Chapter 0320 – Sacrifice!
”A corpse with two lives, the village people all said that the woman’s bad luck, found a few legitimate young men ready to dig the well open and take out the body.”
”But then something strange happened, the woman jumped headfirst, and halfway through the digging, someone saw the woman’s face lifting up.”
”A dead man’s face, blistering white, two eyes bulging, staring straight at the people digging the well.”
”Having done something wrong, the few boys at the well were terrified and all dared not continue to dig down.”
”The body can not be put in the well, the village chief and the dead man’s family discussed, pay for someone to dig.”
”But the next day ran to the well and saw that the body, which was originally head up, was now feet up, and it was as if she was trying to burrow into the well.”
”Those who saw it reported it to the village headman, and the old village headman, in order to pacify the people, said that it was because the opening of the well had shaken the veins of water, and that the body had slipped down of its own accord.”
”No one believed this reasoning, and when they went to see it again on the third day, the village people realized that the body in that well had disappeared!”
”There are four wells in the village, east, west, south, north, and south, drilled on top of the same dark river, and now that the body is gone, it might come out of one of the wells.”
”Further on odd things appear one after another, the woman jumped from the well on the west side of the village, and many people ran to the well on the east side of the village to get water in order to avoid her.”
”The water from this well looked fine when it was first drawn, but after cooking, one would find the woman’s long hair in the rice.”
”After about another week, the man who lived near the well heard a rattling sound coming from the well at night and felt something crawling up the wall.”
”He leaned under the window and looked just in time to see a red shadow coming out of the well!”
”By the next day, everyone realized that the woman’s husband had actually died in his bedroom.”
”Her husband himself was deformed, with problems with his face and arms, and died with his head shoved into a bucket of water; the cause of death seemed to be drowning.”
”The village was in a state of panic, and the old village headman gathered everyone together and tried to go outside the mountain to ask a half-immortal to take a look, but before the half-immortal could come, the village’s livestock began to die in large numbers.”
”Some people got scared and fled the village with their families.”
”But the horrible thing is that after a day and a night, those who fled were all thrown in the valley at the entrance of the village, with different deaths.”
”It seemed that anyone who drank the water from the well would be caught and killed even if they ran far away.”
”Everyone in the village was so self-conscious that they couldn’t be bothered to build coffins, they just buried the dead on the spot.”
”Running out of the village will surely lead to death, and staying behind will not find a way to live, the village people have thought of all sorts of ways to solve that female ghost.”
”Her grievances are too heavy and her killing nature is too strong, every night one or two people die in their homes.”
”More and more people are dying, we are more superstitious here, if you don’t put it in a coffin after you die and become a ghost, you are also a homeless and wild ghost. No one knows who will die next, maybe it will fall on their heads, so families started to build coffins for themselves, and that’s the reason why coffins are put in the homes of the living.”
”After a month or so, the female ghost finally stopped, and by this time there was hardly a physically normal man to be seen in the village.”
”She killed everyone in the village who was not physically deformed, as well as those who did evil.”
”That’s when someone guessed what she was thinking, the village was afraid that inbreeding would affect their offspring, so they went to abduct women from outside the mountains. And this female ghost kept killing normal people and trapping a group of disabled monsters in the village, most likely wanting to make the people in the village, for generations to come, only appear in the image of monsters!”
The more the skinny man spoke, the more excited he became, he waved his arms of different lengths: “The bloodline of the ancestors has been contaminated, only monsters are left in the village, those with normal bodies will be killed, and only the deformities will be able to make that woman happy, and will be able to escape with their lives in her hands.”
The man’s story was a bit heavy, Chen Ge did not comment, the first one to speak up was Lao Wei: “Identity aside, what I loathe the most is human traffickers.”
”This is something that happened many years ago, the people who had done something wrong were killed long ago and were duly punished, now it is the innocent who are implicated.” The man raised his own arm, “No one wants to be a monster, I saw myself reflected on the water and wanted to die countless times, but I wasn’t willing!”
He clenched his fists and looked funny, but those around him couldn’t laugh.
”If it was a year ago, I wouldn’t have, nor would I have dared to entertain the thought of resisting at all, but it’s different now.” An unspeakable expression appeared on his deeply despairing face, “I have a child of my own, a little boy with no physical defects.”
”You have a child of your own?”
”Yes, it’s a miracle that two monsters had their own child.” The man gasped, “I can’t leave him here, he’ll be targeted by that woman, even if that woman doesn’t find out about my child, the other monsters in the village will sacrifice my child to her to save their lives.”
Chen Ge heard a hint of something wrong in the man’s words, “The other villagers, they will sacrifice your child?”
”The people in this village have gone crazy, no, they can’t even be called people now.” The man’s nails scratched into his flesh, “Many years ago, when the female ghost blood-washed the village, the only family spared was the one that had an only daughter, surnamed Zhu.”
”The woman’s first escape was assisted by this woman surnamed Zhu, and after the woman was captured, the woman surnamed Zhu was also hanged at the head of the village for a severe beating.”
”Later, when the woman was being bullied, only this woman surnamed Zhu stood up to help her, and it was probably for this reason that the female ghost spared the Zhu family.”
”The village was getting smaller and smaller, and the remaining villagers had to elect the woman surnamed Zhu as the new village chief in order to survive, so that she could communicate with the female ghost.”
”The villagers thought that the woman surnamed Zhu would speak for them and plead for mercy, but the truth was completely different from what they thought, the woman surnamed Zhu took the side of the stern ghost, and she became a tool for the stern ghost to manage the village.”
”In order to better enjoy the process of torture, the stern ghost demanded that whenever we found a newborn baby with a normal body, we had to send it to the woman surnamed Zhu, and if anyone deliberately hid it, they would kill all those who did not know and did not report it!”
”No one knows exactly what happened to the child after it arrived at the woman surnamed Zhu, we only know that the child never came out after being carried into the pitch-black house by the woman surnamed Zhu.”
Eyes overflowing with fear and uneasiness, the man’s deformed hands gripped together, “This rule has continued until today, and my child’s situation has been made known to them, so I can only cooperate with you outsiders to hurry up and send my child out!”