prisoner in the door

Ms. Lilissa and Ami were also quite melancholy at the moment. Who would have thought that the situation in Laogou Village would be so complicated.

Ms. Lilissa and Ami were very careful before. They did not touch the taboos in Laogou Village from the beginning. Their idea was to first investigate what happened in Laogou Village and then deal with it bit by bit.

The matter in Laogou Village is related to whether the subsequent plans can go smoothly. Ami and Ms. Lilissa are doing it with the utmost caution.

But who would have thought that this old ditch village would be so pitiful!
The two of them have already figured out the incident of the bride falling into the water. This is really a rumor.

The truth of the matter is that there is an Laoxian River outside Laogou Village, not far from the road. The reason was that a girl from another village got married decades ago. There was a heavy rain the day before the scheduled wedding date, and the road was slippery. , the bride was brought here by her brothers. She accidentally slipped and rolled down the road and into the Laoxian River.

But the outcome of the matter was not that the bride had an accident.

Just like the results of the previous surveys by Ami and Ms. Lilissa, the Laoxian River cannot drown people under normal circumstances. Not everyone who falls into the river will die. The bride herself can swim, and the brothers from her mother's side are not dead either. The bride was quickly fished out of the river, and she was fine except for being a bit embarrassed.

At first, this matter was only discussed by the villagers as after-dinner gossip. There were all sorts of things, including a lot of unpleasant things, but it was not as evil as it is now.

But not long after, the same thing happened again, but this time a girl slipped from the road, and then the girl jumped up from the river by herself. Apart from drinking a lot of water, nothing happened.

This incident was seen by the children in the village who were also playing in the river, and then it became a song and spread, and gossip was also inevitable.

It's just that this girl was not married yet, so the rumors became unpalatable as they spread. The girl's family couldn't stand these rumors, and finally married the girl away.

I just don’t know how it was spread, but the final version was that the girl couldn’t stand the rumors and threw herself into the river, so she died in the Old Immortal River.

Originally, it would have been fine if the matter had ended here, but it happened that not long after that, something happened to Lao Xianhe again. This time, a little girl had cramps in her feet when she went into the river to play in the water, and she almost drowned. Fortunately, she was rescued by the elder sister who was with her. Saved.

The little girl narrowly escaped death but was so frightened that she developed a high fever when she returned home. Perhaps because she was afraid of being scolded for taking the little sister to play in the river, the eldest sister lied and claimed that she saw a water ghost, who wanted to capture the little girl as a pawn. As a scapegoat, she risked her life to save the little girl.

This rumor spread everywhere in the village, and later it was spread outside the village. I don’t know how it spread, but it was spread that the little girl was captured by the water ghost and used as a substitute.

In fact, although the little girl was seriously ill, she did not die. She was just weak and had to be raised at home for nearly a year, that's all.

These things seem to be just ordinary rumors. Although people who spread rumors and process rumors wantonly are hateful, the fact is that no one died, and there was no evil behind this series of things.

But the trap still lies in this rumor.

I don’t know when, someone went to Laoxian River to worship the water ghost.

Some of these worshipers want to pray for peace and make offerings to the ghosts to ensure that they and their family members will not be captured by the water ghosts and used as scapegoats.

There are also those who want to harm others, give offerings to water ghosts, hoping that the person they hate can become a substitute for water ghosts.

Originally, this was nothing. There were no water ghosts in the Laoxian River, so no matter what they asked for, it would be useless.

But there is a very idealistic setting in the supernatural world, which is 'god'.

If you believe in this kind of existence, there is it; if you don't believe it, there is none.

The existence and non-existence does not mean that if one believes in him, he exists, but if he does not believe in him, he does not exist.Does this mean that if more people believe in it, a 'god' will be formed.

On the other hand, if no one believes in it, the 'god' will begin to weaken, and then there will be two results - disappearance or alienation.

What a coincidence, because of those specious rumors and the fact that there are no water ghosts in the Laoxian River, those who worship water ghosts have never been persecuted, and they have never had trouble walking by the water or fishing for fish. So they believe that their worship is useful, and water ghosts are efficacious.

These people spread rumors and spread rumors, and finally a few decades ago, a wave of activities to worship water ghosts was launched.

Ordinary people tend to believe that this kind of thing exists rather than believe that it does not exist, so they would like to pay their respects and seek peace of mind.

Then, such a 'god' was born in the water.

This 'god' is what people think of water ghosts, but the difference is that this is a 'god' born from people's beliefs. He is essentially different from ghosts, so there is no such thing in the Laoxian River outside Laogou Village. Ghost, because what is born here is 'god'.

And this one is still a male 'god'.

Originally this was nothing, just a new 'god'. If it continued like this, maybe he could still bless the land, land and people.

But the pitfall was that the rumors were processed later, and the second and third victims appeared.

These two brothers were from Laogou Village. It rained the day before and the road back was slippery. The two brothers slipped off the dirt road and directly into the Laoxian River.

Both brothers knew how to swim, but one of them had cramps in his feet when he fell. When the other came ashore, before he could wring out the water from his clothes, he found that his brother was still splashing in the water, so he immediately jumped in to save others.

It's just that the man with cramped legs was too scared, and the person who wanted to save him was clinging to him and unable to move away, and almost sank with him.

Later, God saved them both, and they finally saved their lives.

After the two men returned to the village to talk about the incident, the next day the men in Laogou Village used tools to pave stones on the road that became slippery when it rained, to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.

Originally, the matter ended here, and even the "God" saved people, so maybe it can stabilize a wave of faith.

But unfortunately, as the story spread, two more brides drowned in the Laoxian River.

People never pay as much attention to good people and good deeds as they do to tragedies. As for gossip after dinner, they prefer to talk about some 'exciting' things.

'God' is born from faith. When people's faith changes, he will also change.

Then one day, this newly born 'god' discovered that he had tragically changed his gender!

'God' couldn't accept this happening, so he always wanted to prevent this change.

But it was useless. He had just been born and did not know how to guide public opinion. He could only watch himself change.