This Damned Thirst for Survival

Seeing the village head's proficiency, it's definitely not the first time he has treated the chosen girl like this.

Is this the real purpose of the ancestral hall selection?

Jiang Luo put his hands behind his back, leaving a clever space on purpose.After pretending to struggle for a moment, he was naturally tied up by the village chief.

Because of his "female identity", the village head did not tie her tightly.After wrapping the rope around Jiang Luo's body several times, the village chief said, "Shengong, I tied her up."

Shen Gong looked back and sighed, "Village Chief, is that how you were tied?"

The village chief rubbed his hands in confusion, and glanced at Jiang Luo, not understanding what went wrong, "It was always tied like this before."

Jiang Luo twitched his forehead.

He already had a premonition that Chi You was going to trouble him again.

Sure enough, Shen Gong walked towards him, and his wet black robe dried out without knowing when.The mysterious Shengong stood in front of Jiang Luo, lowered his head, and looked at the black-haired young man.

Jiang Luo watched coldly what he was going to do.

Shen Gong raised his hand wrapped in layers of black cloth, and he lifted the layer of cloth on his arm, and the cloth as thick as two fingers fell off his hand slowly.

The black cloth fell down, revealing the bluish-white complexion on Shen Gong's hands.He held the long piece of fabric in his hands, "It's not enough to tie people up."

Shen Gong raised his hand, and the black cloth approached Jiang Luo's eyes, and in the eyes of the black-haired young man who seemed to be burning like a fire lotus, he gently covered the beautiful eyes that hid the brilliant stars.

"And tie his eyes."

Oh shit.

Jiang Luo definitely heard the hidden smile in Shengong's voice.

Goubi Chiyou really added a new trouble to him.

The eyes were covered, and the sight returned to the darkness.Losing his vision in front of the unknown and the enemy obviously made Jiang Luo flustered.His lips were pursed tightly, and the corners of his mouth were drawn into a straight line.

Shengong lightly tied a black cloth on the back of his head.

After the eyes are blind, the ears are extremely sensitive.Hearing the rubbing sound of the clothes against his ears, Jiang Luo could almost imagine how Shengong's black robe brushed against his shoulders.

The tip of his nose smelled the faint breath of Shen Gong.

It's the scent of sandalwood and candlelight.

Shengong's movements were slow and orderly. From the perspective of others, Shengong's wide black robe surrounded the black-haired young man in his arms the moment he opened his arms. He was firmly blocked by the black robe.

The only village head next to him who was acting as a spectator felt strange, Shengong had never done this before, hadn't he?

After tying Jiang Luo's eyes, Shengong backed away. He glanced at the black-haired young man who was tied firmly and his eyes were also tied up. A smile flashed across his pale lips, and he said hoarsely. : "Village Chief, come with me to get the sacrificial things."

The village head responded quickly, and the sound of the two people's footsteps gradually faded away.

Jiang Luo waited patiently for another 20 seconds. After making sure that there was no one here, he slipped a small knife from his sleeve, showed the blade, and cut the rope neatly.

After freeing his hands, Jiang Luo tore off the blindfold. He originally wanted to throw it on the ground, but then remembered something and put the long black cloth on his body.

Perhaps, he can also play the role of a god.

Before Shen Gong and the village chief came back, Jiang Luo took the time to look inside the ancestral hall.He came to the stone walls on both sides with a candle in his hand, and looked at the murals above.

Two scenes are depicted in the fresco.

One is a picture of the worship of the villagers.The villagers knelt on the ground respectfully, praying for longevity. In front of them was a black and white statue of a god smiling.

Beside the statue, stood two people who looked like Dharma protectors, one with a big knife in his hand, and the other in red clothes.Behind the statue, there is rolling water and a neat tree.

Jiang Luo's eyes were on the protector who was holding a big knife on his left.

Is this a ghost?

The second painting is the scene of girls offering sacrifices.The girls lined up one by one to enter the secret passage and saw the statue.They knelt in front of the statue, closing their eyes peacefully.

