Business system: the gods save the world by opening a store

Xuntang: "I saw a puppet in the house next door, and there was a little girl's soul hidden in it. Based on the degree of compatibility between her and the puppet, there is a high probability that she was imprisoned in the puppet at birth. People here will use human souls to create evil. Puppet magic."

And children's souls are the purest, and at the same time, their resentment is the most intense and terrifying.

This sentence made Ke Mi and Jing Bai couldn't help frowning fiercely. As people born in the new century, they really couldn't imagine the vice of patriarchy.

Ke Mi suddenly added: "When I went out to investigate just now, I found that the first child of each of the more than 100 households here is a boy."

Up to now, she still clearly remembers the woman who said this, the face with a strange smile: "Our town is lucky, and every household has boys, boys are good, boys."

At that moment, people were weird and terrifying.

However, it is impossible for everyone to have a first child boy, so where do these girls go?

The resentment of newborn babies is the strongest. There are so many households here and over time, terrifying monsters will definitely be bred.

Jing Bai thought that every household here is worshiping the mountain ghost: "Maybe the mountain ghost has protected the townspeople here and prevented these children from making strange disturbances, but she has no way to stop the humans here, and the gods cannot directly interfere with human life."

Is such an asylum really an asylum?
Ke Mi: "In the evening we will go to the ancestral hall to invite mountain ghosts. I will go out to see if I can find anything in the evening."

Jing Bai nodded, the time they came to this scene is still too short, and they don't have enough information.

And destroying a scene, in addition to destroying the core sustenance items or killing the core characters, is to piece together all the plots.

At the same time, they finalized two investigation priorities, the missing baby girl and the puppet.

Soon in the afternoon, Xuntang and his group set off for the ancestral hall.

The setting sun is like blood, and the red clouds fly obliquely.

It's just that on the way, an old man with tattered clothes and a somewhat crazy expression stopped them.

The old man was very strange, his whole body was dirty, he had three broken fingers, and a few teeth were missing, and his dark red tongue could be seen in the dark hole.

The doll held in his arms was clean, although there were some old traces due to the passage of time, it could be seen that it was well preserved.

Even if the old man is crazy, he still cherishes the baby in his arms.

"The dolls run away, there are ghosts here, and the ghosts here will wear human skin and swallow people's hearts quietly. I love female dolls the most, just like this doll."

The old man swayed, his hair was disheveled, but his hand was steadily pointing at Xuntang.

Several people looked at each other, Xuntang narrowed his eyes slightly, this old man?

After speaking, the old man hugged his white doll again and wanted to leave.

Just when the few people were about to say something, a middle-aged man hit the old man with a stone and spit a mouthful of yellow phlegm.

The middle-aged man opened his mouth and scolded: "Get out, lunatic, we kindly took you in and stayed in the small town, and you want to avenge your kindness and want to hurt the children in our small town, get out! Get out!"

The stone just hit the old man's forehead, and the dark red blood flowed down like a dark and gloomy little snake, waiting for an opportunity to covet the freshness of the world.

The old man cried and ran away staggeringly.

The middle-aged man rubbed his hands, smiled and said to several people: "My surname is Liu. Everyone is from this town. I grew up with your parents. You can call me Uncle Liu."

Seeing that Xuntang was still looking at the direction the old man left, Uncle Liu touched his head:

"Uncle Liu is not someone who beats up people. It's this crazy old man who is really annoying. He stole the parts of my puppet making two days ago, which caused my puppet making to be delayed for a few days, and the buyer was angry."

At the end, he spat angrily again.

Jing Bai asked: "This crazy old man?"

Uncle Liu sighed: "He is an outsider. He wanted to marry a girl from our small town decades ago. The girl didn't want to, so he waited in the town. Later, the girl went up the mountain to pick vegetables, but fell off the cliff and no one was there. This man It's crazy, the people in our town are kind enough to keep him and not drive him away."

"It's been a crazy year for one person to eat. This is something that happened before I was born. After all these years, he was still a good-looking young man when I was young."

Ke Mi asked with a cold face but his words and deeds were reasonable: "Does this old man have no family of his own?"

"Who knows?" Uncle Wang rubbed his hands again, smiling obscenely, "Maybe my parents died long ago, or maybe I dislike him as a lunatic and leave it to us."

Soon, they arrived at the ancestral hall.

The scarlet walls, the layers of red tulle hanging down, and the lights of dancing and burning candles pull shadows like monsters with teeth and claws.

There was a huge portrait hanging where the memorial tablet should have been placed, exactly the same as the mountain ghost portrait that Xuntang saw in Xiaohu's house, a gorgeous and beautiful goddess.The ranks belonging to the residents of the town were placed on both sides.

The ancestral hall was full of people, but under the shadow of the dancing candles, no one looked like a human.

The mountain ghosts are asked to have a representative from each family in the small town witness it together, so there are people from every household.

The mayor is a stooped, thin old man with a wrinkled face, a hooked nose, and cloudy eyes. Just looking at it makes people feel uncomfortable, and he looks gloomy.

The mayor coughed, and looked at Xuntang sideways with his dark eyes: "This little baby looks good."

Those eyes were sticky and weird, full of malicious feelings.

Xuntang pretended to be shy and hid behind Ke Mi, and Ke Mi also stretched out a hand to protect Xuntang.

The mayor stopped looking at Xuntang, and said to Ke Mi: "Please be sincere to the mountain ghost, this is the god who protects our town."

But Xuntang knows that there is no trace of the power of the mountain ghost in this portrait. The mountain ghost hates the ancestral hall?

The mayor sang gray and incomprehensible ballads, the candle flames danced, and black shadows that no one could see quietly surrounded the mayor, like monsters surrounding people, or evil spirits wearing human skin.

The tedious and obscure steps of inviting the gods went through one by one. At the last step of inviting the mountain ghost, Ke Mi knelt down and continued to draw the picture scroll of the mountain ghost, and then all the processes were over.

Strangely, Xuntang felt the aura of ghosts and gods in this painting, but the huge picture hanging in the ancestral hall did not have the aura of mountain ghosts.

The mayor stared at Xuntang for a long time, he was exactly the same as the strange young man before.

Then everyone left one by one.

When returning home, Ke Mi was holding the mountain ghost picture.

The strange crazy old man was sitting by the door of their house, and when he saw them coming back, he dragged his legs and tried to leave slowly.

Ke Mi stopped him, handed the picture of mountain ghosts to Jing Bai, and handed it to the old man after finding the wound medicine from his home.

The old man looked at the medicine in his hand and said in a deep voice:

"Pay attention to the children."