At first glance, there seems to be a big difference between "sharing a common hatred of the enemy" and "joining the party to fight against dissidents". After all, one is positive while the other is negative.
But think about it, apart from this point, are there any other differences between the two?
Even though the accomplice had despicable behavior, to be honest, Zhang San was still very grateful to him for making everyone united against a common enemy!
The group were just casual acquaintances just a moment ago, but after the death of the evil ghost, the relationship instantly turned into a friendship of life and death.
After the intersection, the rest of the things will appear naturally ...
"Sir, what you mean is that there are ghosts haunting this place, and these two children are the sacrifices for the living?"
After listening to Zhang San's brief account of the ghost plague in Yuyang Village, the originally amiable and kind Uncle Fu (is it easy for me to get a name?) suddenly looked furious, and his drooping silver hair stood up straight due to the surge of blood.
Facing the direction of Shuntian Prefecture, he raised his hands and clasped his fists, and said angrily.
"Since His Majesty Taizu established the Great Jin Dynasty, the practice of worshipping living beings has long been abolished and defined as evil magic. This is a serious crime punishable by lingchi. How dare you do this?"
Unlike Uncle Fu who was furious, Gu Xuanyan, who had come to her senses at this time, seemed much calmer. Something seemed to flash through her mind. If that was the case, then everything made sense.
After lightly clapping her hands to attract the two people's attention, Gu Xuanyan spoke softly.
"Uncle Fu, calm down. Actually, we can't blame them for the sacrifice. Considering the strange things we encountered along the way, it all seems to make sense."
As a otaku, it's okay to ask Zhang San to read a book, but if you ask him to walk, even if you can list three thousand benefits of it, he will always find ten thousand reasons to refuse.
Therefore, within the jurisdiction of Zhenjiang Prefecture, Zhang Sanda was mostly unclear about things happening in places other than Taiping County.
Perhaps there are some records in books, but in terms of details, compared with Gu Xuanyan and his party who have traveled thousands of miles, Zhang San can only look up to them in terms of knowledge.
"How can that be explained?"
"Sir, you haven't been out visiting friends recently so you may not know that we are traveling from Baoqing Prefecture to visit relatives in Taiping County, Zhenjiang Prefecture.
When entering Zhenjiang Prefecture from west to east and passing through Jintan and Danyang counties, we found that the city was under martial law, which showed that there was a ghost there.
Moreover, we learned from the waiter over there that all the canonized aliens in Jintan and Danyang have been killed. If it weren't for the fact that the headquarters of the Maoshan Shangqing Sect was not far from these two places and there were often aliens walking around, I'm afraid they would have already become ghosts!"
Zhang San is not a stupid person. The moment Gu Xuanyan finished speaking, he already understood what she meant.
Zhenjiang Prefecture was once an ancient capital. Even though it has left the political center, its heritage is unmatched by other places.
Not to mention the size of Zhenjiang Prefecture's permanent population and the scale of its commercial water transport development, just in terms of enfeoffment of extraordinary people, it is already far ahead of other places.
What is the most important thing in this weird world?
Money? Power? Strength? All of these count, but only a few people are truly qualified to pursue them. In fact, for most people, in troubled times, all they want is a stable life.
As it happens, Zhenjiang Prefecture can give them this peace! Zhenjiang Prefecture has the Maoshan Shangqing Sect to the west and the Zexin Jinshan Temple to the east. Other places can be considered safe if they have such a force, but Zhenjiang Prefecture has two dragons entrenched.
To be honest, any ghost with a bit of brains wouldn't come here to cause trouble, and even if it wanted to harm someone's life, it wouldn't do anything too big.
However, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion from Gu Xuanyan's words. Although the situation of Jinshan Temple is still unknown, as the authentic Maoshan Shangqing Sect of Xuanmen, their transcendent status has been openly challenged by the ghost plague.
Zhang San didn't know who was doing this. Although he had achieved some success in martial arts, he was self-aware.
With his current level of cultivation, he would definitely not be able to participate in the fight between those two, or even multiple giants.
He even had to take the initiative to seek shelter to prevent himself from being crushed to death by the aftermath of the collision between the huge monsters.
Why did the officials of Jintan and Danyang die in battle? Why did the landowner of Yuyang die? Why didn't the people who went to report the news come back? Obviously, this is not a simple ghost plague, but a ghost plague that is enough to sweep across a prefecture or even more areas.
This is a war, a war launched by the ghost plague against the Shangqing Sect and Jinshan Temple. If we talk about it in a broader sense, this is a war launched by the ghost plague in Zhenjiang Prefecture against the Great Jin Dynasty! The strong will choose to solve the problem when faced with it, but it is obvious that one day ago, Zhang San, and even all the members of Yuyang Village combined, could not bear the title of strong.
Therefore, with no response from heaven or earth, they could only hold a sacrifice to the deceased, risking being tortured to death afterwards.
When the Jin Dynasty had time to spare and when Emperor Qi Ling issued the edict of repentance, the initiators of the sacrifice event, Wang Bo, the head of Yuyang Village, and the three elders, were the first to be affected.
Even if you were unwilling in the past, even if your grandson was the candidate for the living sacrifice, under the premise of imposing severe punishments in troubled times, even Your Majesty himself cannot be exempted from responsibility, do you think they can escape?
Why did Zhang San say "Wang Bo is a man of high integrity"? This was not to humiliate or ridicule him, but to show his courtesy to the man who did what he knew was impossible.
In order to leave a last bit of incense inheritance for Yuyang Village and to buy time for the dynasty to eliminate the ghost plague, they decided to offer a living sacrifice!
As for whether Dajin can accomplish the task of eradicating the ghost plague, this is the only thing they are absolutely sure of.
Even if Zhang Jue were to be resurrected (Red Dust Immortal) and the Yellow Turbans rose up again, for the current Jin Dynasty, suppressing them was only a matter of time, and this was the time they were betting on.
They bet that before the ghost plague disappears, the people of Yuyang Village will not die out. As long as they achieve this, they will win! In troubled times, the life of a small person is so sad and helpless.
Before this, Zhang San was still thinking about whether to continue using the system for secondary projection; whether the fusion of small memories would have adverse reactions on him; whether the existence of the system itself had hidden dangers, and so on.
And now, faced with the choice between not necessarily dying if he continues and definitely dying if he doesn't continue, Zhang San is confident that he will not make the wrong choice!