Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 32 Human sacrifice
Usually bandits go down the mountain to attack big households just for money and food.After getting what you want, don't you think it's troublesome to dig up the ancestor's grave, dismember the body, etc.?

The relationship between this group of bandits and the Tang family seems to be more than simply robbing and being robbed.

At Lu Ming's request, Huang Weimin immediately focused his follow-up research on the Tang family.

So more details were collected bit by bit from every corner of these ancient books and from the background of the rest of the stories.

""Floating Strange Records" records that after the collapse of the Tang family, the local government sent officials and minzhuang to search the Tang family mansion after it was set on fire. As a result, many people were found in the ruins. Things like gold, silver and treasures. Well, it seems that the gang of bandits who wiped out the Tang family didn't search the Tang family's house strictly."

This further confirmed that the reason why the bandits destroyed the Tang family was not for money, at least not just for money-after revenge, the robbery of money seemed more incidental, so so much was missed.

""Tingfeng Pavilion Book" records that after the collapse of the Tang family, nearby villagers found many statues of mountain gods with large heads and small bodies in the ruins of the Tang family. The yamen servants also found an underground palace, which contained "many strange things". Flying iron birds, small talking boxes and so on. Later, the county magistrate thought these things were unlucky and "burned them" and burned them all."

Lu Ming frowned gradually.

If the previous records only made the Tang family more suspicious, but now these descriptions can almost be regarded as a real hammer.

Flying iron bird?Is it a drone?

Talking small box, is it a tape recorder or a mobile phone?

A statue of a mountain god with a big head and a small body?

According to common customs, even if a big family wants to worship, it should also worship Buddha statues and gods. Such a large-scale worship of mountain gods makes it hard not to make people wonder what is weird about it.

"Mr. Huang, isn't there a legend about offering sacrifices to mountain gods in the book?"

Lu Ming seriously suspected that the Tang family made their fortune by sacrificing their population to the mountain gods.Now that so many statues of mountain gods and so many "rare things" have been seized, it stands to reason that there should be an uproar in the local area.And this, whoever recorded it at the time, was unlikely to have missed it.

"No." Huang Weimin shook his head: "But this is normal. When the Tang family was destroyed, it had been more than 200 years since that poor boy. We later sorted out the context and connected these things together. For the people at that time Humans have long forgotten about it.”

Lu Ming nodded and continued to think in his head.

"There is another strange thing here."

Huang Weimin pointed to an ancient book, and said slowly: "It's also "Floating Strange Records". Well, the time was before the collapse of the Tang family. At that time, a woodcutter entered the mountain, accidentally lost his way, and inadvertently walked around When I came to a certain cliff, I saw a village in the valley below that I had never heard of before. In the village, the men farmed and the women weaved. It was peaceful, and it seemed that there were warriors protecting it.

He was afraid that he had encountered a mountain spirit ghost, so he ran away in a hurry.After finally returning home, I began to publicize the matter, but I tried to find it again, but I couldn't find it.Not long after, the person also disappeared inexplicably.

Later, another mountain hunter said that he also saw the legendary village.But all he saw was that the village was deserted, the fields were deserted, and the houses were almost submerged in weeds, as if they had been abandoned.Not long after, the Orion also disappeared.

The author of "Floating Strange Records" heard about it and recorded it.He thought it was an illusion created by the monsters in the mountains. Anyone who saw it would be seduced and disappeared. "

"There are still..."

There are many things that may or may not be related to the Tang family, which were unearthed by Huang Weimin one by one.So, in the regular meeting that night, Lu Ming told all these things.

Zhang Dingshan was absent from the regular meeting due to other matters.This time, only Lu Ming, Lu Qingliang, and He Wei participated.

After hearing what Lu Ming said, the two fell into a long silence.

"This Tang family, which originated in the Chongzhen era, is very likely to be the family that we guessed, accidentally learned the truth about the sacrifice of the mountain god, and gradually mastered the 'core law', so that it can stably obtain benefits."

On this point, all three have no objection.

Whether it is the numerous statues of mountain gods, or the "strange objects" excavated from the underground palace, which were all burned by the county magistrate as an unlucky reason, or the strange family history of this family, etc., all prove this point .

"But... Mr. Huang and I have collected a lot of information about the history of the Tang family since its founding, but we haven't found any records about the frequent disappearance of local people for a long time."

