"Huh?"
Li Pu's face fell with disappointment at those words.
Shang Xueli's eyes, on the other hand, lit up. "Patrol Constable, how did you know the False River God would come?"
"Because there were no signs of a struggle in the Station Chief's room, but there were water stains like the ones a fish would leave after sliding across the floor!" Ye Qianfan explained. "Besides, the Human-Skin Ghost couldn't enter the villagers' houses at all because the Door Gods barred its way. The False River God, however, doesn't seem to be restricted by them."
"Why?"
Li Pu couldn't help asking as well.
Only then did Ye Qianfan say, "Because I saw pictures of Door Gods on the main doors of the River God Temple, too!"
"If the False River God feared Door Gods, why would the Heavenly River Cult hang their pictures in the place where they worshipped it?"
"There's another point, too: the Human-Skin Ghost doesn't eat people. It only swallows them whole!"
"But the False River God does eat people. You saw that yourselves when the villagers sacrificed corpses to it. And in the Station Chief's room, besides blood all over the floor, there was part of a finger left behind!"
"That's why I suspect the Station Chief was knocked unconscious by some kind of poison from the False River God, then eaten by it."
"If we want to deal with the Heavenly River Cult, our only option now is to kill the False River God and prevent the real River God from descending into this world through its stand-in. Only then will we have a chance of winning this fight. Otherwise, we'd better run while we can!"
"An otherworldly visitor capable of alarming even the Heavenly Dao is far beyond the reach of mortals like us. Even