Chapter 563

The cries of the villagers in Zhangjia Village, filled with despair and pain, became clearer in her ears.

[I want to leave here... let me go... let me go...]

[Why can't I get out... why can't I get out...]

[I don't want to stay here... I don't want to stay here... let me leave...]

Trapped.

Trapped here until death, no way to escape.

Who trapped these people in this place, in this dark [Yingti Village], and did not allow them to rest in peace even if they died, and continued to imprison them.

Why did this happen?

Who did this? The Li family? No, although the Li family is cruel and twisted, their evil thoughts are not in this form. According to Gao Jun's intelligence, the Liu family is busy and unlikely to do such a thing. So, did the Zhang family do it themselves? Or...

Buzz——

After a tremor, candles lit up in the houses, and this dark world produced light.

All the twisted and painful sounds disappeared at this moment.

Even the sun shone through the darkness, illuminating the peaceful village with birds singing and flowers blooming.

The villagers were laughing.

They were happily spending their lives, whether doing farm work or chatting and joking, everyone was in a happy state.

Kaguya could even hear their voices and what they were talking about.

[Yingti Village is really good, it’s so good to be able to settle down here]

[How can people outside understand how good we are? Yingti Village is the best place in the world]

[It’s the Fox Lady who is good to us, it’s the Mountain God who is good to us, it’s good to us, without the blessing of the gods, how can we find such a good place? ]

All the voices were sincere, without any hypocrisy in them.

Kaguya was sure that when these people said this, they must have sincerely recognized such words in their hearts.

But what happened after that was different.

After all, the people who were saying these words now were just corpses.

The corpses with purple faces and broken bones, which could be kneaded and manipulated like soft mud, kept repeating beautiful and happy words.

The things inside those corpses were screaming and wailing, suffering in the endless darkness and torture, unable to rest.

But the Zhangjia Village played by these corpses, and the [Yingti Village] played by them, were still peaceful and beautiful.

No...wait, it's not like that...

Kaguya suddenly understood.

The corpses with broken bones, which could be manipulated at will, and the things inside them that could not rest.

This should be a puppet.

It should be a puppet that is manipulated and controlled.

She suddenly raised her head and looked at the sunny sky.

Looking at the pale palm with countless lines extending out, controlling the lines on the bodies, silently and shapelessly, gently manipulating the palm above.

{I found it...}

Even though her mental state was on the verge of breaking point again due to continuous pollution shocks and thinking, Kaguya still insisted on speaking in the link.

{Zhangjia Village's core obsession...I found it...}

She would never mistake that breath.

This level of breath could only be possessed by Red Moon-level core obsessions.

No matter what this thing that controlled the villagers of Zhangjia Village and tried to simulate [Yingti Village] was, the only thing Kaguya could be sure of at this time was that this thing was the core obsession that she and Qianhua came to find.

{Thank you for your hard work}

Gao Hai's voice sounded from the mental link.

The girl was slightly stunned, and then she felt the touch from behind.

Andres's teleportation blessing had been activated, and Gao Hai himself came directly behind Kaguya and supported the shaky girl.

{Ms. Tangyuan, please protect and take care of Kaguya, Qianhua and the others. Mr. Chachai, we will deal with this thing next. Is that okay? }

Gao Hai, who had just returned to the village and brought two players of [Historian] here, said as he looked up at the hand that controlled the lines and the rotten limbs behind the hand that extended to somewhere unknown. At this time, in Gao Hai's eyes, he could clearly see that in the festering flesh on the limbs, there were vague human faces emerging and disappearing, screaming silently.

Although the palm that controlled the corpse still looked high and mighty, Gao Hai, who saw the other party's appearance clearly, could be sure that this thing was probably another idiot who tried to control and sacrifice others, but ended up turning over and killing himself.

It was probably because he tasted too many similar things and gained experience, although Gao Hai himself did not want such experience.

{Such a strong mental pollution, well, my blessings and obsessions may not last too long. These two girls can resist for so long and find the direction of the core obsession, which is really amazing. By the way, Mr. Gao, don't you feel anything? }

Chacai, who followed Gao Hai, frowned, not in a very good state. However, he soon noticed that Gao Hai was standing in this twisted space without any protection, so he couldn't help showing a surprised expression.

{Feeling? No feeling, just like that, the key is to finish the work as soon as possible}

In fact, I didn't feel anything, but I felt that it seemed a bit noisy here. Gao Hai said as he raised his pistol and aimed at the thing in the sky.

The next second, he pulled the trigger directly.

Chapter 131 The past from the perspective of the Zhang family and Mr. Du who was initially confirmed

The Li family and the Liu family, two families with hundreds of thousands of people, which were united by the same surname, soon turned to mutual hostility and constant conflict after getting along in the early stage of the reclamation of Xiaohei Mountain.

Whether it is the Li family, which is fierce and cruel and retains many terrible customs that make people frown, or the Liu family, which is high above and always wants to occupy an absolute dominant position in village management and sacrificial activities, standing in different camps, the ideas and cognition will naturally be different. But the problem is that no matter what, as a villager in [Yingti Village], you have to choose a side. Neither side is willing to stand, neither side is willing to join, it seems that neither side is offended, but in fact, it can be said that both sides are offended.

