There's something wrong with this guy

Chapter 146 The Secret of Xiang Village
Xi Huanyan followed Mengshi, met an old man in Xiangcun, and asked about the origin of the village house map.

This is not a big problem, but the old man has a sneaky look on his face, talking about him from left to right, um, huh, huh, huh, he can't tell why.

Instead, Xi Huanyan and the others became suspicious.

Xi Huanyan said threateningly, "Xiang Village has been destroyed, and the house protection map is no longer valid. You have nothing to hide. Could it be that this strange demon crisis was caused by your village? No wonder your village was the first to be victimized. I want to call Scorching Sun House Come and check the details of Xiang Village, punish if you want, kill if you want to kill."

"Dongjun, don't scare the little old man." The old man wiped his eyes with rough fingers, "Actually, there is nothing we can't say."

"Many years ago, Xiangcun was infested by a group of strange demons, and a passing master generously helped him. He carved the picture of protecting the house. After it was completed, the strange demons came again and fell into the lake around the village without climbing up. Come up."

"The expert said that with the house protection map, all strange monsters that enter the lake will be sealed in the lake. That's right, this kind of house protection map needs to be enshrined. Every full moon, animals must be sacrificed."

Xi Huanyan asked, "How to sacrifice?"

"Just throw it in the lake."

Xi Huanyan didn't miss the dodge in the old man's eyes, "I'm afraid it's not just livestock. If you don't talk about it now, you'll have to go to the prison to talk about it."

"It's not worth it, it's not worth it, it was livestock at first, then it wasn't Zhan Luan, and the number of strange monsters appeared more. People in our village dreamed that there were too many strange monsters sealed in the lake, and the house guard map couldn't be restrained. Each time a human sacrifice has to be added.

Then what else can we do, someone has to sacrifice, and one person is drawn every month to make a contribution. As I said earlier, this is all voluntary by the villagers, and we are not guilty. "

Feng Ya said: "Move out if you can't hold it down."

The little lion king also said, "If you don't want to move away, ask the guild to kill it. Why bother?"

"It's so expensive to invite Master Yuan, and since we have a map to protect the house, our Xiangcun Village is very safe, why should we move away." The current government is accountable.

Now that we have spoken, he said forcefully, "Dong Jun, this is the custom of our village, and the people who die are all voluntary. You can't make a mistake."

"If no one complains, I can't challenge it." Xi Huanyan asked, "How do you know that it is the house protection plan that requires human sacrifice?"

"Dream, many people dreamed about it at that time, there was a guardian god in the dream, who looked similar to the one on the guardian map, it told us."

"The day Xiangcun was attacked, was it the full moon?" Xi Huanyan looked at Mengshi.

Meng Shi thought about it for a while, "It seems to be."

The little lion king exclaimed, "The strange demon really came out of Xiangcun, right?"

"It's none of our business. It's none of our business. A villager came to the village that day. She didn't know that she didn't sleep in the middle of the night. She ran out for a walk. When she saw us offering sacrifices, she came to stop us. Our sacrifice failed in the end. .

At that time, we thought it was nothing, just one less time. Besides, the livestock had already thrown themselves into the lake, so we went back to sleep. Who knew that before dawn, a group of strange demons suddenly appeared and destroyed the village. "

"The ones that were suppressed at the bottom of the lake?"

"...Maybe, maybe not." The old man turned his face away, vaguely denying it.

But [-]% yes.

Xi Huanyan pondered, "What are the characteristics of a tall man?"

"It's been too long, it happened when I was a child, I don't have a picture."

"Who is the outsider?"

"I can't forget this. It's a woman, very beautiful. The name registered with the village secretary is Xing Lai."

The old man patted his thigh affirmatively, "It's Ming Lai, good guy, we in the whole village couldn't handle her alone. There was no way, the sacrifice had to be interrupted. Later, strange demons attacked the village, and we don't know where she went. Finally Fortunately, she died, if it wasn't for her, how could such a thing happen!"

Lai?
Xi Huanyan thought the name was familiar, and when she thought about it carefully, she recalled the fire bug incident.

