cloudy day

Chapter 496
"What? Human sacrifice!" The three of us were taken aback by hearing this. I've heard of human sacrifice. Human sacrifice was popular in the Shang Dynasty in ancient times, using living people and wild animals to sacrifice ancestors and gods.So far, it has been said that this cruel method was also used when building buildings and bridges.

I asked foolishly: "Could it be that they take living people..."

The village head nodded solemnly, and said to us: "Yes, it literally means using living people to sacrifice... But we won't kill people, but help people get rid of it."

"Relief?" I asked suspiciously, the more I listened, the more I couldn't understand.

"Every year in our village, there will be 'old' people who will live to 36 years old. They will willingly sacrifice their lives to pray for the village. They also hope that their souls will be protected by the ghost general after death. After making troubles in the underworld, he was conferred an official position just like Monkey King who made troubles in the Heavenly Palace, but he was not a petty official like Bi Mawen." The village chief explained.

We breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. We didn't expect the priests in Guimen Village to be so special, but this made me even more curious about tomorrow's sacrifice activities.

The village head was about to take us to other places for a walk, and my eyes suddenly noticed an antique, red-tiled old house not far from the Ghost Ancestral Temple, which seemed to be almost as large as the Ancestral Temple.

I pointed to the house and asked curiously: "Brother Village Chief, that house looks very grand. It is bigger than the old house of the Sun family in our village. Who lives there?"

"That's the house of the previous patriarchs of our Ghost Clan, and the current patriarch lives there," said the village chief.

"Patriarch? Aren't you the patriarch of the Ghost Clan?" I asked strangely.

The village chief smiled slightly, "I'm just a village chief who runs errands. Seeing that I refused to marry a wife, the patriarch punished me to be the village chief who handles daily chores. In terms of prestige and status, I'm almost They can't be ranked."

"It can't be..." I said with a smile, and at this moment, I accidentally saw two villagers pulling a crying young woman, just like escorting prisoners in ancient times, dragging her into the old building. House.

I asked in amazement: "Village chief, what...what's going on?"

"Maybe our clan made some mistakes, and we were taken to the patriarch to reprimand...don't worry about it, let's go look elsewhere." The village chief said in a secretive way, obviously he was lying.

But I didn't want to ask too many questions, so I had to follow him around the village. The living area of ​​this ghost gate village is not big, so we walked around every corner in the evening.

My feeling is that this ghost village is very rich, the scale of the farms and farms is very large, all the roads are flat asphalt roads, street lamps, trash cans and other facilities are very complete, and there is even an independent village in the village. Buildings such as power stations, signal towers, etc.

I'm curious about the source of funds for this ghost village. How does such a closed village get its income?

Before we knew it, we came to the back mountain of the village, and the flat road turned into a muddy and rugged mountain road. I saw a wooden house on the path leading to the back mountain. The light was still on in the wooden house. who.

And when I looked up at the back mountain, I suddenly felt that the mountain seemed to be shrouded in a yin energy, giving people the feeling of the eerie and strange Yinling mountain.

But the more mysterious it is, the more attractive it is. There seems to be a kind of magic in the mountains, which attracts me to step forward...

But I didn't take a few steps, the village chief grabbed my shoulders tightly, and said with a gloomy face: "Changsheng, the back mountain is a forbidden place for our clan, even I can't enter it! Don't blame me for not warning you, after this Once you step into the mountain, it will be beyond redemption! It will make our people go crazy, like hell on earth!"

(End of this chapter)