I quickly put my hand to my mouth: "Shh, don't make any sound, I'm here to save you!"
The women were stunned for a moment and looked at each other with a hint of suspicion in their eyes.
"You, you are not from the Shangqing sect?"
Finally, one of the women plucked up the courage and asked me boldly.
"Do you think I look like a Taoist priest from the Shangqing sect?"
I smiled faintly: "I came to Shangqing Sect Mountain Gate this time to investigate some things. I asked about a smell of blood in the Taoist temple during the day, so I sneaked in here to find out the truth."
After listening to my explanation, the women finally no longer had any doubts and knelt on the ground one after another.
"Master, please, please save us!"
"Otherwise, all of us will die in the hands of the Shangqing Sect!"
I was stunned for a moment: "What on earth is going on? Why are you locked up here?"
The young woman who asked me just now sorted out her thoughts, and then recounted their experiences in detail.
It turns out that these women were originally villagers at the foot of Shangqing Mountain, and they had been living a pastoral life without fighting against the world.
Just three months ago, some terrifying mountain ghosts suddenly appeared in the village. In the middle of the night, the mountain ghosts would wander around the village.
At first, the mountain ghosts only attacked the livestock raised by the villagers, but later, the mountain ghosts became more and more bold, and even began to break into residents' homes and attack humans.
Many young villagers have moved away from mountain villages in order to survive. Many villages at the foot of Shangqing Mountain have become empty and increasingly desolate.
Although some of them had left, there were still a huge number of remaining villagers. In desperation, everyone sent people up the mountain to ask the Shangqing government for help.
Sure enough, the Shangqing Sect sent a few Taoist priests, and after some practice, they drove away all the mountain ghosts. Since then, there have been no troubles caused by mountain ghosts in the village.
"So, the people from the Shangqing Sect have done a good thing."
Listening to the woman's story, I couldn't help but interrupt.
"Master, the people of the Shangqing Sect are all ruthless and deceitful. How can they do good things? You will know what is going on after you listen to me."
The woman's face was full of grief and anger. After a pause, she continued to talk.
After driving away the mountain ghosts, the Taoist priests of the Shangqing Sect said that those mountain ghosts may come back at any time. If the villagers want to stay safe forever, they must agree to the conditions proposed by the Shangqing Sect.
There are two main conditions proposed by the Shangqing Sect. The first is to pay tribute to the mountain gate on time. Every household must contribute most of the harvest and grain to the Shangqing Sect's mountain gate every month.
Second, families with daughters must send their daughters to Shanmen to provide logistical services to the Shangqing sect for three months.
Although the conditions proposed by the Shangqing Sect were excessive, everyone's fear of mountain ghosts was deeply rooted in their bones. In order to get the protection of the Shangqing Sect, the villagers had no choice but to agree.
The women who are now locked up are the villagers who came up from the mountain.
"Originally, we thought that when we came to Qingshan Gate, we would just cook for the Taoist priests, wash clothes, etc. But we didn't expect that as soon as we came up, we were all imprisoned and lost all contact with the outside world. "
The young woman said with fear on her face: "Every few days after that, a monster will break in, kill one of our companions in front of us, suck her blood dry, and collect all the remaining blood. Put them in those two big tanks."
"To this day, four of our companions have been killed. We are all suffering every day, and we are in panic all day long..."
After listening to the woman's story, I gradually understood what was going on.
The so-called mountain ghosts are mainly mountain spirits and wild monsters with little self-awareness. Most of them appear in some inaccessible deep mountains and old forests.
And this Shangqing Mountain is where the mountain gate of the Shangqing Sect is located. How could there be a large-scale mountain ghost?
There is no doubt that those so-called mountain ghosts should be ghosts created by the Shangqing faction themselves. They deliberately released these ghosts down the mountain to disturb the villagers, and then sent people down the mountain to drive away the mountain ghosts, directing and acting on their own.
The purpose is to force the villagers to accept the conditions they proposed!
Now, what I am most interested in is the monster the woman mentioned. What is the intention of the Shangqing sect to raise such a monster that sucks human blood?
I was about to ask about the details of the monster, when there was a pattering of footsteps outside.
"No, the monster is here again!"
As soon as the women heard this voice, they turned pale with fright and trembled all over.
"Master, please, please save us!"
More than a dozen young women knelt down and begged me. Chinese website
"Everyone, get up, I will definitely protect you."
I said in a deep voice: "Everyone, stay calm and wait and see what I'm saying."
Now these poor women have already regarded me as their only life-saving straw, so naturally they will not have the slightest doubt about my words. After listening to my words, they nodded repeatedly.
"Okay, Master, we all listen to you. We will do whatever you ask us to do!"
"Um,"
I said solemnly: "When the monster appears later, you have to pretend that nothing happened. I will find an opportunity to deal with the monster."
After giving some instructions and making sure that the women understood what I meant, I got behind the dry firewood in the corner and hid my figure.
The women came to the door and stood together, waiting for the monster to appear.
After a while, with a creak, the monster pushed open the door and walked in.
Hiding behind dry firewood and through a gap, I finally saw the true face of this so-called monster.
I saw that the monster's body was black, its eyes were bulging, its cheeks were pale, and they were bulging outwards like edema. There were dense veins all over the body, making people's scalp numb.
As soon as the monster walked in, a thick smell of corpses hit his face, even covering up the smell of blood in the room.
Although this monster looks disgusting and terrifying, I can still tell at a glance that this so-called monster is none other than Taoist Qianyang!
Thinking back to An Jingjing's judgment before, I was immediately convinced that Taoist Qianyang had really become a living dead!
The body of the living dead is originally a corpse, and Qianyang hid in the smelly ditch yesterday after being chased by us, which caused the corpse to decay faster. Thinking about it this way, everything makes sense.
While I was meditating secretly, Taoist Master Qianyang had already scanned the women one by one, and a strange red light bloomed in his dead fish-like eyes.
Without saying a word, he walked directly to the two large vats, stuck his head into one of the vats, and started drinking.
After a while, Taoist Priest Qianyang’s head stuck out. His face was already covered with blood, making him look even more hideous.