Occasional disappearances, such as falling off a cliff or being kidnapped by human traffickers, are unavoidable. These things are very common and will not be recorded in history books.

But if there are long-term, stable, and frequent missing persons, it will definitely attract attention.With so many materials, there should always be one or two records.

But none.

He Wei suddenly said: "That village that resembles Peach Blossom Spring is weird."

"Oh?"

"Is it possible... that this village is a 'human sacrifice' raised in captivity by the Tang family? The ancestors of the Tang family found the law for the success of a stable sacrifice, so they arrested some of these people, found a secret place in the valley, and put These people were raised in captivity, let them reproduce naturally, and then regularly took people from the village to sacrifice to the mountain god?"

Lu Ming trembled all over.

If speculation is based on this basis, then there will be a different explanation for many things recorded in ancient books.

For example, the "samurai" that the woodcutter saw seemed to be protecting the village, but they were not actually protecting the village, but the guards sent by the Tang family to guard the village.

The ruins Orion saw later were the Tang family's awareness of the location of the village being leaked, so they abandoned this place and chose another place to keep these people in captivity.

The deaths of the woodcutter and the Orion were not, as the author of "Floating Strange Records" believed, because they were seduced by mountain spirits and ghosts, but rather...

The Tang family killed people in order to keep their secrets.

Even further, those bandits who wiped out the entire Tang family—even women and children among them, did not seem to attack the Tang family for money, but for revenge and vent their anger. Are these bandits the same? villagers?

Lu Ming had to admit that this was very possible.

Now, the only doubt left is the mystery of the destruction of the Tang family.

After all, a huge family that has been in business for hundreds of years is so powerful that it doesn't look like it can be wiped out by a group of ragged bandits, including women and children.

So……

It's like the possibility that our side had already guessed when we first formulated the standard, that is, the golden cicada escaped its shell?
In order to prevent people from associating their own family with "sacrificing mountain gods", the Tang family deliberately feigned death to escape?
On the surface, the family died, but in fact it changed to another place and started again?
But this is also somewhat unreasonable.After all, it is clearly recorded in historical materials that many statues of mountain gods were found in the ruins of the Tang family.

Isn't this deliberately drawing people's attention to the mountain god?

Lu Ming couldn't figure it out, couldn't figure it out.But one thing is at least roughly certain.

"Through the family inheritance model, it is possible to gain benefits by offering sacrifices to mountain gods stably. This kind of thing is likely to be real. Maybe... the Tang family is not the only one who discovered this secret? Or, because of some For some reasons, the bandits did wipe out the door, but there are also survivors who escaped with this secret, and then made a comeback?
A more extreme possibility is that there may be some ancient books and materials handed down from the Tang family. After decades or even more years, other irrelevant people also grasped this secret and reorganized the X organization? "

If this is the case, then the attempt to find out the X organization by tracing back the Tang family has also ushered in failure.

"But there is always one core point, that is, if you want to gain stable benefits by offering sacrifices to mountain gods, you cannot do without two factors: first, the place for offering sacrifices to mountain gods is in Woye County or in the surrounding mountains. It is impossible for the executors to be too far away. Second, there must be a steady stream of people with the Hag.1 gene as sacrifices."

That is to say, after the demise of the Tang family, if there are still inheritors in the follow-up—whether the Tang family faked death to escape from the mountain and make a comeback, or the survivors who mastered the secret revitalized the family, or through various channels, they also mastered the rest of the secret. People, their influence, must also be in this area.

Moreover, it is very likely that a stable supply of sacrifices can be obtained through the method of "captive human animals".

Then what to do next is very clear.

Continue to search for other big families similar to the Tang family in the historical materials.

These big families may overlap with the Tang family's existence - after all, it is also possible that not only the Tang family has grasped this secret;

After all, the existence of the Tang family has proved the rationality of this model.Then, Organization X is more likely to be inherited from ancient times through this model.

"Ugh."

Lu Ming sighed.

He knew that for the next period of time, he would be accompanied by those troublesome ancient books again.

Time slipped away slowly like this.During the day after day of research and data collection, one night, Lu Ming was suddenly awakened by the sound of hurried footsteps.

Both Lu Ming and Huang Weimin raised their heads full of doubts, and temporarily turned their attention away from the ancient books.

Then Lu Ming saw several heavily armed soldiers rushing in.

(End of this chapter)