Chapter 5: The Cult of the Dragon
Ji Wu, who was in a daze, opened his eyes from a coma, and found that his eyes were covered by a black cloth, his mouth was still sifted with sackcloth, and his hands and feet were bound by thick ropes and could not move.
From the senses outside the body, I realized that I should be in a carriage, and the carriage was moving very fast, and the road was still a little bumpy, because Ji Wu's butt was sore.
Where is this taking me? Uncle? Uncle is still in the inn. Ji Wu was puzzled countless times in his heart, he wanted to shout but couldn't shout, and Ji Wu, who choked on the damn burlap bag, was about to suffocate.
The carriage stopped a few times along the way, and each time it stopped, something was thrown into the carriage, and after a while the carriage stopped again.
"Grandma's, these little things are so heavy!"
Then "bang!" threw another thing into the carriage, and this time Ji Wu's hand touched it.
It seemed to be a human foot, and this time Ji Wu couldn't face all this calmly, and in a panic, he banged his head on the wooden board of the carriage and made a "Hmm... Hmm...!"
"Brother Monkey, it seems that a child has woken up?" a thick voice came from outside the carriage.
"What's it called! I can't make out it?'s coming to church soon, leave him alone!" said a man with a round voice, seemingly impatient.
Ji Wu used all the strength he could struggle, the carriage was still on the road again, and Ji Wu could only hear the sound of the horse's hooves now "click and click" and move quickly.
After another quarter of an hour, the carriage came to a slow stop, no one spoke, and everything was so quiet.
Suddenly, the sound of "know!", the car door was opened, and Ji Wu did not see a trace of sunlight, and it was still dark in front of him.
Judging by the sound, someone was carrying something in the carriage, and before he had time to think about it, he was grabbed by the shoulder, Ji Wu moved desperately, but was hit in the neck by this person, and then Ji Wu passed out.
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After opening his eyes, Ji Wu found that he was locked in an iron cage, and there were many children his size around the iron cage, most of these children cowered and hid in the corner, some were still crying, but none of them dared to make a sound.
"How about this group of dead soldiers?" said a middle-aged man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, grinning as he stood by the iron cage.
"Iron Monkey! You are really getting more and more unruly, some children seem to have just turned six or seven years old, and you dare to bring them to the sect? If the sect leader knows, I think it will be difficult for you to get out of the Dragon Sect!" Another man had a full beard, a square face, and was eight feet tall, dressed in a black robe, and had a short knife straddling his waist.
When the sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked middle-aged man heard the square-faced man say this, he smiled and said:
"Ren Protector, you don't know anything, in order to find these dead people, I ran all over the country town, these children just ate a little poorly, they are not tall or strong, they can make up for it later, they can make up for it"
Saying that he could make up for it, the monkey-cheeked man secretly handed a bag to the square-faced man.
The square-faced man looked left and right, gently took the bag that could be mended, weighed it, and said to the monkey-cheeked man:
"Iron monkey, you are also sensible, I have the final say on whether you can make up for it in the later stage, hurry up and roll for Lao Tzu, things are rotten in the stomach, once the news leaks, don't want your monkey brain."
The iron monkey hurriedly said yes, and quickly left, as for where to leave, Ji Wu only knew that he walked to the right and disappeared.
"Ahem, ahem!" a thick voice came from the square-faced man's throat.
The sound was so loud that the children in the iron cage looked at the square-faced man nervously, and some of them cried out directly.
"I'll cry again, and I'll throw you into the mountains to feed the wolves!" said the square-faced man, who roared viciously at the crying child.
It's okay to scare ordinary children with this sentence, but it's still a little worse for a child like Ji Wu who catches sea snakes since childhood.
"You have remembered it for me! This is the Dragon Sect! I am your Dharma Protector Sect! If anyone is disobedient, I will be the first to catch you and throw you into the mountains to feed the wolves! This is a dungeon, no one will come to save you, you just need to obediently obey the order, and you will survive!"
The square-faced man finished these words in one breath, and then shouted: "Open the meal"
As soon as this sentence came out, four women dressed as servants appeared out of nowhere in the dungeon, each of them holding a basket in his hand, and the basket was full of white-flour steamed buns, and the servants did not come to the iron cage, but placed the steamed buns on the ground carefully.
Then after the servants left, the square-faced man looked at the children in the iron cage and said, "If you want to eat food, you have to fight for it!" The iron cage will automatically open after half an hour, and it is your business whether to eat or not!"
The square-faced man glared viciously at the child who was still wiping his nose in the corner and turned to leave.
Sure enough, half an hour later.
"I know, I know!" The iron fence in front of the iron cage slowly rose up, and the moment the iron fence rose up, Ji Wu moved.
Ji Wu quickly ran out of the iron cage and took the lead in getting a steamed bun on the ground, stuffing it into his mouth first, and then taking another one in each hand.
Some of the children saw that Ji Wudu had already eaten outside, so they immediately went out to grab the steamed buns, and the remaining children found that there were not many steamed buns on the ground, so they also ran up to grab them, and a small number of children had been hiding in the corners of the iron cage trembling, obviously not waking up from fear.
Especially the child who was glared at by the square-faced man was already so frightened that his little face turned white at this time, and he was crying again and again.
"Give!" Ji Wu, who had already returned to the iron cage at some point, handed the steamed bun in his hand to the child who was still crying.
The child looked at the steamed bun that Ji Wu handed him, took it carefully, and hurriedly opened his mouth to stuff it into his mouth, as if he had been hungry for a long time.
"What's your name?" said Ji Wu, looking at his weak figure.
"I, my name is Wang Ye. The child named Wang Ye whispered and nibbled on two mouthfuls of steamed buns again, staring at Ji Wu.
Ji Wu stuffed another steamed bun into Wang Ye's arms and said, "Keep this for tomorrow to eat, you can only escape when you have the strength, my name is Ji Yu'er!"
When Wang also heard Ji Wu's words, he just started to want to say something.
"Return to the cage! Release the dog!" the voice of the square-faced man came from outside the dungeon this time, echoing erratically inside the dungeon.
As soon as the words fell, the sound of "Zhizhi, Zhizhi" was heard again, the first was the children's iron cage fence closing from top to bottom, and the second was the sound of the depths of the dungeon.
"Wang, evil, Wang!" I saw three vicious dogs bigger than children come out of the depths, and the two black pupils stared at the children who were still lingering and turned a little green.
The smart children outside the iron cage immediately hurriedly ran back to the iron cage, and those who were far away from the iron cage were naturally bound to have a bad luck.
The three vicious dogs had flattened their bellies indicating that they had not eaten for a long time, and when they saw the children in the dungeon running up like crazy, they immediately gnawed over a child who was still stunned outside the cage, and the two vicious dogs next to them also went over to bite and tear the child whose name had stopped.
It was the first time Ji Wu had seen such a bloody scene, his hands tightly grasped the closed iron cage fence, and there was no way to watch the three vicious dogs slowly eat the two children outside as a delicacy.
Most of the uncompetitive children in the iron cage were so frightened that they cried on the spot when they saw it, and some of them were directly scared and silent, and even Ji Wu's swarthy face had two more lines of tears.
This feeling of helplessness made Ji Wu afraid, and Ji Wu, who was helpless, had no choice but to secretly shrink to the edge of the iron cage, and tears fell silently, and Ji Wu's body slowly began to tremble.
With a "bang", something seemed to fall out of Ji Wu's arms.