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"Want to know?" The yellow-robed Taoist sneered and held the talisman paper in his palm: "Ask Lord Yama—!"
A muffled growl came from the bushes.
Ghosts are also called little ghosts. After transforming little ghosts into ghosts through special rituals, they can erase their self-consciousness and be controlled by Taoism. In essence, they are no different from enslaving zombies. One is a living thing and the other is a dead thing.
Four ghosts came howling and killing from all directions. The young man clasped Junzi's sword with five fingers, and the hostility in his eyes flashed away, but seeing the sword light flying, he walked sideways, and an ordinary iron seemed to have spirituality. A sword shot across the sky, killing the three demon ghosts at the same time, and trampling the remaining one under his feet. The young man indifferently stabbed the sword into the back of the demon ghost's head, and the sound of struggling disappeared.
The young Taoist was almost frightened and almost fell down.
The talisman paper in the hands of the yellow-robed Taoist priest burned into a ball of ashes. A look of fear flashed in his eyes, and then turned fierce. On the buttocks of the young Taoist priest, he was pushed and rushed forward.
The yellow-robed Taoist priest closed the gate of the General Temple without looking back, put the latch on it, picked up his luggage, cursed bad luck, heard the screams coming from outside the gate, he ignored it, looked around, and found There was a dog hole on a wall of the General Temple. He struggled a few times, gritted his teeth and lowered his body, and slipped through the dog hole, but just now he poked his head out halfway, but his body was stuck in the dog hole because of his obesity. In the cave, you can't advance or retreat.
His face turned pale, and he heard the dull knocking sound from the rear door, and he struggled even harder.
At this time, a shadow enveloped his head.
"Hey? Where's the dog?"
Su Bai looked at the yellow-robed Taoist priest curiously, he almost vomited blood out of anger.
"Little devil! You widen your eyes a bit, and save Daoist Master me, there will be a reward!"
The yellow-robed Taoist yelled fiercely, and he could hear the cracking sound of the door panel behind him.
"Oh, look carefully, it's not a dog." Su Bai said thoughtfully, "It's a beast."
"You stinky brat!" The yellow-robed Taoist struggled harder.
"You have a better attitude." Su Bai looked at him condescendingly: "Explain the matter clearly, maybe I can help you, otherwise the hunk behind will show you how to tear a living person with your hands."
"Are you in the same group?" The yellow-robed Taoist priest had a very ugly expression on his face.
"That's not true." Su Bai thought for a while: "He suddenly killed me and ruined my plan in advance, so as long as you cooperate, it's not impossible for me to let you go. It depends on whether you are willing..."
The yellow-robed Taoist swallowed a mouthful of spit, and the sound of cracking wooden boards from behind became louder and louder, because it was easier to panic because he couldn't see it.
"What do you want to know?"
"Why are you arresting so many underage girls?" Su Bai raised his first finger: "Are you going to sell it to a brothel, or..."
"It's a sacrifice." The Taoist gritted his teeth and said, "It's a sacrifice to sacrifice to the river god."
"River god?" Su Bai rubbed his chin: "What river god? He's actually a lolicon?"
"It's a river god, but it's not... It's a man-eating monster. It was sealed by my Taoist patriarch hundreds of years ago, but the seal has been loosened in recent years, so sacrifices are needed to appease it. But for more than 20 years, it The appetite is getting bigger and bigger. In the past, the sacrifices were directly selected from the village, but after a long time, there are no sacrifices suitable for the age in the village." The yellow-robed Taoist's expression was full of cold sweat, and he spoke very fast, spitting and flying : "We have no choice but to catch it from the outside! We used to buy it from human traffickers, but this year the human trafficker was arrested by the government, and we have no choice..."
The rear door panel has been kicked open.
He yelled in cold sweat, "I've said it all, get me out quickly!"
"Okay." Su Bai nodded, and then watched helplessly as he was dragged back to the General's Temple.
"You don't keep your word, you don't keep your word!" The yellow-robed Taoist yelled miserably.
"People who are stupid can't blame the society." Su Bai said the most reasonable words, walked around from the back of the general temple, and walked back to the front door. At this time, candles were lit in the general temple, and the yellow-robed Taoist priest was beaten into a pig's head and hung on the wall. On one side, the young Taoist priest sat tremblingly on the ground.
The young knight on the other side was wiping his sword.
"What's your name?" Su Bai took the initiative to say hello.
"Bei Luo." The young man put the Junzi sword back into the scabbard, folded his hands on his chest, stared at Su Bai, raised his brows slightly, as if he was examining something.
"Don't look, I am indeed human." Su Bai emphasized: "A man, a straight man of steel."
"Ordinary teenagers wouldn't have the guts to enter the mountain in the middle of the night." Bei Luo said calmly.
"That's right, I'm awesome." Su Bai put his hips on his hips and smiled proudly: "Although I'm not an ordinary boy, at least I'm not your enemy."
"Are you here for these two too?" Bei Luo glanced sideways at the two Taoist priests, "Is it also because someone is missing?"
"Yes." Su Bai nodded, and he said, "I followed the other party's remaining traces all the way. I planned to follow behind to have a look, but I didn't expect you to kill him directly. There is no way not to disturb the other party. Follow the vine to find the melon."
"Someone has been caught, thinking of rescuing them is the right way, who can follow the vines..." Bei Luo looked stern.
"Treating the symptoms but not the root cause, if you don't deal with the root cause, if you save this year, next year, the year after, and the year after that?" Su Bai spread his hands: "It's a good idea for the young hero of Beiluo to save people first, but it's only by being patient that you can trace the source. But don’t chase the end.”
Bei Luo remained silent.
"...You don't seem to be such a warm-hearted person." Su Bai read something from this silence: "It seems that someone has been arrested, and you are so anxious. Originally, you only wanted to rescue him. I haven't thought about anything deeper."
"My master told me to protect one person, but before I arrived, the other party had already left, and then disappeared. I think he was arrested by this group of people." Bei Luo didn't hide anything, and asked after answering: "I I thought it was just simple Taoist priests using demons to harm civilians, but after hearing what you said, it seems that it is not as simple as a simple human trafficking?"
"They arrest people for sacrifices." Su Bai glanced at the young Taoist priest: "You can try to intimidate them."
Seeing Bei Luo looking over, the young Taoist hurriedly backed away: "It's true, it's true! They were all taken back as sacrifices! That's what masters and uncles say! I'm just a The handyman, the others don't know, don't know!"
Bei Luo frowned: "In today's age, there are still people holding living sacrifices?"
"It's not surprising that the world is so big." Su Bai showed a nostalgic look on his face: "I think back then, there were people who ate human blood steamed buns, thinking that it could cure diseases..."
"Pedantic!" Bei Luo scolded angrily, and the young Taoist shivered again in fright. He asked coldly, "Where are all the arrested people?"
"I, I don't know. I'm a handyman, and I don't know Taoism. The brothers are responsible for it!" The young Taoist pointed to the yellow robe and said in a panic, "I really don't know where he is."
Su Bai walked around the young man a few times, and he stood behind him: "You don't know anything, it seems that the arrested person has another transportation route, right?"
"Yes, it should be..."