In the first scene, the witch was extremely ugly, with sunken eyes and she jumped around. I'm afraid that was how the creator of this scene, the master of the spiritual world, portrayed the witch.
Of course, as the creator of this world, its heart has long been twisted by resentment.
So the streets were full of hair, and even Zhu Jin and Zhao Kuan's appearance gradually disappeared and slowly became ugly and terrifying.
The whole world seemed to be in a horror filter: the coffin in the funeral hall, the couple in the red house, the ugly witch who looked like a demon, and the strange owners who seemed like living creatures...
In the second scene, everything becomes extremely normal, as if it is just an ordinary village, as if it has returned to seven hundred years ago, before the greatest tragedy began...
But no matter how hard Bai Wu tried, no matter whether Wujiu Xie Xingzhi and others knew how to eliminate their obsession, it was meaningless...
The sad and desperate history will not change.
"Brother... who is he?" Hong Yin looked at Bai Wu and saw another person suddenly appear next to him.
A person who is somewhat similar to Bai Wu, but has a very different temperament. When this person appears, the surroundings seem to become brighter.
White far.
Bai Wu was extremely surprised. Bai Yuan appeared here. Was he going to attack Hong Yin
"Don't be nervous, little girl. I am his father, but I am not taking you to meet his parents today. Continue telling your story. When you have finished, I have something to tell you."
Bai Yuan's sudden appearance left Bai Wu puzzled.
How could he be here? Isn't he just an obsession
Bai Yuan seemed to see through Bai Wu's thoughts:
"Don't forget, this is in the world of the spirit carrier. It wants to devour you, so I have to come out and pretend to protect you. But let me make it clear that you have provoked a terrible monster, and you may die."
Unlike the nine-tailed fox last time, this time the monster's spiritual power level is higher than Hong Yin's...
Of course, Hong Yin was originally on the same level as it, but... the current Hong Yin no longer has the power of resentment.
Today's Hong Yin's mental power may be stronger than that of an ordinary ninth-level evil being, but it is definitely not comparable to the monster in the lake.
Bai Yuan said:
"Okay, continue with your story. Don't bother with me. If my presence makes it hard for you to tell your story, I'll just disappear for a while."
Bai Yuan really just showed up, showed his face and then disappeared.
Hong Yin felt very strange... There suddenly appeared a very powerful spiritual entity in her brother's mind.
It's just... compared to that monster, it's not strong enough.
Bai Wu really ignored Bai Yuan, treating him as an intermittent presence, just like before.
"When you appeared, you entered this scene directly, right? In the second scene, you made the same mistake as others. Your thoughts about your grandmother fell on another old man in the village. This person should be the witch, right?"
Bai Wu looked at Hong Yin and nodded sadly, then continued to analyze:
"The witch made up a story for you just like everyone else... You are naturally more likely to trust others, and if the evil ghost in the lake is a stone, you can sense the resentment of the stone. The cold and gloomy aura makes you feel that what the witch said is right..."
“I’m sorry…” Hong Yin was indeed feeling very uncomfortable.
When she came to this village, she was immediately pulled into this world by a powerful force.
The people in this village are experiencing a cycle of death. But the so-called cycle is naturally a link that connects the beginning and the end...
Hong Yin appeared in the middle of this circle. She saw Cui Zhengping of the Cui family using paper figures to ward off disasters and evil spirits.
I saw the young hunters in the town die tragically, I saw Feng Haiping from the Feng family was so scared that he prepared a coffin for himself, and I also saw people from the Zhao family and the Zhu family die one after another because of the disaster.
Various mutants invaded, and for more than half a year, the entire village was in a panic.
This is a true memory. If you are not standing from a God's perspective, who can guarantee 100% that when you see the stone, you will not regard it as evil
Hong Yin is very powerful, but in front of people who are kind and close to her, she is very simple.
Out of longing for her grandmother, Hong Yin easily believed the witch, just like she believed in herself at the beginning.
Bai Wu could even imagine that this witch could move Hong Yin so much that she would burst into tears just by combing her hair.
Bai Wu didn't say anything. He now had to know how serious the situation was.
Next, Hong Yin continued to tell the history of the village.
"In this village, there are actually people who believe in the stone. After seeing the stone, Zhu Jin, the daughter of the Zhu family, found that the stone did not hurt her... What happened afterwards was actually similar to what you experienced, brother, but Zhao Kuan... Zhao Kuan did not run to the girl's boudoir without saying a word like you did. And Zhao Kuan did not agree to marry her at that time... How could you agree to marry someone else so easily, brother?"
