City C.

Roof Village.

In this materialistic age of technology, this village, located between the mountains, is undoubtedly a bit out of place.

Even under the policy of secular order, everything that is modernized is embodied in this mountain village, everything that is modernized cannot change the customs of the mountain village itself.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, this roof village is naturally a place where the mountains eat the mountains.

The existence of mountains, since ancient times, has undoubtedly had countless legends born because of this.

For example, ghosts and ghosts in the mountains, corpse puppets and spirits......

However, as the saying goes, evil cannot prevail over good, and in the ancient fantasy, since there are evil things that are harmful to people, there is naturally also the right way to protect people.

In Roof Village, a place where the mountains eat from the mountains, since ancient times, there have naturally been countless legends around the mountains, and naturally, they have evolved into taboos and deep-rooted customs.

Naturally, there is also the so-called guardian deity of Roof Village, who enjoys the existence of worshipping and praying for blessings in the era of the villagers.

And these customs, in this materialistic era of science and technology, are undoubtedly extremely incompatible.

However, Roof Ridge Village is located between the mountains, and its connection with the outside world is limited to a mountain road that is 100 miles long and crosses the mountains.

The environment of near-isolation is naturally doomed, and in the eyes of the outside world, these are ignorance, backwardness, and even ...... Cruel customs are destined to continue for a long, long time.

September 9 is the Double Ninth Festival to the outside world, and to Roof Village, it is the annual festival to worship the gods.

It's just that the gods sacrificed in Roof Village are not the legendary gods, but a mountain king.

In the legend of Roof Village, the ancestors of Roof Village, under the protection of this mountain king, were able to take root and multiply among the mountains and survive to this day.

In these years, it seems that due to the abnormal climate, the climate in the mountains is changeable, and the land that relies on the mountains to eat the mountains is naturally a big loss.

I don't know when, in Roof Village, there is a saying that has begun to circulate, that is, over the years, the sacrifice of the mountain king in the roof village has become more and more superficial, and the sincerity is insufficient.

Whether this statement is true or not, obviously no one can tell.

But the anomalies of the climate are a fact.

The sacrifice is superficial, and as far as this roof village is concerned, it seems to be a fact.

After all, no matter how closed the Roof Village is, in this technological society, it will inevitably be impacted by the outside world.

Obviously, the tradition of human sacrifice in the past cannot be maintained.

The law and order of the outside world will inevitably not be allowed.

It's just that customs and taboos are deeply rooted?

And this rumor ...... The truth that three people become tigers seems to have become a reality in this mountain village.

If a lie is told 10,000 times, that is the truth.

This is true for the villagers of Roof Village.

Even if they don't believe it, because of the various scruples of the human heart, because of the deep-rooted customs and taboos, few people dare to refute it.

The ignorance of the minority firmly believes that the majority go with the flow.

It is destined that this ceremony of sacrificing to the gods of the Double Ninth Festival is bound to be a tragedy.

But this tragedy is not from the villagers of Roof Village, but from an outsider.

A girl who was lost in the mountains because of hiking.

I firmly believe that the foolish have a suitable sacrifice.

For those who go with the flow, the friends of the dead road do not die in the poor way, and the psychological burden is greatly reduced.

Her appearance is undoubtedly just right to become a balance point in the hearts of the people of Roof Village, an existence that everyone can accept.

At this moment, in the hundreds of years old Shanjun Temple, under the gaze of hundreds of villagers, the girl was tied up with five flowers, whimpering and despairing, and was carried to the hideous Shanjun clay statue in the temple.

There are elderly village elders, painted with strange makeup, wearing strange clothes of different colors, some holding wooden sticks, some holding bamboo weaving, and some holding red lanterns.

The rest of the villagers stood around this strange scene, and most of them looked calm, only occasionally seeing the desperate girl, many of them would also show unbearable expressions, but soon, they would deliberately avoid their eyes, as if out of sight was pure.

In the end, with a splash of bright red, sprinkled on the clay sculpture of the mountain monarch, the girl's desperate eyes no longer had the slightest divine light.

Only her wide-eyed eyes seemed to be telling her despair, her unwillingness, and ...... Her ...... to these executioners Resentment.

And the onlookers, the old man with strange makeup, after this splash of blood, seemed to be afraid of touching some taboo, and they all left one after another.

The corpse of the girl collapsed in front of the clay sculpture like this, the blood was gurgling, and it was still under the gaze of those wide eyes, slowly flowing, staining the mud red, and also staining the sculpture of the mountain monarch.

If nothing else, the girl's body will have to be presented here for three days.

And these three days, according to the customs of Roof Village, is the time for the mountain monarch to enjoy the sacrifices.

During this time, no one can be disturbed.

If you disturb it, you will anger the king of the mountain, and it is an unforgivable sin.

