After the temple was demolished

The shadow outside the window was still there, but Lu Xinghe's heart calmed down following Chu Cen's movements.

That thing doesn't seem to be able to do whatever it wants, at least it can't attack them directly, otherwise it should just break in instead of luring them out.That said, tonight at least in this room, they were safe.

Meng Xiuxiu obviously understood this truth, and lay back silently, like a dead fish: "I will continue to sleep."

She has encountered worse situations than this, and now she knows that she is fine, and she feels sleepy very quickly. Before she finished speaking, she fell into a deep sleep again, fearing that thunder could not disturb her ears. wake her up.The corner of Lu Xinghe's mouth twitched, and he looked at Chu Cen: "Us?"

Looking at the smelly things on the window sill, Chu Cen motioned them to continue sleeping: "Aren't you tired? There will be a fierce battle at dawn."

Lu Xinghe nodded and climbed back on the bed.Chu Cen lay down behind him, and soon fell asleep again.The monster outside the window was still walking around, it seemed to be able to see what was going on in the room, and its fish eyes showed a hatred that a fish shouldn't have.

When I woke up the next day, it was already daylight.Lu Xinghe blinked, looking at Chu Cen's hand on his waist, his mind froze for a few seconds.After a while, he came back to his senses and wondered if he had overreacted a bit.

It's normal for good brothers to share the same bed, right?

Another voice suddenly sounded in my head: When did you become good brothers?

While Lu Xinghe was still struggling, Meng Xiuxiu, who was on the opposite bed, got up.She focused her eyes on the two who hadn't woken up, was startled, and quickly covered her mouth in the next second.She tiptoed out of bed, thinking maybe she shouldn't be here, she should be in the corridor.

Chu Cen, who heard the movement, opened his eyes.

There was no trace of confusion in his eyes. Facing Lu Xinghe's gaze, he calmly withdrew his hand and got up.Meng Xiuxiu was moaning and moving the cabinet away, and when she saw Chu Cen approaching, she looked away guiltily, and prayed in her heart that the boss would never remember what she said last night!

She actually pried the corner of the wall in front of him, isn't this a suicide attempt?

The cabinet was removed, and the three of them went out to wash.Li Wei and Ai Xueer also got up, and after greeting each other, they asked, "Did anything happen last night?"

Meng Xiuxiu briefly told them about the matter, and the two held their hands on their chests, thankful that the thing didn't come looking for them.After speaking, Lu Xinghe and Chu Cen finished washing and passed them by.Meng Xiuxiu's aunt's smile made Li Wei and Ai Xueer's faces full of question marks: "What's wrong with you?"

"Knocking on CP." Meng Xiuxiu smiled extraordinarily brightly, "It's so good."

It's the kind that doesn't cost any money.

Li Wei and Ai Xueer: "?"

The five of them went downstairs for breakfast.While eating breakfast, Meng Xiuxiu told what they found out yesterday.

The name Peach Blossom Village has its origin.On the hill behind the village, there is a peach tree with a history of hundreds of years.The peach tree blooms and bears fruit every year, and the peaches produced are big and delicious.The villagers have believed for generations that eating the fruit of this peach tree will make them healthy and live a long life.

In fact, the villagers are indeed healthy and live a long life.

The villagers have a lot of affection for the peach tree, thinking that it blesses the village, so they set up a stone tablet under the tree, and people go there to burn incense and worship all the year round.If there is any big event in the village, they also like to go there to ask the peach tree to bless them.Miraculously, their wishes came true without exception.

There is also a spring near the peach tree. The water in the spring is clear and sweet. The villagers like to go there to get water to drink, and some even carry buckets to fetch water.The food cooked with spring water has a strong aroma and whets the appetite.The news about the peach tree and the spring got out, and the village was bustling like never before.

But the excitement disappeared after accidents happened one after another in the village, replaced by endless panic.

People died one after another in the village. There were men, women, old and young. Without exception, they all drank the boiled spring water and ate the peach fruit the day before.Surprised villagers rushed to the mountain, and saw more and more luxuriant peach trees, and spring water exuding a strange fragrance.

The villagers caught a few chickens and fed them the spring water taken out on the spot.Soon, the chickens convulsed and died under the watchful eyes of the villagers.

The villagers were all angry.The irrational villagers took their knives and hacked at the peach tree. What came out of the peach tree was not sap, but bright red blood.Now, they believed even more that the peach tree had become a spirit and wanted to attack the village.

So the scene got out of control.

It wasn't just who kicked it first, the stone tablet under the tree was quickly kicked down, dug out, and smashed.And the peach trees were all chopped down by the angry villagers and burned as firewood, and the springs that seemed to never dry up were filled with soil by the villagers.

