Chapter 37: The beginning of bloodshed

What important secret? I instinctively knew that this was the key to the matter, so I held my breath and was even more afraid to interrupt Uncle Wei Jun’s story.

“My resurrection is because the true God has come and pulled me out of hell! It was only after experiencing this that I knew what the true God was, and I also knew that our belief in it was from the heart, so we had to sacrifice to it! The true God will not accept sacrifices in vain, and it will give you unexpected rewards. Although you don’t believe it now, I welcome you to prove whether I am Wei Donglai first.”

That night, Wei Donglai did not beat around the bush at all, and directly said some shocking words, bringing out his purpose.

He wanted people to believe in an unknown god and then promised benefits that were inexplicable and not clearly explained.

“What’s next? Do people believe it?” I couldn’t wait to ask, and as Uncle Wei continued to tell the story, I seemed to see a mysterious and unknown existence, and the conspiracy against the town officially began… and the people in the town were caught in it, and the net had already begun to close.

“What do you think? Such a ridiculous thing, and on the premise that everyone believes in science, who would believe it from the start?” Uncle Wei Jun asked me, but then he was lost in thought for a few seconds and said, “But… everyone’s hearts are shaken because, you know, a dead person is standing in front of people alive. What could be more shocking than that?”

People are suspicious, but often because of some kind of ‘bad nature’ in the soul, once many people believe in something, they will become the most loyal ‘fans’ of that thing. Even if in the end there are many doubts about the matter and it is about to be proven to be a lie, these people will still consciously defend it because once many people have given something their heart, they are unwilling to admit that they have ‘lost’ and do not have the courage to face their own mistakes.

This is the situation in the town.

Liu Weijun will never forget that night. People were scrambling to ask Wei Donglai questions, and the questions were extremely sharp. It felt like they were trying hard to prove that the person in front of them was not Wei Donglai, but they were also afraid that they would prove that the person in front of them was not Wei Donglai.

But Wei Donglai’s performance was ‘perfect,’ with no flaws at all. Liu Weijun also believed in this truth. Even if there were two people in the world who looked exactly the same, it would be impossible for them to have two identical memories. If that were the case, there would only be one possibility: there could not be two people, only that person himself.

That night, standing on the roof with a high spirit was Wei Donglai himself.

The people who confirmed all this were silent, and the crowd of onlookers was growing. The town was not a big one to begin with, but as the news spread, almost everyone in the town appeared, including people from the timber distribution office and the town government… So much so that later, Wei Donglai had to use a loudspeaker to answer all of them.

“There must have been tens of thousands of people, all packed together! The news spread at an incredible speed. Do you know? I’m afraid that kind of scene can’t be replicated even if a major incident occurs in many places.” Uncle Wei Jun recalled the scene that night.

My heart was trembling. There were tens of thousands of people? But if I look at the town now, there are at most a thousand or two people. Where are the people? It’s impossible that they all left the town. Since the conspiracy has already begun, it’s not that easy to leave the town. I seem to see a huge vortex devouring innocent lives.

“I can imagine. That day, almost everyone in the town was there, right? All of them were told about the so-called god by Wei Donglai, weren’t they?” Although my heart was trembling, I still wanted to continue listening.

“Yes, that’s it! Wei Donglai told everyone in the town that the greatest gift of God is life, and that living is the foundation of everything! If you want to come back from the dead like him, you must believe in the God he talks about! The more you believe, the more you get, and what you get is life, more and more life, until you are immortal!” Uncle Wei Jun said these words calmly.

But I felt a tingling sensation in my scalp. Life? Time? That is a temptation that no one can resist. If a person has endless time, then… I can imagine the terrible scene. Because of the endlessness of time, the inheritance has no meaning, and many people will even think that their children have no meaning. What is greater than living? Yes, this idea is ugly. Many people will tremble when they face their own words and find that they really think like this.

The greatest temptation is to bring out the ugliness of human nature, and then there is the crazy belief! How many children in this town have been sent to the so-called holy village?

I couldn’t help but ask myself, what kind of willpower is needed to resist such temptation? How sincere and profound must one’s emotions be to remain rational and not fall into madness?

“Is it because of the crazy sacrifice they had last night?” Uncle Wei Jun asked me.

I nodded blankly.

“Last night, it wasn’t that crazy, was it? In fact, where did it stop at just children? There are many people in this town… many people who have suffered the same fate! Do you know what it’s like to be helpless? To be sacrificed by your own crazy relatives, friends, and lovers to the so-called gods and sent to an unknown horror? You can’t think about this feeling, because once you think about it, you will feel an unusual despair for this world! However, Rome was not built in a day, and it is not easy to make people believe so crazily. Wei Donglai is not as persuasive as this.” Uncle Wei Jun sighed and said.

The ten days after Wei Donglai’s appearance were ten days of madness.

Magical and terrifying things happened again and again in this small town. For example, an old man who believed in Wei Donglai’s teachings suddenly became mentally healthy and his illness disappeared, while a person who was skeptical about Wei Donglai suddenly became weak and even ill… Such things were not coincidental or accidental, but rather endless, making people go from initial amazement to numbness, and the so-called faith was once again consolidated in people’s hearts.

Wei Donglai has almost become the true master of the town. The so-called town government has also begun to serve him, holding town-wide meetings, and according to Wei Donglai’s requirements, strictly ordering that everything that happens in the town must be kept secret and not spread outside.

In fact, at that time, communication was not as developed as it is now. If something was spread through the network, it would have an “explosive” effect. Even a phone call could cause uncontrollable consequences!

The town was already isolated geographically, and the most common form of communication was writing letters. But who controlled the post office?

The rest is that the person has to go out of town to publicize the matter. However, if people are willing to share, the world would not have so many disputes. The people in this town instinctively and for no reason want to keep the secret. Who would want to spread it?

So, from the very beginning, the matter was strictly controlled within the town!

But it is like fruit that has been put in a bottle, which will ferment and become wine one day… Things that are kept secret will inevitably change in nature! So, people instinctively want to keep secrets, but only at first…

Because Wei Donglai’s demands were getting more and more absurd!

For example, people were beginning to prepare for a large-scale sacrifice, and the things being sacrificed were becoming more and more strange. From the beginning, the poultry that had been stripped and smashed became large livestock… and one day, they even became human! Moreover, the first ones to be sacrificed and sent on that strange ship were none other than Wei Donglai’s children!

Liu Weijun was also somewhat crazy at first by this temptation. Those ten extra days were very long. He kept struggling with himself. On the one hand, there were Lin Shu’s heavy eyes, his father’s sad face, and their exhortations, and on the other hand, there was the temptation of life!

It wasn’t until the ninth day that the initial frenzy of sacrifice finally brought Liu Weijun to his senses!

He realized that the town was crazy, that the people in the town were crazy, and that he almost went crazy too!

It was a bloody night…