Therefore, as soon as the sacrifice was over, the Shanjun Temple was completely blocked, and just in case, the village even arranged for two young strong men to keep vigil outside the temple.

When night falls, the coldness in the mountains is undoubtedly evident in this autumn and winter.

The two men who were keeping vigil also lit a bonfire in front of the Shanjun Temple, a few bottles of spirits, and the meat roasted on the bonfire, a mouthful of meat, a mouthful of wine, and the two men also talked happily.

Under the conversation, it is inevitable to talk about the girl as a sacrifice.

Between the words, the two of them seemed to be unable to hide their pity, a girl with a spirit of water and spirit, in this mountain village, is a rare existence.

When it came to chatting, the two hot men couldn't help but laugh in tacit understanding.

It's just that at this time, neither of them noticed that the closed temple door, I don't know when, was slowly opened.

The flickering light of the fire faintly illuminated the darkness in the temple, and the corpse that had collapsed in front of the statue of the Mountain Monarch seemed to be gone.

In the darkness, the sculpture of the mountain monarch stands majestically, but at this moment, the sculpture of the mountain monarch, which was originally a clay sculpture, is faintly illuminated by the firelight, and there are also a few more ruddy creatures.

The eyes of the two clay sculptures the size of copper bells also seemed to look at the two men outside the temple who were not smiling obscenely. A little more bloodthirsty?

When the night clears and the first rays of the morning sun fall on the mountains, it should be the time for the smoke to curl in this roof village nestled among the mountains.

People should prepare breakfast and prepare dry food for the mountains.

But in the early morning of this day, the entire Roof Village was dead silent, and there was no sound or any trace of human activity.

In the past, it would have taken a long, long time for the anomaly in Roof Village to be noticed by the outside world.

But this time, or rather, under the change of the order of the world today, the anomaly of Roof Village was locked and tracked down by the drone brigade patrolling this mountain forest day and night almost immediately.

Soon, several drones flew at a low altitude, and the impact of the mountain villages filmed by the drones was transmitted to the information center almost in real time.

Under the extremely efficient early warning procedure, this scene was finally presented in front of Chu Mu's eyes.

The picture is very clear, flying from a low altitude, close to the roof village, surrounded by mountains, the morning sun sprinkles on the scattered houses, and the almost beautiful mountain village scene, a scene of almost terrifying horror is also presented clearly.

In the barn of the ridge village on the mountainside, among the stacks of grain haystacks, there are several ...... "haystacks" intertwined with blood and white, which are very dazzling.

When the picture is zoomed in, it can be clearly seen that this so-called haystack is actually an accumulation of countless stumps and broken arms.

Hideous-looking heads, mixed with severed arms, organs, and pieces of flesh......

The structure of all the human bodies finally fused with the almost solidified blood, forming mountains of creepy flesh.

"The anomaly in Roof Village was detected by the Eighth Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detachment of City C at 5:12:38 this morning."

"The last time I made a daily visit to Roof Ridge Village was at 1:36 this morning, and at this time, there was no abnormality in Roof Village."

"After perceiving the abnormality, at 5:13 sharp, the eighth UAV detachment reported to the emergency command center of City C, and at 5:13:26, the emergency command center of City C activated the emergency mechanism in accordance with your instructions, and at the same time reported to the top, it also sent a rapid response team of City C to rush to Roof Village with a town talisman."

"By now, the rapid response team of City C should be about to arrive at Roof Village."

"The command center has prepared helicopters, and the nearest airport has arranged for planes to be on standby, if you want to rush to the scene, it is expected that you can rush to Roof Village within three hours."

"Regarding the intelligence of Roof Village, the emergency command center of City C is also urgently summarizing, and within ten minutes, there should be a detailed file report......

When the picture freezes, Wang Yue also reports in an orderly manner.

Chu Mu bowed his head slightly, and did not speak, but stared at the frozen frame closely.

Although the images taken by technology are just simple images, from them, you can't feel the slightest breath of the scene, let alone detect the slightest abnormality.

But just this picture, Chu Mu could almost conclude that this was definitely not the work of secular forces.

The reason is very simple, just from the expressions and eyes of those broken heads, it is not difficult to see that each of them has experienced extreme torture and destruction before death.

With the power of mortals, it is not difficult to torture hundreds of villagers to death in just a few hours.

But to do this every few hours, with daily rounds, it is clear that the likelihood is basically zero.

Even if he can do it, he will definitely not be able to escape the monitoring of his big net.

"Tormenting and devastating...... So, or choose the negative lust of the person? ”

"Despair...... Resentment? Suffering? ”

Chu Mu's eyes moved slightly, and his expression was still calm.

In this case, from the perspective of the immortal cultivation world, it undoubtedly belongs to the category of evil ghosts.

In a world without demons, people's negative lust and flesh are obviously the few energies that support the existence of ghosts and evil spirits......

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