The true heiress felt a pang of heartache, and the crazed villains panicked.

Chapter 205 It's not easy to throw a tantrum, sighing softly.

The villains looked at the incomplete copy and suddenly realized what was going on.

If no one had discovered it, this meticulously recorded booklet wouldn't exist.

Only Cheng Feng and Luo Rulan were still clueless: "Who? Who found out?"

"Didn't they all say they didn't remember when their 'bride' was chosen?"

Besides the young woman from the Wu family, the other families we visited also said they didn't know or remember how old the bride was.

I don't think it's strange that I could forget something so simple.

"Why would they do this..." Lin Sui looked quietly at Cheng Yuexiu, "I think you know best."

Cheng Yuexiu's face turned pale, and he hurriedly lowered his head.

Cheng Feng quickly stepped in front of him, frowning as he asked Lin Sui, "Master Lin, what do you mean by this? How could my brother know anything about Longevity Village?"

He decided to gamble on the show in order to raise money for his mother's medical expenses.

If you win the bet, great; if you lose, it's only for five days, and you still get 50,000 yuan, so it's not too bad.

Cheng Yuexiu was worried about him, which is why she insisted on coming along.

He threatened to tell his mother if they didn't let him come along, so he had no choice but to take him with him to register.

In his memory, Cheng Yuexiu had followed him around since she was a child and had never left his side.

Even though they visited the longevity village ten years ago, he was only a teenager at the time.

He didn't think his younger brother, who was even younger than him, could do anything earth-shattering that he didn't know about.

Lin Sui didn't explain.

She continued, returning to the notebook: "The person who recorded these things probably hoped that the villagers could discover all this unusualness through this notebook."

"But obviously, no one has seen the booklet so far."

If an ordinary person had seen it, the strangeness of the "brides" would have spread, and she would have been able to see from their faces that there was such a record book in the Drum Tower.

If an extraordinary person were to see this, this booklet would no longer exist.

Si Xingran tapped the hard beef jerky casually: "Is there any need to hide this? The chosen ones not only live long lives but also stay young forever, wouldn't that make them even more desirable?"

"It's not that simple." Lin Sui shook her head. "If the fact that they don't age is pointed out, everything will be in vain."

Lu Xiang also asked, "Wouldn't it be better to just publicly name the person who wrote these things?"

"This is probably not so simple." Yu Cinian pointed meaningfully at the words on the notebook.

The handwriting was crooked and large, as if it had been drawn by comparison.

Later, perhaps as I became more skilled, my handwriting began to appear neater.

The other person was clearly a beginner.

Tang Xi clapped her hands: "He... won't speak!"

He can't speak!

Li Ye: "It's also possible that I can't say."

They could have just said it, but instead they insisted on going to great lengths to learn to write.

Either the other party is unable to speak up, or they are unwilling to speak up, which is why they have to go through all this trouble.

At this moment, Lin Sui, who had been staring at the handwriting and calculating, looked up and said, "I know where she is. I'll go see her this afternoon."

As she spoke, she took a piece of failed beef jerky from the plate on the table, stuffed it into her mouth, and gritted her teeth.

The crowd's initial reaction was: "???"

Seeing Lin Sui smacking her lips, she silently started grinding again.

Everyone: "..."

Li Ye: "...I'll go cook."

Others: "I'll go help."

The room was empty in the blink of an eye. Lin Sui tossed the beef jerky back onto the plate with satisfaction and rubbed his cheeks.

Sigh, it's not easy to throw a tantrum, I can only sigh.

After lunch and a short nap, Lin Sui, full of energy, led everyone to continue their afternoon exploration.

The person who recorded everything lived in a very remote place, in the southeast corner of the village, near the fence.

After walking along the rugged stone path and crossing a babbling brook, a solitary house with blue tiles finally came into view in the distance.

The house is surrounded by a fence, and there are a few chickens and ducks in the yard, as well as a few rows of vegetables.

An elderly woman with her head wrapped in cloth and her body particularly hunched was sitting by the vegetable garden, cleaning a bunch of fresh bok choy in her hands.

She also seemed to have hearing problems. When Lin Sui and her group pushed open the fence gate and walked behind her, she didn't react at all.

Lin Sui could only give Si Xingran meaningful glances.

Si Xingran gave an OK sign, then cleared her throat and began to sing: "Grandma~ Please~ listen to me~"

Lin Sui: "???" Listen to me and thank you?

