Chapter 295 Where did you pick up this pretty boy?
Yin Xiu looked back at the seaside. Those people crowded there, busy with the altar, were extremely alert to their surroundings. They seemed more cautious than careful, and seemed to be wary of hiding something.
Everything developed just as Yin Xiu had guessed. It was as if the past events were being restored and presented here, but it also seemed like an illusion, just showing that past.
If it was just the past being shown, then all he could do now was watch.
As if he had thought of something, Yin Xiu turned his head and stared at the woman in front of him.
No... maybe... it's just an illusion...
"Have the villagers prepared the sacrificial offerings?" Yin Xiu asked tentatively.
"Well, we're ready..." The woman sighed calmly and looked into the distance. "I never thought that our Hai Village would end up in this situation. This is a road of no return."
She shook her head, her expression full of helplessness. She could only say that it was inevitable to reach this point. The more desperate the situation, the more extreme people would be in order to survive. They had no other choice but to stay alive. Perhaps it was wrong from the very first time they had performed the sacrifice.
"When will the sacrificial ceremony take place?"
"Probably, tomorrow night... The village still needs to prepare."
Yin Xiu nodded and didn't ask any more questions. Since they had already confirmed the sacrifice and the time, they must have temporarily locked the sacrifice somewhere and would not move it until the ceremony began.
Seeing Yin Xiu looking around, the woman couldn't help but interrupt his thoughts. "I advise you not to do anything unnecessary, lest you bring yourself to death. This is not something you or I can change."
Yin Xiu nodded calmly, "I know."
But he didn't show any sign of restraint. The woman sighed and shook her head, not knowing what to say.
Hai Village was a sensitive place during this period. If the woman had not claimed to be her relative, Yin Xiu, an outsider, would have been locked up. So Yin Xiu just stayed in the woman's house.
The seaside is exposed to wind and rain, and the houses here were uninhabited for a while, so they are now a bit dilapidated. After some simple repairs with wooden boards, they can still be lived in, but you can still feel the wind blowing in through the cracks.
"Oh... my back and waist are sore. It's really not easy to carry a child." The woman sighed and sat on the damp mattress, touching her belly and sighing, "Come out of your belly soon, everything will be fine then, and you won't have to suffer since you were born."
Yin Xiu picked up a stool and was about to sit down when he suddenly heard footsteps outside the door.
A tanned, skinny man carrying a cloth bag came through the doorway. He froze when he saw Yin Xiu, then glanced at the woman with a puzzled look, "Where did you pick up this gigolo? Why are you keeping him at home?"
The woman rolled her eyes and said, "This is my brother, what gigolo?"
"I thought so." The man laughed dryly. "You look like you don't live by the sea. You look dark and skinny like me."
As he spoke, he walked into the house and placed the cloth bag on the table. He picked through the food and took out a piece of roasted meat and handed it to Yin Xiu, "Do you want to eat it?"
Before Yin Xiu could take it, the woman next to him immediately reached out and knocked his hand away, glaring at him and saying, "Take it back! My family doesn't want meat!"
"Okay, okay, if you don't want it then don't." The man smiled and threw the meat back into the bag. Then he took out a moldy dry biscuit and put it on the table. "There aren't many pieces left. After you finish it, you'll have to eat meat sooner or later, otherwise you'll starve to death. Think carefully and don't let your baby starve to death."
The man said this, tightened the opening of the cloth bag, glanced at Yin Xiu, and turned to walk out.
Yin Xiu stared at the dry, moldy cake on the table, then looked at the woman, "You want to eat this?"
"That's pretty good." The woman shook her head, "But I don't have an appetite right now, so just leave it there. Eat it when you're hungry, but don't eat the meat they give you.
"Remember, there is no normal meat to eat in Haicun anymore. Don't eat it no matter who gives it to you."
Yin Xiu nodded, seeming to understand.
The woman lowered her head and touched her belly again. "Although I don't know what your purpose is in coming to Hai Village, I can sense that you are a little different from those people from other villages. Leave here safely if you can. Don't stay here too long. If something happens, I can't save you."
"I have an idea." As long as Yin Xiu could stay here, he would be able to slowly figure out more things.
He stood up from the damp, low room and walked out. "I'm going to go out for a while and come back later."
"Go ahead, just don't go to the beach." The woman nodded and didn't impose too many restrictions on him.
Perhaps the man carrying the bag came to check on Yin Xiu under the pretext of delivering food. Once he confirmed that he was a relative of the woman, he would disperse. The strange villagers along the way only looked at him curiously, but no one came up to ask who he was.
This made it convenient for Yin Xiu to stroll around the village, but at the same time he could feel that there was an element of surveillance in those gazes.
Yin Xiu first went to the edge of the village and saw the things that were supposedly preventing them from leaving.
In order to prevent these people infected by the curse from leaving, the people from other villages built a high wall on the edge of the village. The wall was so tight that it almost trapped them inside. I'm afraid that when the wall was built, several villages joined forces to attack the people of Hai Village. Otherwise, Hai Village would not have just watched the wall being built and blocked their way out.
Judging from the situation, the people in Hai Village really can't leave for a while. If they want to sneak out late at night, they need to scout the area and find out the situation. If there are people from other villages guarding outside, they probably won't be able to leave.
After looking at the edge of the village, Yin Xiu turned around and walked back, slowly pacing in the village.
Perhaps because they had seen him once before, not many people paid attention to him when he was strolling around this time.
Yin Xiu walked among the dilapidated wooden houses and noticed two or three people who looked like guards standing at the door of a wooden house closer to the edge of the village.
The room is not big and is located in a remote area. No one knows what is hidden inside, so it requires two or three people to guard it.
Yin Xiu walked over slowly, and when he got a little closer to the wooden house, the person standing at the door came over with a sullen face and chased him away, "Go away, go away, don't hang around here."
Yin Xiu tried hard to put on a kind face and smiled, "What's in there? Why are so many people watching?"
The person on the other side snorted, "It's food. Don't you know how scarce food is in Hai Village right now?"
"That's right." Yin Xiu nodded, agreed with the other party, turned around and prepared to leave.
As soon as I turned around, I heard two knocks on the door of the wooden house, followed by a childish voice.
"I'm so hungry... give me something to eat..."
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