Lord God: Times have changed

Chapter 495 Bad News Outside the City
"Ah, the forest!"

The blue waves are surging, and the branches are swaying.

In the forest, a gust of wind blew by, and it suddenly turned into a human form and fell to the ground.

Zhou Ming stretched out his hand to hold down the nearby tree, and said, "Forests in the real world are rare."

In the world of the previous life, although there was no extraordinary power, it was very free.If a person wants to leave the city and travel to the wilderness comfortably, then he really wants to go.

And in this world, although there are main gods and the extraordinary power they bring, there are also monsters, so it is very dangerous outside the city.Except for the patrolling personnel of Jin Yiwei, no one is allowed to leave the city.

Before Zhou Ming entered the main god space, he could only stay inside Xishan County and was not allowed to leave the county seat.

For more than ten years, all the eyes can see are high-rise buildings and artificial creations.A forest like the one in front of you is not allowed to exist in the city, because it is easy to breed danger.

Later, when entering the main god's space, it is often also in the reincarnation world that one can see various wild scenes.

Although I have been out of the city a few times, I have always done tasks, but I am not in the mood to enjoy the scenery.

Of course, Zhou Ming didn't want to see any scenery when he left the county this time - he just wanted to go out and have a look on a whim.

As for why he suddenly had such interest, it was because Jin Yiwei had a day off.

Recently, Xishan County has been a little too peaceful. Even the Demon Killing Department, which is in charge of daily patrols, has become idle during this period.

Plus today, it happens to be September [-]th, the Double Ninth Festival.

On this day, Sulai has the custom of calling friends and friends, and going on a high-level autumn tour, but because of monsters, this so-called high-level autumn tour goes without saying, it is impossible at all.

So this custom has disappeared for 400 years.

If it weren't for the fact that there are old people who have lived for more than 400 years, few people would know that the Double Ninth Festival still has this custom.

But hiking in autumn is not enough, it is still possible to have fun with friends.

It happened that there were no traces of monsters recently, and Jin Yiwei seemed too much, so he simply took a day off on this day.

But Zhou Ming was very unlucky, and his two friends were incorporated into the patrol team, and they will conduct daily patrols today.

As for the friends in the intelligence department... You know, the intelligence department is so terribly idle every day that they have to raise some flowers, plants, cats and dogs in the office to kill time.

Therefore, the activity of calling friends and friends on the Double Ninth Festival is actually the daily routine of the intelligence department.

It's hard to take a vacation, and you don't have to go to work. Who would hang out with the guy who looks up and down every day? Of course, it's to find other friends to connect with each other.

And except for Zhou Ming and the two newcomers... Well, they shouldn't be considered newcomers now, the others are generally in their twenties and thirties, and they all have boyfriends and girlfriends.

It's hard to take a vacation, and you can't find a boyfriend or girlfriend to spend a romantic Double Ninth Festival?
This caused Zhou Ming to be alone, so bored that he wandered around the city. When he reached the outskirts of the city, he suddenly became interested and wanted to go out of the city to have a look.

He just got the Huashu, and then directly promoted to the full level.

And in the past few days, he has also mastered this skill through time acceleration in his own exclusive cave.

Now, with just a few changes, he can turn himself into a gust of wind, easily pass through the defense of the city wall, and come out of the city.

But when he came outside the city, Zhou Ming realized that there was really nothing to see outside.

He has seen the so-called wilderness and the so-called beautiful scenery countless times in the world of reincarnation.

But there is not much difference between reality and the world of reincarnation.

"Ok?"

Zhou Ming suddenly felt something, and immediately turned into a leaf, hanging on the tree next to it, swaying with the wind.

After a while, several flying shuttles flew over from a distance, and there were a few people standing on the flying shuttles, wearing Jinyiwei battle robes, who were the ones from the Demon Slayer Department who were in charge of patrolling outside.

Daily patrols and inspections are essential. Even on a holiday like today, someone must stick to their posts.

Zhou Ming saw that the guards in Jinyi on the shuttle all had serious expressions on their faces, and their hearts sank slightly.

