Once at the lake, the surrounding temperature was so high that even Bai Xiu could not get used to it, and it seemed that there was indeed something wrong with it.

The lake in front of you is like a crystal embedded in the middle of the village, and the water is very clear.

"It looks like an artificial lake......" he looked at it carefully, making it much more likely that there was some kind of mechanism at the bottom of the lake.

He crouched down and stretched out his hand above the surface of the lake to carefully probe, and to his surprise, the temperature of the lake did not seem to be high, and a cold air rushed up.

His heart moved, and he hurriedly put his hand into the water, and the cold and piercing breath instantly entangled, he withdrew his hand, stood up, and walked around the entire lake.

In the end, he came to the conclusion that the heat in the village was indeed gushing from the bottom of the lake, and that the temperature of the water was indeed very low.

Hot from cold, Bai Xiu thought of a word - yin and yang, is it the problem of the lake itself?

Of course, whether this might be true or not will have to wait until the evening to see if it is true, and he has another guess in his mind that needs to be confirmed.

So he found a place to rest first.

It was an abandoned house, but for safety, he turned over the beam, found a hidden corner and sat down, and then closed his eyes and recuperated.

Unfortunately, before he could settle down, there was a soft click, and the door of the house was pushed open, and then a figure flashed in.

Bai Xiu looked at it curiously, and felt that this person was a little familiar, and immediately reacted, isn't this the ninth brother?

As soon as Brother Jiu entered the door, he first looked around, and after making sure that there was no one, he also looked for a place to rest, but he listened from time to time, obviously waiting for someone.

Sure enough, after a while, a girl pushed open the door and looked at her, she was in her twenties, with beautiful eyes and willow eyebrows, and she was very beautiful.

Bai Xiu breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably, it seems that there are still adult women in this village, but they didn't show up last night, and the situation is not as strange as he thought.

Brother Jiu hurriedly got up to greet him, and as soon as he closed the door, they hugged each other tightly and kissed passionately.

Bai Xiu was a little embarrassed, he really didn't expect that this random dilapidated house was actually the place where the two of them had a tryst.

Fortunately, they soon separated, and the girl asked curiously, "Brother Jiu, what are you asking me to do here so late?"

Brother Jiu bowed his head in silence, and said for a long time: "Lin'er, the high priests and leaders have decided, and tomorrow's sacrifice will be made by your family." ”

A strange look appeared on Lin'er's face when she heard this, pious, happy, and faintly sad.

Brother Jiu clenched her hand tightly: "Let's leave right away and leave this hellish place!"

Lin'er was obviously a little unhappy when she heard his words: "Brother Jiu, how can you say that about our home? Siyantan is a place of divine care, and it is by no means comparable to the filthy foreign world. ”

"Lin'er!" Brother Jiu hugged her violently, almost crying, "Your family is going to be out of the shadow, only you are an adult, do you want me to watch you go to death?!"

Bai Xiu thought of the previous speculation, and a terrible fact came to the surface.

There are indeed not many adult women in this village, because as soon as they reach adulthood, they are sacrificed and buried by their own hands by their compatriots, and even her closest relatives, at the best of age!

How much he wanted to question the fathers, was the smile on their faces out of love for them, or because of the ridiculous guilt and pity?

"Brother Jiu, that's not to send me to death, the high priest and the three leaders want me to serve the heavens. ”

Lin'er shook her head.

"Besides, there's nothing wrong with me going to be a yinxu, as a shade, my father and sister will be able to live without food and clothing for the rest of their lives...... And if we escape, not only my family will be punished, but so will the fifth uncle. ”

"Don't mention him!" Brother Jiu sneered, "I don't want to learn from him, he personally sent his mother to Siyantan, and finally watched her being swallowed by the pool." ”

Listening to this, Bai Xiu realized a problem.

The Tribulation Heaven in this Illusory Heart Secret Realm was obviously "created" by the Fang family, and they wanted to set up a god to control the people of Siyantan Village to work for him.

But the existence of Yin Xu pushes this possibility to a contradiction.

If it was really the Fang family who were making trouble, then they would never be able to do such a thing as a human sacrifice, after all, this was a double-edged sword, and maybe one day the villagers would turn against them because of it, unless-

Unless they have another purpose.

"Heaven and earth are yin, male yang and female yin, is it ......"

Bai Xiu sighed in his heart, it seems that he doesn't need to confirm anything tonight, he already has a clear answer.

Now, he wants to think about how to save this girl, so that all the girls in this village will no longer pay for the Fang family's desires with their lives.

The smiles of those little girls kept flashing in front of his eyes, and Bai Xiu remembered Fang Xin for no reason.

They are all so innocent and romantic, and they have the cleanest souls in the world, so in this story, they also deserve the best ending.

Lin'er smiled affectionately and bitterly in Brother Jiu's arms, and gently pushed him away: "Brother Jiu, you can't leave with you, you should go back quickly." ”

Brother Jiu looked at her desperately: "Then let me paint you another thrush, even if you have to leave, my Lin'er is the most beautiful." ”

Lin'er bowed her head shyly: "In the future...... In the future, Lang'er will trouble you to take care of her, my father is old, and Luo'er is young, so I can only entrust her to you. ”

Brother Jiu smiled reluctantly, pretending not to hear the meaning of her words: "Luo'er is our child, and I will naturally take good care of his relatives." ”

The two left in silence, but the heaviness in Bai Xiu's heart lingered.

