Falsifying history is good business

"Calm down and speak slowly; you are talking about the problem in your world, not a certain country, or the international situation?" Lin You frowned and asked Xili for confirmation; although he had once told the young Xili as a joke like "Don't involve me when you get into trouble in the future", but when the time came, he had to at least ask clearly.

After recognizing Lin You, Xili's initial joy quickly turned into anxiety: "Who cares about the international situation? If we can't defeat the invading demon god, there may not be many humans left on the entire continent, so how can there be a country?"

"Are you talking about the Wild Hunt when you say the invasion of the demons?" Lin You asked again. Ciri had been entangled with the Wild Hunt for the first half of her life. She was captured by the Wild Hunt and sent to the Elf King in the early years, and was almost used as a "breeding" object.

"It's not the Wild Hunt. The Wild Hunt encountered the demon's subordinates and were slaughtered several times. Now they dare not appear on the mainland." Ciri became more and more anxious as she spoke, and she also found that she was getting more and more confused. "Ah, anyway, it was Dandelion who asked me to come; he said that only you can help us drive out the demon's invasion."

The last sentence is the most important, and it also made Lin You really start to take Xili's request for help seriously.

Dandelion was once just an insignificant bard, but now he is the supreme god of destiny in the demon hunter world, and it was the writer himself who awakened his divinity.

"What else did Dandelion say? Where did those demons come from? Take your time and tell me one thing at a time."

Ciri said anxiously: "But Dandelion asked me to find you as soon as possible and bring you back."

"Time flows at different speeds in different worlds. You should have already discovered this. Being a little earlier or later here won't have much impact on the time we return." Lin You comforted him, "I have to know more information so that I know what preparations to make."

Lin You's words gradually calmed Ciri down. After calming down, she told the story again in a more organized way than before: "Those demons came to our world through the intersection of the celestial spheres. The exact time is unclear, but they were first discovered half a year ago. Two dwarf villages living in the south of Mahakam were massacred. At first we thought it was done by the army of some country, because ordinary bandits are not so powerful, and Nilfgaard and the Northern Allied Forces gathered in large numbers on both sides of the Yaruga River. Large-scale bandit gangs had already fled... Do you know those places?"

"I know. The last time I went to your world, I traveled from north to south, almost across the entire continent." Lin You nodded briskly, quickly flipping through the continental map of the Witcher world in his memory, and comparing the several places mentioned by Ciri one by one.

Ciri continued, "People soon discovered something was wrong, because the nearby areas gradually began to spread the legend of giant wild wolves eating people. It was also said that those wild wolves were domesticated, because woodcutters saw strong wild men riding on the backs of those giant wolves. Those wild men carried weapons such as short hammers in their hands, shouted incomprehensible words, and were rough, ugly, and very scary."

"Wild men riding wolves, with the ability to forge metal, and using short hammer weapons?" It didn't take Lin You too long to determine that such a group had never appeared in the story of The Witcher.

Ciri nodded and said, "Later, as time went by, there were more and more similar rumors. Finally, these wild men appeared in groups and rushed out of Mount Mahakam. It was not until this time that people discovered that these wild men were a complete army, with officers and soldiers, and wolves were their mounts. They had hundreds of cavalrymen riding wolves, and at least two thousand infantrymen. After coming out of the mountains, they killed both northerners and southerners, and defeated several armies in one go."

"Since the armies from the north and south are gathering at the Yaruga River, there must be at least 200,000 of them, right? A few thousand soldiers should be able to be wiped out quickly - and then something unexpected happened?"

"Yes... Such a strange army suddenly appeared. Both the North and the South chose to temporarily cease fire and deal with the new enemy first. However, after the battle, they found that this army was not any known intelligent creature. They were more like beasts and had no common language with humans - no, it should be said that they had no common language with any intelligent race. And every once in a while, new reinforcements would appear in the Mahakam Mountains."

At this point, Ciri was a little emotional. It was obvious that the strange army had done something that she could not accept. However, she calmed down well and continued. "Later, Dandelion came and told us that a celestial sphere intersection time and space rift appeared in the Mahakam Mountains. This army came from another world. The time and space rift would open every once in a while, and each time it opened, it would bring a large number of reinforcements to the other side. Now, they have established a foothold at the southern end of the Mahakam Mountains and have even begun to build castles on the roads in and out of the mountains."

Lin You felt strange, because until this moment, he did not think that the situation would be serious enough to endanger the entire demon hunter world. He asked, "An army that suddenly appeared because of the celestial conjunction, and is equally hostile to both the north and the south; why do I feel that this is a good thing for the situation on the continent? Maybe it can make all countries and races temporarily put aside their prejudices and self-interests and join hands to deal with the invaders together."

"They did join forces, but they couldn't win. That army was supported by evil forces, and southern Mahakam has been contaminated by evil. Although the coalition forces are powerful, they can't defeat their opponents in this evil land." Ciri's eyes were a little dull, as if she was recalling something. "Dandelion said that unless the source of evil behind the other side is defeated or expelled, the other side will continue to spread like a virus until it completely contaminates the entire continent."

"What else did Dandelion say?"

"Well, let me think... He asked me to tell you that he had met the source of evil, whose name was Sauron. He also said..." Ciri tried to recall, "'This is a change that involves the root of the world. Your gods refuse to intervene. Only Blaise de Forest has the ability to intervene in changes of such a scale.' These are the words that Dandelion asked me to tell you - what did he mean? When he said these words, he seemed to have become a completely different person, not at all like the Dandelion I knew; I even suspected that he was a shapeshifter in disguise."

Lin You no longer had time to answer Ciri's questions, because the news that Dandelion conveyed to Ciri was too shocking.

The source of evil named Sauron, the army riding giant wolves and beasts, and the identity of the mysterious invaders are about to be revealed.

However, what Lin You cared about most was the original words that were conveyed at the end.

As the incarnation of the Supreme God of Destiny in the Demon Hunter world, Dandelion's characterization of Sauron's invasion is extremely serious: "It involves changes in the roots of the world", which means that this incident is very likely to affect the attribute changes of the Demon Hunter world.

As for "the gods refuse to intervene", it is also easy to understand. That is, the gods of the big world - especially the God who is the specific executor of the big world plan are unwilling to intervene in the changes in the demon hunter world.

why?

Is it because he was busy mediating the disputes among the Norse gods? Or is it simply because the Demon Hunter world has adopted a unique way of integration and has not completely become a part of the big world, so God is indifferent?

Was Lin You’s name mentioned directly at the end because of his identity as the writer?

Or is he intentionally reminding Lin You that he also carries a part of the power of destiny from the demon hunter world, and therefore bears some responsibility for this world?

Lin You, who couldn't figure it out for a moment, reached out to Xili and said, "Let's go. Use your power to take me there." (End of this chapter)