Chapter 259: Strange Stories in the Mountain Village
"It's ...... Myself"
The little boy Anu saw Hu Yifei's serious appearance, but he also put away his giggling expression.
"Be careful!"
Regarding the little boy Anu's answer, Hu Yifei's cautious personality naturally refuses to believe it easily; After turning his head and telling a few of us, he went into the place where the little boy Anu appeared alone to investigate the surrounding situation.
"Your name is Anu?"
Taking advantage of Hu Yifei's time to investigate, I turned my attention to Anu in front of me; He seemed to be frightened by Hu Yifei's serious appearance just now, but he was a little restrained.
"Hmm!" Anu looked at the brightly lit village not far away, and nodded to me.
"Are you from this village?" I then asked.
"Yes!" Anu glanced at the village not far away and nodded at me.
"Then why are you here so late and not in the village?"
Intuitively, I don't think Anu in front of me looks like he's lying to us; But it was strange to me that he, being a native of the village, had not come home so late and had hid in the woods, so I continued to inquire of him.
"My sister told me to play hide and seek with her, but I waited for a long, long time and she didn't come to ......me," Anu said to me with her fingers down, a little lost.
Listening to Anu's answer, I couldn't help but laugh a little, how can such a young child know what the concept of time is, and if his sister doesn't come to him, he will always hide here and not go back.
But despite thinking so, I still asked him, "Then why don't you go to my sister yourself?"
"My sister was tied to the stone pillar, and the village chief wanted to arrest Anu, but Anu didn't dare to go to my sister......"
When I said this, Anu's face was full of fear, which made me suddenly feel that things didn't seem to be so simple.
"What did the village chief do with you?"
Hearing this, even Gao Jing on the side was a little curious, and hurriedly leaned his head over to ask Anu.
"The village chief said that my sister and I will bring trouble to the village, and we must sacrifice us to our ancestors to avoid bad things from happening!" Anu scratched his head with his dirty hands and said to us a little lost.
"It doesn't seem like it's easy here......
After listening to Anu's answer, Lin Zi and I glanced at each other, and both saw the surprised look in each other's eyes! It seemed that after listening to Anu's words, they also felt the same as I thought, and felt that the village in front of them seemed to have a faint trace of unusual atmosphere.
"This kid shouldn't have lied to us, and there really isn't anyone else in the neighborhood!"
At this time, Hu Yifei, who was out on patrol, came back and confirmed to us that there was indeed nothing wrong with what Anu said before, and we also told Hu Yifei what we heard from Anu's mouth, and Hu Yifei also looked shocked after hearing it.
"So what do we do next?"
Lin Zi looked at the scene of the sacrifice not far away, frowned and said to us.
"Do you know how many people came in front of you, and where they were caught by the village chief?"
What Lin Zi asked at this time is actually the question we are thinking about now, if we hadn't met Anu, we might have entered the village by now; But just as we met Anu, we happened to hear from him that another group of people had entered the village before us, and this group of people was captured by the village chief in Anu's mouth! Knowing that this is the case, we must be cautious at this moment, so after thinking about it, I can only ask what happened before from Anu's mouth? In order to think about things after the long term.
"They have ...... Eleven people, I think they must have been caught by the village chief in the small black house! Anu counted on his fingers before he said to us.
"Little dark house?"
Hearing such a place coldly, we were a little unpredictable for a while, you stare at me, I stare at you, no one knows what this so-called little black house is?
Seeing the bewildered looks of us, Anu aroused his childish heart, looked at us and giggled, and then pretended to be mysterious and said to us, "I tell you not to tell anyone...... This is the village chief's secret, and only Anu knows it! ”
"Brother Tian, I think it's better to let Anu tell us what the people in the village are going to do now!"
The sharp-eyed Lin Zi had been paying attention to the movements in the village, and saw that the people who were originally around the altar seemed to have completed the sacrificial ceremony, and began to line up in a long line one after another, holding torches and carrying kerosene lamps to walk towards the direction of the mountain, and the woman who was tied up on the altar before was also taken away, which interrupted my conversation with Anu.
As soon as Anu saw the situation in the village, he immediately shouted anxiously: "Sister...... They want to take their sister to meet their ancestors, and Anu can't live without her sister's ......."
"Let's go, follow along!"
From the previous conversation with Anu, I can already roughly know what the people in the village are doing, but in order to confirm what is in my heart, I still think I should follow along and take a look; And even if we didn't want to go, Anu had already started to run forward in a hurry.
"Brother Tian, did you find something?"
Lin Zi knew my character, and he would never act rashly if he didn't find anything, so he asked me as he walked forward. And judging from the appearance of Hu Yifei and Gao Jing, they should also have some thoughts about this matter, so they are also like Lin Zi, looking at me with a solemn face, wondering what I found.
"I think it's like a conspiracy......"
For this matter, according to Anu's account, I think everything should be related to the old ancestor in Anu's mouth; I don't know who that ancestor was, but the mere fact of human sacrifice is enough to prove that this is something extraordinary; Moreover, Anu said that the village chief had arrested the eleven people who came before us, so there must be some secret that has been discovered. Therefore, as long as you follow the villagers, you can find the place where the old ancestor is located in Anu's mouth, and you will definitely be able to find something.
Lin Zi and the others listened to my thoughts, and they all felt that there were many strange things about this matter; Although the purpose of our trip is not to do this, we only know the approximate location of the place where the Holy Child is located in this area, but where is it? It needs to be asked from the mouths of these villagers, so no matter what, contact with the villagers is inevitable. Moreover, intuitively, I felt that the matter of human sacrifice in front of me had a lot to do with the destination we were going to, which was one of the reasons why I chose to follow them.