After reaching the southeastern corner of the Shed Quarantine Zone, Lu Mian leaped onto the roof of a house and sat cross-legged.
For now, the situation in the Shed Quarantine Zone remained manageable. As long as no outside forces interfered, the Guard Hall could maintain order.
Lu Mian therefore had nothing to do but sit there.
Before long, the Shed Quarantine Zone fell utterly silent again, as though the great fire had never happened.
"Who... set this fire?"
"The Void Cult...?"
Lu Mian pondered.
This was not an age of warfare and chaos, but one plagued by Evil Spirits and Weird Beings.
No Evil Spirit or Weird Being would take an interest in granaries, much less set such carefully targeted fires.
Someone must have done this deliberately.
In fact, the granaries had always been jointly managed by the Administrative Hall, the Guard Hall's Mountain Tiger Guard, and the Agriculture Office. Their defenses were reasonably sound.
No one had expected more than a dozen granaries to burn down simultaneously in a single night.
The only suspect Lu Mian could think of was the Void Cult.
From the earlier attack on Xu Yi, he could be certain that remnants of the Void Cult still lurked within Thousand Chimes Commandery City.
And this time, the Void Cult had indeed caused enormous trouble.
More and more refugees were arriving in Thousand Chimes Commandery City. Previously, with the Agriculture Office's support, they had managed to avoid a food shortage.
But now that the granaries had burned down, there was no telling how many people would starve to death.
"Looks like everyone will be going hungry... starting tonight."
"Things won't improve until after the autumn harvest, at the earliest."
Lu Mian sighed softly.
In a world like this, bringing grain in from elsewhere was simply impossible.