The manager also came over, smiling as he looked at Wang Qiang and the others.
"Kid, trying to act tough won't work. We have clearly stated our prices!"
This guy was talking and laughing at the same time, but it was a forced smile.
"If you don't want to pay, then leave these two young women here to settle the debt."
"Yes, Brother Da Ming is right."
"I think those two young ladies are quite pretty."
Six or seven waiters surrounded him, shouting and yelling.
"I can come and go as I please. Do you think a few worthless nobody can stop me?"
Wang Qiang sat there, glaring at the manager with a sidelong glance.
The manager, who was called Brother Ming, saw that the waiter lying on the ground was still baring his teeth and screaming, while Sha Zhu had already grabbed a stool.
"Alright, looks like we've met a real expert today. Brothers, let's loosen up his muscles."
"Alright, Brother Ming, just you wait and see."
As they were talking, a man carrying a stick rushed over. Before Sha Zhu could react, Wang Qiang had already thrown a chopstick, which shattered through the back of the man's hand.
"Ouch!" the guy cried out, dropping the stick and clutching his hand, which had been pierced by the chopsticks. Blood trickled from between his fingers.
"Heh, I didn't expect him to actually have some skills."
Although Brother Da Ming said this, sweat was already beading on his forehead. Such a master was a rare sight. He knew his men best; they could bully the weak with their numbers, but when they encountered a tough opponent, they were truly helpless.
But we're already in this situation; if we don't take it, how will we survive in this area in the future?
"Brothers, charge!"
"oops!"
Wang Qiang jumped up and kicked twice, knocking down three people instantly. He then finished off two more with a whirlwind kick. Da Ming, seeing his brothers lying on the ground, cried out in pain and panicked, trying to leave.
"You're going to confess here today, where are you going?"
Taking advantage of Da Ming's distraction, He Yuzhu jumped up and smashed down with the stool in his hand. Da Ming was immediately knocked to the ground.
Looking at the people lying on the ground, Qin Huairu and Li Man were so frightened that they hid behind Wang Qiang. "What should we do?"
“These are not good people who have been tied up.”
"Okay!"
Sha Zhu ran to the kitchen, dragged out two chefs, found some ropes, and tied up the whole group of people. Then they went to the restaurant's backyard.
Six women were found bound in a room. They were ragged and appeared disoriented. It was clear they had been violated.
"Are these even human? They're a bunch of animals."
Upon seeing the women tied up, Wang Qiang instructed Qin Huairu and Li Man to go over and untie them.
"Keep looking; these people are definitely not simple."
Wang Qiang instructed Sha Zhu, and the two of them searched again. Sure enough, they found a Buddhist temple where statues of the Silent Mother, Maitreya Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Ji Gong, Lu Zu, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Shakyamuni, Jesus, Muhammad, and others were enshrined.
"What's going on?"
Wang Qiang and He Yuzhu exchanged bewildered glances. This must be a sinister organization. Who would put different groups together? It looked like an old secret society, the kind that used to swindle and cheat people out of money and sex, committing all sorts of evil deeds. It was banned in the 1950s. They hadn't expected remnants to still exist here!
Realizing this, Wang Qiang had a bad feeling. He and Sha Zhu ran back to the front yard. They found that the people who had been tied up had vanished without a trace, leaving only the ropes on the ground.
Wang Qiang picked up the hemp rope from the ground and saw the broken end.
"It was cut off with a knife."
"What should we do then? Report it to the local government?" Sha Zhu was completely overwhelmed by this. He hadn't expected to encounter something like this so soon after leaving home.
"It's too late now. Quickly call Qin Huairu and the others to leave here."
"Okay, I'll go now."
Sha Zhu ran to the backyard to call Qin Huairu and Li Man, urging them to leave quickly. However, the six released women cried and insisted on going with them.
They only learned this after talking with Qin Huairu and Li Man. These people were all sent there by their families, who believed in this kind of sect.
The local religious leader said they were reincarnated demons who harmed family members, and told the family members to send them to the Taoist altar to help them be converted.
The family sent them here partly because they were afraid the children would harm them, and partly because they thought that having one less person to feed would lighten the family's burden.
These women had been indoctrinated with the ideology for a long time and originally believed in it. Who knew that coming here would be like entering the eighteenth level of hell, where they would suffer a fate worse than death? Only then did they see the true face of the secret society.
That leader was a scoundrel in human form but with the heart of a beast.
“If we don’t go with you, we’ll have nowhere to go and no home. If we go home, our families will just send us away again!”
Seeing this, Sha Zhu, Qin Huairu, and the others didn't know what to do, so they led them to the front to find Wang Qiang.
"What's that Taoist priest's name?"
Seeing that things had come to this point, Wang Qiang had no choice but to ask questions. He couldn't possibly travel with several women, so he began to inquire in detail.
"His name is Bai Daming, and he claims to be the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha!"
"Bai Daming, no wonder those people call him Brother Daming!"
Considering that the waiters were calling him "Big Brother Ming," he must be the local leader.
Do you know how many people in this area believe in this?
"That's hard to say, because after the sects were banned, many people went underground, no longer displaying images or burning incense!"
"Brother Wang, what should we do? We can't afford to waste any more time here!"
Qin Huairu was terrified when she heard this. Her family was from the countryside and had been involved in cults before, so she knew how ruthless and cruel they were! They deceived and raped women, steamed people in bamboo steamers, swindled money, killed people, and sold out their country for personal gain. They were, in short, a complete cult.
"Yes, what should we do!"
Wang Qiang was thinking that if he went to the county town to report the case now, this place was far from the county town, and it would take a lot of time to go back and forth. After he left, those gangsters would definitely erase the traces here!
"Let's leave here first!"
As Wang Qiang spoke, he instructed everyone to load everything they could carry onto the truck. The six women, having eaten and drunk their fill, were skilled farm girls and adept at any task.
Everyone hurriedly loaded all the rice, flour, cooking oil, meat, and other supplies stored here onto the truck. Wang Qiang then discovered a hidden room behind the Buddhist hall.
They carried out two large boxes, one filled with gold bars and the other with silver dollars.
"My goodness, so many?"
When Sha Zhu saw all of this, he was stunned. He had never seen so many good things before!
"Is this appropriate? Shall we move it?"
"Enough with the nonsense! Ill-gotten gains are for everyone who sees them!"
Wang Qiang and Sha Zhu carried two boxes into the carriage, and also took the quilts from the bedroom, partly to keep warm on the road and partly to cover up these things!
By the time I finished all that, it was already afternoon.
"Let's go, get in the car!"
"Hey, why are you driving back?"
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