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Chapter 128 It's Not a Dragon, It's a Snake
After Grandma Liu explained what happened in Hualong Village over the past few years, I thought about it for a while, and I felt more and more that something was wrong.

Whether it's the Shuangsheng in the village, the Dragon King, or the snake woman guarding the temple.

It makes me feel that these things reveal an indescribable weirdness everywhere.

I tentatively asked again: "After looking for the snake lady, has Hualong Village settled down since then?"

Grandma Liu thought back to those days, her old eyes revealed emptiness and numbness, and she sighed dejectedly: "It would be nice if it was really peaceful."

"In the next few days, some villagers were still turned into puppets. Under the continuous repression and fear, some villagers had lost their original reason. Some people threatened to burn the Shuangsheng Temple, so that the Shuangsheng had no place to hide. The trouble in the village There was a lot of uproar, and several people stood up from behind."

"The villagers were driven crazy, and some wanted to stand out and join in, but they were pulled tightly by their own wives. Behind them were seven younger villagers, holding torches and heading towards the Shuangsheng Temple before dark, threatening to destroy the temple. Burn it up with a fire, and perish with the two saints."

"After the death of the old village chief, the village was in chaos, and there was no one in charge. The courageous ones were still thinking about what to do next, but the timid ones saw seven or eight young people holding torches and cursing towards the village temple. In the past, they were so frightened that they went home and closed the doors and windows, for fear that the two saints would be furious and bring disaster to the fish pond."

"I was timid. After all, my wife and I were the only ones in the village who didn't go to the theater and survived. Of course, I wouldn't get involved in this kind of uprising, and the two of us were young. The matter is already high, and I can’t take care of these.”

"That day when my wife and I came home, we closed the doors and windows and were in the house. I was also afraid that the villagers would cause trouble if they did so, but at that time, I couldn't care about other things."

"That day, the whole village was noisy before dark, but after dark, the village was so quiet that it made people panic. This kind of quiet continued until dawn."

"Sure enough, panic broke out in the village. The villagers outside the yard were noisy. I was also curious. Although I was afraid, I still wanted to know what happened."

"Out of the courtyard, I asked the neighbors next door to find out that the villagers who went to burn the Shuangsheng Temple last night have not returned yet. Moreover, they said they went to burn the temple, but the Shuangsheng Temple did not even emit any smoke."

"Because the villagers were all there, curiosity was greater than fear in my heart at that time, but I didn't feel afraid, so I followed everyone to the village temple to see what happened."

"But when we arrived at the village temple, everyone's eyes widened in fear, and some of the villagers present were so frightened that they even sat on the ground paralyzed."

"After someone screamed in horror, I went to the gate of the temple and took a look inside. Just one look, and I was so scared that I almost lost my mind."

"On the wooden beam in the main hall of the Shuangsheng Temple, there are seven corpses hanging in a line like a queue."

"And the corpses are all facing the temple gate. Basically, as long as you look outside the temple gate, you can clearly see the hideous and terrifying faces of several people."

"The eyes of those corpses were bloodshot and staring round, their mouths were gaping open, their red tongues drooping, their faces were black and blue, and they looked like hideous hanged ghosts."

"As for those villagers, they were the ones who came to burn the temple with torches yesterday. The people in the village were so frightened that their ghosts froze."

"All the villagers present didn't even have the courage to go forward to take the corpse. Some of them sat on the ground limply when they saw it, and some turned around and left. Naturally, a few villagers suffered revenge because they offended the Shuangsheng. .”

I was also terrified when I heard it. I didn't expect such a terrible thing to happen in the village after the villagers went to invite the snake woman.

"The snake woman said that the villagers were disrespectful to the Shuangsheng, and the Shuangsheng hanged those villagers in the temple. The purpose is to set an example to others!"

Granny Liu turned her head and stared at the stones engraved with densely packed runes hanging on the door, her wrinkled cheeks drooped, and her eyes were a little sad and said: "Although many people survived, since then, The village is permeated with mist all the year round, and it becomes unsettled at night, but fortunately, the snake woman brought a stone amulet and told the villagers to hang it on the door, as long as they don't go out at night, they can live in peace."

Grandma Liu said that with the stone talisman given by the snake lady, although the village will not be peaceful after dark, as long as she follows what the snake lady said, she will be safe and sound.

I also looked at the stone talisman hanging at the door. It looked like jade but not jade, like stone but not stone. The whole body was pitch black, and the obscure runes could be clearly seen.

Runes cover every part of the stone, making it look full of mystery.

"The snake woman said that we made the sin ourselves, and we can only leave the village if we atone for the sin."

Granny Liu stood up tremblingly, went to the main room shrine to offer a funeral table, lit three sticks of incense, closed her eyes and muttered something, and then piously inserted it into the incense burner.

"Atonement for sins!" I muttered, frowning.

This rhetoric made me think of the Liu family. When the snake temple was built in our village, they also used such a pretense to confuse the villagers with such words as sin.

When I was thinking hard, Chu Yuan who was beside me came over, touched my arm lightly, and looked towards the shrine.

As I looked over, I saw a folk portrait of the Dragon King pasted on the wall of the shrine door.

For some reason, when I looked up and saw it for the first time, I got goosebumps all over my body for no reason.

I've seen quite a few folkloric paintings, but this is the first one that makes my hair stand on end.

Chu Yuan whispered to me from the side: "There is something in this painting!"

I frowned and stared at the portrait of the Dragon King. Although it didn't look scary, it just gave me a chill in my spine, and the more I looked at it, the more weird it became.

"This portrait of the Dragon King is wrong. It always gives me the feeling that it is different from the other portraits of the Dragon King I saw." I stared at the portrait of the Dragon King closely, trying to find out what was wrong.

Chu Yuan said calmly: "Because, the Dragon King in this painting has no claws!"

"paw?"

I squinted my eyes, and I really saw the dragon in the portrait of the Dragon King, without dragon claws.

Chu Yuan's pupils shrank inadvertently, and he said with a half-smile, "What do you think is a dragon without claws!?"

My heart skipped a beat, I raised my head to look at Chu Yuan, a cold air seeped from my back, and said in surprise: "This painting is not a dragon king at all, and...a snake!"

Chu Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and said coldly: "This snake already has tentacles and four legs, and it looks like it will turn into a dragon soon."

In Grandma Liu's explanation, I feel that the snake woman is not a good person, but seems to be for some purpose.

But until now, I saw this snake painting.

Suddenly, an unprecedented fear and palpitation rose in my heart.

(End of this chapter)