He hadn't been captured and dragged inside. He had retreated two li away.
For a cautious player, voluntarily answering such an ominous summons was one of the most unacceptable things he could do. Who knew what danger was hidden inside that coffin?
At that moment, he even considered going back to find his tool person and have him scout ahead. But then he remembered that the only tool person in this game seemed to be Cheng Shi...
Forget it. Whatever was hidden inside the coffin couldn't possibly be more "dangerous" than Cheng Shi.
After all, he was a Fire Keeper who wanted to set himself ablaze.
So Cheng Shi changed his approach. After thinking for a moment, he randomly picked several lucky victims from the houses nearby while the sky was still dark, woke them up, and threw them into the pit.
The Folly believers weren't fools. Anyone who saw the scene before them would know that the villain who had disturbed their sweet dreams had come for the secrets of the statue!
This villain had actually dared to dig up the statue's foundation and defile the purity of their faith. Someone like him deserved to be hacked into mincemeat beneath the statue as penance!
So the enraged Folly believers raised the scalpels in their hands and glared viciously at the instigator before them. Again and again, the blades hacked into...
Their own bodies.
They had carved themselves into mincemeat.
There was only one reason: as the saying went, they weren't fools.
Between being tortured and being killed, the former was clearly the wiser choice.
They could only choose to be tortured—and to endure it calmly at that—because they knew that only by satisfying the villain's twisted desires might they have a sliver of hope of survival.
Thus, before dawn,