Chapter 32: "There Is Only One Truth to Swear by My Grandfather"
Coincidental?
Of course not.
Not only does the Fishman King hold a staff and jewelry similar to the Sacrifice, but the Fishman scales can also be used to heal curses.
Those fish-people have a close relationship with this ruin.
Jiang Zuo felt that he had gone to the bottom of the sea infested by fish-man monsters, or that he could find something.
I don't know how many pieces of land this ruin broke into, and it was not strange that one piece fell out of this broken space and fell to the bottom of the sea.
Those people were lucky enough to get the treasures in the ruins, so they have today's combat effectiveness.
However, these are always speculations, and Jiang Zuo is not in a hurry to go back to the city and run to the beach.
Continuing to search carefully, Jiang Zuo flipped through all the things that could be turned over, and finally his eyes fell on the carved murals.
The text is incomprehensible, and the mural is not complete, but Jiang Zuo can still roughly see that the content on the mural is holding some kind of sacrificial ceremony.
The altar in the ruins is almost the same as the one in the frescoes, and it seems that the function is similar.
"It's a pity that there are so many people here that I can't tell what the altar was in its original state."
Jiang Zuo thought slightly.
If he could know the original state of the altar, he would be able to deduce where the source of the curse was.
But after so much time, everyone who came here had to turn over the altar once, and it was difficult to find new discoveries on the altar.
The only way is to find the group of villagers who entered the ruins in the village, piece together their memories, and find out the main points.
Judging by the attitude of the villagers when he came in, he was afraid that he would have to brush up on their favor.
It's not much of a problem, it's a big deal to slaughter the fish-man monsters, brush more fish-man scales and send them to the villagers, and it's not a problem to improve some goodwill.
Coming out of the ruins, Jiang Zuo took more than an hour from entering the ruins to coming out.
It got darker, and Jiang Zuo walked back to the village.
Halfway through, Jiang Zuo thought about it and went offline to the comic forum a while ago.
Evening is the time when these forums are most crowded, and his plea for help should have been answered.
"I've seen this plot, but it's a bit old, and I forgot the name of the comic!"
"I remember, this comic was very popular at the beginning, it seems to be called swearing to my grandfather or something?"
"There is only one truth to swear by my grandfather", this story is "The Mountain Village Curse Murder Incident" in the seventh volume!"
"Yes, that's it! When I snuggled in the quilt at night, I was almost scared to death! ”
……
Jiang Zuo quickly flipped through the reply post and found that someone had found the name of the comic.
The name of the comic is long, Jiang Zuo is strange that a comic with this name can be popular, it is really strange.
thanked the bigwigs who replied to the post in the post, and Jiang Zuo quickly found the plot of the comic on the Internet.
"There is even a second volume of the plot of this incident, and I only watched the first volume?"
Jiang Zuo quickly flipped through it.
I remembered all the plots I had seen at the beginning.
At that time, the page that was torn out to expose the real murderer was naturally seen, and the murderer was a young doctor in the village.
After the page where the murderer is revealed, the previous plot ends, and the plot enters the next volume.
The plot of the second volume recalls the experience of a young doctor.
It turned out that the young doctor's parents, who were keen on adventure, had come to the village from somewhere and had taken him to the village at a very young age to learn more about it.
As a result, the young doctor's parents accidentally violated the taboo of the village, and the villagers, believing that they would be cursed, seized the young doctor's parents and him, and sacrificed them to the ghosts and gods of the village.
Eventually, the young doctor's parents died tragically after a horrific ritual, and his mother, not wanting him to suffer the same pain, pushed the young doctor off the cliff by the altar.
At the bottom of the cliff, there was a river, and the young doctor was swept away by the river, but he was lucky to be rescued.
The young doctor, who was still very young, lost his memory and was adopted by a middle-aged couple who had a good family environment but could not afford to have children.
Ten years later, the young doctor became a student in medical school.
One day he was in the library, and he accidentally saw a strange legend, and when he saw an illustration of a sacrifice drawn on it, the young doctor's head ached, and he remembered everything.
Dusty memories and hatred flood over him, and the young doctor decides to avenge his parents, and those ignorant and cruel villagers don't deserve to live!
So, it took him two years to get to know the village thoroughly.
Ten years on, the village seems to have not changed.
The young doctor knew everything he wanted to know, and "by chance" he met a young man from the village, befriended him, and was invited to the village as a guest.
Before he came to the village, many villagers suddenly contracted diseases, and the only doctor in the village was still out to the toilet at night, he stumbled and fell into the pit and drowned.
The young doctor came to the village, helped the villagers to cure their diseases, and became the village doctor at the warm invitation of the villagers.
In the blink of an eye, the young doctor spent three years in the village.
The villagers' various minor problems were cured one by one by the young doctor, originally because he was an outsider, and the villagers who rejected him also began to trust him.
The young doctor begins his plan of revenge.
The people of the village began to die one after another, and their deaths were exactly the same as the old rumors circulating in the village.
Cursed to death!
The village is cursed!
A few people began to die every month in the village, and panic gripped the village, and the villagers began to hire all kinds of talented people at high prices in the outside world to help lift the curse of the village.
As a result, those who were invited, some left alive, and some were similarly cursed to death.
In the end, the protagonist and his party arrive at the village.
With the help of the author, the protagonist finds a small simple symbol that has not been destroyed at the scene of the death of an outsider.
It turns out that the person who was killed actually knew the protagonist, and the death of this person led to the arrival of the protagonist.
The symbol left behind is very simple, but it appears in a mystery novel that is out of the way, and this symbol represents the meaning of "murderer", which is left in a hurry before the person dies.
The protagonist then determines that the people in the village did not die due to a curse, but were killed by some means.
The protagonist turns on inference mode.
If you want to kill someone, you have to make contact with the person who is killed.
In the village, there are only a handful of people who can come into contact with these people one by one without suspicion, especially after the successive deaths.
Young doctors are one of them.
The protagonist then pretends to discover the secret of the villager's cursed death, and asks the young doctor to attack him.
The young doctor falls into the trap of the protagonist and finally reveals his identity.
"The plot is indeed a bit similar, but there are also quite a few differences. The curse in the comics was researched by the young doctor, and the curse in the village is actually some kind of ancient microbe, he is using the curse for revenge, not in a hurry to kill everyone, but he is enjoying the thrill of revenge, making the villagers die slowly in endless fear, so that they can feel how desperate his parents were in the first place. ”
"The curse in the game, which doesn't die as long as you don't leave the village, looks like a real curse. But if it is really a curse, why do some of the outsiders who enter the village die, while others survive? ”
"Those outsiders do similar things, it's really a curse, some people shouldn't be spared, and some people are cursed, after all, only a dozen villagers entered the ruins, and as a result, the entire village was cursed."
"The only plausible explanation is that the dead did what caused them to be cursed, or was they, like the outsiders in the comics, just found some clues and were killed?"
After Jiang Zuo finished reading the plot of the comics, he thought about the difference between the two in his mind.