Chapter 942 The Truth Within the Truth

Xu Hei didn't believe that the information Gu Beize brought with his life was false.

What's more, the city lord's palace also said that the garrison in Tiandou City lost contact. This is definitely not a simple incident.

The garrison is the expatriate elder sent here by Nanhuang City. He is only responsible for supervision and does not participate in the management of the city.

The summons for the garrison can be sent to the city lord's palace in Nanhuang City in just one stick of incense.

Linghu Shanshui's eyes flashed with disdain. This kind of mistake did not happen once or twice. If the garrison had not lost contact, the city lord's palace would not have sent anyone here at all.

Linghu Shanshui stood at the bow of the ship and said loudly: "Nanhuang City Law Enforcement Hall, come to inspect! Where are the garrison and the city lord?"

Not long after, a man who looked like a general wearing silver armor and a halberd came closer, cupped his fists and said, "City Lord Tian Yidou, pay homage to all the elders!"

"Nan Huazi, the resident elder, has met all of my colleagues!"

Another old man in gray robe also appeared on the cloud together, cupping his fists and saluting.

After Linghu Shanshui looked at this person, he said: "Fellow Taoist Nanhuazi, the City Lord's Mansion contacted you earlier, why didn't you answer?"

"I was practicing a secret skill before and was in a critical moment of seclusion. I couldn't allow distractions. This led to my failure to report it in time! This was my dereliction of duty. But now that I have come out of seclusion, similar things will never happen again. "Nan Huazi said, cupping his fists.

This explained the loss of contact at the garrison. Although it was a bit far-fetched, Linghu Shanshui seemed unwilling to ask further questions.

Xu Hei looked at Tian Yi Dou and said, "Is there any big disaster in Tian Dou City recently?"

As he spoke, he also took out a jade slip that recorded the scene before Gu Beize's death.

"A great catastrophe?" After Tian Yidou read the jade slips, he pondered for a moment and said: "Some time ago, several waves of sand worms attacked the city, causing some casualties. Now that the worms have been repelled, I don't know if this counts. Catastrophe?"

Although the sandworm tide is extremely dangerous, it often attacks passing caravans, and occasionally a large wave will break out and attack the city.

But Tiandou City has been located in the Golden Desert for countless years and is impregnable. It has experienced countless insect waves, and it is not a catastrophe at all.

"That insect wave caused a lot of losses to the Gu family's caravan. It may be because of this that Gu Beize rushed to Nanhuang City." Tian Yidou continued.

There was no flaw in the two people's answers this time, and they perfectly explained the incident——

It's a complete oolong.

Because his personal interests were damaged, Gu Beize panicked and rushed to Nanhuang City to ask for help. He was poisoned and died. However, because of his strong will or the poisoning that led to insanity... all the reasons can be explained.

Linghu Shanshui sneered, looked at Xu Hei with sarcasm in his eyes, and said, "Fellow Daoist Xu, that's what happened. Can we close the team?"

At this moment, he felt that Xu Hei's behavior along the way was extremely ridiculous.

Just because of an inexplicable passerby and a lie, they caused them to go into war, wasting manpower, material resources, and time, and it was really shameful for me to panic.

He began to suspect that Yang Tianling had noticed something a long time ago, and he just arranged this deliberately to make Xu Hei have a longer memory.

Xu Hei said nothing as he rushed into Tiandou City and flew around.

His consciousness swept through and he found many familiar figures, including the Wang family, the Gu family, and even the former Qingshan Gate.

It's just that after the insect wave swept through, there were some casualties, that's all.

How can this be considered a big disaster, and why do we need their support? It’s just a trip in vain!

"Close the team." Xu Hei said gloomily.

Everyone quickly returned to the cloud boat.

After Tian Yidou and the garrison elders saw everyone off, they returned to Tiandou City.

Xu Hei sat on the cloud boat. As the cloud boat went away, the more he thought about it, the more something was wrong, and his face became ugly.

Linghu Shanshui pondered for a moment, then suddenly thought of something, his eyes flashed slightly, and he said with a smile: "Xu Hei, you are still inexperienced and can't tell the clues, but I can tell that there is something abnormal in Tiandou City."

"Oh?" Xu Hei's eyes lit up and he quickly asked: "What's abnormal?"

"Mortals, too many."

Linghu Shanshui smiled lightly, closed his eyes quietly, and said no more. But just one word woke Xu Hei up.

"Too many mortals?" Xu Hei was surprised.

Linghu Shanshui didn't explain anything. Some things can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.

He thought for a long time and finally understood what the catastrophe in Tiandou City was!

This place has prospered and developed for thousands of years, and the population has continued to expand, causing the number of mortals and low-level monks to reach a terrifying level.

Resources are scarce and the territory is limited, but the number of low-level monks is constantly increasing. This will only increase internal friction and will not be of any benefit to Tiandou City.

What is truly valuable?

Not millions or tens of millions of mortals, nor low-level monks, but gods and above, high-level people!

Only when there are more god-transformation cultivators and one or two more Void-Breaking Stages, will Tiandou City make a qualitative leap, increase its strength greatly, attract Nanhuang City's attention, and invest more resources!

In this case, some measures need to be taken to transform low-level monks into high-level monks!

Even if millions of mortals die, as long as one god-forming monk is born among them, it will greatly improve the strength of Tiandou City.

Therefore, attracting insect infestations is inevitable!

By consuming the excess bottom layer and redistributing resources, this solves the fundamental contradiction, solves the problem of insufficient resources and overpopulation, and the high-level monks can also benefit from this.

"What a pity. Gu Beize interfered and attracted the Law Enforcement Hall. They had no choice but to suspend their plans and deal with us first."

Linghu Shanshui thought secretly in his heart.

There will definitely be more than just a few waves of insect waves, and there will be bigger ones later. At least 70 to 80% of the population will have to die before it can be subsided.

There have been examples like this before. The city lord used various methods to sacrifice the lower level to improve his own cultivation. The Wang family may even have known the news in advance, and Wang Teng came to take care of it, asking him to secretly take care of the Wang family's branches.

Linghu thought that he had seen the whole story clearly.

You can't just look at the surface of something, you have to look deeper! People like Xu Hei only saw the first level, but he saw the second and even the third level.

Of course he wouldn't say it clearly. If he did, he'd know it but not report it. If something serious happened, he couldn't be held responsible.

Furthermore, what if it’s really just an own mistake? If you don't have evidence, you can't just talk nonsense.

Therefore, Xu Hei can only understand everything by himself. It can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.

"So...that's it."

Xu Hei was not a stupid person. After Linghu Shanshui's advice, he quickly figured it out.

Faced with this kind of thing, what can he do?

Of course, he pretended not to know and just left.

In Xu Hei's mind, he couldn't help but think of the ordinary people at Qingshan Gate, Gu Qianqian, Xu Yanran, and the honest and humble master.

They tried their best to stay alive for a hundred or two hundred spirit stones, but they ended up like this.

Xu Hei's heart was filled with sadness.

But such a person is unknown in Tiandou City. He can't change the general trend, and he can't change the rules.

He couldn't change anything.

"wrong!"

Suddenly, Xu Hei seemed to have missed something. His pupils shrank and he stood up.

The cloud ship was still flying in the sky, away from Tiandou City, and Xu Hei's movements attracted everyone's attention.

He turned back and looked at the Tiandou City that was getting further away. He stared carefully and opened his mind's eyes to observe the situation inside and outside the city.

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