Chapter 1165 Stubborn Taotie
The battle has temporarily stopped, and what will happen next has become an uncertain factor. The future direction does not depend on this small country, but on the Daji Dynasty. To be precise, it depends on the idea of King Jin, whether he still wants to enhance his prestige through military force.
There are only two thousand people, but it is a war that is almost about destroying the country. The comparison of the strength of the two sides is not at the same level at all. After the battle stopped, many people were extremely terrified and uneasy. They either fled the battlefield with their families or reported to the Daji Dynasty and begged for forgiveness.
There are also a few people who are dissatisfied with their own monarch rashly angering the heavenly soldiers who came to the court, and they also have the idea of killing the king and put it into action. On the night when the battle stopped, a group of people took advantage of the broken walls of the inner city and sneaked into the siege city, waiting for an opportunity to rebel.
But in the end, these very few people disappeared without a trace, and even a little inexplicably. Several waves of people were like this. The small inner city was like an endless abyss, and the depth was unknown.
In addition, there was another strange thing that made the people in the country panic.
After the war, corpses were everywhere, and many of them could not be identified. The king ordered a state funeral to bury them all.
To put it bluntly, it was just a mass grave. Although it was called a state funeral, how prosperous could a small country be with its national strength?
The problem came from the mass grave. At the state funeral, the king invited a strong man in black to serve as a priest, which was a bit out of place, but the king had made up his mind and no one said much.
Moreover, the strong man also proved his level in the subsequent actions. After he danced a Nuo dance, the mass grave, which was originally whistling with cold wind and made people feel a little cold, became no different from ordinary land, as if it really guided many dead souls to reincarnation.
This was originally a good thing. If you know that your ancestors have successfully entered reincarnation, you will naturally feel happy from the bottom of your heart. However, there are still a few people who are dissatisfied with the king for burying their families so roughly, and secretly dig up the graves at night, hoping to find their families in them and build new graves.
Such an attempt basically has no chance of success. With the death of thousands of people, many of them even have incomplete limbs. How can you find the bones you want? Do you have to dig them all up?
However, this attempt found a horrifying thing. These bones are like the past thousands of years, without flesh and blood. Even the bones will turn into ashes as soon as they are touched, like sand.
The black-clothed man is none other than Taotie. Taotie is a little eager for success in this matter. The bones will be his sooner or later if they are buried. If he takes action later, he will not leave this flaw.
The rumor that the king invited a demon spread like wildfire. The government finally said that the family members have already entered the reincarnation, and their fate in this life has ended, so there is no flesh and bones. Not only are you not grateful to the master, but you even slander the master. It is really wrong.
This kind of thing is not easy for Wu Yi to verify, let alone the lower-class people. The storm lasted for a few days, but there was not much noise.
Wu Yi and the Chaos Beast came all the way from the western sea to the southern border, and found Taotie in a small country called Zhuanche. They also witnessed the war and many changes after the war.
The ups and downs of the luck of a small country, for a being like Taotie, are not completely unimportant, but also insignificant. At first, Wu Yi thought that Taotie wanted to harvest the calamity and devour the blood in this war, but it was still the same problem. This blood was not enough for Taotie to fill his stomach. There were more ways to get blood for cultivation.
As the war progressed, Wu Yi discovered the mystery.
The key lies in the Daji Dynasty. Small countries are indeed insignificant, but if small countries are used as pawns to pry the situation of the Daji Dynasty, Taotie's final harvest will certainly be considerable.
However, this is almost asking an ant to defeat an elephant, which is comparable to ascending to the sky. The elephant did not step on the ant to death with one foot, not because the ant is so powerful, but simply because the elephant looked at the front and did not care whether the ant under its feet got into the crack.
The difficulty of this move is proportional to the harvest. It is not such a simple thing. It can even be said that if you go against the trend and forcefully intervene, the possibility of the fruit of the Tao falling is not small.
When he first met Taotie, Taotie thought that Wu Yi and the Chaos Divine Beast were here to divide his luck. His attitude was a bit indifferent, which made Wu Yi laugh in his heart.
Wu Yi asked Taotie how to achieve victory in this ant-elephant battle. With your own magic power, you can provoke the monarch of a small country to fight to the death. However, the people of the country are not in the same mind. Many people do not want to and dare not confront the Great Ji Dynasty. What should be done?
With only two thousand people, they resisted so weakly. If they use all the power of the country, what will be the result when the Southern Army of the Great Ji Dynasty comes in a large-scale crushing?
At that time, the war was not over yet. Wu Yi pointed out that even if the battle was won, there would be many possible incidents after the war, and the possibility of regicide could not be ruled out.
Taotie confidently said to Wu Yi that with him protecting the monarch, no matter how many traitors there were, they would all die. As for how to prevent the people from rebelling against the enemy or fleeing, he ignored it.
In Taotie's mind, he still acted in the way of thinking of extraordinary people. After all, the demons had no humanity, and they would not pay attention to those "insignificant" ideas.
As long as there is a powerful person in his own camp, he can achieve a change in the war situation with his own strength.
Wu Yi wanted to tell him at that time that you can protect the country, but does the Daji Dynasty have no way to deal with it? Send an imperial envoy with an imperial edict to suppress you on the spot.
However, Taotie is destined not to listen to these words, so Wu Yi does not waste his words, and just needs to wait for Taotie to fail.
After the war, as Wu Yi expected, some people had evil thoughts. Although Taotie wiped out all these people, more people chose to flee. They fled to all corners of the country. Three people were caught and ten escaped. Even the constables who caught the escaped joined the fleeing team.
In the end, the population of Zhuanche was less than one hundredth, and even most of the guards around the monarch fled. The country was no longer a country. The prosperous place in the past was turned into a dead place, which was a pity.
If it was Wu Yi, he would never have waited until the situation deteriorated to this point, and would have united with the surrounding small countries, not to organize a coalition to fight back, because it would be meaningless anyway, but to apologize and tell the people of the world that the war launched by the King of Jin was an unjust war.
The King of Jin launched the war to gain fame, and if he gained a bad reputation, he would naturally stop. If the King of Jin stopped, those who wanted to take this opportunity to gain fame would not do this thankless task.