In the twilight of the village night, a black shadow flashed into the side room of Geng Erniu's house, and this black shadow was Chen Zifeng.

When the old village chief was alert, he withdrew first, and did not let him find out.

Through the few words he heard between the old village chief and Mr. Qi, he could be sure that there must be an ulterior secret in Meihua Village, and it seemed that they were going to prepare something tomorrow.

It's just a pity that he didn't hear the conversation behind, originally he wanted to eavesdrop in the distance, but the ancestral hall seemed to be arranged in some formation, and there was no way to eavesdrop on any sound outside.

However, all the secrets will be revealed tomorrow, and he didn't worry too much, but what he didn't expect was that the old village chief was actually a pseudo-god-level powerhouse, and his cultivation was comparable to his current strength.

But also, if you don't have this strength, how can you live for so many years!

Chen Zifeng summarized clues and tried to dig out the hidden truth in Meihua Village, but unfortunately there were still too few clues, and it was difficult to find out the truth from them.

However, a strange phenomenon in Plum Blossom Village caught Chen Zifeng's attention.

Although Meihua Village has a population of more than 70 households, young people account for more than 50 households, and it stands to reason that there should be a lot of children, but there are very few children in the village, and Mr. Qi's school has only a dozen students, probably around seven or eight years old.

And he barely heard the cries of children in the village, but that didn't prove anything.

After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't come up with a clue, but when he thought that the mystery of everything would be revealed tomorrow, he didn't bother to think about it, so he cleared his distracting thoughts and started a new round of meditation and cultivation.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was the evening of the next day, and Chen Zifeng woke up from his cultivation, it was so comfortable to cultivate here, and he always couldn't extricate himself.

And when he came out of his cultivation, he found that it was already evening, and his heart was cold, knowing that he might have made a mistake, he immediately exuded his spiritual sense to perceive the entire village, but found that there was no one in the village, except for the ancestral hall in the center of the village, and the name of the village for defense had doubled.

Chen Zifeng immediately left Geng Erniu's house and turned into a black shadow, at the beginning of this month, the sky was dark and dark, and it was pitch black everywhere, and there was no way to see that this was a village where people lived.

Coming to the vicinity of the ancestral hall again, taking advantage of the emptiness of the guard change, he directly came to the place where he peeped last time, and just saw that almost all the villagers in the stage of the ancestral hall gathered here, Chen Zifeng looked around, there were three people standing on the platform of the ancestral hall, in the middle was the old village chief wearing a black robe and holding a cane, on the left hand was Mr. Qi Yan Mingqi in a full-color black robe, and on the right hand was the burly man Geng Erniu.

Chen Zifeng is glad that he is not too late.

And the scene in front of him was not as Chen Zifeng expected, but to Chen Zifeng's surprise, he searched around the crowd, but did not see Mei Xueer's shadow.

But it's okay, Chen Zifeng really treats her as a daughter, if she appears here, he really doesn't know what to do with her.

At this moment, a defending villager walked in outside the ancestral hall, and the villager came to the old village chief and the three of them, and said, "Village chief, a few people sent to deal with outsiders came back and said that the kid was not found. ”

The old village chief frowned, and then said: "Forget it, the auspicious time is coming, and when the sacrifice is completed, it will not be too late to clean him up." ”

After Geng Erniu heard this, he was silent for a moment and said, "Village Chief, I don't think that kid is a threat to us, so you don't have to be so careful!" ”

Lao Cun snorted coldly and said, "What do you know? I could tell from the first glance that boy he was a federal investigator, and if it weren't for the fact that I didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble by killing him early, he would have died long ago.

People like them, who have been in the village for so long, who knows how many secrets he has found out in the village, such flaws must be cleared, otherwise our Plum Blossom Village will cease to exist, do you want the Plum Blossom Village to be destroyed? ”

Geng Erniu lowered his head when the old village chief said and stopped talking.

After the old village chief finished speaking, he didn't care about him anymore, and directly waved his hand, and all the villagers walked out of the ancestral hall in an orderly manner, it can be seen that the villagers should have experienced many such sacrifices and are very familiar with the process.

Chen Zifeng hid his breath and followed them all the way, wanting to see where their sacrificial location was, he and Mei Xue'er had almost visited the village in the past few days, but they didn't see a suitable place for sacrificial ceremonies.

What Chen Zifeng didn't expect was that the villagers, under the leadership of the three old village chiefs, actually came to the back of the village and went straight to the river.

This made the courtiers stunned for a while, you must know that villages like Meihua Village that have been sacrificed many times almost all have a fixed location, after all, sacrifice is not a simple matter, and the position of the sacrifice is the most critical.

And Chen Zifeng was sure that there was no place for sacrifice near Xiaohe at all, and he didn't sense the aura of the evil god they were sacrificing.

In this way, driven by curiosity, Chen Zifeng continued to follow them, but he did not break the defensive shield of the village at the first time to close the signal shield in the village and seek support from the headquarters.

Chen Zifeng did not take it into account, but subconsciously felt confident in his own strength.

Chen Zifeng followed all the way, but found that the villagers, under the leadership of the old village chief, did not stop near the river, but took an overgrown path towards the depths of the plum blossom forest between the two hills behind the village.