Bai Wu felt strange about what Hong Yin said.
Of course, he had no thoughts about Miss Zhu, but he felt that in any game, when you encounter an opportunity to increase the favorability of an NPC, you should never hesitate.
Especially when he was in a hurry... He didn't know whether the time in the spiritual world was consistent with the real world.
But now it seems inconsistent. After all, it has been four hours since then, and there is no negative state.
Hong Yin actually mentioned this matter at such a critical moment, which shows that she cares about it very much.
Bai Wu coughed twice. Gaming thinking is killing people...
"But Miss Zhu finally got together with Zhao Kuan. They liked each other and Zhu Jin was very proactive. After the two families experienced a great disaster, only Zhu Jin and Zhao Kuan were left alive. Zhu Jin told Zhao Kuan everything he thought. Zhao Kuan did the same as his brother and checked the layout of the house, but it was useless. The witch said that he was cursed and wanted to lock him up."
What is reflected in the mirror is the fire at the Zhao family...
Now Bai Wu understood why the Zhao family mansion where the two couples got married was so red in the first scene, and it was not just to represent joy.
No one attended the final wedding of Zhao Kuan and Zhu Jin. Afterwards, members of the Zhu family died one after another, and Zhu Jin and Zhao Kuan became the only living people in the two large families in the town.
The witch believed that they were cursed, and no one dared to offer blessings to the couple.
But on the day when the two got married, there was a black monster playing the suona in the corner.
At that time, the newlyweds must have been extremely sad.
Zhao Kuan was extremely sad. If he could convince his family not to believe in the witch, if the witch had not told anyone that he was cursed... everything would have had a different ending.
This is where the tragedy begins.
After Zhu Jin and Zhao Kuan's wedding, they began to prepare for the funeral of their family member. When they contacted Feng Haiping, the owner of the funeral shop, Zhu Jin and Zhao Kuan also told Feng Haiping about this matter.
"As an elder, Feng Haiping has seen a lot of death. He is in charge of funerals in the village. He also feels that these people did not die from a curse, but that the world... is undergoing some kind of change."
"After listening to the story, Feng Haiping felt that since Zhao Kuan and Zhu Jin survived, the curse itself was not credible, and if Zhao Kuan had not been locked up by his family at the time... the disaster could have been reversed."
Hong Yin always feels heartbroken when good people die:
"Feng Haiping said, I am an old widower. If the black water ghost sees me and I am not dead, then the curse on the evil spirit will be defeated, right? Zhu Jin and Zhao Kuan thought it made sense and asked what to do."
Feng Haiping is a true wise man. He does funeral business not because of superstition, but because he believes that the dead deserve respect.
His family has been in charge of funerals in the village for generations and has their own understanding of life.
"What our ancestors passed down is just a form. The function of the form is to make people feel a sense of ritual. The sense of ritual will make people believe that this practice can really work. I will live in the coffin and hide for a day... As long as I am not dead, I can tell everyone that the water ghost is not a disaster. It is here to warn us that disaster is coming."
Bai Wu had to admit that Feng Haiping was a wise man.
He did not directly tell everyone that feudal superstition was not desirable, but instead used feudal superstition to make everyone believe that stones were not evil spirits.
Everything should have taken a turn for the better here, but when Hong Yin told this story, she felt extremely uncomfortable.
She said in a crying voice:
"Uncle Feng hid in the coffin and lay there... He wanted to tell everyone that faking death could help them avoid the evil spirits, and to let everyone know that the arrival of the water ghost was not scary... But in the middle of the night, someone nailed the coffin shut."
"The next morning, no one could see Uncle Feng because he had sunk into the lake along with the coffin..."
"Did a witch do this?"
Bai Wu felt that something was wrong here:
"It is impossible for the witch to nail the coffin down by herself, and she also has no way to bring the coffin from the Feng family to the lake..."
Hong Yin shook her head and said:
"If she were still human... she really couldn't do it."
Bai Wu was stunned:
"You mean... she's not human anymore?"
"Yes, although in this memory, she is still a human, but this memory... was originally used to deceive us. Seven hundred years ago, in addition to the lake god and the stone, the witch also became evil."
The amount of information in this passage is undoubtedly huge, and Bai Wu had never thought of this.
But in this way... the witch's motives can be fully explained.
"Unlike the stone, the witch is a wise creature who has fallen into evil? And the deformed part is invisible to people? I thought she had bad legs and feet before, but now it seems... She doesn't have bad legs and feet, but... she has mutated?"
