Mu Chen asked the most crucial question. All of this sounded like another kind of equivalent exchange, but these equivalent exchanges were useless in the hands of the mountain god. All she wanted was faith.

"Mountain gods are useless, but evil spirits are."

At this point, Mingmei finally revealed the relationship between the mountain god and the evil spirit: "In order to regain faith, the mountain god reached a cooperation agreement with the evil spirit. She temporarily cooperated with the evil spirit, turning a blind eye to what the evil spirit did, while secretly accumulating faith, waiting for the day when she could suppress the evil spirit."

"But the mountain god didn't expect that the evil spirits would become even more rampant. Not content with taking the troublesome benefits from the foot of the mountain, they also wanted to go down the mountain in human skin to have some fun. And the mountain god also found that his faith power was gradually becoming strange, didn't he?"

After Mu Chen finished speaking, Mingmei nodded: "The number of villagers who truly believe in themselves at the foot of the mountain is decreasing. Even though she used the murals to create a world of the dead that believes in her and shelters those souls deceived by evil spirits, the power of that faith is still diminishing. The faith of the people in the village is gradually being eroded by desires and is becoming more and more impure."

“Just then, a group of outsiders arrived.” Mingmei smiled and looked at Mu Chen. “She wanted to use these outsiders to reveal the truth about this place, to intimidate and shock these villagers who were bewitched by evil spirits, and to wake them up from their greed so that they could continue to be honest and law-abiding farmers.”

"No." Mu Chen suddenly spoke up, and Mingmei looked up to see the other party smiling and saying, "Shouldn't you be a believer of the mountain god who is honest and dutiful? You said earlier that you are not allowed to leave Crescent Village, so... what about the Wang family?"

What did Wang Laosan's wife wish for when she went up the mountain before their child's college entrance exam? Why then did Wang Laosan go mad, run up the mountain, and get skinned alive? What happened?

After they exposed the evil weasel spirits at the foot of the mountain, Cuihua, who plays the mother of Wang Wenfei's character, was so frightened that she almost collapsed.

The woman who was sharp-tongued and greedy the day before was unusually clear-headed this time. She kept saying that she was sorry to her daughter and her husband, and that she shouldn't have made such a wish.

Mu Chen was rather curious about what had happened inside.

"Actually, it's nothing. Cuihua went up the mountain to pray for her daughter's college entrance exam. At that time, Huang Er from the temple pretended to be the mountain god and said that if the child got into a good school as she wished, she only needed to come back after graduation to serve the mountain god as a temple keeper for two years. In fact, he just wanted Cuihua's daughter's appearance and found an excuse."

"And then what happened?"

"Later, their child was admitted to university, but Wang Laosan accidentally learned the truth of the matter. He was very angry and told his daughter not to come back after leaving."

Ultimately, the Wang family had vaguely sensed changes in the mountains since Wang Laosan's father's generation. You could say he had a vivid imagination or strong intuition, but in any case, from that generation onward, the Wang family stopped believing in me.

As she talked, Mingmei stopped pretending; she realized that pretending was pointless.

Didn't you see Mu Chen staring straight at you and talking for so long, and even casually reaching out to rub the little statue in his arms?

Mingmei simply changed from "mountain god" to "I" as she spoke, and when Mu Chen heard this, he chuckled, which made Mingmei roll her eyes at him.

"After that, Cuihua went even further, making promises to me about getting a windfall. She went astray because of such wishes, so I handed the matter over to Huang Er to handle. After that, Wang Laosan had the incident where Wang Wenfei went home and her father ran away with the money and disappeared."

"Wang Laosan took all the money back to the mountain god temple, hoping to erase the wish made by Cuihua. Huang Er naturally disagreed, so Wang Laosan started cursing in the temple, saying that I was incompetent, crazy, and that I was deceiving mortals..."

So Huang Er killed him, skinned him, and gave the skin to his companions. As for the corpse... since it wasn't one of my followers, I didn't let them put it in the painting mirror."

After Mingmei finished confessing, she met Mu Chen's complicated gaze and immediately felt a little guilty.

"Actually, you were quite nice when you talked about the mountain god."

Mu Chen said this last sentence.

"What?" Mingmei didn't immediately understand what he was talking about.

"I'll talk to your father about this after the game is over."

Bright and beautiful: ? ? ?

What do you want to say?

"I think Mr. Yan Hui might really be asking for a beating."