This made Chen Zifeng even more puzzled, he had never heard of the sacrifice of the old ruler to be carried out in the depths of the woods.

After a few hundred meters of marching again, the woods suddenly cleared up, and finally the villagers stopped.

Chen Zifeng followed behind them, and from his angle he couldn't see what was happening in front of him.

He looked around and saw that only the hills on either side had a wide view, and he didn't expose himself.

The geographical location of Meihua Village was originally located in the col of the small hills, and the plum grove behind the village is in the valley connected by the hills.

So Chen Zifeng jumped up to the mountainside of the hill on the left, which was more than ten meters high, and hid behind a protruding stone to watch the villagers in the valley below.

At this time, they stood behind the three old village chiefs, and in front of them there was a sacrificial stone altar, which was guarded by guards, and around the stone altar stood constantly burning torches, and the torches illuminated the incantations engraved on the altar.

The incantation on the stone altar was complex and weird, and it also gave Chen Zifeng a familiar feeling, he thought that he must have seen it, but his brain, which had been soaked in alcohol for nearly ten years, really made it difficult for him to remember things related to this incantation.

The ceremony of the stone altar below has long been prepared, just waiting for the priest to preside over it.

Chen Zifeng felt that he should now go to break the ring defense shield and turn off the signal shield, so that he could contact the headquarters to arrest the criminals in Meihua Village.

But just as he was about to leave, the old village chief waved his hand to signal the ceremony to proceed, and at that moment, several villagers came out of the woods in front of them, and they carried a woman in a red robe who was tied with a rope to the sacrificial stone altar.

Chen Zifeng recognized at a glance that the woman in the red robe was Mei Xue'er, and she was the sacrifice used in the Meihua Village sacrifice this time.

Chen Zifeng's heart turned upside down, he never thought that the old village chief was so inhumane, and even his great-granddaughter who was raised by himself had to be sacrificed.

And Mei Xue'er on the sacrificial stone altar below, the villagers who came up with her took out the white cloth from their mouths, and Mei Xue'er, who was depressed, lifted a little spirit and looked at the old village chief and the villagers under the sacrificial stone altar in front.

The old village chief opened his mouth and said: "Xue'er, don't be sad, you are sacrificing for the future of our Plum Blossom Village, for the prosperity of Plum Blossom Village, you should be proud."

Now if you have anything else to say, just say it! ”

Mei Xue'er's tear-stained face showed a desperate expression, and she said in a hoarse voice that was already crying: "It turns out that this is what Grandpa you have been hiding from me, originally I was still wondering why girls die quietly every year, but now it seems that they all died on this stone altar."

But I don't understand, why are you doing this, grandpa? ”

The old village chief's hand clenched the cane in his hand, and then he explained to Mei Xue'er: "Xue'er, you should know that our Meihua Village has had fewer and fewer newborn babies in the past ten years, and it is difficult to have any more babies born now, so in order for the village to reproduce, we must believe in the black goat of the forest, our goddess of darkness and abundance, the supreme mother goddess, and the mother of all things-Shabu Nicholas."

Only by believing in her and offering sacrifices to her can we receive her blessings, revitalize our village again, and give birth to new babies in our village. ”

Mei Xue'er said weakly: "Then why don't you ask the people in the city outside for help, I heard Brother Chen say that the technology outside is very developed, and it will definitely help us solve the problem of reproduction." ”

The old village chief was very angry and said: "What do you know, the infertility of the young people in our village is the punishment given to us by the gods, and the technology that insults the gods outside will only make our crimes more and more serious, only by believing in the mother goddess can we wash away our crimes, and with the blessing of the mother goddess, the people of the village can have the ability to reproduce again." ”

Mei Xue'er looked at the villagers below, hoping that some of them would recognize the reality and not continue to make mistakes, but unfortunately she saw the villagers under the light of the torches, under the words of the old village chief, their faces were full of excitement, and their eyes were full of worship for the mother goddess.

Mei Xue'er sneered, a dead gray appeared in her eyes, she knew that no matter how she persuaded her, there was no need for it, the old village chief and the villagers were hopeless, they had completely become believers in Sabu Nicholas, and now it was impossible to save them.

Seeing that Mei Xue'er had accepted her fate, the old village chief took a deep breath and waved his hand to signal the villagers on the stone altar to start the ceremony.

Seeing one of the villagers who held her, he respectfully took out a short knife, and then raised his hand with the knife to stab Mei Xue'er in the chest.

Mei Xueer closed her eyes in resignation, waiting for her death.

But at this moment, I heard a loud shout from above the valley: "Stop! ”

Then a figure jumped down from the mountain wall less than ten meters above and landed directly on the stone altar, and the strong shock wave stirred up a burst of smoke and dust, and even shook the knife-wielding villager back a few steps, so that Mei Xue'er, who was in crisis, was out of danger for a short time.

The villagers in the audience are also a lot, I don't know who it is, but they dare to trespass on the forbidden land of Meihua Village.

The old village chief snorted coldly, and with a wave of his hand, a whirlwind rolled up, dispersing the smoke and dust.

As the smoke and dust dissipated, a person also appeared, this person was none other than Chen Zifeng, who had been monitoring them.