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Chapter 147: Old Events in Yunlai Village (4062 words in total)
Lin flipped through page after page.

On the brown paper, every detail of the village from its establishment to the present is recorded. The first few pages describe the past and present life of the village, its gradual rise from a desolate place, and the names and deeds of each villager are recorded in detail.

As the pages turn, he gradually discovers some surprising secrets and stories.

There are legends about the founding of the village, past disasters, and some mysteries that have yet to be revealed.

This village diary is like a witness, silently recording the rise and fall of the village.

Among them, there are two things that attract more attention. One is the legend about the temple and the flying squirrel, and the other is about the guardian responsibilities of the village chief of Yunlai Village.

Three hundred years ago, Yunlai Village was still a very poor mountain village. Life was difficult, and it was often necessary to go from hunger to meal.

What's even more frightening is that the weather is bad again. Under the severe drought, there is no harvest, and even a sip of clean water has become a luxury.

At that time, there was no so-called Black River near Yunlai Village, only endless sand.

The only dozens of acres of land for growing grains are not very fertile, and the grain yield is not very high.

For a time, the shadow of death shrouded the entire village.

Changing the gold-painted tablets is such a big event, why is it not recorded in it?
"What's wrong?" Ah Jiu asked in confusion.

Flying squirrels don't like darkness by nature, are afraid of cold and heat, and most like to stay in places with fire.

Logically speaking, the village diary records the major and minor events of the village, which are basically matters related to the development and changes in the village.

"But people have changed in just a few decades?" Ah Jiu counted the time silently in his mind, and asked with disbelief in his eyes: "The little boy sacrificed his life to save the village, if he hadn't already Do you know how many people will die because of this disaster?"

From then on, there was a winged mouse in the temple, and the villagers called him General Flying Squirrel.

Ah Jiu thought about it and realized that there was indeed nothing wrong with this.

It was a river washed out by spring water brought down from the mountain by immortals using magic.

"So the person who came after him should have made similar or even greater contributions than the little boy to be placed on top." Lin Yi thought for a while and replied.

General Momonga's information is recorded on it.

Every year when the time comes, Yunlai Village will arrange activities for the villagers.

In order to thank the immortal for his help, the villagers of Yunlai Village built a temple on the mountain and used the best stones to build images and worship them.

Later, the little boy sacrificed his life in accordance with the immortal's request and restored the village to normal.

strangeness.

"That's not right. The gold-lacquered tablet in the ancestral hall doesn't seem to belong to the little boy in the story." Ah Jiu pointed to the final result about the little boy recorded above. He remembered that the golden-lacquered tablet he saw before The date of birth and death shows a 60-year-old man.

The dependent mother still couldn't wait for water and died of thirst at home.

"Can swearing attract immortals?" Ah Jiu walked over curiously and saw Lin Yi turning to this page.

The two stopped talking and continued to look down.

The immortal said: "I have a way to solve the difficulties in the village, but someone needs to pay the price with his life."

The little boy broke down and cried, cursing to the sky, why should he treat them like this.

I flipped through several pages without recording anything.

After Lin Yi thought for a moment, he shook his head and continued: "I don't know, everyone understands the value differently. Maybe in the eyes of the villagers at that time, there were things more important than life."

He tried his best to run home with the plant in his hands, but he was still late.

At the same time, the villagers were also very grateful to the little boy who sacrificed for the village, and decided to put his tablet in the ancestral hall and paint it with gold paint to show respect.

After the temple was built and the stone statue was moved into the temple, the immortal was overjoyed to learn about it.

There are only three short lines of words, and they are specially marked in red letters.

Lin Yi chuckled lightly, "Even if you are not an immortal, as long as you can save people from fire and water, it is the same as being offered as an immortal."

The little boy replied without any hesitation: "I am willing, as long as there are no more deaths in the village, so that everyone can live a good life."

The age is obviously inconsistent.

"Entering the gold-painted tablet in the ancestral hall can actually be understood as a kind of recognition after making a significant contribution to the village. It can be regarded as a posthumous honor."

He has an excellent sense of smell, is particularly sensitive to odors, is extremely fast and is good at hiding.

At this time, a little boy named Ze in the village found a small piece of plant with sap in the almost dry woods.

