Ouyang Tian could not make sense of it, while the train's attacks grew increasingly frenzied.
One adventurer after another was thrown into the boiler and burned.
Their screams echoed throughout the mountain range.
At that moment, many of the townspeople, who had been partying and drinking themselves senseless all night, finally noticed the changes in Howling Ridge and hurried over.
Then the centipede-like train monster suddenly underwent a second transformation!
Its long, slender body vanished.
Massive arms and powerful legs appeared.
An unprecedented Great Devil was born, a devil that perfectly matched the image people held in their minds.
Ouyang Tian suddenly understood. At the same time, he thought of something and pointed at a spot on the ground in terror. "Quick, quick, quick! Drag the Town Chief's Second Daughter away from that train!"
At that spot, Mei Guangzhan and the Town Chief's Second Daughter were tied up directly beneath the devil's buttocks.
Before everyone's eyes, the two of them were gradually turning into piles of gold.
It began at their lower bodies and slowly spread upward.
"This is the curse passed down through our family for generations. My grandfather's grandfather committed this sin. He buried the train and took away most of the gold. When members of our family get close to this monster, they turn into gold too," said the Town Chief's Second Daughter sorrowfully.
That was right. Ouyang Tian had just been wondering why the second daughter had not been attacked and why she had insisted on becoming a sacrifice herself.
The reason was that she herself was part of the monster.
Now he understood. Only by returning the gold could they dispel part of the train monster's obsession.
Its other obsession was obtaining fuel and reporting to the King.
Yet in the eyes of these townspeople,