Of course I didn't understand, but Shen Li's murmur came from beside me.

"Look closely, you all have sick ......"

I frowned, and then I realized that these people who came to make offerings, whether old or young, were either wearing masks, or covering their chests, and even more, like the old woman, were coughing vigorously.

So that's what happened.

All of these people who came to offer were sick.

And when a person has a certain disease that cannot be easily treated, such as cancer, then the only thing they can do is to burn incense and worship the Buddha......

But it's too easy to make money, isn't it? Build a dojo, get some cloth flags, carve a statue, and naturally someone will send money to the door?

I didn't believe it until a woman in the crowd, after offering incense, pushed a child who looked two or three years old to the Taoist priest on the side of the wooden platform.

"Ya'er, you went to Daxian's side and became a fairychild, you must bless your mother, you must tell Daxian that your mother wants to live......"

I was dumbfounded, and Shen Li's whisper came from beside me again.

"I kind of know why there are so many children's bones buried in that flower bed, but the bureau hasn't received the alarm......

Yes! The children in the flower bed of the big tree were all brought in voluntarily by these people who came to burn incense and make offerings, so no one called the police at all!

Maybe these children don't even have a hukou, so they are sent to this dojo to be offered as so-called 'fairy children'......

"Crazy...... It's all crazy! ”

I gritted my teeth, and next to the wooden platform, the child who was pushed by the woman to the Taoist priest stared at the woman with a wooden streak, and I didn't know if it was because of the woman's words, but nodded at the woman......

A two- or three-year-old child doesn't move anything, he only knows that what his mother said is absolutely correct.

However, his own mother, because of ignorance, handed him over to the devil......

I clenched my fist, I couldn't stand it at all, but one hand touched my fist, of course, Shen Li.

"Calm down, this kid should be fine until his relatives leave the dojo."

I gritted my teeth and took a deep breath, and I managed to calm my heart, and by this time, the crowd's incense burning offerings had also ended.

The Taoist priests who moved onto the wooden platform moved the wooden platform down, and the people who burned incense and made offerings stood in a neat row.

"Reward~~"

The old Taoist on the stone platform waved the dust again, and this time, it was the Taoist priests in front of us who moved.

At this time, we were at the back of the line of Taoist priests leaning against the wall on the left side of the stone platform, and with the word 'reward' from the old Tao, the Taoist priests in front of us walked along the wall and in the dark direction behind the stone platform.

Of course, in order not to be exposed, we could only follow the Taoist priest in front of us and walk to the darkness behind the stone platform in front of us.

As I got closer, I realized that behind the stone platform, on the side of the stone carving, there was actually ...... There was a lush shade of trees!

Yes! The incomparably lush shade of the trees is on the wall next to the stone carvings behind this stone platform!

I see the shade, but I don't see the roots!

It was clear that behind the stone carving was the room of the big tree, and the shade of the tree was the shade of the tree passing through the wall in the room!

Surprised, I found that the lush shade of the tree, which passed through the wall of the big tree's room, was bearing bright red fruits.

And, at this time, under the shade of the tree, there was a Taoist priest, who picked the fruit, put it in a tray, and then handed the tray to the Taoist priest in front of us.

Until the line reached me.

I lowered my head and took the tray of fruits, fortunately, the Taoist priest who handed me the tray did not notice anything strange about me, but I took the hand of the tray and couldn't help but tremble.

The 'nutrients' of these fruits are the bones in the flowerbed of the big tree!

It was the flesh and blood of the bones that made the tree bear fruit.

And it is known that those white bones are probably the children brought by these people who burned incense and made offerings.

At this time, these Taoist priests picked the fruits of this child's flesh and blood, obviously to reward the people who came to burn incense and make offerings......

And the fruit of the flesh of their little children was raised, and they gave it to them to eat......

My heart was full of rage, and with the Taoist priest in front of us, we really came to those who burned incense and made offerings.

The neatly standing people, young and old, all stared at the bright red fruits in our tray with greedy looks......

I felt a chill in my heart, and the old Tao on the stone platform waved the dust again, and with this wave of the dust, the people in front of us snatched the bright red fruits from our tray, and held them with both hands and gnawed them.

The fruit bites through their mouths, and the juice, as bright red as the skin, trickles down the corners of their mouths like a vampire......

This is a hellish scene, I watched, thinking of the white bones in the flower bed, my stomach was churning, and then thinking of the identity of those white bones, but my heart was desolate.

Innocent children, brought to the dojo by their most trusted relatives to serve as nutrients for the tree, died in the flower beds that did not see the light of day.

