Chu Mo nodded: "That's exactly what I mean."
"No, that's not right," Ye Qing argued. "The tree deities have existed in this world for countless years, they are true gods, and they protect all the people."
"How did your husband die?" Chu Mo suddenly asked.
Ye Qing fell silent for a long moment before saying: "The second year after I married into this place, one day he suddenly complained of a headache and then said that it felt like something was eating his body. I was terrified at the time, not knowing what had happened to him. I wanted to find someone for help, but he quickly could not hold on any longer, and then... then he died."
"Hmm, and how did those children you've seen die?" Chu Mo asked again.
Ye Qing frowned and then said, "Most of them died of sickness..."
"What sickness?"
"I don't know, even the best doctors couldn't tell what sickness they had."
