The mountain ghost blows out the lights

Zhao Xu was taken aback by the sudden change in the atmosphere.

"No, wait a minute." The young man took a step back nervously, put his hand on the door bolt, and said calmly, "Why are you looking at me like that? Is there a problem?"

He automatically ignored Yan Jinping, who was wearing a blindfold, and stared at Shen Lianxing's reaction research, straightened his back like a frightened rabbit, and asked cautiously: "I...I probably didn't say anything wrong Bar?"

I didn't realize it before, this guy looked kind when he smiled, but once he restrained his smile, his facial features would become sharp, giving people a vaguely dangerous feeling.

After all, Zhao Xu was just a child. Facing two outsiders of unknown origin, it was okay when the other party was friendly, but once the atmosphere became tense like this, it was impossible for him not to be nervous at all.

Considering that he hadn't been able to run when he first met, Zhao Xu found desperately that even if the two people in front of him suddenly attacked and wanted to harm him, he didn't seem to have the ability to resist.

He swallowed lightly, and whispered again: "...What's the matter?"

Yan Jinping gave a soft 'huh' with no clear meaning, but did not speak.

He was busy thinking about a lot of things, such as what Zhao Xu's 'living sacrifice' represented, where is Tunan, the bastard who deceived his master, exterminated his ancestors, committed rebellion, and committed chaos, and after he was found...

In short, he is very busy now, and he doesn't have the time to convert his thoughts into words.

Shen Lianxing realized that he was scaring people, so he quickly restrained his expression, and made up for himself: "It's okay, don't worry, we just remembered... other things, not aimed at you."

It's as if he didn't explain what he said. Zhao Xu saw these two people for the first time, and he didn't know what the "Shen family" was, so he didn't know what Shen Lianxing said was credible. In short, it must be right to be vigilant, so he remained silent Staring at Shen Lianxing intently.

The boy was growing up, and the trousers and sleeves were cut short, hanging on him empty. The clothes were also very old, gray in color, and the cuffs were frayed with fraying edges.

Coupled with that cautious little expression, he even looked a little pitiful.

This was not Shen Lianxing's original intention, but there was nothing he could do at this time. It was difficult for Zhao Xu to dispel his doubts directly with a few words, so Shen Lianxing had to try his best not to look like a bully who forced others into prostitution, and at the same time seized the time to ask the most critical questions : "In short, what is the commandment you just mentioned, living sacrifice... what is it?"

Zhao Xu was full of doubts: "You are not a passing businessman, what are you doing asking about this?"

After a pause, he said again: "Forget it, it's okay if you don't talk about it, it's not an important matter anyway."

He adjusted his mentality quickly, or he might still be nervous, and he spoke quickly: "You are from outside the city, maybe you haven't heard of it. In fact, there is a... cough, god in our city."

Shen Lianxing and Yan Jinping looked at each other, thinking that we have heard about it, we are here to find him.

Zhao Xu seemed quite unwilling to mention this matter. The words "Shen Xian" were vague, trying to explain this matter clearly in a short language as soon as possible, his eyes were also unconsciously wandering, and he was about to look aside when he said a few words Looking at it, I don't know what I'm looking for.

It was as if he was afraid that something would suddenly pop out from the corner and eat him.

Shen Lianxing's tone was gentle, leading him to recall: "Well, we know now, don't worry, just take your time."

"Everyone in our city believes in him." Zhao Xu whispered, "It's the one at the gate of the city. The precepts were made by the elders, about five years ago."

The boy took out a thin notebook from his pocket and handed it to the two: "...This is it."

Shen Lianxing took the notebook, opened it and took a look.

The densely packed small characters, from the first line to the last line, are full of various restrictions, even weddings and funerals have rules, down to the time and weather of the day, worshiping the gods before worshiping.

The god—of course it was Tunan.

"Here, each of us has a copy." Zhao Xu said, "When living in the city, we must act in accordance with these precepts and must not violate them. If the elders find out that someone did not follow the instructions, they will be punished."

There are more than 100 items, and everyone has to memorize them.

"As for the living sacrifice." He scratched his head, and said, "I don't know when this rule started. It happens once a year, and it's held in the Hall of Worshiping God. It's actually... just bloodletting."

