"Are you going to tell me?! What on earth is the Holy Lotus Sect doing here?"
Several members of the Holy Lotus Sect were suppressed side by side. With previous lessons learned, everyone prevented the members of the Holy Lotus Sect from committing suicide and took out the poison hidden in their mouths early.
The head of the Qingyun Sect took the collected poison in his hand and handed it to Bai Song.
"Leader, look."
Bai Song is an expert in medicine, so he should take a look.
But when he thought that this was taken from those people, Bai Song immediately showed a look of disgust and waved his hands repeatedly: "Throw it away."
The head of the Qingyun Sect responded, and while throwing away the poison, he said casually: "No poison was found in the leader's mouth. These monsters from the Holy Lotus Sect are really tough, and they won't let go no matter what."
When Bai Song heard this, he laughed: "Let's start with the person who doesn't have any poison in his mouth."
Bai Song followed the head of Qingyun Sect to the man in raincoat, gently took off his bamboo hat and put it on his head.
This is a middle-aged man, with blood on the corner of his mouth, and he looks very embarrassed after being washed by the rain.
"You've been asking for so long and you still refuse to say a word? It seems like I'm going to give you something serious."
Bai Song took out a machete and gently placed it on the man's ear: "I'm not very professional in extracting confessions. I just heard that ear cutting is more popular. I'll give you a little more time to think about it. If you haven't already
Open your mouth, let's cut off an ear to test the water first, let me see how tough the people of the Holy Lotus Sect are."
"No matter who you are, don't expect to get any information about the Holy Religion from us."
"Oh, the Holy Religion...the word "lotus" has been removed. Each of you should be loyal to the Holy Religion, right?"
"Stop talking nonsense, if you want to kill, then kill!"
"Hiss... I believe the words of the men behind you, but as for you, we can only find out how loyal you are by giving it a try."
After saying that, Bai Song suddenly grabbed his ear, put a knife on it, and then slashed hard, the blade of the knife went in a little, and he heard the middle-aged man scream in pain.
"ah!"
"What's it called? It's just a little bit of skin, and it's like a slaughtered pig. If I go down another inch, won't it make a hole in the sky?"
As he said this, Bai Song tried to exert more force in his gestures.
"You...you...stop it!"
"What? You can't stand it even before you start?"
The middle-aged man calmed down and gritted his teeth and said, "If you want to kill me, then kill me!"
"You're kidding me!"
Bai Song raised his knife and threw the ear in front of the middle-aged man.
"Ah!" Another scream like a slaughtering pig echoed through the valley.
"Okay, let's do another one. The asymmetry on both sides won't look good!"
"Don't, don't...I said...I said, I give up!"
The middle-aged man collapsed to the ground with a trembling voice.
When the following Holy Lotus Sect members heard this, they immediately became excited and struggled desperately.
Bai Song said to the back: "It's enough to have one alive, and deal with the others."
During the war, Bai Song had no time to be merciful. Seeing the few people behind him fall in the rain, he coldly wiped off the rain and blood on the short knife, and then grabbed the middle-aged man's hair.
"It's really sad that a group of ordinary believers can be brave and fearless of death, but a leader has been recruited so quickly." Long Shanshan cursed and spat.
Bai Song then asked: "What are you doing here?"
"We were ordered to mine ore here."
"Mining ore?" Bai Song frowned slightly, and soon thought of the iron ore and a pallet truck that fell from above.
There is no need for this person to elaborate, Bai Song has already thought of some reasons.
The war ahead is urgent, and in a stalemate, both sides are fighting for consumption.
The Holy Lotus Sect definitely does not have the background of the Tang army. Fuling City is at the rear of the war, so it is very reasonable to mine iron ore for weapon casting.
Regarding ancient wars, the most common saying in the Bai Song Dynasty was - soldiers and horses should go ahead before food and grass are used.
This food and grass is not just for food, it can also be used for any urgently needed supplies on the battlefield.
"The Holy Lotus Sect is manufacturing weapons on a large scale?"
"Yes, yes." The middle-aged man covered his ears, fearing that he would be slow to answer.
"It seems that you have been rapidly increasing your troops recently. Do you have any specific numbers?"
"This...how do I know this?"
Bai Song's expression changed and he took out the machete again.
Seeing the scimitar, the middle-aged man became anxious: "No, no, no, I... I really don't know! The number of additional troops is a secret. The villain only knows that the superiors want us to dig thirty carts of minerals from the mountains every day.
Go to Fuling City, where craftsmen from Fuling City will then make weapons and send them to Chengdu. Within Yizhou, troops are being recruited from all over the country, and all men over ten years old must be mobilized, so now there is an urgent shortage of equipment."
"What the hell!" Long Shanshan's face turned green, "You don't want to spare a ten-year-old child? This cult is too evil!"
All the disciples are a little restless. The more they know about the Holy Lotus Sect, the deeper the anger in their hearts becomes.
Bai Song also frowned. Just listening to this description, he could imagine how chaotic Yizhou is now.
"How many more people are up there?"
Bai Song pointed to the mine tunnel above.
"There are still a hundred or so workers left. All the members of the Holy Sect...the Holy Lotus Sect have died."
"real?"
"Really! Mining skills are a trivial matter. The Holy Religion doesn't have many manpower at all. Who would have thought that we could meet a group of thieves...a surprise force here?"
"Where is the way up?"
The middle-aged man pointed to a mountain wall ahead that had not been washed away by the mudslide.
"There is a path over there, it is not damaged."
Bai Song gave Long Shanshan a wink, and Long Shanshan knowingly grabbed the middle-aged man and walked together in the direction he pointed.
Several heads who were closest to Bai Song also followed, wanting to go up to see what the so-called mine looked like.
The iron ore vein is halfway up the mountain, and the mine tunnel is dug along the mountain wall. However, the entire mountain seems to have been chewed by something. It is very dangerous along the way, lest a big rock suddenly fall above the head.
Along the mine road, large and small carts were loaded with ore and ready to go down the mountain. Some workers stood on both sides of the mine road, looking at Bai Song and his group with blank expressions as they walked towards the middle-aged man.
This mine was too dangerous, so Bai Song did not go deeper. He didn't see anyone from the Holy Lotus Sect along the way. They were probably all dead as the middle-aged man said.
"Call the workers together."
The middle-aged man nodded and immediately shouted.
The workers who didn't know why moved closer to Bai Song.
When everyone arrived, Bai Song just said loudly: "You are free, how about you go your own way? The people of the Holy Lotus Sect have been eliminated, and no one will come after you."
Bai Song's words fell into disarray without any response.
The workers looked at each other with no joy, but some panic.
"Don't panic, everyone. We are here to destroy the Holy Lotus Sect. No one will force you here. Go find your families quickly."
"No, no, no... we won't leave!" A worker backed away in fear.
Another person said one after another: "Yes, we are not leaving. It is better to stay here and mine than to go out to the battlefield and die, so we are not leaving!"