what color is the sky
After hearing this question, Chen Xian couldn't help but change his eyes when he looked at the old man, and felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart.
"Our sky is gray, do you know about the smog?" Lu Yisheng enthusiastically explained to the old man, gesticulating vividly in his hand, "When the wind blows, you don't know the gray... I'll be sick in a few days, do you know about respiratory problems?"
"Really?" The old man seemed a little surprised, because in his eyes, Chen Xian and the others were more in line with the image of ordinary people. He thought that the world these ordinary people lived in would be better than Meishan, but why does it sound... not as good as Meishan
Chen Xian sighed, glanced at Lu Yisheng, and nodded to help.
"real."
"It's a little different from what I imagined..." The old man frowned, but his expression didn't feel too disappointed, and finally he smiled with relief, "But there shouldn't be such an unreasonable god in your place, right?"
"It's really not there." Chen Xian nodded.
As soon as the words fell, Chen Xian looked at the old man helplessly.
"Actually... if you'd been honest with us from the start... we'd definitely help you..."
The facts are indeed as Chen Xian said, if the old man had talked openly and honestly with them from the very beginning, then Chen Xian would have a nearly 100% chance of choosing to help him, because his character is like this, although he does not have the way of a hero. It's an exaggeration to draw a sword to help when he sees injustice, but he really can't tolerate sand in his eyes. Once he encounters something like Meishan, he can't help but choose to help.
Perhaps it was because of this kind of mentality that he had cultivated since he was a child that he finally entered the organization of the Bureau of Secrets. Regardless of whether his purpose of entering the Bureau of Secrets was pure or not, his mentality of being eager for public good and righteousness really made it impossible for him to enter the Bureau of Secrets. Everyone in the minor bureau had to give him a high look.
Of course, he didn't fully believe what the old man said at the moment. After all, he was not familiar with the place here, and he didn't know everything about the old man. It was really difficult to trust him completely, so at this time, Chen Xian was also planning in his heart... Assuming that the old man is cheating his feelings, how would it be more appropriate to kill him when he turns his face
What Chen Xian hates most is others cheating his feelings. After all, he still feels sorry for these Meishan villagers. Once he finds that his feeling for them has become a joke, God knows how he will deal with this old man who is full of lies... But it depends on the feeling It doesn't look like the old man is lying.
"Old man, are there only priests in your village who can communicate with that god?" Xu Yanan asked suddenly.
"It turned out to be like this, but in recent decades... Maybe it's because we have all changed, we have become not ordinary people, so we can communicate with God as long as we go near the altar." The old man said frankly.
Hearing this, Xu Yanan nodded thoughtfully, then looked around in silence.
"What is this forest for?"
"Hey... little girl... you want to ask what's going on with those dummies?"
The old man seemed to have guessed Xu Yanan's mental activities, the smile on his face became weird, and the already ugly face looked even more distorted and ferocious at this moment.
"If you didn't save me, I would become like them too, right?" Chen Xian asked.
"Yes." The old man nodded. "This forest is a place where it receives sacrifices. Sometimes we catch prey and don't bother to bring them to the altar. We just bring them here. We just need to plant these seeds..."
As the old man said, he took out a small cloth bag from his pocket.
Opening the rope binding the cloth bag, the old man showed the densely packed "seeds" in front of everyone.
"Where did these seeds come from?" Chen Xian looked at the things in the cloth bag in fear, recalling the scene of being parasitized by those seeds before, he only felt that his bones were hairy.
"Yes." The old man nodded and put away the cloth bag, "These are what the priest asked for from it, and then they distributed some to everyone in our village... As long as you pat these things on living creatures, it won't take a long time." It will become like that."
As he spoke, the old man pointed to the human-shaped landscapes not far away.
"The sacrifice will be absorbed and finally merged with Meishan."
Everyone looked at those weird human-shaped landscapes, and they all had a thoughtful expression on their faces. They seemed to think of something at the same time, but no one opened their mouths... There are too many human-shaped landscapes here. Human beings came here, and on the premise that outsiders cannot enter Meishan, the only source of these sacrifices seems to be Meishan Village.