Zhao Xu has been living in Tunan City since he was a child. He has long been used to this kind of thing, and he said it without any pressure, and he didn't think there was any problem.

Yan Jinping: "Has this kind of...sacrifice been carried out before?"

He tried his best to control his tone and attitude, so as not to make the questions appear too blunt, but his self-restraint quickly failed, and he was told to spit out ordinary sentences one by one, like a cold blade, wishing he could bring The hostility he gritted his teeth directly slashed at Tunan who didn't know where he was.

The people in Tunan City were not very authentic and did some bad things to Yan Jinping, but those are two different things and should not be confused with each other.

No matter what they had done, Tunan should not have relied on his wrested identity to do so recklessly against a group of defenseless mortals.

The blood sacrifice is essentially useless to the Righteous God. What is he trying to do by letting the people in Yanjing City do this?

Zhao Xu couldn't see his expression clearly, but he flinched subconsciously, and then rubbed his arms uncomfortably, before replying honestly: "There used to be such a rule, but back then, animals were used. It was only decided this year to use people as sacrifices. They went to the worship hall to worship this time to discuss this."

In order to decide this year's living sacrifice... which person should be chosen as the sacrifice.

After the boy finished speaking, he shrugged his shoulders mockingly, and said with a wry smile: "What are you discussing? I guessed that most of them would choose me. This time, I planned to escape first while they were not around."

Yan Jinping: "How do you say it?"

"You don't know, they're crazy." Zhao Xu sighed, at such a young age, his expression was full of mature distress, "No matter how hard you tried before, there was a limit, but now you have to use living people to— Go to enshrine who. I am an orphan in the whole city, without father, mother, or care, and I am a lot less. If you don’t choose me, who will you choose?"

Sacrifice belongs to sacrifice, everyone has family and concerns, and of course they don't want people around them to die.

Fortunately, he was precocious and realized this in advance, and found out that he was in danger.

Zhao Xu's faith was not as strong as others'. Now that he didn't want to die, he had to make plans early.

"I'm leaving." The young man said, twitching the corners of his mouth shyly, "I was shocked when I saw you at the gate of the city, and thought you were here to arrest me. Now it seems that I did misunderstand, no I'm so sorry."

Leaving aside the identities of these two people, the two of them didn't even know the most basic common sense in Tunan City, and they asked questions about the gods without any scruples. In just a short while, they broke several commandments. It turns out that they really didn't come for themselves.

Shen Lianxing: "Then where are you going?"

In fact, Zhao Xu hadn't thought about this question at all. He spread his hands openly and said openly, "I don't know. We'll talk about it when we leave."

"Go south, go north, go east, go west... as long as you're not here, you can go anywhere."

"They're not normal, and they're getting more and more abnormal, and I don't know what I'm supposed to do..."

"But I have to get out of this place before they go completely crazy."

Zhao Xu was born after Tunan became a mountain god. He had never experienced that era, and he didn't even know that there was another god here before Tunan.

He is an orphan, and he barely grew up. It is not easy to live until now, and today, this "difficulty" is getting more and more serious, and he can't live happily.

When a person even has problems with survival, belief means nothing to him.

Worshiping the gods will only make his life more difficult, and their gods will only take, never give.

Zhao Xu saw that the city people's belief in mountain gods gradually grew stronger. At first, they only repaired the shrines every now and then, and later added various rituals. People don't even have the energy to manage their own families.

The conditions in Tunan City are not good, and they cannot farm or do business. The life in the city basically depends on people going to the mountains to hunt and gather, so the "mountain god" is very important to them.

The mountain gods don't care about things, now they can't live anymore, and everyone can't live anymore.

But they—the people in Tunan City don't want to admit this, and they don't want to make any changes.

When a group of people live together in a remote and isolated place, 'tradition' and 'authority' become the most important things.

They only decided to pray more devoutly to their gods.

The precepts appeared when Zhao Xu was ten years old. The elders in the city...that is, the group of people with the most steadfast beliefs jointly discussed and formulated it, saying that "only by observing these rules, the mountain gods will be happy and continue to protect them." We map South City'.

