It was already dark, but I saw a bonfire lit in the village.

"Old Chen, this is the memorial ceremony you said." Yang Fan asked.

Chen Ming nodded and said, "It should be, every time someone in the village dies, such a bonfire will be lit, and the whole village will surround it." But now, to prevent us from entering, there will be someone guarding the door. But we also don't bother to respect other people's traditions. ”

Yang Fan nodded, indicating that he understood, chatted with Chen Ming for a few words, and then said that he was going back to rest.

But Yang Fan will definitely not give up so easily, although this is a tradition, but now is not the time to follow the rules. Compared with human life and rules, of course, the former is more important.

Moreover, Yang Fan was also very curious about what this witch doctor was all about, and it would be better if he could talk to him.

Secretly called Linglong, and the two of them slipped into the village.

As members of the two wolf souls, people who have fought for life and death on the battlefield, it will be really embarrassing if they are found by the villagers again, so the two of them try to be careful.

The two of them were lying on a roof not far away, just in time to see the scene, but it was not easy to be spotted. Of course, under Yang Fan's signal, Linglong was still a little far apart.

In the center of the field is a large bonfire, around which all the old people and children of the village are standing, very quiet and religious.

After a while, a strangely dressed figure walked out. This person should be the witch doctor Chen Ming said.

The witch doctor dressed like a primitive man, and used clothes made of unknown materials to cover key parts. There is a mask on his face, and the lines on it are very hideous. There were also three pheasant feathers stuck in his head or something.

Looking at it from a distance, it looks like a shaman.

The witch doctor came out, holding a jar-like thing in his hand, which was supposed to contain something.

The witch doctor held the jar high above his head, and said something that Yang Fan couldn't understand. At this moment, the villagers became even more religious, and they all stared at the jar in the witch doctor's hand, staring intently.

After chanting a long spell-like phrase, the witch doctor placed the jar in his hand on a shelf not far from the fire.

After the jars were placed, he took out two unlit torches from the shelves, picked them up and danced them a few times, and lit them on the bonfire in the center.

After lighting the torch, make a cross motion with the torch on your chest and raise it above your head.

The witch doctor muttered words in his mouth, and when he finished reading, something suddenly erupted from his mouth, and the flames on the torches burst and burned, just like the tricks commonly used by Taoist priests who hunted ghosts in movies in the past.

Immediately, the witch doctor began to dance around the bonfire, holding the torch in his hand. From time to time, something will spew out of his mouth, causing the flame on the torch to burn violently.

The movements of the dance are very weird, at least Yang Fan has no way to understand. However, Yang Fan had to admit that these dance movements were very difficult, they should have their own set of rules, and the degree of body distortion was very terrifying, and ordinary people couldn't do it at all.

The dance lasted about ten minutes, and the witch doctor threw the torch into the bonfire, flicking the powder in his hand into the bonfire, and the bonfire burst into the sky with a crackling explosion.

Yang Fan has been watching very attentively, although he doesn't believe this. But in the face of being believed, as a cultured person, we must be respectful.

When the bonfire was about to return to its original state, the witch doctor threw something into the bonfire, and then a strange phenomenon occurred.

This time, the bonfire not only burned violently, but also began to glow with a faint golden light, and slowly this light became bigger and bigger, and even the eyes of the people who were shaking couldn't open them.

As the light increased, the voice of the witch doctor's mouth suddenly became much louder.

The villagers were all kneeling on the ground, as if they were meeting the gods.

Gradually, the light dissipated, and the bonfire gradually returned to its original state. The witch doctor picked up the jar that had been placed on the stand next to the campfire, plucked a pheasant feather from his head, dipped the contents of the jar and sprinkled it on the half-kneeling villagers.

After all the villagers had been baptized, the witch doctor poured the contents of the jar on the bonfire, which was extinguished little by little.

When the bonfire was completely extinguished, the witch doctor muttered a few words to the sky, and the villagers followed suit.

When it was all over, the villagers stood up and fell silent.

Yang Fan was really curious about all this, but the most curious thing was not how the witch doctor presided over such a memorial ceremony, but how they healed the disease. If the witch doctor had only served as a memorial service, he would not have been so respected by the locals.

The silence did not last long before the witch doctor said a few words and turned away.

The villagers also dispersed, grabbed the ashes from the campfire, wiped them on their faces, and went home.

"Shall we intercept the witch doctor?" Linglong asked in a low voice.

Yang Fan thought about it and forgot it, and said: "Now the relationship between us and the villagers is already very tense, if the witch doctor they trust is in trouble now, the conflict between us and them will be more intense, which is not a good way." ”

Linglong nodded and didn't say anything more.

When the villagers had gone home, Yang Fan and Linglong were ready to return to the camp. But as soon as he left, something shot at me. The two of them dodged away, and the witch doctor looked at them in a daze.

It's over, it's been discovered.

"Let's go, go into the woods." Yang Fan said that he must not go to the camp now, so that everyone knows that the two of them are here to peek, and they will run into the woods, and there will be some excuse tomorrow.

The two of them moved much faster than the witch doctor, and they dodged into the woods in three or two clicks.

Hiding in a big tree, he found that the witch doctor did not chase after him, and Yang Fanci put it down.

"It's good that he didn't come along, otherwise it would be really hard to explain." Yang Fan said helplessly.

Linglong glanced at Yang Fan and said, "I have a way to make him tell the truth." ”

Yang Fan understood what Linglong meant that as long as this witch doctor was arrested, she would have a way to find out what Yang Fan wanted to know, but this was obviously not a reasonable way, and said: "This will intensify the conflict, what we need is their cooperation." If they don't cooperate, it's useless for us to know the information. ”

Linglong nodded in understanding, but when she turned her head, she found a strange sight and said, "Look at the lake!" ”

Yang Fan also turned his head, staring in disbelief.