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C City.

Roof Village.

In this materialistic technological age, this village located between the mountains is undoubtedly somewhat out of place.

Even under the policy of secular order, all modern things are also reflected in this mountain village, but all modern things cannot change the customs of the mountain village itself.

As the saying goes, you live on the mountain and you live on the water. This Roof Village is naturally a place that lives on the mountain.

And the existence of the mountain has undoubtedly given rise to countless legends since ancient times.

For example, ghosts and monsters in the mountains, corpse puppets and monsters...

However, as the saying goes, evil cannot defeat good. In the ancient fantasy, since there are evil spirits that harm people, there are naturally righteous ways to protect people.

In the Roof Village, a place that relies on the mountains to eat the mountains, there have naturally been countless legends surrounding the mountains since ancient times, and naturally, they have evolved into taboos and deep-rooted customs.

Naturally, there is also the so-called patron saint of the Roof Village, who enjoys the villagers' worship and blessing for generations.

These customs are undoubtedly extremely incompatible with this materialistic technological era.

However, the ridge village is located between the mountains, and its connection with the outside world is limited to a mountain road that is hundreds of miles long and crosses the mountains.

The environment that is almost isolated from the world is naturally destined to continue for a long time.

September 9th is the Double Ninth Festival for the outside world, but for the ridge village, it is an annual ceremony to worship the gods.

However, the god worshipped by the ridge village is not the righteous gods in the legend, but a mountain king.

In the legend of the ridge village, the ancestors of the ridge village were able to take root and multiply among the mountains and survive to this day under the protection of this mountain king.

In recent years, it seems that due to the abnormal climate, the climate in the mountains is changeable, and the land that relies on the mountains for food has naturally reduced its harvest.

I don't know when, but a rumor began to spread in the Roof Village, that is, the sacrifices to the mountain king in Roof Village have become more and more superficial and lack sincerity in recent years. Therefore, the mountain king was angry and brought down disasters, which led to the abnormal climate in recent years and made it difficult for Roof Village to survive.

Whether this statement is true or false, no one can tell.

But the abnormal climate is a fact.

The superficial sacrifices seem to be a fact for Roof Village.

After all, even if Roof Village is closed, it will inevitably be impacted by the outside world in this technological society.

The tradition of sacrificing living people in the past is obviously impossible to continue.

The laws and order of the outside world will definitely not allow it.

It's just that customs and taboos are deeply rooted?

And this rumor... the truth that three people make a tiger seems to have become a reality in this mountain village.

A lie told ten thousand times becomes the truth.

For the villagers of Roof Village, this is the case.

Even if they don't believe it, few people dare to refute it because of the various concerns of the people and the deep-rooted customs and taboos.

The ignorant belief of a few people and the drifting of the majority.

It is destined that the grand ceremony of worshipping the gods on the Double Ninth Festival will inevitably be a tragedy.

But this tragedy is not caused by the villagers of Yuwuji Village, but by an outsider.

A girl who got lost in the mountains because of hiking.

For the ignorant believers, there is a suitable sacrifice.

For those who go with the flow, it is better to die than to die, and the psychological burden is greatly reduced.

Her appearance is undoubtedly a perfect balance point for the people of Wuji Village, an existence that everyone can accept.

At this moment, in the hundreds of years old Shanjun Temple, under the gaze of hundreds of villagers, the girl was tied up, sobbing and desperate, and was carried to the hideous Shanjun clay sculpture in the temple.

There were elderly villagers with strange makeup and strange clothes of different colors. Some held wooden sticks, some held bamboo weavings, and some held big red lanterns. In the tiger temple, they surrounded the desperate girl, twisting their bodies in strange ways, and muttering something, as if they were praying.

The rest of the villagers stood around this strange scene, their expressions were mostly calm, but occasionally when they saw the desperate girl, many people would show reluctance, but soon, they would deliberately avoid their eyes, as if they could not see it.

Finally, with a splash of bright red, it fell on the tiger clay sculpture, and the girl's desperate eyes no longer had any light.

Only her wide eyes seemed to still tell her despair, her unwillingness, and... her hatred for these executioners.

The villagers who were watching, the old man with strange makeup, seemed to be afraid of touching some taboos after the splash of blood, and they all left one after another.

The girl's body collapsed in front of the clay sculpture, blood still gurgling under the wide eyes, slowly flowing, dyeing the soil and the tiger sculpture red.

If nothing unexpected happens, the girl's body will have to be kept here for three days.

And these three days, according to the custom of Wuji Village, are the time for the tiger to enjoy the sacrifice.

During this time, no one can disturb.

If you disturb, it will anger the tiger, which is an unforgivable sin.

