"Let's go in!"
Wen Xi walked inside. The temperature in the East Garden was indeed several degrees colder than the outside world. It seemed that the ghostly aura here was quite strong.
There was only one room in the yard. Candlelight flickered in the room, and faint sounds of conversation could be heard.
"Old Xu, are you crazy? Those guests are all celebrities from outside, all influential people. If something goes wrong, who will be held responsible? You've pushed me into the spotlight! Didn't you see? As soon as you started this sacrifice, two people fell asleep. They're all suspicious. You're going to kill me!"
The voice of Wu Ergou, who had been unable to find anyone, came from inside, every word filled with panic.
"Hmph, they chose this time to come, and you insisted on taking on this business, and now you're blaming me? Don't you know that whether the sacrifice begins or not is up to the Venerable? How can I control this?"
"Besides, Qingyun Village's sacrifices aren't something that happens overnight. Human sacrifices haven't happened in decades. The souls of those who died yesterday should be enough to serve as sacrifices. I also wanted to save them, so I asked them to go to the mountains to find sacrifices. As long as they help complete this sacrifice, they will have infinite merits, and the Venerable will definitely let them go."
Xu Bo's voice also came from inside.
The faces of the people outside all turned terribly gloomy when they heard this.
"You idiot! It turns out they did all these things together, alpaca! If I don't kick them over, I'll take their last name."
Tang Yun was furious when he heard this. He kicked the yard door open without caring about anything else, which scared the people inside and made them look at them in surprise.
"You, why are you here?"
Xu Bo's face looked grim, and the scar on his face twisted into a worm shape.
"Oh my god! What the hell is this?!"
Tang Yun, who kicked the door, stared at the scene inside the house in amazement and let out a cry of horror.
Everyone gathered around to take a look. In the spacious room, on the super large sandalwood table, tablets were neatly placed one after another, so densely packed that a quick look showed that there were at least six layers inside and outside. Near the tablets, several rows of candles and incense were lit!
"There are so many tablets here, could there be so many ghosts here?"
Gu Shaoyundou was so scared that she started crying.
Lu Xiangyu gritted his teeth and said, "What the hell is this place?"
"Ancestral hall!"
Wen Xi stared at the tablets in the house and smiled coldly, "This entire old house is an ancestral hall!"
In a word, accompanied by the lightning outside, the excitement made people feel cold in their hearts.
"How come? Then where we live..."
"The six rooms that have been renovated and are not open to the public were and are still used to store memorial tablets and corpses. For example, on the first day we arrived, five corpses were placed in the coffins carried by eight people. The corpses were taken out of the old house."
Wen Xi threw the backpack on the ground. "Everything here is their burial objects. You were originally going to use their souls to complete the sacrifice, but we showed up! That night, he changed his mind and chose to use the souls of living people. Once the sacrifice is completed, he will have boundless magical powers, and the entire Qingyun Village will be under siege."
"Fuck you! Old Xu, you're lying to me! Didn't I say we wouldn't do human sacrifices? If someone dies, the entire Qingyun Village will be ruined."
Wu Ergou kicked Xu Bo in anger. It was obvious that he only had a vague understanding of the situation.
Xu Bo cursed angrily, "Listen to this little girl talking nonsense."
He stared at Wen Xi fiercely and said, "Who on earth are you, little girl? How could you know so many things? But you are wrong. Although I am not a good person, I am not so cruel as to let you die here. Yes, I told you to go to the mountain to find burial objects!"
"Who told you to disobey my advice and insist on coming to the East Garden? You disturbed the Venerable and made him keep an eye on you. You also went to a room you shouldn't have been to! I'm doing this for your own good. As long as you can cooperate and complete the Qingyun Village sacrifice, you won't die. When the time comes, the Venerable will definitely forgive you for your good behavior."
Tang Ying asked timidly, "Really?"
"Fake!"
Wen Xi sneered, "You believe the evil spirit's words? Does letting it go mean becoming a contract servant of the evil spirit like you?"
Rumble!
Another thunderclap shook Xu Bo's heart.
"You, how do you know so much?"
Wu Ergou cursed, "Fuck you, aren't you a venerable one? How did you become a fierce ghost? Old Xu, how many things are you hiding from me? Are you a servant of a fierce ghost?"
"Just like what Old Lady Cha said, those who can live in the ancestral hall are all dead. How could a living person live here for so many years without any problems? Uncle Xu has one foot in the coffin. It was the evil spirit that saved his life and prevented him from suffering from illness. Uncle Xu has been helping him all this time, right, Uncle Xu?"
Wen Xi raised his eyelids slightly and sneered, "It's just that you don't know what nonsense is. You think the evil spirit is the venerable one who saved you. Oh, right, it's the entire Qingyun Village who are ignorant, including you, Village Chief Wu!"
"Ah? What's wrong with me? I really don't know so much. Regarding the sacrificial ceremony, we just follow the old customs."
Wu Ergou was so sad that he could not even cry.
"You're the ones saying that all the young people in Qingyun Village have gone out to work. In reality, Qingyun Village hasn't had any descendants for many years. The few young people who left the village never returned. This is all your own fault!"
Wen Xi said calmly, "The souls of the recently deceased have not yet had time to reincarnate, yet you place them in the old house for sacrifice. The so-called quick removal and placement on Qingyun Mountain to prevent the corpses from rising is because the corpses still left in the village will be controlled like those puppet corpses outside. The scene of the corpses walking at night is obviously not the first time you have seen it, otherwise the whole village would not dare to go out during the sacrifice period."
"Foolish, ignorant! Human souls cannot be reincarnated. How can you have any descendants? This is all your own fault, and you must bear the consequences!"
"My God! How do you know everything? Our Qingyun Village is indeed about to run out of incense. Even my wife and I have been praying for children, but we still haven't had any. Is this the truth? But Qingyun Village has been holding sacrifices for so many years, all to pray for good weather and good harvests in the village. This, this, this..."
Wu Ergou looked at Wen Xi again, as if he was looking at a bodhisattva, and pleaded, "Please help Qingyun Village. As long as you help, I'm willing to call you aunt. Please!"
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