151, Moon Village Ghost Festival [Part 1]
"Village Chief, I wonder if you have made some mistakes. In fact, not all ghosts can accept worship. Some ghosts are aliens of evil spirits. They often become more and more fierce after being worshipped by humans, and they will also become resentful and harm people. They are all things they often do, so your kneeling will make the ghost more and more resentful."
"Oh, there are actually those kind of ghosts! This...ah! Could it be that the people in our village who die or disappear on the Ghost Festival every year are all because of that kind of ghost? If this is the case, then we have all become accomplices."
The village chief was sweating coldly. He didn't expect that there was such a ghost. Seeing that he said, Liu Shoucai scared the village chief and quickly comforted him.
"Village Chief, don't be too nervous. Maybe that kind of ghost has not appeared in your village. We will help you check it out tonight, don't worry!"
"Yes, village chief, with us here, you don't have to worry about anything."
Seeing Liu Shoucai and Gui Gusong repeatedly assured, the village chief had less worries, but he still felt a little scared, especially when he thought of the people who died on the Ghost Festival before.
"Then it's up to you tonight, Master."
As the village chief said that, he bowed to Liu Shoucai and the others, and the villagers around the village chief also bowed to Liu Shoucai and the others to thank him. Seeing that the village chief was like this, Liu Shoucai and the others were also concerned about this matter.
The evening sacrificial activities officially began. Liu Shoucai and Gui Gusong stood in the southeast, northwest and northwest of the crowd. The altar was surrounded by the village chief calling a few bold young men. As long as there was a disturbance, Liu Shoucai and the others would come forward to solve the problem.
As time went by, watching the moon in the sky gradually rise, Liu Shoucai felt that the surroundings became much colder. After looking at the time, it was time for the ghost gate to open. Gui Gusong took out a talisman and put it quietly in the palm of his hand. As long as there is a ghost who dares to make trouble, he can slap it away with one palm.
"Brother Guigu, do you feel something is wrong?"
After a long time, Liu Shoucai didn't feel that a ghost came to cause trouble. Although the air around him became very cold, he did not see a ghost appear, so he couldn't help but communicate with Gui Gusong with his heart.
"Yes! I also feel that something is wrong. Logically speaking, when the ghost gate is wide open, those ghosts will definitely run around. Moreover, there are sacrificial activities here now, and those ghosts should be surrounded. Why don't there be a ghost? It's too unusual."
"Doesn't there be no ghosts at all? It's completely artificial?"
"There are possibilities and other possibilities. Look, the air around it has become very cold and the surroundings are full of yin energy, but there are no ghosts. Isn't this very strange?"
Guigusong's doubts were also Liu Shoucai's doubts. If he knew what was going on, he wouldn't have asked Guigusong to solve his doubts.
"Brother Guigu, I am confused because of this. Do you think we should continue to let the village chief continue like this? There are many dangers in this kind of sacrificial activities. If it continues, I really don't know what will happen. I also feel that if something happens, we will definitely not be able to help them."
"But the sacrifices are halfway through now. Do you think those people will end in the middle? I don't believe that the villagers will listen to us."
"Ah! You said that, now we can only pray that everything will be safe."
Liu Shoucai sighed, and he knew that those people could not all listen to him. If they angered the villagers, his kindness would turn into a bad thing.
When the village chief poured a bowl of chicken blood into the coffin, a large amount of blood suddenly flowed out of the coffin, and then there was a sound of collision in the coffin, which scared the village chief so much that he rolled down from the sacrificial platform.
"It's a zombie, run away..."
I don’t know who shouted in the crowd. The villagers around were so scared that they all ran away. The village chief was sprained and kept lying on the ground and moaning, and couldn’t leave.
"Village Chief, don't worry first. Let's take a look first. Badou, help the village chief to sit there."
When Liu Shoucai saw that the village chief was injured, he asked Badou to help the village chief and sit on the chair beside him. Badou didn't care how the village chief refused, but directly helped him and placed it on the chair, then approached the altar to study the coffin.
"Brother Liu, do you think the corpse in this coffin is really a zombie?"
"Can you just open it and check it out? If it's really a zombie, it's really cheap. It's not eaten by a zombie for a long time, and this time it's a tooth sacrifice for it."
Liu Shoucai pushed open the coffin board while he was joking, but there was only a big black cat inside the coffin. The big black cat's eyes were staring at Liu Shoucai and the others tightly, and it looked very shrill.
"Damn, this is too evil. Village chief, how can you put a big black cat in the coffin? And it's during the Ghost Festival, which is too inappropriate."
Liu Shoucai was also anxious. He didn't expect the village chief to do this. The village chief is now unaware of the matter because he didn't know what happened. He remembered that there were really ordinary corpses in the coffin.
