Chapter 142: (one more)
Pretend is more valuable than sincerity, and status is more valuable. If it is for life, both can be thrown away.
An Ji thought that he had been praying for a long time, as long as Tang Xiao let go, they would be able to leave here quickly.
Who knows Tang Xiao's answer is - she is not completely sure.
Staying here is risky, leaving now is more risky. Villages at night are countless times more dangerous than during the day. There is no difference between leaving rashly and dying.
Everyone who heard Tang Xiao's words felt that Tianling Gai was faintly chilled.
Unknown and omnipresent dangers are far more terrifying than actual and visible dangers.
And what's even more frightening is that they don't even know what the danger is now.
The night will soon fall again.
Tang Xiao didn't say a word of nonsense, and directly separated several spiritual light spots and attached them to everyone's arms.
The holy "God Light" floated down in the night sky, making everyone feel at ease.
feel.
However, Tang Xiao said: "From now on, don't care what I'm doing. The light spot on your arm tells you to do what you want. If the light spot goes against my words, It's all based on the light spot and the yellow paper bag on your chest, understand?"
Spiritual power is equivalent to a part of Tang Xiao, and the yellow paper bag is a prop in the alliance field. As long as she's still there, no matter how creepy the memes in the village are, they can't contaminate these two things out of thin air.
But the mental defense line of everyone, including Anji, is too fragile in front of memes. What the world they saw was like, even Tang Xiao couldn't guess.
After explaining this, she asked everyone to prepare weapons and armor, and took the initiative to find the wooden houses of those villagers.
Since the villagers are afraid of the night, they will go with the night to find them... to find out the truth of the matter.
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The young woman hugged her child tightly. Today is different from the past. She hugged her daughter tighter, as if she wanted to stuff her into her body to feel at ease.
The narrow space and difficult breathing made the child's cheeks gradually turn blue, and the child struggled weakly.
"Don't move, don't move... Do you want to get out of here? No, you will die, we will all die..."
The woman was pale and put her arms around the child, not letting her move.
The strength of the child and the adults could not be resisted, the twitching and struggling hands and feet slowly slowed down, tending to a deadly calm.
The woman didn't realize it, she sighed in relief while holding the child's swollen and blue face, but the next moment, the door of the wooden house was suddenly knocked!
"Bang, bang, bang."
Holding the child's hair, he threw it towards the corner, desperately trying to get further away from the door.
"Boom!"
The wooden door that could not get a response was kicked open, Tang Xiao appeared outside the door, tilted his head and looked at the woman: "I heard from my companion that I saw you during the day, are you interested in chatting? "
The woman trembled and shrank in the corner, different from when she attacked Anji and others during the day. Holding the child tightly, she whispered a series of incantations with strange notes, praying that no one from outside would enter the house.
Tang Xiao: "You strangled your child to death."
She stared at the child for a while, then suddenly pushed the body away and screamed: "I didn't kill it, it was you! You killed my child!"
"But it's okay, you guys will be gone soon...but my child won't die, she'll live forever..."
The woman dragged the child back into her arms, and laughed madly: "You are dead, those who enter the village can't get out alive. You die quickly, so that we will not be affected. been punished…"
"Punished by whom?"
Tang Xiao raised his legs and stepped in, the woman suddenly widened her eyes.
She shook her head and muttered: "How can you enter the door, the gods haven't allowed it yet, the dying people can't enter the believer's house... Go out, go out!"
She found a blackened bone from the moldy wood beside her, and drove away as if holding a staff: "Get out of here, stranger, blasphemer, **** sacrifice Pin... woo woo don't bother us, let us go..."
The woman was crying and laughing, and the words she said were topsy-turvy, obviously crazy.
Tang Xiao looked at her quietly.
When she stepped into the room, she did feel a slight resistance, but the spiritual power disappeared without a trace. I don't know if it's because of the "spirit" this woman said.
An Ji, who was behind her, saw the woman's behavior, but her face changed, "This mortal actually knows the spell to sacrifice to a cult/cult, is she a believer of the cult/cult?"
Memories of past lives come into play at this time. Angie illuminated the house with torches, and there were many strange and twisted characters engraved on the walls of the wooden house, which could correspond to the number in memory.
At the same time, Tang Xiao also received these messages.
