Usually the bandits go down the mountain to attack the big ones just for money and food. After getting what you want, isn't it too troublesome to dig up ancestral graves, dissect corpses, etc.?

The relationship between this gang of thieves and the Tang family seems to be more than a simple robbery and robbery.

At Lu Ming's request, Huang Weimin immediately focused his follow-up research on the Tang family.

So more details were collected little by little from all corners of these ancient books and from the backgrounds of the rest of the stories.

"Persona records that after the fall of the Tang family, the local government sent officials and people to search the Tang family's mansion after it was set on fire, and the result was that 'a lot was found', and many people found gold and silver treasures and other things in the ruins. Hmm, it seems that the gang of thieves who destroyed the Tang family did not search the Tang family's house strictly. ”

This further confirms that the reason why the gang of bandits destroyed the Tang family was not for money, at least not just for money - after revenge, looting money was more like incidental, so much was missed.

"Listening to the Wind Pavilion Book" records that after the fall of the Tang family, nearby villagers found many statues of mountain gods with large heads and small bodies in the ruins of the Tang family. The officials also found an underground palace, which contained 'many strange things'. For example, a flying iron bird, a small talking box, and so on. Later, the county decree used these things as an unlucky reason to 'burn them', and burned them all. ”

Lu Ming's brows gradually furrowed.

If the previous records only made the Tang family have some suspicions, but now these descriptions can almost be regarded as real hammers.

A flying iron bird? Is it a drone?

A small talking box, a tape recorder or a mobile phone?

A statue of a mountain god with a big head and a small body?

According to ordinary customs, a large family, even if it is to be worshipped, should also be dedicated to Buddha statues and gods, such a large-scale worship of mountain gods, it is difficult not to wonder what is strange in it.

"Teacher Huang, doesn't the book say the legend of sacrificing to the mountain god?"

Lu Ming seriously suspected that the Tang family was a family that made its fortune by sacrificing people to the mountain gods. Now that so many mountain god statues and so many "strange things" have been seized, it stands to reason that the local area should be spread in an uproar. And this, the person who recorded it at the time, is unlikely to be missed.

"Nope." Huang Weimin shook his head: "But this is also normal." When the Tang family collapsed, it had been more than two hundred years since the poor boy at the beginning. Later, we combed through the context and connected these things together, and for the people at that time, they had long forgotten about it. ”

Lu Ming nodded, and continued to think in his head.

"There's something strange here."

Huang Weimin pointed to an ancient book and said slowly: "It's also "Persona". Hmm, time is before the fall of the Tang family. At that time, a woodcutter went into the mountains, accidentally got lost, and accidentally bypassed a certain cliff, and saw a village in the valley below that he had never heard of before. The village is peaceful with men and women weaving, and it seems that there are samurai protection.

He was afraid that he had encountered a mountain spirit and a ghost, so he fled in a hurry. Later, when I finally returned home, I began to hype about it, but when I tried to find it, I couldn't find it. Not long after, the person disappeared inexplicably.

Later, another mountain hunter said that he had also seen the legendary village. But all he saw was that the village was deserted, the fields were deserted, and the houses were almost overwhelmed with weeds, as if they had been abandoned. Not long after, the Orion also disappeared.

The author of Persona heard about it and recorded it. He thought that this was an illusion created by the spirits in the mountains, and that anyone who saw it would be hooked later, and the person would disappear. ”

"There's still ...... here"

There are many things that may be related to the Tang family or may not be related to the Tang family, which were excavated by Huang Weimin one by one. So, in the regular meeting that night, Lu Ming told all these things.

Zhang Dingshan was absent from the regular meeting because of other matters. This time, only Lu Ming, Lu Qingliang, and He Wei participated.

After hearing Lu Ming's story, the two fell into a long silence.

"This Tang family, who made a fortune in the Chongzhen era, is very likely to be the family that we speculated, accidentally learned the truth about the mountain god sacrifice, and gradually mastered the 'core law', and can steadily obtain benefits."

None of the three of them had any objection to this.

Whether it is the many statues of mountain gods, or the "strange things" that were excavated from the underground palace and burned by the county order on the grounds of bad luck, or the peculiar family history of this family, etc., all prove this.

"But...... Mr. Huang and I have collected a lot of information about the history of the Tang family since its inception, but we have not found any records of the frequent disappearance of local people for a long time. ”

Occasional disappearances, such as falling off a cliff or being kidnapped by traffickers, are unavoidable, and these things are so common that they don't go down in the history books.