If this is the case, the story is almost over here.The strange thing is that the next day, the villagers immediately built a temple in the village, in which a so-called god with a fish head and a human body was enshrined.They kowtowed and prayed before the god with all kinds of live animals. After burning incense and paper, they left the animals and all retreated.When exiting, they did not forget to close the temple door.

Soon, the sound of cracking bones being chewed and the screams of those domestic animals came from the temple.And those villagers stood not far away. Although there was some fear in their eyes, their faces were full of ecstasy, as if a certain stone in their hearts had been let go.

Speaking of this, Meng Xiuxiu couldn't help complaining: "Do you think they are sick? That thing is an evil thing at first glance, and they are still building temples happily."

But Lu Xinghe realized something: "They moved so fast, if they said they didn't discuss it in advance, I wouldn't believe it."

After what he said, Meng Xiuxiu and the others have also tasted it.After thinking about what he said, the faces of the three of them were very bad: "No wonder we always felt that something was wrong when we heard it. They must know that it is not a good thing, and they also know that it needs living creatures to worship. But even So, they still chose that thing.”

The more Meng Xiuxiu thought about it, the more chill she felt.Thinking of the deep meaning hidden behind this, she trembled violently, and her dislike for those villagers increased: "Is this what the so-called betrayal of God refers to?"

Lu Xinghe hummed: "It seems that it should be."

It's impossible for those villagers not to know about the evil thing, but even so, they still built a temple for it and worshiped it as a god.It seems that the benefits of that thing to them are far greater than what he imagined.

Sometimes, human greed can overcome fear.

After eating, several people went out separately.When they went out, Sun Zhihao, who was hiding upstairs and eavesdropping, came down.His face was extremely ugly, and he stared resentfully at the direction in which they left, not knowing what he was thinking.

==

Lu Xinghe and Chu Cen walked on the village road.

After hearing the news Meng Xiuxiu and the others inquired about, and thinking of the things he vaguely saw yesterday hiding behind tree trunks staring at him, Lu Xinghe suddenly had a bold idea.Fearing that there would be too many distractions, he didn't say it directly, but walked to a remote place with Chu Cen, and then expressed his guess.

"I always thought we should go to the mountains and have a look."

But in this way, it was contrary to their previous conjecture.When they first arrived in this village, they thought that the house they lived in was the line separating the mountain from the village, and it was the food that the village handed to the mountain.Thinking about it now, the relationship between mountains, houses and villages can actually be reversed.

The house they live in and the mountains behind them are actually surrounded by the whole village.They could all be prey to that thing in the village.

"Let's go."

The two walked towards the mountain again.

It's still the same weedy path.This time, the two were more careful.Because of yesterday's earthquake, the trees on both sides of the road fell down, and it was very difficult for the two of them to walk.Fortunately, they didn't encounter any poisonous snakes to hinder them this time, and they walked to the foot of the mountain smoothly.

The mountain is full of trees, lush and lush, with an indescribable tranquility and depth.Lu Xinghe and Chu Cen searched around and found a cecum trail.The trail was covered with weeds, but it was much easier than the way they came here.

"This should be the way the villagers used to go up the mountain to worship." Chu Cen took a look, and took the lead to go up the mountain along the trail, "Be careful."

The two walked one behind the other, and soon reached the halfway up the mountain.

The trees in other places are very lush, but there is nothing growing around here, it is empty, and it looks extraordinarily weird.Lu Xinghe and Chu Cen glanced at it, and soon found that there were traces of burning here.And just near there, there is a big pit.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that there used to be something growing there, but it was uprooted and no longer existed.

There were only the two of them here, but Lu Xinghe always felt that something was watching them from the dark, which gave him a creepy feeling.He rubbed the goose bumps on his body, and said to Chu Cen, "Let's go find that spring."

"Ah."

Chu Cen looked calm, unable to see his thoughts at all.Lu Xinghe followed behind him, but calmed down a lot.The two searched nearby, and soon found the buried spring.It's a pity that the soil has dried up and cracked, and the springs underneath have completely disappeared.

Other than that, the two found nothing.Lu Xinghe frowned, looked up for a while, and then walked in a certain direction.Chu Cen followed him without asking where he was going.

Lu Xinghe found a big tree, the trunk of that tree was so thick that one person couldn't hug it.Standing at the trunk of the tree, he stretched out half of his body and looked down. Sure enough, he saw the way they came.He withdrew his gaze, looked at the big tree carefully, and found a black palm print on it with sharp eyes.