In this story, the Zhang family is the one who offended both sides.

[You don't join us in opposing the Liu family. So, you also think that the Liu family can be our patriarch and can treat our Li family as dogs? Hey, you don't need to explain anything to me, just tell me which side you are on. Just tell me honestly which side you are on! ]

[You don't join us in dealing with the Li family. Are you afraid that they are too many people, or do you think that the beastly things they did are nothing? Or do you want to wait for us to fight to the death? I don't want to talk about big principles. Now the situation has reached this point. If you still want to watch the fire from the other side, I'm afraid it won't be that easy! ]

Whether it is the Li family or the Liu family, their attitude towards the Zhang family is very bad.

They seem to have forgotten their original promises and the oaths they once said to put aside all grudges and live in harmony with each other.

How can this be?

It was not like this at the beginning, you were not like this at the beginning...

[Of course the Zhang family will stand on the side of Yingti Village, we should not be divided into Li family, Liu family and Zhang family]

[Our three clans once swore to become one family from now on. The Zhang family has not forgotten this promise. I hope that no matter what conflicts the Li and Liu families have, they will try to resolve them in a peaceful way]

[After all, we lived together and fled the war together to come here. We were able to work together when it was so difficult at the beginning. Now that we have finally settled down, why do we have to argue again? Everyone should still value peace! ]

The shouts filled with sincere wishes were not understood and recognized, but only deeper suspicion and sneering ridicule.

Even the Zhang family could not achieve unity. The young people could not understand the importance of the older generation to [Yingti Village]. They either tended to the Liu family because of their belief in the Fox Goddess, or were instigated by the Li family to lean towards the other side. Only a few were willing to follow the patriarch and stand in the middle.

This was not a good phenomenon.

Neither the Li family nor the Liu family really intended to accept the Zhang family. After all, the former was a large family with more than a thousand people, and the latter, although relatively small in number, also had a scale of five or six hundred people. In comparison, the Zhang family was just a small family of about a hundred people, and there was no way to fully gather together. If this continued, the final result would be either being annexed by the other two families, or becoming the first one to be killed in the struggle between the two families.

Establishing [Yingti Village] and integrating the three families together was undoubtedly mutually beneficial and win-win, and it was the best situation. But if it became the one that was annexed and eliminated, it would be a completely different matter. In the final analysis, for people who are united by blood ties and family culture, outsiders are still outsiders after all. The best situation is that all the men in the Zhang family die, and a small number of women are left to give birth to offspring for the other two families. If the situation is slightly worse, it is probably the case that the Zhang family will be wiped out and the whole family will be eaten up.

This cannot be allowed to happen. The reason why the Zhang family chose to follow the Liu family during the war was to survive, not to become a consumable of the Liu family and the Li family.

Therefore, the Zhang family must not really turn to the Li family or the Liu family. The Zhang family must insist on the existence of [Yingti Village]. Except for [Yingti Village], which can represent the symbol of the unity of the three families, any other choice will definitely lead to destruction.

But... how long can it last like this?

The struggle between the two families has become more and more intense. Sooner or later, the conflict will evolve into a real fight with real knives and guns, and people will die, and it may even develop into a disaster of destroying the village and the clan.

What should the Zhang family, the weakest one between the two families, do to survive?

Amid the roar of the mudslide, the wailing and screams of the survivors continued to ring in my ears.

The ignored disaster taught the three families a lesson, but even so, the conflict did not subside. On the contrary, the Li family and the Liu family completely split apart, occupying different places to build two villages, which completely became [Lijia Village] and [Liujia Village]. The original [Yingti Village] no longer existed and became something only in the memory of a few people.

At this time, the Zhang family, which had the smallest number of people and was the most unable to unite, had reached a point where it was impossible to even rebuild the village. The Li family and the Liu family also refused to help the Zhang family at this time, rejecting this family that was unwilling to completely stand in line and had problems in the eyes of both parties.

What to do next?

When this issue was put in front of them, everyone couldn't help but fall silent.

[Don’t worry about this kind of problem]

[The reason why the Liu family and the Li family have developed into what they are now is ultimately due to the conflict caused by their essential differences. If the Zhang family wants to be alone, they can just isolate themselves from them. Don’t worry, I’ll keep you safe, everything will be fine]

[Just go back to the previous village. They are unwilling to take over the name "Yingting Village". You can just continue to insist. There is no need to worry about another flood, because the "Mountain God" will protect everyone. You must have heard that the Li family has found the body of the mountain god. As long as you believe in the mountain god, you will be protected]

Someone's voice sounded softly in the darkness.

Can't see the other person clearly.

He could only hear his low laughter, and could only see the statues of the Fox Empress and the Little Black Mountain God placed on the high platform. After accepting the proposal, the Zhang family returned to the ruined village and continued to live in it after repairing it. At the same time, they worshiped the Fox Empress and the Little Black Mountain God.

