The magic fog on the horizon was faint, several pairs of red as blood, and the eyes the same size as the door of the house were closed, as if they were staring at this small mountain village, and the huge blood eyes flashed with all kinds of strange lights, flashing in the magic fog, like lightning rising from the dark clouds, but because it was too far away, everything was vague. But the feeling of being watched, being watched, being pinched by the devil, and having nowhere to escape, always made the Chu family feel extremely desperate.

Lonely mountain, lonely village, the Chu family is the only family left. The fifteenth brother, Chu Yi, left in the direction where the demon eye was located back then. The legend is that it is extremely terrifying and terrifying, in fact, you don't need to listen to the legend, just look at the palpitating light emitted by the huge bloody eye.

But in the hearts of the Chu family, no matter how terrifying it is, it is better than living in this ruined and desperate village. If they could escape from this small village, they would be willing to go to a place ten times more terrifying than the legendary demon cave.

"Brother Fifteen, can you live? Have you escaped the catastrophe? Do you know how painful your mother is?" Under the night, Chu Zheng, who had been standing for a day, turned his head and glanced at his mother who was sitting in the room.

Chu Zheng's mother got married and had children in her twenties, and gave birth to a son every year until Chu Zheng was the eighteenth. Chu Zheng was the youngest, and there were some things he just heard from his brothers: he was born only a few months ago, and his father died unexpectedly and tragically, and immediately after his father's death, the eldest brother killed someone in the downtown area.

When his mother went to visit the prison, the eldest brother, who was wooden by nature, was so ashamed that he couldn't face his mother, but just muttered to his mother that he didn't know how to kill someone, that he really didn't kill anyone, that knife appeared in his hand for some reason, the knife was dripping with blood, and a person suddenly fell in front of him for some reason. Looking at the back of his mother's departure, the eldest brother cried loudly.

The eldest brother was beheaded on his birthday, and he was not allowed to eat the last birthday noodles.

This incident was an unbearable blow to the mother, and within a year, she lost her husband, lost her eldest son, and her hair turned gray that year.

In the second year, Chu Zheng's second brother killed someone in the downtown again. When his mother went to visit the prison, the second brother burst into tears and said to his mother that he didn't know how to kill people, he really didn't kill anyone, but the knife was in his hand, and a woman fell in front of his eyes. Such an argument was, of course, invalid, and he was still sentenced to beheading.

On the second brother's birthday, he was beheaded next to the village.

In the third year, this kind of thing was the turn of the third brother. The mother and the fourth brother began to redress their grievances, but the iron case was like a mountain and could not be overturned at all.

Since then, the people in the village have avoided Chu Zheng's family, and their family has become an ominous person. Since that year, foxes, weasels, night owls, and pythons have appeared from time to time in this originally peaceful small village, and they have not avoided people, and the villagers can only carefully avoid them.

And in the fourth year, from time to time there was a strange mist of various colors, which blew into the village, and the village began to have all kinds of diseases, all kinds of disasters, and constantly dead people. It was in that year that the fourth brother repeated that story again.

In that year, some people in the village began to move out, and their family was regarded as a devil and evil spirit, and everyone scolded and beaten them, and they did not dare to go out from then on.

In the fifth year, the fifth brother repeated the story again, and the disaster in the village became out of control. In addition to the death of the living from all kinds of strange diseases, snakes and rats also stole into the graves, and all kinds of foxes and jackals dug open the graves and exposed the dead to the sun. So, there was a legend in the village: it was a family of people who were cursed by the gods and demons, and they were all guilty of great sins, so they were punished, and each son would die on his eighteenth birthday until the eighteen sons died. Anyone who comes close to the family will be tainted with a terrible curse. Strangely, the graves of Chu Zheng's five elder brothers and his father were intact, and the villagers' version of this was that those who were cursed did not even dare to approach foxes and mice.

When this legend was born, no one else in the village dared to live there, and even the graves of their ancestors were removed, leaving only this miserable family.

From that year on, all kinds of howls of demons and monsters began to be heard in the abyss and forests below the village, and strange things were endless, and when Chu Zheng's mother decided to move away from this strange place, she found that no matter how she went, she could not leave this village.

