Chapter 40: Solving a Piece of the Puzzle

It was night again in the blink of an eye.

It was already the second night in this town. The past two days and nights had been so exciting that I felt the length of time for the first time. It was only a few dozen hours, but I felt like I had spent months here filled with depression and despair.

When will warmth and light return?

Thinking about this, I stretched a little, feeling a bit tired. In this room with two beds, Yue and Chengxin were already sound asleep, one on each side. They had been busy all day, trying to do as much as they could for these poor people.

I always thought I wasn’t cut out for ‘chores and household chores’. Except for when I was forced to ‘take care’ of my master when I was young, I almost never touched these things again, but I didn’t expect to have such a pleasant day.

These “old people” are so pitiful. Due to their weak bodies, they are unable to do many things. Not only do they not do certain things carefully, many people cannot imagine that their living environment is so bad, and some of it is even dirty. It is inevitable that they will feel sad for them when they see it.

Uncle Wei Jun told me everything, and I told Cheng Xin and Ru Yue in between tasks. Cheng Xin originally insisted on treating Uncle Wei Jun, but was taken out by Mr. Liu. Uncle Wei Jun said that he was not sick, but was caused by some kind of power. He calculated that if he could be cured, he would harm others.

After a long time, he was wiping a table when he whispered to me, “It’s too much like the art of turning injuries, but I can’t imagine what kind of existence could use the art of turning injuries so recklessly, and this way…”

Chengxin brother was silent. His shocked mood was as shocked as I knew that there was a large-scale borrowing of life here, but there was no solution, because with our abilities, we could not imagine that such a forbidden technique could be used in this way.

After thinking about it, I could think of what kind of enemy we were facing and how severe the unknown was, so I simply didn’t want to think about it. It was better to advance towards my goal in a state of “numbness.”

Under the dim oil lamp, I put away my thoughts and sat down at the table. At this time, I was the most sober and finally had time to read the letter carefully left by Liu Er. Cheng Xin Ge and Ru Yue also solemnly told me before going to bed that I must tell the contents of the letter early tomorrow morning.

The letter was not very long, just two pages, but I read it very slowly. At first, I read the letter with a relaxed expression, but then my brows slowly furrowed. In the end, the content of the letter was so heavy that I had to light a cigarette to calm my emotions.

I finished reading it in half an hour, and then I stared blankly for ten minutes. I picked up the letter again and read it for the second time, not believing what I was reading. I read it several more times.

When I finally put down the letter and had to confirm a certain fact, three hours had passed and I had unknowingly reached 1 a.m.

Strictly speaking, Liu Er’s letter did not solve the mystery of the whole thing, but it contained several important clues.

First, the mysterious Lin Jianguo is the person from the so-called Holy Village. He disappeared for ten days and went to the Holy Village with Lin Jianguo. He did not say in the letter whether he had arrived at the Holy Village, how the letter was sent in the form of a soul, or under what circumstances the letter was written. However, he said with absolute certainty that the Holy Village definitely exists and that many people live there, leading lives that we cannot imagine.

Second, the so-called “poison” is actually the power of the “god” from the holy village. It is so powerful that it can make people live, grow old, get sick and die. This is a taboo of the heavenly way, but the existence of this holy village goes against the heavenly way. Liu Erye emphasized in the letter that one must not doubt the power of the “god” to do such things. He also said sadly that this terrible power can spread through bloodlines, meaning that a person’s relatives can be traced back five generations. As long as there is the same bloodline within five generations, it will be spread by this power. The most important goal for him and Lin Jianguo was to stop the spread, but they could not protect the town. The town needed Liu Weijun to do the final protection.

Third, he told Liu Weijun that everyone in the town had been infected with this “poison” in a way that he didn’t know, and that they couldn’t escape it just because they were thousands of miles away. Because of him and Lin Jianguo, they could temporarily prevent the poison from spreading through the blood, but they couldn’t prevent the next generation of newborn children from being infected with the “poison.” poison’, unless the child’s parents give up believing in this ‘god’ and then leave the town, it will be possible to stop its spread. However, at the same time, even if the child’s parents escape to the ends of the earth, they will still have a sad fate, but exactly what kind of tragic fate, Master Liu did not explain in detail.

