Chapter 73: The Secret of the Holy Village (5)

“What happened to your eldest son?” I couldn’t imagine the way the existence returned, so I could only ask him softly.

Because Lin Jianguo was in such pain at the moment, I didn’t even dare to ask the question too loudly, and I even hoped he wouldn’t hear it.

But in the quiet cabin, Lin Jianguo heard my question after all. He wiped his eyes with an unintentional movement and said with a little redness in his eyes, “In fact, I don’t know what happened. I just remember that after that night, my eldest son became a stranger the next day. When my wife woke him up that morning, she found him sitting on the bed, looking at her with a condescending, even smoky, emotion. Do you know how terrifying that look was? He was only six years old at the time, but that glance scared my wife so much that she almost fell to the ground in the room. She screamed and called my name, saying that something had happened to our son.

I was silent. I couldn’t imagine the pain of Lin Jianguo. Overnight, the child who was clearly his own flesh and blood and who depended on his parents had suddenly become a stranger.

“The rest is complicated, and it’s pointless to go into detail. In short, he soon proved to the village that he was the god of fifteen years ago. This proof was simple. Whether it was calling the wind and rain or a bolt of lightning, it was not something that a child could do. My son, who had not been very noticeable before, could not do it. He left our family. He said that the ‘remnants’ hidden in this body made him sick. It was the kind of affection for his parents that he actually wanted to kill us… me, my wife, his younger brother and sister, because of the emotional entanglements of our lowly existence, he thought it was an insult to him. But my son…” Lin Jianguo covered his face, and such a big man began to cry softly, unable to continue.

I sat quietly, allowing him to cry weakly, because I knew in my heart better than he did what was going on. For example, a spirit body that wants to possess a person is not reckless, because everyone’s life is unique, and even if they are similar, they can’t be exactly the same… If a spirit body without great power easily possesses a body, it is a matter of mutual harm.

Even if the spirit with great power does this, or even takes the more extreme approach of ‘taking over the body’, there will be more serious consequences, such as damage to the soul, which cannot be recovered in a short time, unless evil magic is used.

Purple is naturally related to the existence of Kunlun. Naturally, it would not be very compatible to take over the body of someone in our world in this way, leaving behind the original soul traces of the previous body. That is inevitable, and there are even more consequences that I can’t imagine…

In short, it can be said that in this situation, a small part of Lin Jianguo’s son is still left, which is indeed very cruel.

There was another moment of silence, and it took Lin Jianguo a long time to calm down his suppressed sobs, allowing tears to remain on his face as he said to me, “He is a god, and he is also my son. But my poor son could never defeat the so-called great god, so the godly side of my son has always been very strong. Occasionally, he would come back to quietly watch my wife and me. When he was little, he would cry and say he missed us. When he grew up, he would come for a meal and say he would protect us… My son… he has always been there. He is so pitiful… I…”

Lin Jianguo couldn’t continue, but his few words revealed the family’s pain and the helplessness of a father who could do nothing to help his child.

It was basically the same as my judgment, and even more ‘big’ than I thought. That is, Lin Jianguo’s son’s soul may have always existed, and that body is a double soul! And Lin Jianguo’s family was able to survive and even have a special status in the village, all of which depended on the existence of his son’s soul.

This means that the omnipotent god actually has a weakness, and that weakness should be in Lin Jianguo’s son’s soul. Otherwise, how could the soul of an ordinary person “coerce” the Kunlun disaster?

This point… should be… the key! Because I was so excited, my fingers were trembling slightly, but was this too cruel for Lin Jianguo? The breakthrough point in the problem was his poor son’s soul!

But… there is no “but” in this matter, because the outcome is predetermined. Either the thick black fog is broken, or people are completely swallowed up by the black fog. Whether it is the people in the holy village, the people in the town, or our group… and my master and his group.

