"A major discovery?"
Lu Ran jolted and looked at Lu Xiao Wu. "What discovery?"
"The Divine Deer our village worships... might still be alive!"
Lu Ran was just about to ask him to elaborate when Lu Dingding interjected, "Don't listen to his nonsense... I think it's just those old folks' superstitions."
"Are you even from Lujia Village?" Lu Xiao Wu looked at him unhappily.
"Spirit Energy Revival has happened now. What's wrong with believing a little? It doesn't cost anything, anyway."
With that, he turned to Lu Ran. "There's actually still a legend passed down in the village.
"Legend has it that in ancient times, ghosts ran rampant. To survive, many in Humanity sought refuge with powerful, godlike creatures and depended on them for survival."
"Even when these gods demanded offerings of infants and flesh and blood, many in Humanity accepted. After all, the ghosts outside were even more vicious."
"Of course, there were also kinder gods willing to shelter humans unconditionally. Our ancestors encountered just such a god-the Divine Deer.
"Under the Divine Deer's protection and guidance, we even took up weapons and hunted ghosts alongside it. That was the origin of Lujia Village's hunting tradition...
"Until... a great upheaval brought a ghost even the Divine Deer struggled to match, with devastating losses."
"It was because the Divine Deer stayed behind to cover the retreat that time that it vanished without a trace."
"Later, people from the village supposedly went back to search, but none found any trace of either the powerful ghost or the Divine Deer."
Hmm... a pretty typical myth.
Lu Ran pondered, then asked, "Then how did you conclude the Divine Deer was still alive?"
Lu Xiao Wu said, "Because some elders in the village say the Divine Deer often sends dreams to people from Lujia