For the "development" of the whole village, the people of Siyantan Village will consider the candidates for Yin Xu - first, they must be adults, second, no one in the family has ever made Yin Xu, and third, they should have given birth to children.

It's outrageous that they let the girls give birth to their babies and let their children watch their mothers being strangled by them.

However, the irony is that the shelter they exchanged for the girl's life is nothing more than a "utopia" made up by the Fang family.

The real robbery is far away from the world, and this impostor is clearly a monster condensed by their desires.

Pathetic, pathetic, ridiculous, hateful!

Bai Xiu made up his mind that no matter what, he would take these innocent girls out of this absurd quagmire.

A day later, Lin'er's house.

"Crackling—"

"Whoa-"

The sound of firecrackers and suona are intertwined, echoing in the long alley.

Amid the cheers of the children, a blood-colored sedan chair was slowly carried out of the courtyard.

It was Brother Jiu who walked in the front, his lips were pursed tightly, and the hand holding the sedan chair pole was trembling slightly, but he walked very steadily, more steadily than anyone else.

"Wait! Wait!"

As soon as he arrived at the mouth of the alley, he was caught up by a weak voice, Lin'er's father was hobbling with a baby in his arms, he was very anxious, the sweat wet the new black gauze jacket, and he didn't have time to pick up one of his shoes.

As he ran, he pleaded, "The boy is awake! Let his mother look at him again!"

No matter who it is, seeing his embarrassed appearance and the child in his arms waiting to be fed, it is inevitable that there will be compassion in his heart.

Everyone's eyes couldn't help but look at the village chief on the side, and the old man was silent for a while, and finally rejected him ruthlessly.

"Xiaowen, you also know the rules of the sacrifice, Yin Xu is on the 'coffin', and you can't see the light of day again, otherwise you will be angry, and our village can't bear the anger of his old man!"

Lin'er's father was in tears, and there was a low cry in the sedan chair, and the others bowed their heads and narrowed their eyes, and no one dared to speak.

At this moment, a girl pushed away the crowd and stopped in front of the palanquin with open arms.

She is very young, only fifteen or sixteen years old, but she does not see the innocence and liveliness of girls, but is a little gloomy.

She looked at her coldly: "My sister is so kind, none of you have ever received her help, but now...... You're watching her die!"

"No, not looking at ......," she muttered, shaking her head wistfully, "you, every one of you trying to kill her!"

"Wen Lang!" Seeing that the village chief's face was getting more and more ugly, her father hurriedly squeezed over and wanted to pull her away, but she easily broke free.

She seemed to have just seen him, and gritted her teeth: "Wen Zhong, you were not worthy of being a husband fifteen years ago, and you are not worthy of being a father fifteen years later!"

Her eyes turned and stared at Brother Jiu like a hook: "You are the same." ”

She pointed to the baby in her father's arms, and then to the sedan chair in front of her, and smiled: "You are not worthy to be a father or a husband!"

"That's enough!" the village chief shouted sharply, turning to look at Wen Zhong, "What's the matter with your daughter?

Wen Zhong hurriedly pulled Wen Lang over and flattered: "Lang'er and her sister have a good relationship, and they are reluctant to let her leave, so they ......."

The village chief squeezed out a smile: "For the sake of today's good day, I don't care about a child with her, the sacrifice behind is very important, you look at it, don't let her make trouble again!"

The rest of the people also persuaded her: "Ah Lang, it is a happy thing that your sister can marry Zai Shengtian as a yin, your family's merits are immeasurable, and there will be good rewards in the future!"

"Good retribution?!" Wen Lang drank hysterically, "Is it good retribution to let it take away my mother fifteen years ago, and then take away my sister fifteen years later?!"

The village chief said embarrassedly: "It's not right for the old man to let your family go out twice, but you also know that the requirements for the birth of the sky are getting higher and higher, and our village has to do several more sacrifices."

Now that she is the only adult in the village, if you don't let her go, will you half-grown children go?"

Wen Lang snorted coldly: "Then it's not good, I want to see what that Tribulation Heaven is capable of!"

Everyone's expressions changed: "Nizi, don't say this again, if you let the Zodiac Heaven listen to it, I'm afraid that the disaster of twenty years ago will come again!"

"Disaster? how come I don't know?" Wen Lang stared at them with contempt in his eyes, "I think you are really confused, using the flesh and blood of your own children to worship a god that does not exist!"

"Alas!" the man sighed, and stopped speaking for a moment.

"We will lie to you, will you also lie to you?" The village chief glanced at her and Wen Zhong, "Okay, even if you don't even believe your father, but you always have to believe your own eyes, right?

Wen Lang's face showed an unconcealed trace of fear, and when her gaze touched the blood-red sedan chair, it became firm again.

"Then I can't let my sister go, she is not married to any catastrophe at all, but to be eaten by that monster!"

The villagers whispered, their expressions both frightened and suspicious.

The village chief's eyes flashed fiercely, and he smiled incomprehensibly: "The old Wen family is unwilling to sacrifice their daughter to the Heavens of Robbery, it will definitely anger him...... In that case, let's all go back and have a good meal, and let him send everyone on their way tomorrow!"