The car continued to move forward in the dark, and there was still a way to Tianjia Village. Jade picked up the phone and found the live broadcast.
Although today is the first day of the Chinese New Year, there are still many people on the live broadcast platform on the Internet. The more this kind of excitement, the more lonely people want to find comfort.
"Big New Year, give it a gift!" Jade poked on the tablet, and a New Year's gift worth five hundred yuan was sent out.
Then there was a lot of compliments such as "Boss Atmosphere" in the live broadcast room, and Jade was very contented in his eyes.
However, Jade knows how to take it as soon as he sees it, and he did not continue to spend a lot of money.
"If you have this money, isn't it fragrant to eat hot pot?" Wang Xiaoya leaned on Jade's shoulder, watching the jade's operations like flowing water.
"It's not my tablet anyway." Jade was indifferent, and clicked on the next live broadcast room, "I took it from your bag."
"That's not my tablet either." Wang Xiaoya glanced at her bag and recalled that her tablet ran out of power after playing games last night, and it was still charging at home.
"Whose is that?" Ye Yi said curiously.
"Holly's, my tablet was out of power, so I brought out Dongqing's." Wang Xiaoya glanced playfully at Xia Dongqing, who was drowsy by the car in the front row.
"What!" Xia Dongqing exclaimed, why is he always hurt.
In the laughter of everyone, it was getting closer and closer to Tianjia Village, and it was almost there after another turn.
Suddenly, the official Zhao stopped the car slowly, with a serious expression on his face.
"What's wrong? It seems that I haven't reached the place yet." Xia Dongqing looked at the navigation and asked puzzledly.
Zhao Li got out of the car, and everyone followed.
The official Zhao pointed to a high slope in front of him. On the bare soil slope stood a strange figure, dressed in a black soap suit and a tall Yinsi hat. He wrote four seal scripts "The time has come", holding a quote in one hand. The soul flag, dragging the soul chain with one hand, is full of Yin Qi.
"It's the oldest yin official in the underworld. According to legend, it was formed by the gas of Earth Count. Even the Pluto can't mobilize them. They will only appear on the scene of large-scale death."
"It seems that the calamity of Tianjia Village is not small." Wang Xiaoya looked in the direction of Tianjia Village.
When the car drove through this detour, Xia Dongqing immediately felt that there seemed to be a voice calling him.
"Go this way." Xia Dongqing pointed to a three- to four-meter-wide concrete path on the side of the road, which seemed to lead directly to the village.
Ye Yi also noticed an invisible force covering the surroundings, as if to isolate it.
Does the Weaver Girl's Can Nian have so much power? If anything, I'm afraid it would have broken through the labyrinth seal long ago.
"Stop." The stone maze was hundreds of meters ahead, and Ye Yi suddenly shouted, shocking the emeralds around him.
After getting out of the car, Ye Yi saw that under the dim night sky, a behemoth was shrouded above the maze, a bit like a turtle.
"What a big turtle!" Jade exclaimed.
"That's not a tortoise, that's Ao." Wang Xiaoya corrected.
Ao is a big tortoise or turtle in the sea in ancient legends. Nuwa refines five-color stones to make up for the sky. The broken ao is enough to stand four poles.
"Hundred-legged insects die but are not stiff." Ye Yi frowned, staring at the huge monster in front of him.
In the first battle of taboo, Nuwa fought against a forbidden king, breaking his four legs and destroying his animal body. It was the body of the thing in front of him, and was also called the god of foolishness and blindness, the follower.
Unexpectedly, the resentment of Weaver Girl now draws it over.
Things got complicated right now.
"I knew I shouldn't give you New Year's greetings on New Year's Day. I really want to slap myself. It's okay to talk to ghosts in the underworld!" Zhao Li raised his hand.
At this time, a group of people wearing hemp came out of the village, spreading paper money along the road to open the way, and the girl in the middle was holding a black and white portrait in her hand.
"Is it a funeral?" Xia Dongqing whispered.
The official Zhao made a silent gesture to him.
Xia Dongqing glanced at the black and white portrait, suddenly a segment flashed in his mind, a young man put on a sack, Qiqiao died in the maze of lanes bleeding.
"Xia Dongqing." Suddenly at the end of the crowd, a young guy shouted in surprise when he saw Xia Dongqing.
"Zhou Ying." Xia Dongqing also recognized him at a glance.
This is Xia Dongqing's good friend in the orphanage. He said he was doing project inspections in this village and planned to develop a tourism project here.