Fourth, he told Liu Weijun how to protect the town. In his letter, he said that the power of the gods was actually limited, and not as powerful as people thought. If possible, a group of people could concentrate on bearing the “poison,” that is, those who were ready to abandon their beliefs and flee could leave one of them behind to bear the “poison” of the family, ensuring the growth of the child and also ensuring that leaving their loved ones would not lead to a tragic fate. In the letter, he told Liu Weijun that in the shack where Lin Jianguo had once lived, there was a statue of a god with “divine power” buried under the large bed. Liu Weijun could pray to it in a special way and obtain the ability to transfer, but at the same time, Liu Weijun had to pay a price. Every time he did something that went against the will of God, Liu Weijun would suffer a kind of torture.

This is all the content of the letter from Master Liu. After reading this letter, the mystery of this town can basically be solved, but it is also too horrible.

To put it plainly, I can understand that the people in this town have unwittingly fallen under the spell of a certain kind of magic. It can be understood as a combination of curse magic and forbidden magic, the “deprivation transfer magic.” In this town, if there are people who are unwilling to give up their loved ones and conscience, they must choose to leave, otherwise this scourge will spread to the next generation.

But those who leave are under the watchful eye of an invisible pair of eyes, so if they mention anything about the town, they will die a miserable death.

Then, those who are completely selfish and want to live a long life without illness or pain must sacrifice their next generation or sacrifice something else and send it to the holy village in exchange for their own gain.

Finally, the most miserable group of people, in order to ensure that their departed loved ones can live in peace, choose to bear the burden of the spell on their loved ones… I saw the old man Liu and this group of people. They stayed in this town to protect it!

This is the situation in this town in a nutshell.

After the initial temptation of madness, human nature is finally separated into several levels. There are the great ones, who are willing to sacrifice everything for their loved ones, and the ones who have a conscience and will not sacrifice their loved ones for their own desires. But there are also the corrupt ones, who only have selfishness in their eyes.

I was afraid that Mr. Liu and the others would become cold-hearted, but it turned out that they had already experienced this separation of human nature and could not become cold-hearted in order to protect it.

Because they seemed to be the lowest class of people in the town, but they were the ones who stood at the highest level of humanity in the entire town. Because of this shining soul, they not only protected their loved ones, but also stopped the sacrifices again and again. This is the light, the light that has not dissipated in this town where even the sun has become blurred.

After folding the letter gently, my heart was not at peace for a long time. Some people see some darkness and completely deny everything, while others see some light and hold on to hope and believe in the good.

How to live and what attitude to have depends only on one’s own heart. Life is not about enjoying it to escape death, but about tempering it to achieve sublimation. Unfortunately, too few people understand this.

I put out my thoughts and lit another cigarette. Temptation strips away human nature. This is a manifestation, and as a professional, I must see the essence. In fact, such things are too incredible to talk about, but from the perspective of the art, it is not completely impossible.

For example, the bloodline of five generations will be implicated because of a person’s involvement in the art. This kind of art is the combination of the top-level art of the fate and the mountain veins. Why is it the bloodline of five generations? It is because people of the same bloodline must have similarities in their fate. This can also be explained by genetics. It is like similar appearances and the advantages and disadvantages of personality.

If you use the art of divination to deduce the similarities in the lives of five generations of people, then you can use the top curse of the mountain vein to curse these people along this line, or deprive these people of something.

Originally, Taoism originated from witchcraft, and the most advanced Taoist techniques are often large-scale witchcraft.

Taoist practitioners do not easily tell others about their fate, for fear that someone will borrow their fate, transfer misfortune, borrow luck, borrow blessings, etc.

It is theoretically possible, but it is too incredible to imagine. The combination of the five branches of metaphysics is already too rebellious against the heavens, not to mention the extremely profound Life Branch and the most difficult to practice Mountain Branch? Furthermore, such a compound spell is already rebellious against the heavens when used on one person, let alone the entire town?

I don’t think even my master could do this!

The bigger mystery is, what is Lin Jian Guo’s reason for stopping? Is he a being more powerful than us?

And if Xiao Chengqian’s eldest cousin would become like this, then… My hand suddenly trembled, meaning that under such a situation, it was understandable that he would become like this.

I began to worry for my master and the others. Were they all involved in this vortex? If so, why? And what now?