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Chapter 144

The Price of Evil 2

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Inside a room at the Dark Night Bar, Wang Qianduo stood there, stunned.

At this moment, his worldview of summoning Tinker Bell from Aladdin's Lamp is collapsing!

"Hey! Hey! Are you stupid? I'm the sealed spirit, what Doraemon?"

"Ah! It's nothing, it's just that you look a bit like a friend of mine!" Wang Qianduo explained, looking at the familiar figure in front of him.

"Don't try to get close to me. I'll only feel ashamed to have a friend like you!"

"Alright! Just tell me what I need to do next!" Old Wang said with a smile.

"Stop joking around. Let me tell you how serious the situation is. This thing contains a vicious Evil Spirit that once destroyed an entire town."

"If it weren't for the Celestial Master sealing him away, who knows how many more people would have suffered! And you're still laughing here?" the Blue Fatty said with a very fierce expression.

However, given his natural appearance, how could he possibly be fierce? Nevertheless, Wang Qianduo still cooperated and said, "Celestial Master? Evil Spirit? Then, sir, how should I cooperate with you?"

"Good! It seems you truly intend to repent. Making mistakes isn't terrible; what matters is recognizing them and correcting them!"

"Let me tell you what to do. First, you need to repair this porcelain piece, and then you can study the others," said the Blue Fatty.

After he finished speaking, Old Wang's task was refreshed. The Price of Evil 1 was completed, and the task has now changed to the Price of Evil 2 - repairing the porcelain.

This task still offered no reward, because Old Wang knew it wasn't a positive, Hidden Quest at all.

Aside from him, basically only those who, like those described in the mission description, lie about helping her repair the item but actually want to take it for themselves will trigger this mission.

This was actually a punishment task, since the task's designer probably didn't expect that someone could complete a Normal task using a Legendary item like Old Wang.

If he hadn't used the Legendary, he wouldn't have been able to complete this quest.

That must be incredibly wealthy!

After accepting the second mission, Old Wang found Alan and asked:

"Manager Alan, do you know where the best porcelain repairman is?"

"You've broken some porcelain!" Alan asked, both shocked and distressed.

The reason is simple: the items Old Wang takes out each time are just too precious.

But these Blue Fatty were unaware of this. Hidden in Old Wang's sleeve, he grumbled, "Are these people so ignorant? It's just a broken piece of porcelain."

Old Wang heard what he said, but he ignored it.

"That..."

"You don't need to say anything more, I'll take you to the Heavenly Questions Pavilion to find Boss Chi right away!"

Wang Qianduo wanted to explain something, but Alan didn't give him the chance. Every second that wasted after the porcelain broke increased the uncertainty of the repair process.

He led Wang Qianduo in a flurry of activity to the Heavenly Questions Pavilion, not far from Night Wharf, and said to the waiter, "Quickly, take me to Boss Chi!"

Heavenly Questions Pavilion is a place in the game that sells all kinds of luxury goods and antiques. Although its name sounds grand, it is just a Normal shop in Fairy City.

Player can freely enter the shops here.

However, the items here are not only expensive for Player, but also have little practical use, so basically no one comes here.

Old Wang had also come to inquire about the value of the things he owned, but since he couldn't sell them and their value was too high and too painful, Old Wang rarely came back.

Alan, accompanied by Wang Qianduo, hurriedly found Boss Chi and explained their purpose:

"Boss Chi, this is the original owner of the items that Scarface and I took that day. He has a broken piece of porcelain that he needs your help with!"

Boss Chi, a refined-looking elderly man with glasses, changed his expression upon hearing Alan's words and said, "Take the things out first!"

"No, Boss Chi. Alan, you might have misunderstood. The item I need to repair isn't that valuable; it's just a Normal piece of porcelain!"

This needs to be clarified first: although the sealed porcelain bottle is magical, it is ultimately just a Fine Grade item.

"Oh, it was all a misunderstanding. I'm so sorry!" Alan.

"... It's alright? Then take it out and let's take a look!" Boss Chi.

"OK!"

As Wang Qianduo spoke, he placed the shattered sealed porcelain bottle on the table.

Boss Chi glanced at the fragments, then looked at Wang Qianduo with a strange expression and said:

"I've taken the item. Wait here for a bit. Repairing it is quite simple; with current technology, 10 minutes should be enough!"

"Thank you very much Boss Chi!" Wang Qianduo said politely.

After hearing this, Boss Chi nodded and left with his things.

Old Wang began to wait patiently in the room. Alan, having made a blunder himself, also waited with Old Wang, since he still had to apologize to the two of them later.

Ten minutes passed quickly, and Boss Chi came out carrying a complete porcelain vase.

Blue Fatty: "This old man's cooking skills are really good!"

After Old Wang received the porcelain, his task was completed immediately, and then the next round of tasks refreshed.

The Price of Evil - End

Please obtain the lady's forgiveness and acquire her ancestral sacred object to suppress the Evil Spirit.

