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Lin Ye's heart skipped a beat.

The two hugged for a while in the smoke of the candle, and when they parted, Lin Ye's eyes were suddenly attracted by a tin box on the cabinet.

The box was very old, with a yellow surface and a thick layer of rust. Occasionally, some black bugs crawled over it, leaving a puddle of sticky juice.

In the humble room, such a box looks awkward. Lin Ye thought that some kind of key was needed to open it, but he didn't expect that the box had been left unused for too long, and the lock was rotten. With a light fingertip, the lid flipped over.

Inside are some bright red masks.

The face is ferocious, glaring, the corners of the mouth are upturned, like a man-eating ghost.

Lin Ye held the mask in his hand. The mask was heavy and made of metal materials. This is already a valuable item in a backward village. It can be placed in a tin box, which shows how important it is.

At this time, Lin Ye discovered an interesting thing, that is, on the bottom of the mask, there is a small pattern of Rakshasa engraved.

Lin Ye laughed and said to Xie Yan: "Look, in their eyes, Rakshasa looks like this."

Xie Yan said: "You always think of us as evil."

"Not all of them, at least some gods are very beautiful." Lin Ye said with a smile.

Xie Yan walked up to him, reached out to touch the cold Rakshasa masks, and said, "Did they think that Rakshasa would protect them by wearing these masks?"

"There is a kind of sacrificial activity called Nuo Dance, in which people wear various Nuo masks and dance to ask the local gods to bless them." Lin Ye said, "This is a traditional ceremony of inviting gods. Chickens are killed during the Nuo dance. Slaughtering a sheep, digging out the heart and lungs is very bloody, but now there are fewer people who believe in it, since the villagers of Huangtu Village believe in Rakshasa, maybe they will also have such sacrificial activities."

Xie Yan hooked his lips and said, "It's a pity that they believe in a bloodthirsty god. It is doomed that this village will not have any good results."

Lin Ye turned around, held the mask tightly and said, "There should be no living people left in this village, only some lonely souls are left wandering around. After waiting for what happened here, I think it is still possible to set up a magic circle for them to save them from death." their undead."

"what!!"

A scream came from outside the house, and Lin Ye immediately recognized it was Lin Xuan's voice. He opened the door abruptly, only to see layers of black fog covering the road ahead, and a blood moon hanging in the sky, which was extremely scarlet.

Xu Wei stood outside the door. He seemed to be restrained by some force. He was struggling with difficulty and looked at Lin Ye: "Those people broke in suddenly and took Lin Xuan away...I can't stop..."

Lin Ye asked anxiously, "Are ghost charms useless to them?"

Having discovered that they were dead people, Lin Ye had pasted ghost charms on both Xu Wei and Lin Xuan. It stands to reason that there would be no danger, but why did they take Lin Xuan away?

Xu Wei shook his head and said, "It's useless, those people have changed their face, we are no match at all..."

Lin Ye was so anxious that he put on his backpack and rushed into the deep woods along with Xie Yan along the black mist.

The light of the blood moon shines on the earth, and there are black birds hovering in the woods. Their wings spread out like human faces, and they are mutated human-faced owls.

Human-faced owls can attack humans, Lin Ye quickly threw out the fire talisman to clear the way, he could still hear Lin Xuan's cry for help, he thought he was approaching, suddenly the vines in the woods seemed to come alive, and they moved towards Lin Ye And Xie Yan, trying to entangle them tightly.

Lin Ye cursed. At this time, Xie Yan stood in front of Lin Ye. He held the vines tightly, and the vines wrapped around his arms. He only looked at them lowly. The frightened little snakes returned the same way.

There was a scorching fire in front of them. When Lin Ye and Xie Yan entered the end of the forest, they saw a huge open space surrounded by a dark crowd. They were wearing black embroidered shrouds and Rakshasa masks on their faces. Ferocious, or smiling, some are tall and tall, some are thin and short, they form a circle to make a fire with wood, and Lin Xuan is bound in the center of the circle, behind him is a hard wood, beside him, there is a bloody chicken head And the undead goat, Lin Xuan was already terrified, he couldn't move his hands and feet, only beads of sweat rolled down his pale cheeks one by one, he shouted: "Let me go, what on earth are you going to do?" , I am not from Huangtu Village, I have no grievances or enmities with you..."

Holding a torch, the gray-haired old woman walked tremblingly in front of Lin Xuan. The mask on her face was even more distorted and terrifying against the backdrop of the fire, as if in the next second, the evil spirit-like Rakshasa was about to emerge from The metallic texture of the mask is ready to come out, which makes people's liver and gallbladder split.

Lin Xuan shrank back a bit: "No..."

"Supported by evil gods, supported by eternal life, good people live long, and evil ghosts are extinct."

The old woman read word by word in a hoarse voice, for fear that some people would not be able to hear clearly, "As a sacrifice, it is your destiny, and you will never escape it."

Lin Xuan broke down and shouted: "I am not a sacrifice! Let me go! How could I be a sacrifice!"

The old lady smiled, and the crutches in her hands hit the ground, and everyone started to revel, and danced their unique dance around Lin Xuan. Someone stood in the circle and held up a bone stick to beat the drum. The smell of the drum was disgusting. .

It was a drum made of human skin.

Lin Ye only knew that sacrifices were needed for the Nuo dance to invite the gods, but he didn't know that the sacrifices in Huangtu Village were actually living people.There is no one to guide them in such a feudal and backward village and town, which can only lead to the occurrence of tragedies.

How could there be such a place, how could there be such a group of ignorant people, it is right for people to have beliefs, but they cannot sacrifice other people's lives to fulfill themselves, Xie Yan was right in what he said, and they deserved to end badly.

Lin Ye gritted his teeth angrily, and was about to swing the mahogany sword, but Xie Yan was one step ahead of him, stopping his movement.

He shook his head slightly, indicating that he would settle the matter.

Lin Ye watched Xie Yan walk into the crowd, and everyone looked at him one after another. Immediately, everyone took a deep breath and knelt on the ground.

Under the blood moon, Xie Yan's pupils also turned into the same scarlet. People saw the existence of fear, kowtowed and wailed. On the stake, Lin Xuan watched him walking step by step, and suddenly smiled silently.

The sadness in his eyes disappeared, and turned into a paranoid gloom that couldn't be melted away like the night. He met Xie Yan's eyes, and the night was instantly soaked deeper by thick ink.

Xie Yan stretched out his hand, and everyone cried out in grief, but everything was irreparable. They still wore masks on their faces, revealing only a pair of eyes that were dying, a little crazy and desolate.

After all the souls dissipated, Lin Ye hurried to his side and asked, "Did you let their souls fly away?"

Xie Yan smiled and said, "What's the use of keeping such a sinful village?"

Lin Ye didn't say much, but at this moment, Lin Xuan called him in a low voice: "Brother..."

After Lin Ye untied the rope on his body, Lin Xuan threw himself into his arms. He leaned on his shoulders. After all these years, he rarely showed his vulnerable side in front of him. He cried like a child, Lin Ye's shoulders were warm, but his body was cold.

Lin Xuan quietly hid his blue arms behind his back, he cried and spoke, the contrast with his usual calm and rational appearance was too great, and Lin Ye had to be moved: "Brother, let's go, go to a place where no one disturbs us Go, I really can't take it anymore, I'm really afraid to leave you..."

After a moment of silence, Lin Ye raised his arm, gently pushed him away, and said, "Don't be afraid, I will take you back soon, and then you can live a normal life."

[The author has something to say: About 100 chapters of the text are over? ? 】