I am also waiting for the hero to usurp the throne today [Transmigration Book]

Li Jinyu and Hei Mao didn't know that two high-ranking men in the capital had already chased them over, and they were heading towards Yuanshan in the northeast.

After passing Qingshui County, which is rich in water resources, and going northeast, the rivers and lakes gradually become scarce.

Their carriage traveled all the way, and they didn't feel a drop of rain in the middle.

The further you go, the more obvious the dryness of the land is, and the lower the water level of the river on both sides of the road.

They even had a hard time finding places for the horses to drink water.

When Li Jinyu stopped to rest several times, he would sneak to the nearby fields to check the people's cultivation.

In such a severe drought, the wheat seedlings in the farmland are all looking sluggish.

Farmers have to travel long distances to carry water to the river where there is still water to irrigate the fields, or ask experienced old people to judge where there is still water underground and dig wells to fetch water.

So barely maintain the growth of crops.

Li Jinyu looked heavy and worried every day.

The black cat was lying in the carriage, looking listlessly at Li Jinyu scrambling around impatiently, and said weakly, "Forget it, what can you do now?"

Li Jinyu stopped and stared at the black cat suddenly: "Will you pray for rain?"

I heard that powerful big monsters can call wind and rain, right?

The black cat rolled its eyes: "Although I know how to cast spells, I can't use them now--I just recovered so little spiritual power, it's useless."

Li Jinyu drooped his ears in disappointment.

After a while, he suddenly cheered up again: "Then can you find groundwater?"

There are not many people who have experience in judging the location of groundwater. In many villages, they can only dig wells blindly.

The black cat gave him a surprised look: "What do you think I am?"

It's just an ordinary cat demon, not a ghost!

Li Jinyu scratched his head with his hind feet, a little irritated: "But doing nothing like this is really exhausting."

Back then when he was living in a village in Qingshui County, he was able to help the villagers drive away the tax officials.Now facing the severe drought in the world, there is nothing that can be done.

"We are just ordinary goblins, how can we still fight against heaven and earth?"

"That's not what you thought when you wanted to kill Huo Caiyu and usurp the fortune of Di Dynasty."

"Can this be the same." The black cat rolled its eyes, "If this severe drought can be reflected in someone, I will definitely go and kill him with you."

Li Jinyu wanted to say more, when he heard the black cat say impatiently, "The only thing we can do now is to rush to Yuanshan as soon as possible, replenish your spiritual power, and then return to the capital—you stop and go on the way like this how long."

Intellectually knowing what the black cat said was right, Li Jinyu scratched his ears again and gritted his teeth: "Then let's go."

But less than two days after leaving, Li Jinyu suddenly called to stop: "Wait."

"what happened again?"

"Just now, I suddenly felt terrified." The little hamster clutched his chest, stared out of the window, and murmured, "Is there something coming?"

As if to confirm Li Jinyu's words, the ears of the two monsters suddenly heard a fine sound of piercing through the air.

It seems that there is a large group of species flapping their wings and flying slowly from far to near.

Li Jinyu and the black cat looked at each other, their pupils shrank instantly, and thought of that possibility at the same time.

— Locust swarm!

They couldn't wait to rush out of the carriage and stare at the sky.

I saw black dots faintly appearing on the distant skyline; in the blink of an eye, those black dots became much larger; after a while, a large swarm of locusts swept over the sky and covered the sky!

"Locust plague!"

Li Jinyu immediately wanted to retract the carriage, but immediately it stood up again.

There are many farmlands along the road where they came. If these swarms of locusts are allowed to pass by, there will be no grass in those farmlands!

Li Jinyu's thoughts changed sharply, and he mustered up his courage. With the spiritual power he had accumulated recently, he charged fiercely into the locust swarm.

The locust's ferocious face and ferocious mouthparts made him turn pale with fright.

Even if the locusts are only vegetarian, they are comparable to the worst nightmare.

But now is not the time to be afraid.

Li Jinyu's spiritual power surged all over his body, and sparks swept out in mid-air, burning the flying locusts with a "click, click, click" sound.

