smuggler

Chapter 140
"This drama that has been sung for more than ten years should come to an end!"

Chu Yuan murmured, then pulled me and told me that the play had already started, we had to move quickly so we couldn't delay.

The two of us quickened our pace towards the Dragon King Temple on the hillside at the end of the village. After walking in, we found that the temple was brightly lit, and the lanterns hung high above the temple gate were all on, making the whole temple pale and pale.

But the temple seems to be very lively, because the sound of singing opera came from inside, but the sound came out in the mist, the closer it was, the more bleak the sound was, it sounded like noise, without aesthetic feeling, even Creepy.

Chu Yuan walked to the door, as if hesitating about something, but finally pushed open the temple door.

After seeing the scene in the temple, I was completely dumbfounded.

In the courtyard of the huge Dragon King Temple, a large stage was set up in front of the temple gate. Lanterns were hung on both sides of the stage, and the colorful lights reflected half of the sky in pale white.

At this time, on the stage, there were more than a dozen people in brightly colored clothes and heavily painted faces standing on the stage, making shrill and shrill voices.

When I took a closer look, I gasped, because those gorgeously dressed people on the stage were not alive at all.

What's even more weird is that the courtyard under the stage was densely packed with people, and they stared at the stage meticulously.

These people include men and women, children and the elderly, and they are all typical and authentic rural people in their clothes.

"They are the villagers of Hualong Village!?" Even though they turned their backs to me and Chu Yuan and couldn't see their faces clearly, I already guessed it.

"Ok!"

Chu Yuan was not surprised at all, on the contrary, everything seemed to be exactly as he had guessed.

Glancing at the puppets on the stage, Chu Yuan glanced at the villagers sitting under the stage. After looking around, he seemed to have found the place.

"Let's go!"

After Chu Yuan finished speaking, he dragged me into the courtyard. At this moment, I found that there happened to be two empty seats at the edge of the second row under the stage.

Chu Yuan walked over and sat in one of the seats. There was also an empty seat beside him, and around him were people with stiff faces one after another.

What makes me feel weird is that the puppets on the stage still kept on singing weird tunes, and the villagers under the stage raised their heads stiffly and looked at them with empty eyes.

No one seemed to notice our arrival.

As soon as I sat down, I clearly felt a chill rushing towards my face.

"Do you still remember the story Grandma told?" Chu Yuan asked me in a low voice.

Although I know that I am in a dream, everything around me should be extremely real, but neither of us is a physical entity now, and we are in the state of a soul.

Of course I remember everything Grandma Liu said about Hualong Village.

Chu Yuan looked at the stage and said, "If you want to break this game, you need two people. Make up for the missing two people, and this scene can really be finished. Since they don't want to come, then we The two will replace them."

"Why did you let this scene finish?" I quickly asked in a low voice.

"You'll find out soon enough."

Chu Yuan looked at the stage meticulously, and said to me in a low voice: "Don't talk, the Sages are here."

When he said this, I trembled all over my body, and then I immediately looked towards the stage, only to realize that the puppets on the stage had already stood on both sides of the stage after the song was over.

It was at this time that two people in official uniforms, a man and a woman, came out from the gate of the temple.

There were two people, a man and a woman, the man was wearing a navy blue robe official uniform, and the woman was a red official uniform. The two walked out of the door at the same time and slowly went onto the stage.

Looking at these two people, my heart beat violently. They should be the two official puppets enshrined in the village temple.

Two men and women in official uniforms came out from the gate of the village temple and stood on the stage.

The man in the navy blue official uniform had a calm and gloomy expression on his face, and when I looked at the woman in the red official uniform, I subconsciously took a deep breath, and my eyelids twitched.

This female officer puppet is the one that Chu Yuan and I saw in the Shuangsheng Temple when we first entered the village.

It seems that the appearance of these two men and women in official uniforms should be the same as when they were alive.

It's just that the current appearance of the two of them is so white under the reflection of the lights.

After the two sages came to the stage, they looked around at the villagers with blank faces and stiff expressions under the stage, and suddenly the man in navy blue let out a slight gasp.

"Today, everyone is here!"

Suddenly he spoke, his voice was extremely hoarse, and it sounded particularly uncomfortable, as if he was scratching the coffin board with his nails.

"Well, it really is!"

The red-robed female saint glanced at the stage, and I felt her blood-red eyes seem to be staring at me. I took a deep breath, and quickly imitated those around me, with dull eyes and a cold expression. .

The male saint had a sullen face, as if he couldn't figure it out, and said in a low voice: "It's been so many years, and there are still two people who haven't slept. I don't know why the seats are all full today."

"At the beginning, we made an oath to let the whole village be buried with us. We have been waiting for more than ten years for these two villagers. Now that they have come, let's let this end today."

The female saint's voice was faint, although she spoke very softly, every word fell into my ears.

"Yeah, I've been waiting for more than ten years, and it's time for this scene to end." The male saint's voice was hoarse and piercing, his eyes swept across the crowd, and he said sinisterly.

Grandma Liu said that every year when the Ghost Festival comes in Hualong Village, there will be shady operas sung in the temple.

This game has been going on for more than ten years.

After those villagers of Hualong Village died, they couldn't go out in this most yin place, and they were always controlled by these two saints.

They repeated it over and over again, and they have listened to this scene for more than ten years. If Chu Yuan and I didn't come to fill up the two vacancies, I'm afraid they would continue to repeat it.

However, after hearing what the two saints said, now that the villagers have arrived, today's drama will come to an end, but this will definitely not be a good thing.

"Since everyone is here, it's not too late. Let's finish singing this last song."

As the female saint said, she looked at the audience and giggled.

I looked around from the corner of my eye. These villagers were all ashen, and their expressions were as stiff as marionettes, as if they were empty shells.

After the two saints stepped back from the stage, they stood on both sides of the stage like puppets who had pressed the pause button at first, and then suddenly started moving again.

(End of this chapter)