Lin Yu instantly began to wonder whether he had mixed up the information when reading through it.
But he quickly chose to trust his memory and judgment—both the architecture of these two villages and the current terrain and climate were typical of northern Sanqiu Country.
But then again...
The leather-clad men before him had well-proportioned limbs and were robust and agile. Combined with their spears and bronze beast masks, it was obvious that they were also "humans."
And...
They were an organized human army. Lin Yu alone had seen more than ten of them.
Moreover, this seemed to be a unit under an elite force that could even be considered the cream of the crop in Xia Jin. Whether it was the powerful oppressive feeling radiating from each individual or the tacit coordination between them, everything showed that they had an extraordinary background.
Among Xia Jin's sixty-six departments, only the army of the Upper Department could possibly possess this kind of oppressive presence...
It might even be an elite army raised by Xia Jin's Tian Zi Department or the three Great Shamans!
For such elite soldiers to appear in northern Sanqiu Country—and for there to be at least a dozen of them merely handling the "cleanup" by setting fires—meant that the total number of troops was very likely over a thousand.
Unless Sanqiu Country had truly begun an all-out war with Xia Jin, this army could only have "infiltrated" or launched a "surprise attack" to reach this place.
That was not impossible either. Although the probability was extremely low, the Black Marsh World was vast, its production technology was extremely backward, and all its various regimes were still at the stage of primitive tribal systems. Local governments were divided and loosely organized, and their weak control over their own territories