Atcha nodded and said, "I heard it, it's on the boat." ”

I whispered close to the boat and looked through the window, where there was a man lying inside, moaning in pain.

I've never seen this person before, and it's not Xiao Tian and their side, could it be that he is a survivor left over from the fire in the ancient village?

Several of us pulled him out of the boat, and the man woke up as if he had been very frightened, and when he saw us, he beat him with his hands.

This man looks no more than thirty years old, wears a pair of black-framed glasses, looks very delicate, and looks like a teacher on a bookish body, not at all like the dress and temperament of the people of the ancient village.

"Journalists from out of town?" That was my first reaction when I saw him, and there was only one person in the village who came in from out of town, and that was the reporter, and we had been looking for a reporter for a long time.

The man calmed down, and after seeing us, he asked in some surprise, "You?" Are you human? ”

Lei Yun said in a deep voice: "We are human, and we learned from the big tree at the back of the village that we can enter the temple on the night of the blood moon, so we came in. ”

When the man heard him say this, he relaxed and sat up straight.

"Are you the reporter who entered the ancient village to explore the customs of the ancient village?" I asked.

The man nodded with a wry smile and said, "Well, everything happened back then that I caused it all by myself, but I didn't expect that I was trapped here for so many years and never been able to get out." ”

"My name is Xu Hong, and I've been here for thirty years."

"Thirty years?" I looked at Xu Hong in amazement, he looked like he was only in his thirties, where could he be an old man in his sixties? What did he survive on?

"Well, it's been thirty years."

I briefly told him how we had come in, and he looked at me with some curiosity and said, "It was the witch who brought you here to complete the sacrifice that was not completed that year, and you all have to die here." ”

"The sacrifice that wasn't completed back then? What does that mean? ”

Xu Hong was silent for a moment, and took out a white bead from his arms, and that bead was given to the two men by the old Zhang Tou in order to buy a daughter-in-law for Zhang Lei, how could it be in his hands? Could it be that Xu Hong was the one who abducted and sold Liang Yue'er back then?

"This bead is a sacred relic in the temple, I took it away and was trapped here, the witch did so many things just to complete the sacrifice, but she couldn't finish without this bead, it seems that everything is not over."

"Mr. Xu, can you tell us everything? Why were we chosen by the witches to bring here? What exactly does she want to do? Please, can you tell us all? I said eagerly.

Xu Hong looked at my eager appearance and sighed, "Okay, what do you want to know?" ”

"Everything, everything."

Xu Hong thought for a while, and then slowly told us all the things that had happened since he came to the ancient village before.

"Thirty years ago, I came here out of curiosity about the customs of the ancient village. On the first day I arrived here, I was attracted by the tall building in the ancient village, but there were many villagers around it who did not let people approach. ”

From Xu Hong's words, I probably know that the high-rise building he said is this temple, which is obviously a temple that people don't get close to, why can he go in? What did he do to enter the temple?

"The people in the village are very avoidant, I can't get in touch with them at all, and they don't want to talk to me. I could fully understand their evasion, but I had nowhere to go after dark, and while looking for a place to live, I met a young man who took me back to my home. ”

"Young people? Who is he? ”

"His name is Zhang Lei, he seems to be very yearning for the outside world, and often asks me about the outside world like a temple, and I answer him one by one, which also makes him yearn for it even more."

Zhang! It's actually Zhang Lei!

"My friendship with him is getting deeper and deeper, and he is willing to gradually open up his heart to me, but I sometimes feel that he seems to be hiding something from me, and finally one day he told me a secret."

"He told me that his daughter-in-law was bought by his father from human traffickers, and he asked so many things about the foreign world just to know more about his daughter-in-law's previous life, but he regretted listening to the fancy world I said, and he begged me to take his daughter-in-law with him when I left."

This really made me think, I saw Zhang Lei beating her again and again in order to prevent Liang Yue'er from escaping, but now he begged Xu Hong to take Liang Yue'er away.

When he said this, Xu Hong's face had a trace of shame, "I, I'm sorry for him, I promised Zhang Lei at that time, but I don't know why the village chief found me and gave me a sum of money to let me leave as soon as possible, I thought about leaving first, and then I would come back and take the girl away when I had the opportunity, but I didn't expect that the next thing would actually kill them." ”

"When I came back again, I didn't see Zhang Lei, I thought it was strange and I went to ask the village chief, but the village chief avoided talking about my words, and took me into the temple, I really wanted to know the secret about the temple, so I didn't ask about Zhang Lei again."

"After I lived in the temple for a few days, I suddenly heard gongs and drums beating outside, and the village chief came to invite me to see the sacrificial ceremony of the ancient village, which was the first time I saw the ritual of using a living person as a sacrifice, and that sacrifice was Zhang Lei's wife, the girl I was supposed to take her away!"

"But it's not that simple, the sacrifice had to be willing, everyone deceived her, including me, the girl found out that we had deceived her, and wanted to escape, but she was caught and sacrificed in the temple."

I have seen this scene in the cemetery, it turned out that Liang Yue'er was taken directly to the temple to hold a sacrifice ceremony after being arrested, no wonder she was so resentful.

"But strangely enough, I have not seen the chief of the village since that day, but there was a very beautiful woman in the temple, dressed in elaborate costumes, and everyone treated her with respect, and then I learned that she was a witch, the high priestess of the temple."

"The person originally chosen by the witch was Zhang Lei, she used Liang Yue'er's life as a bargaining chip to make Zhang Lei willing to become a sacrifice, Zhang Lei told me that the village chief had been killed by the high priest and buried under the big tree behind the village, and he begged me to take Liang Yue'er away."

I lowered my eyebrows slightly, the big tree behind the village, could it be the big tree we saw before? Big Tree is the village head? So, the tree and the witch are not the same person.

"I don't know why, just when I left with Liang Yue'er, the witch suddenly appeared and arrested all the people into the temple, she has a very magical weapon that makes us unable to move, and when I held the ceremony, I realized that the witch's goal from beginning to end was that girl, not Zhang Lei."