The air smelled of burning protein.

The black cat saw that Li Jinyu rushed over, cursed secretly, and jumped up to intercept the group of locusts that appeared inexplicably.

The two goblins almost exhausted all their spiritual power to barely wipe out the locusts.

There were charred locust corpses all over the place. Li Jinyu and the black cat were lying on the roof of the carriage panting and motionless, not even a trace of spiritual power left.

"In this way, we won't even have the ability to go to the village to buy food in human form." The black cat turned over feebly, with its belly facing the sky, and said angrily, "Can you be less profligate."

"The locusts...are they all dead?" Li Jinyu looked up and looked around, somewhat relieved, "At least I don't have to worry about the locust plague."

"You have a pretty good idea." The black cat hit him mercilessly. "How many locusts are there? According to the records in the county annals, the real locust plagues are all over the sky, even ten years ago, I can't do anything about it."

Li Jinyu was stunned: "But why are there so few this time?"

"Maybe the locust has just started to develop?" the black cat guessed, and then frowned, "And the locust looks different from the picture I saw in the county chronicle."

Speaking of this, Li Jinyu couldn't take a break immediately, and said to the horse standing obediently in front of the carriage: "Go forward!"

After the horse ran for a while, he suddenly called to stop, and then jumped off the carriage.

The black cat was taken aback, then raised its head: "What's wrong?"

"I feel that there is something over there." Li Jinyu pricked up his ears vigilantly, looked over there intently, and said cautiously, "I'll go over and have a look."

Following his inner instinct, Li Jinyu walked forward for a while, and finally stopped in an open space.

The soil in this open space is abnormally dark red, and there is no grass around it, only some tree roots with obvious signs of being bitten.

Most notably, a dead man lay in the middle of the clearing.

This person was wearing clothes of the Central Plains style, but his face did not look like that of the Central Plains. He was lying on his back with his limbs spread out, and there were glaring traces of blood on his abdomen.

Li Jinyu stared blankly at the corpse.

There was a strong ominous evil intent emanating from this corpse, which was the source of the palpitations he felt from afar just now.

Judging by the face of this person, he seems to be from a cunning country.

He tentatively approached, enduring his fear and nausea and observed this cunning man carefully, and found that the bleeding place on his abdomen was riddled with holes, as if he had been repeatedly stabbed into a honeycomb by someone with a sharp object, or...

Many worms had come out of his belly.

Li Jinyu's heart suddenly turned cold.

He immediately thought of the locusts that appeared inexplicably just now.

Are those locusts... related to this cunning corpse?

……

Li Jinyu returned to the carriage with doubts, and briefly described what he saw with the black cat.

The black cat frowned deeply: "I don't know what's going on, do you still keep that corpse?"

"That person made me feel evil... I was afraid of some danger, so I set it on fire." Li Jinyu said honestly, "Does the locust have anything to do with that person?"

The black cat shook his head: "From my point of view, those locusts are the same as ordinary bugs. There is nothing unusual except that the color is weird."

"But I think they feel very evil, which makes me very sick." Li Jinyu scratched his ears, "Why do we feel different?"

The black cat looked at the hamster in front of him, was silent for a moment, and guessed: "Maybe it has something to do with you being Emperor Dadi."

"what?"

"You are closely related to Di Chao's national destiny. If those locusts are indeed the work of cunning people, they may have the effect of interfering with Di Chao's national destiny. Projecting on you is resistance and rejection."

Li Jinyu didn't expect it to be related: "Is there any way?"

"If there is a way, it can't be used now. What can you do now?" The black cat hit him, "Besides, such things as national luck are vain, and I only know the surface. Just wait for Di Chao's army to break through the palace of the cunning king."

"The current locust plague can't wait so long." Li Jinyu gritted his teeth, "If these locust plagues are caused by cunning people, then ordinary prevention and control methods may not be effective—let's go to Yuanshan to accumulate spiritual power."

The sudden appearance of Qiao Guo's corpse made Li Jinyu feel a strong sense of crisis, and immediately urged the black cat to leave as soon as possible.