As soon as the official Zhao rolled his eyes, he immediately had an excuse. He patted the car and said that the car was broken and he was going to stay here for one night. Zhou Ying was very enthusiastic this time and took everyone to the village without saying a word.
the next day
"Well, it's so fragrant." Jade ate the home-cooked food with a doubled appetite, and ate two bowls of rice in a row.
"Eat more incense, there is still in the pot." Zhou Ying said with a smile.
"No, no, I have enough." Jade waved his hand, as if he was eating a little bit.
"Are you still doing inspections here for the Chinese New Year?" Xia Dongqing asked.
"I don't have a family, and it doesn't always matter everywhere. After dinner, I will take you to the hot springs nearby to soak in. You can go to the cold." Zhou Ying said with a face as usual.
"Okay, I think I have been in the hot springs for many days. It's the kind of one person, one hole, I don't want to put dumplings." Jade asked with interest.
"Yes." Zhou Ying nodded.
Last night Zhou Ying took Ye Yi and the others to the village to stay with the family. He also stayed here on weekdays. The host's family specially changed new bedding, allowing Jade and Wang Xiaoya to sleep in the bed. Zhao Li and Ye Yi meditated in the hall for one night. Xia Dongqing couldn't insist on this, so he made a floor in the hall.
"Chop dead ephemeral ghosts, evil spirits don't enter the door." In the courtyard, a woman was holding a knife and chopping a cutting board frantically.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Ye Yi's daughter from the family who they were staying with returned to the courtyard, looking at her mother displeasedly, "There are guests here."
The woman turned a deaf ear to her ears, and repeated the movements on her hands somewhat mechanically, still muttering in pieces: "Chop dead ephemeral ghosts, evil spirits will not enter the door."
Several people in the room also walked out after hearing something wrong with the sound outside.
Although there were outsiders, the woman still did not stop her movements.
Her daughter looked at it, feeling very embarrassed, and went back to her house without saying a word.
"It's not that you guys have always been like this." Zhou Ying explained hurriedly.
It wasn't something messy, it should be a mental disorder caused by some stimulation. It was probably related to the Weaving Girl, Ye Yi thought.
Everyone thinks so too.
"Let's go, I'll take you to the hot spring." Zhou Ying saw the situation and didn't want to take everyone here.
"The evil outside is not terrible, the terrible thing is the devil in people's heart." Before leaving, Ye Yi said in a meaningful way in front of the woman.
The woman's hand holding the knife immediately stopped in the air.
"It's so comfortable, the color is still milky, Zhao Li, Ye Yi, don't be strained, come and bubble." Xia Dongqing and Zhou Ying were soaking in the hot spring, Xia Dongqing greeted them.
"I have no problem watching the man take a bath, but I don't care if I take a bath with a man." Zhao Li resisted.
In addition, the novel app I'm currently using, both Android and iPhone support!
"I'm a southerner and don't take a bath." Ye Yi said.
"You are not a human being." Xia Dongqing said casually. The next second she suddenly realized that she had missed her mouth and glanced at Zhou Ying, but Zhou Ying took a bath on her own, and there was no response. It seemed that she thought it was normal between her friends. Kidding.
How could he think that there was a ghost sitting in front of him, a god who could change existence.
"How about it? The hot spring is good. The water temperature of forty-two degrees can sometimes reach forty-five degrees, and the pores are opened. In this village, men and women, young and old, use this pool every day to soak here. "Zhou Ying introduced.
"Ah, isn't it, you are so open?" Xia Dongqing was surprised.
"It will stagger the time." Zhou Ying smiled.
Jade ate too much for lunch, so she took Wang Xiaoya to wander around the village, and did not come to the hot springs. If she knew that there were men in the pool, she would definitely not want to soak for a while.
After all, men are made of mud.
Zhou Ying and Xia Dongqing were in the bath while chatting, intentionally or unconsciously led the topic to the ghost and the maze, and also talked about the person who had funeral last night.
"What the hell is the rumor of the labyrinth?" Zhao Li asked, although he had heard it from Ye Yi once.
"The people in the village believe that there is a Weaver Girl living in the maze. Anyone who breaks into the maze will anger the Weaver Girl. That is a taboo in the village." Zhou Ying said.
"Weaver! Haha." Zhao Li smiled disdainfully, "I think it is a monster."
"According to the history recorded in the village chronicles, the year when the Weaver Girl appeared was a catastrophe year, and there was no harvest. One day, the Weaver Girl fell outside the village. During the fall, she suffered a lot of injuries. Later, the villagers discovered her. , She took her back to the village. The Weaver Girl was taken back to the village, where she received meticulous care and treatment, and quickly recovered her health. In order to repay the people who helped her, she let the village that was originally deserted that year A bumper harvest was obtained."
