Lin Youde looked at the fox who stopped selling after making an opening remark, and waited for her to continue.

As a result, the fox was not happy: "You should cooperate with me." ”

"If you want to say it, you can say it or not." Lin Youde shrugged.

The fox "cut" and continued: "At that time, Yingzhou had not yet established a perfect screening mechanism for the gods, in fact, in that era, the screening techniques were still very primitive, even in the big cities with Yinyangliao, they might not be able to screen the newborn gods for the first time.

"However, because children with the blood of the god will unconsciously use their strength when they grow up a little, these forces will become rumors and spread widely after being witnessed, and they will easily spread to the ears of the practitioners everywhere, and then be reported to the Yin Yang Liao. After that, the Yin Yang Liao will send someone to adopt these gods. However, in the Heian period, there was a time when the person sent by the Onmyo-ryo to adopt the new Shinki did not return, and the person sent to inquire about the situation also did not return. ”

Lin Youde interjected: "I guess these people were all killed, right?" ”

"These are not the only people who have been killed," the fox said, in a ghost storytelling tone, "and the entire area where the goddess was born has been slaughtered." ”

Lin Youde said that it really unfolded like this.

The fox didn't notice Lin Youde's thoughts, and continued: "After that, the Yinyangliao asked the Fujiwara family to send a god to kill the evil ghosts, and the Fujiwara family initially sent a little girl who had not yet accumulated merit in the family, thinking that she could easily kill the evil ghosts with a knife with a spell, but she didn't expect that she would also be the same as the previous Yinyangliao people. Fujiwara Norika, the head of the Fujiwara family, was furious and personally led all the shrine maidens in the family to fight. ”

The black line on Lin Youde's forehead, Fujiwara Norika?

"Huh?" The fox seemed to finally notice the abnormality of Lin Youde's expression, "What's wrong?" Did I just say something weird? ”

Lin Youde shook his head: "It's nothing." And then he said, what happened next? ”

"Later, of course, it's the Fujiwara family army that kills the evil ghosts. In fact, the army led by the head of the Fujiwara family did not come in handy at all, and the head of the family killed the evil spirit in a heads-up. But when they fused with each other to fully defend themselves, the head of the house touched the heart of the demon. She was surprised to find that the evil ghost was actually a kind child, but the people sent by Yinyangliao killed everyone because the girl's parents and grandparents refused to give the girl to Yinyangliao.

"This kind of thing was actually quite common in that era, but when the people of Yin and Yang Liao did it, their hands and feet were not neat enough, so that the girl saw the scene of her relatives being killed, and fear and hatred corroded the girl's young heart."

"Are evil spirits actually made by people, it's really a truth that makes people unhappy." Lin Youde simply commented that in fact, he has seen a lot of such plots from the 21st century - in film and television works.

"After learning the truth, the head of the Fujiwara family decided to cover up this fact so that the world could not let the world know that the god of the Tao would become like this after being distorted, so he announced that the child had sold her soul to the evil spirits from hell, and that the slaughter was the price she paid for gaining strength." Saying that, Matsudaira Chihiro adjusted her sitting posture and looked at Lin Youde, "The same story actually exists in the West, although I don't know the inside story, but most of it is similar to what happened in Yingzhou." ”

Lin Youde leaned back on the chair, and the fingers of his right hand rhythmically tapped on the armrest of the chair.

Judging from what Matsudaira Chihiro said, the strength of the god is likely to be related to her psychological state. He once asked the fox which was stronger, she or Viola, and Viola, who was also present at the time, said "She's stronger", but the fox immediately said that Viola had a better control over the force. Until just now, Lin Youde thought it was a compliment from the fox, but now he felt that the fox might be telling the truth.

In the story of the evil ghost, the god queen turned into a demon because of the collapse of her heart, and she has a strong power, and can even kill the god with a weapon and trained with her bare hands - the so-called sword with additional spells should be the same as the Roland holy sword in the West, which belongs to the early magic weapons made by humans in the era when magic guidance techniques were not yet systematized.

But later, when he was alone with the head of the Fujiwara family, the demon was defeated. Based on the information that Lin Youde learned, Shen Ji's combat power will not obviously decay with the decay of spiritual power, but will suddenly drop significantly after the consumption of spiritual power exceeds a certain level. Therefore, the evil ghost can still fight the head of the Fujiwara family, which means that her mental power consumption has not exceeded the limit at least before and after the heads-up starts.

But the head of the Fujiwara family did not look like he was left behind.

Lin Youde pondered and pondered, and felt that there was one possibility: the evil ghost could not control his strength finely, so he was defeated by the master of the Fujiwara family, who could finely control the amount of strength, with skills. Compared with the fox and Viola, it is obvious that the fox's psychology is not as sound as Viola, whether it is the usual exaggerated performance, or the knife she once suddenly stabbed Lin Youde, it clearly shows her inner problems - perhaps because of this, the fox's strength is stronger than Viola, who is also very pure, and correspondingly, Viola's control of the strength is better.

