I made myself the protagonist

Chapter 157 Doubt
"Then what should we do now? Shall we still go to the village chief's house?" After hearing Erika's description, Zhao Sicheng suddenly felt a little guilty.

"Of course I'm going. Even if I meet him, I'm sure I can deal with that guy." Ren Yao, who has always been quiet, suddenly spoke at this time.

"Ren Yao is right. The village is so big, and the players will meet sooner or later. In addition, there are many people in the village. In order to avoid being suspected, I think Zhao Zhengxun will not directly attack us without thinking. After all, the investigation of the truth is the only way to deal with us. It is the core of this mission." Ling Yun said.

"What's happening here is too strange now. The other party was on the mountain all day yesterday, so he must not know what happened in the village. We can use this as a bargaining chip to exchange information with them."

Ling Yun's words resonated with everyone, Lin Yuanqi thought for a few seconds and agreed with the other party.Although Zhao Zhengxun is aggressive by nature, he is not without strategy.

"Looking at the attitude of these villagers towards us now, it seems that the village head who is willing to receive outsiders has impure motives. His family lives in the east, and it should be for the convenience of guarding the ancestral hall." Shen Tinglan speculated.

Combined with the reminder given by the headless ghost before, everyone agreed that the breakthrough point of this mission must be the village chief.

"Could it be related to some sacrifice?" Tang Yao thought of the water ghost who entangled Ling Yun last night, and put forward her own conjecture.

"It makes sense! I think the eyes of these villagers are sneaky. There must be something shameful in the village." Lin Yuanqi slapped his thigh suddenly: "You are so smart, sister Tang Yao!"

"There are many doubts in this village. Apart from offering sacrifices, there must be secrets behind the ancestral hall and the ruined temple on the mountain."

Tang Yao looked serious: "The strangest thing for me now is why all the disappeared villagers suddenly came back? Then what did what we saw and experienced yesterday mean?"

While everyone was discussing, Su Li, who had been silent all this time, suddenly walked out of the team and stopped by the side of the road.

She looked up and looked around, as if looking for something.Shen Tinglan even noticed that on the way into the village, Su Li's eyes never left the nearby farmers.Looking at her reaction now, she must have discovered something.

"This is the place where Ren Yao strangled Ying Xiao yesterday."

Su Li pointed to the undamaged ground in front of him and said: "Not only that, since I entered the village yesterday, I have quietly marked all over the village, but now, those traces have disappeared."

"This is very strange, what we experienced yesterday can't be an illusion?" Zhao Sicheng took out a gemstone from his pocket: "The spoils of strangling the curse spirit are still there, those things definitely exist! "

"Yes."

Su Li looked at the patterns the boys had just drawn on the ground with branches, and said slowly, "Since entering the mission, I have noticed something very strange, and that is time. Unlike usual, this time the space is not We didn’t tell us the date to enter the copy, but only informed that the task period is five days. Not only that, but every villager’s home can’t find anything like a calendar.”

Su Li's words inspired everyone. Based on their memories, everyone found the house where they rested yesterday.Sure enough, even the paw prints of the ghouls on the wall disappeared.

"Sister Su, do you mean..."

Tang Yao looked at a big tree with luxuriant branches and leaves not far away, and remembered that when they came, all the leaves on this tree had already fallen off; at that time, the farmland around the village was dry, the land was cracked, and the weeds were withered and yellow. , a completely dilapidated and declining scene.

At this time, everyone also reacted: the village is still the ancient Xun village, but the time they live in has changed.

"If it really goes back in time, then everything can be explained. What we saw yesterday is the effect, and what we experience today is the cause."

Shen Tinglan immediately analyzed: "It is precisely because of something that happened in the village that all the nearby creatures disappeared overnight, and the cursed objects raged."

"In other words... Now we have returned to the time before the incident. If everyone did not find out the truth of the incident and prevent the tragedy from happening, they would disappear with the villagers by then?!" Reminiscent of the situation in the village and the surrounding area yesterday , Tang Yao keenly caught the point.

"I'm afraid it is." After Shen Tinglan finished speaking, the expressions of the rest of the people also became serious.

"If I'm not mistaken, since ancient times, this village has practiced the habit of sacrificing living people. Now that the villagers avoid us so much, they should be preparing for it, or have already done this bad thing." Su Li said.

"In this way, the culprit who caused the destruction of the village was the victim of the sacrificial ceremony?" Erika asked.

Lin Yuanqi remembered what had happened to the mountainside cemetery, and his eyes lit up: "Very likely. If it weren't for the overwhelming hatred for Guxun Village, how could all the creatures within a radius of more than ten kilometers be wiped out, even those who have already died?" People are not willing to let them go, and want the curse spirit to eat up their bones and abandon them in the wilderness?"

"No, no. There are many places that cannot be explained."

Zhao Sicheng thought for a while, then shook his head and retorted: "If the water ghost is the culprit of this incident, let alone Ling Yun, all of us couldn't survive last night. In my opinion, since Guxun Village has the habit of sacrificing living people , there must be a way to deal with it. The shrine on the mountain is used to suppress resentment. Yesterday's water ghost should have been released after the seal was broken, not the mysterious force that caused the village's population to perish."

"Indeed." Among all the people, Ling Yun had the most right to speak: "Although that ghost is powerful, it has not yet reached the level where it can destroy the entire village silently. Erika also said before that she came from the north When I came down from the mountain, I saw a similar shrine outside the village. I think it must have been specially set up by the ancestors of Guxun Village to guard the village, otherwise the water ghosts would approach."

"and also."

Su Li added: "Guxun Village is surrounded by mountains on all sides and is located in a basin. Because of the topographical conditions, every summer, it will suffer from heavy rains and floods."

Generally speaking, rainfall is the main cause of flash flood phenomenon.Although I don't know the exact date of entering the dungeon, it is not difficult to judge that it is now the flood season in the mountainous area.

For mountainous areas, June to August is the main flood season, and mountain torrent disasters occur frequently.The water content of the soil on the top of the mountain is saturated, and the pressure of the pressurized water in the cracks of the rock layer below the soil increases sharply.When there is heavy rain, the original soil balance is destroyed, and it pours down from the middle and upper part of the mountain in an instant, causing flash floods and mudslides.

This is a normal natural phenomenon, but for Guxun Village, which has a backward cultural level, people will regard these phenomena as "punishment from heaven" due to lack of corresponding scientific knowledge and insufficient defense measures.

In response to the disaster, it is not difficult to explain why they performed heinous acts such as living sacrifices.

Not only that, gouging out the victim's eyes and cutting off their tongue before the sacrifice also makes them unable to speak and see; setting magic circle seals at the entrances on all sides of the village can protect the place from the infestation of resentful spirits.

(End of this chapter)