My uncle's words left all four of us stunned.
The term "borrowing sperm" gives me the feeling that it means using our bodies to have children with other women.
So when I first heard this word, I thought I had misheard it, or that the word had some other meaning in this village.
Seeing our surprised expressions, my uncle explained, "When our ancestors moved here, the population was quite diverse. Besides the officers, there were their wives who married locally, their relatives, guards, servants, grooms, maids, and so on. Several hundred people made up a village."
However, the true purpose of this village is not to live a normal life, but to carry out military missions, so the number of women is limited! Over the years, the number of people in the village has decreased, and they have all become related by blood. If this continues, our village will only face destruction!
So I came up with a plan: I'll get the women in the village to sleep with you, so they can have children who have no blood relation to us!
When I heard my uncle say something, I felt like my entire worldview was about to shatter: "Uncle, we're just outsiders. You're asking us to... isn't that against human ethics?"
"You have seen our living environment. To survive, we must have a sufficient population as a productive force. This is a necessary condition for our continued existence!"
As he spoke, my uncle stood up and bowed deeply to us, saying, "Gentlemen, I'm counting on you!"
As the eldest uncle stood up, more than twenty women from the village walked over. The older ones looked to be almost fifty, while the youngest looked to be only twelve or thirteen years old.
Because they lived underground for many years, these women had fair skin, and going back several generations, they were all concubines of military officers, so they had good genes and were all very beautiful.
Old Wang's eyes lit up when he saw the women in the village: "Village chief, you're right, I can really sleep with whichever of these women I want?"
The uncle nodded: "Yes, but the women in the village can only have relations with one of you, to avoid inbreeding in their offspring."
"Haha, then I won't be polite!"
After receiving a positive reply, Old Wang threw down the meat he was holding, wiped his hands haphazardly on his clothes, walked over, put his arms around the two youngest girls, and headed towards the bushes in the distance.
Watching Lao Wang's departing figure, Song Laosan turned to the side and asked, "Xiao Duan, what do you think about this?"
"I wasn't thinking about anything."
Watching Old Wang's departing figure, I felt a sense of disgust: "This kind of loveless breeding makes me feel like an animal. Even if my children are born in the future, the thought of them living in this kind of environment makes me feel like I'm committing a sin! Song Laosan, you wouldn't happen to be tempted, would you?"
"Pah! What kind of talk is that? I served in the army, a legitimate member of the People's Liberation Army border defense force! Although these people saved our lives, they are remnants of the reactionaries, still dreaming of retaking the mainland. If I lent my seed to them, wouldn't I become a class enemy?"
Song Laosan said proudly, "Although I'm not a good person, when it comes to matters of national righteousness, we men never hesitate!"
Old Wang wasn't part of our plan to begin with. Seeing him leave with two women, I waved my hand and said, "Never mind him, let's get ready, it's time for us to set off."
"that……"
After listening to my words, Old Li said somewhat embarrassedly, "Young man, to be honest, I've been divorced for over six years and haven't touched a woman since. What we're about to do is a life-or-death situation, so before we set off, I want to treat myself. If I can really leave behind an heir, then my life won't have been in vain! Please forgive me, please forgive me!"
As Old Li said this to us, he too became lustful and walked towards the group of women.
"Hey, those two bastards are complete perverts!"
When Song Laosan saw Lao Li choose four women and leave, his eyes widened in disbelief: "Damn it, he's as skinny as a praying mantis, isn't he afraid of dying on women?"
"They can't even control their own desires, so what help can you expect them to provide?"
I was speechless at Lao Li's choice. I raised my wrist and said, "Give him an hour. Let's make preparations. If he doesn't return by then, we'll leave him alone... Huh?"
Seeing that I had only said half of what I wanted to say, Song Laosan lit a cigarette and asked, "What's wrong?"
My watch is broken!
I shook the digital watch on my wrist: "I specifically chose a digital watch before going into the mountains. It was supposed to have a standby time of up to three years, but it broke down after only a few days. Look at the time now."
Song Laosan glanced at his wrist: "It's 3:35 PM... Damn, my watch is broken too!"
"Wait, what time is yours?"
When I heard the number Song Laosan announced, I was taken aback at first, and then I held out my watch to him.
The time on the digital watch screen was also 3:35.
"Holy crap, is it really afternoon now?"
When Song Laosan noticed that the time on our watches was the same, he looked up at the top of the sinkhole and said, "The sun is shining brightly up here, it should be noon. Did we sleep until the afternoon?"
"I'm afraid the situation is worse than you think."
I took a deep breath, a chill running down my spine, and said, "Third Master, we've probably stumbled upon a banquet of a hundred ghosts!"
In my panic, I even forgot my disgust for Song Laosan and used the term "Third Master" instead.
The Night Feast of a Hundred Ghosts is one of the seven evil sects recorded in the Judge's Record.
Legend has it that the Night Feast of a Hundred Demons plunges people into a dreamlike state, leading to their death in bliss.
The living can enjoy endless pleasure at the ghost feast, while also becoming food for the ghosts.
At that moment, I suddenly realized that we had encountered many abnormalities today. First of all, the wine didn't taste like wine, and the meat didn't taste like meat. We had been eating for so long, but I couldn't even taste anything in the song.
Another point is the temperature of the food. We ate meat that had just been roasted over the campfire, but I don't think I've ever felt it was too hot to eat or touch.
Even the sunlight streaming down from the top of the sinkhole didn't feel warm to me.
Think about it carefully, how could so many people trapped in the mountains possibly reproduce for so many generations?
But when did I encounter the ghost with Song Laosan? Was it when we were trapped on the cliff, in the cat ear cave, or when we entered the illusion from the cave that collapsed off the cliff?
Or perhaps we never experienced any of this, and the moment we entered the cliffside cave, we had already become guests at the banquet of a hundred ghosts.
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