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Tang Yue's lips curled up slightly. How would she know if she didn't try? The door was closed now, but that didn't mean it had always been closed.
Tang Yue extended her consciousness outwards like threads, stretching towards Shanhe County. Her consciousness pierced through the mottled city walls, and the scene within the county made Tang Yue's heart race. Wow, she had never seen such a scene before.
How come it sounds like the ancient witchcraft described in her world?
In an open space in the center of the county town, torches burned fiercely, their flames twisting and swaying in the night wind, casting eerie shadows. Dozens of people dressed in brightly colored robes formed a circle, their faces hidden by wide hoods, revealing only pairs of eyes that gleamed with a strange light.
Among them, a gaunt wizard was wildly waving a staff inlaid with animal bones, chanting incantations in a low, hoarse voice, like murmurs from the deepest hell.
Intricate totems were drawn on the ground with red paint. The dark red color resembled bright red bloodstains, and under the firelight, it gleamed with a nauseating sheen. Upon closer inspection, the blood-like sheen seemed to be slowly flowing.
As the wizard continued chanting incantations, the person began to tremble, and the trembling seemed to increase in speed.
Tang Yue suppressed a smile. Could a tradition severed for thousands, even tens of thousands of years truly continue? She desperately wanted to know the purpose behind these people performing this ritual. Tang Yue continued to expand her consciousness.
She overheard many whispers around her, and although she couldn't understand every word, she still managed to catch quite a bit of what she heard.
Actually, her intensive language training these past few days has been helpful, but what she's learning in books is the official language of Bianyue Kingdom. What she's hearing here now is in a dialect, which is making it a bit difficult for her.
However, she understood that a terrifying shadow had been looming over this seemingly peaceful county town recently—because people were disappearing one after another in this small county town, and all of them were young girls.
Despite the city gates being tightly shut and strict security measures in place, disappearances continued daily. The entire county searched almost every corner, but to no avail. In desperation, they could only pin their hopes on the shaman's rituals, hoping to use divine power to find their missing loved ones.
The people of Bianyue, who had lost their loved ones, all had tears in their eyes. They stared intently at the shaman, hoping that he could quickly find their daughters (granddaughters).
However, Tang Yue's gaze was drawn to a dark corner in the northwest of the county town. There, a dozen young girls were tightly bound with rough hemp ropes, their mouths gagged with rags, their eyes filled with fear and despair.
They kept twisting their bodies, their eyes filled with a pleading longing for help, gazing at the bustling sacrificial site not far away. They looked at their loved ones, who were heartbroken and weeping because they couldn't find them.
They tried desperately to make a sound, but no sound came out. They longed for their loved ones to see them. But those people seemed blinded, ignoring their existence.
Even when they saw their relatives' gazes turn towards them, they would quickly turn away. The hope in their eyes slowly faded. But why? Why were they tied up here? They themselves didn't understand.
The shaman's ritual continued into the night, torches illuminating the sky in crimson, and the sounds of bone staffs striking the ground intertwined with eerie incantations, echoing over the county town.
The onlookers were initially full of anticipation, their eyes shining with hope. But as time passed, until midnight, there was still nothing unusual at the sacrificial site. There was no divine intervention, and no trace of the missing girl was found.
Sighs began to rise from the crowd. The people were extremely disappointed, their expressions changing from expectation to despair, and they shook their heads.
The wizard finally stopped what he was doing and murmured something softly. Tang Yue didn't understand what he said, but then the crowd began to disperse.
Tang Yue, who was observing from the shadows in the woods, had a sly glint in her eyes. She whispered to Sun Jinan and Zhang Dabing beside her, "Our chance has come! Something just happened in the county town. Didn't they say they haven't been coming out lately? Then we're the only ones who can go in."
Sun Jinan and Zhang Dabing didn't understand Tang Yue's meaning. They looked at each other and said, "Company Commander, the people here are very xenophobic. They can tell we're from China just by looking at us, so they definitely won't let us in."
Zhang Dabing chimed in, "Company Commander, I heard that the battlefield here is currently only fought between the Chinese and American armies, and the Vietnamese have not been involved recently. Although we were invited by the Vietnamese government, the local people are not very welcoming of us."
Tang Yue nodded to indicate that she understood. If it were her, she wouldn't welcome other countries waging war on their territory, plunging them into misery.
However, that's nothing. Tang Yue waved her hand confidently: "Just you wait and see! I'll go and scout ahead first. Oh, by the way, go to the nearby market tomorrow and buy some brightly colored fabrics and clothes. I'll dress you up nicely then."
After saying that, she turned around and found a temporary place to stand. She then rummaged through her storage space and found a moon-white long dress. With a few quick snips of the scissors, the originally long skirt was cut to a length that suited her.
Relying on her memories from her previous life, she used some tailoring skills to quickly transform the skirt into a puffy style, creating a layered effect that resembled stacked clouds.
She put on the dress, found a piece of white gauze, let her hair down and styled it casually, then folded the white gauze and casually pinned it to her head, letting it gently drape over her shoulders.
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