At a glance, it is sacred and beautiful, but upon closer inspection, the girl's wrist was cut with a big gash, and blood flowed from the wrist to the body of the statue, turning the statue from colorless to painted.

It was as if the idol had taken their lives and gradually came alive from a stone.

Jiang Luo looked back at the statue.

The statue sits cross-legged, and its smile is still as amiable as the one above the mural.Jiang Luo approached with a candlestick, and now he looked at the statue more carefully.

Except for the stone color of the feet, the idol is almost colored already.

What do the colors on the statue represent?

Jiang Luo frowned, and there were two footsteps behind him, it was Shengong and the village chief who had returned.

Jiang Luo immediately jumped onto the altar and hid behind the statue.

Fortunately, the statue was big enough to completely cover Jiang Luo, who was kneeling down.Almost immediately after Jiang Luo hid, Shen Gong and the village chief entered the ancestral hall.

The sacrifices they tied up were gone in the ancestral hall, and the village chief's panicked voice sounded, "Where are people? Why are there no people!"

The god didn't make a sound.

The voice of the village chief gradually became sharp and fearful, "Shen Gong, what should we do!"

Jiang Luo pricked up his ears to listen to their conversation.

Shen Gong didn't know why he didn't speak, and after a while, he said: "The underground is like a maze, he can't run very far."

"Yes, yes, you can't run very far," the village chief looked at the rope thrown in the passage, "Shen Gong, she must have run outside, let's chase after it."

Jiang Luo clenched the knife tightly, his palms sweating a little, he held his breath and waited for Shen Gong's answer.

Shen Gong said: "Then go after it."

The two gradually drifted away.

Jiang Luo didn't rush out, he looked at the back of the statue and counted silently for a minute.

He didn't believe that the two men were gone until no one came back to fight back.

Jiang Luo put away his knife and didn't go down. Instead, he took this opportunity to take a closer look at the statue.

He cautiously summoned the Si snake to wrap around him, wrapped the black cloth left by the god around his right hand, and then carefully touched the statue.

Unexpectedly, the texture of the statue was much softer than Jiang Luo imagined.

Jiang Luo's eyebrows twitched, and he even had the feeling of touching the skin of a dead person.

Soft, cold, and the touch of stone are two extremes.

His hand slowly moved upwards, reaching towards the statue's neck, trying to test whether the statue was alive or not.

The statue didn't move, and just as Jiang Luo's hand was about to reach the neck of the statue, a stone-carved hand grabbed his wrist violently.

Jiang Luo immediately looked up, his breath stagnant.

The idol turned its head ninety degrees and was looking at him benevolently.

Si snake smelled the smell of evil things, so fiercely attacked the statue.The statue's smile remained unchanged, but the other hand grabbed Jiang Luo's calf, and his stone-hard fingers pierced Jiang Luo's skin, piercing into the flesh, leaving five terrifying finger marks.

Jiang Luo snorted and kicked the statue's hand away.The Si snake slammed into the statue again, and the altar could not bear the two heavy blows, and it collapsed completely, revealing a huge hole in the ground.

Jiang Luo was caught off guard and fell into the cave. Si Snake chased after him fiercely. The idol rolled forward with a smile, and fell into the cave with a rumble.

The burrow is very long.

The wind rustled past Jiang Luo's ears, and a lot of blood flowed from Jiang Luo's calf, which was blown back by the wind.

Is this the big ominous hexagram that Feng Li predicted for him?Jiang Luo thought to himself.

But the look in his eyes became more and more calm and composed. He had already died eighteen times, and this injury would not make him surrender to his fate.

The Si snake behind him surrounded him, leading him to land slowly on the ground.But the moment Jiang Luo landed, he retracted the snake into the yin and yang ring.

The golden rune disappeared, and the entire cave was plunged into darkness.Jiang Luo dragged his injured calf and hid in the corner. He used a talisman to stop the wound, then tore off the cloth on his body, wiped the blood and threw it on the other side.After doing all this, there was a loud noise, and the statue entered the cave.

