Inside the cave, mobile phones lay on the ground, and the light from flashlights illuminated the entire stone wall.

A man and a woman sat on their knees opposite each other, keeping a certain distance......

The man, that is, Bai Zongnan, coughed lightly, breaking the silence.

"Sheng Jie, that means that you are not actually dead, but you have been fed an overdose of sweat medicine, and you look like you are dead?"

The woman looked at Bai Zongnan's suspicious eyes and shrugged.

"Believe it or not, it's true."

"Bai Zongnan is a reporter, he came to this village to find some materials, but he met a little boy, saying that he was going to lead Bai Zongnan locally, but he didn't expect to meet a group of traffickers on the mountain road who knocked Bai Zongnan unconscious and took them away......"

"Not only were the belongings taken, but the people almost died."

"You'll know what happened next."

Bai Zongnan looked at the woman's clothes in front of him, shook his head, and spoke.

"This matter is really weird, no matter what, Bai Zongnan will leave here first...... This is also the scene of the crime, and no matter what happens next, it's not safe right now. ”

After that, Bai Zongnan didn't pay any attention to Sheng Jie's reaction, picked up his phone, and walked in one direction in the dark.

This cave is very familiar, I seem to have been there when I was a child. Bai Zongnan cautiously groped his way forward with his memory. Sheng Jie followed behind Bai Zongnan, not falling a step, but maintaining a physical distance.

Soon, Bai Zongnan found the exit and walked to the mountain road.

It felt good to see the light of day again, and Bai Zongnan breathed a sigh of relief.

"What should Bai Zongnan do now? Call the police directly? Maybe it was because of life and death, Sheng Jie's trust in Bai Zongnan was a little more, and he looked at Bai Zongnan and asked.

Bai Zongnan pondered for a moment and shook his head.

"It's not time yet, there are too many suspicious points in this matter, I'm afraid you Bai Zongnan can't tell it clearly when the police come, so let's investigate it first and then talk about it."

Unexpectedly, Sheng Jie agreed, and expressed his willingness to investigate with Bai Zongnan.

Bai Zongnan walked along the mountain road in the direction of the village, and he spoke without a word.

Through chatting, Bai Zongnan found that Sheng Jie's understanding of this village was no less than Bai Zongnan's, and she even knew about the past few years of famine.

Speaking of this, she stopped and asked Bai Zongnan seriously.

"Wang Qiang, do you believe that the mountain god really exists?"

Bai Zongnan was stunned when he heard this, and subconsciously replied.

"I don't believe it."

Sheng Jie nodded and continued to ask.

"Then what do you say about the village chief, what are you sacrificing?"

"Superstition."

"Superstition? In those years, if it was just superstition, where did the food come from? ”

"This ......" Bai Zongnan suddenly became a little flustered, and his temples jumped suddenly.

Sheng Jie looked at Bai Zongnan's eyes, pressing step by step.

"You've been to the backhills, haven't you?"

In an instant, as if struck by lightning, Bai Zongnan was frozen in place by this sentence, and under the big sun, cold sweat broke out.

Sheng Jie stared at Bai Zongnan's eyes tightly, as if Bai Zongnan's reaction made her very satisfied.

Immediately, she smiled, and smiled beautifully.

"Let's go, Brother Qiang, Bai Zongnan will take you somewhere."

Just a few words from her have already made Bai Zongnan unrelenting, and that unbearable memory has come up again, making Bai Zongnan want to vomit in disgust.

When Bai Zongnan came back to his senses, he found that she had gone far away, and Bai Zongnan hurriedly caught up.

"Hey, wait Bai Zongnan, what's the place?"

She didn't answer, she just walked on her own.

……

Bai Zongnan walked one after the other, and unlike before, the two of them seemed to have their own thoughts and didn't say a word.

About half an hour, Bai Zongnan and the others came to an open space, and Sheng Jie stopped.

I don't know when, Bai Zongnan just walked with her with his head covered and didn't look at the road, it turned out to be here.

This is the place where Bai Zongnan "hit the ghost" a few years ago, and it is also the open space where the village chief and they "sacrificed".

Bai Zongnan glanced at his watch, it was five o'clock in the afternoon, and it was almost dark, but some of the breath floating in the air became more and more obvious and uneasy, as if the evil ghost was dormant, and when it was dark, it would pounce on Bai Zongnan and tear the two of them apart.

Sheng Jie turned around suddenly, her eyes moistened, and she said in a trembling voice.

