Chapter 55: The Unknown Cause and Effect (2nd Update)
Everything has been settled, everything has been closed. When Xu Yunge recovered the butcher's knife and walked to the ruins of the mountain temple with Lao Li and others, he only saw Dou Xiantong who was tearful and joyful, and Wang Baozhi, who was slightly red-eyed and quietly peeking at him.
It was only at this time that Xu Yunge found out that Lin Jianshu and Chen Shuima had killed each other, and the masked man handing the knife was missing. Dou Xiantong and Wang Baozhi became living sacrifices, but they did not die, which is absolutely inseparable from the secrets of the horror legend.
Lao Li asked Dou Xiantong what was going on, but Dou Xiantong said that the mountain god finally forgave him, and all the blessings returned to this land, and he wanted to repair the mountain temple, and he wanted to start over in his hometown.
asked him why the two suspects died, but it was the kidnapped plainclothes man who told Lao Li and the others in a daze: "The two of them did not share the spoils evenly and killed each other, and finally fell into a puddle in the ruins of the mountain temple and drowned alive." ”
Lao Li looked at the puddle, the deepest part of the water was almost only a palm deep, and two large living people could drown in such a shallow puddle, it was hard to believe that this was the testimony of his colleagues. But the colleague insisted that he saw two heads struggling in the water, and Lao Li could only believe all this.
"I thought you were some unlearned charlatan, just like a certain Taoist priest who danced the great god before, and you did everything you could to fool people. I didn't expect that the person Zhao Wenlan was looking for was really reliable, although they killed each other and committed suicide, but we also captured a pregnant woman accomplice alive. ”
"Now, after the rain has finally passed, the body has to be dragged back for forensic identification, and now there are no mortuary conditions on our side, so we should have to drag it to the hospital. Brother Xu, I'm really sorry for you this time, and when we sort out the two cases, you want to come out and have a drink with me. ”
Xu Yunge listened, although there was some smile in his heart, but when he talked about the hospital and the mortuary, some strange things seemed to appear in his memory. Those strange things aside, in the face of this terrifying legend, there are still doubts in his heart: "Dou Xiantong, I have saved your eldest daughter, and this case is basically over." Can you tell me what sins you committed back then? ”
"I, did I promise to tell you?!" Dou Xiantong was slightly stunned, seeing that so many people were here to deal with the case, and when he heard that another parent was involved in the case of selling his daughter's body, he was immediately frightened, and hurriedly said the reason why he kidnapped Wang Baozhi.
"The mountain god said that Wang Baozhi has a relationship with it, and I owed too many debts at the beginning, since it decided to forgive my mistakes, then it also plans to come back here to practice, and let me help it do things to pay off the debt slowly."
"Hehe, don't make some weird excuses, we'll give you a psychiatric evaluation when we go back. If the victim can't mediate privately to forgive you, you old bastard who attempted kidnapping will be in jail. As soon as Lao Li and the others saw that Dou Xiantong was so superstitious, they basically took him as if he was talking****** looked at Lao Li and the others and didn't believe it, and they were ready to handcuff him while packing the corpse. Dou Xiantong was so anxious that he jumped, but Xu Yunge comforted him a few words and pulled him aside. At this time, Wang Baozhi was not afraid, Xu Yunge guessed that she was likely to have remembered everything, just to deal with Dou Xiantong's case, and liquidate the matter of these two cases at one time.
"Tell me, tell me everything you know, there are some things that you can't tell outsiders, if you still hide it from me, it's hard to guarantee that some strange things will come back to you. You know, there are some things in this world that can't be said for sure, right? ”
Under Xu Yunge's coercion and temptation, Dou Xiantong finally gave in, he was ashamed, angry and full of complaints, and his face was extremely wonderful for a while, and he was reluctant to say it.
"Tell me, what happened?" Xu Yunge waited for Dou Xiantong to speak, but he actually heard the sound of huge scales swimming outside the ruins, as if some invisible existence had quietly come to the mountain temple.
