Wen Mo suddenly walked from behind the crowd.

He had already changed his clothes, and his white robe was indeed a little out of place. Now it has changed into the clothes of ordinary villagers, and his hair has turned black for some reason, and his appearance has suddenly become several years younger.

"Apprentice?" Doubts appeared in the eyes of the chief, "What apprentice?" Where did the apprentice come from? What do you do? ”

It seems that the chief is very wary of outsiders, and he asked several questions in a row.

Wen Mo looked at the python on the ground, and then at me, with a knowing expression, "I'm just a craftsman, he's my apprentice." ”

"Master......"

I felt like I had done something terrible, and I felt so guilty, but it was the python that threatened my life first.

Wen Mo shook his head and motioned for me not to speak yet, and turned his head to ask the chief, "May I ask, what do you mean by the snake god in your mouth." ”

"This ......," the chief of the storage had a hesitation on his face.

The other villagers were very dissatisfied, "Cunchang, don't talk nonsense with these two people, if this matter is not properly handled, the village will not live in peace for the next three years!" ”

Wen Mo frowned, and the chief nodded and said: "Yes, don't worry, I know which is more important in this matter, this gentleman, I'm sorry, this is the rule in our village, this kid has ruined the big thing in our village, I have to take such measures, come on!" ”

The chief pointed at me, "Tie him up first!" ”

Wen Mo raised his eyebrows, "If you want to tie people, you can tie people, do you treat the law as a child's play?" ”

"Legal?!" Someone in the crowd cursed in a low voice, "Can the law guarantee our lives?" You're not from the village, and of course you can say it so easily! ”

I was even more scared, and just as I wanted to run to Wenmo's side, I was stopped by the villagers, "What do you want to do?" ”

"I ...... I didn't mean to! I hurriedly explained, "It was the snake that pounced on me and wanted to eat me, and I did, I ......."

The villagers took a sip and ran over to grab my hand, but Wenmo's movements were faster than theirs, and he was already standing in front of me.

"Who dares to do it!"

Wen Mo's voice was as loud as striking a bell, instantly calming them all.

The chief is a reasonable person, and he stepped forward, "Sir, our village has its own rules. If this kid breaks the rules, he has to take the responsibility he should bear. ”

"Responsibility?" Wen Mo smiled, "What's wrong with a powerless child who instinctively protects himself when he encounters danger?" Do you say that you won't resist when you encounter such a thing, and you won't resist if you are obediently eaten alive by such a beast? ”

The villagers were stunned for a moment, and immediately someone rushed out and said viciously: "You are so unreasonable, do you know what that child killed?" That's the messenger under the throne of the serpent, the messenger who protects our village! He killed it, so what do we do?! ”

This time I finally heard clearly, the serpent god, the messenger of the serpent god? Is it the big python on the ground?

"I've never heard of a god who eats children." Wen Mo said coldly: "It's just that you have become a fine beast, you treat the beast as a god, that's the real ridiculous!" ”

"You're ......"

"Sir," the chief stopped the person who still wanted to argue with Wenmo, and said helplessly, "You are a foreigner, and you don't know the situation in our village. ”

Seeing that Cunchang still wanted to continue, Wenmo directly picked me up, "Cunchang, I have a way to help you solve this matter, but the premise is that you can't touch this child." ”

"Why should we trust you?"

"That's right, what are you, when the time comes, pat your ass and run away, and the snake god's condemnation will not fall on you!"

"But ......"

The others obviously didn't want Wenmo to intervene, and a woman rushed out of the crowd and knelt directly under Cunchang's feet.

"Cunchang, I beg you, can you just let this person give it a try, last year my cow baby has been sent out, and this year I have selected the second baby, I ...... I really don't want to! ”

I watched in the clouds and couldn't understand why these people were so excited.

"Eh, I ...... this matter too" Cun Chang glanced at Wen Mo in embarrassment, and then spoke again: "That's it, let's go back to the village first, even if you want to send this child out, you have to wait until midnight." ”

Half an hour later, Wenmo and I sat at Cunchang's house.

"Cunchang, now you can say, what is the snake god in your mouth?"

Helplessness appeared on the face of the chief of the village, "About fifty years ago, when I was just remembering, there were disasters and famines in the village for many years, and many people died. The young people walked and ran, and only some old people with inconvenient legs and feet remained, and everyone was ready to die. ”

"My family has been a long-term survivor for generations, and my father couldn't bear to see the village destroyed, and he didn't know where to inquire about the gods on this mountain, so he took me up the mountain in the middle of the night to ask for the gods."

"Later, my father and I encountered a landslide and almost died, so we ended up in a cave for no apparent reason. The cave was strange to say, with no lights on itself, and a huge python entrenched in the cave. "My father and I were so frightened that we thought we would never go back, when the snake spoke. ”

I craned my neck to listen to the long story, the talking python? Interesting.

But this snake doesn't know if it's related to the dragon soul, it can talk, and it lives in a cave, so the next time I see the dragon soul, I must ask him.

"It says it will help us survive the disaster and restore the prosperity of the village to its former days, but there is one condition."

The chief looked at me, and guilt appeared on his face, "At that time, my father agreed to save the village without thinking about it. Unexpectedly, the condition of the snake god was that a small child should be sacrificed to him every year. ”

Wen Mo nodded knowingly, "And then?" ”

"It took my dad three years to restore the village to its former prosperity. The young men who went out also returned. Gradually, the land began to fertle. Every year after that, my dad would shoot arrows on a hill not far from the village. If the arrow hits any house, a child must come back. ”

"Do you really think that the prosperity of the village was brought to you by the serpent?"

The chief nodded undoubtedly, "Yes, I didn't believe it at first, this rule lasted for ten years, after my father died, I succeeded the chief, and that year it was my brother's child who was selected, and I couldn't bear it, so I didn't send the child over that year." Outcome...... First, it rained inexplicably for a month, which caused flash floods and buried half of the village. Later, I really couldn't help it, so I persuaded my brother to send the child over, and the heavy rain stopped the next day. ”

Is it really that amazing? I remember that my grandfather told me the story of "Journey to the West", and there were also three old goblins who could call the wind and rain.

Wen Mo held his chin and thought for a while, then slowly spoke.

"I can't explain what this snake came from, but if it were to say that he was a god, I would never believe it."

Cun Chang was a little surprised, "You, you say that...... Why? ”

"If you do things that hurt nature and reason during your cultivation, you can't be called a god, that is, a spirit that harms people. My guess is that the snake must have done something before, with a wound on its body, or a wounded vitality. That's why I asked you to have children to replenish your vitality. ”

Wen Mo stretched out a hand and tapped it twice, "I estimate that this year is the key, probably the injury is almost healed, but it is still a little close, and I can't wait for the next year to let my children and grandchildren come out to find prey." ”

The chief was shocked, "Why, how can this be?" Then, for more than 40 years, aren't we raising a monster? ”

"Eight or nine is not far from ten."

"This matter is easy to do, just kill it." Wen Mo chuckled.

After a pause, he asked again, "Do you remember how to walk the cave?" ”

Obviously unwilling to do this, the chief of the store frowned, "I don't think it's appropriate to do this...... In the event of a curse, our village will not be ......."

"If you don't kill it, it's not more than seven days at most." Wen Mo used his hand to compare the numbers, "Your entire village will be slaughtered." ”

Walking out of the room of the chief, I was curious: "Master, it is also a snake, I ate snake meat with my grandparents and I were not killed, why were they killed?" ”