Qingfeng handed over a piece of black cloth.

Yu Zheng took the cloth and examined it carefully: "This is high-quality cotton cloth, not something that ordinary people can wear."

"This is very similar to what the men following the priest I saw on the street the other day were wearing."

Yu Zheng was not a local and did not have much respect for the priests, so she watched them pass by boldly.

"Temple?" Shangguan Ziqi and Emperor Qiming said in unison.

In other words, the four sisters Chunhua were most likely abducted by people from the temple.

But they had never had any contact with anyone in the temple, so why did they want to abduct Chunhua and the other three?

I can't figure it out for a moment.

Yu Yuzheng thought about the expression on the face of the high priest of the Baitian Temple when he passed by them. The high priest did take a special look at Chunhua and the other three sisters.

And it was strange why a high priest would lead people through the street and go into the store they were visiting.

As a result, the shop owner had no choice but to give the high priest the spices he liked for free.

Although the shop owner respectfully gave the spices to the high priest at that time, when the high priest took his men away, Yu Yuzheng saw clearly the shop owner's reluctant expression.

Just then, Rajiv and Ajay hurried to the inn.

When this happened, the guide immediately informed the two people.

Seeing everyone's solemn expressions, Rajiv gestured and asked, "What happened? We heard that you were looking for someone?"

Shangguan Ziqi explained the situation with simple gestures, and Rajiv's face turned pale instantly.

He glanced at the crowd and indeed, the four women following them were nowhere to be seen.

Being noticed by the high priest is a bit troublesome.

He and Ajay exchanged a few quick words, then began to gesture with difficulty.

"Do you know that three days from now is our most important sacrificial day?"

"What does this have to do with our whereabouts?" Emperor Qiming asked sternly.

Rajiv did not understand what Emperor Qiming said, but he was so shocked by his aura that he trembled, swallowed, and beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.

Shangguan Ziqi patiently demonstrated to him so that he could understand.

After two days of contact, Shangguan Ziqi has developed his own set of gestures to make the other party understand what he means.

"Since High Priest Cassim took office, the rules for priests have been changed. Sacrifices to the gods require pure women as sacrifices." Rajiv gestured with difficulty to make his meaning clear.

And he is also a servant of God, or rather, all the people of Shenduo are servants of God.

Although he didn't agree with using young women as sacrifices, he had changed the practice to using young women as sacrifices for more than ten years since Kasim became the high priest. Once every three years.

Any woman who is chosen cannot escape.

There was dead silence in the courtyard, and everyone was shocked by the information.

Yu Zheng's hands tightly grasped her husband's arms, her nails almost digging into his muscles.

"You mean to say," Shangguan Ziqi asked word by word, his voice as cold as ice, "that our four maids were abducted by the temple people and were going to be used as sacrifices?"

Shangguan Ziqi gestured with endless anger.

Ajay saw that he was angry and was gesticulating anxiously and talking non-stop.

"Ten years ago, there were indeed rumors of women from other places disappearing on the eve of the sacrifice, but no one dared to publicly question the temple."

At that time Ajay was not in the position he is now.

Emperor Qiming flew into a rage and slammed his palm on the table: "How unreasonable! Barbaric! Ridiculous!"

Everyone knows what sacrifice means, and the ultimate result is death.

He turned to Shangguan Ziqi and said, "Immediately mobilize the soldiers on the ship. I will go to that temple to get the people and then destroy them!"

The old prince tried to dissuade him: "Your Majesty, calm down. Attacking the temple will only make things worse. We need to think long and hard and make sure the person is really there first."

Yu Yuzheng thought that the four girls were brought up by her, and during the time on the ship, everyone got along very well. The four girls studied very hard and took the initiative to serve her and help her take care of the children.

If anything happened to them, she would feel guilty, and the villagers of Haiyue Island were waiting for the four sisters to report what they had seen and heard.

Thinking of this, she tried to hold back her tears, but her voice was very firm: "Rajiv, Ajay, can you help us? If it is really the temple that did it, we need the temple's inside information."

Yu Yuzheng gestured a lot, not knowing whether the other party understood or not.

Rajiv understood and said with difficulty: "In Shenduo, it is a capital crime to oppose the temple. But..."

He looked at Ajay, and the two seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding.

"We will try to help. Ajay has a brother who used to work in the temple and may be able to provide some information."

Shangguan Ziqi took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

"Everyone, split up. Qingfeng, lead the others to continue searching the surroundings to see if you can find more clues. Try to confirm that it was done by someone from the temple."

Just as everyone was about to leave, Yu Zheng suddenly remembered something: "Wait, Rajiv just said that the sacrifice will be held in three days?"

"To be precise, it was two days later, and it is already early morning," Shangguan Ziqi emphasized.

“That means their lives are not in danger for the time being.

We need to use this time to develop a careful rescue plan.

Instead of acting rashly, after all, we are in a foreign country.

We can't make enemies with the temple here. We just need to rescue the people and find out who the mastermind is. We just need to teach the mastermind a lesson.

The people here have a respect and worship for the gods that is unimaginable to us, so it is best not to do anything to offend the gods.

That would anger everyone and would be detrimental to our ability to continue transporting goods here for trade in the future," Yu Zheng explained.

If they incurred public anger, no matter how capable they were, they would not be able to defeat the believers in the entire city.

Although Emperor Qiming was still angry, after hearing Yu Yuzheng's words he realized that a strong attack was not the best strategy.

"I will give you one day to gather information. If you still don't have any definite news by this time tomorrow, don't blame me for resorting to force."

Emperor Qiming had been high and mighty all his life, so how could he take a temple seriously, especially one that was not the highest temple in the capital of Shenduo Kingdom.

It was already daybreak.

Qingfeng took four guards and checked the forest again.

I found some powder on the leaves of some plants not far from where the lanterns were hung last night.

I immediately made some and showed them to Yu Zheng.

As soon as Yu Zheng smelled it, she knew it was a drug that was spreading in the air.

"Chunhua and the others were drugged and kidnapped."

Not long after, the distant mountains also came into view.

"Your Highness, Princess, we followed the footprints and lost them when we touched the cobblestone road. The traces of the carriage are hard to see on the cobblestone road."

In other words, they couldn't tell where the carriage had gone in the end. They only knew that the person was knocked unconscious and taken on the carriage and left the city.

The inn where they stayed was right on the edge of the city.

Otherwise there would be no forest behind.