Chapter Twenty-Three: Bloody Customs
"Since you're not a local, why did you come to this ghost place where birds don't for no reason, this Mochizuki Town, basically a woman like you who is almost in her 20s, is hiding at home and can't move an inch, especially in these months of the year, if you dare to come out, you will come out to find death!"
"Why do you say that?"
"Okay, for the sake of your beauty, I'll secretly tell you some secrets of this village, don't listen if you're too small, otherwise I'm not responsible for being scared to death, in fact, there is really a strange story about this secret.
Just five years ago, this village turned out to be a paradise, not only the scenery is very good, but all the villagers are much simpler and kinder than other people in the world.
However, since that night, a sudden overnight disaster struck, and the villagers all suffered from a rare disease overnight.
This disease made everyone wake up the next day as if their hands and feet were paralyzed, and they couldn't exert any strength, not even the strength to get out of bed, but the strange thing is that all the people affected by this disease were men, and all the women were as if they were fine.
At that time, all the people were powerless to resist this sudden disaster, and the only old woman in the village who was still quite famous at that time, because she was the only god in the village at that time who claimed to be a god who passed through the fairy spirit and the ghost of the underworld, so all the women in the village went to ask her what was going on.
At that time, he said that the guardian spirit of this village was very angry because it had not been worshiped for a long time, so he used this extreme way to warn all the villagers, and the only way to break this warning was to sacrifice the beautiful woman of 18 to 25 years old in the village to the guardian spirit, only in this way, the curse of this village would be broken.
At that time, because everyone felt sorry for their daughters, they were reluctant to give their daughters, so the village chief at that time took himself as an example and handed over his daughter.
It was really strange to say, just after the living sacrifice was married, the old woman said that the gods had given her an antidote to the dream, which could break the curse, and just 10 minutes after all the sick people drank the antidote, their illnesses were cured, so from when did the village begin to have the custom of performing living sacrifices in these months every year. ”
"How can this be, you people in the village are too stupid, it's obvious that someone deliberately created that disaster, as for what the reason is, I can't say what it is, but you can't just kill people like that!" Xiao Yao was in an extremely angry mood at this time.
Xiao Yao was still indignant, and suddenly, a strange wind blew from behind her from nowhere, mixed with a faint smell of rot.
Xiao Yao turned around, but saw an old woman who thought she was wrapped in a long black robe, with gray hair and wrinkles on her face, looking extremely hideous.
The second he saw the old woman, the man behind Xiao Yao suddenly folded his hands, bowed deeply, and shouted respectfully: "Xu Wuxian, why do you have time to come here for a walk tonight." ”
The old woman pulled out a weird smile at the corner of her mouth, revealing a mouthful of slightly dull yellow teeth, and said in a sharp voice: "Chu Lingfeng, don't think that if you are the son of the village chief, I won't dare to punish you, you say, what do you want to tell outsiders about such mysterious and noble customs in our village, but this girl is still quite beautiful, why don't you also dedicate it to the guardian god, let him be happy and happy, and give us a good harvest with good wind and rain?" ”
"Wizard Xu, it's really my fault to tell the people outside the village about the customs in our village, I know it's wrong, but, you see, after all, this year's living sacrifice ceremony has been carried out, so it's better to let this outsider go!"
The man named Chu Lingfeng kindly interceded for Xiao Yao, but all this seemed to anger the old woman even more, because Xiao Yao obviously felt the anger that suddenly appeared in the old woman's eyes.
After that, Xiao Yao saw that the old woman suddenly showed a strange smile on her face, and then, a very strange smell suddenly lingered on the tip of her nose, and the next second, Xiao Yao felt that her eyes were dark, and then she lost all consciousness.
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Shu Nuo took the sneaky man to the base camp where they were staying, and it seemed that everyone was sleeping soundly, but this was also normal, after all, after such a long time of tossing, it was a person who couldn't stand it, but it seemed that something was wrong.
Yes, it's really wrong, where is Xiao Yao?
For the first time, Shu Nuo woke up Shen Yan, who was sleeping soundly but obviously not sleeping very peacefully, Shen Yan saw the strange man next to Shu Nuo, and was about to ask the doubts in his heart, but he couldn't wait for Shen Yan to ask, Shu Nuo hurriedly asked where Xiao Yao went, but not surprisingly, what he gained was definitely a question-and-three attitude, but Shen Yan, who was obviously still a little sleepy, was definitely more awake than ever at this time.
In fact, there is no one who knows Shen Yan better than Shu Nuo, and from Shen Yan's attitude towards Xiao Yao, you can clearly understand that Shen Yan has unconsciously fallen in love with Xiao Yao, a girl.
Shen Yan couldn't stay at all, although he didn't really want to disturb Officer Huang beside him, but the continuous disappearance of Qingqing and Xiao Yao was definitely not a thing that could be explained very simply.
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Hearing this shocking news, everyone fell into a great state of confusion and incomprehension, and there seemed to be no other way for everyone to do now than to remain silent.
At this moment, the strange man who had been beside him and obviously stayed out of the matter suddenly seemed to think of some terrible possibility, and his face was definitely extremely frightened at this time.
"What's wrong?" The more and more people around him seemed to notice the abnormality of that person, although they didn't know who he was, but out of instinct, they couldn't help but ask with concern.
"That, I'm sorry, can you interject a little, that, the two disappeared you said, listen to the name, it should be a woman, right?" The lewd man asked.
"yes, what's wrong?" Shu Nuo glanced at the man in surprise.
"If it's a woman, the two of them, shouldn't they accidentally enter that town full of neurosis, Mochizuki Ancient Town?"
"How?"
"If they go there, I'm afraid it will be more than lucky."
"You seem to know something, hurry up and tell me everything you know, as it is, or else!"
Under Shu Nuo's eyes, hindered by Shu Nuo's agile skills, the man subconsciously shrank his head and began to narrate everything he knew.
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