After that, they traveled non-stop every day.

If it weren't for worrying that the horses pulling the cart would not be able to bear it, Li Jinyu even wanted to stay around day and night.

On the way, they encountered locust swarms several times, but the scale was not large.

But for the first time, the two goblins were unable to completely cull these locusts after exhausting their spiritual power. They could only watch them fly towards the fertile fields.

Although the number of these locusts is not large now, the terrible thing about the locust plague is that they can quickly gather a large number of similar locusts to form a locust cloud that covers the sky and the sun.

Li Jinyu's heart ached so much that he could hardly sleep.

Every time they encountered a locust plague, they searched around and found the body of a cunning countryman, which further confirmed Li Jinyu's guess.

These locusts are indeed related to the cunning country.

They could only burn those strange corpses with a fire, and then rushed to Yuanshan.

After traveling like this, the surrounding fields gradually decreased, and the terrain began to be uneven, turning from plains to mountains.

They came to the border in the northeast of Dadi.

From a long distance, Li Jinyu saw Yuanshan from afar.

It's just that Wangshan ran to death, and they drove for a few days before finally stopping at the foot of Yuanshan.

Yuanshan was a place for worshiping heaven in the former dynasty, but it was basically abandoned in the Di dynasty, so that weeds were overgrown here, and the bluestone brick road that used to be bright and tiled was now weathered and corroded.

Walking on the barren official road, the trees on both sides are lush and green, and the birds are flying in the mountains.

Li Jinyu and the black cat got out of the carriage and looked up at the towering mountains on the most northeast border of Dichao.

They see more of nature than ordinary people, and they can see the faint divine light lingering around the dark tower on the highest mountain.

"There is not much luck left from the previous dynasty..." The black cat estimated, then shook his head, "Let's go."

If the carriage could not go up, most of the mountain road had been destroyed, so they had no choice but to climb up by themselves.

Yuanshan is the highest mountain range in Dichao. It has been left unattended for many years, and the road in the mountains is even more difficult.

No matter how fast Li Jinyu's little hamster was, its legs were too short, so it stopped quickly: "This is not possible, it is too slow."

The black cat said without hesitation: "I won't carry you on my back."

"You're not much faster than me, and you can't fly..." At this point, Li Jinyu's eyes lit up, and he focused on the tits parked on the tree over there.

……

The Heaven Sacrifice Pagoda was built with the best materials, the best craftsmen, and the longest time of patience in the previous dynasty. It is hoped that the pagoda will continue to prosper like a dynasty in the future.

Now the regime of the Di Dynasty has been stable in the Central Plains for a hundred years, and the name of the previous dynasty has been dispersed like the wind, leaving only this tower of offering sacrifices to heaven standing here silently.

The top of the pagoda is an open-air altar, with the howling mountain wind, you can feel a strong chill even at noon, and the tiles are covered with layers of frost.

Looking from a distance, there are only a few unweathered wooden tables and a huge square tripod on the wide altar.

Because it is too high, birds will not fly to such a high position on weekdays-there is no food on it, so why waste energy?

It's just that today, two birds had to guzzle their wings and fly upwards desperately, just to send the two plague gods behind them up.

Li Jinyu fell from the tit's back and lay on the cold ground, shivering uncontrollably.

So cold.

He turned his head and wanted to thank the chickadee that sent him up, but he saw that the chickadee flapped its wings and fled without hesitation, without giving him a look.

Li Jinyu: "..."

The black cat is relatively big, and although the tit carrying it is stronger than the previous one, its speed is much slower. As soon as it flew to the top of the tower, it couldn't wait to turn over and throw the black cat off, and then "whoosh" It flew away and disappeared.

While rubbing his paws, Li Jinyu approached the black cat: "It's so cold, how can I absorb luck?"

The black cat breathed a sigh of relief and shivered: "Go to the middle of the altar first—"

In the middle of the altar is a huge bronze square tripod with a cover.

Li Jinyu leaned over and touched the Fang Ding curiously.

"Clang!"

Suddenly, a huge roar of gold and iron sounded from the top of the tower, startling the two goblins.

