"What? Drugs? Chen Village Chief, you are incredibly audacious! Leading the villagers to plant drugs? Even if you had a hundred heads, it wouldn't be enough!"

Song Zijian said through gritted teeth.

His best comrade had been killed by drug traffickers during a drug raid, so Song Zijian deeply detested such people!

However, Village Chief Chen vehemently denied it: "Li Jianming, don't spout nonsense. Which eye of yours saw me planting drugs? Let me tell you, even though I'm not a saint, I wouldn't do anything that harms the country and the people!"

Seeing Village Chief Chen's attitude, Song Zijian hesitated. He looked at Li Jianming and asked, "Li Jianming, are you sure Village Chief Chen led people to plant drugs? Did you see it with your own eyes?"

Li Jianming's face changed slightly, and he said guiltily, "Not exactly… but my daughter was killed just for taking a glance, and they even harmed my wife to prevent the matter from being exposed. If they weren't planting drugs, why would they be so ruthless?"

"Also, a convoy of vehicles comes to the village to collect crops every first and fifteenth of the lunar month at midnight. If those crops weren't something shameful, why would they be so secretive?"

Hearing this, Song Zijian became even more puzzled. Li Jianming's words didn't seem reliable.

If they were transporting drugs, they wouldn't be so blatant, even at night.

And a convoy coming to pick them up? That didn't sound right at all.

Village Chief Chen said with a stiff neck, "In any case, it's not drugs. And your daughter wasn't killed by me. She brought it on herself! As for your wife, their deaths have nothing to do with the Chen clan!"

Village Chief Chen and Li Jianming each insisted on their own version of events, making the already unclear case even more confusing.

At this moment, Chen Xiao smiled faintly, "You two don't need to argue. We'll find out what the Chen family is growing by taking a look! Old Chen, lead the way!"

Unexpectedly, Village Chief Chen shook his head like a rattle-drum upon hearing this.

"No, I absolutely won't go! If you want to go, go yourselves!"

Chen Xiao sneered, "Old Chen, are you feeling guilty? But do you think you still have room to bargain with me?"

Village Chief Chen sighed, "Young man, please spare me. I really dare not go. Today is neither the first nor the fifteenth. If I go, well… why don't you just shoot me and give me a quick death!"

"Old Chen, explain yourself clearly. What exactly is going on? If you still don't tell me, believe me, I'll make your end a hundred times more painful than death!"

Chen Xiao's eyes turned cold, and he said in a deep voice.

Village Chief Chen sighed helplessly and took a deep breath: "Since things have come to this, I won't hide it from you anymore. There are monsters under our Bahu Guan Village!"

"What? Monsters? Old Chen, explain yourself clearly!"

Hearing this, Song Zijian and Luo Qian were all ears.

After all, they were members of the Evil Exorcism Department, and they didn't find Village Chief Chen's words too shocking.

"Team Leader Song, I'm not lying to you. Li Jianming's daughter was eaten by that monster!"

Village Chief Chen said solemnly, "As for his foolish wife… let me put it this way, her death was exactly the same as the deaths of the thirteen members of my old uncle's family!"

"And it was precisely because Li Jianming's daughter allowed that monster to taste the flavor of a child, so after that, we had to offer it a little girl every year. This year it was my old uncle's family's turn. They failed to offer a little girl, so the monster wiped out their entire family!"

The more they heard, the more bizarre it became. Luo Qian's eyebrows shot up, and she rebuked, "So, you mean that in the past two years, you have offered little girls to that monster?"

A look of shame appeared on Village Chief Chen's face, and he muttered softly, "What else could we do? It's a monster, after all…"

"Outrageous! Then why didn't you report it to the authorities?"

Luo Qian questioned.

"Report it to the authorities? Heh…"

Village Chief Chen chuckled twice, "What's the use of reporting it to the authorities? If we reported it, the monster would kill all several hundred members of the Chen family!"

Chen Xiao asked, "It sounds like you have a cooperative relationship with that monster. Old Chen, tell me, what exactly is going on? When did that monster first appear?"

Village Chief Chen lit a cigarette for himself and slowly exhaled a smoke ring before saying slowly.

"To tell the truth, that was thirty years ago. That year, I was not yet thirty years old, just became the village chief, spirited, and single-mindedly wanted to lead the old and young men of Bahu Guan Village to prosperity!"

"You don't know, Bahu Guan Village was poor at that time, really poor. Young men in their twenties couldn't even get a wife because they didn't have money!"

Luo Qian said impatiently, "Stop talking nonsense and tell me about the monster."

Village Chief Chen glanced at Luo Qian coldly: "You girl, you can tell you've never been poor. Alright, I won't talk about the past. Let's talk about the monster."

"The monster first found me and proposed that we grow crops for it. It would give us money, a lot of money. Actually, at that time, I didn't even know it was a monster. It just looked like a young man with a somewhat shabby appearance."

"It asked us to grow crops, but not properly, but underground. I don't know what means it used, but overnight, it dug a huge cave under our Bahu Guan Village. Now almost the entire Bahu Guan Village is hollow underneath!"

"To cover it up, we built vegetable greenhouses on the ground, but in fact, what really made us money was the underground business!"

"The thing it asked us to plant grew extremely well, and we could harvest two crops a month, so every first and fifteenth of the lunar month, a convoy would come to pick up the goods at midnight, and every time they came, our village would have hundreds of thousands in income… Of course, I didn't let all the villagers participate. Charity begins at home, so I only let my Chen clan participate."

"That's why Li Jianming's little daughter accidentally broke into that underground cave and was eaten by the monster…"

At this time, Song Zijian asked, "Then how did you know it was a monster?"

Village Chief Chen smiled sadly: "Since it came to Bahu Guan Village, it has been living in the underground cave for thirty years. Even if it occasionally comes out, it is only after dark, and after so many years, its appearance has not changed at all. If you say it's not a monster, what else could it be?"

"By the fifth year, I realized something was wrong, but in order to make money, in order to lead the villagers out of poverty and become rich, even if it was a monster, even if it was King Yama, we would still cooperate with it!"

"We are really afraid of being poor!"