Could it be that a large number of signs of monster activity have been discovered?
Curious, he turned into a gust of wind, flew near the shuttle, and looked down at the panel projected from the front of the shuttle.

If the patrol team of the Demon Slaying Department finds any demonic reaction during their work, the first thing to do is not to expel it by hand, but to report it to the record.

Because no one knows how many undiscovered monsters are hidden behind that little devilish reaction.

At the same time, the corresponding information will also be sent to the maps used by other patrols, so as to avoid alarming the enemy without the knowledge of other patrols.

But now, Zhou Ming saw that on the panels projected by these flying shuttles, there was no record of the reaction of magic energy at all, and there was no sign on the map.

"I didn't find any magic energy reaction? Then why do all these people have serious faces?"

It can't be because other people have holidays and they don't have holidays, right?
Entering the patrol team of the Demon Slaying Department, one should have had such psychological preparation long ago.

Besides, it is precisely because the patrol work has never stopped, so the Demon Slaying Department is always on duty and patrolling alternately. If there is no holiday today, will you also have a holiday?

Not bad for the day.

But the members of the patrol team have all talked about professional training, and they are not the kind of guys who chat about mission information during missions. Occasionally, they talk a few words, which is also a short matter for parents, and there is no mission information at all.

But this kind of professional attitude had a great impact on Zhou Ming.

After following for a long time, I really didn't get any information.

Zhou Ming was also really bored, thinking that he had nothing to do today, so he might as well follow him till the end.

So I followed until the patrol team finished their daytime patrol and turned around to return to the county town, only to hear a word from a member of the patrol team.

"Hey, there's no reaction from any demon energy today."

It's just such a sentence, there is such a little bit of information.

But this sentence really made Zhou Ming think of something else.

Judging from the interface display on the patrol shuttle and the sentence said by the patrol member, they have been patrolling recently, and there is indeed no reaction from any demonic energy.

This is an extremely abnormal thing.

You know, a full month has passed since the last monster war.

With the pollution speed of the demonic energy, this month may not be enough to contaminate some creatures and form a sufficient scale, but it is absolutely impossible if there is not even a little reaction from the magical energy.

In a month's time, there will always be some things like snakes, insects, rats and ants, which will be contaminated with magic energy and then transform into monsters.

The key point is that if these creatures with extremely low IQs really become monsters, they will not hide their aura, and their demonic aura reaction will be extremely conspicuous.

But now, the patrol team didn't find even the slightest trace of demonic reaction.

If it was a few days or even more than ten days after that monster war, it would be considered normal for this to happen.

But one month... It's too long, it's not normal.

According to past experience, after a big monster war, there was no reaction of magic energy in the war zone of the big monster war for up to [-] days.

But the shortest one was only two days.

Now, for more than a month in Xishan County, no demonic energy reaction has been found, which has set a new record, and directly extended the record by twelve days!
The monster disappeared?
It's impossible!

On the other side of the ocean, monsters have always existed, and they have been very active recently, so on the mainland, it is impossible for monsters to disappear.

It's no wonder that these patrol members all looked dignified.

Under such circumstances, it is not a good thing not to be able to find the slightest reaction of magic energy. On the contrary, it means the calm before the storm.

The longer it takes for the magic energy reaction to disappear, the greater the possible actions on the monster's side.

How could anyone be happy in this situation?

Those who can be happy are probably ordinary people in those cities who don't know the real situation at all.

After all, in their view, monster incidents only happen once every few months.

But in fact, outside the city, the reaction of the devil can be searched every day, and the event of the monster will appear every few days.

It's just that these incidents were blocked outside that city wall, so ordinary people only heard about monster incidents once in a few months.

I heard...

That's right, even if a monster incident occurs only once in a few months, it usually only affects a very small area, and for the people in other areas, it's just a matter of hearing.

If it wasn't for a large-scale monster event or a monster war, many people might not encounter a monster event in three to five years. With luck, this time would double or triple.

"Since that's the case, I hope you can prepare for the big moves of these monsters for a while? Hey, the world I will enter next time is the 46th floor. Even if I keep skipping levels, if I want to reach the high-level combat power, I need nine worlds, more than 60 God, two months."

