"What a poor woman, what happened to her?" Qi Lu couldn't help but feel pity, if he encountered this kind of thing at that time, maybe there was a way to save the woman, right?

"Later, the temple in the village came forward." The old man hesitated for a long time, but continued to finish this tragic story.

This temple still has some skills, when he was young, he was a Red Guard, in the days of the national series, he met a hermit on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and learned the ability to walk yin and yang. Fortune telling, settling down in the house, and summoning spirits are all not a problem, so the village chief invited him to treat his daughter's illness.

This temple blessing came to the woman's house and looked around, and said that the yin qi in the house was too heavy, and there were demons at work. Women are not suffering from strange diseases, but are haunted by evil things.

The family was busy begging him to drive away the evil spirit, but Miaozhu said that the evil thing was too fierce, and he was not too sure, but for the sake of the village chief's face, he had nothing to do.

He said that this evil thing is related to water, and it is necessary to take the woman to the beach and soak her body in the water, so that she can see through the true body of the evil thing. At the same time, it is necessary to practice at night to force out the evil things hidden in the woman's body.

Seeing that the matter had been settled, the village chief hurriedly arranged for a few brave young people in the village to accompany Miaozhu to drive away evil things.

After taking the woman to the beach that night and letting her stand in the water, Miao Zhu said that the crowd of people may make the evil creature alert, so as to take the opportunity to possess unrelated people.

The village chief understood what he meant, so he let the irrelevant people scatter away, and he also went home under the persuasion of Miaozhu to wait for the news, leaving only the young people invited by the village chief at the scene.

As a result, the next morning, when people came to the beach, they found Miaozhu's body floating on the sea, half-sinking and half-floating, and the young men and sick women had fainted on the beach.

When they woke up, no one could tell how Miaozhu died, and when they asked the young people, they didn't know what was going on.

They just vaguely remembered that when Miao Zhu was holding a peachwood sword to practice, someone saw waves on the sea level, and then smelled a special smell, and their brains seemed to be particularly wrong, and the whole person fell to the ground and fell asleep.

However, the woman fell into a coma later than the young men, and she faintly heard the sound of thunder before she fell asleep, but the moon was shining in the sky, and she seemed to see the dragon rising out of the waves. After that, she didn't remember anything else.

This thing is very strange, and it is still a mystery, so no one can say how Qing Miaozhu died. Later, the local police station was alarmed, and the police also came to check the scene, but they could not find out the cause of Miaozhu's death, and finally the case could only be closed by drowning.

Since the village chief took the lead in carrying out this activity, in the eyes of the government, this was an out-and-out superstitious activity, so the higher authorities decided that he was propagating superstitious ideas, and decided to remove him from his post after studying. After the incident, the official blocked the news so as not to cause a bad impact on the local area.

But the matter did not end there, and the village chief's daughter went crazy after that ceremony, and often foamed at the mouth in a frenzy, telling others that the dragon was angry and wanted to punish the whole village.

No one took the woman's words seriously, but after this incident, the well was completely filled in, and a small hill was piled out of discarded earth and stones.

And the poor madwoman, one night while her husband was unprepared, ran out alone and committed suicide by throwing herself into the sea. The next day, her body floated on the shore of the sea like a dead temple blessing and was not washed away.

When her husband scooped her up and dragged her to the shore, something strange happened, and the body of the madwoman actually stood upright, pointed to the seashore and said, "Your greed has angered the gods, and only selfless blood can appease the wrath of the gods!" ”

When the cursed words came out of the corpse's mouth, for a moment, the whole heaven and earth fell silent, and the white clouds floating in the air turned into palpitating dark clouds at some point, quickly gathering towards the sky above the madwoman's corpse, and a thunderbolt suddenly sounded in the clouds.

"It's not good, it's a corpse!" Everyone present was terrified, even the madwoman's husband left his body and ran for his life, they were all fleeing from this cursed place.

The rain was pouring down from the sky, the sea was roaring, and the huge tsunami engulfed all the fishing boats that had stopped on the shore, taking the body of the madwoman with them.

Since then, fishermen who have gone out to sea to fish have suffered. Suddenly, they would hear a woman singing in the sea, and a woman's figure would rise from the sea in the distance.

At first, the fishermen thought they had encountered a mermaid, but when you approached the boat, you realized that the woman was not a mermaid at all, but a madwoman who had long since died. The scales covered in her body are long gone, and she has returned to her original form.

But this is not a good thing for the fishermen, who are swallowed up by the sudden waves that come close to her, and most of the people on board are buried at the bottom of the sea.

The woman has become a demon in the ocean, a haunting nightmare for the villagers.

What's even more terrifying is that a few fishermen who escaped her clutches said that when the boat sank to the bottom of the sea, they saw the shadow of their village's shelter god Sea Dragon behind the woman!

Some people say that the sea dragon who rescued their ancestors was actually an old demon who eats people and does not spit out bones, and the madwoman is its ghost, first luring the ignorant fishermen to her with a sweet song, and then the sea dragon devours all these poor people.

