Chapter 361 The hidden operation begins!
“Line up, everyone line up!”

“The one over there, I’m looking at you, you’re already the third in line!”

Outside Changxi County, a simple shed was set up with several spring benches placed side by side, and large barrels piled on top.

The big buckets were filled with rice porridge. Although there was more water than porridge, there were still several big buckets, weighing several hundred kilograms.

Zhao Guanxiang stood in the shed, holding a large spoon in his hand, and started yelling at the refugees queuing in front of him.

As refugees came forward one by one, he served them rice porridge while he could not help but complain: “What on earth am I doing here?”

Since that night, he has never seen the father and son of the Li family again, because he followed the servants of the Li Mansion and went out of the city to help the victims in the past few days, and never returned to the Li Mansion.

Zhao Guanxiang could never have imagined that the Li family, who had secretly joined the Salvation Church, actually had a heart that loved charity.

This charity shed was built with funds from the Li family. During this year of famine, they actually donated grain to help the people, so they can be considered a family that has accumulated virtue.

Zhao Guanxiang was busy until the afternoon, and all the rice porridge in several large buckets had been emptied.

“Don’t wait in line, today’s relief has ended. Please come early tomorrow, please come early tomorrow!”

He brought over several large wooden barrels, displayed the clean barrel bodies to the refugees in front of him, and shouted loudly.

The refugees immediately started to complain, but they had no choice but to disperse.

Zhao Guanxiang was carrying a large bucket and was about to go to the back to clean it when he suddenly felt something in his heart and couldn’t help but look to the side.

Beside him, the maid Xiaomei appeared like a ghost, without making any sound.

“Master Li asks you to return home.”

The maid Xiaomei spoke dully and then walked towards the direction of the Li family.

Zhao Guanxiang threw the wooden barrel aside, stood up and followed her to Li’s house.

He walked behind Xiaomei and couldn’t help but look at this “Blood Bodhisattva”.

This Blood Bodhisattva is obviously very different from the one in my adoptive father’s hand. Perhaps the person behind the scenes who refined this Blood Bodhisattva has more advanced skills, and was able to allow the Blood Bodhisattva to retain some rationality and be able to simply respond to the master’s orders to a certain extent.

Even so, the Blood Bodhisattva is still no longer a human being. She has no emotions and no memories.

Zhao Guanxiang made many attempts and found that he could only tell her to do some simple things, but it was impossible to get the inside story of the Salvation Church from her.

……

“Master, are you looking for me?”

In the lobby of Li’s mansion, Zhao Guanxiang met Li Yu.

Li Yu was sitting in the hall drinking tea. After Zhao Guanxiang came forward to pay his respects, he nodded slightly and put down the teacup: “These few days, I heard from the servants in the mansion that you did a good job.”

“Master.” Zhao Guanxiang stepped forward, bowed and asked, “I have a question, but I don’t know if I should ask it.”

“You said.”

“A few days ago, I heard others complaining that the Li family had used up all their surplus food in providing relief to the disaster victims. I heard that the head of the family spent a lot of money to buy food from other friendly families and also provided relief. Why is that?”

Li Yu twisted his beard and sighed, “A family that accumulates good will surely have good fortune; a family that accumulates evil will surely have disaster… There is no need to ask so many questions when doing good things. Now that Jingzhou is in disaster, we should save as many people as possible.”

Zhao Guanxiang glanced at Li Yu secretly and actually saw compassion in the old man’s eyes.

This… surprised him a little.

He asked cautiously, “But isn’t it the Savior Church that caused Jingzhou to become like this?”

Li Yu looked at him strangely: “What does this have to do with the church? Isn’t it a drought?”

Zhao Guanxiang began to understand a little bit.

It seems that although Li Yu has joined the Salvation Church, he is probably just a peripheral member and is not even aware of the Jingzhou massacre.

On the other hand, judging from Li Yu’s reaction, the Salvation Church’s deceptive methods did not completely make people lose their minds, but only made people believe in something involuntarily.

For example…belief in the “Mother of Life”.

He firmly believes in the doctrine of the Salvation Church and believes that the great catastrophe of world destruction will eventually come. Only by giving up the physical body and purifying the soul can one enter the Pure Land.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary believers of the Salvation Church, they are doing good deeds and trying to save as many people as possible before the apocalypse comes.

No wonder the Savior Church in Jingzhou is so difficult to wipe out. Most of the time, these Savior Church members are just ordinary people.

Zhao Guanxiang only felt that his understanding of the Salvation Church had deepened.

