Lord God: Times have changed

Chapter 256 The Village Outside the City
In the Ministry of Slaying Demons, on the wide square, thousands of people have gathered at this moment.

Most of them are members of the Devil Slaying Department, and the remaining half are people sent by other departments to support them.

Among the crowd, the most notable ones are the three leaders.

One man and two women, they look ordinary, but there is an inexplicable attraction, which makes people feel good and admire them.

Among the five divisions of Jinyiwei, only the members of the Demon Slayer Division have team divisions.

A squad of ten people, a squadron of a hundred people, a brigade of a thousand people, and then up, that is the level of deputy ministers and ministers.

Of course, what we are talking about here is the city, county level, and the provinces above, and the country must have a higher level of establishment.

In Xishan County, the Devil Slaying Department has two brigades, each with a minister and a vice minister as the captain.

But this time the task does not require them to take action.

The three standing in front of the crowd are actually the three squadron leaders.

These three are all reincarnators from the thirtieth floor, and they belong to the elite category, and their strength is even stronger than the ordinary [-]th floor reincarnation.

With them leading the team, plus many members of the Demon Slayer Department and support members from other departments, this time the mission is not guaranteed, it is half done!

Just when Li Teng finished talking about the mission this time, all the members who participated in the mission had also assembled.

A dozen or so members of the logistics department appeared at the front of the team, each taking out different parts from their storage space and putting them together to form a circular hollow mechanical door.

"Turn on!"

A squadron leader ordered.

"Yes!"

There were five members of the logistics department standing on the five sides of the circular mechanical gate. After pressing the button at the same time, a violent energy spread from bottom to top and spread to the entire gate.

A faint blue energy covered the entire gate, and then collapsed inward, forming a space gate leading to nowhere.

Two of the three squadron leaders nodded and walked into it first. After a while, one of them came back and said, "Everything is safe, it's ok."

The last squadron leader turned to face the crowd and shouted, "Everyone, follow me in."

After all, he was the first to rush in.

Behind the crowd were many members of the Demon Slaying Department, following one by one.

Although there are more than a thousand people in this group, they are basically strong men above the tenth floor.

In less than three to five minutes, most of them have already gone.

Soon it was Zhou Ming's turn. Together with Li Teng and Han Cheng, he jumped up, came to the round gate in two steps, and walked in directly.

There is a feeling of jumping into the water and then immediately getting out of the water.

In the next instant, the scene in front of him completely changed.

With beautiful mountains and clear waters, singing birds and fragrant flowers, this is a beautiful mountain forest, and where he is now is within this forest.

Behind him, a similar circular gate stood.

A faint blue light flashed, and two or three figures rushed out following him.

Those three squadron leaders had long since disappeared. A dozen or so members of the Devil Slayer Division came out in front of Zhou Ming, and they were carefully hiding at this moment, heading in different directions.

The smart watch on his hand trembled, and Zhou Ming raised his hand to see that Jin Hua, Jin Yiwei's artificial intelligence, had issued a task to him.

Although the three squadron leaders in this mission lead the team, they are not the commanders.

It is because the real commander is someone else.

It is this artificial intelligence, Jinhua.

"Our mission location is different, but it should be similar."

Li Teng said, "Rush to the mission location immediately, and stay hidden."

Han Cheng and Zhou Ming nodded.

In fact, as Li Teng said, as support, their mission was actually the same, that is, to surround the entire mission location to prevent any missing monsters from escaping.

The mission locations of the three were adjacent, but Li Teng was in the middle, Zhou Ming and Han Cheng were on both sides.

On the other side of Zhou Ming was a member of the logistics department, who seemed to be a reincarnation of the twentieth floor.

His mission location is halfway up the mountain.

So Zhou Ming jumped on the tree, condescendingly, and directly activated the Tianzi Wangqi technique.

Looking from top to bottom, there is a village below, surrounded by two mountains, and a small river flows down from the opposite mountain to the end of the mountain here.

The village is at the junction of this river.

In fact, Zhou Ming knew something was wrong when he saw the village.

In fact, in this world, settlements at the level of villages no longer exist.

Back then when the monsters appeared and ravaged the world, the villages with few people and no defensive power were all wiped out by the monsters.

Later, human beings gained power from the main god and the world of reincarnation, and began to counterattack. They also directly built cities, and moved forward step by step, and finally regained the land completely.

