The mountain ghost blows out the lights

Leaning on a crutch, the old man took two steps forward, slammed the cane on the ground, and repeated in a hurry: "How dare you disrespect the gods? Get down on your knees and apologize to the mountain god!"

"But..." Zhao Xu took a half step back and muttered, "But the mountain god is really dead, I saw it with my own eyes..."

"You saw it with your own eyes?" the old man said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about, did the two people next to you tell you? Do you know who he is?"

His withered fingers pointed tremblingly at Yan Jinping, his old face was wrinkled like dried orange peel, but there was still a bit of malice and fear mixed on it.

Yan Jinping patted Zhao Xu on the shoulder, pulled the child behind him, pulled the corner of his mouth, and answered with a half-smile, "Oh? You know who I am so clearly, why don't you tell them?"

"You——" he looked around in the Hall of Worship, and raised his voice, "how many people have seen me, why don't you tell me, who am I...?"

There are not many people in Tunan City, and a worship hall can kneel down. There are men, women, old and young, but there are only a few children. They ask their family members to hold hands and look at these guys who suddenly broke in with curiosity.

They're not old enough to understand the situation, they don't know anything.

Most of the people are still kneeling, some seem to have not reacted yet, and the other part simply don't care what happened, just chanting silently to the Buddha statue, it seems that they are praying for the gods to show their spirits, so that they can be punished Those who are disrespectful to the gods.

Some of them had never seen the mountain god back then, and some of them were too young when the incident happened, so they only had a vague impression of Yan Jinping.

In addition, there were a few scattered people who recognized Yan Jinping's face, looking at him with guarded and panicked eyes.They subconsciously moved toward the middle——towards the great elder who stood up.

This is a subconscious reaction, which shows that they trust him very much.

The Great Elder gave a heavy 'hum', and said firmly: "You are a man-eating monster!"

He waved his hand greatly, and said loudly: "Everyone, watch out, this is the man-eating monster that the Lord Mountain God helped us deal with in the legend! He is dangerous, cruel and cunning, no matter what he says, it is confusing. People's lies must not be trusted!"

Yan Jinping raised his eyebrows and said with emotion: "I didn't expect that I have already become a legendary figure."

The people of Tunan obviously trusted the Great Elder very much. After hearing what he said, some people had already started to be vigilant and put on a defensive posture.

"And you, kid!" The old man paused on his crutches twice, probably realizing that coercion is useless, so he put on a kind face and said to Zhao Xu, "I'm afraid you were deceived by a monster. I watched you grow up. It's our family, how could the family harm you? Come, come to the elders..."

Zhao Xu quickly grasped the point: "So you really know each other?"

He paused for a while, ignoring the outstretched hand of the Great Elder, and said again: "The head on the ground really belongs to the... mountain god you mentioned?"

The great elder was stunned for a moment, and his outstretched hand hung in the air without embarrassment.He subconsciously glanced down at Tunan's head, and then he reacted, and said firmly: "This must be the cover-up of that monster. The mountain god has great powers, how could he harm him?"

Zhao Xu knew that with their reverence for the mountain god, the great elder would never lie about the mountain god's appearance.Since the Great Elder didn't deny that this person's appearance belonged to the mountain god, then it's about the same—that's the thing.

It's obviously not Yan Jinping and Shen Lianxing who are talking nonsense. Who is eating people and who is saving people in this city?

Zhao Xu has eyes, so he can see by himself.

He just can't understand it.

In his view, the matter was already very obvious. Since the elders knew Tunan, they must also know what kind of person Tunan was.Tunan cannibalism is something he saw with his own eyes. Now that the evidence is here, why can't they believe it?

Could it be that the fellow clansmen who get along day and night are really inferior to a illusory 'fairy' who has never shown his face or done anything?

Zhao Xu was too young and rebellious. He was originally a person who was incompatible with the entire Tunan city, and of course he couldn't understand the blind and unbreakable cohesion born from among the Tunan people.

It never occurred to me that there must be a very profound reason why the Great Elder insisted on denying this matter.

"Come on, child." The Great Elder said again, "As long as you sincerely repent and have firm faith, God will not blame you. It is still too late for you to turn around now."

Zhao Xu was not stupid, he just felt that such an elder was strange and scary, he frowned and grabbed the corner of Yan Jinping's clothes, shaking his head.

Yan Jinping was not surprised by this scene.

When Tunan told him that he had never been to Tunan City, he almost guessed the development of the matter.

The current situation in Tunan City can't be entirely blamed on Tunan.

"What are you talking about?" He sneered, "You starved your 'mountain god' to steal incense from the shrine. Is this what you call 'firm faith'?"

Tunan had already lacked faith to the point where he could almost be called weak and weak. Facing Yan Jinping, he didn't even have the ability to resist.

As long as this group of people has one-tenth of their piety, they will not be able to toss a mountain god like that alive.

"I remember you." Yan Jinping took another two steps forward. Wherever he passed, the kneeling people parted like a tidal wave, leaving him a path to the Great Elder. Take the head."

When the old man was still young, he was quite respected in the city. He was discussed with him on all important matters in the city, and he led people to follow Tu Nan to overthrow Yan Jinping. Naturally, he was also the leader.

The Great Elder was afraid of him, trembling and sternly said: "You, what are you going to do?"

