The women were still pulling Lin Baici.

"Don't waste Her Royal Highness Dragon Girl's gift!"

The sheep-headed woman urged: "Come quickly!"

More women came over, pulling Lin Baici to take a shower, and some bold women even started to take off his clothes.

[If you run away, you will offend these women, and they will not take you to the real altar.]

【But if you don’t run, then you will become their nourishment!】

[Men who have participated in the welcome ceremony will have their vitality drained away, causing premature aging. It is a luxury to live for ten years! 】

Lin Baici didn't want to participate in this kind of ceremony at all. Now that he heard Nagami's comments, he immediately used his hands hard to throw away the women, and then left the cave without looking back.

The cave suddenly became quiet.

Whoosh!

Everyone’s eyes turned to Mari Goto.

Goto Mari lowered her head.

"Go and convince him that he must attend the next welcome ceremony!"

The goat-headed woman ordered.

…

Lin Baici came out of the cave and didn't know the way home, so he was waiting not far from the entrance of the cave.

He thought that if he had to wait for a long time, someone might come to catch him, but he didn't.

More than ten minutes later, Mari Goto came out after changing her clothes.

"Lin Jun, I will take you home!"

Mari Goto walked in front, as if nothing happened just now.

"Have you seen the dragon girl?"

Lin Baici inquired.

"You should call her Your Highness!"

Goto Mari corrected, paused for a few seconds, and explained: "Her Royal Highness the Dragon Lady has brought good weather to our village!"

"More importantly, she helps us live long, healthy and youthful lives!"

"Have you not noticed that there are no aging women in our village?"

At this point, Goto Mari's tone became pious. She was originally reluctant to part with Lin Baici, but when she thought of the kindness of Her Highness the Dragon Girl...

"In order to stay young, are you willing to trade everything?"

Lin Baici asked back.

"..."

Mari Goto was silent.

"Have you ever thought about leaving this island and visiting other places?"

Lin Baici always felt that the key to clearing the level lay with Mari Goto, so she must be persuaded to lower the status of the Dragon Girl in her heart.

"If you have to stay on this island to be young and beautiful, what's the difference between that and going to jail?"

Lin Baici sighed: "This kind of life is too barren!"

"Even if you live for a hundred years, what's the point?"

"Life should be on the road, and we should only stop when we die. But for you, birth is death!"

Goto Mari suddenly stopped: "I don't understand this, no one has taught me!"

"Why should someone else teach you?"

Lin Bai's words were profound: "You just have to ask yourself what you want!"

Mari Goto was silent again.

Lin Baici knew that enough was enough, so he no longer instilled a "view on life", but waited for Goto's truth to be digested.

The two returned to the village.

Dawn has not come yet.

Lin Bai resigned and went back to his room to sleep.

Boom! Boom!

As soon as Lin Baici lay down, there was a knock on the window.

It's the secret code agreed upon before.

Lin Baici glanced at the door, immediately rushed to the window and opened it.

Xia Hongyao squeezed in.

"How's it going? You're not hurt, are you?"

Xia Hongyao grabbed Lin Baici's shoulders and looked at his body

"No!"

"What happened in the cave?"

Xia Hongyao asked: "There is no hiding place there, so I was relatively far away and didn't hear it."

"A dark ritual was performed!"

Lin Baici was not embarrassed and simply told the story.

"So it seems that the condition for clearing the level is to find a way to find the dragon girl?"

Xia Hongyao pondered.

"perhaps!"

"By the way, we were attacked last night!"

"Did something strangle your neck?"

"right!"

"That was caused by a Ksitigarbha statue on the roadside outside the village. I smashed it!"

"I knew you were the one who solved it!"

Xia Hongyao was very happy and hugged Lin Baici's shoulders.

The two briefly chatted for a few more words, discussed the follow-up plan, and Xia Hongyao was withdrawn.

…

With a few rooster crows of "ooh, oh, oh", morning came again in Shenyin Village.

At around 7 o'clock, Mari Goto came up and asked Lin Bai to leave for dinner.

At the dinner table, Goto Rei was like a good wife and mother, serving food for everyone. It was completely impossible to tell that she had participated in the dark ceremony last night.

"Can I go for a walk outside?"

Lin Baici asked.

Hou Tengxin glanced at Lin Baici and lowered his head: "Okay, you are already half one of our own!"

Why half?

Because Lin Baici did not attend the subsequent welcome ceremony.

After dinner, Lin Baici and Goto Mari went out on the street. From time to time they would see a woman, but they all chose to ignore Lin Baici, as if they were engaging in a bullying campaign to 'isolate him'.

Lin Baici didn't care at all. He walked around all morning and went home for dinner.

Just as he sat down, a group of people broke into Goto's house.

The leader was a woman, about forty years old, wearing a pair of glasses, very bookish, like a university professor. When she saw Lin Baici, she asked directly.

"Did you kill the Ksitigarbha statue outside the village?"

This voice was exactly the same as the woman wearing the sheep skull last night, but now it was filled with indifference and anger.

Before Lin Baici could speak, the woman sneered: "It's useless for you to deny it. Except for you, an outsider, no one in our village would do such a thing!"

This reason is really impeccable.

Lin Baici can't always say that there are outsiders?

This not only exposed Xia Hongyao and the others, but also showed that he had evil intentions and was plotting against the village.

"take away!"

The sheep-headed woman shouted loudly, and the women behind him immediately stepped forward, preparing to tie him up with ropes.
To be continued...