The fireflies came from a batch of fireworks produced by Muzhou Ziye Trading Company. At that time, Muzhou had not yet recovered, and Xingjin could not be held accountable.

He simply charged Muzhou with the crime of covering up and anti-human race, and used this to send troops to Muzhou, which was actually a matter of recovery.

After the recovery, Ziye Trading Company was thoroughly investigated, but some of Ziye's high-level executives died in the battle, and some escaped, and nothing was found in the end.

Among the list of those who escaped, there is a person named Xing Lai, who is the vice president of Ziye.

Are these two the same?

If so, the strange demon incident in Xiangcun might not be easy.

On the way back to Zhensi, Qu Fujiao asked, "Dongjun thinks that what the Xiang villager said is true or false?"

"It's true. When we searched for houses in Xiangcun, almost every house was occupied by people, and there were many traces of life. If they sacrificed every month, there must be a shortage of people. This human sacrifice may not have come from the village."

Either from the village, or caught from outside the village.

Xiangcun has been offering sacrifices for a long time, but there have never been rumors from the outside world that the people who were arrested may be helpless homeless people, so it is difficult to find out.

These are all speculations, no one has complained, and there is no name investigation, but when it comes to the house protection map and the sound, she has to get to the bottom of it.

That night, Xi Huanyan called Shangqu Fujiao and sneaked into the inn where the people of Xiangcun lived.

Qu Fujiao covered his mouth and smiled, "Dongjun, this is not in line with the case handling procedures, and we have no right to handle the case."

"You can go back."

"I can't leave Dongjun alone."

Two students from the Department of Spirituality attacked, ordinary people really couldn't bear it, and soon a group of people were pried open in their sleep.

A piece of information was put together to piece together the real Xiangcun.

Xiangcun became a safe island after the mysterious master engraved the picture of protecting the house, and lived a life of indifference to the world.

In order to keep this safe place, as Xi Huanyan guessed, the Xiangcun people chose to plunder homeless people from outside the village as human sacrifices.

Not only that, they thought that Duke Xingjin's recovery of Muzhou and the enactment of laws would bring trouble to them, so they secretly obstructed the reconstruction of Xiaodie Town.

At the beginning of the reconstruction, they were partly responsible for the destruction of fertile land and houses, blaming the townspeople, and secretly cooperating with the diehards among the townspeople to make trouble for the town secretary, causing both the government and the people to be in conflict.

In the quiet inn, Qu Fujiao was taking notes for the "talking in sleep" Xiangcun people while marveling, "My heart is really dark. I didn't expect such a small place to have such a complicated situation."

"The weakness of the townspeople has been exposed. The mayor of Dongqing must be very happy. You find a chance and throw this record in his room."

After all, she didn't get it through a serious way, and she is a serious Dong Jun, so it's not easy to give this thing directly.

"Do you want to record the matter of Huang Lai and Mu Xingzhou?"

Based on the memory of Xiangcun people, the guess that Huang Lai is the vice president of Ziye Commercial Bank has been confirmed.

The strange demons who attacked Xiangcun this time did come out of the lake. The most important point is that in a person's "dream talk", he saw Huang Lai standing among the strange demons. Is the leader of the strange demon.

There was also an ascetic who was suspected of being Mu Xingzhou three years ago. He did not leave to enter the Zhaowu Mountains by himself, but was thrown in by the Xiangcun people.

Because the ascetic had discovered the secret of their human sacrifice, advised them to return from their mistakes, and taught them a lesson.

They didn't dare to refute on the face, and secretly let a child lure him into a jeopardy in the mountains, called Black Cliff. Ordinary people don't feel anything close to it. The source master will be disabled when he gets close to the edge of the cliff, and he will continue to be weak. The villagers who followed him took advantage of his weakness and piled him off the cliff.

He originally wanted to kill him directly, but he resisted for a while, but he failed.

But falling into a cliff is no different from dying.

"Remember, one of the suspects in the case, one suspected to be the former dean of the missing Supreme Academy, is not a small person."

(End of this chapter)