Jiang Luo didn't change his face, he turned his head and stared at the darkness where the voice came from.

During the short moment of falling, Jiang Luo was thinking about one thing.

Why are the ancestral halls on the ground not lit, and the stone steps leading to the ground are not lit, but the ancestral halls underground are lit with candles?

He guessed that the statue couldn't see in the dark.

Therefore, someone used this method to prevent the statue from leaving the ground and reaching the ground.

Of course, this was just a guess, Jiang Luo didn't have any evidence to prove that he was right, but he wanted to take a gamble at this time.

He slowed down his breathing and listened to the movement not far away.

In the darkness, the idol stood up.He is made of stone, and the movement of each foot is extremely loud.His smiling face looked around in the darkness, but he didn't see the existence of the sacrifice.

After a brief silence, the idol rumbled into motion again.

He was going in the direction of Jiang Luo.

Jiang Luo supported the wall, and moved slowly without making any movement.

But the statue stopped at the place where he dropped the blood-stained clothes earlier.

Can smell blood.

Jiang Luo judged calmly.

The statue attacked the clothes. Jiang Luo heard the sound of the stone wall cracking, and seemed to realize that there was no one on the clothes, so the statue stopped moving.

Sure enough, you can't see in the dark.

Jiang Luo felt that although he was unlucky, at least he was not unlucky to the end.He supported the wall and gently moved the yin and yang ring.

A golden talisman turned into a mouse, and flew in the opposite direction like lightning. The statue was attracted by the mouse emitting golden light, and rushed heavily to chase the mouse.

After the ground trembled for a while, it gradually returned to calm.

Jiang Luo sat on the ground propped up against the wall. His head was covered in cold sweat, but his consciousness was very clear.Jiang Luo rested for a while, tore off a piece of cloth from his body to bind the wound, and waited for the twitching pain in his left calf to subside, before standing up again.

The wound only pierced into the flesh, but luckily no bones or tendons were injured. At this moment, Jiang Luo was really envious of the dead ghost's physique that healed in a second.

He summoned a golden rune and looked at it with the golden light. Below the cave is a karst cave. Jiang Luo even suspected that he was 50 meters below the ground. The village is really deep enough.

He shook the yin and yang ring, and the yin and yang ring pointed him to the north. Jiang Luo looked towards the bottomless north, breathed out a foul breath, and walked forward slowly.

On the ground, after Jiang Luo entered the ancestral hall, Wen Renlian was using divination to determine Jiang Luo's location.

They walked more and more sideways on the ground, and even reached the mountain, but after reaching the mountain, Wen Renlian's compass became messed up by the interference of the magnetic field, so that he was more cautious and slow in divination.

The dead ghost felt a little familiar here.

He didn't know why it felt familiar, but he followed his intuition and walked under a giant tree.He thrust the broadsword into the ground with all his strength, and pressed down with all his strength, the ground here suddenly collapsed, revealing a dark hole.

Startled by the sound, Lu Yi and Wen Renlian looked at the black hole in astonishment, and quickly surrounded them, "What is this?"

The dead ghost said honestly, "I don't know."

He paused, "But Jiang Luo should be right below."

That's what the devil thinks.

Wenren even did a fortune-telling, and said solemnly: "The dead ghost is right, it should be below here, let's go down quickly."

But the dead ghost stopped Wen Renlian, saying: "You can't go down."

Wen Renlian's face turned cold, and his eyes, which were usually squinted gently, opened rarely, showing the aggressive sharpness of his masculine side, "Why?"

The dead ghost said: "Your birth date is Yin."

Wen Ren was taken aback for a moment, and immediately understood what he meant.

The ancestral hall needs sacrifices with negative horoscopes. If he goes down, it may become a drag, or even become a tool for something to become stronger.

Wenren cursed in a low voice, then stepped aside, looked deeply at Lu Yi and Shi Gui, "Then I'll leave it to you."