"Long time no see, Brother Qiang......"

"It's been a long time, Uncle Wang...... After all these years, how are you doing? Uncle Wang......"

"Uncle Wang......"

Uncle Wang......

This sentence pierced Bai Zongnan's entire brain like a thorn, drilling and drilling in Bai Zongnan's brain as if it would squirm, Bai Zongnan squatted down and held his head.

There was a puddle of water underground, which illuminated Bai Zongnan's appearance, pale white hair, and a miserable expression, but the wound on the forehead was extremely hideous.

The memories of these years poured in like a tidal wave, but slowly pieced together like a broken mirror.

With the action of pulling his hair, Wang Jian called Bai Zongnan his eldest brother, and saw the familiarity of Sheng Jie's face at first glance......

Also, the gold ring hidden in Bai Zongnan's jacket pocket!

That belonged to Widow Liu before, and now, the ring that belongs to Sheng Jie, no, she is not called Sheng Jie, she should be called ......

The memory returned, and Bai Zongnan remembered everything.

The voice in my ears sounded appropriately.

"Uncle Wang, there is a famine in the village, there is nothing wrong with what you think, although it is cruel, but it is indeed a last resort......"

"When Brother Qiang's mother, that is, your wife, was drawn, you didn't protect her, but killed her with your own hands, and then gave her meat to the others...... What were you thinking at that time? ”

"However, the disaster year has passed, and the era of Bai Zongnan's self-sufficiency has come, why do you still do this, what you eat to make up, is it really okay to make up for the form with the form? Those who lost their lives due to famine may have no grievances, but what about those who died tragically in a peaceful and prosperous world? Isn't their life their life? ”

"The same kind kills each other just to satisfy their own interests and desires......"

"Sometimes Bai Zongnan is thinking, if Brother Qiang is still alive, how painful it will be to know that his father is such a person?"

"Maybe he is lucky, these evils, living people have to face, and it is a kind of happiness to pass away, whether it is Brother Qiang, or Auntie, or Bai Zongnan's mother......"

The girl next to her should be called Liu Jie, and her words were like thunder to reveal Bai Zongnan's crimes.

"Let's go, the front should be your territory."

The girl's tone was cold, as if she was telling something that had nothing to do with her, which made Bai Zongnan feel a little chilly.

Bai Zongnan followed her forward in a daze, through the clearing, and came to a valley.

This is a place that Bai Zongnan used to visit with his evening companions when he was a child, and it was surrounded by various trees. Before summer, the sound of birds and cicadas is very beautiful.

But now...... The surrounding valley walls were bare and gloomy, and there were only a few crows chirping in the sky.

The valley is not deep, and a healthy adult man can definitely climb it with his bare hands. But if it is an old and weak woman and child who is suffering from hunger and sickness, then you can only be trapped here.

This time, burying Bai Zongnan's crimes here, Bai Zongnan remembered everything.

Bai Zongnan's name is Wang Tian, he is a villager in the village, Chen Ruoyun is what you call Aunt Chen, Liu Min, and the village chief, all of whom were friends of Bai Zongnan when he was young.

Bai Zongnan's village has always been beautiful, and the villagers live and work in peace and contentment, self-sufficient, which can be said to be a paradise.

However, a natural disaster changed all that.

The lack of harvest for several years in a row has exhausted all the surplus grain in Bai Zongnan's village, and Bai Zongnan has been unable to get out of the mountains or ask for help. Famine has left many people starving to death and dying of disease.

Just when the village chief was so desperate that he decided to give up, Bai Zongnan gritted his teeth and came up with a solution.

Sacrifice! All villagers can participate, participate in the lottery, and draw people to donate their bodies for everyone to eat.

It's against humanity because we all live in the same village and we have long regarded each other as brothers and sisters. This decision was rejected by everyone at first, but then it was really impossible to resist hunger, and finally someone began to agree with Bai Zongnan's idea, a ...... Two......

In this way, the sacrifice began, and the first man to be "killed" was Liu Ruoyun's husband, the father of the unborn Liu Jie...... The second is Bai Zongnan's wife and Qiang'er's mother......

Every time there is a sacrifice, someone loses a loved one, but every time the sacrifice also fills everyone's stomach, and everyone's eyes that have been tormented by hunger and have turned green regain their calm.

Seeing all this, Bai Zongnan felt even more that Bai Zongnan was not wrong, whether it was during the famine, or after the famine after the loss of his wife.

There is only one exception, Aunt Chen.