"What happened, village chief?" the burly man asked loudly.
"Why are you talking so much nonsense? Just go and pass the message when I tell you to!" said the village chief with his eyes wide open.
"Okay!" Hu Zi didn't say much, and quickly squeezed out of the crowd and ran towards the center of the village.
After a while, the sound of bells rang in the village. The clear sound of the bells could be heard from far away, and the people who were still in the village rushed over from all directions.
"How did they know to run here?" Xiao Zhang asked puzzledly.
"This is the village ancestral hall. If anything happens, we gather here!" Qi Po answered slowly, and then walked forward and stood with the village chief.
"Drive those people out, they are here to steal the child!" The people who were released from Mu Qingli's mental control also ran over from that house, shouting as they ran.
"Huh? What happened? Are those strangers coming to our village to steal our children? We can't let them leave!"
"Yes, catch them!"
"Children are our hope, we can't leave them to them!"
"If you ask me, just throw them out!"
The originally quiet crowd became indignant when the topic of children came up, and for a moment they were so furious that they could hardly control themselves.
"Quiet, be quiet!" The village chief shouted a few times, but his voice was drowned out by the crowd.
"Everyone be quiet!" The faint voice of Grandma Qi came from all directions, as cold as a ghost. For a moment, everyone seemed to be frozen and quiet.
"Mental attack!" Mu Qingli felt that she was so weak. The other person only had level one mental power, but he could make the sound so penetrating.
"Village chief, we can't live without children!" someone in the crowd shouted.
"You can't live without children, but can others live without children? Do you know how many families you have destroyed by stealing these children?" Mu Qingli couldn't help but get angry. These people were so selfish.
"Everyone listen to me! The country has come to save us. Don't you want to have your own children?" The village chief said excitedly, "And you have also seen that it is not just our children, other people's children cannot survive here. We can't continue to do evil!" The village chief looked sad and his words were mournful.
"Of course we want to have our own children, but the village chief said we haven't had any children in five years. What can we do? Can we really have our own children?"
"Yes! As long as we move out of here! Return this land to the immortals!"
"Where are the immortals? Where can we move to?" People talked about it and didn't want to leave their homes.
"Don't you understand yet? This land is no longer suitable for us to survive. We can still survive if we move out!" said the village chief excitedly.
"It's up to you to decide whether to move or not. I have protected you for so many years, and I have repaid your kindness. I don't intend to stay here and wait for destruction. I'm leaving!" The cold and piercing voice of Grandma Qi was still heard by everyone from all directions.
"What? Qipo, are you leaving? You are our guardian angel, how can you leave? We can move, can't we move?"
"Yes, we're moving. We're leaving here. Wherever Qi Po is, we're going to be there!"
"Qi Po, we'll follow you!"
"Let's go back and pack up and leave here with Qi Po!"
"Huzi, quickly take people to the old ancestral hall and bring the ancestral tablets! Let's go back and pack up and leave immediately!"
Mu Qingli not only gained a deeper understanding of Qi Po's prestige in the village, but also learned that as soon as Qi Po said to leave, everyone immediately packed up their things without hesitation, leaving behind the only brick house and the most important ancestral hall in the village!
"Oh!" Grandma Qi let out a long sigh. She knew that this departure was the end of her life and the country would not let her go.
"I took them out and settled them down, and then I surrendered myself to the country and pleaded guilty! It was all my idea, and I did it. They were just ignorant villagers who were bewitched by me! I relied on my little ability to become their belief, and you saw that they all listened to me!" Qi Po's voice was flat, her messy gray hair fluttering in the autumn wind, the wrinkles on her face became deeper, and her back became more hunched.
"Let's leave first!" Mu Qingli didn't expect them to move out immediately. She was thinking of waiting for Captain Wang to go out and write a report before making any arrangements, so she had to give in.
"Captain Wang, have your men take the small road and immediately report the situation to our county. Then, we'll lead them out along the main road and see how the county handles the situation. After all, strictly speaking, these people don't belong to Ding'an County anymore!"
"Alright! Xiao Zhang and Xiao Wang, you two, return immediately the way you came!"
"Remember to go to the cave to pick up the luggage and pick up Zhou Tao and the others!" Mu Qingli said again.
"Understood!" Xiao Zhang and Xiao Wang didn't say much! They immediately obeyed the instructions and returned the same way.
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