Some people also say that it was because the madwoman's resentment was too heavy and attached to the sea dragon, causing the good dragon god to become an evil youkai.

The rumors spread more and more, and finally alarmed the government. Because the whole incident revealed an evil nature, and the fishermen died one after another, the city leaders sent a joint working group to Hailong Village to investigate.

This is also strange, since the team was stationed in the village, the mad woman has not appeared again, but fishermen go to sea and capsize their boats inexplicably.

The working group investigated and found no evidence that the fishermen who died in the sea were related to the paranormal event, except for some obscure rumors.

In the end, the city came to the conclusion that because the sea near the village is complex and changeable, and there are many reefs, it is prone to shipwrecks. And the crazy woman and the huge sea dragon that the villagers said were just the collective hallucinations of the villagers, and they were not to be believed.

When the working group left, it demolished the Dragon King Temple according to the leader's arrangement, resolutely preventing the resurgence of feudal superstition and preventing the people's hearts from fluctuating and affecting their daily lives.

Of course, these reasons were not convincing to the villagers, and they privately pooled money to hire a few groups of Taoist priests to drive away the madwoman's soul, but to no avail.

Before those Taoist priests were invited, they boasted about Haikou one by one, saying that this matter was just a piece of cake, but when they went to sea to suppress the souls of the dead, they all capsized and fell into the sea like fishermen, and some of them did not even find their bodies. The remaining few who were rescued by the villagers ashore also immediately rolled up and left, and they didn't even want to be paid.

In the end, it was Miao Zhu who came up with an idea to settle the matter.

Hearing this, Ding Xiaolan asked curiously: "Uncle, did Miaozhu eliminate the woman's soul?" ”

Yan Jun sighed and said, "No, but his method has indeed made the village peaceful for more than twenty years." ”

"What's going on here?" Not only Ding Xiaolan, but even Qi Lu also wanted to urgently understand the reason.

"Alas, the method he proposed is human sacrifice!"

"Human sacrifice!" Ding Xiaolan bit her lip and stopped making a sound.

Human sacrifice is naturally the use of human sacrifice, that is, the use of the lives of living people to appease the wrath of ghosts and gods. Although this method is very effective, it is too cruel and has been abandoned by anyone who knows a little magic in modern times.

An indescribable sadness suddenly hit Qi Lu's heart, and he couldn't help blurting out: "Do you really use living people to sacrifice to the divine dragon, wouldn't that make the whole village stained with the blood of innocents?" ”

This was asked very abruptly, but Yan Jun did not blame Qi Lu, but said slightly apologetically: "When Miaozhu proposed this method, the people in our village also felt that it was too cruel, and even the old village chief rejected his proposal. ”

"What happened then?"

The old man finished the tea in his cup and continued his narration.

It was then that a man stood up and volunteered to be sacrificed. And this person is none other than the husband of the madwoman, the son-in-law of the village chief.

Everyone admired his courage, but it was also reluctant to see a familiar person go to death. Especially the village chief, who had just lost his daughter, how could he bear to let his son-in-law go to Huangquan. But the son-in-law had made up his mind, and even if everyone persuaded him, he would not change his mind, and in desperation, the villagers had no choice but to agree to his request.

On a dark and windy night, Miaozhu brought the corresponding ritual utensils and sacrificial supplies, and boarded a small boat with the man who volunteered to seek death, to find the soul of the madwoman.

This time, the two of them never returned.

Ding Xiaolan asked in surprise: "Are they all dead?" ”

"It should be." The old man said sadly: "The next day, we risked our lives to go out to sea to look for them, but we never saw them again, not even the boat. ”

Qi Lu sighed lightly and said, "So, this man died of martyrdom? ”

"Yes, they have a very deep relationship between husband and wife, and when his wife is sick, his husband does not leave her, and he seeks medical treatment everywhere to cure her. What's even more sad is that the village chief died of illness in less than half a year because he lost two relatives one after another in such a short period of time. ”

"Does the couple have children?"

"Nope. They had just been married for less than a year when they encountered this unfortunate thing, how could they have children. Yan Jun's voice became lower and lower, and the sadness on his face was indescribable.

Not only that, but even Yan Yuping, who was sitting next to him, had a sad expression on his face.

Suddenly, Qi Lu was terrified when he heard it, he sensed the meaning contained in the expressions of Yan Jun's father and son, and couldn't help but ask in a trembling voice: "Could it be that the couple is a relative of the old uncle?" ”

As soon as he heard Qi Lu's question, the old man was even more sad, he lowered his head and did not speak, and after a while, his son Yan Yuping answered for his father: "The man who died is my uncle." ”

"Ah, uncle, are they your brother and sister-in-law?"

The old man nodded silently and pointed to a picture frame hanging on the wall. In the black-and-white photo, a simple man hugs his petite wife with a happy smile on his face.

Qi Lu's emotions were infected, and he was thinking about saying something to comfort the old man, when he heard someone outside the door: "Since there are guests, why doesn't the village chief follow the rules of the village?" ”

Qi Lu was shocked, and a man who was forty years old and blind in one eye walked into the house like a ghost.