Dou Xiantong seemed to hear it, and saw that his face struggled for a long time, and finally let go of his fist.
"That's what happened after I married Liu Yueying."
Xu Yunge rolled up his sleeves, he heard a strange hissing sound outside the window, and a wave of anger surged, making him feel that Dou Xiantong was very indebted: "I will confiscate a penny from you, and in the face of the most vicious criminals, I will help you find your daughter." When you returned to Dou Xinwei's house, I didn't report you as the first time that this divorced old bachelor trespassed into a private house, and now you dare to trick me? ”
"I'm telling you, private detectives are not a free police public resource, and if you dare to owe me a debt, I have a hundred ways to kill you! Do you even say it! ”
As if remembering something, Dou Xiantong's face was extremely struggling, and finally he compromised, pulled Xu Yunge aside, and whispered: "I got married in the cave room back then, and I repeatedly failed to cooperate, I hid it from my wife Liu Yueying to investigate, but the doctor told me that my fertility is not good, and I may not be able to have children in this life." ”
"At that time, the Liu family and my parents were still there, and Liu Yueying and I were childhood sweethearts and baby marriages. She will not marry me, I will not marry her, but she will not be able to conceive a child, and it is useless for both parents to agree, and there is more and more gossip, and sooner or later the family will not be able to sustain itself. ”
"I was so anxious that I had no choice, so I went up the mountain one night and made a wish to the mountain god, saying that I was willing to pay any price, hoping that my family would have 2 children. Lest this relationship between me and Yueying be ruined, and then, I really dreamed that the mountain god promised to give me 2 children, and I owe it 2 children! ”
"But the good times didn't last long, I couldn't last until the debts were repaid, and the children at home had to study and live, so I could only go to work in the development area of the commercial street. There, I heard that it was very popular among outsiders to make a wish, which was very spiritual, so I also threw silver coins into the fountain and made a wish, hoping to make a fortune......"
Xu Yunge listened to Dou Xiantong's story, and listened to a hissing laughter coming from outside the ruins of the mountain temple, and he felt more and more bad in his heart. No wonder the fake Dou Xiantong refused to tell him at the beginning, but now that he said this, the causes and consequences were all right, and he suddenly felt a chill.
"The oath of the flower candle in the cave room should not refer to Dou Mengyao and Dou Xinwei, they were originally the two ghosts who were haunted by the mountain god and made Liu Yueying forcibly pregnant and born, right? ! No wonder they run faster than ghosts, no wonder their mother and daughter look so similar, it turns out that this family all has problems! ”
Xu Yunge felt a chill in his heart, this was no longer a simple matter of superstition of gods and ghosts. Liu Yueying's pregnancy is not a simple parthenogenesis, and the 2 daughters born under the catalysis of curse or fate, her blood bank is special, but her daughters and her genes and blood are almost identical!
What a hole has been dug in the hell, is this really something that ordinary ghosts can do?
No wonder there are three Dou Mengyao in the horror legend! If Xu Yunge knew that Dou Xinwei and Dou Mengyao would be no different from ghosts, he would definitely not go to this troubled water inexplicably.
In the final analysis, Dou Xiantong's lack of reproductive ability is indeed his own problem. But he wanted to maintain the fate that should have been broken and turned into tragedy, and mixed the terrifying power of gods and ghosts into his marriage, forcing the love and family that should have disappeared, and curses and evil fates were born.
"In this way, Dou Xiantong owes the mountain god 2 souls or 2 ghosts, which is part of the mountain god, and Dou Xiantong will definitely start collecting debts if he runs away. The follow-up Hu Xiaoyu and Wang Baozhi made a wish to change their lives, but in the eyes of the mountain god, will they also be 2 humans who wish to rely on debts? ”
"The power of the curse is usually one positive and one negative, and when it gets a part of the power, it will take away a part of its life, I don't know if the mountain god pays 2 souls, whether it has an impact on itself, in short, Dou Xiantong's betrayal, the ruin of the mountain temple, if it wants to continue to cultivate or prosper, will it be polluted by evil fate and become a sin and taboo existence?"