"Master! You can't be wronged. The coffin was really filled with human corpses, and I had asked the Taoist priest to do it. Now it suddenly became a cat's corpse. I don't know why."
Seeing that the village chief didn't look like he was telling lies, Liu Shoucai felt strange. It seemed that the problem should be the villagers.
"It seems that someone did this on purpose, but why did that person trigger the curse of the evil ghost?"
"Master, what do you mean? What curse of evil ghosts?"
The village chief didn't understand what Liu Shoucai meant, so he resisted the pain in his feet and slowly walked over. Seeing the village chief walking over to the pain, Liu Shoucai walked over and supported him.
"It's like this. During the Ghost Festival, if your sacrificial items are the corpses of black cats, they will be cursed by the evil ghosts, because the corpses of black cats are sacrificed on the Ghost Festival, and are also called the sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial straits. Those evil ghosts died miserably, and now they are used as sacrificial items by you. How can they not feel resentful in their hearts? I guess someone must have done this on purpose, in order to make you curse and then all be killed by the evil ghosts."
"Who is so cruel and why do you treat us like this? The people in our village are kind, and no one has ever done any evil! Alas!"
The village chief stomped his feet as he said that, and he felt very bored. Liu Shoucai also looked depressed at this moment. If he caught the messy guy, he would definitely dismember that guy. Because he and Gui Gusong opened the coffin, he and Gui Gusong were also cursed.
"Village Chief, don't be anxious. Now I, Brother Guigu, have also been cursed, so we will definitely help you untie this curse, otherwise everyone will suffer."
"Master, this time I'm really causing you trouble."
The village chief looked embarrassed. He didn't expect that this incident would affect Guigusong and the others. When Liu Shoucai saw the village chief apologize, he didn't say anything.
"Okay, let's go back for now! Xiaobai Er, you two should find a place to bury the things in the coffin! Remember, you must be saved several times."
"I understand. You go to the village chief's house first. When we finish our business, we will go to find you."
The reason why Liu Shoucai handed this matter to Xiaobai and Lao Er was because Xiaobai and Lao Er were not humans and would not be cursed like this. Moreover, their identities were special, so naturally they didn’t have to worry about anything, so they would leave it to them with confidence.
After taking the village chief home, the village chief originally wanted to call the villagers over, but was stopped by Liu Shoucai because Liu Shoucai didn't want to alarm the enemy.
"Village Chief, don't be busy calling people first. We can't alarm the snake. Find out the harmful spirit first."
"What the master said is, what will the master plan to do?"
Liu Shoucai sneered. He had many ways to deal with that kind of person. Of course, he would not do anything randomly, nor would he wrongly a good person.
"Village Chief, I naturally have my own way. In the past few days, you must be calm. Don't say what you saw tonight. Just pretend that you came home because you were afraid of coming home. I don't know what the things in the coffin are. I can guarantee that in three days, that person will be exposed."
"Is this really going to happen? If that person is calm and unable to come out, what should we do?"
"Don't worry, the village chief, I said he would come out, he would come out. In the past few days, don't say much to your family, so as not to be accidentally spread. That person will definitely not surface by himself. What we have to do now is to wait patiently in the dark for the fish to take the bait."
"Okay, then I'll listen to you, Master."
The village chief calmed down and tried to calm himself down. He also knew the seriousness of this matter, so he naturally did not dare to say it randomly. Even if it was his wife, he would not say anything more.
After Xiaobai and the second brother buried the black cat's body, they recited the Sutra of the Sacrifice several times before returning to the village chief's house and told them all. After Liu Shoucai finished listening, he asked them to rest.
The next day, all the villagers who participated in the sacrificial activities came over. They insisted on asking the village chief to say something. The village chief told the villagers as Liu Shoucai said before, saying that he didn't know what happened later. The village chiefs of the villagers didn't seem to be telling lies and injured their feet, so they did not continue to stay and left one by one.
"Master, how about it? Did you just see someone in the crowd wrong?"
"Well, there is a person who looks wrong, and he keeps checking your injuries. He has a sense of resentment. I think this matter should have something to do with him."
"Then let's arrest him now! Don't harm others any more."
"Don't worry, we have to find evidence, otherwise, how can we expose his conspiracy? Besides, we can't alarm the enemy now, so as not to cause anything else to happen, so we should stabilize him first."
"Then I'll be there for you, Master. Thank you so much this time."
"If there is nowhere, we are also considering our own safety. After all, we are all grasshoppers on the same rope now, and no one can escape."
When Liu Shoucai thought of the curse he had suffered in vain, he felt very uncomfortable, while Gui Gusong had a gloomy face. He hated the person who made him suffer the curse. If he caught that person, he would definitely make that life worse than death.