Therefore, as soon as the sacrifice was over, the tiger temple was completely sealed off. In order to be on the safe side, the village even arranged two young strong men to keep watch outside the temple.

As night fell, the coldness of the mountain was undoubtedly evident in this autumn and winter.

The two men who were on night watch also lit a bonfire in front of the mountain tiger temple. They drank a few bottles of strong liquor and the meat roasted by the bonfire. The two men also had a good chat.

During the conversation, they naturally talked about the girl who was used as a sacrifice.

In the conversation, the two men seemed to be unable to hide their pity. A beautiful girl was a rare existence in this mountain village.

When they were talking, the two men who were full of enthusiasm could not help but burst into tacit laughter.

But at this time, neither of them noticed that the tightly closed temple door had slowly opened at some point.

The flickering firelight vaguely illuminated the darkness in the temple, and the body that collapsed in front of the mountain tiger sculpture seemed to have disappeared.

In the darkness, the tiger sculpture stood tall, but at this moment, the clay sculpture of the tiger, under the dim light of the fire, also had a bit of ruddy life color.

The two copper bell-sized clay eyes seemed to look at the two men outside the temple who were not laughing obscenely. In the eyes, it was not the dead silence of the clay sculpture, but seemed to have a bit more desire? A bit more bloodthirstiness?

When the night fell, the first ray of morning sun fell on the mountains. For the ridge village located between the mountains, it should be the time when the smoke from cooking was curling.

People should prepare breakfast and prepare dry food for entering the mountains.

But on this morning, the whole ridge village was dead silent, without any sound or any trace of human activity.

If it were in the past, the abnormality of the ridge village would probably take a long time to be noticed by the outside world.

But this time, or in other words, under the current changes in the world order, the abnormality of the ridge village was almost immediately locked and tracked by the drone brigade patrolling the mountains day and night.

Soon, several drones flew over at low altitude, and the images of the mountain village taken by the drones were transmitted to the information center almost in real time.

Under the extremely efficient early warning program, these scenes were finally presented in front of Chu Mu with extreme clarity.

The picture was very clear, flying from low altitude, approaching the ridge village, surrounded by mountains, the morning sun shining on the scattered houses, and under the almost beautiful mountain village scenery, a scene of horror that was almost terrifying was also presented with extreme clarity.

In the ridge village grain drying field located on the mountainside, among the piled up straw stacks, several blood-colored and white intertwined... "stacks" were very dazzling.

When the picture was zoomed in, it could be clearly seen that the so-called straw stacks were actually countless piles of broken limbs.

One after another, hideous heads, mixed with broken arms, organs, and pieces of meat...

All the structures of the human body eventually merged with the almost solidified blood, forming a creepy mountain of meat.

"The change in Roof Village was discovered by the Eighth Drone Squadron of City C at 5:12:38 this morning."

"The last routine inspection of Roof Village was at 1:36 this morning. At this time, there was no abnormality in Roof Village."

"After noticing the abnormality, at 5:13, the Eighth Drone Squadron reported to the Emergency Command Center of City C. At 5:13:26, the Emergency Command Center of City C activated the emergency mechanism in accordance with your instructions. While reporting to the upper level, it also dispatched the City C Rapid The response team rushed to the Roof Village with the demon-suppressing talisman. "

"By now, the C City Rapid Response Team should be arriving at the Roof Village soon."

"The command center has prepared a helicopter, and the nearest airport has arranged a plane on standby. If you want to rush to the scene, you can reach the Roof Village within three hours."

"The C City Emergency Command Center is also urgently summarizing the information about the Roof Village. Within ten minutes, there should be a detailed file report..."

When the picture was frozen, Wang Yue also reported in an orderly manner.

Chu Mu nodded slightly, and did not speak, but stared at the frozen picture.

Although the image shot by technology is just a simple image, there is no sense of the atmosphere of the scene from it, and there is no abnormality.

But just from this picture, Chu Mu can almost conclude that this is definitely not the work of secular forces.

The reason is very simple. Just from the expressions and eyes of those broken heads, it is not difficult to see that each of them has experienced extreme torture and destruction before death.

With mortal strength, it is not difficult to torture hundreds of villagers to death in just a few hours.

But to do this under the condition of daily patrols every few hours, then obviously, the possibility is basically zero.

Even if it can be done, it will definitely not escape the monitoring of his big network.

"Torture and destruction... So, you still choose the negative desires of people?"

"Despair... resentment? Pain?"

Chu Mu's eyes moved slightly, and his expression remained calm.

In this case, from the perspective of the world of immortal cultivation, it is undoubtedly a category of evil spirits.

In a world without magic, people's negative desires and blood are obviously the few energy sources that support the existence of ghosts and evil spirits...

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