"Supernatural demand is destiny."
Wang Tie Zhu shook his head, then recounted everything it had seen and heard to Qin He.
In truth, it had arrived at Black Wind Mountain half a month ago. Qin He had only come here by following its marker.
"Master, Cloud Mulberry Kingdom is one of the wealthiest among the thirty kingdoms. Its land is fertile and the weather favorable. By all rights, the population here should have grown rapidly, swelling until the land could no longer support so many people and poverty set in."
"But because of the offerings to the supernatural, not only has Cloud Mulberry Kingdom's population failed to grow over the past several centuries, it has actually fallen by around twenty percent as the supernatural grew increasingly active. With few people and much land, it has remained quite prosperous instead."
"In other words, all those people who should have multiplied countless times over were fed to the supernatural."
"More terrifying still was the numbness of those who lived. Not only would they not resist, they would brand every factor that might possibly lead to resistance as a grave crime and erase it."
"A few days ago, I merely asked why they had to offer up their flesh and blood, and why they did not flee this place. They chased after me to beat me up and wanted to catch me and report me to the authorities."
"Beneath this land's peaceful and prosperous surface lay the utmost trembling and fear. No one dared defy the will of the supernatural. Their minds and actions had both been numbed to the extreme. Only the faint resistance of virgin boys and girls before their deaths could peel back one corner of this horror."
Qin He nodded upon hearing this, then asked, "What about elsewhere?"
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