But if there are long-term, stable, and frequent missing people, then it will definitely cause concern. There should always be one or two records on so many materials.

But there wasn't one.

He Wei suddenly said: "That village similar to the Peach Blossom Garden is strange. ”

"Oh?"

"Is it possible...... This village is a 'human animal' raised by the Tang family? The ancestors of the Tang family found the law of stable sacrifice success, so they arrested some such people, found a secret place in the valley, kept these people in captivity, let them reproduce naturally, and then regularly captured the population from the village and sacrificed it to the mountain god? ”

Lu Ming trembled.

If we speculate on this basis, then many things in the ancient records have a different interpretation.

For example, what the woodcutter saw was that the "samurai" who seemed to be protecting the village was actually not protecting the village, but only the guards sent by the Tang family to take care of the village.

The ruins that Orion saw later were the ones that the Tang family had abandoned this place after sensing the leakage of the village, and chose another place to keep these people in captivity.

The death of the woodcutter and the hunter was not the ghost of the mountain spirit, as the author of "Persona of Floating Living" believes, but ......

The Tang family killed people in order to keep secrets.

Even further, the gang of bandits who wiped out the entire Tang family, including even women and children, did not seem to attack the Tang family for money, but to take revenge and vent their anger, are these thieves these villagers?

Lu Ming had to admit that this was extremely likely.

Now, the only doubt is the mystery of the Tang family's demise.

After all, a huge family that has been in business for hundreds of years is so powerful that it does not look like it can be destroyed by a group of bandits in rags, including women and children.

So......

It's like the possibility that I had already guessed when I first formulated the standard, that is, the golden cicada is out of its shell?

In order not to associate their own family with the "sacrifice to the mountain god", the Tang family deliberately faked their death to get out?

On the surface, the family perished, but in fact, it changed places and started again?

But that's a bit unreasonable. After all, it is clearly recorded in the historical materials that many statues of mountain gods were found in the ruins of the Tang family.

Isn't this a deliberate attempt to draw people's attention to the mountain gods?

Lu Ming couldn't think clearly, couldn't figure it out. But one thing is at least approximately confirmed.

"Through the family inheritance model, there is a high probability that this kind of thing is real by steadily obtaining benefits by sacrificing to the mountain gods. Maybe...... The family that discovered this secret was not the only one in the Tang family? Or, for some reason, the Tang family was indeed destroyed by the bandits, but there were also survivors who escaped with this secret, and then made a comeback?

More extremely, maybe there are some ancient books handed down from the Tang family, and after a few decades, or even more years, other unrelated people have mastered this secret and re-established the X organization? ”

If this is the case, then the attempt to find out the X organization by tracing the Tang family has also failed.

"But there is always one core point, that is, if you want to obtain stable benefits by sacrificing to the mountain god, it is inseparable from two factors: first, the place of worship to the mountain god is in the territory of Woye County or the surrounding mountains, and the executor cannot be too far away. Second, there must be a steady stream of people with Hag.1 genes as sacrifices. ”

That is to say, after the demise of the Tang family, if there are inheritors in the follow-up - whether the Tang family fakes their deaths and makes a comeback, or the survivors who have mastered the secret to revitalize the family, or through various channels, the rest of the people who have also mastered the secret, their power must also be in this region.

In addition, it is very likely that a stable supply of sacrifices was obtained through "captive human animals".

So what to do next, it's clear.

Continue to search for the rest of the big families similar to the Tang family in the historical materials.

These big families may overlap with the era in which the Tang family existed - after all, it is also possible that the Tang family was not the only one who mastered this secret at that time; It may also exist after the Tang family - this is the secret of the Tang family that someone has mastered in the future.

After all, the existence of the Tang family has confirmed the rationality of the existence of this model. It is more likely that the X organization has been inherited from ancient times through this model.

"Ugh."

Lu Ming sighed.

He knew that in the next period of time, he would have to be accompanied by those troublesome ancient books.

Time slipped away like this. In the midst of day after day of consulting and data collection, one night, Lu Ming was suddenly awakened by the sound of hurried footsteps.

Lu Ming and Huang Weimin both raised their heads full of doubts, and temporarily took their attention away from the ancient books.

So Lu Ming saw several heavily armed soldiers rushing in.