After everyone came out of the Pavilion Office...
The Station Chief swept his gaze over them and said, "Pair up and investigate separately!"
"Remember to question the villagers and make sure the pavilion head wasn't lying. Draw them out when you ask your questions, and see whether the timing of that river god's appearances matches what the pavilion head told us."
"Three teams will stay in the village. One will investigate its various buildings. I want to see a map before dark."
"The other two will question the villagers. Record everything, no matter how trivial. I'll be checking your notes afterward!"
"The remaining team will come with me to investigate the river!"
"Yes, Station Chief!"
Everyone answered in unison.
Yet apart from Ye Qianfan and Shen Lang, the others had already headed off into the village, as though afraid that moving too slowly would get them dragged along to the river to investigate the river god.
After all, the evil entity here was already obvious: the river god hiding in the water.
And evil entities in the water were usually difficult to deal with!
All the more so when they hid in a river. The river stretched so far that no one knew which corner the entity might be lurking in. If it suddenly emerged and dragged you underwater...
The more they thought about it, the more dangerous it seemed, so they all fled faster than anyone else.
Ye Qianfan hadn't run because he felt the Station Chief had a few real tricks up his sleeve. He wanted to follow him and learn how to investigate and deal with these evil entities.
Learning from someone experienced was better than fumbling around in the dark on his own, wasn't it?
The River God Temple.
The temple stood downstream, some distance