0p0 Chapter 209 She's More Suitable to Be a Butcher Than Yu Cinian
Chapter 209 She's More Suitable to Be a Butcher Than Yu Cinian
The villagers stared wide-eyed, about to cry out in grief and indignation, "Grandpa!"
But suddenly, like a rooster being choked, it fell silent.
He stared intently at his grandfather's corpse, and when Tangxi started chopping down another one, he couldn't hold back any longer and ran away in terror.
The others, who, like him, wanted to run away with their loved ones, were also terrified by this scene and screamed as they ran away.
Soon, only the evil creatures, frozen in place and unable to move, remained in the vicinity.
The villains became increasingly unrestrained in their attacks.
He slashed away, one cut after another, thoroughly enjoying himself.
The longevity village has only about 120 households, but has more than 1,000 people.
Of these more than a thousand people, nearly half were evil beings.
Despite the sheer number of villains, even if they were fond of killing people, there were only five of them.
So Lin Sui let them chop until they were satisfied, then called a halt: "That's enough."
"If everyone in this world were evil, how wonderful that would be." Yu Cinian regretfully sheathed his knife, a hint of satisfaction in his smile.
Si Xingran, still somewhat unsatisfied, unusually chimed in, "Isn't that right?"
He brandished the kitchen knife, finally rediscovering his original dream.
Tangxi carried the butcher knife, reluctant to return it.
She felt that she might be more suited to be a butcher than Yu Cinian.
Lu Xiang threw away the wood-chopping knife with disdain.
This thing doesn't fit her aesthetic as a sophisticated female celebrity at all. She wouldn't use it if she couldn't find any other tool to chop someone up.
Li Ye simply tucked the axe into his waistband.
He watched the movie when he was a child and wanted to join the Axe Gang.
The area around them was littered with corpses.
They were all cut in half without exception.
Under the blazing fire, it looked no different than if the entire village had been massacred.
Although Cheng Feng and Luo Rulan had both watched the show and witnessed the ferocity of these people in the first episode, it was still not as shocking as seeing it with their own eyes.
"I finally know what kind of excitement Master Lin wants to see," Cheng Feng muttered listlessly.
Even if these aren't human, they at least look exactly like humans on the surface.
If it really came down to a fight, no one could get over that mental hurdle.
They're fine, they don't even have a hair's breadth, let alone any obstacles!
He chops without blinking, as smoothly and effortlessly as cutting vegetables.
He felt a chill run down his spine, fearing that these men, in their rage, might also stab him in the neck.
Fortunately, Lin Sui held them together.
Once the battle had subsided, the villagers who had been hiding cautiously peeked out.
A sharp-eyed person immediately noticed something interesting: "Huh? Why isn't there any blood on the ground?"
“No.” The other person sniffed hard. “Logically speaking, with so many people dead, the smell of blood should be incredibly strong by now, but I can’t smell it at all.”
"No, it can't be like that girl said, that their souls are gone. Is it... that they are evil beings?"
"Maybe it really is. Didn't a lot of people look like they'd seen a ghost just now? And Meng Yu, she didn't run away, she must know something."
The villagers whispered amongst themselves, their anxious tones tinged with a hint of curiosity.
Finally, one of the braver people mustered up the courage to go and take a look, and was so frightened that he fell to the ground with a thud: "What, what is that thing?!"
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" The villagers were even more curious and went out one after another.
Then, they all stood there, frozen in place.
All that could be seen on the ground was a corpse cut in two, with no blood, no internal organs, and not even flesh or bones.
Their entire bodies were hollowed out, truly hollowed out in a physical sense.
At this moment, their bodies were filled with dense black mold.
This is precisely the source of the musty smell that Yu Cinian and his colleagues detected on people.
It is precisely these molds that manipulate the body and mimic the person's behavior with their powerful ability to imitate, making people believe that they are still alive and well, living to be over a hundred years old.
"Ugh~"
The emaciated pregnant women slumped down beside their husbands, gagging repeatedly from the sight before them.
Meng's mother, kneeling at Meng Yu's feet, was completely terrified.
Lin Sui looked at her and said, "You should be glad that you were 'blessed' in a different way, otherwise your husband's fate today would be yours too, and even I couldn't save you."
"What, what do you mean?" Mother Meng asked, looking dazed.
