Volume 4, Demon Crow Demon Palace_Chapter 37, Secret Passage

"Everyone must leave Raven Ridge Fort safely, and every one of our detained children must be safely out of the control of the Bone Sect, and if we can do it, we will help you sneak into Raven Ridge Fort secretly." The group of old men and women looked at me with serious faces and said.

To be honest, their demands are not excessive, and since they have the resources to send me in, it is not too much to ask for something. I can give them a guarantee against my will that when this is over, I believe that most of the hostages will be rescued without incident, and that not too many people will blame me. But looking at these old people, with the hope in their cloudy eyes, I knew I couldn't fool them.

There was silence, and everyone around me looked at me with hopeful eyes. After a while I said, "I don't want to lie to you, so I'm going to be honest with you." I can't guarantee that every hostage will leave Raven Ridge Castle safe and sound......"

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar inside and outside the house.

"If you can't guarantee it, then we can't ...... it" Before the old man could finish speaking, I took a step forward and shouted with a serious expression: "What I can guarantee is that I will use all my strength to defeat the Bone Sect and will dare to defeat them before they summon the Ancient Gods of the Gate." But I can't guarantee that every hostage is safe, but I will do my best to save people, and I will never give up if I can. Now that the secret passage to the Raven Ridge Fort is in your hands, you can not tell me. Then wait for the next true savior to come and give you a 100% promise, but that person may appear to you in ten years, maybe a hundred years, or the next second. I'm not the one who can give you 100 percent promises. ”

I'm not deceiving, at least I can't lie to this group of elderly people who want their children to come home soon.

They began to whisper and discuss. I walked to the side and lit a cigarette without saying anything more, and it seemed that a heated argument broke out, but in the end there was a result. The old man who brought me came over and looked at me and said, "To be honest, if we can, we all want to wait until someone who can save every child comes along." But we can't wait, as you say...... Maybe it will be ten or even a hundred years before that person appears, and we can't imagine how many children in the village and town will suffer, and what will become of this place. So...... We decided to help you, and although there are still some old people who don't want to believe you, I chose you. Hopefully, like you said, you can bring out the children as much as you can, they are our future. Come with me, and I'll take you to the secret passage. ”

He took a flashlight and led me from the back of the house. Walking all the way in the direction of facing away from Yaling Fort, about three or four miles in the mountains, Yaling Fort felt that it was already far away. He stopped, took the flashlight and shone it ahead, then rounded his arm and waved it three times, and soon the light of the flashlight came from the opposite woods, and he also waved it three times.

"This is our code, and there are a few old men guarding the secret passage."

We walked over, and three old men came out, smoking cigarettes, and whispered a few words to the old man in front of me, and then led us over, and several people worked together to push a large iron plate away, revealing a cave about one and a half meters high, which looked somewhat like a pipe to water in appearance.

"What is this?" I asked in surprise.

Thanks to the Hong Kong businessman who came to develop the fort, his design team found that the terrain of Yaling Fort was not conducive to drainage, so they designed a separate drainage pipe. But then he and his team were killed before the resort could start operating, and the Bone Cult was unaware of the existence of the pipe outside of the master plan. This pipe leads directly to the basement level of Yaling Fort, and the exit has been sealed by us, and the entrance here is usually covered with iron plates. I have been waiting for the savior to come before I open ...... "The so-called willows and flowers are bright and bright in another village, I feel this way at this time, I feel that the iron barrel of Yaling Fort generally has no place to sneak into, but the heavens seem to have opened a way for me again."

"I'll take you in, and you follow me." The old man walked into the pipe first with a flashlight, and I immediately followed, moving forward in the pipe one after the other.

Walking in the pipeline, I followed silently with my head down, and after walking for a while, I asked, "Uncle, what are your children like?" Tell me and I'll get her out first. ”

I want to make sure that the children of the old man's family are safe first. But he said, "No need. ”

"Uncle is fine." I spoke.

"No need, my child is dead......" His voice was melancholy and sad, and he paused me.

"My child was sacrificed alive a few years ago, she was a lovely girl, she always pestered me when I was a child, asked me to take her to the mountains to catch gnats to play, I am also the founder of this organization, if the hostages were killed, I was not a devout believer I would be killed in secret. But I pretended to be the most pious on the surface, but in fact, I had already thought in my heart that if I didn't overthrow this cult, the children of other families would be killed like my granddaughter. He spoke calmly, just a little choked in his throat.

"I remember that the Bone Cult was active here many years ago, and at that time there was not so much momentum, and the sect leader often walked around the common people. He used spells and special herbs to heal us, and even if we broke our legs, we only had to go to him for three or four days. At that time, everyone thought he was a living bodhisattva, and then he began to promote the Bone Cult, and many people followed suit. I was also one of the first people to join the Bone Cult. Later he said that he wanted us to participate in the rite of eternal life, and we were already very convinced of the Bone Cult at that time, and the first time I saw the living sacrifice still frightened me, and it was a girl they had brought from out of town who had her heart gouged out. But after they forced us to drink blood, I felt that I was more than ten years younger, my strength had increased, my body seemed to have improved, and some dark diseases had recovered. At that time, we were so stupid that we thought that the sect leader was forced to kill people for our good, and everyone agreed that we would never talk about this matter, and we must protect the sect leader. More and more people participated in the rites of eternal life, and the number of girls who brought live sacrifices from other places began to increase, and we were all the most believing believers at that time. He came to us and said that he might be targeted if he came back from looking for a girl from out of town, and that the immortality ceremony would be stopped for the sake of everyone. Everyone panicked because they had tasted the benefits of eternal life. At this time, it was proposed that a girl be sacrificed every year from several villages, and then draw lots to determine whose daughter. Although it was cruel, everyone was lucky at the time, and some people were not afraid of having boys, and finally everyone passed the decision. I still remember that the girl who was drawn in the first draw was scared and cried out to us for help, but everyone was cold, watching her being killed and drinking her blood. ”

I listened to his words and sighed in my heart, all cults will take advantage of human desires at the beginning, in fact, cults are not terrible, and the desires that human beings cannot fill are the most terrible.

"After a few years, the sect leader suddenly said that the girls who were sacrificed alive were polluted by the world and were not pure enough, so let's take the girls to the Raven Ridge Castle, and under his care, these girls will become more perfect and pure, and everyone can get more benefits. At that time, we were already in a ghost's mind, and we really sent our daughters over. The Sect Master later said that it was a great honor for the boy to be sent in and baptized in the best way and to become a servant of the old gods. So the boy was sent in, and from then on, we couldn't see our own child. At first, some people wanted to go to Yaling Fort to have a look, but they were driven back, and the boys who were sent in became very cold-blooded, and some even beat their parents with their own hands, and only obeyed the orders of the sect leader. But the good thing about the immortality ritual is that we believe in his words. My awakening began the moment I saw my granddaughter being sent up, lying on the altar in pain, desperately waving at us to save her. But at that moment, I was full of thoughts about living with her blood...... Hehe, self-inflicted......" he lowered his head and scolded himself.