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When Zheng Yu left, a blue rain fell again.
The cold blue rain carried a dense demonic aura. Under the influence of the darkness, the demonic aura was like a hundred ghosts walking at night, wantonly trampling on the unstable Shen Du.
The rain became heavier and heavier. When they returned to Xi Old City and arrived at the old temple street, they suddenly saw the old residents of the town holding up some kind of oil lantern and walking in the rain. From afar, it looked like a long snake of light was winding around this old town.
Zheng Yu heard the reprimands and curses.
This made Zheng Yu a little puzzled. When he walked to the bridge at the end of the street, he saw a group of townspeople holding oil lanterns surrounding a woman. That woman was tied up with a rope full of talismans and tied to a flagpole.
Zheng Yu looked over and was surprised to find that the person who was caught was River Lady!
"Dig her heart out, dig her heart out!" A merchant angrily scolded.
"I was wondering why our Xi Lao City had people dying one after another. It turned out that their souls were sucked away by this demonic woman. How hateful!"
"I knew that this woman was not a good person, but I didn't expect her to be a demon!" A woman scolded.
River Lady's emerald green eyes were particularly obvious at this moment, and some scales similar to that of a flood python gradually appeared on her skin, especially her ears, which were different from ordinary people.
"What happened?" Zheng Yu asked the woman who scolded just now.
"You still don't know, this woman is a demon. For so many years, she has been hiding among us. Who knows how many men's souls have been sucked away. The eldest son of the Zhou family, the young son of the rice merchant, and those young men who disappeared in the middle of the night. It was all because they went to drink at her place and suddenly something happened to them." The woman said.
"Who discovered that she is a demon?" Zheng Yu asked.
"Old Xu, the rice seller, said that this woman has been brewing wine for so many years, but he has never seen her buy rice from him. Her wine may be made with human blood. If you drink her wine, you will be bewitched!" The woman said very seriously.
"Whether the wine is wine or not, won't the people who drink it know?" Zheng Yu said.
"We don't know either. Anyway, she's a demon and she's harming people. Hurry up and burn her to death," the woman continued.
Zheng Yu frowned. His gaze swept across the agitated townsfolk, and he noticed that each of them was tainted with an evil aura!
This evil energy caused them to feel uneasy, causing them to lose their rationality. Just like the ancient people who did not know about natural disasters, they foolishly relied on living sacrifices to appease the angry heavens.
This was especially true for Old Man Xu, who was selling rice. He had the heaviest evil aura.
He Nu's eyes were red. She saw Zheng Yu in the crowd and looked at him with a pleading look, hoping that he could save her.
However, Zheng Yu did not immediately stand up for her.
For more than ten years, River Girl had been running her wine shop like a normal woman. How could she be seen through when she was away for a short while?
Clearly, this wasn't a simple matter of being seen through. Instead, the God of Evil Wish was making things difficult for him once again.
Hong Mo wanted everyone he had come into contact with to die!
Hong Mo was helpless against gods like Zhu Minglang and himself, so he had purposely targeted the weak people around him!
He had bewitched and fooled the people. Those that he had caught on to had no choice but to submit themselves to his whims.
"Since she's a demon, and you're all ordinary people, we should be careful. I'll ask someone to lock her up," Zheng Yu said to the townsfolk.
"That won't do, we're still waiting to use her heart as an ingredient. My husband is still in a coma!"
"Yeah, if we take her heart and grind it with the herbs, we won't get night sores anymore!"
"Let's kill her now!"
"Kill her now!"
The evil aura had infected the townsfolk's emotions. Most importantly, the evil aura was not the only source of the evil aura. They were in great pain after being tortured by the darkness. They needed to kill River Girl to comfort themselves.
Zheng Yu knew it was not possible to eliminate the evil aura in their hearts with magic, but with persuasion and guidance.
"Everyone, listen to me …" Zheng Yu was about to persuade the townsfolk.
"You've been stopping us. Could it be that you're in cahoots with this River Lady?" At this moment, the grain merchant, Old Xu, questioned fiercely.
Zheng Yu stared at the rice merchant. The rice merchant's face was covered in a layer of black fog that ordinary people could not see. However, the black fog showed the outline of another face. This face in the black fog was smiling at Zheng Yu.
Zheng Yu frowned.
No wonder the townsfolk were so agitated. They were so determined to kill River Girl.
The merchant had been possessed by the God of Evil Wishes, Hong Mo. He had blended into the crowd and started sowing discord among the townsfolk.
"That's right, young man, you're not normal. Everyone wants to kill a demon as soon as they see her. Why are you still speaking up for her?" the woman questioned.
"Since she's a demon, she must have some terrifying magic. We're all mortals, so it's better to be careful. I'm just worried about everyone," Zheng Yu knew he could not side with River Girl openly.
She was a demon, after all.
It did not matter if she was a demon that harmed people or not. Under the oppressive atmosphere of the night, the townsfolk were eager to get rid of her, so the townsfolk could regain their peace.
"She's severely injured from harming people. She doesn't have any magic left. Let's dig her heart out," the merchant possessed by Hong Mo said.
After saying this, Mi Shang looked at Zheng Yu with a provocative and sarcastic smile.
It was as if he was telling Zheng Yu, "I would like to see how you're going to save her life!"
"Crap! Patriarch Zhou, there's a gap in the dam upstream. The water is flowing up. The fields are all flooded. Our Old Creek City might be flooded too! " An old man who was guarding the dam came running over and said to an elder in the crowd while panting heavily.
The elder was wearing a long robe. He was wearing a bamboo hat to block the rain. He glanced at the man and snapped, "Can't you just open the dam and release the water? Is there a need to come all the way here and tell me about it?"
"But the dam can't be opened!"
"How is that possible? Can't you use more force? Call more people!" Patriarch Zhou said.
Zheng Yu glanced at the situation of the rain.
The rain was very heavy, thus it was easy for the water to rise. However, it was strange that the fields were flooded in such a short period of time.
"The situation of the dam is more important. Let's go and take a look," Zheng Yu said to Patriarch Zhou.
"Yeah, let's go and take a look," the merchant possessed by Hong Mo, Old Xu, said.
Zheng Yu glanced at Old Xu. He did not object?
What was this guy up to!?
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