C47 (2/2)
There weren't many buildings near them. Apart from a few scattered slums in the distance, there was an ancient temple closest to them.
”What is this place?” ”Is it also a godly temple?” Yao Yun looked at the godly temple as he asked Jian Nessa beside him. ”This place is not a temple, it is a holy training ground for the Holy Maiden. The poor people in the vicinity and other places have sent the young girls here, but there are also some that were abducted by the Sardus. These girls will receive the guidance of the old Holy Maiden here, and then be sent to the temples everywhere to be enslaved by the Brahmin monks.”
I've heard about the Holy Maiden in India before. They are the children of poor families, and before they were ten years old, they were sent by their families to the old Holy Maiden to study their skills, and then they were sent to the temple to serve the monks. Look, the statue of the god worshiped in front of the temple should be that beautiful Asura, the one who seduced females... ”It looks like this is the place.
”Third brother, do you mean that this monkey was sent out by the women in this big brothel?” I'm not sure if it was sent out by the women in the temple, but these things must be related to those people. Luo Jia Li was one of the Ashura's in ancient India, and he had a very good friend, the Giant Ape Tea, and since this place was dedicated to Naga, then it must have something to do with the temple near the Jiannie Sa's house … Monkey... ”Monkey again …”
At this moment, a few Sadu with rags wrapped around their waists came out from who knows where. These people were so-called ascetic monks, all of them with long beards, naked bodies wrapped in a gaudy rag around their waists, their faces and bodies covered in animal or human ashes as they drew all kinds of runes and patterns. These people usually did nothing but sit and meditate, occasionally smoking marijuana for inspiration, eating and drinking with the support of the believers and commoners, ignoring the laws of the government. These women looked to be young and beautiful European girls, probably tourists from India. However, most of them had lifeless eyes, and they followed the Sadu in a daze, as if they were heading towards the Holy Maiden Temple.
When Jensa saw those people, he spat ferociously at them. He explained to Yao Ling and Wei Wuji, ”These people are lying to you in the name of Sadu, the monk. Many of them are criminals, and once they become an ascetic, the past crimes will be written off and the law will not govern them. These people did all sorts of bad things, especially drug trafficking, and they used drugs and psychedelic drugs to control tourists who didn't know the truth and worshipers who came from all over the world, to cheat and amass money or pleasure. ”These European women are probably the tourists who they drugged and want to sell to the temple as holy girls.”
Wei Wuji asked in surprise: ”You can do that? Does this matter not concern you? The police don't care? And that's how these tourists are... ”
”Who cares?” No one cared, no one dared to provoke these ascetic monks. They served God's servants and served God, so even the police could not stop them. Moreover, these people would use all sorts of tricks to get the tourists to sign a contract beforehand, so this was a legal act and no one would care about it. After these tourists became their believers, they would go to their homes to ask for money to provide for Sadu. If they didn't have any money, they would be assigned to some places to work and earn money. If a woman was pretty and still had to sell herself, they would all be addicted to drugs and the ending would usually be very miserable.
”Fuck, what kind of country is this?” He nodded his head and said helplessly: ”My brother and I also deeply hate these things, but what can we do about it? These are the traditions and beliefs that have been passed down for thousands of years; no one will ever be able to change this.”
At this time, Yao Yun said to the two of them, ”Right now, we don't have the time to criticize these things. Let me ask you, do you know where these women will be sent to?”
”As far as I know, it should be some of the temples in the south of India, but I don't know where exactly. This place provides a holy maiden source for many of the temples. However … One thing was very strange. These Brahmin monks of the temple had very strict requirements of the Holy Maiden. They had to be virgins. These foreign girls … They couldn't all be virgins, right? Why had he lured them here? In the past, these tourists were sold to ordinary brothels or nightclubs, and very few were sent to be saints. ”
Yao Ling nodded her head and said to him, ”Your family also has a power here. You can only handle this matter. Find out the whereabouts of these women. I think the place they are going is the place where we can find the clues and the murderer behind the scenes.”
Back at the home of the Jian Neisa, Yao Yun told him to clean up a room for himself as a studio. Here, he and Wei Wuji studied the monkey's corpse in an attempt to unravel the mystery behind the monkey's decapitation. Jensa used her family's influence in the area to find out the origins of the children who had killed the tamed monkey, while at the same time, she planted spies in the Holy Goddess Temple to find out the whereabouts of the women. Soon the women were being sent to be saints at a temple near the border between southern India and Sri Lanka, and the children who had killed them still had no leads.
After some deliberation, Yao decided to follow the saints to South India, where she believed she would be able to find clues about the mastermind, but she also knew that there would be great danger waiting for them there.