Chapter 443 - 437: Ghost Village Demon
"Brother Liu, can your Security Department finally breathe a sigh of relief now?" Inside a private room on the third floor of the Hero Tower, two middle-aged men were drinking and chatting.
Although they spoke in hushed tones, with Ye Zhen’s keen hearing and strength, he could overhear any conversation within a kilometer radius if he desired to listen.
"Indeed, these past six months have been incredibly stressful for me, look, I even have white hairs now. Speaking of which, this time, we really have the Lord Governor to thank for his help. If the Lord Governor hadn’t personally stepped in, who could have invited the reclusive Wanji Peak to act?" said the man surnamed Liu.
Suddenly, the other voice lowered significantly, "Brother Liu, I heard that’s not quite how things went."
"How so?"
"I heard that it’s mainly because one or two ghost villages also appeared in Wanzhou. Within ten thousand li of Wanzhou City is all Wanji Peak’s territory. Even if the State Governor didn’t ask for help, it’s unlikely that Wanji Peak would just sit back and do nothing!"
"So that’s it! No wonder our Yuezhou State’s Lord Governor couldn’t possibly have that much influence; it turns out the root cause lay there!"
"Right, but one or two ghost villages wouldn’t prompt Wanji Peak to mobilize their forces, right?"
"Brother Liu, have you forgotten our situation in Yuezhou State? Ghost villages always appear in remote locations, and when disaster strikes, the entire village perishes. Unless someone passes by or returns to the village, the incident remains unnoticed.
Four months ago, there were only three ghost villages discovered in Yuezhou State, but now, I’m afraid the number has risen to seventeen or eighteen! If one or two ghost villages have been found in Wanzhou, can the situation be any better?"