What color is the sky?

After Chen Xian heard this question, he couldn't help but change a little when he looked at the old man, and he only felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart.

"Our sky is gray, and the smog you know?" Lu Yisheng was very enthusiastic about popularizing science for the old man, and he gestured vividly in his hand, "When the wind blows, you don't know the ash...... I'm going to get sick for a few days, and I have respiratory problems, you know? ”

"Really?" The old man looked a little surprised, because in his eyes, Chen Xian and they were more in line with the image of ordinary people, he thought that the world in which these ordinary people lived would be better than Meishan, but how did it sound..... Why don't you as well Meishan?

Chen Xian sighed, glanced at Lu Yisheng, nodded and said.

"Really."

"It's a little different from what I imagined......" The old man frowned, but his expression was not too disappointed, and finally he smiled with relief, "But you shouldn't have such an unreasonable god there, right?" ”

"Not really." Chen Xian nodded.

As soon as the words fell, Chen Xian looked at the old man helplessly.

"Actually...... If you were to be honest with us at the beginning...... We will definitely help you with your ......."

The fact is indeed as Chen Xian said, if the old man talks to them openly and honestly from the beginning, then Chen Xian has nearly a 100% chance of choosing to help him, because his character is like this, although there is no exaggeration of the heroes of the rivers and lakes who draw a knife to help each other, but he really can't tolerate sand in his eyes, once he encounters something like Meishan, he will always can't help but choose to help.

Perhaps it was because of the mentality and concept he developed since he was a child that eventually led him to enter the organization of the Secret Bureau, and regardless of whether his purpose in entering the Secret Bureau was simple, his mentality of being anxious for justice and righteousness did make many people in the Bureau have to look down on him.

Of course, he didn't believe what the old man said at the moment, after all, he was not familiar with life here, and he didn't know the roots of this old man, so it was indeed a bit difficult to fully trust him, so at this time, Chen Xian was also planning in his heart....... Assuming that this old man is deceiving his feelings, how can he be killed when he turns his face?

What Chen Xian hates the most is that others deceive his feelings, after all, he still feels sorry for these Meishan villagers now, once he finds out that his distress for them has become a joke, God knows how he will clean up this old man who is full of lies...... But by feeling, the old man didn't seem to be lying.

"Old man, is there only a priest in your village who can communicate with that god?" Xu Yanan asked suddenly.

"It turned out to be so, but in recent decades...... Maybe it's because we've all changed, we're not ordinary anymore, so we can communicate with God just by going near the altar. The old man said frankly.

Hearing this, Xu Yanan nodded thoughtfully, then looked around and glanced around silently.

"What is this forest for?"

"Hey...... Little Girl...... You're trying to ask what's going on with those dummies, right? ”

The old man seemed to have guessed Xu Yanan's mental activity, and the smile on his face became strange, and his already ugly face looked even more distorted and hideous at the moment.

"If you hadn't saved me, I'd be like them, right?" Chen Xian asked.

"Yes." The old man nodded, "This forest is a place where it receives sacrifices, and sometimes we don't bother to take our prey to the altar, just bring them here, just plant these seeds for them......"

The old man said, taking out a small cloth bag from his pocket.

Opening the rope that tied the cloth bag, the old man showed the dense "seeds" inside in front of everyone's eyes.

"Where did these seeds come from?" Chen Xian looked at the things in the cloth bag fearfully, remembering the picture of being parasitized by those seeds before, and only felt that the bones were hairy.

"Yes." The old man nodded, and put the cloth bag away, "These are the priests who asked for them from it, and then distributed some to everyone in our village...... Just slap these things on living creatures, and it won't take long for them to become like that. ”

As he spoke, the old man pointed to the humanoid landscapes not far away.

"The sacrifice will be absorbed, and finally it will merge with Meishan."

Everyone looked at the strange humanoid landscape, and there was a thoughtful expression on their faces, as if they were all thinking of something at the same time, but no one spoke...... There are too many humanoid landscapes here, and if they are all transformed from living people, under the premise that humans from the outside world cannot enter Meishan, then the only source of these sacrifices is ...... It seems that there is only Meishan Village.