He was worried that if Yan Jinping recognized him, he would come to seek revenge on him.However, Yan Jinping did not continue to move forward, but just stood there, and said to the old man not far or near: "There is no need to be so vigilant, I came today, and I didn't want to do anything to you. I will leave after I finish talking. How to do it is up to you to decide.”

The old man retreated together with the elders surrounded by him. He seemed to be so nervous that he was about to lose his breath. Just now, he was able to forcefully reprimand Yan Jinping and Zhao Xu. Ask: "...what do you want to say?"

"I met Tunan at the gate of the city." Yan Jinping said succinctly, "He told me that he never participated in what happened in Tunan City."

"There was no need for him to lie to me in the situation between the two of us."

Several 'Great Elders' flinched subconsciously when they heard this.

"Then let me ask you—how many of you." Yan Jinping said softly, "If Tunan has never had any communication with Tunan City, then who is controlling Tunan City in the past ten years?"

"Is it belief or...fear that drives you to do—this kind of thing?"

This is actually not difficult to guess.

The population is withered and there is no production. When manpower can no longer solve the difficulties in the city, no matter whether it is voluntary or driven, the people in Tunan City have almost bet all their hopes on Tunan.

The more Tunan ignored them, the more fanatical they became, and they attributed all their unexpected achievements to their "mountain god" and all their mistakes and failures to their lack of firm belief.

Especially this group of so-called 'big elders', they knew the truth of what happened back then, in order to cover up the fact that was about to come out, they even compiled a whole new set of rules to strictly restrain everyone in the city, so that people could not Empty...don't even have the guts to doubt.

But people can make up perfect lies and find 1 reasons, but they can't deceive their hearts no matter what.

—their new gods are useless, they have been deceived, they have made a terrible mistake, they have made trouble.

— they would never admit it.

As for why the 'others' who didn't personally participate back then never asked questions...

Atmosphere is a very subtle thing, invisible and intangible, but it can affect the behavior of an entire city.

At the beginning, not all people may have had no doubts about this matter, but when they saw that others were acting in the same way, they did not dare to stand up and point out what was wrong.

Tunan City is remote and closed. There are only so many people in the city, and every household is very closely related.

Living in a place where if you don't have enough courage to stand up and argue, you can only drift with the flow, and when you get too deep, no one can get out.

What unites people more than belief is shared fear.

All are complicit.

There was no sound in the worship hall.

The Great Elder felt that he should say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.He hardly dared to turn his head to look at other people's faces, and he missed the best opportunity to refute just by hesitating like this.

Because no matter how much he denied it, he knew that Yan Jinping was not wrong.

How well the mountain god is doing, you don't even need to see the god himself, just look at what Tunan City has become now, and you can already see it at a glance.

This place is dilapidated, decayed, and poor, and it is almost a land abandoned by gods.

Years of disappointment and despair have almost crushed the Tunan people. They are unwilling to give up their beliefs, because it means admitting to themselves what a wrong decision they made and what a serious crime they committed 15 years ago.

The older generation...the people who participated in the 'god-making' personally, in order to cover up their mistakes, led people to worship Tunan almost fanatically, and did not allow any voices of doubt.

But they will grow old after all.

They are too old and tired, and the others... are actually just reluctantly obeying the authority. As soon as such authority is broken, the castles in the air that have been built over the years will immediately collapse.

Yan Jinping didn't expect that he could change anything with just one or two words, or make all the people in Tunan immediately repent.He came here just to inform. As for whether the Tunan people believe it and what happens after they believe it, that is their own business.

Just like a seed buried deep in the soil, to grow into a towering tree, it just needs a sudden spring rain.

"I'm done." Yan Jinping turned around and said to Shen Lianxing, "Let's go."

He has done his best, they will believe it or not.

Shen Lianxing watched the whole process quietly at the side, and finally smiled at this moment: "Well, let's go."

The two of them turned around and left. Zhao Xu looked around, carrying his small package on his back, and finally took a deep look at the ashen-faced 'big elders', and trotted behind Yan Jinping and Shen Lianxing.

The remaining Tunan people listened to such a conversation in the worship hall behind them. There was a dead silence at first, and then whispers gradually began.The whispers sounded higher and higher, like a swarm of bees, flying hesitantly around a flower they had never seen before.

It seemed that someone behind him was telling him to wait a while, and someone wanted to chase him out and ask some more questions, but Yan Jinping didn't care, as he stepped out of the threshold, he never looked back.

From today onwards, all misplaced things will become the past, the past is a foregone conclusion, and this is the last time they will be brought up again.

The mountains and rivers have not changed, and the old friends are still there.

Since then, it has been extremely peaceful.

The author says:

End of the full text.

I don't know if everyone thinks this ending is a bit rushed?I thought of many kinds of endings, among which there is no lack of Boss Yan’s killing all directions, and the people in Tunan cried bitterly and regretted it at the beginning, but in the end I decided to end like this—Boss Yan is a chic person, and everything must look forward , As for the chicken feathers on the back, don't worry about it.

The focus of this last part is not on Tunan, but on 'man' itself.What would the people of Tunan do without the intervention of the gods?What are the consequences?This is what I really want to write. I don't know if I can express my meaning smoothly.

Thank you all for accompanying "Mountain Ghost" all the way here, the full text is 59w words, I hope it brings you some happiness.There are still a few extra episodes, which will be posted on Weibo one after another and sent to everyone.

It is expected that a new article will be released on 6.1, the western fantasy "Nursery Rhymes of Roses"... I hope to see it again.

Let's start a new journey together w