During that time, people died every day in the village. Some died of hunger, some died of thirst, but more often died of illness after drinking unclean water.

The other party sent attendants to guard the temple and made a promise to protect the peace of Yunlai Village for generations to come.

After saying that, he continued to turn down another page. As a result, there was no record in the village diary about the replacement of the gold-lacquered tablets in the ancestral hall.

Worship the temple, honor the flying squirrel, and make offerings.

Lin Yi didn't say anything and just continued to scroll down. Unexpectedly, he suddenly turned a page with strange content.

Ah Jiu showed a trace of confusion on his face, "Is there any greater contribution than saving the lives of a villager?"

"Indeed they are not the same person." Lin Yi's finger gently tapped on the words "show respect", "The stories all happened three hundred years ago, and the date on the golden lacquer tablet is only more than two hundred years old. It is obvious that they are not the same person. stage."

From then on, Yunlai Village lost a piece of sand and gained a black river.

Unexpectedly, this scolding actually attracted the immortal.

Wings and teeth are excellent weapons and need to be watched with care.

"Why do I feel strange everywhere I look at these three lines of words?"

Ah Jiu scratched his head, feeling that something was strange, but he couldn't place it.

In the end, he could only look at Lin Yi with pleading eyes, "Do you feel something is wrong?"

"The title is wrong and the tone is wrong." Lin Yi explained carefully: "According to the records in the village diary on the first few pages, the villagers call him General Flying Squirrel, but here there is only the word "Flying Squirrel"."

"In addition, the above three lines of content do not sound like a respectful tone to the description of Momonga. Instead, they are a cold observation description."

After hearing what Lin Yi said, Ah Jiu suddenly realized and shouted: "Yes, yes, that's how it feels."

"The content of this page has completely changed from the tone of the previous record."

When Lin Yi stretched out his hand to continue turning down the page, his fingertips touched the corner of the page that had just touched it, and suddenly he felt the page loosen.

The next second, a piece of paper slowly slipped out of the village diary.

He reached out to catch the page and found out the clues in it.

The paper in his hand looks like it is made of the same material as the paper in the village diary, but from the little marks on the left side, it can be seen that this page has been artificially stuffed in.

There is also a very thin layer of adhesive film on top.

"There is something wrong with this page." Lin Yi checked it repeatedly and confirmed: "It was not originally in the village diary. Someone inserted it in."

In this case, the pages he couldn't find before were probably torn away by someone.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi no longer continued to scroll down, but seriously groped back and forth in the previous pages.

"What are you looking for?" Ah Jiu didn't understand what was different about Lin Yi's operation. To him, it was just ordinary paper.

Two minutes later, Lin Yi finally found a small paper tear gear, which was a little bit of residual trace left after tearing the paper.

This village diary has been tampered with, and the content inside is incomplete.

But why only the few pages where the gold-painted tablets were replaced were torn off? Is there any unknown secret hidden inside?

Lin Yi continued to scroll down with doubts and saw something about the village chief's protective duties.

Every village chief in Yunlai Village is elected by the villagers.

They are generally people with excellent character and outstanding abilities who have made significant contributions to the village.

After reaching the age of fifty-five, he will step down from office and his duties will be continued by the next village chief.

The village chief's guardian responsibilities are mainly responsible for the life and development of Yunlai Village, maintaining the temple, and guarding the secrets of the ancestral hall.

The secret of the ancestral hall?
This aroused Lin Yi's interest.

He was very curious about what the underground area of ​​the ancestral hall was built for, what it was for, and what its function was.

"Flower!" Ah Jiu looked excitedly at the content Lin Yi turned to. There was no information written on this page, just a picture.

A terrifying and eerie picture.

A blood-red flower bloomed brilliantly, and five or six bones emerged from the soil under the flower, reaching out to grab the flower branches.

The faces of the bones showed an expression of pain and happiness, and they opened their mouths and raised their heads to drink the flower juice dripping from the petals.

The flower juice dyed the ground red like blood.

Lin Yi ignored Ah Jiu's excitement and quickly turned to the second page, which contained information about the origin of Bana Flower.

A hundred years ago, Yunlai Village suffered from severe rainstorms, and it rained heavily for half a month.

From time to time there was thunder and lightning.

