He said he was a god

The room was suddenly quiet, as if suppressing something.

In the boundless silence, the boy raised his head, his face was still pale, but he seemed to have regained his composure.

"...What do you want to know?"

"The secret of this village."

"After you know, you have to leave immediately."

"can."

Joe nodded, but before leaving, they might have to get rid of a person, and by the way, ask that person the question he cares most about.

The boy looked at them. To be honest, he didn't need to tell these secrets to everyone.Just find out, this village has nothing to do with him anyway, and these people have nothing to do with him.

But what would happen to them if they didn't tell themselves?They won't do anything to themselves, but they will be more eager to seek answers through other means, and finally... usher in death.

Why can't these people put away their murderous curiosity and leave this village?

The young man shook his head, hiding the faint pity in his heart, and spoke slowly in the silence.

"Our village is called 'Holy Snake Village' because the ancestors worshiped snakes very much. A long time ago, the ancestors believed that the way of snakes is the way of all things, the way of heaven and earth. In our eyes, snakes are just a plane Wriggling and crawling, isn't this the trace of human beings in the eyes of God? Small, stupid, fragile, and ignorant. But the most important thing is not this, but the continuation of the snake. You know it? Every snake They will shed their skin once every two months, six or seven times a year, or even more. They endure hours of torture, rubbing on the branches and the ground, rubbing off the old skin on their bodies, and they are completely naked Yes, naked as a newborn snake. Then they slowly grow new scales that are bigger and stronger than before, climb faster and take less damage. In a sense, when the snake molts The moment it's done, they've been given a new life."

The young man looked at everyone with his faint eyes, "Do you understand? If the snake's shedding is regarded as a continuation of life, they are in a sense constantly reborn and have achieved longevity. I know what you want to say about the snake's lifespan. There is also an end, but the longevity here is not eternal life. Our ancestors found inspiration from snakes and began to study the art of longevity. When they magnified the process of snake shedding on humans, the originally short life was relatively magnified , constitute a person's life."

Regardless of whether they understood or not, the young man continued, "For us, death is shedding our skin again and again, and after death, we will be reborn. This is our longevity."

Lu Sheng listened quietly, and suddenly said softly to himself, "Heaven and earth, the reverse journey of all things... Time and light... Passers-by of a hundred generations... You are open-minded."

Although no one understood what they meant, they understood the last sentence.

The boy's eyes turned red, and he said ironically, "Huh? Open-minded? Quite the opposite. Do you understand human nature?"

"The real name of a person is -'desire'. When you don't get it, you try your best to get it; after you get it, you hold it in your own hands by any means." The boy stared at them quietly with wide eyes , "Longevity is a realm beyond the reach of mortals, do you think they will give up? Let alone those who have tasted the sweetness of longevity... In the end, this becomes obsession, or in other words, becomes a demonic obstacle."

"...A long time ago, our village was not here. The original village was the place you found underwater. A certain generation of village chiefs let a 'transparent box' cover this village, and that place , separated by space, only the villagers can enter and exit at will. Even so, after the death of the villagers, their souls cannot escape from this box, and in the end they can only bump into each other randomly, or enter the "closer" wavelength In the human body, or die to give space power."

"Wait, what do soul seed and wavelength mean?" Xiuwen temporarily interrupted the boy's conversation.

The boy was taken aback for a moment, and then asked, "Is there no such statement from the outside world?"

The crowd shook their heads.

Outside scientists know very little about the soul.Apart from their continuous in-depth understanding of the particles that make up the soul, they did not study the power of the soul, nor did they study the coming and going of the soul.

"...We have always regarded the soul as two parts. According to your words, you can understand it as an atom. The nucleus in the 'atom' is the soul seed. The other parts outside the nucleus are the soul It has no function other than making the soul-seed grow stronger and more stable. And the soul-seed is the core of the human soul. It contains all your memories and appearances. It can be said that it contains your identity as a person. The two most basic elements of human beings.

In our understanding, after a person dies, the soul-seed will leave the human body and wander freely in the world, mountains and rivers. It may be broken down into tiny particles and scattered on the earth, but the connection between the particles has not changed.Someday, the particles will gain enough power from the heaven and the earth, and they will reunite into soul-seeds, and then reincarnate to start a new life.However, although the soul-seed is still the original soul-seed, due to the flow and washing between the heaven and the earth, the memory and appearance of the previous life will gradually fade, and finally disappear in the soul-seed like drinking Meng Po soup.

