The village chief walked out with a small package, which was supposed to be a baby, but the package was so tight that everyone couldn't see the baby's appearance.

"Guixiang, Lotus Leaf, you two help the camel to take care of his mother-in-law, her body is too weak, let me take care of the child for the time being!" The village chief ordered two middle-aged women to help the hunchback, and then walked to their stone house with the baby in their arms.

Dongsheng was a little surprised, and caught up with the village chief and asked: "Village chief, is the blind sister-in-law not in good health, can't she even take care of her own children?" ”

The village chief stopped, stared at Dongsheng for a moment, and then said, "You go back with me first!" ”

Dong Sheng saw that the village chief's expression was a little serious, so he could only nod silently, Fang Rui and Li Lei also wanted to follow along to have a look, but after all, this was a housework in the village, and it was indeed inconvenient for the two outsiders to ask more, so they could only turn around helplessly and prepare to leave.

"You two wait a minute!" Unexpectedly, the village chief suddenly stopped the two of them, "You guys come with me too!" ”

Fang Rui and Li Lei followed the village chief and Dong Sheng to the village chief's stone house, it was still the same reception room before, the village chief had been holding the baby in his arms tightly since he sat down, this time, the left and right heads showed expressions of pity and reluctance, and they also rubbed the baby's face separately.

It took a long time before the village chief sighed heavily and said, "Li Lei, Fang Rui, can you do us a favor?" ”

"Mother-in-law, the village chief, it was you who saved us, and we will definitely repay the kindness! What do you want us to do, just say! Li Lei immediately expressed his position.

The village chief did not answer immediately, but put the baby on the ground and lifted the package, and a white baby appeared in front of everyone, it was a girl, her eyes closed and she was sleeping, and from the appearance of the baby girl did not have any deformities on her body.

"She! She~~~~! Excited Dongsheng, he rushed to the side of the baby girl and touched the child's arms and legs with his hands, and repeatedly confirmed that he actually asked with tears in his eyes, "She... She's sound!? ”

"Yes, I've checked it and there's nothing missing!" The village chief's eyes also turned red.

Li Lei and Fang Rui glanced at each other, it is indeed too rare to be able to give birth to a completely healthy child in this kind of village, but Fang Rui has some questions, since this child is sound and there is nothing wrong with it, why didn't the village chief announce it in public in front of many villagers just now? Aren't the villagers anxious about the babies in the village who have not survived for a long time?

After the village chief showed the child, he wrapped the child and said, "You must be thinking, why didn't I tell the villagers just now that this child is good, right?" ”

Fang Rui and Li Lei nodded silently.

"Because I want you to help me take this kid out of the village and out of the Ecstasy!" The village chief's words surprised Fang Rui and the others, especially Dong Sheng, the hope that was still flashing in his eyes just now turned into ashes in an instant. Li Lei lowered his head after hearing this, and no one could see the expression on his face.

"Take her? Why? Will her parents agree? Fang Rui was the first to ask.

"Don't worry, I have already discussed this matter with the camel couple, and they have agreed to keep the child's physical condition a secret. Two days later, it will be the Midyear Festival, you take the child away, and I will announce to the villagers that the child has died. After the village chief finished speaking, he paused and added, "This child, please find a good family to adopt after you go out, don't worry, I will give you some compensation." ”

"Village Chief!" Dongsheng suddenly exclaimed, "You... Do you know the consequences of doing so? ”

The village chief took a deep look at Dongsheng, and she replied word by word while standing up with the child in her arms: "I ~ know ~ Dao!" ”

Dongsheng's slightly straight body suddenly slumped, and it took a long time to slowly stand up from the ground, his face full of disappointment.

The village chief seemed a little unbearable, walked over and patted him on the shoulder, then turned his head to Fang Rui and Li Lei and said, "You come with me again!" ”

Fang Rui and Dong Sheng followed the village chief out of the meeting and walked into a smaller room, there was only a wooden table in the room, and a miniature version of the three-eyed god statue was enshrined on it! The village chief motioned to Dong Sheng to twist the small incense burner in front of the three-eyed stone statue, and with a click, a secret door opened on the wall.

Entering through the secret door is a passage that extends down to the underground, and it took about ten minutes to reach the bottom. There, a three-eyed stone statue more than three meters tall stands in a dimly lit cave.

"This is the patron saint of our village, and every villager needs to show it after they are born." The village chief fiddled with the child's package, revealing his face, as if he had really shown the stone statue. "I want you to testify that if she grows up and learns about her origins, you can tell her that she has been blessed by the stone statue."

