Six Days in a Deserted Village (Ten)
The old man's eyes widened.
Xu Wei sneered and casually tapped his diary: "It's not hard to guess. The appearance of the temple requires human assistance, but the villagers all think it is a miracle. Then we can only rely on the silence of a few people. The position of village chief is very suitable for keeping secrets because he can communicate with everyone."
She raised her eyebrows. "Have you been underground for too long? You really can't control your expression."
The old man looked listless, as if he had not completed the assigned task well and all his energy and spirit were gone.
"Speak," Xu Wei poked his withered face with a dagger, his voice tinged with coldness, "What shameful things are you doing down there?"
The old man was frightened by the cold blade and stammered. His voice was broken and unclear, but he could not utter a complete sentence.
"Mute?" Xu Wei retracted the dagger and frowned, "Is he born dumb or acquired dumb?"
She pinched his chin unceremoniously, forcing him to open his mouth, and stared at him for a while before letting go.
Pulling a piece of cloth from the table to wipe his fingers, Xu Wei and Lu Fanye looked at each other: "The tongue was cut off."
The old man collapsed on the table, his chest heaving.
Xu Wei taunted: "That's not enough? If you want to scam me, I might as well send you off."
The noise suddenly became smaller.
"Okay, there are ways to say it even if you can't say it," she played with the sharp little dagger, and suddenly raised her hand to press one of his arms on the desk, with her five fingers forcefully spread out, and the cold blade pressed against her fingers, "Let's play a game."
Looking directly into the other person's horrified eyes, she raised a cruel arc at the corner of her mouth: "When I ask you a question, nod if it's yes, shake your head if it's no. If you answer slowly, I'll chop off one finger, and if you don't answer, I'll chop off another one. If you're caught lying to me..."
The cold tone frightened his men so much that they trembled continuously.
"That's not something that can be solved with just one finger."
Lu Fanye glanced over here, stepped back silently, and began to search around.
"Then, let the game begin."
"First question, is the village chief older than 150 years old?
The old man just kept trembling, with his head tucked into his arms, not daring to move.
Xu Wei sneered.
"ah!!"
She loosened her grip on the blade, forced the opponent to face the blood that suddenly flowed from her fingertips, lowered her head and approached: "I don't want to repeat the rules of the game a second time, do you understand?"
The old man was in so much pain that he couldn't hold back his tears and nodded vigorously.
Xu Wei didn't care how pitifully he trembled at the age of sixty. To be kind to ghosts would be cruel to himself.
She continued to ask, "Did the village chief hide the body of Yue Zushen?"
The old man nodded tremblingly.
"Were you the one who activated the mechanism in the temple twice recently?"
nod.
"Did you steal the wooden plaque of Yue Zushen?"
Shake your head.
"The village chief wants to live forever?"
He hesitated for a moment and nodded.
"Your lineage will protect the secrets of the temple for generations?"
nod.
"Have you... met your grandfather?"
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The village chief stood beside the sunken pit with a gloomy face, surrounded by a group of people.
The temple collapsed and the parade was forced to be interrupted.
The villagers nearby thought that the ancestor gods were angry, and they all knelt down and kowtowed to ask for forgiveness.
Some people speculated that it must be those outsiders who touched the sacrificial offerings first, which angered the ancestral gods.
Thinking of those people, the village chief's face became even gloomy.
"Stop looking, go home! No one is allowed to go out without my permission!" He kicked the person who was kowtowing next to him, "Can't you hear me? You have angered the ancestors, and you all must die!"
The others immediately scattered in panic.
After everyone had left, he lay on the ground, put his ear to the slope and listened quietly for a while. Hearing nothing, he immediately hurried back.
When he returned home, he anxiously lit two incense sticks in front of the statue, knelt down and muttered a few words, then took down the red box containing the life-guarding tablet and walked out in a hurry. He came back after a while and took down the portrait of the ancestral god hanging in the main room.
There was a lighter patch of wall behind the portrait. He pushed it hard, and a deep opening appeared in the wall behind the altar.
It was very quiet inside, without any movement at all.
Only then did he feel relieved, and he lay on the ground and crawled in like a dog hole.
He walked down the stone steps with great ease, and even though there was no sunlight, he walked calmly and whistled, as if he had stripped off all his disguises to reveal his rotten true face.
In the cold, dark and damp corridor, the ethereal whistle sounded eerie.
He pulled the switch at the end, and a warm light suddenly pierced in, blinding him so much that he squinted.
A huge stone chamber.
Very good, the big coffin in the middle is still lying here intact, with no signs of having been moved.
Let's go and see another tomb chamber.
With a comfortable smile, he walked to the side and turned the lever on the raised stone platform.
“Kala…”
The stone wall that was originally tightly closed cracked and pulled back to the left and right.
In this secret stone chamber, the pale light of the incandescent lamp could barely illuminate it. Five or six half-naked women huddled in a corner, in a trance.
The stench is terrible.
The village chief looked very satisfied and turned around to go to the next place.
There was a sudden rustling sound behind me.
"Did you see how he did it?"
"I see clearly."
"Okay, let's do it!"
"Bang!" There was a muffled sound first.
“Bang, bang, bang!!”
The village chief, who had a victorious smile on his face just now, opened his eyes wide, suffered a severe blow to the back of his head, and fell to the ground. Sun Yi kicked him a few more times as if to vent his anger.