Lu Yi nodded solemnly, and was ready to go down the cave without any delay, when Wen Renlian suddenly said, "Lu Yi."

Lu looked back at him for a while.

Wenren opened his lips for a moment, threw a pack of cigarettes from his body to him, and whispered: "Come back alive with him."

Lu Yi grabbed the cigarette tightly, "Don't worry."

He and the dead ghost jumped down the hole.

Wen Renlian watched their disappearing figures, his left eyelid twitched several times.

It's not that he doesn't believe in Lu Yi's ability, he just doesn't believe in the stability of the dead ghost.

This undead person has been in contact with them for less than a day, even if the other party looks harmless now, no one can be sure whether they are enemies or friends after all.

If the dead ghost stabbed him in the back halfway, with Lu Yi's unguarded character, he would definitely be in danger.

Wen Renlian was worried, so he took out a thousand paper cranes folded with yellow talismans from his bosom, wrote the word "come quickly" on the thousand paper cranes with a pen, and patted the thousand paper cranes lightly, " go."

The Thousand Paper Crane staggered away and headed down the mountain.

Lu Yi and the dead ghost fell directly into the darkness.

Lu Yi's butt hurt from the fall, "Hiss—where is this place?"

The dead ghost covered his mouth, and looked into the darkness with cold eyes, "Don't make a sound."

They walked forward tentatively, with the dead ghost leading the way.In the darkness, something on the ground stirred them a few times, and after walking for an unknown amount of time, they finally saw a faint light.

Under the light, there is a large dome.

There were dense human figures on the ground, but upon closer inspection, it was found that they were all lifelike paper figurines.There are so many paper figurines that it makes people feel hairy.Lu Yi's scalp was numb, "This is..."

A hand suddenly stretched out from the side, pulling him and the dead ghost into a hidden cave.

Lu Yi almost jumped and was about to struggle when he heard a familiar voice, "It's me."

It's Jiang Luo.

Lu Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and the dead ghost also put away his sword, and quietly followed Jiang Luo into hiding.

Jiang Luo's image was extremely embarrassing, he was leaning against the wall, with a few patches of dirty dust on his face.Sweat clings to his hair, and the braid on his left shoulder is almost unraveling.He tore off two long skirt-like robes on his lower body, and on the exposed straight calf, a terrifying five-finger print was conspicuous.

But Jiang Luo's expression was very calm, and even his embarrassment didn't seem to be embarrassment, but rather strange and touching.

But seeing Lu Yi almost tearing up, he lowered his voice and said, "Jiang Luo, are you okay?"

Jiang Luo shook his head, looked up at the dead ghost, "Why are you here?"

The dead ghost said: "You are my friend, and it is only natural for me to save my friend."

Hearing this, Jiang Luo smiled inexplicably, and asked, "Do you feel familiar with this place?"

The dead ghost nodded slowly.

Although he didn't know why, he did feel a little familiar.

Jiang Luo said to himself, "That's it."

The dead ghost is really the guardian around the idol.

Then he and Lu went to dig graves in the middle of the night and were beheaded by each other, which seemed to be justified.

Because the statue needs the truth of the sacrifice, which cannot be discovered by outsiders.

Jiang Luo felt that the difficulty of this level of the competition had exceeded the judgment of the competition party and the judges and teachers. It was too embarrassing for them to deal with a group of metaphysics students who had not yet graduated.

But already in the vortex, Jiang Luo doesn't like to think about other things. Not only does he have to take revenge when facing Chi You, but he also doesn't want to take a step back when facing other gods, people, and dogs. .

—he just wanted to return the wound on his leg to the statue.

"Do you know where this is?" he asked.

The dead ghost hesitated and said: "Under the ground?"

Jiang Luo: "..."

Almost forgot, this guy is currently in a state of amnesia.

Jiang Luo looked away helplessly, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the cigarette in Lu Yi's hand.He couldn't help smiling, "Lu Yi, did you bring me a pack of cigarettes when you came down?"

