"Why is the Nightmare Queen chasing after your Saint?" Yu Ze suddenly spoke up, grasping the key point.
The priest lowered his head, and Yuexiye frowned: "This..."
Josh looked at them and said, "If you want us to help you, just make it clear."
The priest sighed and said, "It's a long story. The Nightmare Queen was originally a candidate for the Saint, but because she violated the taboos of the village, she was removed from the list and someone else was replaced as the Saint. That's why she is resentful and has been targeting the Saint in our village."
"What's the taboo?"
The priest shook his head: "We don't know about this either. The dispute between the Nightmare Forbidden Lady and the Saint has a long history. We don't know the details either."
Josh suddenly thought of the mountain song he had heard from the ghost before.
About the Saint and the man running away...
There will be no signals without reason in the copy. Even if she didn't run away with the man, this clue must be useful.
The priest sighed: "It was because of the trouble you caused before that the curse of the Nightmare Lady could not take effect on the priestess, and it was backfired on the saint. In order to save the saint, we had no choice but to lead you to the mountain, wanting to sacrifice you and save the saint..."
Qiao Xi thought for a moment, "There is another question. If it is as you said, then why does the Saint become younger every time someone dies?"
The priest said angrily: "It's because the forbidden nightmare woman couldn't kill the saint, so she deliberately did this trick. She removed a part of the corpse and cursed the saint. This made the people in the village panic. Everyone believed in the saint at first, but now there are many rumors saying that the saint is the murderer. The forbidden nightmare woman wants to use this despicable method to defeat the saint!"
Qiao Xi asked almost all the questions before he said, "We will help you solve the problem of the forbidden nightmare woman, but at the same time, you can't help the forbidden nightmare woman to harm us anymore."
The priest looked at her distrustfully: "Can you solve it? How can you solve it?"
Qiao Xi smiled slightly: “Don’t worry about how I solved it, the Saint will be returned to you.”
She threw the saint back to them and untied the spider silk from their bodies.
The priest held the Saint in his arms and looked at them hesitantly: "Since you said you want to deal with the forbidden nightmare woman, can you help us wake up the Saint first?"
"No." Josh refused expressionlessly.
Everyone left one after another, leaving only Qiao Xi and Yu Ze in the ancestral hall.
Yuze looked at her: "What do you mean?"
Qiao Xi sat cross-legged beside the desk: "Be skeptical, at least part of what they said is true."
Yuze frowned: "Which part?"
Josh: “Not sure, need to check.”
She recalled that when they were on the top of the mountain, they were trapped in the middle of the formation, and strong winds blew outside. The strong winds were obviously directed at everyone, including the priest and Yuexi and others.
But the strong winds automatically turned after touching the human-shaped lanterns raised by the women.
It was a strange feeling, as if I was afraid of breaking the lanterns.
As far as she knew, these human-shaped lanterns were all made by one person...
Qiao Xi looked at Yu Ze: "Let's go ask Granny Cao..."
Yu Ze pulled her to sit down: "What's the hurry? It's the middle of the night, can't you let me sleep well? Let's go tomorrow."
Qiao Xi glanced at the time and realized that it was already 2:30 in the morning. He had been on the mountain for most of the night.
She nodded.
There were many mats in the ancestral hall, so the two of them lay down on the mats and slept.
Josh suddenly asked, "What day is it today?"
She waited for a long time but didn't hear anyone talking next to her. She sat up and looked, and saw that Yu Ze, who was not far away, was already fast asleep.
It really is...
Josh shook his head and lay back down.
They want to protect the Saint, one reason is that their life and death are linked to the Saint, and the other is because the tides every month require the Saint to step in.
But now the saint is unconscious. If she remembers correctly, the tide will come in a few days, right?
Either wake up the sea god or wake up the saint, one of them must be awakened.
She didn't want to be washed away by the sea.
But when you think about it carefully, these villagers are really strange.
Don’t they believe in the sea god?
Did they just dump the bodies of the priestesses onto the underground beach beneath the thatched huts and let the high tide wash them away?
What's the difference between this and throwing the body directly into the sea?
Throwing unlucky things into the sea is also a way for them to express respect to the sea god?
As Josh pondered, he stared at the statue of Poseidon in a trance.
A feeling of sleepiness came over me.
Josh yawned, took one last look at the statue of Poseidon, and slowly closed his eyes.
"I'm here, waiting for you to come find me."
Faintly, someone was talking to her.
"Who is it?" Qiao Xi looked around, but there was nothing but endless darkness.
“Josh, I’ll wait for you to wake me up.”
A faint blue light came from behind.
Qiao Xi turned around suddenly, but could only see a blurry blue light, in which he could vaguely see the figure of a mermaid.
"Poseidon...sir?" Qiao Xi called out tentatively.
The blue light enveloped her, and its peaceful and gentle power seeped into her spirit and soothed her emotions.
"I'm waiting for you to wake me up."
The ball of light said so.
Josh was puzzled: "How can I wake you up?"
There was silence for a while, and then suddenly he said, "Aren't you my believer? Aren't you determined to devote your body and soul to me? Then use your love to awaken me."
“Oh…” Josh’s expression was a little strange: “Why do I have to wake you up?”
Mermaid King: “…”
Code 7 grinned: "You are stumped by her question."
The Mermaid King pushed him back and said to Josh, “If you don’t want the village to be submerged by the sea, you must wake me up.”
Qiao Xi was still a little puzzled: "Why does the sea water flood the village? Aren't you the god of the sea? Why don't you control the sea water? Why..."
A large hand with distinct joints stretched out from the blue light, covered her face, and forcibly sealed her mouth.
Josh: “……?”
Mermaid King: "Don't you want to know the truth? Then wake me up."
Qiao Xi pulled his hands away and tried to get closer to see who he was, but the blue light seemed to be welded to his face and he couldn't see clearly.
She frowned slightly. "Why are you hiding behind the light? Mermaid King."
Mermaid King: “…”
"She recognized you! She's so awesome!" Code 7's voice sounded a little excited.
The Mermaid King closed his eyes and once again wiped Josh's memory, bringing her back to reality.
Code 7 looked at the sleeping Josh and asked him puzzledly: "Why don't you just tell her that we need her to wake us up to get out of this predicament?"
"Get out!" the Mermaid King shouted coldly, pushing him completely back into his body.
Code 7 was a little confused.
Why can Josh ask why, and he can't?
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