After hearing the cries of the townspeople, Fang Zheng and his companions also learned what had happened here.

Originally, this was just an ordinary town, where everyone lived and worked in peace and contentment. But two or three years ago, many strange things suddenly happened here. Farmers caught fewer and fewer prey in the mountains, and even the amount of water in the wells became much less. At that time, everyone thought it was just a temporary difficulty and did not take it too seriously.

But unexpectedly, after a while, the situation became worse. Not only could no prey be found in the mountains, but even the wells had dried up. Now everyone was worried. Without water, there was no way to survive!

However, when it rains, the people in the town are still worried about how to get water. As a result, the town is haunted again! Female ghosts appear in the town at night, and every time these female ghosts appear, someone will die. This makes the residents of the town angry and afraid, but they can't do anything about these female ghosts. They can only find ways to get some talismans and statues to put in their homes.

But all these were useless, the situation continued to get worse and worse, and now those female ghosts even came out to attack people during the day!

"Didn't you find anyone to exorcise the demon?"

After hearing the townspeople talking at once, Lin Yueru frowned and asked curiously. Upon hearing her words, the mayor of the town sitting in front of her slapped his thigh excitedly.

"Why didn't we look for them? We all pooled our money together several times and asked people to look for those monks and Taoist priests. We did invite a few people, but they never came down after going up the mountain! Instead, the monsters became more rampant. Now we don't have much money in our town, and we can't hire any masters!"

"Do you know what's on the mountain?"

At this time, Zhao Linger also asked, but the residents of the town looked at each other, and then an old man spoke.

"I heard that there is a temple called Lanruo Temple on the mountain. It is said that it is the habitat of ghosts, but most of us would not go up the mountain for nothing..."

Well, Lanruo Temple...

Hearing this, Fang Zheng had calmed down. Even the Legend of the White Snake had appeared in this Fairy Sword world, so what was so strange about another A Chinese Ghost Story? Maybe there were also Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and Journey to the West here... Oh, Journey to the West was probably unlikely.

But it was obvious that this Lanruo Temple was not the same level as the Lanruo Temple in A Chinese Ghost Story that Fang Zheng knew. At least according to the mayor, they had invited several experts to come and all failed. Fang Zheng was too lazy to ask whether Yan Chixia was there. In any case, even if this instance was turned upside down, it would definitely not be difficult for him.

Needless to say, the drought here was probably caused by the monster that held the Water Spirit Pearl. Zhao Linger also thought so. After all, the Water Spirit Pearl controlled water, so it was not difficult to create such a drought...

By the way, shouldn’t this be the painting style of Miaojiang?

Forget it, let's just treat it as a rehearsal before going to Miaojiang. We'll have to solve the drought problem in Miaojiang anyway. It would be a good choice to let Zhao Linger practice here first after the Water Spirit Pearl is retrieved.

Now that the target was determined, the next step was to head up the mountain, but before that, they still had to solve the problem of eating. Because of airsickness, Lin Yueru had not eaten anything along the way, and her stomach was already growling with hunger.

Fang Zheng certainly would not send these girls under his command to work for nothing, so he readily took out instant noodles with sausages for lunch.

Zhao Linger had followed Fang Zheng back and forth these days and had eaten these things before, but this was the first time for Lin Yueru to see them. She immediately picked up the bowl of instant noodles and ate them with such relish that it felt like she could even make a movie about "Lady Kobayashi who loves instant noodles."

Speaking of this scene, Fang Zheng really wanted to take a picture and put it online to expose "The Chinese Paladin has started filming new drama, beautiful photos of the actress who plays Lin Yueru released" or something like that... It will definitely earn enough clicks.

After finishing the meal, everyone took a short break and then headed straight up the mountain. Of course, before leaving, the residents of the small town could not help but thank Fang Zheng and his group profusely, thanking them for their chivalry, their courage to fight against evil spirits and monsters, etc. After all, they had no money at the moment, and the strength that Fang Zheng and his group had just shown was much stronger than those "experts" they had invited before. It would be unreasonable if they didn't say some good things, right?

Anyway, it doesn’t cost money to say nice things.

The whole mountain looked even weirder than the town below, with dark woods everywhere. Although there were no clouds overhead, the sunlight was quite dim, and it was even a little hard to see. The group walked along the mountain road, stopping and starting, and it didn't take too long to walk along the mountain road to the gate of Lanruo Temple.

Because it was so long ago, Fang Zheng could no longer remember what the Lanruo Temple in A Chinese Ghost Story looked like. However, this Lanruo Temple was very consistent with the impression in the novel. The whole temple was dilapidated and old, the plaque at the door was stained with spider webs, and the steps were covered with dust. It was obvious that no one had been here for a long time.

"Master, I can sense a strong demonic aura."

Zhao Linger stared at the Lanruo Temple in front of her with a serious expression and asked softly.

"What should we do next?"

"what to do?"

Hearing Zhao Linger's question, Fang Zheng smiled slightly, but before he could say anything, Lin Yueru had already picked up the sword and rushed forward.

"Is there any need to ask? These monsters are causing trouble to the village, so they will naturally die."

Having said that, Lin Yueru rushed directly to the temple gate and kicked it open.

"You bold monster, come out and die!"

“Wow!!”

However, before Lin Yueru finished her words, they heard a scream, and then they saw a young man dressed like a scholar and carrying a basket on his back stood up in surprise and stared at them in amazement.

"You, who are you? What do you want to do? I don't have any money to give you!"

"……Who are you?"

Looking at the scholar in front of her, Lin Yueru was also stunned, but she did not relax her vigilance, but clenched her long sword, swung it at the scholar in front of her, and then asked in a stern voice. Looking at the shining sword in front of him, the scholar was also frightened and hurriedly answered.

"My name is Ning Caichen, and I was sent here to collect debts... You, you all have hands and feet, why don't you do anything else? Why do you want to be bandits?"

"Who said we were bandits?"

Hearing this, Lin Yueru was immediately furious. She was no longer arrogant in front of Fang Zheng, but she would not be polite to other men.

"We are here to exorcise demons! Tell me, are you a demon?!"

“Waaaaaah, please spare me, young lady. I’m just a scholar…”