Mushroom Man

Chapter 45: Dirty Underground, Raising Children

The dark moon kills people on a night, and the wind blows high and sets people on fire.

The headless bodies of the fat and thin monks fell to the ground one after another.

The blood dyed the bluestone bricks red, which was shocking to see.

If someone passed by in this situation, they would be scared to death.

"I didn't mean to start a killing spree."

"Now, Master Wen has to clean up the mess."

"Otherwise, the inexplicable deaths of two monks in the temple would definitely cause trouble."

Wu Liang looked indifferent and shook his head.

He thought about it and activated a few fire mushrooms, burning the blood and corpses on the ground clean.

He had specially selected these fire mushrooms from the Buddha Treasure Pavilion in order to cure mushroom poisoning.

I didn't expect that it would be used to destroy corpses and cover up traces.

Wu Liang glanced around coldly, and after confirming that no one was spying, he quietly went towards the abbot's meditation room.

Soon, he reached the door of the meditation room.

Wu Liang did not push the door open rashly, but listened attentively.

The room was silent and seemed empty.

Seeing this, he finally felt relieved and easily climbed in through the window.

Perhaps because there was no light, the Zen room seemed very dark.

Fortunately, when Wu Liang lived in the Wu family's loess house, he couldn't afford to light an oil lamp, so he was already used to it.

He was not affected at all and looked around in the dim light.

The abbot's meditation room is spacious and simple, and the only thing that attracts attention is the bamboo slips and books that fill the room.

At first glance, it looks like the Sutra Library of Songzi Temple.

Wu Liang raised his eyebrows and casually pulled out a few bamboo slips to read.

Soon, he discovered that most of these books were manuscripts from various schools of thought, no different from the Sutra Repository.

"That's it?"

Wu Liang suddenly felt disappointed. He had thought that the abbot's meditation room must have some great secrets hidden in it. Now it seemed that even Master Wen could make mistakes.

After all, no matter how you look at it, this place doesn't look like a place that hides any secrets.

However, Wu Liang would be unwilling to leave just like that.

In line with the principle that a thief never leaves empty-handed, he took a deep breath and began a carpet search, hoping to find something useful.

At least, if we can find a way to solve the mushroom poisoning, the trip will be worthwhile.

After about a cup of tea...

"This is?"

Wu Liang opened the drawer of the abbot's desk and found a jade slip and a yellowed torn page.

The remaining page depicts a strange mushroom, shaped like a Ganoderma lucidum and purple-gold in color.

There are two big characters written on it - Tai Sui.

"This... could it be a mushroom recipe?"

"But what kind of mushroom is this 'Tai Sui'? Why haven't I heard of it?"

Wu Liang stroked his chin, feeling confused.

You have to know that the things that Abbot Shanren specially keeps are definitely not simple things.

It’s a pity that the content about refining this mushroom has been torn out, otherwise he might be able to figure out the purpose of this mushroom.

Wu Liang shook his head and turned his attention to the jade slip.

He opened the jade slip, but found that there was not a single word on it.

"wrong……"

"Abbot Shanren wouldn't put a useless thing here for no reason."

Wu Liang narrowed his eyes and keenly noticed that there was a gap on the bookshelf on the wall, which seemed to fit the shape of the jade slip perfectly.

His heart moved and he understood something in an instant.

Wu Liang then inserted the jade slip into the empty space on the bookshelf without hesitation.

next moment……

"Boom~"

The bookshelf slowly moved away, revealing a corridor extending downwards.

"What a great Abbot Shanren! He hid himself quite well." Wu Liang sneered and stepped into the corridor without saying a word.

After he entered, he closed the bookshelf to make sure no one noticed.

Not long after he walked, he smelled a strong smell of blood in the corridor.

"Ok?"

Wu Liang followed the smell and quickened his pace.

Soon, he came to a spacious underground cave.

In an instant, all I saw was scarlet.

The sight that greeted my eyes was disgusting...

The cave was filled with sticky blood and a foul stench.

At the same time, naked women were floating in the blood.

The women's chests rose and fell slightly, and they were obviously still alive.

However, their eyes were dull and their lips were slightly open. Even when they saw Wu Liang, a stranger, breaking in, they did not react at all.

They look like they are still alive, but in fact they are no different from the dead.

"This……"

Wu Liang felt a surge of anger in his heart, and his face was full of disgust.

Abbot Shanren and Sekong are indeed beasts in human skin.

He never imagined that under the glamorous and beautiful Temple of Childbirth, there was such a dirty place hidden.

"No wonder people have been mysteriously disappearing in Zhaodi Town for the past decade or so."

“It turns out that this is all the masterpiece of Abbot Shanren.”

Wu Liang suppressed his anger and forced himself not to look at those miserable women.

Time is running out now, and the most important thing is to find out the secret of this place rather than being kind enough to save people.

He has neither the ability nor the time.

You know, if the abbot comes back and finds him sneaking in here, his fate will probably not be much better than these women.

Thinking of this, Wu Liang moved more quickly and began to search the cave for various useful clues.

Perhaps it was because Abbot Shanren didn't think that outsiders would come in here.

As a result, many things were all laid out in the open, and Wu Liang didn't need to bother looking for them at all.

Soon, he found several noteworthy items on a wooden shelf.

The first is a list that records in detail the whereabouts of all missing persons in Zhaodi Town over the past twenty years.

The more Wu Liang looked, the more shocked he became. Only then did he realize that those people who had disappeared inexplicably had never left Zhaodi Town!

From young men and women to children and young kids, the abbot did not let any of them go as long as they were lonely and helpless strangers.

The young and strong were gutted and used to make blood fungus.

Women and children were sold to three families to fill the gaps in their populations.

As we all know, because of the human wonder of the Ci Mu River in Zhaodi Town, people here often have difficulty in having children.

Even as time goes by, they gradually lose their fertility.

The name of Zhaodi Town comes from the fact that the people here are eager to have children.

Abbot Shanren's deal was to use the excuse of "since you want a child, I will give you one" to use those innocent people to add children to Zhaodi Town.

The list recorded in detail that in order to solve the problem of the small number of clan members, the three families purchased a large number of women and children from the abbot.

Women are used for childbearing, and children are brainwashed and trained to become members of their own family.

Most of the branches of the Wu family came from here.

And those women with strong fertility and outstanding appearance were taken as his own by the abbot.

He worked hard day and night to sow seeds, allowing these women to bear children for him.

To this day, the abbot already has dozens of descendants...

When Wu Liang saw this, his face turned gloomy.

He finally understood why people kept disappearing in Zhaodi Town all year round but it never caused any commotion.

It turned out that all this was a dirty business secretly colluded and jointly participated in by the three tyrants and one master in Zhaodi Town.

"Good good..."

"There really isn't a single good person here. They're all just scoundrels."

(End of this chapter)