Evil ghosts, demons, and monsters howled at the village under the cliffs of the back mountain, and all kinds of eerie demonic fog shrouded the edge of the village, sometimes a pair of green giant eyes appeared in the demonic fog, and sometimes there would be giant eyes as red as blood, and those evil demon eyes stared at the village, bringing endless fear.

This legend is very widespread, and there are constantly arresters and servants to investigate and solve cases, but the Chu family still has a son who dies a year.

One day every year, on a son's birthday, Chu Zheng's mother would walk more than ten miles away, pull back the split body of a son with a straw mat, and then bury him, there was no coffin, only a roll of straw mat.

When Chu Zheng was eight years old, he saw the starling's appearance for the first time, only looked at the head, and only glanced at it. The impression of that glance was deeply impressed in his heart, and he could never erase that miserable memory from then on.

When he was ten years old, Chu Zheng resolutely followed his mother to collect the body of the tenth brother, and for the first time he saw blood all over the ground and a head rolling down. He was very strong, he took back the body of the tenth brother with his mother, who was already sick, he helped his mother sew the head of the tenth brother with a needle and thread, he dug a pit and buried the tenth brother, he remembered that the straw mat was made by his mother in advance. He added to the grave of his tenth brother.

He remembered that day, Brother Eleven swore at the grave that he would break the evil curse, and from then on, he did not see Brother Eleven again, until Brother Eleven's eighteenth birthday, when he and his mother brought his body back for burial.

Their family's life is to wait in this pain and despair, waiting for their loved one's birthday to be buried. The mother, who has been tormented by pain for many years, has become like a candle in her last years, with dementia, amnesia, and her cloudy old eyes are close to blindness.

Three days after the eleventh brother's death, in front of his grave, the fifteenth brother took Chu Zheng's hand and said, "Since there is such an evil curse, we have to break this curse, if it is this curse under the heavenly god, we will also hack the heavenly god to death with a knife!"

On the second watch that night, Chu Zheng didn't fall asleep, he saw through the window lattice that the fifteenth brother knelt in the courtyard, kowtowed three times to his mother's room, and then walked away without looking back.

Later, Chu Zheng knew that the fifteenth brother snatched a knife from the blacksmith in the town the next day, and then he rushed into the county seat, and at the age of fourteen, he killed the corrupt and fierce county magistrate who bullied men and women, and the fifteenth brother said to the people around him: "I am the cursed fifteenth, since the gods and demons cursed me to kill, then I will kill people every day." Let's see if I'll be killed until I'm eighteen. If these officials can't solve the unjust case, they should all be killed. After saying that, he fled, and since then, the fifteenth brother has become a nightmare for corrupt officials. But one year, when he killed a few corrupt officials, there was no more news.

Chu Zheng clearly remembers the care of the fifteenth brother when he was a child, every time he went out hunting, when he encountered danger, the fifteenth brother guarded in front of him. For this reason, the fifteenth brother has been bitten by wolves, bitten and entangled by giant pythons, bitten by crocodiles, and bitten and caught by tigers, but he has survived every time.

Nostalgic for the bits and pieces of being with Brother Fifteen in the past, Chu Zheng looked at the stars in the sky and prayed for Brother Fifteen: "Brother Fifteen, have you broken the curse? Can you survive? Brother Fifteen, I don't want you to die, I want you to live." God of heaven, why do you send down such a curse? What evil have we done, or are you actually evil?"

Chu Zheng looked at the path that stretched down the mountain, his feet did not move at all: "Fifteenth brother, I will stand here and wait for you." Years of suffering have made Chu Zheng's will as strong as iron.

The dim light reflected the pale face of the old mother, and she lost her mind again, the needle in her hand had already pierced her fingers, and several deep blood holes were still bleeding, staining the old clothes of fifteen children, but she didn't realize it, and her heart surged with the mother's deep attachment to her son.

She was thinking about her fifteen.

The old mother had congealed tears on her cheeks, there was not a trace of blood on her thin face, her eyes were dull and blank, she looked eighty or ninety years old, but in fact she was only in her early forties.

The day after tomorrow is that terrible day, is her fifteenth son still alive, will he die on his birthday like the other brothers, and will he bury him with his own hands?

