Chapter 619

Of the original 150,000 registered civilians, only just over 70,000 Shoushen Sect believers remained.

After questioning them with psychic-type pets, Su Yang and the others finally learned the truth.

Half a month after the Shoushen Sect took Pingcang City, due to the sect's blunder, the fertile fields outside the city were ravaged across a wide area by fierce beasts.

The harvest had barely been gathered at all, and the grain originally stored within Pingcang City was never much to begin with. The Shoushen Sect members held the granaries tight and refused to release the food, and so a massive famine resulted.

They asked those believers how they had managed to survive until now.

The answer was — eating the Sacrifices!

Eating the Sacrifices of the Beast God.

Many people's faces darkened at those words.

No wonder so many people were missing!

In this world, it was actually not all that uncommon.

Three hundred years ago, when the Great Calamity descended, it happened most often.

Hounded and blocked on all sides by fierce beasts, many civilians had no choice but to swap children and eat them.

But later, after Huaxia gradually regained its footing once more, incidents of cannibalism grew fewer and fewer.

In recent years, one rarely heard of cannibalism happening at all.

The Shoushen Sect favored living Sacrifices!

Some fanatical believers, led on by the sect's members, seized innocent civilians within the city and offered them up as Sacrifices to the Beast God.

After the offering, they divided the corpses and ate them.

This forced those civilians who had originally been unwilling to join the Shoushen Sect to join it as well, every last one of them.

But once everyone inside Pingcang City had become a Shoushen Sect believer, a problem arose.

Who would be offered up as the Sacrifice?

Before long, whether it was the sect members deliberately hypnotizing them, or the believers being that mad on their own — or perhaps both!

There were "fanatical" believers willing to step forward and offer themselves as Sacrifices!

And so, Pingcang City had come to look like this.

These problems were certainly a headache, but they were not Su Yang's headache to have.

To put it bluntly, this was none of his business.

If he meddled, he'd be overstepping.

And at this moment, the large-scale legion mission — one that had taken nearly half a year, put Su Yang through untold hardships, risked his life, and cost him dearly — was finally complete!

"Ding~ Congratulations to the Host on successfully assisting the Western Military Division in crushing the western Shoushen Sect and completing the large-scale legion mission!"

"Ding~ Because of the Host's significant contribution to the large-scale legion mission, the final evaluation received is — Perfect!"