At that time, only within the city was safe, and outside the city, small villages had no way of survival.

Even now, being outside the city meant danger.

The significance of villages to human society lies in land and planting, which provide food for the entire society.

However, human beings have obtained all kinds of strange grains from the reincarnation world, and built various special production bases. It is normal for the grains to be cooked twelve times a year.

As early as hundreds of years ago, the Ming Dynasty did not need the profession of farmers. All human beings had to live in cities, and the state provided all food and clothing.

Of course, it's just the most basic food and clothing. If you want to eat well, dress well and live well, you still have to work after all.

Otherwise, no one can bear three meals of white flour steamed buns a day.

In this case, the 'village' has long since disappeared.

Now if you can still see the village in the wild, there are only two possibilities.

First, the rebellion against Ming Dynasty.

Second, monsters, monsters!

These existences all have enmity with Daming, so it is naturally impossible to get close to the city, so they can only build villages outside the city.

But Daming is not a vegetarian, and after understanding the situation, it is impossible to sit idly by.

Every once in a while, the Jin Yiwei in the city will patrol outside the city. Once a village is found, it will definitely be wiped out.

However, in the recent period, the monsters have been moving frequently, and there was even a war directly at the seaside. Although the storm of the war did not reach the inland for the time being, the inland was also deeply affected.

The night patrol that Xishan County conducts every night is proof of the impact.

Under such circumstances, the patrols outside the city were naturally neglected.

As a result, a village appeared outside the city!
The village looks quite peaceful, the river flows through, and two small bridges stand upright, connecting the two sides of the village.

There are also people walking around in the village, but these people are generally blinded and confused, like walking corpses.

When Zhou Ming saw it, he knew that there were monsters and monsters hiding in the village.

Because those rebels against Daming are actually human beings.

Most of them don't understand this world at all, they are just fooled.

In that chaotic era, I don't know how many people took the opportunity to create chaos, and there were countless kinds of messy and crooked ways.

Various so-called reincarnations of gods and reincarnations of Buddhas exist, if not hundreds of thousands, there are eighty thousand.

Many people had mental breakdowns because of the monsters' misfortune, and when they were fooled by them, they simply believed them.

It is said that in the northern area, there is still an evil faction, and everyone in the faction firmly believes that monsters are monsters released by Ming Dynasty to wash the world with blood, and they are the saviors.

It's really hard for people to understand.

But no matter what kind of evil sect it is, they will not let the disciples of the sect be so muddled, like walking dead.

Only monsters, monsters will do this.

Their most common method is to take people away, use illusion to continuously hypnotize them, change their memories and thoughts, and finally make them willingly accept the magic energy.

And the village, including other environments, were specially built by them to cooperate with the illusion.

The reason why it is so troublesome is because the demons created in this way will be more loyal and have higher potential.

If it is forced, even if it is transformed into a demon, it will have a broken soul, loss of wisdom, and stagnant strength.

In the past, the monsters would not be so troublesome, they would directly transform them forcibly and serve as cannon fodder.

But now it is different. Humans are powerful, and demons, especially inland ones, are relatively rare and worth cultivating.

But don't think that the monsters are gentle just because of the current situation.

According to Jin Yiwei's information, this village should only be in the first stage of transformation by monsters.

If their illusions continue for a period of time, and they are still not enough to make humans willingly accept the transformation, then they will enter the next stage-to break the human mind!
Only then did their cruelty become apparent.

Before, Li Teng also received a real task, and the situation was similar to here, but the monsters there had already entered the second stage.

After the mission was completed, Li Teng brought a mission video back to show the members of the seventh group.

After watching that video, people can't eat anymore. They can't wait to go to the beach immediately and fight those monsters.

If there is still no result after this stage is over, they will directly forcefully instill magic energy and forcibly transform it.

Monster.

Are these two words a joke to you?

Now the village is fine, it has not yet reached the second stage, and those people in the village are still saved.

If they reach the second stage, even if they are rescued, these people will need a long period of psychological treatment before they can hope to recover.

But there is only hope.

In the jungle, a figure flickered and rushed to various places.

Within 10 minutes, the entire village was completely surrounded.

