The village chief's family was worried.
The old village chief whispered with his wife in the courtyard:
"This heavenly god has high standards. The one on the mountain just needs people to eat. Why doesn't this one from the sea want people?"
"Ah, didn't you see all those goddesses with him? Maybe he wants jewels."
"Then hurry and gather some jewels!"
"But where would we find any?"
"Why don't I go ask the god? They're both gods. Maybe they know each other."
The old couple thought they had lowered their voices enough that no one could hear.
But none of the people inside the house were ordinary.
Even Helena, the weakest of them, was a witch who could use incantations.
Zhao Si heard every word clearly and couldn't help discussing it with the others.
"The one on the mountain they mentioned should be the one in the shrine," Zhao Si said, pinching his chin.
"It could only be the one in that temple." Malenia nodded.
Shrines and temples were much the same in nature.
"That thing in there eats people." Zhao Si scratched his chin, finding it rather uncomfortable.
Melina said, "Different places have different customs. If human sacrifice is still practiced here, that's hardly surprising. This place looks wild and uncivilized."
In fact, civilization in the Land of Reeds was fairly advanced.
But the gap between rich and poor was enormous, so it was hardly strange for remote villages to look like settlements of savages.
But even entering a large city would not amount to much for the people of the Land of Reeds.
The royal capital, Leyndell, was the benchmark.
Could the Land of Reeds produce a city that magnificent?
It couldn't.
Zhao Si felt Melina had a point.
Human sacrifice was a bad thing according to his