The prayers recited by young women are very similar to a cult/cult called "Blood Sacrifice". The translation is "great blood god, take away our sacrifices, please help us drive out the enemy, may the blood satisfy you" and so on.
The lines on the wall are also symbols of the blood sacrifice sect. In Angie's last life, the sect was purged by order of Mount Olympus not long after. The true identity of the "Blood God" is actually a monster from the bottomless abyss, trying to deceive mortals to gain believers in order to become a new god.
I just didn't expect that "Blood Sacrifice" would have a connection with this small village.
The mad woman is very sensitive to the word blood sacrifice, and immediately laughed sharply: "Sacrificial, yes, strangers are our sacrifices. Once a stranger a year, the gods will bless us... But there are One day, a sacrifice escaped, oh, she escaped!"
"The punishment of the blood **** has come, and my husband and father have all left... ah!"
The woman suddenly fell to the ground and began to convulse, blood came out of her facial features, and she was still holding the dead daughter's small hand tightly.
This scene is depressing and uncomfortable, Tang Xiao knows that she can't ask anything from her.
"Let's go."
Exiting the house, the torches held by everyone suddenly flickered twice, and the torch closest to the wooden house suddenly went out.
In the dim light of the fire, a childish voice and a woman sobbed. The group quickly turned around and saw that the mad woman who fell to the ground stood up at some point, leaning on her legs against a little girl who was short of her waist. Her fair cheeks were not bruised at all, and she looked at everyone curiously.
Just as everyone exited the wooden house, the mother and daughter were resurrected!
At this moment, everyone seemed to understand what the woman meant when she said "My child will not die, she will live forever".
Are all the people in this village able to live forever?
The door of the hut closed automatically with a bang, and in front of everyone there were only many wooden houses scattered in a row, which appeared ghostly in the night.
Full of doubts, everyone entered more wooden houses.
There is only one woman in these houses and the occasional child. Their mental state was the same, and they refused to answer any questions from Tang Xiao. Only when they are extremely frightened will they madly leak information about the blood sacrifice.
In addition to the influence of Tang Xiao's mental power, some people with weaker psychology can say more information. And every woman who told part of the truth of the past would start to bleed and convulse from seven orifices, and they could not be resurrected until everyone else left the wooden house.
Every female villager said something, and by piecing together countless pieces of information, the background of the village gradually became clear.
This was repeated until the dark night was a little diluted and the burning torch came to an end, and Tang Xiao stopped at the door of the last wooden house.
"Do you understand?"
This is for Angie.
An Ji's expression was still in shock and disbelief. She thought that this night attack on the villagers was just a direct way of Tang Xiao's habit, but she didn't expect the truth to be so horrifying—
…
It is located in the wasteland north of the royal capital, surrounded by closed and narrow stone mountains. It has been called "Little Rock Village" since a long time ago.
Little Rock Village, like other small and remote villages, is like sunrise and sunset. But there is only one difference, and that is that the village secretly worships a **** - "the **** of blood."
The villagers firmly believe that the blood **** is a newly born **** who is about to enter Mount Olympus. As long as their beliefs are pious enough and the sacrifices are rich enough, when the blood **** has completely become a righteous god, they will be given a steady stream of benefits.
To this end, they sacrifice a foreigner every day. During the sacrifice process, the men in the whole village will cover their faces and surround the altar to bleed the "sacrifice".
Women and children are responsible for staying in the wooden hut, waiting for the sacrifice to be completed, they move out the meat and black bread, and the whole village celebrates together.
This kind of sacrifice has been followed for an unknown time. However, seventeen years ago, everything came to an abrupt end:
For a whole year, not a single foreigner passed by Xiaoshi Village.
No foreigners means no sacrifices. The villagers were so terrified that after countless sleepless nights, they decided to use the villagers as sacrifices.
After consideration, they chose the only orphan girl in the village. The orphan's parents died early, and one person grew up in Xiaoshi Village. She has grown into a beautiful girl - both fragile and holy, and it is a very good sacrifice.
Everything went very smoothly until the day of the sacrifice, the orphan girl did not know what method she used, but she replaced her bound position with a wild boar and escaped!
—Sacrificial escape is followed by sacrifice of sacrifice. From this day on, Xiaoshi Village fell into a nightmare.