Zhao Xu was still a child at that time and had no one to teach him. He only heard a few fragments of words and knew something about the great achievements of the mountain god. He knew that the god had saved Tunan City, but no one told him what happened.

He had really believed those stories.

But when he didn't have enough to eat, when he could only be bullied by other children because he had no relatives, when he could hardly survive...

The so-called mountain god never appeared.

Not once.

Later... Zhao Xu couldn't help but wonder, had there never been such a 'mountain god'?

If, as the elders and the others said, there is an omnipotent god in this city who accepts their offerings and protects everyone in the city, then—isn't he from Tunan City?

Why did the gods never bless him, why did he have to sacrifice a certain person in the city in exchange for the gods' favor to others?

Could it be that just because he has no relatives to take care of him, he is a useless life and can be decided by others at will?

The sacrifices, the shrines that are constantly being repaired, and the living lives are really what their "mountain gods" want?

He had never heard the mountain god himself say it.

No matter what the truth was, it was impossible for Zhao Xu to fight against the whole city by himself.He didn't want to die. For him, the best way he could think of was to leave.

It's not difficult, he is inconspicuous in the city, and no one will notice his existence.Just pick a suitable time to leave Tunan City, after that...

His road ahead may be open, or it may be bumpy, in short, whether it is a mountain god or something else, it doesn't matter anymore.

He was alone, without any belongings, but he had no worries, and when he decided to go, he could quickly start to move.

If he hadn't met Shen Lianxing and Yan Jinping on the way out of the city, he would have gone far away by now, not knowing where to find his own life.

"Okay, if you have something to ask, hurry up." Zhao Xu finally concluded, "Don't stay here for a long time, both of you. They can't come back from the worship hall now. When the sacrifice is over, they don't know when they see outsiders entering the city." What shall I do to you?"

Yan Jinping's face sank like water: "Tunan that bastard——did Tunan ask you to do this?"

Anyway, what they saw along the way was lifeless, no matter where the people went, just the dilapidated and chaotic buildings in the city didn't look like a town blessed by gods at all.

Tunan usurped his position as a mountain god, not only did not work, but also turned the small town into this smoky look.

He is a fairy?Why is he?

Boss Yan's hands were itchy now, and all the violent tempers that hadn't been seen in more than ten years were all exposed at this moment. He wished he could drag Tu Nan out on the spot and beat him up to relieve his anger.Haoxuan held back and took several deep breaths, only to feel that the newly installed heart has finished the work that it hadn't done in the previous 15 years in one day, which is really unreasonable!

Zhao Xu was stunned for a moment, but did not realize: "Who is Tu Nan?"

There were very few people who knew Tu Nan's real name, and they only called Tu Nan as 'Master Mountain God'. Zhao Xu was so young that he didn't even realize who Yan Jinping was referring to.

"...Mountain God." Shen Lianxing was somewhat calmer than Yan Jinping, and patted the back of his hand lightly, "He asked you to hold a 'living sacrifice'?"

He has lived for so long, and he has never heard of such an outrageous thing, and his expression was very ugly for a while.

Zhao Xu didn't know what was going on with these two people, hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice, "No, I don't know, the elders asked, and we just listen to their arrangements..."

Shen Lianxing answered succinctly: "Okay, thank you."

"Have you finished asking?" Zhao Xu took off the lock, gently pushed the door open a little, and looked at the sky with his head, "I've already told you everything I can tell you, you have to get out of the city quickly, otherwise they will finish discussing things in a while. I found out that I didn't go to the Hall of Worship..."

Zhao Xu didn't want to know what the consequences would be.

Shen Lianxing shook his head: "I have to ask you to wait a little longer."

Zhao Xu was about to leave the house. Hearing this, he stopped and turned around and said, "Is there anything else?"

Shen Lianxing: "Indeed, there is one more thing to trouble you."

"Trouble." Yan Jinping said softly, "help us lead the way."

"We still have a few old scores to settle with that...'good fairy' in your city."

The author says:

Yan Jinping: It's so kind to treat it like a donkey's liver and lungs! (physics

Zhao Xu: What kind of god, it's useless, whoever believes in it, anyway, I ran away.

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It's a bit late, [-] words today~

Boss Yan is furious hhhhhh