As he spoke, the village chief put the child at the foot of the three-eyed stone statue, and the baby stretched out his little hand slightly in his sleep, and some golden particles of light actually spilled from the eye sockets on the central head of the three-eyed stone statue, and floated onto the baby's body.

It wasn't until the light particles disappeared that the village chief picked up the baby again and said to Dongsheng, "I put a small package in that box, you go and get it." ”

Dongsheng frowned and wanted to say something, but finally gave up and turned around and left the cave. The village chief waited until Dongsheng's figure disappeared from sight, then approached Li Lei and Fang Rui, and said softly: "One eye of this child。。。。。 ”

"Isn't it good? Didn't you say she was sound? Fang Rui interjected and asked.

The village chief reached out and touched the baby's little face, the child slowly opened his closed eyes, Fang Rui immediately understood what the village chief meant when he wanted to speak, her eyes were sound, but... The eyeball in the left eye is blue!

"Are there any eyeballs missing from the eyes of the stone statue?" The village chief looked at the stone statue and continued, "Every village chief will tell him the next story, that is, the stone statue used to have eyes, one red, one blue, one gold. Red represents the tyranny of death, and blue represents hope for new life. But no one knew what the gold represented, only that if the statue had these three eyes again, it would be the day when the village would be liberated and reborn. This village has existed for a long, long time, and once upon a time, the villagers were not deformed, they just had three eyes, and they called themselves three-eyed. Until one day, the golden one was lost in the three eyeballs of the stone statue. Since then, the newborns in the village have lost their third eyes and have become two eyes like ordinary people. Slowly, a few more deformed freaks appeared in the village, but most of them survived. Later, for some reason, the blue one also disappeared, leaving only the red one. The village began to become deformed, and most of the newborns would not survive! The number of villagers is getting smaller and smaller, and the scale of the village, which originally occupied most of the Ecstasy, is naturally getting smaller and smaller. Even if they leave the village, the children they give birth to are still stillborn or deformed, which seems to have become a curse for the Three-Eyed Clan! We are all God's forsaken people to be punished like this! ”

Fang Rui and Li Lei looked at each other in shock, they didn't expect this seemingly weird small village to have such a background.

The village chief paused for a moment as if to mourn the fate of the village for a long time before continuing: "More than a hundred years ago, a master appeared in the village, and he told the villagers that only the hundred-eyed ghost boy could gather spiritual power so that the children born in the village could survive. At that time, the village had reached a desperate situation, so it chose to believe him. There was a branch of the village on the outskirts of the Ecstasy, where the master chose to set up a formation with 99 deformed infant corpses, and a one-eyed infant corpse holding a last-minute red eyeball. Sure enough, after the formation was completed, all the children born in the village survived, but... Most of them are deformed! Before leaving, the master explained that this formation is only valid for a hundred years, and if there is no blue eyeball after a hundred years, then the village will still be extinct. ”

"Village Chief, then why did you send this child away? Isn't her blue eyes able to save your village? Fang Rui felt even more strange, after a hundred years of hard work, he finally looked forward to it, why did he have to send it away?

"Because, if her blue eyes were removed and put back in the idol, the child would die! I can't trade this child's life for the continuation of our village, which has long been extinct, from the moment they agreed to deploy the Hundred-Eyed Ghost Boy. The village chief shed tears as he spoke, "Do you know how much that hundred-eyed ghost boy's formation hurts Yin Virtue?" At that time, no one in the village could get pregnant and have children! Where did those 100 baby corpses come from? It needs to be given to pregnant women for nine months to drink a special potion in order to make what should be a sound good fetal medicine into a deformity! Once the time of childbirth arrives, the mother will die in childbirth, and the deformed babies with the resentment of the death of their own mother will be left to fend for themselves in a dark room without any light! Because only in this way will these deformed babies after death become extremely vicious spirits, and when gathered together, these evil spirits can give birth to a hundred-eyed ghost child! This is too unconscionable, and what the village needs is not a continuation of this approach. Since the loss of the first golden eyeball, the Three-Eyed Clan has been abandoned by the gods, so why not choose to die? This may be the real relief! So, that's why I want you to take this child away, if her blue eyes really represent the hope of a new life, then she should leave the village and get out of the maze completely! The village will die, but she will be reborn, isn't this the new life of our Three-Eyed Clan? I beg you again, be sure to take her away! ”