"Then what does the Weaver Girl have to do with the maze?" Ye Yi asked deliberately.
"Because the Weaver Girl has used divine power to let the gods know that the God wants to catch the Weaver Girl and return to the heaven. The villagers built this huge maze with stones in order to protect the Weaver Girl. They always believe that the Weaver Girl still lives in the maze."
"The gods don't have the mind to care about this ass." Zhao Li snorted and glanced at Ye Yi, "Ye Yi, you are right."
"I have a similar story here, but the ending is very different." Ye Yi tapped his finger on his leg and said.
The name of this story is "Xianchaozhou". It is said that a long time ago, a son of the Dragon King was seriously injured and fell into a place called Chaozhou.
A dragon appeared in front of him, still dying, and instantly surrounded by good people, suddenly someone said, what is the smell of dragon meat.
As soon as this problem came out, the majority of people immediately agreed. Everyone wanted to have a taste of dragon meat. There was a scholar among the crowd. He felt that this was not good. After all, they are dragons!
But his faint voice of opposition was almost submerged in the turbulent crowd. People broke down the badly injured dragon, and the scholar got a piece of meat. He didn’t want it, but he looked at the people around him. With a strange look, he felt that if he didn't get along with them, he would end up just like this dragon if he couldn't say.
After returning home, the scholar did not cook and eat this piece of dragon meat like others, but worshipped it religiously.
One night not long ago, the Dragon King finally came over. He was grateful that the scholar did not eat the dragon's flesh like the others, but worshipped the dragon's son.
He told the scholar that he wanted to retaliate against the people here. If one day the stone lion's eyes in the Yamen were red, he would quickly flee the place with his family.
So the scholar ran to the gate of the office three times a day to see if the stone lion had changed.
There was a butcher next to the Yamen. One day, his hands were stained with pig blood, so he deliberately wiped a handful of them on the stone lions in front of the Yamen.
It was when he first suggested that he wanted to taste dragon meat.
After the scholar saw it, he took his family to escape from Chaozhou overnight. When the scholar escaped to the mountains outside of Chaozhou, he saw that behind him, the whole land began to sink below the ground, and finally Chaozhou became a lake.
"Can people really get along with the gods?" Ye Yi smiled sarcastically. "Only in one case, that is, the gods are far stronger than them, and the gods don't pay attention to the existence of tiny human beings at all. Human beings have no guts to challenge the supreme authority."
After hearing this, Zhou Ying fell silent, her face becoming a bit heavy, as if she was thinking of something.
Holding hands, Jade and Wang Xiaoya once again walked to the place where they saw the stone maze last night. The two stood on a high slope, looking down at the maze that reflected the darkness of the human heart.
The big thing hovering over the maze seems to be stronger than when I saw it last night.
"What the hell does the beast of the stream mean?" Jade asked in a puzzled manner. When Ye Yi mentioned this former Forbidden King, he had called it that way.
"Follow the flow, follow the flow!" Wang Xiaoya explained.
When a person sees that the group around him is doing something, he will have such thoughts in his heart, they can do it, why can't I do it, everyone is wrong anyway.
So in this case, a form of collective violence that overwhelms personal morality appears.
Under such circumstances, individuals no longer regard themselves as individuals with independent thoughts, but as part of the collective, and individual thoughts are also covered by a collective shadow.
All legal and illegal behaviors are carried out by individuals, and ultimately the collective bears the responsibility.
Why do those people in Tianjiacun who forced the Weaver Girl to die wear cloth bags on their heads, because after wearing the cloth bags, they will no longer be themselves, but a terrible stranger.
Because after a person puts on a mask, he gets rid of self-awareness and shame, and he thinks that he can do whatever he wants.
This is like a uniform. When you wear it, you are no longer yourself. You are a part of this group. All identities and personalities will be obliterated, leaving only a highly consistent group.
And what you do after you put on the uniform is the collective responsibility, you don't need to be personally responsible.
Shouting slogans is also a truth, it emphasizes that it is a kind of perceptual thing, and its function is to obliterate the rational self-consciousness of individuals.
The follower then became a part of the collective and also a part of the collective violence. The evil in everyone's heart was released, and a follower beast appeared.
Therefore, even Nuwa could not completely kill this forbidden king, because it not only exists in a powerful form, but also resides in people's hearts and turns into thousands.