"Even if I know that they worship mermaids as the god of the sea, I can't think of what this has to do with our mission, could it be that they have the habit of sacrificing people as living sacrifices to the god of the sea?" Li Liguo touched his chin and said.

"It shouldn't be, I've inquired in the village in the past few days, and the villagers in the village have said that their village has not had the habit of treating living people as sacrifices from ancient times to the present, and they also said that the sea god is merciful, how can it be so cruel to ask for human life."

It was Zhong Junyu who spoke, although he looked cold, but his appearance was pleasing, and it was easy to inquire about the news, especially when he was inquiring about the news with women.

"I heard the village chief's daughter-in-law say yesterday that she was going to worship God with a few old people in the village, and I went to follow to see if I could find some clues to come back." Lan Shuangshuang glanced at everyone and said.

"Sister Shuang, I'll go with you." Lan Shuangshuang's voice fell, and Li Meng on the side immediately said, Lan Shuangshuang nodded indispensably and agreed to Li Meng's proposal.

Early the next morning, Lan Shuangshuang and Li Meng set off together with the village chief's wife who had prepared all kinds of incense, candles, paper money, and gold ingots for worshipping the gods, as well as various fruits and pastries for the gods.

Lan Shuangshuang looked at it coldly, and found that the things prepared by the village chief's wife seemed to be a bit much, and ordinary people would inevitably burn a lot of things, but this fishing village was not rich, and these things were a bit too much for these people.

But the strange thing is that the village chief, who was very frugal during this time, did not have any dissatisfaction, and temporarily added a large salted fish as a tribute.

There are also a few women outside, who also go to worship God together, and all of them bring tributes, which are the same as the tributes of the village chief's wife, which are particularly rich, but the clothes worn by these women are half-new, and there are patches, which are obviously not wealthy families, and these tributes must be a burden to these families.

Li Meng looked at these women with big bags and small bags, and whispered to Lan Shuangshuang: "The people in this place worship the gods quite religiously, usually the wife is distressed when she eats meat, and it is generous to make offerings to that ethereal god." ”

Sometimes, the poorer they are, the more they like to worship the gods, because when life falls into suffering, people will pin their hopes on the gods and hope for salvation, so since ancient times, the more troubled the times, the more prosperous the religion, because people like to take the ethereal gods as salvation when they face hardship.

However, in this era, although it is undeniable that there are still some remote places where life is not good, but although this small fishing village is remote, it is not very remote, and the people in the village are not rich, but there is no lack of food, drink, food and clothing.

If it's a custom, there's nothing to say, and if there's anything greasy, then it's even better, and I'm worried that the village is too calm to find any clues.

To Lan Shuangshuang and Li Meng's surprise, the place to worship the gods turned out to be very cold, Lan Shuangshuang and Li Meng thought that the temple that could be paid tribute by the women of the entire fishing village should be very lively, but in fact, there was no one in this temple, and only people came to worship in the fishing village where Lan Shuangshuang and others lived.

The location of the temple is behind a coconut grove by the sea, very private, the temple occupies a small area, not so much a temple, but a classical courtyard.

In the middle of the temple, a large hall is a place of worship, and the two rows of side rooms on both sides are places to live, and there are a lot of clothes hanging under the porch, which look like gray and white clothes, the same style, neither like Taoist robes, nor like monks' robes.

There were more than a dozen men living in the temple, with long hair in a bun, a long robe, symmetrical gossip embroidered on the front and back, and cloud-headed cloth shoes under their feet, dressed in nondescript manners.

And Lan Shuangshuang could feel that the eyes of these men turned around several times on his and Li Meng's bodies, with an unspeakable obscene meaning, which made Lan Shuangshuang and Li Meng very uncomfortable.

The village chief's wife didn't see the lust in the eyes of these men at all, but greeted these men with respect, and those men also behaved very well-behaved and gentle, and the discordant eyes before were retracted.

After greeting each other, they separated, and when the men left, the village chief's wife told Lan Shuangshuang and Li Meng that these men who lived here were all god servants, and they were very great people who would never marry and serve the gods for the benefit of the fishing village, so the villagers respected these god servants very much.

Because the god servants need to serve the gods and can't go out to work to make money, they all rely on the villagers for food and clothing, but obviously these god servants are living very well, all of them are tall and weight, and the dry and thin villagers are completely different.

Lan Shuangshuang and Li Meng followed the village chief's wife into the only shrine of this humble temple, and were greeted by a mermaid statue with a human body and a fishtail, but it was not a common woman, but a male mermaid.

The village chief's wife skillfully placed the tributes one by one on the offering table in front of the mermaid statue, and then knelt down reverently, chanting words in her mouth, "Lord Poseidon, it's time to go out to sea to fish again, please Lord Poseidon to bless us with a good harvest." ”

After worshipping, the village chief's wife began to burn, there is a burning pot in this hall, which is specially used to burn items such as paper money ingots, and as soon as it burns up, Lan Shuangshuang and Li Meng walked out.

Lan Shuangshuang had already sensed it with his heart before, there was nothing strange about the mermaid statue, there was neither an evil spirit attached to it, nor an evil god's breath, it was just an ordinary stone sculpture.

Lan Shuangshuang and Li Meng walked out and walked around the temple slightly, this place is very ordinary, if it weren't for the main hall dedicated to the mermaid and the god of the sea in the middle, it would be an ordinary house.

The only thing that is not ordinary is probably that the floor of this temple is paved with pure natural bluestone, and the price of such bluestone is not cheap, compared with the simplicity of this temple, there is a little luxury.

From the end of the worship to the time he went back, Lan Shuangshuang and Li Meng didn't find anything wrong, Li Meng was a little frustrated, and thought that there could be some clues in this temple, such as hiding evil ghosts or evil gods.

Lan Shuangshuang has been looking at the surrounding scenery thoughtfully after entering the fishing village, Li Meng looked strange, and after separating from the village chief's wife, he asked Lan Shuangshuang, "Shuangshuang, what do you want?" Did you find any clues? ”

Lan Shuangshuang shook his head, "I don't know if it's a clue, I'm just a little strange, we've been in the fishing village for so long, and we haven't seen a man in the fishing village go out to sea to fish, isn't it strange?" ”