Not only were these civilians wearing ragged clothes, but very few of them had shoes on their feet. They were struggling to walk on the ground with bare feet in the winter, and all of them were injured, and blood was still oozing from the wounds of several of them.
Chai Jiangcui suddenly remembered at this moment that he had met a living person named Zhang Danian in the inn, and from the information revealed by his conversation with the ghost, it seemed that there were still survivors living in this ghost town?
"These damn ghosts actually insulted my human race like this."
Seeing the pitiful mortals in front of him, anger rose in Zhou Wenqing's eyes. He rolled up his sleeves and went to save people, but was stopped by Chai Jiangcui.
"Brother Zhou, please don't be impulsive. If you go over to rescue people now, you won't have anywhere to send them away. Instead, you'll just scare them away.
These ghosts are obviously trying to drive these living people to another place, we might as well follow them and have a look, maybe we can gain something different."
Hearing this, Zhou Wenqing also calmed down slightly, and he nodded apologetically,
"What Miss Yanyun said makes sense, but I didn't think carefully."
Zhou Wenqing knew that Chai Jiangcui didn't want to reveal her name in front of the monks of the Jinhong Sword Sect, so he simply followed her and called her Yanyun.
After the idea was finalized, everyone kept silent and carefully followed the ghosts escorting the mortals.
As we get closer and closer to Caishikou, the number of escort teams we encounter on the road gradually increases. Often four or five escort teams can be seen on one street.
However, Chai Jiangcui was still wary of these mortals. When the ghosts in Hongling City transformed into ordinary people, not even her divine sense could detect them.
They had no way of knowing how many of these escorted mortals were real living people and how many were transformed into ghosts.
Soon, Hongling City Caishikou appeared in front of everyone.
Caishikou is usually a place used by various cities to behead prisoners. In order to facilitate the people to watch, during planning, a large open space is usually left here.
It's just that there is a wooden platform set up in the open space of Caishikou. The ghosts are standing in rows under the platform, and the platform is full of surviving mortals. Behind these people, there are zombies holding tiger-head swords.
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Next to the wooden high platform, where the officials were supervising the execution, stood eight ghost generals, three in the early stage, four in the middle stage, and two in the late stage. Among them, Liu Sanniang, who had fought against Chai Jiangcui, was among them.
Looking at the number of mortals on the stage, one of the ghosts jumped into the air and shouted loudly:
"All the living people in Hongling City will be beheaded in a quarter of an hour. You guys from the four sword-wielding sects, don't you claim to be righteous? Now, whether these mortals live or die, the choice is left to you.
As long as you come out within a quarter of an hour, we will let these mortals go. If you don't come out after a quarter of an hour, then we will kill a hundred people every half hour until we kill them all."
The voice of the corpse ghost general was like a loud bell, and the huge sound waves brought out echoes. His voice was enough for the monks of the four sects hiding in every corner of the city to hear it.
"Trouble, these ghosts are planning to use the lives of these mortals to force us to show up."
Looking at the scene in front of her, Chai Jiangcui frowned. Although the behavior of the ghosts was shameless, it was very effective.
To practice as a monk on the right path, you not only need to understand the great ways of heaven and earth and draw spiritual energy into your body, but you must also abide by the moral principles in your heart.
Violating one's original intention will cause the mind to become restless and difficult to enter samadhi, while focusing on breeding inner demons will lead to the danger of physical and spiritual death.
Therefore, this move against ghosts will definitely attract all the people from the four sword sects.
"Despicable, these ghosts are so evil. Aren't they afraid of disasters and divine punishment?"
Just as Chai Jiangcui expected, the ghost's move made everyone behind him filled with indignation. They all wished they could rush forward to kill evil and destroy evil and uphold justice.
"Oh, these ghosts are so confident, I'm afraid they have other ways to avoid divine punishment!"
Compared to the passionate impulsiveness of the younger generation, Meng Zhen, an old man in the spiritual world, appears to be much more rational. He sighed leisurely and said:
"The only solution for now is to find people from the other three factions and discuss countermeasures together."
To be honest, it is quite difficult to find people from the other three sects now, because everyone hides very well. The ghost generals cannot find them, and they themselves will most likely not be able to find them either.
However, what Meng Zhen said was actually largely to appease the younger generations and give them hope and not to act foolishly and impulsively.
"Let's go and take a look around."
Chai Jiangcui raised his hand and made a gesture, and the group of people slowly retreated. They walked around the Caishikou and searched carefully.
But at this moment, the place was full of ghosts for investigation. It was very difficult for them to search carefully. After half a circle, no one was found, and a quarter of an hour had passed.
Looking at the sky, the corpse ghost general stood up again,
"Okay! Since the time has come, the execution will begin now! Watch out, you guys from the four sword-wielding factions. These mortals died because of you. I gave you a chance."
After the corpse ghosts finished speaking, the ghosts who had been waiting for a long time pulled out a hundred living people from the squatting crowd. Among these people were children, the elderly, and women and children.
The moment they were selected by the ghost, some people cried and struggled, begging the ghost to let them go. Some people looked numb, as if they had looked down on life and death. Some people loudly cursed the monks of the four sword-holding sects, hating them for their incompetence and allowing themselves and others to be slaughtered by evil spirits.
Instead of taking action to save people. All kinds of things.
Looking at the mortals pulled out of the execution ground, Chai Jiangcui felt a little tight in his chest. The ghosts in the audience looked at the living people on the stage, just like hungry wolves looking at slaughtered lambs. The tribe was humiliated, but as a monk, he did nothing.
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"Fairy Yanyun, shall we rescue people?"
Meng Zhen turned his attention to Chai Jiangcui. Now as long as he gives the order, he will have the confidence to rush forward and fight the ghost to the end.
hold on!
Chai Jiangcui's reason told her that she must wait, but she could not say this sentence and could only remain silent and look into the distance.
One of the tall zombies grabbed an old man's hair and pushed him to the ground. The old man was unsteady due to the huge force and stumbled to his knees.
"Jie Jie——"
The zombie let out a piercing laugh, raised the ghost-headed sword and slashed at the old man's neck.
Swish——
The hot blood spattered out, melting the white snow on the stage, like blooming plum blossoms.
"continue!"
The corpse ghost general glanced at the corpse indifferently, and ordered loudly, this time, ten of them should be killed at the same time.
Seeing the death of the old man, many mortals were frightened to the point of peeing. The sound of crying and cursing resounded over the entire Caishikou.