Chapter 119: Welcoming the Lord at Night
By the time the sun slanted west, Li Yunxin was already standing by the street.
Du Zishe's current residence was just one room and one courtyard, and the courtyard was only enclosed by a bamboo fence with a low bamboo gate.
Some flowers and plants were originally planted along the fence, and now they were in full bloom. But they were poorly cared for, and the wild grass grew even more lushly than the flowers, drowning the clusters of red and yellow blossoms.
Just as Li Yunxin had expected, a considerable number of people had already gathered here.
In this era, people had few forms of entertainment, so they were naturally curious about such things. Logically, after the great demon had caused such a ruckus in Weicheng a few days ago, people should have been in a state of panic. But it seemed that precisely because the demon's rampage was so extreme, when the news reached the ears of the people in Egret Town, it no longer sounded real—what with the Dragon King's true form appearing in the sky, a white crane as large as Weicheng appearing at night, and an entire street being destroyed…
It was just too bizarre.
People were more willing to believe that the firelight that night was a mountain fire, and that the street was destroyed by an earthquake.
Li Yunxin could well understand this mentality. It was a rather common psychological phenomenon—unless a view or belief was strong enough to completely shatter people's original cognition, it would only make people more stubborn and reinforce their original ideas.
—Who would be willing to believe that such a terrifying demon truly existed in the world, and right beside them?