Gulp!
The mountain breeze blew, and the branches and leaves rustled, as if the mountains and forests were whispering.
Yanshan swallowed hard and spoke with difficulty.
"We really can't tell you!"
Yanshan murmured.
"Then you're on your own!"
Chen Xiaobao had a blank expression on his face and was about to retreat into the fog.
"Don't go, don't go, if you dare to go we will kill you!"
Amu's face changed and he suddenly drew out his Miao Dao and rushed forward.
Chen Xiaobao sneered, raised his hand and with a slight "hiss" sound, a silver needle shot out and hit Amu's palm hard.
The silver needle pierced Amu's palm in an instant.
"ah!"
Amu let out a shrill scream, and the Miao Dao in his hand fell directly to the ground, leaving one hand covered in blood.
"Even if the three of you come together, you are no match for me!"
Chen Xiaobao said lightly.
"Amu, Amu, are you okay?"
Yanshan and another young man hurriedly supported Amu and looked at Chen Xiaobao in shock and anger.
They didn't expect that Chen Xiaobao, a Han Chinese, would be so powerful.
"The conditions I just mentioned remain unchanged. If you want my help, you have to tell me some truth!"
Chen Xiaobao said in a deep voice.
Yanshan, Amu, and the remaining young man all had grim expressions on their faces, but as the fog around them grew thicker and thicker, they knew that if they were left to themselves, it would be difficult for them to find the funeral procession, let alone return to the village on their own.
"Okay, I'll tell you!"
Yanshan gritted his teeth and agreed.
"Yanshan, you can't tell me, the mountain god will be angry!"
Amu and another young man hurriedly tried to stop them.
"The mountain god is already angry. If you don't speak up, you'll die!" Yanshan said hastily, "The mountain god, the mountain god is actually an immortal monster!"
An unkillable monster?
That means these villagers know that it is not the mountain god?
"What do you mean? Have any of you seen that monster?"
Chen Xiaobao asked in a serious tone.
"A few years ago, my father and his friends encountered that monster while hunting. Many hunters shot at it, but not only did they fail to kill it, they also let it kidnap many people. Since then, the elders in the village have said that the mountain god cannot be killed!"
Yanshan said with fear in his eyes.
As he spoke, Amu and the other young man looked around in horror, as if they were afraid that the immortal mountain god might emerge from the thick fog at any time.
"When did the mountain gods start to appear? And I heard that there was no body in the coffin buried in the village today. What's going on?"
Chen Xiaobao frowned and continued to ask.
"The legend of the mountain god has been around for more than a decade, but it seems that sightings of the mountain god have only happened in the past few years!" Yanshan said hesitantly, "The coffins at today's funeral are indeed empty, because the mountain god is angry. It was the mountain god who took away the people in the village, and there are no bodies left in the village to bury!"
"Since I was a child, people have gone missing in the village every year. There used to be more wild animals in the mountains, so it was normal for someone to go missing occasionally. No one cared at first!"
"Later, more and more people went missing, and legends about mountain gods eating people began to emerge!"
“Not many people believed it at the time, and the village even organized a hunting team to kill all the big wild animals around the village!”
"But it still doesn't work. No matter what we do, people still go missing in the village every year!"
"Later, under the leadership of the headman, the village began to worship the mountain god and prayed that he would not hurt anyone again. Every year, our village offered cattle and sheep as tributes, but it was useless. People kept disappearing!"
"Later, some people came to the village to travel. I think they were called travellers!"
"They were exploring and climbing mountains around the village, and then they suddenly disappeared. After they disappeared, the village was peaceful that year. Since then, the village no longer refuses outsiders to come for tourism and exploration!"
"The chief said everyone has their own destiny. Now that they are here, that is their destiny!"
Yanshan told everything he knew in one breath.
It turns out that Lijia Village is hiding this secret. The people in the village are using the lives of outsiders to exchange for the lives of their own people.
"You are quite cruel and ruthless!"
Chen Xiaobao frowned and said.
What on earth is this mountain god? Does it eat people every year?
The three people from Yanshan lowered their heads in shame, not knowing how to refute.
Chen Xiaobao thought about the strange behavior of Tou Ren Li yesterday and felt that Tou Ren Li should know more. He might know what that mountain god is.
There must be a big secret behind this matter.
"Don't tell the chief about this. Don't tell him that you know this. Anyone who knows the secret of the mountain god must die!"
Yanshan suddenly said again.
"You still have some conscience. Come on, I'll take you to find the people in the village!"
Chen Xiaobao glanced at Yanshan and said in a deep voice.
There may be bad people in this village, but not everyone is a bad person. They just want to survive.
I would rather die than let my friend die.
If it were his own family members or strangers, Chen Xiaobao probably wouldn't care about the strangers' lives or deaths.
"Thank you, thank you!"
Yanshan and another young man gratefully helped Amu up and continued to move forward with Chen Xiaobao. The four of them crossed the cemetery. Chen Xiaobao opened his eyes of a hundred ghosts and quickly figured out the direction.
After a while, he led them to find the funeral procession that was circling around.
The funeral procession of more than a hundred people, all tied together with belts, were groping in the thick fog. They had gone in the wrong direction and were circling around a small woods.
"Dad, Dad, we are here to find you!"
Just then, Yanshan and the others chased after them and shouted hurriedly.
"Ashan, Amu, why are you here?"
A middle-aged man who looked like a hunter heard the sound, turned around hurriedly, and was shocked to see them.
"Dad, it's already past noon. The people in the village saw that you haven't returned yet, so they asked us to come look for you!" Yanshan said hurriedly.
"It turns out that the mountain god is angry!"
The funeral procession suddenly became agitated when they heard this.
They were unable to return to the village and suspected that the mountain god was angry and would not let them go back. After all, the people in the village had some experience, so they asked everyone to untie their belts and then tie the belts together to prevent anyone from getting lost in the thick fog.
Now hearing that they had been out for so long and had not returned to the village yet, the old men in the village immediately realized that it must be the angry mountain god.
"The mountain god wants a sacrifice, we have to prepare it quickly!"
"Yes, otherwise something bad will happen to the village!"
Many people in Lijiazhai were talking about it, and many of them had horror on their faces.
"Shut up, go back first!" Leader Li suddenly roared and glanced at Chen Xiaobao. There were outsiders here and the secrets of the village could not be known to outsiders.
Otherwise, Lijiazhai might disappear in the future.
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