Da Zaojun

Chapter 5 Taichang Blessing the People, William

Song Wuji opened the third page of the kitchen book and found no other functions. It was just a recipe and ingredient illustration.

Just like the Classic of Mountains and Seas, on the surface, it is a geography book, but in fact it is also known as the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

But because Song Wuji didn't have the corresponding ingredients, not a single recipe was unlocked.

However, the images of the two "human skin minions" and "corpse-eating minions" who were burned to death by Song Wuji appeared in the kitchen book atlas.

However, these two things are obviously not edible. After all, the Kitchen God will not use any strange things to cook.

Human-skin accomplices: There is a tiger in the West Mountain that eats people. Those who are ghosts are willing to be its slaves. These are called accomplices. They are influenced by evil spirits and wear skin as clothes. They are afraid of fire and light, and they walk at night and hide during the day.

Drops: Talisman Paper
Corpse-eating lackeys: A tiger cannot satisfy its hunger by eating one person, but can still eat two. Those who become ghosts cannot leave their remains, and are forced into slavery. These lackeys are influenced by evil spirits and feed on corpses to replenish their bodies. They are afraid of fire and light, and move at night and hide during the day.

Drops: Bloody Kitchen Knife
"Behind this, there's actually a tiger demon!"

Song Wuji was shocked. As the saying goes, "to be an accomplice to a tiger", he should have realized it long ago.

The tiger is the king of all beasts. If it becomes a demon, I am afraid it will not be willing to be an ordinary demon. No wonder it sent so many minions to infiltrate the victims. I am afraid their intention is not to eat people, but to drive away the demons and attack the city.

The image of a huge monster with a tiger head and a human body suddenly appeared in Song Wuji's mind.

To possess this incredible ability, there's no need to refine a Ten Thousand Souls Banner. If one practices this evil thing, they'd have to worry about the backlash from the ghosts. However, the tiger demon was born with a pure yang body, which allowed it to restrain evil spirits and sneaky tricks. It's not afraid of rebellion from its minions at all. It can even scare some timid animals to death with just a roar in the mountains.

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On the city wall, County Magistrate Tian Chengbi looked at the victims outside the city and couldn't help but sigh.

I sigh deeply and wipe away my tears, mourning the hardships of my life.

There were more and more disaster victims under the city, all of whom were suffering from demonic disasters in various places. Those who escaped gathered together and only stopped at the edge of the county town.

Tian Chengbi was not an ordinary person. He would go up to the city wall in person every day to observe the situation, make an estimate in his mind, and see things clearly.

It was obvious that these people were deliberately driven together by the demons. It was not what the victims thought, that the demons would stop chasing them when they reached the edge of the city.

Kidnapping people every night was probably to prevent the victims from escaping and make them think that the wilderness was more dangerous.

From this, Tian Chengbi boldly speculated that these demons had great ambitions.

In other words, the demons' target was not these disaster victims at all.

These disaster victims were unable to resist and had long been regarded as easy prey.

The demons are coveting Taichang County!

They drove the refugees here just to collect sacrifices. Once the city is broken, all of them will be human sacrifices!

When the news of the demonic activity first arrived, Tian Chengbi immediately ordered the city to be sealed off.

This is obviously not a good idea and is extremely risky.

The city has been under lockdown for only a few days, but the prices of grain, oil and rice have already increased several times.

The most important thing is that the city gates are not open, and the people in the city have no firewood in stock. Some have already started chopping up furniture to cook. If this continues, I am afraid that before the outside attack comes, the people in the city will mutiny if they don’t want to starve to death.

The refugees outside the city would also be dissatisfied because the city gates were closed and they were not allowed to enter the city.

Moreover, the longer the time is delayed, the more tragic the situation will be as the victims compete with each other for limited resources. They may even kill people and sell their daughters for a bite to eat. What's worse, they have crossed the bottom line and cannibalizing their own children is not just a matter of a few words.

That would be fine, but the problem is that under such circumstances, the victims living in the city have already become "unruly".

Forming gangs has become the norm and the rule. Although there are still a few rebels who refuse to obey gang control, within a few days, they will gather resources and cause more people to starve to death!
Those who join the gang may risk their lives just to eat, but those who don’t join the gang will starve to death immediately... Once the victims accept this concept, on the one hand, they will begin to feel dissatisfied with the government, and on the other hand, facing the oppression of the demons outside, it is very likely that someone will rise up and call for the support of the whole gang, becoming the leader of the bandit army!

The victims of the disaster would be forced to capture the city at all costs in order to seek a chance of survival.

Compared to facing the unknown of demons, the victims will have more courage to declare war on their own people.

Once this happens, for the people in the city, there is no difference between the entry of disaster victims and the entry of demons.

Tian Chengbi was wise after reading history books. He knew that even those famous generals who were strict in military discipline would let their troops go for three days after attacking a city to allow their soldiers to gain benefits, let alone this mob.

Even as a senior official, the first person killed by the rebel army was Tian Chengbi.

Just based on Tian Chengbi's calculations in his mind, if he couldn't break the deadlock in time, he would either be killed by the monster or by the rebels within three days.

We can’t lock down the city anymore!

However, it's not that there is no way out at all. After all, there is always a way out.

Tian Chengbi felt gloomy

Although the world is undergoing great changes right now and demonic disasters are occurring everywhere, various gods and Buddhas have also appeared along with the demons.

For example, the City God in the City God Temple in Taichang County, whose name is "Taichang Youmin Weilingbo", appeared after the great changes in heaven and earth, and communicated with him at the first time.

Although Confucianism has always advocated "respecting ghosts and gods but keeping a distance from them", now it has come to this point where we can only place our hopes on ghosts and gods.

Tian Chengbi also felt powerless, and a line of poetry emerged in his mind.

"Poor at midnight, I don't ask people to ask ghosts and gods."

He then retreated from the city wall and rode his horse to visit the City God Temple in the city.

After the City God woke up, he did not take all the responsibility, but remained silent, seizing the time to recover his strength. Now it is the temple keeper who is in full control.

The temple keeper seemed to have known that the county magistrate was coming and was waiting in front of the door.

"How's the situation with the City God County Earl?" Tian Chengbi asked directly, "Have you found a solution?"

The temple keeper nodded and replied, "Father and mother, although the county lord has initially recovered and has not yet had time to refine the entire territory, he has already consumed the incense and vows accumulated by the City God Temple over the years to gather the authority of protection."

Tian Chengbi shook his head: "If we only defend without attacking, the city will fall sooner or later!"

"There's nothing the county lord can do. Only the county lord has revived. The judge is wandering around day and night, and neither of them has revived!"

"The entire City God Temple is dedicated to the City God alone, without a single soldier or horseman. It needs a large amount of incense and prayers to maintain its existence... County Lord, you should quickly get all the people to the temple to burn incense and pray. This is the most important thing to do."

Tian Chengbi simply ignored the temple priest and said, "It seems you can't make the decision!"

He naturally thought that the temple keeper was taking advantage of the opportunity to blackmail him and seek benefits.

He is the Marquis of Baili in the world of the living, and the City God is the Marquis of Baili in the underworld. Strictly speaking, their identities and status are equal, so there is no need to be too respectful, let alone a temple priest?

As soon as he stepped into the temple, he felt as if he had entered another dimension, which was exactly the same as the government office in the world of the living.

The City God was sitting in the main seat. He looked like a middle-aged civil servant. When he saw Tian Chengbi, he quickly got down from his seat, holding a stack of documents in his hand.

"Mr. Tian, ​​you have arrived just in time. I was just about to go look for you."

(End of this chapter)