I saw the cover of the altar square tripod that was originally covered with a layer of frost suddenly rolled to the ground, knocking out white marks on the ground.

Then a lazy voice sounded: "Where is the little fairy, disturbing the old man to take a nap?"

Li Jinyu and the black cat stared wide-eyed at a disheveled Taoist sitting up from the cauldron.

The Taoist robe on that Taoist was tattered and looked like it would shatter at any moment; although he called himself an "Old Taoist", his face was unexpectedly young, he looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, younger than the human form of a black cat.

He was still yawning, rubbing his eyes, his eyes flicked over the black cat, and then fell on Li Jinyu, frowning slightly: "You little demon, how can you have the imperial aura of Ziwei?"

Just as Li Jinyu was about to speak, he saw the Taoist wave his hand: "Don't talk, I'll figure it out myself as an old Taoist."

He counted with his left hand, then switched to his right hand, and then muttered, "That's not right, it looks like you are all descended from alien stars, and the trajectory of fate should not exist...Why do you have the emperor's life?"

"I actually..."

"Could it be that you took away the current emperor and stole his national fortune?" The Taoist's expression suddenly became serious, and he shouted sharply, "Dare to steal my Damang national fortune, take a trick from my old way!"

Li Jinyu was startled. Just as he was about to hide, he saw the Taoist pause for a moment, scratched his head and looked at the sky, "Hey, the Mang Dynasty has died? What year is it now?"

"It is……"

"Don't tell the old man, the old man will figure it out himself!"

Hearing this, the black cat couldn't bear it anymore, and cursed: "You are a dead Taoist who is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. !"

Li Jinyu glanced at the black cat with some anxiety, and asked in a low voice, "Is it okay to say so?"

It seems that this Taoist is still a person who came down from the previous dynasty. Will they be beaten if they want to absorb the national fortune of the previous dynasty?

The black cat replied to him in a low voice: "Mang Dynasty is going forward, no problem."

Li Jinyu: "..."

How dare this Taoist actually sleep through two dynasties? !And it's still in this cauldron?Didn't you wake him up when you sacrificed to heaven?

The Taoist was not angry at being yelled at by the black cat. Instead, he was stunned for a moment, touched his head again, pinched his fingers, and suddenly realized: "It's really... God, the old Taoist has been asleep for so long..."

A Taoist who can live for such a long time is definitely not a small character.

Li Jinyu said politely: "This Taoist priest, although I look like a goblin, I am indeed the emperor of the world today. This time I came to sacrifice to the Tower of Heaven, because I want to absorb the fate of the previous dynasty and deal with the conspiracy of the cunning country."

"The cunning country hasn't died yet?" The Taoist was taken aback, and exclaimed, "Could this court be a monster dynasty?"

"I'm a bit special." Li Jinyu briefly explained the situation between him and Emperor Jingchang.

"So that's it." The Taoist jumped out of the tripod, looked at Li Jinyu, and scratched his chin a little, "Well, you can push the old Tao's cauldron cover away, it seems that you are destined for the old Tao... the old Tao can help you .”

Li Jinyu was overjoyed immediately: "The Taoist priest is serious?"

Neither he nor the black cat have high levels of cultivation. Seeing that this Taoist has survived two dynasties, he must have rich experience and can definitely help!

"You don't have to thank me." The Taoist waved his hand, then suddenly reached out, picked up Li Jinyu, and looked at him suspiciously, "I always feel that you have an old-fashioned aura... But the old man doesn't remember raising mice?"

Li Jinyu endured it, but he still couldn't, and emphasized: "I'm a hamster!"

"It's almost the same." The Taoist put him down perfunctorily, "For the sake of our fate, the old Taoist will help you do the fortune telling."

He stood up straight, looked up at the blue sky, his fingers shook, and then froze.

After a while, he suddenly put down his hand, a trace of surprise appeared on his young face: "It's amazing, there are such crazy people?"

"what happened?"

"Your current dynasty...is called the Di Dynasty? Are you attacking the cunning country?"