Ready to... go!
Brush brush!
Three figures flew out from three directions at the same time, and the energy accumulated in their hands blasted out at the same time, collided with the midair, and immediately formed a huge protective shield, covering the entire village.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of people rushed out and entered the village.

"Humanity!!"

A hoarse sound came out, and the river in the middle of the village suddenly burst, and a creature like a dragon emerged from it.

It has dark purple scales all over its body, and a strange black liquid flows between the gaps in the scales. The dragon's mouth is pointed and long, with sharp teeth in its mouth, its eyes are red, and there is a long blood-colored horn on its forehead that looks like a sharp sword. There are claws under it but they are extremely short, so I'm afraid they have no effect.

It stared ferociously at the three of them, with boundless killing intent revealed in a pair of blood-colored pupils.

"die!"

With a low snort, it raised its head and rushed directly towards the three of them.

Behind him, endless black air emerged from the broken river channel, and one after another, strange-looking creatures emerged from the black air, but fled in all directions.

As soon as they escaped, they ran into Jin Yiwei who were congested, and a big fight broke out immediately.

"Humans... even dare to resist food!"

A tiger-shaped monster roared and opened its mouth wide, intending to swallow a Jin Yiwei in front of it directly.

Bang!
An iron fist hit from the side, directly knocking him out.

"Tiger-shaped monster? Well, it seems that you are one of the four challenge targets!"

The person who knocked it into the air clenched his fist and said loudly.

At the side, there were two other people rushing over, but they curled their lips when they heard the words, and turned to look for other targets.

These three people are actually at the level of small captains, and they belong to the more powerful ones among all small captains.

Jin Yiwei is very cautious when facing realistic tasks, and the strength he sends out every time must far exceed the opponent.

This time, the task stated that there were four challenge targets, and dozens of teams were sent, including more than ten team leaders, whose strength could correspond to these four challenge targets.

Not to mention there are three squadron leaders.

But also because of this cautious style of acting, every time a mission is performed, there are too many monks and too few food, and many team leaders compete for so few targets.

If it is really necessary to start a fight in the battlefield, it will definitely not work, so there is such an unspoken rule of first come, first served inside the Demon Slaying Department.

The team leader just arrived first and announced that the tiger-shaped monster was his prey, so the other two team leaders, even if they were only one step away, couldn't snatch him.

It's just that there are only four challenge targets in total. If someone robs this side, if you turn around and look for other ones, you will definitely not be able to grab them.

The two captains could only find non-challenge targets in the end.

The high-level power is far superior, but the low-level power is not crushed this time.

The current situation is different from the past. Xishan County has to be patrolled all the time, and the Ministry of Slaying Demons is the main party responsible for this task. There are really not many people who can be dispatched.

This is why other departments will send people to support.

Like Li Teng's previous time, there was no other department at all, and the people from the Demon Slaying Department were all in charge.

Now, there are hundreds of Jinyiwei who went in, but the number of monsters that rushed out was not inferior at all, and even more.

I'm afraid there are eight or nine hundred.

Coupled with the fact that the Jin Yiwei still have the task of protecting the humans in the village, they also need to allocate some of their manpower, so the manpower left to face the monsters is naturally even less.

Under such circumstances, there were indeed quite a few monsters that rushed out of the encirclement of these brocade guards.

However, the three squadron leaders cooperated with each other at the very beginning and arranged a simple formation to envelop the entire village.

Although in order to prevent the monsters from being disturbed, the three of them just made a hasty move, but this formation is still not something that ordinary monsters can break.

clap clap!clap clap!
One by one, the monsters collided with the translucent blocking energy shield, using their own magic energy, minions, and various forces to attack frantically, trying to break through it.

But all this is useless.

Human beings are intelligent, have various skills, have weapons and equipment, and can cooperate with various formations.

Even if the number is not dominant in the initial situation, as time goes by, they will still kill the monsters in the end, and then free up their hands to chase and kill these monsters that are about to escape.

Especially the three people in the sky who were fighting the demonized flood dragon.

If they free their hands, they will definitely be able to kill monsters in large numbers.

At this moment, the accident increased.

A jet-black sword light suddenly appeared on the edge of the energy shield.

Under this sword light, the incomparably strong energy shield was easily separated with a crack.

The pitch-black demonic energy permeated out instantly.

　Sorry for the late update today
　　
　
(End of this chapter)