“I have asked someone to prepare a new set of clothes for you. Go and wash yourself. The emissary will come to pick you up tonight.”

Li Yu told Zhao Guanxiang, “You should do whatever the envoy says. Do you understand?”

Zhao Guanxiang nodded and said, “Master, I understand.”

“Go down and have a good rest.”

“Yes.”

……

As the night deepened, dark clouds obscured the moon.

In the backyard of the Li family, Zhao Guanxiang had already finished washing and changed into new clothes.

“The Li family is really generous. This fabric is really good.”

He looked down at his clothes and muttered to himself.

If it weren’t for the fact that the Li family had joined the Salvation Church, Zhao Guanxiang would even think that the Li family was pretty good.

Just then, there was a noise outside the yard.

Zhao Guanxiang hurriedly picked up the human skin on the table, then put it back on his face and fiddled with it in front of the mirror for a while.

After a moment, his expression had changed drastically, from Zhao Guanxiang back to “Xie Changan”.

“Changan, Changan!”

Outside the house, the voice of Li Wenzhong, the young master of the Li family, was heard.

“coming!”

Zhao Guanxiang responded from inside the house, then pushed the door open and went out, and saw Li Wenzhong waiting in the yard with a lantern.

Li Wenzhong held up the lantern and urged, “Follow me quickly, don’t keep the envoy waiting for too long.”

Without waiting for Zhao Guanxiang to answer, he walked out of the yard first.

Zhao Guanxiang had no choice but to take a few quick steps and follow him.

“Young Patriarch, why don’t you go and tell the old Patriarch?”

“Don’t waste your time. Just go.”

Li Wenzhong said something impatiently, and then quickened his pace.

It was obvious that he was afraid that if he was a little slow, he would offend the envoy sent by the Salvation Church.

Zhao Guanxiang was a little worried. He didn’t know how powerful the envoy of the Salvation Church was. Would his disguise be seen through?
The most important thing is, can the other party see that he is not controlled by the Blood Bodhisattva?

But at this point he couldn’t back down and could only wait and see.

Li Wenzhong led Zhao Guanxiang and left through the back door next to the kitchen instead of going to the main gate of Li’s Mansion.

After leaving Li’s house, we saw a carriage waiting in the distance.

The carriage was a bit strange. The compartment was extremely large, and the windows on the left and right were sealed with iron bars. There was also a layer of black cloth covering the inside of the windows, as if to prevent any light from getting into the carriage.

There was a person sitting in the front of the carriage.

He was a middle-aged man with dark skin and wrinkles on his face. He looked like an ordinary farmer, nothing special about him.

Li Wenzhong led Zhao Guanxiang over and bowed to the man, saying, “Greetings, Your Excellency.”

“Yeah.” The middle-aged man who looked like a farmer nodded in response, then his eyes fell on Zhao Guanxiang behind Li Wenzhong, with some confusion.

Li Wenzhong quickly explained: “I was supposed to go to the church to recruit people. My eldest brother and second brother have joined the church, but my father thinks that someone should stay at home…”

The more he explained, the more regretful his face became. He kept muttering on and on, as if he was trying to explain, but also as if he was complaining.

But the envoy of the Salvation Church was full of impatience, and waved his hand to interrupt, “Why are you telling me all this? This is the person your family sent, right?”

Li Wenzhong nodded: “Yes, it’s him.”

“Isn’t that okay?”

The envoy jumped directly from the carriage, raised his hands and rolled up his sleeves.

Zhao Guanxiang looked down and was surprised to see a black snake wrapped around the envoy’s arm.

As the envoy raised his hand, the black snake that was originally coiled on his arm seemed to wake up, straightened half of its body, stared at Zhao Guanxiang with its vertical pupils, and spit out its tongue.

Seeing that he was indifferent, the envoy urged him impatiently, “Stretch out your hand.”

Li Wenzhong immediately said, “Sir, he has been controlled by the Blood Bodhisattva.”

“The filthy people of the Three Lights sect… Never mind, let’s talk about it later. They can still help me.”

The envoy muttered something, then put down his sleeves and pointed to the back of the carriage: “Get in the carriage yourself, we still have to go to the next house, time is very tight.”

“Yes Yes.”

Li Wenzhong nodded and bowed repeatedly, then kept winking at Zhao Guanxiang.

Zhao Guanxiang immediately understood and took the initiative to walk towards the back of the carriage.

When he lifted the curtain at the back of the carriage, he was stunned.