"Village Chief, you have to rest first, let's go out to find some clues first."
"Okay, I'm sorry, Master."
The village chief looked embarrassed. He knew that he was hurting the wrong time, but he was powerless, so he could only rely on Liu Shoucai and the others to find clues.
As soon as Liu Shoucai and his friends left the village yard, their faces showed an angry look, especially Badou and Xiaobai, who were originally feeling uncomfortable.
"Hmph! Liu Shoucai, are you really planning to be a turtle with a head-reducing head? Why didn't you say it outright just now?"
"Xiaobai, why are you worried? We have a lot to do now. Besides, sooner or later he will be exposed, and we really can't alarm the enemy at the moment."
"Brother Liu is talking about it, Xiaobai, you should calm your mood. If you are like you, we don't have to look for that person."
"You guys...hum! What clues do you want to find? Isn't it enough for us to use memory techniques directly? If not, we can use magic to make him show his own strength. Why bother with such trouble? I really don't know what you are thinking. Anyway, I just feel uncomfortable."
Xiaobai looked bored, and Liu Shoucai was actually very depressed, but he also knew that magic is not omnipotent, and everything cannot be relied on magic. It is better to be a human being, so as not to use magic at any time. What should he do if the IQ deteriorates at that time?
"Xiaobai, in this world, ordinary people stand at the most proportion, and we superpowers are a minority after all, and we cannot solve everything by magic. So what does our brain do? If we don't use our brains to do anything, sooner or later our IQ will degenerate to zero."
"Yes, Xiaobai, you really have to change your temper. You are a divine beast, not a human. Naturally, you cannot understand how powerful our human IQ is. What if one day you can't use magic, what should you do? You can't give up on yourself, but you still have to use your brain more."
Liu Shoucai and Gui Gusong said to Xiaobai one by one. Xiaobai was so angry that he almost got angry. Seeing that the two of them were still endless, Xiaobai flapped his wings and flew away, regardless of what Liu Shoucai and Gui Gusong wanted to do.
"Oh! This little white is really true, I don't know when I will figure it out."
"Okay, don't blame it. Let's go to the village to investigate first. We must solve this matter as soon as possible, otherwise we will be done when the curse is turned on."
Gui Gusong still cared about the curse, so he didn't want to continue talking anymore. He directly acted separately with Liu Shoucai and the others. Just after Liu Shoucai and the others left separately, a sneaky man ran to the village chief's house.
"How is it? What are they doing now?"'
"Village Chief, they all went to investigate the villagers. Because they all acted separately, I came back and told you."
"Okay, I understand. You continue to follow them. If they really find something, remember that they must be killed in this place. You can't ask them to leave the village. Our plan cannot be destroyed."
"Yes, village chief."
After the eyeliner left, the village chief showed a bloodthirsty look on his face. If Liu Shoucai and the others were here at this time, they would have been greatly shocked.
"Auntie, I want to ask you why there is one person dead in the village every year? Is there any abnormality in the early stages of the death?"
"I don't know much about this either. The village chief knows much more than us. Please ask the village chief!"
The old lady's eyes were not very good, but she could still tell who Liu Shoucai was. Last night, Liu Shoucai went to the sacrifice in the name of a master, so everyone in the village knew him.
"Oh! Auntie, do you feel anything strange? For example: Someone is showing weirdness about this dead person."
"No! Everyone was panicked, but fortunately, no one died last night. It was really a blessing for you. Although there are things in the coffin that are very afraid of people, fortunately no one died."
As the old lady said, she started talking nonsense again. Seeing this, Liu Shoucai knew that he couldn't ask anything, so he said goodbye to her and left. Guigusong and Badou did not find any useful information from the villagers, so they all returned to their original place early.
"Oh! Those villagers couldn't find out anything at all. I said, Brother Liu, could we think too much?"
"How is that possible? I always feel that the villagers seem to be hiding something. I see that their expressions are not right. And when they encounter problems, they ask me to find the village chief. Damn it, these people are simply indifferent!"
"Do you think they are in the same group as the village chief?"
"Who knows, but I don't understand why they want to shelter the village chief, but I always feel that there is another insider."
"Why would you ask Xiaobai to ask those pigs, dogs, sheep, chickens, etc., after all, animals will not lie and are much easier to ask than humans."
"Xiaobai doesn't know where he went, so what else can he ask, "Dr., go and ask the plants and see what they say."
“Yes, Master.”
Liu Shoucai suddenly remembered the identity of the second child, so he ordered the second child to ask about the plants on the roadside. Because there are plants everywhere in the village, the second child can also find out about those things.
Soon, the second brother walked back with a cold face. Looking at the second brother's face, Liu Shoucai also knew that it was definitely not good news, otherwise he would not be like this.
Chapter completed!