Lin Sui pointed with his chin at a female body not far away: "Blessing men means letting them eat what is given to them directly, and then have sex with their wives so that their wives can become pregnant and reproduce."
"Once the so-called child is born, your soul and flesh will also be corroded within three months, becoming a shell for this thing to live on."
Hearing this, Lu Xiang frowned: "So, the crazy woman we met at the Yang family during the day, she wasn't completely corrupted yet?"
Lin Sui nodded: "Unfortunately, it's still too late."
The moment her eyes changed, it meant she was completely beyond saving.
"Then why can men 'live long' while these women have to 'die'?" Si Xingran chewed on a piece of beef jerky.
Lin Sui: "Their ultimate goal is to reproduce. A woman can only reproduce once. In order to find the next one openly, they can only let their wives die."
"Then, dead..." Tangxi wanted to ask where the woman who "died" had gone.
Thinking of something, she turned her head to look at the village gate in the darkness.
Li Ye and the others realized this and turned around.
Yu Cinian's eyes curved slightly: "It seems that those envoys outside are these wives who must 'die'."
Mother Meng could hardly believe her eyes.
She pointed tremblingly at Meng Yu: "If all of this is fake, then why, why did A Yu keep it from everyone?"
"And Meng Xiang, Wu Mingyue, Yang Meiyi... Why are they all unharmed, and even claim to have seen the gods with their own eyes?"
Lin Sui remained silent for a moment before saying, "They are not unharmed; they have been dead for a long time, especially Yang Meiyi, who has been dead for seventy years."
As soon as he finished speaking, a surge of resentment rose into the sky.
A dense, yin energy then spread out.
Meng Yu, who was originally standing firmly on the ground, became a ghost floating in mid-air, causing Meng's mother, who was leaning against her, to fall to the ground.
"Ah! Ghost!"
Those around were so frightened that they backed away, and Meng's mother was completely limp, unable to believe it.
Dead? Her daughter is dead?
how come?
In the past six months, she has become a vibrant and beautiful woman, full of life and energy.
She has become more cheerful and outgoing than before, actively helping the village receive tourists and patiently and meticulously taking care of her daily life.
Who wouldn't envy her good fortune to have such a thoughtful and sensible daughter who is also so promising that she was chosen by the cave god and blessed with longevity?
But she...died?
Lin Sui glanced at her: "Do you remember how your daughter came back?"
"I..." Mother Meng was about to answer when she was suddenly stunned.
She suddenly realized that she really couldn't remember at all where her daughter, whom she had personally thrown into the river, had come from.
Lin Sui then turned her gaze to Wu's eldest grandson: "And you, do you still remember your little aunt? She's only half a year younger than you."
The Wu family was completely stunned.
The young woman who had previously cooperated with Lin Sui's questioning was astonished: "Only half a year younger than my brother, then why, why are you so young?"
She immediately pulled out her phone to look through the photos, then exclaimed in surprise, "Where's the person in the photo?"
On the screen, the photos she secretly took were clearly just a blurred background wall, with the figures disappearing into thin air.
“You once firmly believed that she was a living, breathing person, which is why you were able to photograph her. Now that the lie has been exposed, the person in the photo naturally no longer exists,” Lin Sui explained.
The woman covered her mouth in disbelief: "So you mean that every chosen bride, they were actually, were actually all ghosts?"
Lu Xiang scoffed: "Not bad, at least there's one who's not completely muddle-headed, but he's not exactly smart either."
The woman: "..." Was she being praised?
Everyone else present was shocked.
In every household, there was a bride who was chosen by the cave god.
At that time, they felt it was an immense honor. Whoever was chosen would have to hold a grand banquet, invite a theatrical troupe, and celebrate for three days and three nights.
But now someone is telling them that the longevity is a lie, and the woman chosen as the bride is long dead; she didn't survive at all...
The thought that they had been living with ghosts and evil creatures on earth all this time sent chills down my spine.
"I... I still don't understand." Cheng Feng inexplicably felt that these things were somewhat related to him, but he didn't know why.
He could only rack his brains to come up with his question: "There's a big difference between ghosts and humans, isn't there? It's strange that they haven't noticed it for decades."