She just thought Si Xingran had the loudest voice and wanted him to speak up to remind her so as not to disturb the old man.

Why did this guy suddenly start singing?

If you're going to sing, then what's with this convoluted singing style?

How did he manage to be completely off-key in just six words?

Especially if you don't know opera singing, there's no need to force it.

It really sounds like a duck quacking!

Lin Sui didn't understand and didn't dare to stop it, so she simply covered her ears, unable to bear the disturbance any longer.

Fortunately, this trick worked quite well. Before the old woman even turned around, she enthusiastically and loudly responded, "Who is it?"

Lin Sui and the others exchanged glances.

It's confirmed; it's not that she can't tell, but that she's unable to tell.

"Who is it?" the old woman was still shouting loudly, turning around shakily as she asked.

"We're here for tourism, and we'd like to ask you something," Si Xingran called out to her.

The old woman tilted her ear and said, "Huh? You're asking if I've eaten? Not yet! I haven't eaten! I'm about to make myself a bowl of vegetable noodles!"

She answered very carefully before slowly looking up at him.

Seeing that they were a group of strangers, he immediately became wary.

Her dwelling was almost entirely isolated from human habitation, and she was hard of hearing. So no matter how loud the commotion in the village was, she was completely oblivious to it and had no idea what was happening.

"Who is it? Who are you? Get out of here, don't come back!" The old woman waved them away, muttering under her breath, "Why come to this awful place when there are so many fun places to go..."

Lin Sui didn't say much, but bent down and handed the tattered notebook in her hand to her.

The old woman trembled, as if her neck had been grabbed, and instantly fell silent.

The bok choy in her hands fell to the ground. She was terrified, and after a long while, she frantically waved her hands and shook her head, crying, "I don't know, I don't know anything, don't kill me, don't kill me..."

Even so, her voice was very soft, as if she was afraid of being overheard.

Lin Sui looked at her face and frowned deeply.

She quickly typed a line on her phone, enlarged the font, and handed it to the old woman to see.

—There's something fishy about the Cave God's Bride. You saw someone die because of it, didn't you?

The old woman raised her hands with trembling hands, as if she wanted to hug her head, but after seeing these words, she froze on the spot.

Lin Sui lowered her eyes.

Sure enough, she could recognize characters, but since she had never been to school, she had never written them.

Lin Sui continued typing: You are an orphan who grew up eating food from many families. There is an old woman in the village who also lost her husband and had no children. You are closest to her.

She also discovered the problem with the Cave God's Bride, and she told you that she had told her most trusted nephew, Old Man Meng, about it.

Then that very night, you discover that she has been killed by something that looks like black mold.

As she typed out each word, the old woman stared in astonishment.

Her lips trembled as she stood there in a daze for a long time. Slowly, two streams of murky tears flowed down her wrinkled face.

She thought that no one would ever know those things until she died, and that the village would be taken over by that strange thing sooner or later.

And those poor girls will be plunged into an abyss of no return.

Didn't expect, didn't expect...

Lin Sui: I promise to expose all of this. Now I only have one question: why are you two able to stay sober?

This was the only thing she couldn't tell from the old woman's face.

The old woman shook her head blankly: "I don't know."

She squinted, trying hard to recall memories that were so many years ago.

Finally, I found a clue deep in my memory.

"The old lady is very devout to a deity. She burns incense and prepares fresh offerings every day. I occasionally visit her house and sometimes go with her. Could it be because of this..."

Lin Sui's heart skipped a beat.

God?

Longevity Village is the territory of an evil god; how could He possibly allow the appearance of other gods?

The only force that is fighting against Him is another force.

Therefore, this deity is very likely that power.

Just as they had saved the infant spirit before, they saved the old woman.

The other force was also divine. Lin Sui had already sensed it before he remembered the past, so it wasn't too surprising.

Only a god could give her the opportunity to change all of this.

Lin Sui just couldn't figure out what kind of god the other party was, or what their relationship was with her master.

It was astonishing that her master could train her in advance to be sensitive to the aura of evil gods and to deal with vengeful ghosts after they became demons.

Even her blood divination skills were only possible thanks to her master's special training, which prevented her from being in a passive position when facing Xu Haize, who had changed his appearance.

She used to think it was just a coincidence, or as her master often said, "It's never a bad thing to have many skills."

However, in retrospect, it's clear that Master had foreseen this all along.

Is her master like her, or is he simply...?

