Chapter 286: The Sacrifice
Thinking of this, I decided to follow these two people wearing masks to see what the two of them were going to do.
I followed these two men for a long time, and I don't know when, until finally, the sky gradually darkened, and villages began to appear in front of me. It's a kind of village that I haven't seen before, and it doesn't look like the countryside in the Central Plains.
Coupled with the masks on those people's faces, I remembered Xiangdong. Xiangxi expelled corpses, Xiangdong Wu sacrifice, Wu sacrifice is an ancient ritual to drive away ghosts and epidemics, these are an extension of witch culture, and it still exists until modern times.
This village really looks like the kind of village on the Hunan side, except for some low thatched houses, there are also many wooden buildings.
The whole village is lit up with a little fire, and the village looks very lively at night.
After following these two people into the village, I noticed that all of them were wearing masks, and the masks on their faces looked very hideous. In crowded places, I began to notice that a lot of people started to stare at me, and there were more and more of them, and I started to feel that something was wrong, and I just ran away.
I didn't even realize what was going on, and I kept running, and after running, I began to follow a large group of people wearing masks. I walked through the small streets, and at last I saw a thatched hut with the door open, and I went straight inside.
There was a candle lit in the room, and the candlelight was cyan.
After the candlelight, I saw a wrinkled face, which was blue by the candlelight, and I was startled by this face.
I screamed, almost reflexively, and turned around to keep running, but I could already hear messy footsteps outside, and the people were already chasing me.
There is nowhere to hide, even if it is, I can only rush out and fight with them, they are wearing masks, and maybe they are just ordinary people.
I was about to run, but I felt a hand grab my clothes, and when I looked back, it was the old lady. I tried to shake the old lady away, but the old lady handed me a mask.
Is this helping me, old lady?
Without any hesitation, I immediately took the mask, because the people outside were already rushing in. I said thank you to the old lady, and I put the mask on my face and sent the strap behind it.
By this time, the men had already chased in, and the old lady stood up, walked in front of them, and whispered strange things that I could not understand at all.
Then the crowd was gone, leaving me and the old lady in the thatched hut.
When they had gone, the old lady came up to me, and she looked at me carefully, and then said to me in a low, hoarse voice: "Young man, you should not have come to this place, and if you come, you will not leave!" ”
She was able to speak Chinese, and although she had a strong accent, I was able to understand it. I immediately asked, "Why, what the hell is this place?" ”
The old lady seemed a little surprised, and a pair of strange little eyes in the wrinkles stared at me for a while, and then sat down and said, "You don't know what kind of place you dare to come?" ”
Those people seemed to have listened to the old lady just now, and she seemed to know something, and perhaps I could find some clues from her.
"I also came to this place by accident, grandma, what the hell is this place?" I asked, even though I knew it was within the map of the Mountains and Rivers, but I had a very vague idea of the place.
"Hades!" The old lady said so.
"Can I go back?" I continued to ask, I had heard Ah Kun say about the underworld before, but it could only be regarded as a guess or description, this place is indeed like the underworld, and the people here are probably just ghosts.
"Entering the underworld, it is equivalent to having a yang shou in the city god, and it is impossible to go back!" The old lady said that there was no room for maneuver at all, but she also talked about the city god, could this so-called underworld really have a city god?
"Then if the yang life is not over, can you go to the city god to return the yang?" I asked, this is just a hypothesis, because I think this place is still very different from the legendary underworld, and I don't think it will exist, but since the old lady mentioned it, I don't think she was joking.
"If you can return the yang, then the yin and yang are not reversed?" The old lady said with a sneer.
The old lady seemed to mean that there was really a city god, and I became more and more curious, so I continued to ask: "Grandma, is there really a city god?" ”
"Lord Chenghuang naturally has it, but let me tell you, don't try to beg him to return the old man, otherwise his old man will make you unable to even be a ghost!" The old lady looked vicious when she spoke, I was even startled by her expression, I didn't say it, why was she so excited, and I didn't even know where the city god was!
"What's the matter, grandmother, what are you ......" I looked at the old lady, she seemed to realize her gaffe, I thought there must be something in this.
But the old lady didn't say anything, she just said: "It's nothing, young man, don't ask so much, the more you know, the more unfavorable it will be for you, if I hadn't saved you just now, I'm afraid you would have been sacrificed by them!" ”
"Grandma, I can't tell you the truth, I lied to you just now, I'm sorry, I didn't come to this place by accident. I came here in a way to save people, my family and friends are stuck here, they are important to me, I have to save them! "This old lady looks very weird, but I don't think she's a bad person, otherwise she wouldn't have told me so much, and she wouldn't have saved me just now.
As I finished, the old lady's face changed, and she stood up and stared at me.
"You're in league with them?" The old lady's voice immediately became cold, and her eyes were gloomy as she walked towards me.
I was taken aback by this sudden situation, however, her words also showed that someone did come to this village, if it wasn't Shen Yue and them, it must be my father and second grandfather, I finally found some clues, I hurriedly said to her: "Grandma, you may have a misunderstanding......
"Hmph...... Misunderstand? Offending Lord Chenghuang, is it still a misunderstanding? The old lady looked at me very defensively, she even sighed, and continued: "Forget it, you wear a mask and go, I won't give you to the city god, and you don't say that I saved you, hurry up and leave this place, my old woman doesn't dare to take you in!" ”
The old lady pushed me out of the door as she spoke, and she was also an old lady, and I naturally didn't dare to resist, and she pushed me out, and she closed the door directly, and latched it from the inside.
I had hoped to find more clues from her, but I couldn't ask any more. Listening to the old lady's meaning, she can even report directly to the city god or something, it seems that the so-called city god is in this village, if there is really a city god in the underworld, it shouldn't be the management party, with the city god mansion, how could he stay in such a small village?
I think there must be something strange about this, and I can also hear it from her words, this city god is definitely not a good stubble, could it be that someone is pretending to be a ghost?
I continued to ask a few more questions towards the hut, but no one answered.
Maybe the old lady is really embarrassed, she saved me, I really shouldn't bother her, so I'm going to find the city god she said, I want to see what the so-called city god is.
Just as I was about to leave here, the wooden door behind me creaked open, and I heard a voice behind me say, "Wait a minute, young man!" ”
I glanced back, and the old lady poked her head out of the crack in the door, and she looked in both directions, beckoned to me, and let me pass.
I immediately walked over, and she whispered to me, "You walk along the road in the middle of the village, and at the end of the road, you will see a large square, and after about half an hour, there will be a sacrifice of the people, the same people who offended the city god before!" ”
I hurriedly thanked the old lady, and she said, "Remember, don't say that I told you, and you must take off the mask on your face!" ”
I nodded, I didn't expect to meet good people in such a place, and the old lady also smiled at the corner of her mouth, and said to me: "Young man, you seem to be a capable person, be careful!" ”
Then, without waiting for me to speak, she closed the door.
When I walked out of the village, no one looked at me like that, and I walked through the crowd like a villager, but I still didn't dare to get too close to them, for fear of being discovered.