"Beast!" she cursed.
Behind him, the players came over holding the old man hostage.
"Pa, pa, pa!" The village chief, who had been unconscious for not long, was slapped a few more times and woke up in pain.
He warned himself to open his eyes, his vision was still blurry, and he moved his body, only to find that he was tied up. He struggled in fear, and in panic he pushed the person behind him out with his butt. The two were tied together and fell to the ground together.
"Wow, that's quite a strong reaction." Xu Wei was standing next to the large lacquered wooden coffin. He turned his head and sneered when he heard the voice.
The village chief's eyes were bloodshot.
"Mmmm, Mmmmm!" Something was stuffed in his mouth. He could neither spit it out nor swallow it. He could only struggle hard in vain.
It was still in the stone chamber just now, which should have been his home ground.
"Stop making noise, there's my sock in your mouth. If you keep making noise, put another one in it." Zhang Hao was merciless and punched him in the abdomen. It was meant to be a deterrent, but it also knocked out the cloth ball stuffed in his mouth.
The village chief didn't even have time to cough, and cried out with tears streaming down his face: "No! Grandma, no!!"
Xu Wei paused while lifting the coffin lid: "What tricks are you going to play?"
"Inside is the true body of the ancestor god! The coffin lid can prevent corrosion. If the true body is opened, it will appear in the world. Don't do that!" The village chief was terrified. "If the true body appears in the world, there will be a disaster!"
"Then tell me what disaster it is. Is the evil god coming to wreak havoc on the world?" Xu Wei said nonchalantly, "The sacrifice has been interrupted, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't have come. Even if it recovers its strength, it might not be able to defeat me. It hasn't recovered yet, so why are you so anxious?"
“I, I…”
"There's something fishy going on if you keep hesitating." Chen Yu said.
Xu Wei then took out the dagger again and threatened the old man again with the same tactics he had used just now.
The village chief was trembling with fear, but he just kept repeating "No" and did not report any useful information.
He couldn't answer the question just now.
"The problem is not with Yue Zushen," Lu Fanye said, "He is afraid of something else."
"oh?"
Xu Wei's icy response frightened the old man tied to the village chief's back so much that he shook like a sieve and let out several howls, not knowing whether it was out of pain or fear.
"Your son... or grandson, great-grandson? He's quite sensible. I advise you to be a good boy, otherwise it won't be as simple as cutting off your fingers." Xu Wei became more and more adept at handling the knife. The dim light brought out the light and dark sides of her face. She lowered her voice deliberately, and in the eyes of the person being tortured, she was like another evil demon.
"After all, you secretly imprisoned women to bear children for you, and controlled the secrets of your descendants living underground for you to guard the temple. Oh, and you also secretly opened the coffin, stole the corpse of your ancestors, and stole the life-guarding tablet, in order to... achieve immortality."
As the village chief recounted these crimes, his panic was about to overflow.
"There are so many bachelors in the village, and the buying and selling of human beings is also jointly funded, but you embezzled a lot of the 'goods'. The power of the ancestral god that the villagers trust so much is a scam constructed by you, not to mention... you are stealing from the public. Everyone wants to live forever, but your actions are really 'selfish'. If you tell others, what will those cult followers who have been influenced by you to believe in fanaticism do to you?"
"You should know best, right?"
Xu Wei's low moan was like the whisper of a devil, frightening the village chief so much that his face turned pale.
"Answer me!" The blade flashed past and slid along his face.
The village chief screamed, and a big cut appeared on his face. Blood dripped down his cheek and soaked his collar.
"I say, I say!"
"That's the right age."
"Two hundred and thirteen years old..."
"How did you live so long before?"
"Ancestor, the blessing of the ancestral god..."
Xu Wei made another stroke with a cold face.
This time the cut hit the side of the throat. The village chief was so frightened that he screamed, fearing that his throat would be cut and he would die.
Those who desire immortality are most afraid of death.
His face was covered with tears and snot. "Before, I relied on the blessings of the ancestors. Later, I relied on the life-guarding tablets..."
Xu Wei raised his eyebrows: "What else?"
"Eat...eat the divine food."
Chen Yu let out an uncomfortably sounded "uh".
Sun Yi said coldly, "Before, the life span could be extended by the power of the gods alone, but later on, he had to steal the life tablet. It seems that the power of the Yuezu God did not increase with the sacrifice, but became weaker and weaker."
"Even the effect of the fate card has weakened a lot." Xu Wei leaned over to look at his face, "You have more wrinkles, village chief."
The village chief was shocked again, emotional, and struggled to stand up: "No, no! The sacrifice must continue, Fukuzawa, God's food!"
"Your family gods have no power anymore, and you're still thinking about that little bit of blessing?" Lu Qian pushed him and said disdainfully, "You're just an old immortal who has done all kinds of bad things."
He lived for more than 200 years, and this must have brought disaster to so many people.
Xu Wei walked over to the coffin and prepared to open it.
The village chief gradually became hysterical. He lay on the ground and flailing his limbs vigorously, with the old man under his buttocks. He was like a dying fish on the chopping board, unable to turn over no matter how hard he tried.
"No! No! The sacrifice must continue! Ah——!"
Amid the village chief's shrill scream, Xu Wei gently pushed open the coffin lid.
“Crunch—”
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