Chapter 492 Human Sacrifice
Everyone rushed over and exclaimed, "What the hell! What the hell!"
The workers who were dismantling the bridge piers staggered back a few steps and fell to the ground with pale faces.
When everyone came forward to take a look, they couldn't help but gasp.
At first glance, the bridge piers were filled with corpses.
After a long time, the corpse has rotted and turned into bones, leaving only a pile of dry bones embedded in the cement.
"It's too cruel!" Tu Xiaoxiang's face turned pale.
“There are so many corpses!”
"Another fucking living stake? That beast did it!" Everyone spoke word by word.
Even though everyone was mentally prepared, Fu Ming's face still turned pale when he saw so many densely packed corpses.
Such a cruel method, and for so many years, no master in Nanshi discovered it?
Master Xie is not here yet?
"Wait!" Suddenly, someone widened his eyes and let out a cry of surprise from his throat.
"Aren't these the people who have disappeared during this period?" He pointed at several of the bodies and cried in a trembling voice.
When everyone looked closely, they saw that there were indeed several corpses inside wearing modern clothes, with extremely distorted and terrified faces.
They were the ones who disappeared on the bridge a few days ago!
"Why, you ran in here!"
Xie Xueyi's face was pale and her back felt cold.
If she had been caught by those things at that time, would she have ended up like this...
Yuming looked at the patterned talisman paper on the stone pier and took a breath.
"It was really a living pile, but it was destroyed!"
That’s why the wronged souls come out to cause trouble!
Jiang Xu's voice was icy: "No, someone changed it."
"Someone has turned it into a spirit-calling formation, causing the surrounding souls to come to the bridge to find replacements and become evil spirits walking around like corpses."
"And..." She pointed at the inverted Bagua diagram drawn in blood that emerged from the cement. "When a sufficient number of souls die here, the gathered ghost energy will spread along the river and pollute the entire waterway!"
What!
Everyone gasped.
A cold light flashed in Jiang Xu's eyes. He stepped forward quickly, formed a seal with his fingers, and a dazzling golden light suddenly lit up.
I saw her palm slapping hard on a certain part of the bridge pier, making a dull "bang" sound.
"ah!"
As if a balloon was punctured, a large amount of black blood gushed out from the bridge pier, and in an instant the surrounding river water turned scarlet.
The fishy smell was pervasive and nauseating.
Jiang Xu turned his head and his gaze fell on the mayor who was in the corner, with his head down and trembling all over.
She said softly: "This mayor?"
"Ah!" The mayor looked up, a look of obvious panic flashing across his face.
Jiang Xu stared at him. "Now that things have come to this, can you tell us everything you know?"
"What!"
Everyone was stunned and looked at the mayor in unison, their eyes full of shock and suspicion.
Could it be that he did it...
But the mayor doesn't look like a wicked person.
Although everyone does not have Jiang Xu's amazing ability to judge faces, if someone really did such a heartless thing, they would definitely be tainted with evil energy, and it would be impossible for them to not see it.
...something's wrong.
Under everyone's gaze, beads of sweat continued to seep out of the young mayor's forehead. He stammered and showed an expression that was difficult to speak.
Finally, he gritted his teeth and spoke with determination.
"I don't know what these are, but that hits the raw pile."
"It's my grandfather."
His voice trembled as he pointed at the bodies in the bridge pier. "Those people... some of them were workers who disappeared from the village back then. My grandfather... sent people to bury them."
Everyone's heart sank.
Mayor: "He told me this before he died..."
The mayor took a deep breath and began to tell the story in a halting manner.
That year, the government sent people to repair the bridge, and the whole village was overjoyed.
After all, with a bridge, we no longer have to rely on small boats to cross the river and worry about it, and life will be much more convenient.
But unfortunately, there was an old lady in her eighties in the village who strongly opposed it, saying that nothing could be repaired here.
"We can't build a bridge here! There's an entire village buried under this river!"
"That year, the earthquake wiped out the entire village! We finally managed to find a master to seal it. If you start... something terrible will happen!"
Of course, no one will change their mind just because of what an old lady says.
"Old lady, please stop being so confused!"
"Building a bridge is a good thing that will benefit future generations. Do we have to be trapped in this shabby place for generations?"
Everyone also did ideological work on the old lady.
The old lady stamped her feet in anxiety, but no one listened to her.
Finally, the bridge... was started.
After that, troubles began to happen in the village.
The first person to jump into the river was Lao Li, a carpenter in the village.
That night, the night watchman saw him standing straight by the river, his eyes empty, but a strange smile hanging on the corner of his mouth.
"Lao Li? What are you doing in the middle of the night?"
Old Li didn't answer, but slowly raised his foot.
"thump!"
He jumped straight into the river without even struggling, like a puppet thrown into the water.
The next day, when the body floated up, there was still that smile on his face.
Then, the second, the third...
Every night, someone would walk to the river like a sleepwalker, taking stiff steps, making no sound, and stepping into the water one step at a time.
What’s even more creepy is that they were all workers involved in building the bridge.
Grandpa finally realized that something was wrong and invited a master to perform a ritual overnight.
But before the talisman paper was thrown out, it caught fire and burned to ashes in the blink of an eye.
The master's face turned pale: "It's fierce, too fierce."
"There used to be a village under this river, right?"
Grandpa thought of what the old lady said and nodded quickly.
The master said in a heavy voice, "The seal has been broken, and those wronged souls are now running out."
"Now, once all the people who built the bridge have died, it will be your turn."
Grandpa's legs went weak and he almost collapsed to the ground.
"Master, please, please save us!"
"Yes, there is a way, but..." The master remained silent, his face uncertain.
Finally, after my grandfather’s repeated requests, the master told him.
"Hit the living stake."
Simply put, it is the sacrifice of living people.
Since ancient times, if accidents kept happening during construction projects, it meant that the wronged souls beneath the land were unhappy.
At this time, the only way is to offer sacrifice.
Normally, three animals are sufficient as sacrifices.
As things stand now, the resentment at the bottom of the river has become a major issue, unless...
"Unless what?" Grandpa asked anxiously.
Master: "Only human sacrifice can appease the resentment."
Grandpa was shocked, but for his own sake and the lives of the entire village, he had no choice but to do this.
There were some single-family households in the village who had lost their parents and children and had no relatives. He drugged them and buried them in the bridge piers along with the bodies of the workers who had previously committed suicide by jumping into the river.
After that, no one committed suicide anymore.
The bridge was finally completed successfully.
"But at this time, Grandpa said that many times at night, when he passed by the bridge, he could hear faint crying sounds reaching his ears."
After hearing what he said, everyone fell into a long silence.
Jiang Xu asked, "Did your grandfather tell you who the master who helped him with the staking was?"
The mayor opened his mouth, then closed it again, his eyes wandering across everyone's faces. Finally, his gaze slowly settled on Xie Xueyi.
Xie Xueyi:?!
"Why are you looking at me? What do you mean?"
The mayor lowered his head and said, "Before Grandfather left, he specifically told me that if anything strange happened on the bridge again, I should go find Master Xie of the Changsheng Temple."
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