“Hoo.” Lin Jianguo let out a long breath, as if to adjust his breathing, which had been disrupted by his sobbing. He continued, “Later, my son turned ten, and we had no choice but to continue living this way. He would treat his family with great affection, but when he was the god, our family also suffered a lot, including my other children… You can’t imagine those days. We hated him, but we also loved him. Every time he came back, the look of guilt and the feeling of missing him were like a knife cutting into our hearts. Sometimes, I thought that death would be a relief, but God would never let us die. I don’t know why… I thought that we would continue to live in this hellish existence forever, because if God could give the people in the village long lives, then it must be immortal… until one day…”

“One day? You mean the day you left the village?” I asked, raising my eyebrows.

“Yes, that day, my son came back. He said to us inexplicably that it was about time for him to go to another place, and before that, God had a big job to do. When that happened, a group of people would come to our village, and if that group of people came, he couldn’t protect us. He told me to leave first, find a place to settle down, and then bring my family over, never to return.”

“So you went to that town?”

“Yes, the town was not very attractive, but I was worried about my family and didn’t want to leave too far away. In fact, it was not easy to leave the village, because after the appearance of the god, everyone in the village had been “cursed” and could not leave easily. Even if they left temporarily for other reasons, such as human trafficking, they had to return within a certain period of time. Therefore, I guessed that I could leave, and my son must have paid a price. This price was that the days when he occasionally came back to see us were gone… I never saw him before I left.

“Your son is very mature.” I commented, “Different environments naturally create different people, not to mention this special situation? I just guessed that Lin Jianguo’s family must have been very happy before, which would have made a six-year-old child have such a deep attachment to his parents… Unfortunately, this happiness disappeared too quickly, and I could see that Lin Jianguo had spent almost his entire life remembering this happiness.

“He was very mature and sensible. I think he suffered more than we did, but there was nothing we could do to help. As you know from the story, I went to that town, but I didn’t escape the so-called pursuit. Even though my son gave me something to protect me, I couldn’t escape this fate… After all, my son’s opponent was the god.” Lin Jianguo said bitterly.

“What is the thing that gives you shelter? Is it the thing you gave Liu Weijun?” I asked.

“Yes, that strange skull is the thing that protects me. My son didn’t explain things too clearly. He just told me that using the power sealed inside it comes at a price… and that when it’s not in use, it has to be fed with blood or something.” Lin Jianguo didn’t seem to care much about the thing that protected him, and just made a few simple comments.

My thoughts were complicated, but I didn’t know what to ask for a while. After all, Lin Jianguo also explained that his son didn’t explain too much about this thing to him… he probably knew very little.

I have a hunch that this thing may still be hiding a secret, but what that secret is, I’m afraid I’ll only know when I get to the real Ghost Beach, right?

Thinking about this, I remembered two questions and couldn’t help but ask, “So, what were the two bodies that appeared in the town? Also, why did the people in the town worship skeletons?”

Lin Jianguo smiled bitterly and said, “You haven’t experienced a real sacrifice, so you have to ask these questions. The two bodies were actually people who had been sacrificed. Do you understand? That is to say, they have gone through trials and tribulations and are truly beings from Gui Ta Wan… I actually don’t know much and can’t explain it to you! As long as you understand that as long as they have passed the sacrifice, they can still keep their bodies, then they are the chosen ones. Their bodies are placed in the inner village, and occasionally they will also move… Isn’t this a kind of immortality? As for why the skeletons are worshipped, wait until you see the boat, and you will understand. At that time, I will give you an answer.

“Hmm.” I was confused by Lin Jianguo’s words, but I could only agree for now.

“Then, you know, I destroyed the first so-called Chosen One that came to track me down, using the ‘protection’ my son gave me. At that time, I was actually very nervous, but after destroying it, I felt that everything was fine. I didn’t expect… In fact, I didn’t destroy it at all… because there was a trace of the soul hidden inside, you know? To put it simply, the first tracker had already set his sights on this town and had done something to it, and the second tracker had detonated all the problems. According to you, it should have possessed Wei Donglai’s body.” Lin Jianguo said to me seriously.

He is not a Taoist, and he probably only knows this much, but I know the whole story.

The only remaining question is…

Before I could say anything, Wei Donglai said, “I had to return to the village again. The spirit of the second tracker had already run away. I knew that the town was finished and that a tragedy like the one in our village would happen. I was ashamed of the town, after all, I was the one who had caused everything. But what I didn’t expect was that when I returned to the village, everything had changed completely.”