He had practiced calligraphy for several years, and could write sharp characters even with his fingers. Coupled with the fact that Lan Da's leg had been broken, everyone in the room thought it was the wrath of the gods.
Even the village chief knelt down and begged for mercy, "Gods, please calm your anger! Gods, please calm your anger!"
"I never intended to kill Cuicui. She's my own daughter. How could I possibly kill her..."
Despite the excruciating pain, Lan Da, with his broken leg, knelt and kowtowed towards the door, saying, "I was wrong. I will never dare to lay a hand on her again. God, I only wanted to teach her a small lesson."
In all her life, Lan Cuicui had never seen the two of them in such a disheveled state!
"Hahaha, you guys always talked about gods before, but I didn't believe it."
"Now that he actually hit you, I believe it!"
"Lanzhou University, you're truly pathetic! Even your god isn't on your side, hahaha!"
The room was filled with her mocking laughter.
Lan Da's forehead veins bulged, but he dared not lay a hand on her again.
........
Yan Zhao gave him a couple of reprimands and then stopped, reminding him not to forget the important matter at hand.
He wanted to find out the relationship between Lan Da and the village chief, as well as the secrets of the entire village. What if he really knocked them both out and they passed out?
Lan Da and the village chief knelt on the ground, and after a long time without any movement, they dared to tentatively raise their heads.
There were no words on the table; the gods were gone!
"The gods have thrown a huge tantrum. If we don't handle this well, we'll both lose our lives!"
Lan Da's words were full of warnings, telling the village chief to keep an eye on Lan Cuicui.
"After all these years, I've finally met a god! Hahaha!"
The village chief was over forty years old. He had been working for the gods since he was 15, but he had never received a response from them.
He even doubted whether the rumors about the gods were true.
Is the secret that the entire village has guarded for generations, and the obligations it has fulfilled, all a lie?
Back then, my wife, like Cuicui, had a kind heart, completely different from everyone else in the village!
That's why he was attracted to her, and the two got married and had a lovely daughter...
But her kindness ultimately led to her death!
Lan Da, like him, started working for the gods when he was fifteen or sixteen, but he was more ruthless, more vicious, and more inhuman than him!
Every time he brought people back, one or two would run away, and sometimes all of them would run away!
At first, I was a little confused, but then one time, I caught my wife red-handed and released her!
It was her all along, secretly letting these people go!
How foolish...
Lan Da never said he would do something more than three times. He refrained from killing her twice, but just like when he beat Cuicui, he beat her until she was covered in wounds and on the verge of death.
All I could do was watch from the sidelines...
Unexpectedly, after being beaten twice, she still chose to let those outsiders go!
The village chief will never forget the scene when his wife was roughly dragged by the hair by Lan Da to the village's sacrificial site and burned alive!
Cui Cui was watching from the sidelines, crying her heart out. That day became his eternal nightmare.
It was on that occasion that his reverence for the gods began to waver!
However, over the years, they still dared not disobey in the slightest and continued to follow the old customs of the village.
They're arresting outsiders for performing sacrificial rites!
Unexpectedly, this time, I actually sensed the gods!
The village chief couldn't hide his excitement, "Lan Da, the gods have responded to us!"
"Did you see that? That's the response of the gods!"
"Haha, if the gods are willing to respond to us, does that mean they will also give us the elixir of immortality?"
"In this way, we can live forever, live to be a hundred or a thousand years old, and even see a new era!"
Heh, a new era?
The world has already entered a new era!
Airplanes, cannons, atomic bombs—you name it!
I'll grab an AK and sweep it around here, and the whole village will die!
Yan Zhao felt a pang of regret. The village chief was blinded by so-called superstition, ignoring the readily available new era and choosing instead to hide in the backward and terrifying village, aiding and abetting evil and helping the so-called gods to kill people.
"Did they all eat the dried meat?"
The village chief, preoccupied with the idea of immortality, was eager to inquire about the progress.
"Not yet. Those people are exhausted, like dead pigs. They went back and fell asleep as soon as they got their heads down, without even having a sip of water!"
Lan Da endured the pain and shook his head.
He braced himself against the corner of the table, trying to stand up, and pulled out the leftover jerky from his pocket.
The village chief was heartbroken at the sight and yelled, "Don't waste such good stuff! It's for them to eat!"
"Knowing this is good stuff, why can't I eat it all? What's wrong with having a couple of bites?"
"I went through all the trouble of bringing them back. Do you think the gods care about us? Don't worry, starting tomorrow, they won't have any food. They'll have to eat whether they want to or not."
"Just wait three days. After they have cleaned up the filth from the food they ate outside, they can perform the sacrifice."
"What, you have a problem with that?"
The village chief's uneasy look made him feel that his authority was being challenged.
He casually looked up, startling the village chief, who immediately chimed in, "You're right, starting tomorrow they'll have nothing left, so they'll eat whatever they can."
"If you eat dried meat for three days, you will become the purest being that the gods love most. Then, when you perform the sacrifice, the gods will be extremely satisfied!"
"It's good that you understand. When the gods are pleased, immortality will be no problem for us at all!"
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