Even, when they are buried in flower beds, they are not necessarily alive......

And if they are really alive, how desperate is it?

Darkness, fear, suffocation, being pushed into hell by your most trusted loved ones......

And now, when they die, they become nutrients for the tree, because the tree bears fruit, and these fruits are eaten by the 'relatives' who pushed them to the devil in the first place......

I clenched my fists and lowered my head, not daring to look at the appearance of these people gnawing on the fruit.

Isn't the bright red flesh and juice the flesh and blood of their relatives who have been abandoned by them?

Until Shen Li's voice came from beside me again.

"Toxic ......"

I was stunned for a moment, then I glanced up slightly, and just a glance, I couldn't help but tremble in my heart,

For I saw that all those who eat the flesh of the fruit are like madness.

Yes, all the people who nibble on the pulp have their mouths wide open, their eyes turned upward, and their faces are filled with extremely strange smiles.

They made a pleasant and rapid sound from their throats, and they knelt on the ground with their hands on their chests, exactly like the statue of the old fairy in the depths of the stone platform!

"Welcome to the ...... Immortals"

Everyone muttered in almost unison, and I almost understood what was going on.

These fruits are poisonous! Not ordinary poison, but poison - poison of products!

These bright red fruits contain poisonous ingredients! After eating it, these people had hallucinations! The statue of the old immortal in the depths of the stone platform is seen as an immortal apparition!

Therefore, these people believe in the dojo so much that they can even send their own children to be 'fairy children'!

And, as long as it's a drug, it's definitely an addiction.

People who are addicted to drugs, in order to get drugs, of course, are willing to do anything, and of course they will willingly offer gold and silver jewelry!

Everything is clear, the reason why this ashram was built in the center of the city is because the people who can live in the center of the city are rich and noble.

This dojo is to see that these rich and noble families are suffering from diseases, and use their thoughts to live to collect money!

This is a tragedy, and the root of all evil that caused this tragedy is, of course, this dojo!

I gritted my teeth, and the old Taoist on the high platform waved the dust again, and then, the Taoist priest on the edge next to us took the lead and walked towards the side of the wall on the high platform where we were originally standing, and we could only follow back to the wall.

The crowd under the high platform was still kneeling, and the old way on the high platform opened his mouth again.

"Chanting~~"

For a while, the Taoist priests next to us looked towards the crowd under the high platform and recited a Taoist sentence aloud, of course I can't, I can only lip-sync with my mouth open.

And this Taoist saying, as all the Taoist priests chanted aloud, gradually resonated and filled the entire cave, like an ancient bell, buzzing and echoing in my ears.

It was with this sentence that the crowd kneeling under the high platform neatly stretched out their hands and bowed heavily to the statue of the old immortal in the depths of the high platform.

I looked at it, and I thought that the poison in that fruit was really powerful, and it could maintain the hallucinatory time for such a long time.

At that moment, a hand suddenly reached out from my side, grabbed my arm and pulled it down.

I was shocked, and as I looked, I saw that all the Taoist priests beside me were already sitting cross-legged on the ground by the wall like the old immortal statue on the high platform.

Without hesitation, I quickly sat down cross-legged as well, but my heart was full of chuckles.

Because it wasn't Shen Li who pulled my arm......

Yes! It wasn't Shen Li who pulled my shoulders!

Shen Li is still behind me, and the one pulling my shoulder is the Taoist priest in front of me!

Of course, I was uneasy in my heart, all these Taoist priests sat cross-legged, as long as I didn't sit cross-legged, I would definitely be seen to be flawed, and just now the Taoist priest in front of me pulled me and reminded me that he was completely saving me.

It's just that why did he save me? He should have found out about me after seeing through me......

I looked at the Taoist priest in front of me cross-legged, only to find that the Taoist priest in front of me was also cross-legged chanting Taoist words, only frowning at me as I looked over.

Thin and deep-set eyes, thick dark circles around them, like a person who hasn't fallen asleep in a long time, and the point is, this person I have never seen at all......

What's going on?

Without waiting for me to think about it, the other hand tugged at my sleeve again, of course, Shen Li behind me.

I looked at Shen Li, and saw that Shen Li was also sitting cross-legged, but his eyes bypassed me, and he raised his eyebrows at the dark circles in front of me, with a hint of surprise and helplessness in his expression.

"You know? What's the matter? ”

I tilted my head and asked close to Shen Li's ear.

"Detective Fang Jin, I didn't expect him to get involved......"