After saying this, there was a slight silence in the atmosphere in the cabin, which I thought was weird when I heard it, and Yu Lin Jianguo should have recalled the beginning of the disaster too painfully.

It wasn't until a long time later, when the bloodboat had turned the bend and walked into the same path again, that I asked, with some difficulty, "What happened to that snake?" ”

"How? Didn't how? It crawled around where the people of our village were standing, crawled away on its own, and disappeared. Doesn't that sound prosaic? In fact, if you experience that scene, you will never think so, first of all, the eyes of the snake, full of all kinds of emotions that you can't guess, but cold and ruthless, I don't dare to look at it again after seeing it, I always feel that it is not a snake at all, but like a high devil, we are the devil's eyes of the lowly existence, even if I say it to you, but it is not at all people who have seen it can not understand. Also, do you remember that copper basin? Is it a copper basin filled with the blood of the people in the village? Lin Jianguo asked me.

I nodded my head lightly in memory.

"Before the snake crawled out, it had swam around in the blood of the copper basin, and after it came out, it crawled around us, and there were blood marks on the ground, which looked shocking. I wondered why there was so much blood on the ground, could it be the snake's own blood? But it doesn't look big, it can't have so much blood at all, and it wasn't until the snake disappeared that I found that there was only a thin layer of blood left in the copper basin, and on the ground" Lin Jianguo seemed to be a little unsure of how to continue.

My mind moved, and I couldn't help but ask, "Actually, shouldn't it be crawling around?" What do those bloodstains mean? ”

"I didn't know before, but then everyone in our village knew, it seemed to crawl around unintentionally, but in fact, it encircled the people in our village into some kind of formation, it should be a formation, I don't know much, but later, I learned from someone's mouth that from the first time he appeared, he was familiar with the bloodline of our village through blood, and he used the secret method to control the people in our village, it was a curse, I don't know." Lin Jianguo smiled bitterly.

However, I feel that he said this sentence in no order at all, because it was obviously a snake that crawled out, why did he become a person, and told Lin Jianguo what he did when he first appeared? I was confused at first, but after thinking about it carefully, I suddenly raised my head in shock, and asked with a trembling heart: "Could that person you are talking about?" Is it your eldest son? ”

"I didn't expect you to think of this! Yes, my eldest son. Lin Jianguo said with a sigh, and then said a little tiredly: "After the snake disappeared, the whole village began to dream, dreaming that a vague figure was telling us that he was our god!" Fifteen years later he will come back and personally come down with great miracles, and now there will be small miracles for us to believe in him. ”

My hands were trembling slightly, and I seemed to be able to connect all the things in the Holy Village, except that I didn't understand why Wu Tian was here.

"Can't think of it, right? I can't tell you about that time, but to put it simply, there are all kinds of miracles in our village, and this miracle is the same as the miracle in your town, but the so-called miracles always have a price, that is, we have to worship the living. At first, the people in the village did not trust the so-called god, but later the people in our village began to use the money in their hands to sell human beings and sacrifice just because this miracle happened to one person at best, so that the people in the village became more and more convinced of the so-called god. ”

"Alone? You mean the village chief who opened the box? ”

"It's him, before I talk about this past, I forgot to tell you the age of the village chief, he is already an old man in his 70s, and before digging up the tidal flats, he was seriously ill, he advocated digging the grave at that time, just to do a big vote before he died, so as to leave more family funds for future generations. But there is such a person, who has emerged from that god, who has disappeared from a serious illness, who is alive and spirited, who claims to be the one who has received the greatest grace from God, who will always worship our God, and who will also live forever! Do you know? He was crazy, he was rotten from the heart, but everyone in the village was no longer sober, thinking that he was normal like that, he was a person who loved his children and grandchildren a lot, but after living like this for a long time, he felt that he had a long life, and he sacrificed one of his favorite male grandchildren to God. When Lin Jianguo said this, he closed his eyes, as if this pain could not be calmed at all, and he had to ease his emotions in this way.

"Well, I think it's crazy. When a person only sees himself, there is nothing important in this world. But what's the point of living like this? No matter how many people's worlds are, they have changed into one person's world, so it's very cold. I couldn't help but comment.