Li Jinyu didn't know why, so he nodded: "Yes."

The last time he heard the battle report, it was said that Huo Caijin had already approached the palace of the cunning king, and the destruction of the cunning kingdom was not far away.

"Presumably the current king of the Cunning Kingdom is a crazy gambler." The Taoist clicked his tongue in amazement, "He actually wanted to directly use the luck of the country to collide with Di Dynasty."

Li Jinyu didn't understand at all.

The Taoist patiently explained: "The cunning kingdom is inherited from the ancient mythical beast cunning—well, even though you only took the remains of cunning—you have mastered many weird methods, including the use of national fortune. This time, the national fortune of your Di dynasty is unprecedented. It has risen so high that it has even approached the cunning country, and in order to completely wipe it out, the cunning country wants to put all their eggs in one basket and use the country's fortune to earn a little life."

Li Jinyu still didn't understand: "What do you mean?"

"The specific performance..." The Taoist scratched his head inexplicably, not knowing how to explain, "As the emperor of the Di Dynasty, you must be closely related to the fate of the country. Have you felt sudden heart palpitations recently?"

Li Jinyu recalled it for a while, and his expression became serious: "Yes."

After he confirmed his relationship with Huo Caiyu, he suddenly had a violent heart palpitation, and then he changed into his original shape.

"That's it. At that time, the cunning country officially launched a magic circle against the Di Dynasty." The Taoist explained, "What method should the cunning country use to use their state operations as an 'arrow' to rush into the Central Plains, and then use these With 'Arrow' as the center, it diffuses and erodes the air transport in the hinterland of the Central Plains."

Although there was no basis, Li Jinyu quickly thought of the locusts that appeared inexplicably and the strange dead bodies of the cunning people.

"The cunning people use their national fortune to cultivate locust plagues?" Li Jinyu murmured, "Is this also possible?"

"A plague of locusts..." The Taoist raised his eyebrows, "It's a good plan."

Agriculture is the root of the rise and fall of the Central Plains, and all dynasties have paid attention to grain production.

If the Cunning Country really set off a plague of locusts in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the Di Dynasty might not be able to recover in the next two or three years, and the troops attacking the Cunning Country would inevitably retreat, which would indeed bring them a sliver of life.

"However, this method of consuming the country's luck is extremely sinister. Even if the country is cunning, its own country's luck will be almost exhausted." The Taoist added sympathetically, shaking his head and sighing, "If they don't do this, they might still be able to retain their luck. To make a comeback in the future; now..."

Li Jinyu doesn't care about the future of the cunning country, he only cares about the food for so many people this year.

"Daozhang, can you tell me how to crack it?"

"It's easy to break it..." The Taoist pouted, "As the emperor, you are connected to the fortune of the Di Dynasty, so you can go back head-on."

This method is too simple and violent, Li Jinyu was a little worried: "Will it harm Di Chao?"

"There is a little bit more, but it will only affect the frontline battle damage, food production reduction and so on."

"These are already important."

"If you don't want to part with Di Dynasty's national fortune..." The Taoist slapped his head, "By the way, didn't you come to absorb the previous dynasty's national fortune. Just use those."

Li Jinyu froze for a moment.

In fact, he didn't make his debut as a goblin for a long time, and he only took advantage of the identity that Emperor Jingchang gave him to transform into a human form, and because of insufficient spiritual power, the time to transform into a human form was very limited.

Originally, he had hoped that the remnants of the previous national fortune here would fill him with some spiritual energy—at least he could keep him and Huo Caiyu together normally, be able to go to the early court, and take care of the government...

But if all this luck is used to fight against the cunning country, will he always maintain the form of this hamster?

Does Huo Caiyu like him as an emperor, or him as a hamster spirit?

Li Jinyu's expression dimmed for a moment.

But in just a blink of an eye, his eyes became firm again.

Can Huo Caiyu always stand by his side as he once promised, even if he knows that he is a goblin, let alone, now that he is the emperor of the Di Dynasty, he has been entrusted by Emperor Jingchang to save the people of Li and the common people. He is duty bound.

"How to do?"