Task Reward: 100 Experience Points

Failure penalty: Lucky -100

Just as Old Wang was looking at the task in a daze, Boss Chi suddenly said, "Young man, this isn't yours, is it?"

"Ah! Right! Right, I haven't paid you yet. Here's another bottle for you!" Old Wang was brought back to his senses by his interruption.

Then, as he spoke, he placed a Perfect bottle on the table.

Boss Chi: "I'm not this..."

He wanted to say something, but once his gaze fell on the bottle that Old Wang had placed there, he couldn't take his eyes off it.

"Sir, this one is worth dozens of times more than the one that was repaired, right?" Alan reminded Wang Qianduo from the side.

"Market value isn't the whole story. In my eyes, it's nothing compared to what Master Chi restored!" Wang Qianduo said pretentiously.

However, he only said it casually; the truth is that the bottle for Elder Chi only cost 100 Diamond, which is about 10 yuan.

What's there to feel sorry about?

"Um... that makes sense. Although you're right, I still don't recommend that you take things that don't belong to you!" Old Master Chi said hesitantly.

He's starting to doubt his own judgment! He feels he might have been too hasty.

"Who called the police?"

No sooner had Mr. Chi finished speaking than a group of police officers entered the room where they were.

Old Wang: "???"

Call the police?! What kind of weird quest is this now?

Alright! The matter is actually quite clear now; the broken bottle did indeed leave from the Heavenly Questions Pavilion.

Furthermore, it was sold by Boss Chi to Mark, a local tycoon, so the righteous Boss Chi decisively chose to call the police.

Actually, the bottle wasn't the only reason for this; Alan and Scarface were also partly to blame.

This is not his fault; given his status and position, he was unaware of the true identities of Alan Scarface.

Because they wanted to show off, the two of them often brought the things that Old Wang had given them to people in Chi Lao's circle to exchange ideas. As a result, Chi Lao remembered this mysterious person who had a lot of exceptional qualities.

But when he saw Old Wang bring out the bottle he had sold, he was reminded of Alan and his companion's identities as people working at the Night Wharf.

This led him to believe that Old Wang had stolen these things, and that they were part of a large criminal gang.

After all, Alan and Scarface weren't exactly wealthy or powerful on the surface, and it's quite difficult to avoid misunderstandings in a place like Dark Night.

As someone working in the antiques industry, he utterly detests this kind of behavior.

And so, this scene unfolded before our eyes!

"I just wanted to do a good deed, how did it escalate to this point?" Old Wang thought helplessly as he walked to Mark's mansion in Handcuffs.

Just as everyone was about to go to Mark's residence to verify whether Old Wang had stolen the bottle, Old Chi himself already believed that Old Wang was not the thief.

But for some reason, the police refused to believe him and insisted that Old Wang provide proof.

The key issue is that Old Wang couldn't really explain it, since he couldn't possibly sell the woman.

Alan had intended to explain for Old Wang, but for some reason the police were unusually tough today.

His identity as the manager of the Dark Night became useless; the more he explained, the less the other party believed him.

In the past, Alan would have already lost his temper, but since it was currently a low-key period for Dark Night, he was simply dragged away.

And so, Old Wang met his tragic end!

Even Old Wang invoked his military rank, but it didn't work.

Originally, he wouldn't have needed to be Handcuffs if he hadn't mentioned his military rank, since it wasn't a big deal.

But even though the Fairy City police knew he was Alliance Major and had consulted with their superiors, they insisted on Handcuffs Old Wang.

Everything about this seemed eerie, which is why Old Wang didn't choose to resist but instead went along with how things unfolded.

He wanted to see what these people were really up to.

"What happened to Old Wang?"

As everyone headed to Mark's residence, Wang Qianduo suddenly received a message from Lin Qimeng and the others.

"What do you mean?" Wang Qianduo asked.

"You know it's about you being paraded through the streets; it's even trending on social media!"

"Paralyzing people through the streets?!"

Old Wang looked at his Handcuffs, then at the Player and NPCs around him, and he seemed to understand something.

"I said these people have cars but they don't want to use them! Ling, go check and see if I've offended anyone or what," Wang Qianduo said to Ling.

"It's nothing serious, just a rather special mission."

Then Old Wang reassured everyone that he was safe, and with his chest out and head held high, he smiled and waved to the onlookers.

It was as if he wasn't being escorted, but rather a superstar walking the runway.

"Behave yourself!" a young Security Officer behind him said, giving him a hard shove.

Fortunately, Old Wang was strong enough, otherwise he would have definitely pushed me and made me stumble.

"Brother, think before you act. Do you know what your actions will bring you?" Wang Qianduo turned and said calmly to the man who pushed him.

"Are you threatening me?" The Security Officer was somewhat agitated. He tried to step forward again but was pulled back by his colleagues, who shook their heads at him.

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