Although there will be villagers guarding the temple of the rainy king, they will only patrol the vicinity and will not enter the temple at night, so Li Peng plans to stay quietly inside for the night.

After Li Peng entered the temple, he could only see a tall figure in the center of the temple by the faint moonlight, and he guessed that it was the statue of the Rainy King.

Li Peng had seen the statue of the Rainy King before, and the statue of the Rainy King was dark green all over its body, with a big swollen lump on its head, like the head of a birthday star, and the statue had a bloody mouth painted on its face, but it had no nose or eyes.

Before the drought, he could not have imagined that the villagers would worship such things, but it had been several years, and he and the rest of the county had become accustomed to the belief of the Rain King.

Li Peng first bowed to the statue of the Rainy Heavenly King, and then found a remote corner to sit down in the dark; Li Peng originally wanted to sit there all night, but it may be that he did not rest well during the day, and in addition to this dim environment, he was about to fall asleep unconsciously.

But just as Li Peng was about to fall asleep, his hand touched something next to him, and this touch directly frightened him into spirits, because he felt that he had touched a person's head.

Is there a dead man in this temple? Li Peng thought that he couldn't care about any gambling appointments, so he got up and ran.

"Save Me ....."

Just as Li Peng fled to the gate of the temple, a faint cry for help suddenly came from behind him, which made him stop, and this sound indicated that the person was still alive.

Since he was not a dead man or a ghost, Li Peng became bold again, he opened the doors and windows of the temple, and the moonlight shone in, and he was surprised to find that there were four children lying on the ground.

The four children, both male and female, were tied with ropes, and it was a little girl who made the sound just now, while the other children had their eyes closed, and it seemed that only the little girl was still awake, Li Peng hurriedly stepped forward to help her untie the rope and asked:

"Kid, are you alright?"

"Hungry ....."

The girl cried out weakly that she was hungry, it seemed that she had not eaten for a long time, but fortunately Li Peng still had a few flatbreads and a kettle with him, so he first fed the girl water, and then tore a flatbread little by little and fed it to the girl.

After the girl's face was better, Li Peng gave her the rest of the flatbread and asked her to eat it herself, and then he checked the condition of the other children, and found that the children were still angry, but fainted from hunger.

Li Peng helped the remaining children untie the ropes, because he was afraid that they would choke when they were fed water and food, so Li Peng had to pour water on their faces and wet their lips first.

Li Peng asked them why they were in this place, and the little girl said that she had fled with her parents from other places and came here, and the other children were the same.

In order to survive, their parents sold them to the villagers here, and during the first time they sold here, the villagers treated them very well and fed them every day.

But just three days ago, the villagers suddenly tied them up and threw them in this temple, saying that they would sacrifice them to the Rainy King, and in this way, they were tied up here and did not eat for several days.

Villagers want to make a living sacrifice? After hearing this, Li Peng only had this idea in his heart, and there were rumors in the county that there was a village that sacrificed a living person to the Rainy Heavenly King, but the people in the county didn't care, they just listened to it as a story, and they didn't expect it to be true.

Thinking of this, Li Peng immediately wanted to leave with these children and return to the county town to report to the official, he first carried the two children, these two children had been hungry for a long time, and their weight was not large, he did not have much effort to carry them, and the little girl was able to walk on her own, so she let her help the last child to walk.

Li Peng asked the little girl to follow him, and he cautiously walked to the door, although he had been practicing martial arts for many years and had no problem dealing with a few village guards, but he was afraid of making a move and attracting the whole village to come, so that no matter how high his martial arts hall was, he would not be able to run away.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Peng went out, he ran into a person, he wanted to do it, but found that the person was drunk and delirious, and when he looked again, Li Peng recognized that the person was Chen Jiu, a villager in the village, and Chen Jiu shouted that he wanted to enter the temple to eat the tribute of the Rainy King, and he also wanted to pee on the statue of the Rainy King.

Li Peng didn't care about him, and left here directly with those children, and he didn't meet any other villagers on the way, and went out of Shuicun smoothly.

Coo-coo

Listening to Li Peng talk about this, Zhang Tude's stomach actually growled, he felt hungry, this is a good thing, he has not felt like this for several days, Li Peng saw this and looked outside the door, the food has not yet been delivered, he had no choice but to say to Zhang Tude:

"Brother Tude, it's not a meal now, if you cook it now, it may take a little longer, I'll urge them."

After Li Peng finished speaking, he got up to leave, but was stopped by Zhang Tude:

"Brother Li, it's okay, I'll wait a little longer, you can continue."

Li Peng continued to talk about the rest of the matter, and after leaving Xiangshui Village, Li Peng rushed to the Juxian side, and when he was halfway there, a child on his back suddenly woke up, and as soon as the child opened his eyes, he vomited all over his body, and he vomited all black water, and he choked on the vomiting of the natives.

Li Peng had no choice but to put the child down first, and then help the child spit out all the contents of his mouth, and at this moment, a person rushed out of the grove next to him, and without saying a word, he took a big knife and slashed at Li Peng and the children.

Fortunately, Li Peng had been on guard all the time, and he was a practicing family, so he successfully dodged the knife, and at the moment of dodging, he clearly saw that the person's eyes were red.

This reminded Li Peng of the group of red-eyed weirdos who had attacked passers-by recently, and before he could think about it, the stranger's knife slashed at the little girl next to him, Li Peng hurriedly pushed the little girl away, and he was slashed by the stranger, but fortunately, he was fast, and only cut the skin, otherwise the whole hand would have to be cut off.

Although Li Peng's martial arts were very good, he had no weapons in his hands, and he had to protect those children, so he was soon beaten back again and again by strange people, and he also had several wounds on his body.

Just when Li Peng was about to be hacked to death by the strange man, a cold light flashed, and the strange man's head fell to the ground, and I saw a strong man in black wearing a hat and an unusually tall figure appear behind the red-eyed strange man.

The strong man was armed with a sharp sword, and it was with this sword that he cut off the head of the stranger, Li Peng had heard a group of dart masters say that they had fought with several red-eyed strangers when they were carrying darts a few days ago, but the final result was that they had killed and wounded many brothers, so they had to escape with their things.

According to those dart masters, their swords slashed into the body of the red-eyed monster as if it had been cut into iron, and the gang of monsters was simply invulnerable, and the strong man in front of him was able to cut off the monster's head like cutting tofu, which shows that the sword in his hand is definitely not mortal.

The figure is unusually tall, and there is that sword, hearing this, the first thing Zhang Tude thought of was Zheng Li, who practiced the martial arts of the soldiers, could it be him? Zhang Tude asked Li Peng:

"What does that strong man look like?"

"I don't remember exactly, I looked at the weirdo after he fell, but I was frightened by him just by one look, his eyes were even more terrible than the red eyes of the weirdo.

I don't know how to describe it, but as soon as I saw his eyes, I felt like the man was suddenly going to turn into a demon and kill me.

But it was just my hallucination, the man just looked at me and the children and left, and when I came back to my senses, he was gone, and I couldn't move from the injuries on my body, so I had to desperately call for help, but fortunately, I met Master Pure Heart soon after. ”

"It doesn't seem to be Zheng Li."

Zhang Tude secretly said in his heart, although Zheng Li practiced the martial arts of the military family, he could help someone like him who was suspected of being an evil cultivator, not to mention an injured person and a child, that person should not be Zheng Li, maybe someone from another military family.