But what the specific situation is, Lin Youde can't make judgments.

Only one thing is certain, but when Matsudaira Chihiro speaks of "the price to be paid for the acquisition of power", he is most likely referring to "a sound mind".

Seeing that Lin Youde had been pondering, the fox finally couldn't sit still, she leaned forward, and asked Lin Youde while shaking her chest: "Don't you think that this evil ghost story can find a lot of connections with this report?" ”

The fox held the report from Belgrade that he had received this morning in his right hand and shook it in front of Lin Youde.

"Unbelievably powerful forces, constant financial inflows into Belgrade, and subtle and cautious wording. After listening to my story of the evil ghost, don't you think that this 'bloodbath' is actually the embodiment of the price that someone paid for their great power? ”

Lin Youde frowned, he began to feel that the fox had a point.

"So, this goddess obtained by Serbia has already collapsed in her heart, do you mean that?"

"It doesn't have to be broken," the fox put down the report and returned to his original sitting position, "It may also have been stimulated by some kind of great stimulus, although there are not many cases in history where the Divine Queen has lost control and caused her strength to go wild, but it is not particularly rare. The most famous is probably the Battle of Thermopuest, watching the soldiers of the Peloponnesian coalition fall one by one, the Spartan god queen entered a state of rampage after the death of her brother Leonidas, beheaded two Persian gods in a row, and then died of exhaustion after frantically slaughtering 100,000 Persian troops. ”

Lin Youde thought, it seems that the strength of this Shenji is really closely related to his mental state, and at this moment, he suddenly feels that it is a wonderful move to let Pol Schrödinger's quantum physics giants study the strength of Shenji, and he will definitely get rich benefits.

Such an idea arises, probably because when Lin Youde reads the popular science works of quantum physics, he always has a peculiar feeling that "these people must be idealists among materialists".

"It looks like we should have the people in Belgrade look into this." In the end, Lin Youde made his own decision, "Let him thoroughly find out what is happening on the front line, what kind of existence is that new god in Serbia, and how high the combat power is." ”

"Actually, whether there are strange things happening in the last two points, you should check them, right?"

In response to the fox's complaint, Lin Youde nodded: "Indeed." In fact, when I received the news that the Serbs had found the goddess, I ordered the Belgrade office of the Deutsche Foreign Exchange and Investment Bank to investigate the details of the goddess. But in the past month, none of the three phase reports they have given me have been specific. ”

Lin Youde reached out and rummaged on the table, quickly took out a small folder, opened it and took out the photo clipped: "The only valuable thing is this photo, which was taken by our intelligence officer who was lurking as a reporter with a miniature camera, and before the film was developed, the Serbs also found an excuse to check our reporting station, and the developer swallowed the film in his stomach to avoid the inspection." ”

Lin Youde paused, drove the idea of "the photo in his hand was developed with film dug out of the pile of" out of his mind, and then continued: "In retrospect, it is strange that Serbs are so nervous. ”

"There must be a ghost in here." The fox said conclusively as he snatched the photo from Lin Youde's hand, "Eh, it looks quite normal, I thought she would be more hideous." Uh, white hair, did the Serbian goddess turn out to be gray haired? ”

"In the historical record, the nickname of the goddess who established the Principality of Serbia was the white wolf, and it is estimated that she was also a white-haired goddess."

"I see." The fox nodded again and again, and then returned the photo to Lin Youde, "Actually, if you want to investigate the matter of this goddess, isn't it the easiest and most direct way to send someone to her hometown, isn't it possible that your intelligence officer has been busy for a month, and he hasn't even figured out where the other party was born?" ”

"I only figured out the approximate location," Lin Youde scratched the back of his head, "but because it is difficult to send familiar faces, the investigators only arrived in Romania by train a week ago, preparing to cross the border from Romania to that mountainous area to investigate, and have not yet sent back a report." ”

"Then let's wait for the report with peace of mind." The fox jumped to the ground and stood up, walked to the cabinet where snacks were stored in the room, and said as he took the biscuits, "Actually, if she is just a god queen after her personality collapses, we don't need to worry too much, this kind of god will destroy herself even if she is left alone." So before we get more information, we might as well think about how to make a profit. ”

"When I learned that the Serbs had obtained the Divine Concubine, I had already arranged for people to prepare for war fortune."

"Oh, selling weapons? To which side to sell? The fox Kazkaz asked, chewing on a biscuit.

Lin Youde spread his hands: "This is not nonsense, of course it was sold to both sides at the same time." How can you be considered a warmonger if you don't? ”