During that time, there would be some housing problems from time to time, ranging from broken tiles and leaking roofs to large collapses causing damage to the house.

Later, the village chief took the villagers to the temple to make offerings, and the heavy rain stopped.

But during the last heavy rain, the roof of the ancestral hall was damaged.

A large amount of rain washed down and destroyed most of the originally weak wall.

Several villagers were injured and their blood flowed all over the ground.

When the villagers were cleaning up the ancestral hall, they discovered the blooming Bana flower.

At first, no one knew what the flower was. They just thought it looked good, so they picked it and planted it.

The flowers grow bigger and bigger, and the fragrance they emit is particularly delicious, making people feel indescribable happiness and joy.

It wasn't until the village chief and his people came back from the temple that they learned about the incident, and he quickly summoned the villagers to tell them about the unknown flower.

Everyone quickly tried to burn the flowers, but some people still hid them secretly, or even secretly planted them in the ancestral hall.

Not long after, accidental deaths began to appear one after another in the village, almost all of which were villagers who had touched the flowers and then destroyed them.

The flowers continued to grow, and the more the fire burned, the more flowers grew.

In desperation, the village chief entered the temple again, and with the help of General Momonga, destroyed the Hibiscus flower growing in the village.

At this time, the Bianhua in the ancestral hall has grown into a terrifying and strange evil thing, giving birth to consciousness, and its power is so powerful that it cannot be eliminated.

In the end, a place of suppression could only be built under the ancestral hall to suppress evil creatures.

After this incident, General Momonga exhausted his power and fell into a deep sleep, and the ancestral hall became a forbidden area.

The village chief is responsible for guarding and inspecting the seal.

The Bianhua became a secret in Yunlai Village, and all surviving villagers were told not to mention it again.

"No wonder there are spells, mechanisms and black dog blood everywhere here." Ah Jiu obviously did not expect that a flower could be an evil thing.

Lin Yi didn't say anything and continued to flip through the pages, and the subsequent records were gone.

Everything stopped at Bana Flower.

"Eh, it's gone?" Ah Jiu was surprised as he took the village diary and flipped through it carefully, confirming that it was all blank.

The village diary records nothing more here.

In other words, the village chief did not record anything for a long time.

This is obviously very problematic.

The problem is likely to occur in the other side of the flower.

"The village chief is responsible for guarding and inspecting the seal?" Lin Yi read this line of information in the record and thought to himself.

Perhaps this is why the name of the village chief is inconsistent with the name in the family tree.

Someone was guarding and stealing it, and released the evil flower of the other side to study immortality.

If this is the case, the appearance and behavior of flying squirrels are easy to speculate.

The reason why it attacks people is to protect the peace of Yunlai Village.

According to the known information, Momonga's duty is to protect the temple, and the temple's role is to protect the peace of Yunlai Village from generation to generation.

The existence of Bianhua broke the peace and stability of Yunlai Village.

As a guardian, Momonga will act naturally.

Why would they attack villagers and even kill them?

It's most likely because of the flower seeds hidden in the villagers' bodies.

Just when he was lost in thought, he heard Ah Qi shouting: "I found the safe exit."

"Found it, we can finally leave." Ah Jiu happily patted Lin Yi on the shoulder, interrupting his thinking.

"Then let's leave now." Bian Yi helped Ah Qi push away the bookshelf and opened the baffle of the emergency exit, revealing a narrow and deep path.

Lin put the village diary back to its original place, closed the wooden cabinet door, and followed Ah Jiu over.

He took out the map again and checked it again. He nodded to the four people present and said, "It's right here."

As soon as these words came out, a smile appeared on everyone's lips.

Finally they were leaving this hellish place.

Even Liu Jingjing, who had been silent all this time, became lighter.

Although this trail seemed tortuous and dim, the air was circulating, and Lin Yi could even smell a faint scent of vegetation.

I think the exit should be near the woods.

Because the safety exit was too narrow, they had to lie on the ground and crawl forward.

In the dim light, Lin Yi could only hear the sounds of crawling and breathing, but could not see anything clearly.

A bright light loomed ahead, signaling victory to them.

Just then, a scream shattered hope.

A hand stretched out from the darkness and grabbed Lin Yi's ankle tightly, dragging him down hard.

(End of this chapter)