a lot of strong men recently. We need to keep our eyes open. No matter which strong man they are, they can make us suffer."
Here, after entering the city, Precia found that there were more people talking around her. Some of those carrying heavy bags and doing hard labor even stared at her.
"Boss." Precia suddenly jumped in front of a stall, scaring people.
"Sir, what is it?"
"Where is the clothing store?"
"Clothes... Clothes store?" The shopkeeper asked, and after a moment's thought, "If you're asking about a cloth shop, it's the third shop on the right at the end of this road."
"Thank you." Precia nodded.
After she walked away, the shop owner breathed a sigh of relief.
"This foreigner is also interesting. Boss? What's the name?"
"Shopkeeper, what is that person asking?" a customer asked curiously.
"He should be asking where the cloth shop is. Well, I hope he hasn't gotten into trouble. There are more and more weird people in this world, and it's becoming harder and harder to do business." The shopkeeper shook his head, feeling sad.
"Eh~" The diner seemed to be deeply touched and sighed deeply.
Precia walked into the cloth shop and saw that it was full of cloth. She felt that she might have come to the wrong place. She turned on the sensor and looked around. It was all green. The tallest one was a man at the counter, and his number was 7.
"Boss, do you have ready-made clothes for sale? Or is there a ready-made clothing store somewhere?" Precia asked.
"Madam, you are joking. How can you sell ready-made clothes? They come in different sizes. Won't they never sell out?" The shopkeeper smiled and didn't say anything bad to Precia just because she looked like a foreign vassal.
"How do you sell these clothes?" Priscilla asked.
"Pick out the material, pay a deposit, and come back to pick it up in three days at the earliest." The shopkeeper said as he placed three pieces of cloth that looked to be of considerable value on the table, and then put price tags next to the cloth. The most expensive one was only two taels of silver per piece.
Precia ran her fingers over the three pieces of cloth one by one and paused. "Boss, this shop is yours, right?"
"I am the owner of this store, so this store is naturally mine." The owner roughly guessed what "boss" meant and kept it in mind, thinking that he might be able to use it when he met outsiders in the future.
"If I want a ready-made garment now, will three times the price be enough?" Precia planned to throw money at the man.
"It really can't be done today. We can't finish the work in time." The shopkeeper shook his head.
"Ten times!" Precia continued to raise the price, "Shopkeeper, you can see that the clothes I'm wearing now don't match your style, so I need a new one urgently. If you can, please help me."
The shopkeeper pondered for a moment and led Precia into a dressing room at the back.
"This is a set of clothes that was custom-made for a customer. It should be similar to your body shape. You can try it on. If you don't mind, you can take it. You don't have to pay ten times the price. The original price is five cents. You can just pay the original price."
With the help of the maid at the cloth shop, Precia quickly put on the clothes like a coat, making her look a little more in line with the environment here.
"Thank you very much this time, boss. This tael of silver is for this dress. The extra is a tip." After Precia came out, she took out two small bills from her bosom and put them on the counter. "Also, this tael is a deposit. Make me two sets of similar styles. I'll pick them up in three days."
"Okay." The shopkeeper leaned over the counter and wrote the receipt, automatically equating the "tip" with the reward.
"By the way, boss, I want to ask you something." Precia still felt that the clothes on her body were a little awkward, after all, they were not specially made for her.
"You ask."
"What's the origin of that big mountain outside you guys?"
The shopkeeper paused for a moment, "Big mountain? There are many mountains outside. Which one are you asking about?"
Precia thought for a moment, pointed in a direction, and described the mountain.
After listening to this, the shopkeeper looked at Precia with some suspicion.
Precia met the shopkeeper's gaze and said, "Shopkeeper, I just got here too. Please forgive me if there is anything I asked incorrectly."
"Nothing much, but there is an abandoned temple on the mountain you mentioned, and people often say it is haunted, but these are just rumors and cannot be believed." The shopkeeper said, "But bandits often appear on the way to the mountain."
Precia smiled and in her mind labeled the mountain as haunted. It was unlikely that one person could kill more than four thousand people, but if it was a ghost, then it seemed to make sense.
Unfortunately, Precia is no longer an S-class magician, otherwise she would have cast a dozen large-scale destructive spells at that place to test the strength of the ghosts in this world.
However, the loss of magic power does not mean that Priscilla has to avoid that place from now on. As a person who has been determined by the main god space to be able to carry out newcomer missions alone in worlds such as A Chinese Ghost Story, she still has some skills.
At least, judging from her attributes alone, Precia could be considered a mid-level second-tier character.
(Thanks to Ouye Lianhua for the 500.asxs.coin reward)