Hong Yin didn't expect Bai Wu could guess so much.
Bai Wu continued:
"That makes sense... If she is a wise species, the witch's behavior is to absorb negative emotions. For her, using the stone to make the villagers feel terrified... sad and desperate can bring her great pleasure."
Evil creatures do not rely on human negative emotions to survive, or in other words, negative emotions are not necessary for their survival, but negative emotions are indeed addictive for evil creatures.
This is also the reason why negative emotions can attract evil.
From the beginning to the end, the stone was a tool used by the witch to draw fear. The so-called reputation and money were all a cover for the witch to cover up her true self.
Because we are in the spiritual world, even the Eye of Prell did not give too many hints.
After all, in this world... fortune-tellers are human.
The story ends here and also reaches its final ending.
"Before Uncle Feng died, the witch got some information out of him... and learned that someone already knew the secret of the stone. Zhu Jin and Zhao Kuan were described by the witch as the spreaders of the curse. The witch also used these two people... to catch the stone. The witch no longer needed the fear brought by the stone."
"Curses are something that will never disappear. They will be rooted deep in people's hearts."
"Feng Bo has become a new curse. Zhu Jin and Zhao Kuan will also be sacrificed to the lake god by the villagers under the instruction of the witch. Because the witch caught Shi Tou, the evil ghost that everyone is afraid of, it is very ironic that she is the culprit of all this, but she has become the benefactor of the villagers."
Feudal superstition kills people, and among those killed are those who are willing to believe in superstition and those who break superstition.
"Zhu Jin and Zhao Kuan, the ill-fated couple, eventually sank into the lake and drowned. The stone, which had always hoped to help everyone escape death, was covered with talismans by the witch and burned to death."
Those spells are the witch's words.
So Bai Wu realized that it was really not Hong Yin's fault. Not to mention Hong Yin, even he himself, who possessed the Eye of Prell, had been deceived.
The witch's real ability is not those prescriptions for curing diseases, but... those talismans that are supposed to be scams.
"When Shitou was burned to death, he kept yelling at Cui Zhengping, and Cui Zhengping was so scared that he thought he was cursing him. But deep down, he felt great sorrow because of the bond between father and son."
This kind of grief is like the most delicious food in the world, and Cui Zhengping's negative emotions have an irresistible attraction to the fortune teller.
So after the Zhu and Zhao families died, the witch told Cui Zhengping the secret of the stone.
"At that time, Cui Zhengping was probably like a city that was constantly collapsing in an earthquake. He was in great grief. Shitou hid behind the paper man and secretly watched him. This was once the most horrifying memory, but at this moment it became a thorn piercing his soul. The huge guilt and grief swallowed him up, and finally... Cui Zhengping jumped into the lake and committed suicide."
All of them matched.
The Cui family, the Feng family, the Zhao family, the Zhu family, as well as the witch, the water ghost, the lake god...
Seven hundred years ago, in this superstitious village, after the rules outside the tower came into being, such a tragedy occurred.
Bai Wu also asked the last question:
"So we are in the witch's memory?"
"No... We are in the memories of Shitou, Zhu Jin, Zhao Kuan, Feng Bo, and the resentment of all those who died in the lake over the past thousand years."
"Wait, if that's the case, then what about the witch? If all these grievances gathered together and formed an unprecedented evil aggregate of grievances, then shouldn't the witch be the first to be killed?"
"The witch is indeed dead. Brother... What we are fighting against is never the witch, but evil."
The biggest mystery was solved, and Bai Wu suddenly realized:
"That is to say... Zhu Jin, Feng Haiping, Cui Zhengping, Zhao Kuan and the others... symbolize the good thoughts in the aggregate, and the witch has long been dead. The reason why I saw her in this memory is because she was created by the evil thoughts in the aggregate?"
All the people who drowned in the lake formed a powerful aggregate, which was a new life.
This life has good thoughts and evil thoughts.
But after suffering great grief, the evil thoughts in his heart wanted to devour his good thoughts, turning him into a pure monster that constantly brought death and disaster.
But the good thoughts in my heart keep stopping me.
In the second act, the real ending is that Cui Zhengping, Feng Haiping, Zhao Kuan, Zhu Jin and others continue to fight against the witch.
In the confrontation between good and evil, evil has the upper hand, but the advantage is not overwhelming. Evil has not completely devoured good, and the collective good intentions could have persisted for a while.
Until one day, Hong Yin came to this village, and the balance between good and evil was completely broken due to an extremely huge resentment.