"As long as you don't make a wish, you will be unlucky, and in the end, you will even be on the right side of the case of the disappearance of the well!" Xu Yunge looked at Wang Baozhi, he already knew what a terrible mistake Dou Xiantong had made back then.
However, under normal circumstances, if it were not for the extreme severity of patriarchal preference, no parent would be willing to abandon the flesh and blood of the ten months of pregnancy and let the baby fend for itself.
But speaking of babies, the ghost babies that appeared near the mountain temple, the ghost fetus that Tao Shuifang was carrying and Hu Xiaoyu, and a series of clues, did they originally flow out from the mountain temple?
Dou Xiantong has completely said his sins: "It is said that the son is like a mother as the state capital, and the woman is like a mother, although she gave birth to 2 daughters, but I have always loved this family, and now it has become like this, maybe this is the price." ”
"Those who don't pay back their wishes have absolutely no good results, and even many people died on the construction site in the early years, how can they owe the debt of the gods, and they can walk away by patting their butts? It's my fault, I shouldn't have asked the mountain god to have 2 children, but I need a family, and I bear everything. ”
Dou Xiantong had already finished speaking, he volunteered to put on handcuffs and went back to assist in the investigation, and Xu Yunge walked to Wang Baozhi's side. In fact, she has experienced so much, everything is self-evident, and the unbreakable relationship between the Hu family's parents and them is probably the final answer to the tragedy.
Thinking of those abandoned juice factories with broken edges, perhaps the mountain temple really had the power to make wishes to bless the local civilians in the earliest days. However, with the development of society, the needs of human beings are more and more contrary to the original cause and effect, and all evil causes and curses are born as a result.
Hu Xiaoyu was born in the Hu family, and her fate with her parents was destined from the beginning. She has witnessed the beauty of the world outside the cage, but the blood relationship with the Hu family's parents can only make her return to the original point.
If you want to cut off the entanglement of fate, you can only use the power of the demon's curse. Even Xu Yunge originally had no way to deal with his aunt, but he still used the power of the curse to successfully threaten her, so that his aunt's behavior changed, and he didn't dare to bully himself casually like before.
However, no matter what kind of legend Hu Xiaoyu experienced, Wang Baozhi and her friendship became more determined after all kinds of hardships. It's a pity that a curse is a curse after all, and Xiaoyu, who is seeking fortune with ghosts, finally finds that this is a terrifying road of no return, and her actions are not only meaningless, but also affect Wang Baozhi. If she tried to escape, she and Wang Baozhi would eventually suffer the revenge and wrath of the mountain god.
As a result, Hu Xiaoyu sincerely repented, and became more and more sober under grief. Before Wang Baozhi was also dragged to a dead end, she decided to pay a one-time price to cut off all fate, even if she turned into a tragic horror legend, she also wanted to block the negative effects after making a wish.
However, the mountain god was concerned about the wishes of the two people, and Hu Xiaoyu's self-sacrifice could only offset her own debts, and could not fully protect Wang Baozhi. Once Hu Xiaoyu's protection fails, Wang Baozhi will involuntarily return to the original point and repay everything she owed at the beginning.
Regarding the idea of the two legends, Xu Yunge felt that his speculation was already inseparable, and the folk beliefs were bizarre and strange, otherwise Dou Xiantong would not have fled here in fear.
What makes Xu Yunge feel strange is that the operator behind all this has invisibly whitewashed himself after teasing mortals. From the beginning to the end, all those who died were the cursed.
And the surviving cursed people, who find that the living sacrifice is not dead, and they themselves have been rewarded, will definitely have a change of opinion on the evaluation and impression of the horror legend. Is this a cause and effect of chance, or is it a trap deliberately woven by evil spirits?
Wang Baozhi's expression changed, and he hesitated for a long time. She approached Xu Yunge softly, pointed to a beast-faced statue and whispered, "I just saw a black dog that got under the statue, do you think that's true?" ”