Amid the tearful complaints of the townspeople, Fang Zheng and his group learned what had happened here.
This had originally been an ordinary little town where everyone lived and worked in peace. But two or three years ago, strange things suddenly began happening. The hunters brought back less and less game from the mountains, and even the well water dwindled considerably. At the time, everyone thought it was merely a temporary hardship and did not take it too seriously.
But after some time had passed, the situation only grew worse. Not only could they no longer find any game in the mountains, even the wells had run dry. Now everyone was truly panicking. Without water, how could they survive?
As if that were not bad enough, while the townspeople were still agonizing over how to find water, the town began to be haunted! Female ghosts would appear in the town at night, and whenever they showed up, someone would die afterward. The townspeople were furious and terrified, yet helpless against these ghosts. They could only find ways to obtain Curse Talismans, divine statues, and such to place in their homes.
But those things were useless. The situation continued to deteriorate, and now those female ghosts had even begun coming out during the day to attack people!
"Didn't you find anyone to get rid of the demons?"
After listening to the townspeople's overlapping explanations, Lin Yueru frowned and asked curiously. At her words, the town mayor sitting before her slapped his thigh excitedly.
"How could we not? We pooled our money several times and hired people to seek out eminent monks and Daoist masters. We did manage to hire a few, but none of them ever came back down after going up the mountain! Meanwhile, those monsters only grew more rampant.