Such behavior undoubtedly made the Liu family even more disgusted, and the Li family, who had also begun to believe in the mountain god, saw that the Zhang family refused to give up their belief in the Fox Empress and wanted to come together, so naturally it was impossible to accept them. Therefore, the Zhang family still maintains the state of being hated by everyone, but this time they just know it and do it deliberately.

We can see that the Liu family, which is smaller in number and believes in the Fox Empress, is gradually shrinking, and we don’t know what happened to them.

And it is said that the Li family, who dug something out of the cave where the baby was abandoned, has become more and more domineering. They seem to have sent people out of the village to do something outside. After a while, they can bring back a lot of salt and cloth. , as well as various grains, seeds, women, and even some rare things.

It is said that the mountain god of Xiaoheishan gave the Li family some kind of magical power, but they refused to show it in front of the Zhang family. Therefore, the news in this regard could only be told through hearsay and became more and more outrageous. In the end, it was impossible to know who was true and who was false.

But one thing is clear, the Li family's sacrificial activities are becoming more and more crazy.

They sacrificed in various ways over and over again, whether it was sinking into the lake, directly cutting off the head and putting it on a plate, or some crazy actions that the Zhang family could not understand what they were doing. Ever since they began to believe in the little Black Mountain God, the Li family seemed to be becoming more and more abnormal. But there is an advantage to this, that is, the young people who were originally prone to fall in love with the Li family have restrained themselves a lot. After all, no one wants to associate with a completely unpredictable lunatic.

So far, neither the Li family nor the Liu family have caused any trouble to the Zhang family.

However, in the foreseeable future, I am afraid that more terrible things will happen.

After all, although the Li family and the Liu family have less contact with each other, no matter how they look at it, they will end up fighting to the death. And as the Li family becomes more and more abnormal, I can feel that they are gradually starting to have thoughts about the Zhang family. Regardless of whether the idea is to annex the Zhang family or sacrifice the Zhang family, the final result may not make any difference.

There is no time left.

All the old people who have experienced the initial [Yingting Village] period have died.

Inheriting the obsession and wishes of the old man of that period, he carefully protected the Zhang family, and has been cautiously contacting the Liu family and Li family, trying to find a balanced and neutral second generation. Now they are almost dead and no longer Who is left?

As for the young people who are unable to take on important responsibilities, who do not realize that the situation is dangerous, and even if they realize it, they are unable to change anything because of their weak strength, they will not get help from the superior Liu family, nor will they be influenced by the bloodthirsty and crazy Li family. Accept.

Therefore, once the last group of old people leave, what happens next may become very cruel.

In this case, there is only one way, strike first!

[Do you also want to get divine power and plot against the Li family and the Liu family? I really can’t tell. I thought you weren’t brave enough]

[But this is very good, it is better to say that this is what makes people appreciate it. I can indeed tell you how to protect the Zhang family and how to harm the other two villages]

[First of all, you must believe in a third god besides the Mountain God and the Fox Lady. You don’t need to know who that god is, and you don’t need a specific image. You just need to let the Li family and the Liu family know about it. You just need to let everyone in the Zhang family know that the patriarch has introduced a new god to the ancestral temple. That’s it]

[You have to really take those young people to worship this god, and make everyone believe that this god whose name is unknown really exists. When everyone is convinced, the Liu family and the Li family will at least have The family will be unable to sit still and will come to the door to confirm the existence of this god]

[At that time, you can just open the door of the ancestral temple and let those visitors come in and take a look. If people from the Li family enter, the Li family will die. If people from the Liu family enter, the Liu family will die. If both of their families go in, only your Zhang family will have the final say in this little Black Mountain. How about it, can you accept this proposal? 】

The voice in the darkness had a calm and soft feeling, but it was also filled with some weird attraction that seemed to penetrate deep into the brain, making those who heard the voice couldn't help but nod.

Is this all it takes?

Will this be able to protect the Zhang family and eliminate the threat?

There is no other choice now. Since the Li family and the Liu family are unkind, don't blame our Zhang family for being ruthless. At the end of the day, we just want to survive, and it's you who force us to do this.

Thank you very much. If you hadn't been secretly helping our Zhang family, I'm afraid we would have been exterminated long ago.

Next, please help us confirm the movements of the other two companies.

Mr. Du.

[Of course, please feel free to leave it to me]

[Since Du is here, he will definitely help you]

[In the final analysis, both the Li family and the Liu family are the same species. One is just a beast in human skin, indulges his own desires unscrupulously, and the other thinks he is blessed by gods, thinks he is superior to others, and treats others arrogantly. Such fools are destined to be destroyed, but unlike the Zhang family, you are innocent, and you are outsiders who are unfortunate enough to be involved. So even if you have to deal with them at most, you have done nothing wrong and you are not guilty, right? Because of this, Du must be good and help good people like you]

…

The sounds and images have gradually dissipated.

The lines collapsed, and the body fell weakly on the ground, seeming to be twitching faintly, as if it wanted to struggle to stand up again, but was unable to do so due to the broken bones.