After hearing Du Jie's words, the ghost did not change his mood too much, he still stared at the somewhat sluggish speaker, and then spoke slowly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Yes, this town is not as peaceful as it seems, and the reason why it is so prosperous is because of the annual sacrifices."

This is not the first time that this sacrifice has been mentioned, and Du Jie is more and more curious about what kind of secret is hidden in it.

"You've been talking about sacrifice, but what does it mean? Last night I hallucinated and saw people throwing two little girls into a deep pit, and from there I felt an extraordinary aura, is there anything else hidden here?"

"Yes, it all starts with the establishment of the town."

Decades ago, Xiangning didn't even exist, and the original site was just a village of a dozen families. They have been isolated for many years, not because they don't want to have contact with the outside world, but because for some reason there is an ancient curse here, and everyone in the village must stay here forever or else there will be a catastrophe. At first, some young people did not believe in evil at all, and they were not willing to live here for the rest of their lives, so they united to defy the ban handed down by their ancestors and left. It had been a smooth start, but that night, a dilapidated temple in the northern part of the village suddenly shook inexplicably, and then a mist drifted out. The young men were never heard from again.

In the end, when the villagers went up the mountain to chop wood, they found their corpses, and the death was extremely terrifying, as if something very terrible had happened, and several people were scared to death.

The news quickly spread throughout the village, and everyone finally believed that the curse existed. No one will ever want to leave here again. However, because it is located in the middle of nowhere, it is basically untouched, so it has not been spoiled. I believe that this is the only place in the whole world that is the pure land.

But all of that was shattered one day a few years later. A man appeared in the village without warning, and no one knew who he was, let alone how he found it. However, after this person arrived, he directly said that the curse that enveloped the village was actually not unbreakable. And he also has a way to make the village prosperous.

This was so attractive to the people of the time that it took little persuasion for the man to agree to his suggestion. However, the solution is not so simple. Sacrifices must first be made to the gods of this place, and only once a year, in order to appease the wrath of the gods, allow everyone to come and go freely, and also bless the land.

At that time, the era was relatively backward, and no matter where they were, there was a blind belief in superstitious claims. That's why some weird and terrifying things happen so often in that era. In today's society, science is gradually entering everyone's mind, so the theory of strange power and chaos has been left behind. However, there is faith and there is non-belief. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. In fact, this is also the biggest reason why the Taoist priest of Maoshan will gradually disappear.

Well, the people in the village have been trapped here for too long and don't know what the outside world is like, and the adults also hope that the children can get more in touch with society and get out of the mountain village. So at that time, I didn't have any doubts about the mysterious man's words. Even when this man proposed that the sacrifice should be made with a living person, there was no objection at all. After all, the temptation to get out of here is just too great.

Then, at the man's command, the sacrifice was scheduled for the evening a few days later. During this time, the offerings must be prepared. If it is only a living person, I am afraid that the old people will volunteer to sacrifice themselves to fulfill the younger generation. But what was terrifying was that he demanded that the sacrifice must be twin sisters, and that they should be under the age of six, and that it was required by the gods.

When people learned this, they just hesitated for a moment, and then thought that they could leave and walk out, and then they forcibly snatched the two children of a family of four in a frenzy. The parents of the children were also persuaded that this was for the sake of the future of the entire village, and that sacrificing two children was not as important as the entire village. And so tragedy struck. The two poor little twin girls were sacrificed alive. Only about two dozen people were present on the night of the first sacrifice, and they always remembered what had happened that night.

The two children, who were trembling with fear, hugged each other, but could not escape their death, and were carried by the group to a huge pit near the temple, and then threw them down. At that time, the desperate cries of the two girls kept ringing in my ears. After about ten minutes, everything was gone.

But even after the sacrifice is completed, people don't dare to try to leave the village easily, after all, no one can guarantee whether it really works, life is more important than everything. However, no one thought that in this matter, they had taken the lead in sacrificing the two little girls. The people here have so much original sin that everyone becomes selfish and even mad.

About a month after this incident, suddenly another stranger came to the village, and he was full of praise for the natural atmosphere of the place, calling it a paradise. Since then, the village has been visited from time to time, much to the delight of people. Finally some of the brave ones began to try to leave, and this time there were no more deaths. At this point, the people finally believed the words of the mysterious man. Sacrificing the twin sisters dissolves the curse of the village. However, before the man left, he told the people that the sacrifice must be performed once a year, and that the sacrifice should still be made of twin sisters, otherwise the gods would be angered and cause greater calamity.

It didn't take long for the village to come into frequent contact with the outside world, and because of the peaceful atmosphere here, many people were willing to come and live, which also made the people of the original village very happy, because if it was just a few dozen of them, they would not be able to meet the double life sacrifice at all, and now there are more people who can choose more.

In this way, there are more and more people in the village, and there are many people who come to watch, and more than ten years later, someone funded the construction of here, and gave it the name Xiangning Town, and it has been built into a famous tourist town in just a few years.

However, the annual sacrifice is still going on quietly in the dark, and every year there will be a family's twin children who disappear for no reason, and it will not be solved after calling the police. Because the police here are actually the same as those people, and even the sacrificial rules handed down from their ancestors. So no one dared to break it at all.