First, the food and clothes at home began to stink and mold, producing poisonous insects and black flowers.
And then, overnight, all the old people in Xiaoshi Village dried up and died.
A huge panic and sadness enveloped the village, just when the villagers were desperate, a sage in white came to the village.
The narrator is a young girl thinner than a match, her hair is messy like grass, curled up in the corner, nervously whispering the name of the sage in memory, "Tels... His name is Tris."
If panic was contagious, then Lusa's expression was not inferior to that of any villager.
Unfortunately, his panic and shock could not affect the rest of the story coming to the surface.
Tels came to Xiaoshi Village and accepted the villagers' help. After walking around the village a few times, he finally concluded that the evil **** was at work. So he asked the men in the village to remove the large stone plate used as an altar out of the village and throw it into the deserted forest. And cast a spell, so that the stone plate will stay in place forever, unable to return to the village. Before leaving, the sage came to the conclusion: This will prevent the evil spirits from continuing to harm the village.
In the first two months, Little Rock Village did return to its former serenity. But slowly, the women found that the men in the whole village seemed to leave in the middle of the night in a daze, and didn't come back until the light of day, and then forget everything that happened at night.
This phenomenon continued for an unknown amount of time until one day, screams spread throughout the village.
The men are back, but they forgot to bring their skin and flesh.
The women finally realize that their husbands are no longer human... They continue to move around the village during the day, but their behavior is getting weirder. Often while teasing the child, the seven orifices bleed and the flesh rustled, and the child giggled without any fright, grabbed his father's eyeballs and put them in his mouth.
The female villagers were very scared. They wanted to take their children to escape, but found that they could never go out again... No matter how long they walked, there was always only Xiaoshi Village in front of them. So they decided to build a huge fence to keep their husbands out of the village and prevent them from returning to Xiaoshi Village.
In the early morning of that day, all the female villagers were hiding at home with their children in their arms. Outside, there was overwhelming roaring, attacking and shaking the fence, and the squeaking sound of broken bones... They stayed up all night until the sun Sprinkled into the village, the sound outside disappeared without a trace.
The woman finally breathed a sigh of relief and opened the door of the house with her child.
Outside the door, her husband with twisted limbs stood in the sun, smiling at the child.
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"And then what?"
Wushi couldn't help asking.
"No then, this is the last memory of the village girls before they go crazy."
And then, everyone went crazy. People who have gone mad are already confused, and they don't even remember what happened.
"Since everything is caused by the curse of blood sacrifice, is it possible that as long as we find a way to break the blood sacrifice, we can lift the curse and leave successfully?" Red Nose asked stupidly.
"Don't forget, seventeen years have passed in between." An Ji said quietly.
Seventeen years have passed, and no one in the village has grown old. If what these people say is true, wouldn't the children in this village have been "young children" for seventeen years?
Are they still human?
"The blood sacrifice is carried out at night, and the male villager's abnormality also starts at night. No matter what causes all this is the curse of the blood sacrifice or what, its power will be particularly strong in the dark night."
Tang Xiao analyzed without haste, not letting go of any detail:
"However, over the past seventeen years, female villagers and children have experienced countless nights like this. Why haven't they been assimilated into the same existence as male villagers?"
"Today we are divided into two groups, both inside and outside the village, and there are no male villagers. If they become unkillable and unstoppable monsters, then Why did they disappear from the village?"
For the current Xiaoshi Village, if the two characteristics of "repel outsiders" and "may go crazy at night" are removed, although it is desolate, it is calm, and it does not look like the scene of the disaster. . This is also the reason why people mistakenly thought it was an ordinary village at first.
Angie was a little confused: "You mean..."
"There is no expansion, and a delicate balance is maintained. There must be two diametrically opposed forces operating at the same time."
Tang Xiao also tried repeatedly with memes, and after walking through all the wooden houses this time, he was able to determine a fact: the existence of memes is not the only one that affects the village.
It also means that in places they didn't find, there is another power hidden in Xiaoshi Village, under the control of memes, to protect the remaining people from being completely polluted.
"And to know where the power comes from...just find the man who hasn't been there yet."
As soon as Tang Xiao's voice fell, a figure instantly appeared in An Ji's mind:
"It's Mengli! We searched all the villagers' houses just now, but we didn't see her!"