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Chapter 811 Assessment Mission: Encountering an Old Acquaintance (42)
Yu Muhuai thought about it and decided not to explain.

How can such a thing be explained clearly?

Besides, Ah Long isn't her real father, so there's no need for her to consider anything about him.

Yu Muhuai then glanced past A Long, completely ignoring him.

"I told you, don't even think about doing anything. The lives of the village chief and his family are in your hands."

After saying that, she gestured for Tong Yi to close the courtyard gate.

Ye Xu'an's skills were too poor, and she was afraid that if Ye Xu'an went over, he would become a hostage to the villagers.

Sure enough, the villagers had no intention of sitting idly by and waiting to be killed. When Tong Yi went to close the door, they even tried to attack him.

Fortunately, Tong Yi was quite agile and prevented them from succeeding.

Yu Muhuai held the hostage tightly in her hand. Seeing that the villagers were being unreasonable, she added some more injuries to the village chief.

Her actions forced the villagers to stop what they were doing.

Finally, the gate to the village chief's house slammed shut.

Zhu Jun was breathing rapidly, his eyes were bloodshot, and his throat was being choked, making his words sound distorted.

"Who are you? What do you want? You came to our Zhukun Village with ulterior motives from the start, didn't you?!"

Seeing that the villagers were temporarily locked outside and the hostage was inside, they were hesitant to act rashly, so Yu Muhuai simply released Zhu Jun from his confinement.

However, to prevent Zhu Jun from escaping, Yu Muhuai still had Ye Xu'an fetch ropes from inside the house and tie him up.

"Boss Zhu, are you aware that the altar on the mountain was destroyed?"

Zhu Jun was stunned. When his third sister-in-law went out to look for him, she had no idea about this.

Clearly, he didn't know, and neither did the villagers outside.

After a long pause, he finally spoke, his voice trembling, "The altar... it's broken?"

Yu Muhuai nodded kindly.

Seemingly to deliver an even greater blow to Zhu Jun, Yu Muhuai said with a smile, "We're about to dig out what's under the willow tree in the backyard as well."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Jun's body trembled violently, as if he had been struck on the head with a blunt object. His vision went black, and he nearly fainted.

However, due to the weakening of his strength and the blow to his spirit, Zhu Jun could not withstand it and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Seeing the pool of blood on the ground, Yu Muhuai pursed his lips and showed a look of disgust.

"I never expected that you inhuman creatures would still have red blood flowing through your veins."

Zhu Jun's limbs were all bound, so he couldn't wipe his mouth.

He burst into laughter, the blood between his teeth looking rather pitiful and gruesome.

"Hahahaha. Ah Hua, what's there to laugh at us for? Aren't you a monster yourself?"

Yu Muhuai chuckled dryly twice, squatted down, and patted Zhu Jun's cheek: "I'm not like you guys."

Upon hearing this, Ye Xu'an and Tong Yi couldn't help but prick up their ears and listen attentively.

Yu Muhuai noticed their actions, but she deliberately kept quiet.

Zhu Jun didn't notice the three people's reactions; he was still laughing somewhat maniacally.

"What's the difference? Ah Hua, do you think you can escape? Ever since that incident over a hundred years ago, Zhu Kun Village has been trapped forever. We're all trapped here; there's no way we can escape. Don't even dream about it! The altar is gone; we're all going to die! We're all going to die!"

Do you know why we were able to live for over a hundred years after that incident?

Yu Muhuai tilted his head, as if thinking for a moment, and then said, "The altar requires sacrifices, so you have to lure people into the village from the outside every once in a while."

Those people might be tourists, people sketching in the wild, or they might be lost.
But no matter who they were, once they stepped into Zhukun Village, they were trapped forever and could never escape.

These trapped people became sacrifices at the altar. The altar received the sacrifice, and Zhukun Village gained the energy to survive—no, to barely cling to life.

Upon hearing the words "lingering on in a state of utter despair," Zhu Jun seemed to have been struck on a sore spot, glaring fiercely at Yu Muhuai.

Yu Muhuai chuckled and slapped Zhu Jun's face hard again, making a crisp sound.

"What are you glaring at me for? Aren't I right? What are you beings? Living corpses? Evil spirits? Mere shells remaining in this world, or pathetic creatures forever trapped in a curse?"

“We are not the pitiful ones! They are! Those landlords, those landlords we buried under the willow tree, are the pitiful ones!”

They deserved to die; they will never be reincarnated. Even if they cast a curse, they couldn't kill us. They are the most pitiful wretch!

There are many evil people in the world like this. They are the ones who have committed heinous crimes, but in the end, they blame all the faults on the victims.

For example, if someone owes money and doesn't pay it back, the person who borrowed the money might try to collect it several times, but instead, they might be criticized by the other party, who would think they are too heartless and that it's too urgent to collect such a small amount of money.

For example, some people hurt or even kill their exes because they are unhappy about breaking up, but then blame the other person for being too hurtful when breaking up with them.

It seems that blaming the victim makes the perpetrator feel less guilty.

Little did they know that their act of harming others was itself an unforgivable mistake.

To outsiders, Zhukun Village seemed to have vanished overnight more than a hundred years ago.

More than a hundred years ago, Zhukun Village was located in a remote area and had a small population.

At that time, war broke out in various places, and the country was caught in a dilemma of internal and external troubles.

The disappearance of a village, while arousing curiosity, did not attract much attention.

These clusters of villages deep in the mountains and forests may have been formed by people fleeing war or by people entering even more secluded forests.

There were several guesses, but none of them were investigated in depth.

At that time, many people were too busy taking care of themselves to have any extra energy to care about a small village.
However, what others don't know is that Zhukun Village remains in the same place and has not moved away.

They simply disappeared from the sight of ordinary people and survived in a different way.

In the past, every village had a landlord.

Landlords owned most of the land in the village, and ordinary farmers had to pay rent to the landlords for their work.

Generally speaking, the landlords in each village are the richest people in the village.

More than a hundred years ago, there was also a landlord in Zhukun Village named Zhu Yuchun.

In people's minds, landlords are always seen as exploiting peasants, withholding wages, and being stingy and miserly.

However, Zhu Yuchun is a very good person. He and his family are kind and gentle people.

Zhu Yuchun's great-grandfather had passed the imperial examination at the county level, but later resigned and returned to his hometown due to some conflicts in officialdom.

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