“With the help of the so-called cave god, it’s easy to deceive people.” Lin Sui’s gaze fell on Meng Yu. “Simply put, they’ve been bewitched by a ghost.”
The young woman couldn't help but chime in: "But they still feel warm to the touch, and you can even see their shadows when they walk in the sunlight."
Lin Sui: "Sometimes, people's beliefs are very powerful. When everyone firmly believes in the same thing, even a lie can become the truth."
Like these villagers, they firmly believe that being chosen means being blessed with longevity.
In their eyes, brides not only wouldn't die, but it wouldn't be surprising if they were truly immortal.
But in their subconscious, they think, "No one can stay young forever."
It is precisely because we will grow old that we yearn for longevity.
Therefore, they would subconsciously forget their age and the time when they were chosen, taking it for granted that they would always look young.
"These women actually colluded with evil spirits to deceive us, how despicable!"
"If you're going to die, then so be it. Why drag the whole village down with you? You didn't even spare your own parents, brothers, and sisters. You're worse than an animal!"
"Master Lin, you must do us justice! Quickly get rid of these harmful ghosts!"
The faith that had been upheld for decades collapsed overnight.
The villagers' attitude changed instantly; they all glared fiercely at Meng Yu, their eyes seeming as if they wanted to devour her alive.
Looking at these faces filled with condemnation, Meng Yu felt both disgusted and amused.
How ironic.
These people are supposed to be their closest family members, yet they keep talking about parents, brothers, and sisters.
Faced with the fact that they were already dead, their first reaction was not heartache, sadness, or even a trace of guilt.
Instead, it was fear and resentment.
Meng Yu sneered: "Look at your ugly appearance. Tell me, which one of you hasn't dreamt of being blessed and then being revered like a wizard?"
"Your own greed has led to this situation, and you still want to shift the blame to us?"
"With faces this big, why didn't your mother just suffocate you inside her when she gave birth to you?"
The Wu family members looked grim and retorted indignantly, "You can't say that. If it weren't for these evil creatures disguised as humans, and your claims that you have indeed seen gods, how could we believe such a thing?"
“Of course you want to believe it!” Meng Yu’s face was gloomy. “It would be best if it were true, but even if it isn’t, it’s just sacrificing an insignificant girl. It will only benefit you and not harm you. Why don’t you believe it?”
These words left them speechless.
The girls, who had been hoping to be chosen, had complicated expressions.
The more remote the place, the less attention girls receive.
Their longevity village is unique.
This difference is due to the blessing of the gods.
So they actually prefer to believe that it's true.
Although sometimes they struggle and doubt whether their parents really love them.
But compared to the benefits gained, this little bit of sentimentality seems insignificant.
Meng Yu thought the same way.
But the more this happened, the more she hated it all.
If they had received equal attention from the beginning, even if Old Master Meng were critically ill, he would not have been willing to let Aunt Mengxiang, a young girl who was only seventeen years old at the time and whose life had just begun, sacrifice herself for him.
Moreover, Old Master Meng was not critically ill at the time.
His health wasn't very good, but it wasn't critical either.
He was simply swayed by the sorcerer's repeated persuasion every year; Aunt Mengxiang heard them say it with her own ears:
"She's just a little girl, it's not a big loss if she's gone, but if she can really cure your old ailment, wouldn't you be making a profit?"
"Besides, she should repay your kindness in raising her. It's just a small sacrifice, no, it's not even a sacrifice. She can benefit from it herself. It's a win-win situation."
It just so happened that Aunt Meng Xiang also reached a certain age that year, so the two hit it off and had Old Man Meng pretend to be sick.
It was only then that Mengxiang Agu was sent to her death by her own biological father.
From then on, the girls began to be valued by their families, unaware that this value was laced with poison.
They were happy about this and hoped that they too would be chosen by the gods, and then fall into the abyss step by step.
"You beast! You beast!" Mother Meng broke down, pointing at Meng Yu and cursing, "Weren't we also tricked into pushing you into the river? You just watched your father be killed by that evil spirit, and you're going to watch me die too?"
"No wonder! No wonder you were so attentive to me after I got pregnant. You were planning to kill me! If I had known, I would have preferred to give birth to a piece of barbecued pork instead!"
Meng Yu's eyes suddenly turned bloodshot: "I was in my father's belly back then, how can you expect me to say that?!"