"This -" After listening to Liang En's analysis, the clan leader was frightened by the terrible possibility of the enemy raiding the village, but he quickly recovered and explained to Liang En.
"The possibility you mentioned is indeed possible, but the locations of our mountain ghost clan often have sophisticated defense facilities. Although this defense may not be so flexible when there are not enough operators, it is enough to last until the reinforcements return.
"
"Yes, Mr. Patriarch, you are right. But have you ever thought that these defenses will not be able to support your return if the enemy knows the specific situation?" Liang En nodded slightly and then said.
"Or worse, the enemy chooses to encircle a town suitable for an ambush for reinforcements, attract the originally scattered mountain ghosts to a few villages and towns, and then besiege them——"
"Mr. Liang, what on earth are you going to say?" After hearing that Liang En's words seemed to be getting more and more off-topic, Tian Zongqi interrupted him, "Does this have anything to do with what happened today?"
"Yes." Liang En nodded: "Mr. Tian Qi, have you noticed that there have been significantly more ghosts and gods around here in the past year than in previous years?"
"Is there any?" Tian Zongqi looked confused. In his memory, the situation mentioned by Liang En did not indeed occur. In his memory, work was even easier in the past year.
But the doctor next to him named Wang Shiqi frowned and looked thoughtful after hearing this.
"Wang Shiqi, tell me what you think of!" After realizing that someone in his team knew something, Tian Zongqi immediately turned to the young man in green clothes and leather armor with a small container hanging on his belt.
asked.
"That's right, there is indeed no change in the city this year, and there are even fewer changes. But there are a lot more things happening in the surrounding villages and mountains, but most of the extra things belong to a few farmers with pitchforks.
Little things that can be solved.”
"Because these things do involve some demons and monsters, the injuries suffered by many people require practitioners or some elixirs to solve them."
"I heard the doctors say this kind of thing before when I went to the Temple of Medicine to worship, but I just didn't pay attention at the time. But now after Mr. Liang reminded me, I realized that this kind of thing has indeed increased in the past year."
"Hiss—" Mr. Tian took a breath of air. He used to only deal with emergency affairs in or around the county, so he really didn't notice any changes in this regard.
Before they came, they were just worried that this matter would be used to sow discord between humans and mountain ghosts, thereby triggering large-scale racial conflicts, but now it seems that the actual situation is much more complicated than that.
Liang Enze showed an expression that was indeed true. He began to feel that something was wrong because he had heard about the replacement of mountain gods, land gods and even well gods several times when the scholar told stories.
At first, Liang En just listened to these things as stories, but when he became friends with Huang Yongnian, the god of Wangyu River, he couldn't help but pay more attention when hearing such stories. After all, his friend almost became
The protagonist of the story.
As a result, he was surprised to find that all these stories happened within just a few months.
At first, Liang En thought that this time was just a common beginning when storytellers told stories, just like many stories begin with "a long time ago".
But after carefully questioning the storyteller and asking the merchants who came and went, Liang En discovered that this was not a dramatization, but a real record.
In other words, in the past year or so, nearly ten gods have been replaced within a radius of no more than 200 miles. However, because these gods are small gods similar to village gods or well gods, they have not attracted attention.
People pay attention.
Although when it comes to the replacement of gods and disappearances, many people will directly think of a big scene like the Twilight of the Gods, but it is not an incredible story for China in this world.
Mainly because there are too many kinds of mountain spirits and wild ghosts in the wild in this world, and the lowest-level gods are on the front line of fighting against monsters and monsters.
There is no doubt that the gods who are organized and have more resources have a great advantage when facing these monsters, but this does not mean that they can win every time.
Whether it is an overly powerful enemy or a premeditated surprise attack, some unfortunate gods will fall. Fortunately, the god system is enough to make up for these losses.
So for the people here, the death of gods is not a fantasy. There may be a few people who miss the fallen gods, but most people will quickly accept such changes.
Therefore, the change of gods in this land has not come into people's sight: the local villagers will only think that it is their bad luck, and the business travelers who come and go will only hear this matter as a story.
At the same time, they will not travel throughout the entire area, so they will not be aware of changes in the frequency of the replacement of the gods around them.
As for those who work in restaurants and storytellers, they do receive so much information, but at most they only use these things as conversation materials and do not think deeply about the problems inside.
Only Liang En paid attention to this aspect because his friend encountered a similar situation, and finally came to such a chilling conclusion.
"Mr. Tian Qi, is this true?"
After Liang En finished talking about his discovery, the mountain ghost clan leader looked at Mr. Tian Qi sitting opposite him with a surprised expression.
"I'm not sure either." Tian Zongqi's face looked extremely serious at this time, "But I think Mr. Liang is right, because among the gods he mentioned, two of them have decrees from us.
The person brought it there.
Having said this, he turned to look at Liang En.
"This information is really important. Why didn't you mention this in the Yamen before?"
"You didn't even ask." Liang En shook his head helplessly, and then said confidently. "How dare you say this without asking me?"
"this--"
Tian Zongqi didn't know what to say to Liang En's answer. After all, ordinary people in this era just asked and said what they asked when facing officials, and basically didn't take the initiative to say anything.
"I think we have to go back and report this matter to the county magistrate." After a few seconds of silence, Mr. Tian immediately made a decision. "Let's leave now."
"Is it that serious?" Wang Langzhong in the team stood up and asked with some confusion.
"Serious, very serious." Tian Zongqi clasped his fists to the clan leader and said goodbye as he walked towards the dock. "The current situation is much more serious than we previously expected. We must report this news to the county magistrate as soon as possible."