Taking Xishan County as a small county, the reincarnated people with more than 40 floors can already be regarded as top-notch combat power.

Even taking Zhou Ming's strength beyond the ordinary 40-layer reincarnation, it can be said that he is invincible in the county.

But if you take the entire human world as an example, the 40th floor can only be regarded as the middle-level combat power, and it must reach at least the 60th floor, or even the [-]th floor, to be considered a high-level combat power.

As for the real top combat power, it has always been under speculation.

There are gossip on the Internet, and there are all kinds of theories. Some say that it is more than 80 floors, and some say that the top powerhouses have reached the [-]th floor.

But these news are just rumors and have not been confirmed.

In the early stage of the coming of the Lord God, in order to boost morale, Zhang Sanfeng, Hongwu Emperor and other human pioneers would directly announce it every time they passed through a world.

But after the overall situation stabilized, these guys started hiding.

As human pioneers, they are at the forefront, so they don't have the intelligence support of others. After entering the world of reincarnation, they can only rely on themselves, so the probability of obtaining an S-level evaluation is pitifully small.

Without an S-level evaluation, the main god will not disclose their progress.

Therefore, people can only rely on speculation about the progress of these pioneers.

The reason why it is said that the [-]th floor and above is the high-level combat power is because the Ming Dynasty once announced that in order to motivate people and attract enough high-level combat power to stabilize the situation, one can directly enter the imperial court. The policy of being appointed as an official.

Although the titles are all kinds of false positions, after having such false positions, if you want to transfer to a real position, it is much easier than being an official honestly.

This policy is still effective until now, but with the development of the Ming Dynasty, the number of layers of the reincarnation tower required by the policy is also constantly increasing.

For example, Zhou Ming is currently a reincarnation on the 43rd floor. If it is announced, he can directly receive a vacant position above the sixth rank in the Great Ming Dynasty Hall, and get a monthly salary.

But if it was changed to 200 years ago, at the level of the 43rd floor, you can get a vacant position above the third rank.

Today, the highest standard of this policy is above seventy floors, and the treatment is extremely generous.

If a reincarnated person above the seventieth floor enters the court, they can even directly obtain the title, the kind that is hereditary for three generations!

Even reincarnators above the seventieth floor still have the risk of dying in the reincarnation world, so this kind of hereditary title treatment is really very attractive.

It is precisely because of the existence of this policy that its highest standard, that is, the seventieth level, is considered a high-level combat power.

Zhou Ming has always followed the principle of 'gou', silently being an ordinary person in the real world.

But he also felt that if he reached the seventieth floor, maybe he could go on a wave.

A ray of breeze separated from the patrol team, blowing into the streets and alleys, and emerged as a figure.

People around saw it, but no one cared.

There is such a thing as the main god's space, any reincarnated person may suddenly disappear, or suddenly appear, this phenomenon has already become the norm in people's lives, and no one will find it strange.

But they didn't know that the figure that suddenly appeared did not come out of the main god's space, but changed from a ray of breeze.

Seeing the patrol shuttles flying overhead, Zhou Ming put his hands in his pockets silently and walked to the side of the bus stop on the street.

The sky fell, and there was a tall man on it.

Although he knew that there was no such abnormal thing as the reaction of magic energy outside the city, it was really not his turn to worry about this kind of thing, a reincarnation person on the 43rd floor.

What's more, the upper management probably knew about this kind of information earlier than him, and noticed it earlier, so they naturally thought more about it.

Instead of worrying here, it's better to go back and practice more to increase your strength.

With enhanced strength, he will naturally be calm in the face of all changes.

The bus is coming slowly, and it is full of men and women. On days like the Double Ninth Festival, it is a waste to let it go by. Even though it is already evening, for them, the wonderful nightlife is just the beginning.

People who were immersed in the festival had no idea what was happening outside the city.

Zhou Ming got on the bus, just like an ordinary person who also knew nothing, was carried by this bus and returned home.

(End of this chapter)