"How many people are left in your village?" Chen Xian asked calmly.
Hearing this question, the old man glanced at Chen Xian, and the smile on his face suddenly became a little weird.
"Two people."
The old man smiled and scratched his face with his sharp fingers.
"It's just me and my grandson."
"What about the rest?"
Chen Xian looked at those human-shaped landscapes knowingly, and heard the strange laughter of the old man in his ears, and felt a little creepy.
"Beginning a year ago, its requirements for sacrifices suddenly became higher. It does not want those animal sacrifices, but only living people. According to the priest... it seems to be completely revived, and it is ready to return to this world. It said I want to lead the people of our Meishan Village to the outside world." The old man said with a strange smile, "It promises us prosperity, wealth, wealth, clothing and food, once we follow it out of Meishan, every person in Meishan Village will become less than one person and above ten thousand Lord."
"It sounds like a cult leader brainwashing me..." Lu Yisheng couldn't help muttering.
"A lot of people believed it anyway."
The old man smiled, and slowly took out the cigarette case and wanted to light another one, but at this moment he realized that the pack of cigarettes had already been smoked, and he crumpled his hands in frustration and wanted to throw it aside.
Seeing this, Lu Yisheng took out an unopened box of Zhonghua Cigarettes from his backpack, walked over and handed it to the old man.
Opening the package, the old man ordered one and handed another to Lu Yisheng.
"It tastes good." The old man said with a smile. It seemed that he was smoking this brand of cigarettes for the first time, and his expression was very enjoyable. Give it a sacrifice."
"The first one to be sacrificed was Mei Laosi's father. That old man was as old as me, and he probably wouldn't live for a few years, so everyone in the village chose him out... Actually, I think age is just a part of it." The main reason is that he has a bad temper, and no one in the village wants to see him."
"After the old guy died, about half a month... The priest came back with a message, saying that the sacrifice was very dissatisfied to the god. The elderly are excluded in this way, and the sacrifices sent up for the second time are young adults."
"Every month, it will ask us for a sacrifice. At first, only one person is enough, and then two or even three each time... My son and daughter-in-law are the last batch to be sent as sacrifices people."
When the old man said this, his eyes seemed to become a little dry, and he couldn't help blinking.
"Actually, I have long felt that something is wrong with that god, but no one in the village believes it... They think everything that thing says is the truth, but the truth is not in its mouth, why don't they believe the knowledge in the book. "
The old man said very bitterly, lowered his head and smoked silently.
"I used to be a teacher in the village. I started to teach children how to read and write when I was twenty years old. Since that thing came out... no one would believe me, no one came to me to teach. I asked for an objection once, but because of the objection I raised, the priest led the people in the village to burn my study, and they said that the truth is not in those old books, and those are written to deceive people.”
As soon as the words fell, the old man suddenly laughed, his shoulders kept shaking.
"The young and middle-aged people in the village are all dead, so the priest asked us to take out the children as sacrifices. In fact, I have already guessed that its appetite is getting bigger and bigger. Even if we fill the entire Meishan Village, it may not be able to Feed it well, not to mention that when it is enjoying the sacrifices, it is also constantly eating away at the lives in Meishan. Many animals die in the mountain forest every day... In the next few months, we will not see any animals in the mountains, so it will Only a few birds survived."
"Actually, everyone in the village is reluctant to part with their own children, so no one wants to be the first to send their own children as sacrifices to feed that bastard, but it's impossible not to. The priests have spoken and must be sent. In the end Draw lots to decide... the first sacrifice drawn by the priest is my grandson."
Having said that, the old man paused for a moment, and scanned the nearby human-shaped landscape complicatedly.
"Actually, I don't want to be like this..."
The old man smiled, but he didn't look that happy.
"But we are all going to die sooner or later, so it's better to fight once, so I can only kill them all."