"There are still people holding on here." At the same moment, a little girl with dark skin and ragged clothes stood outside the county town and murmured to herself. If anyone looked at her carefully, they would see a faint red tint in her black eyes. The flames are beating like coals containing fire. The "people" she refers to are naturally not the people busy in the fields and roads around her at this moment, but the fairy family who are in charge of things in the city.
Compared with Qingzhou City at that time, even Shuanghe County in its heyday was not worth mentioning. It looked more like a barracks than a city. Its suburbs were not rich in products and there were no major transportation routes. All the way from Qingzhou City to The waterway here is completely cut off in Shuanghe County. If you want to continue moving forward, you have to abandon your boat and go ashore. Not far away, you will find the remaining mountains of Yishan, one after another. The farther you go, the fewer products there are and the more ferocious beasts. There are too many, so it’s really not a place worth doing business with. Therefore, after the war with the barbarians ended, Shuanghe County declined rapidly, and its business degraded to an almost agricultural level. The leisurely style and attitude of the merchants here were unimaginable by merchants in big cities. The goods were brought in by ship, and the ship was not turned back until the goods were sold out. It did not want to use the ship to do other transportation in the meantime, because there was simply not so much to transport.
This backward business level has helped the rulers of this place a lot in troubled times. The ice in the neighboring county did not cause any big troubles in the local area. First, because some time ago, the female fairy official had treated the old man from the city who took the lead in escaping. The officials were ruthless and made those big households who were well-informed and good at making troubles dare not say anything. The second reason was that the neighboring counties were too far away from ordinary residents of the county. They farmed in the fields for a year, and their income was only enough to make ends meet. They had to exchange their hair and chicken feathers for some needle salt from the salesman. Such a pitiful need did not require a trip to the county seat, let alone a neighboring county, so The neighboring county never existed to them. As for their demand, the few blacksmithing workshops in the county and the county government's small inventory are enough to support them for many years, and it will not cause any commotion.
Ujida studied the county town with his eyes. The gap in the city wall was blocked, but there were more barren weeds under the wall than before. It can be seen that this county town encountered a wise ruler on the way downhill, and it suffered heavy losses. Losses cannot be repaid so quickly. In addition, the roads are neater and cleaner than before, and people's health is better than before. She drilled a hole in Shuanghe County. As a result, the old pus drained away and new skin began to grow.
She walked forward expressionlessly.
If the Death Cult's eyes are fixed elsewhere instead of here, this small ruin can survive one or two hundred years under wise management and become more prosperous than before, but it can only go so far. Many worlds will be destroyed. There is such a precedent. When the main body of civilization is destroyed, its border settlements can still persist in the barren and cold land for hundreds of years. The difficult environment that originally caused them to be abandoned outside the mainstream has become their protective umbrella. This environment also limits them. Places that lack everything cannot develop unless...
She didn't think the ruler of Shuanghe County had such courage. Even if he did, the resistance she would face would be much greater than what the chieftains in Yishan would encounter.
She walked towards the depths of Yishan Mountain.
The conditions there are harsher than in Shuanghe County, the climate is colder, less grains can be produced, and merchants and craftsmen's workshops are almost non-existent. However, there are also benefits deep in the Yishan Mountains that cannot be found in other places. First, the Yi people interact with each other. The hatred between them is no less than the hatred they have towards the people outside the mountains, which means that no matter how rough they are treated, they are unlikely to attract reinforcements to rebel. Secondly, the high priest of the Yi people has died outside Shuanghe County. The accompanying elites are all gone, and now there is no leader in Yishan. No matter how hard you try, no one will come to rescue you. Thirdly, the Great Guru...
Guru?
Thinking of the God she worshiped all year round, Ujida was in a trance, and a layer of sweat broke out on her back without realizing it. She, what happened to her?
She sat down on the ground all of a sudden, and the whole earth and sky were spinning crazily like a spinning wheel. Temples she had never seen before, corpses hanging from trees, and densely packed dead people crawling out of the river, death, death , only death is the final destination, the sweet home of the soul, no fatigue, no fear, no sadness... Oh no, she thought of those rotting but still moving bones, the baby whose knees were worn out by crawling, strange The sky is strange...
"Come on, come on, I need you."
The Great Guru sent a summons to her, and she recognized the call. The eight arms of the Great Guru danced in front of her eyes, so she understood that in Qingzhou City, the Great Guru had already summoned her, and now, it was again.
The Guru must not be allowed to issue a third summons.
With great reluctance, she stood up from the ground, still sweating, folded her hands together, and recited a prayer to her god.
The Guru responded to her, and its power fell on the priestess, removing her fatigue and pain. Then, her vision returned to normal and her eyes turned clear black again. The Guru withdrew its power. world.
She raised her hand, and this time, without using a brass bell, she summoned an invisible angel and pounced a wild dove in front of her.
Ujda directly broke the pigeon's neck, sprinkled the blood on the stones under the nearest tree, made a very brief sacrifice to the Guru, then took out the knife he carried with him and knocked out fire on the stone. Roast the pigeon and eat it. Her cooking skills were extremely poor, but luckily the Yi people were never particular about their food. After devouring the food, she found a resting place for herself in a nearby tree.
Rather than rushing directly to the designated destination, it might be more important to figure out what happened to herself, she thought.