I saw that there were already quite a few people sitting in the carriage, both men and women, and a rough count showed that there were more than ten of them.

The most important thing is that there is a mass of black, mud-like substance blocking the facial features of each person, as if it is trying to block their five senses.

“What are you standing there for? Hurry up and get on!”

Following the urging, Zhao Guanxiang had no choice but to get into the carriage.

The moment the curtain was lowered, the entire car was plunged into darkness.

……

“My name is Xie Chang’an, what’s your name, brother?”

“Do you know where we are going this time?”

“Can anyone hear me?”

Zhao Guanxiang tried to negotiate with the person sitting next to him, but the carriage was so quiet that no one responded to him.

Except for him, everyone in the carriage had their five senses blocked and was unable to move, like a wooden man.

This kind of silence is chilling and creepy.

Zhao Guanxiang felt like he was getting goosebumps all over his body.

I don’t know how long it took, but the carriage gradually stopped.

A corner of the rear curtain of the carriage was lifted, and the voice of the Salvation Church’s envoy came from outside:
“The one from the Li family, come over and give me a hand!”

Zhao Guanxiang was stunned for a moment before he realized that he was being called.

He quickly stood up and went over, just in time to see the envoy carrying a person.

“Find an empty seat and put the person away.”

Zhao Guanxiang responded and took the man from the envoy.

It was a young woman, her facial features were covered with mud, and she had lost all sense of the outside world.

Now that I think about it, these people were bitten by the black snake on the envoy’s arm, right?
Zhao Guanxiang dragged the person into the carriage, then found an empty seat to put her down, and the carriage started moving again.

……

This page, this carriage went to many places.

Zhao Guanxiang also followed to help. Sometimes when there were a lot of people to be picked up from a certain family, the envoy would ask him to get out of the car to help.

Therefore, he remembered the locations of several stores, and these stores were in the two county towns of Changxi County and the neighboring Pingyang County.

After this happened several times, all the empty seats in the carriage were filled with people.

By the time Zhao Guanxiang moved the last person into the carriage, it was already dawn.

The envoy said to Zhao Guanxiang: “Okay, we won’t need you anymore…”

Just when Zhao Guanxiang was about to say something, he felt a pain in his arm.

He looked down and saw that the black snake was biting his arm tightly, and its golden vertical pupils were full of ferocity.

careless…

At the last moment when his consciousness was blurred, these words emerged in Zhao Guanxiang’s mind.

The next moment, his consciousness was instantly disconnected.

……

“wake up!”

I don’t know how long it had been, but suddenly a voice sounded beside my ear.

Zhao Guanxiang’s consciousness gradually became clear with this voice, and his five senses began to gradually recover.

He wanted to open his eyes, but they seemed to be covered with a thick layer of eye boogers, so sticky that he couldn’t open his eyes at all. He could only reach out and rub them hard, rubbing a lot of stuff off.

After a while, he was able to slowly open his eyes, and what he saw was a pitch-black dome.

What is this for me?
Zhao Guanxiang was just wondering when he suddenly felt a blockage in his throat. His face changed immediately and he quickly turned sideways and began to vent.

“vomit……”

Large pieces of mud were spit out, and then similar black mud flowed out of the nostrils and ear holes.

“Give.”

At this moment someone handed him a handkerchief.

“Thank you.”

Zhao Guanxiang thanked him, took the handkerchief and quickly wiped the dirt off his face.

At the same time, he began to use his spiritual power to look inward, carefully examining his body.

The black snake was probably an evil creature raised by the Savior, and I don’t know what the impact of being bitten by it would be.

But fortunately, after Zhao Guanxiang carefully examined his body, he found that there was nothing serious wrong with him.

It was not known whether it was the power of the Lord of No-Wrong that once again saved him from the evil methods of the Salvation Church, or whether the black snake merely closed the five senses and made the person fall asleep, without causing any substantial harm to the body.

No matter which one it was, Zhao Guanxiang breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao Guanxiang felt relieved and finally had the leisure to look around.

He found himself in what seemed to be a cave, surrounded by unconscious people with mud all over their faces.

The person who just handed him the handkerchief was a woman in white clothes and skirt, who was standing next to him at this moment.

Zhao Guanxiang noticed that there were many such women. Most of them held a bottle in their hands. Every time they came to a person, they poured some water in the bottle onto their face. Then the black mud on their faces gradually loosened and they woke up.

After a while, the sound of vomiting could be heard in the cave.

(End of this chapter)