When Lin Jianguo heard my words, he suddenly opened his eyes and said, "You are right, this is how you feel!" It's really like this feeling in the past, our village, what we did was not bright, but because it was an almost isolated place, everyone in the village was always very warm, I never thought they were bad people, just like when I was a child, my parents went out and ate a hundred family meals, I could feel that this was a matter of course, and I could also feel the faint warmth of the village similar to that of relatives, but after that, it changed, everything changed! Everyone cares about how much divine grace they can get, because God, husband and wife are not like husband and wife, brothers are not like brothers, and even between mother and son are not like mother and child. What is there in human trafficking? God's favorite is children under the age of fifteen, and he has certain requirements, and he says he likes vigorous vitality! ”

Exuberant vitality? Oh, I think I should have seen through the essence, because it was not an existence that belonged to this world, but it used the vitality of innocent people in this world to 'live', and the remaining residues at the corners of the mouth cultivated a group of ruthless people who were about to lose their humanity.

This is the essence of this village.

My heart began to be troubled, I was bored with people's infirmity, and when there was temptation, I unconsciously shifted to the evil side, but what about myself? When a gentleman is a gentleman three times a day, I suddenly found this sentence extremely painful, because it is a sad thing to examine myself.

I just found myself, if it comes to the things I care about, maybe I will also lose some principles, no wonder the saints have always cut off the seven emotions and six desires, and finally cut off their own 'three corpses' (selfish desires, appetites, and X desires), completely cleanse themselves, and only have a clean heart, and finally be able to preach and return to the Heavenly Dao.

However, if this is the case, is there really no hope for man? Maybe not, because God has also given people one thing, that is, restraint, if you keep chopping, then restraint, use restraint to temper yourself, and after the pain, a heart will be clean.

My mind was messy, because I was shocked by the madness of this village, but what else was shocked? Didn't that town show me? The difference is that the town has a group of people with important guardians, but this village seems to be completely crazy.

After calming down for a while, I asked, "What about after that?" What else happened after that? ”

"After that? After that, it was fifteen years later, I was twenty-eight years old, and I forgot to tell you that I was married, and my wife was the kindest girl in the village, and I had a son at that time, and I had no idea that the return of the gods would have something to do with my son. Speaking of this, Lin Jianguo was even more painful, couldn't help but rub his face, and then said: "Do you think I'm a sober person?" Actually, I wasn't in the beginning, I didn't inherit the so-called divine grace, but I didn't resist it. I was just thinking that when I got old, I would always sacrifice to God and then exchange the life I wanted to continue living. I just didn't think about the way to make a sacrifice."

"What do you mean?" I couldn't help but ask.

"It means that the people in the village are like animals, 'raised' by the gods, and while selling foreign people, they desperately give birth to children and become sacrificial things, because boys under the age of fifteen are the best sacrifices, understand? Although God has given us a long life, one thing you must know is that there is a limit to the number of children a person can have, whether you give birth to him or not, but you are destined to have several children in your life! Before I got married, I had dark thoughts that I wanted my children and grandchildren to be prosperous, so that the longer I could live. When Lin Jianguo said this, there was a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, he was mocking himself.

"Why did you change your mind? Or even escape from this one village? I couldn't help but ask, in fact, the current Lin Jianguo, I don't think he is despicable and terrible, just because it is rare for him to struggle and wake up in the mud.

"Have you forgotten? As I said, I have one of the kindest wives, my wife is an orphan in the village, and her parents died in one of the incidents, so naturally there is nothing honorable for the people of our village, to be exact, they were killed in a tomb robbery. She grew up eating a hundred family meals, you remember I said before, before the appearance of God, the village was always warm like there are two sides to things, there must be evil and good, if it develops into an extreme, it will either be sublimated, or it will go to the extreme. My wife grew up in everyone's care, so she is extremely grateful and kind. After we got married, I was able to appreciate her quality, and it infected me, and she said a lot to me, including nostalgia for the old village, hoping that we would not embark on the road of sacrifice in the future, and that a stable and happy life is not also a way to live? Under her influence, in fact, she and I became 'infidels', 'infidels' that quietly exist in this village. Do you get the idea? Lin Jianguo looked at me with a glint of memories in his eyes.

"I understand." I was also touched by the fact that everywhere, even if it is the source of evil, goodness will always exist.

"We live happily, my heart has gradually become clearer, we have a first son, then a second son, and the youngest daughter is also pregnant in my wife's belly" Speaking of this, a happy smile appeared on the corner of Lin Jianguo's mouth, immersed in this memory, and he was reluctant to return to his senses for a long time.

I can't bear to interrupt him, after all, happiness is so precious, why should I cruelly remind him and let him come back to his senses? Although I would love to know the answer.

"But fifteen years of return is like a nightmare, and I could never have imagined that it would happen to my eldest son! My wife is so kind, she shouldn't be like this! Lin Jianguo came back to his senses, and when he said this, he hugged his head in pain.