Even if you are reincarnated as a new person, your appearance and memory are no longer what you were in your previous life.This feeling is very strange, that person obviously continues to live with the same soul-seed, but he does not continue to live with the previous 'he'.You understand people's obsession with memory, right?If there is no memory, then 'you' will become another person.This creates a psychological sense of isolation that ends up making you no longer sure of your existence.So if a person wants to gain longevity, what he has to do is very simple, 'pass on' your memory, and if possible, your appearance as well. "

"And the wavelength is emitted by the human soul. Everyone has his own soul, so he has a specific wavelength. But there will always be a few people in the world whose soul wavelengths are extremely similar. In this case , you can seize the body at a higher probability, that is, snatch the body of others. The higher the wavelength similarity, the higher the probability of seizing the body, but the wavelength similarity is too rare. Can you imagine finding two people in a desert? A grain of sand with the same height? One in a billion! And how likely is that one in a billion to be a corpse that has just died but has not yet decomposed?!

Therefore, many soul species can only settle for the next best thing and choose a human body with a "closer" wavelength when they seize the body, but in this case, the person who seizes the body will suffer terribly. The punishment of blood, many people can't endure this kind of pain, and they fail when they seize the body, and the power of the soul seed is greatly reduced. "

"So under such circumstances, our village came up with a new method. Babies, babies are the best containers. The souls of heaven and earth put into the fetuses are still unstable after birth, and their souls have not yet condensed... Therefore, everyone's memories of their childhood are extremely chaotic. Although babies may not necessarily have the same wavelength as the soul-seed, because their soul-seed has not yet stabilized into a soul, the chances of seizing the house will be greatly increased. In this case... this village The nightmare, no, maybe it’s a sweet dream for them, has begun.”

"And the ones under their claws... are the babies of their own family."

The room was silent, only the sound of breathing.

The young man looked around at everyone, "...You guys, have already guessed it?"

He closed his eyes full of sorrow, and there seemed to be a drop of God falling from the corner of his eyes. He didn't know whether it was for his own destiny or for those poor sentient beings.

"They extradited the soul-seeds of the newly deceased to the newly-born children of the family, so those elders were reborn. And because the soul-seeds had not dissipated between heaven and earth, the memories and appearance of those babies had nothing to do with those people's previous lives. Two differences. Since then, the journey of longevity in this village has begun...Sometimes, there will be a situation where someone above dies and no baby is born below. At this time, except for the baby stolen from other houses, only death .Because the soul species has no body to lodge in and cannot escape from this big box, it can only die slowly—providing enough power for the operation of this space. You like to say, survival of the fittest, natural selection. In such a situation The physique of the ancestors gradually changed, but it was not much different from ordinary people. Only the sexual ability and sexual desire will be greatly enhanced, ranging from about 10 years old to 70 years old. In fact, some human beings can maintain sex for life. Ability may only weaken with age, but the 'longevity', they can always maintain a vigorous desire and undiminished ability... Isn't it amazing?...The birth rate in the village has begun to increase, but this Another problem has arisen, that is, the timing of the baby’s birth cannot be controlled. It doesn’t matter if the baby is born early or late, it must be shortly after the death of the old man. Therefore, the women here can give birth to the baby as early as July, and the baby can be born later. It can be December. Only after meeting the needs of the parents, the babies who are not taken away are allowed to be born to replenish the village with fresh blood."

"This is their longevity. They obtain longevity by constantly plundering, oppressing, and even killing people."

The young man looked at them with indescribable exhaustion on his face, "... Let me stop here today. I'll talk about the rest tomorrow."

He stood up slowly, walked out, and seemed to think of something when he opened the door, without looking back, "Don't come to me at night... this is an exchange."

Everyone slumped in their original positions, feeling cold all over, watching the thin boy open the door, let in the gloomy sky, and then slowly close the door.

For some reason, they suddenly felt that this village was more frightening than miasma.

Something gradually froze the blood and sank with their hearts into the endless abyss.

And at the bottom of that abyss, coiled and wriggling forever, is the snake.

Endless, snake.