At this time, the little sister Chu Shuang was hiding in her own bed, she had just woken up from a nightmare, she was trembling with fright, she dreamed that a group of officials had captured her eighteenth brother, she chased barefoot, she cried and ran, fell and fell, but she couldn't catch up, until she dreamed that the executioner's ghost-headed knife fell viciously on the eighteenth brother's head, she woke up with fright.

She curled up her thin body, sobbing softly, her heart was very afraid, the eighteenth brother has taken care of him since he was a child, he is not only a brother, but also like a father, it can be said that she can't do without the eighteenth brother for a day, the scene of losing the eighteenth brother in the dream made her extremely frightened, and the heavy atmosphere at home made her dare not find the old mother, nor dare to find the brother, in this night, she was very helpless. She got up once and poured a bowl of water for her mother and brother, but they were so preoccupied that they ignored her, and she had to go back to her bed.

The night wind blew into the ruined house, and in the wind came the howl of wolves, and the howl of the night owl. This is not the most uncomfortable, there is a deep cliff under the lonely village, and the sound from time to time is even more terrifying, when she was a child, Chu Shuang thought it was the voice of a hellish ghost, and later she heard that it was the sound of the old snake spirit who had practiced in the yin stream for 10,000 years hissing and spitting out the snake core after eating people, and in the boundless forest under the small village, there was a numbing whistling sound from time to time, it was said that it was a ghost eaten by a demonic beast, roaring unwillingly.

On moonlit nights, sometimes the moonlight suddenly loses and darkness is so dark that you can't see your fingers, and it is said that it is a terrifying monster that sits up from its sleep, and its huge body blocks the moon. The eighteenth brother said that it was a huge demon bird, which spread its wings and covered the sky. Whenever this happens, demons take the lives of many people.

Other times, the whole village would tremble violently, and it was said that in the devil's forest, there were huge monsters fighting, and every time they landed, the whole mountain trembled.

Xiao Chu Shuang was afraid of such a dark night, she had to hold the eighteenth brother to feel a little safe, with the eighteenth brother by her side, she could fall asleep when she felt the protection of the eighteenth brother, but no one cared about her tonight, she shrunk in the corner and shivered very sensibly.

A strange sound streaked across the night sky, causing Chu Shuang's eardrums to ache, and her brain was also torn apart by the chirp, a burst of pain. She was terrified, the huge demon bird came out of the hole, its wings not only obscured the moonlight, its hissing also made Chu Shuang's head painful. She called softly: "Eighteen brothers", her eyes filled with tears.

The only remaining male in the family, eighteen Chu Zheng, stood outside the chaimen, he looked back from time to time, looking at the old mother in the light, his heart was full of pain and distress. The chirping of the strange bird seemed to herald a sense of foreboding, and his heart tightened. He clenched his right fist, his nails digging deep into his flesh, but he didn't realize it. His left hand tightly grasped the water bowl that Chu Shuang had sent him, and after exerting too much force, the edge of the bowl had already left five blood marks on his fingers.

As usual, the official should have come this morning to report the news of the beheading the day after tomorrow, and it has been the case for 14 years. If you don't come this time, it may be that the fifteenth brother escaped the disaster. Of course, this is only a glimmer of hope, and after every year of thunderous hope is shattered, they have long dared not hold out hope.

In the bleak middle of the night, the hearts of the three of them tightened, if there was no bad news, then, fifteen, maybe he would not have died!

Chu Zheng's hands were trembling, he was holding the bowl of water sent by his little sister tightly, he hadn't drunk it yet, he looked at the mountain road from afar, and his heart was entangled.

Suddenly, he turned his face and pricked up his ears to listen.

Click, click, click......

When the crisp sound of horses' hooves gradually became clear in the various strange sounds under the night, Chu Zheng's heart was broken, and the bowl in his hand fell to the ground.

It was only when the messenger came every year that the sound of horses' hooves sounded on the hill.

Syllable.

The sound of the bowl shattering seemed like bad news.

The old mother was startled, and then she also heard the sound of horses' hooves.

Two lines of hot tears welled up.

Suddenly, a violent anger burned in Chu Zheng's chest, and he wanted to pick up the knife and kill the person who reported the news! He wanted to kill with a knife, keep killing, kill the anger in his chest, kill the so-called gods and demons who gave them the curse of suffering, kill all the injustices and injustices in this world, and kill all the disasters and humiliations that fell on their family.