"All right, everyone, follow me into the village!"
The Station Chief said, "While it's still early, we'll split up after entering the village and investigate what's been happening here!"
"All we know right now is that the river god is displeased with the villagers' dwindling offerings, and that's been affecting the village's harvests!"
"The villagers couldn't afford their household taxes, so the town chief reported the matter to the Demon-Quelling Office."
"Besides finding out what kind of evil entity this river god is and roughly what rank it belongs to, we also need to determine whether the villagers and the town chief have been lying!"
"Understood!"
Everyone answered in unison.
At that moment, however, Li Pu, the corpse stitcher, suddenly raised his hand and asked, "Squad leader, weren't we told that before we're sent on a mission, the Demon-Quelling Office sends inspectors to investigate and put the details of the incident on record, and only then dispatches Nuo Masters to deal with it? Why..."
"The Demon-Quelling Office did send two groups of inspectors here, but there's been no word from either group since they arrived," the Station Chief replied to Li Pu. "So now we need to go to the Pavilion Office and ask the town chief about the situation."
"Understood."
Li Pu acknowledged his answer.
But that exchange immediately made everyone feel the pressure.
They had originally thought that with ten Nuo Masters dealing with a single evil entity, success would be as easy as reaching out and grabbing it. Yet they had barely arrived before the entity had already delivered an intimidating opening blow.
It seemed things weren't as simple as they had imagined!
"Look over there!"
As they continued forward, they discovered that Riverside Town had a rather strange layout.
The townspeople actually lived not beside the