Just as he thought of this, Lin Sui stopped himself from having any dangerous thoughts.

She didn't want to suddenly fall ill again.

So Lin Sui simply typed a message to the old woman: What god does she worship? Is it a statue or something else? Are the things still there?

“It was an old painting, but it’s gone,” the old woman said softly. “The portrait was destroyed the night she was killed.”

"As for what kind of god it is, she couldn't say for sure. She only said that this god was very famous thousands of years ago, and its incense was especially popular."

"Later, something happened that led to His gradual decline into a god, to the point that today, almost no one knows of His existence."

Thousands of years ago?

Lin Sui could only think of one major event that happened thousands of years ago.

—A ghost suddenly appeared one day thousands of years ago.

Before this, there were no ghosts or demons in this world.

Whether someone dies unjustly, wrongfully, or by suicide, they will go directly to the underworld after death, where there is a special reward and punishment mechanism.

In short, the administrators of the underworld will never allow these wandering spirits to linger in the human world and disrupt its order.

Similarly, mountain spirits and wild monsters also have their own places to go.

Correspondingly, those who cultivate Taoism do not have the practice of catching ghosts and exorcising demons.

At most, I can help people with feng shui, calculate their birth charts and fortunes, and search for the lost soul of a child.

Is it possible...

Lin Sui's expression suddenly turned somewhat unpleasant.

She hurriedly took out the medicine and swallowed it in one gulp before continuing to think.

...Is the appearance of the ghosts related to this fallen god?

The next second, a familiar sound, one she hadn't tasted in a long time, came through her head, making her dizzy and her vision go black.

"Sui, Bao!"

Tangxi had been anxious since she took the medicine, and when she saw that her face was pale, her eyes were tightly closed, and her body was swaying slightly, she immediately reached out and hugged her.

The others also gathered around.

Lin Sui didn't need to look to know that their expressions must be very unpleasant.

Even the surrounding air was filled with anxiety and tension.

Fortunately, her heart cooperated, only throbbing slightly, and the heart rate monitor didn't cause any problems.

After the dizziness subsided, Lin Sui opened her eyes and smiled gently: "It's nothing, it's not an attack, I just accidentally glimpsed some incredible secrets of heaven again."

Although actually... the two are closely related.

Si Xingran's face darkened, and he gritted his teeth in exasperation, saying, "Are you a peeping tom? Do you have to pry into this secret of heaven?!"

"No...don't be fierce!" Tang Xi glared at him fiercely, her eyes red.

Lu Xiang was also extremely irritable, but seeing Lin Sui clearly in pain yet still smiling and comforting them, her emotions felt blocked and she had nowhere to vent them.

All she could do was yell at Si Xingran, "You damn monkey, can't you change your lousy temper?!"

"Lin Sui didn't want to be like this, why are you being so fierce?" Li Ye's face was equally frosty, and his voice was like ice.

Si Xingran: "I..."

"Enough!" For the first time, Yu Cinian was annoyed by their noise.

"Enough what? You're old..." Si Xingran wanted to curse back irritably.

But Lin Sui said softly, "It's okay, I know you're worried about me."

In an instant, all my emotions were stuck in my throat, but it was as if a gentle breeze had swept by, softly soothing all my unease.

Si Xingran finally closed her eyes to calm herself down.

Lin Sui smiled and looked at the others: "I know, you all are too, so let's not fight, okay?"

"We didn't argue, I just have a short temper," Lu Xiang muttered, turning her face away.

Tangxi and Liye nodded silently in agreement.

Yu Cinian walked straight up to Lin Sui, said politely, "Excuse me," and then tried to pick her up in his arms.

Lin Sui's arm pressed against his chest.

She looked up, her voice tinged with a pitiful tone: "I still have questions to ask."

This was the first time she had shown weakness like this, and Yu Cinian's heart softened, so he didn't insist any further.

It took Lin Sui a while to feel the buzzing in her ears dissipate.

She typed again: Do you remember what that fallen god looked like?

The old woman was also frightened by her appearance just now, thinking that she had said something she shouldn't have.

Seeing that she was alright, the old woman breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, saying, "I remember that the god looked very strange. He had six hands, three eyes, and was holding several heads in his hands."

Lin Sui was taken aback.

That's not an evil god?

No, that's not right...

All of this in the Longevity Village is clearly the work of an evil god.

He won't ruin his own chances.

But if it's not an evil god, then why does it look just like one?