"How many people are left in your village now?" Chen Xian asked quietly.

Hearing this question, the old man glanced at Chen Xian, and the smile on his face suddenly became a little weird.

"Two people."

The old man laughed, scratching his face with his thin fingers.

"It's just me and my grandson."

"What about the others?"

Chen Xian looked at those humanoid landscapes knowingly, listening to the strange laughter of the old man in his ears, and only felt a little creepy.

"A year ago, the demand for sacrifices suddenly became higher, not those animal sacrifices, only the living, listen to the priests...... It seems to be about to recover completely, it is ready to return to this world, and it says that it will lead the people of Meishan Village to the outside world. The old man smiled strangely, "It promises us glory, wealth, fine clothes and fine food, once we follow it out of Meishan, every person in Meishan Village will become the lord above ten thousand people under one person." ”

"I don't think this looks like brainwashing by a cult leader......" Lu Yisheng couldn't help muttering.

"A lot of people believe it anyway."

The old man smiled, slowly took out the cigarette case and wanted to light another one, but at this time he realized that the box of cigarettes had been smoked, and he wanted to throw it aside with a wrinkled face full of loss.

Seeing this, Lu Yisheng took out a box of unopened Chinese cigarettes from his backpack, walked over and handed it to the old man.

Unpacking the package, the old man ordered one and handed another one to Lu Yisheng.

"It tastes good." The old man said with a smile, it seemed that it was the first time he smoked this brand of cigarette, and his expression was very enjoyable, "Where did I just go?" Oh yes...... Speaking of it that promises us glory and wealth, let us voluntarily choose a sacrifice for it. ”

"The first person to be sacrificed was Mei Laosi's father, the old thing is the same age as me, and it is estimated that he will not live for a few years, so the people in the village have elected him...... In fact, I think age is only part of the reason, mainly because his temper is too stinky, and no one in the village wants to see him. ”

"After that old guy died, it would be about half a month..... The priest came back with a message, saying that the sacrifice was very dissatisfying to God, and that it wanted a vigorous sacrifice, such as a younger one, so the old people of the village were excluded, and the second sacrifice was given to the young man. ”

"Every other month, it would come to us for a sacrifice, starting with one person, then two or even three at a time...... My son and daughter-in-law were the last to be sacrificed. ”

When the old man said this, his eyes seemed to become a little dry, and he couldn't help blinking.

"Actually, I thought something was wrong with that god for a long time, but no one in the village believed it...... They think that everything that thing says is the truth, but the truth is not in its mouth, so why don't they believe the knowledge in the book. ”

The old man said bitterly, lowering his head and smoking silently.

"I used to be a teacher in the village, and when I was 20 years old, I started teaching children to read and write, and since that thing came out...... No one wanted to believe me, no one came to my class, and I once objected to its request, but because of that objection, the priest and the people of the village burned my study, saying that the truth was not in the old books, but in the deception. ”

As soon as the words fell, the old man suddenly laughed, and his shoulders kept shaking.

"The young adults in the village died, and the priest asked us to take out the child as a sacrifice, in fact, I had already guessed that its appetite was getting bigger and bigger, even if we filled the entire Meishan Village, it might not be able to feed it, not to mention that when it was enjoying the sacrifices, it was also constantly eating away at the lives in Meishan, and many animals died in the mountains and forests every day...... In the next few months, we didn't see any animals in the mountains, and only a few birds survived. ”

"In fact, the people in the village are reluctant to send their own children, so no one wants to be the first to send their own children as sacrifices to feed the bastard, but if you don't send it, you can't do it, the priests have spoken and must send it, and in the end it will be decided by lottery...... The first sacrifice that the priest drew was my grandson. ”

At this, the old man paused slightly, and his gaze scanned the nearby humanoid landscape in a complicated manner.

"Actually, I don't want to ...... like that."

The old man smiled, but he didn't look so happy.

"But we're all going to die sooner or later, so it's better to fight once, so I'll have to kill them all."