He took the cigarette, and there was a lighter in the cigarette case. Jiang Luo smiled again, lit a cigarette deftly, and squinted his eyes to relax his tense nerves.

Lu asked in a low voice, "Jiang Luo, what's going on outside?"

"Paper people," Jiang Luo said, "They look dead, but they are actually alive. As long as there is a slight sound, they will mob you and besiege you."

Lu Yi was horrified when he heard that, "The paper figurine is still alive?"

Jiang Luo sneered, "The statues are all fucking alive."

He finished smoking a cigarette, put it out, and took out the talisman paper from his body, "How many fire talismans do you have?"

Lu Yi hurriedly counted them, "Five."

"Five? That's enough," Jiang Luo unbuttoned his jacket, and threw aside his inconvenient coat, leaving only the short-sleeved vest underneath, "enough to burn these paper figurines."

Lu Yi and Shigui imitated his movements and took off the inconvenient clothes.After his arms could be stretched freely, Jiang Luo asked, "Have you seen those paper figurines clearly?"

Lu Yi was taken aback, and quietly walked out of the cave to take a look outside.

The paper figurine closest to him was wearing red and green, and had two lumps of plateau red on his face.The bright colors didn't make the paper figurines look amiable, but rather weird and chilling.

After a quick look, Lu Yi didn't see anything wrong. He looked at it again strangely, and suddenly his face turned pale, and he retreated into the cave in a daze.

Jiang Luo raised his eyelids and looked at him: "Did you find it?"

"There's a paper man," Lu Yi clenched his teeth, "It seems, it seems that I don't know."

That He Zhi from Wenxing University was the one who went to Shentu Village alone first.

They haven't seen He Zhi since they came to Shentu Village.

Why is there a paper man here that looks so similar to He Zhi?

Jiang Luo: "It's not just He Zhi, most people in the village can find a paper doll that looks like them here."

Lu Yi swallowed, "What does this mean?"

"Representing those people on the ground, it is very likely that they have been replaced by paper figurines," Jiang Luoyu threw a thunderbolt without any waves, "The paper figurines under the ground represent their true state. This village Many people pursue eternal life, so they prayed to God and worshiped Buddha, and God told them that as long as they were hanged or drowned, they could get eternal life.

"No one knows that the ones who come back to life are just paper dolls that look the same as the dead, but the little girl in red before found something wrong," Jiang Luo smiled, "Those who hanged and drowned cannot be reincarnated, their souls are very It is possible to use it as fodder for the gods, to help the gods become stronger and become living creatures, is it possible?"

Lu Yi was already stunned.

Jiang Luo continued: "When I first came to Shentu Village, I wondered why the staff said 'Every time a person dies, a new life will be born in the village' instead of 'Every time a new life is born, Just die alone', it's easy to die, but it's hard to give life to life on time, this sentence is very strange."

"I even suspect that the police who came to investigate did not find out the truth about the 'new life', and the people in Shentu Village would not tell them the truth. They might just count the people in the village after confirming that one person died. total, resulting in a figure of 311."

Jiang Luo's words came to an abrupt end, "This is just my own idea, and I will elaborate on it after I get out. Now, we have to burn these paper figurines before we can move forward, otherwise we will pass the paper figurine nest and issue Sound they will catch up."

Lu Yi was dizzy, and simply stopped thinking, "Then how do we finish burning them? I checked, and they didn't get together."

"Bring them together," Jiang Luo pulled out a fire talisman, "Go to the opposite side and make a sound to draw them over, and burn them all in one fell swoop."

Neither the dead ghost nor Lu Yi had any objections, and Jiang Luo even suspected that they had never thought about whether this method was feasible, so he nodded cleanly.

Jiang Luo sighed and led them out of the cave.

After the three of them were ready, they stepped into the paper man's nest.

The paper figurines were piled up in twos and threes, and it was actually quite difficult to pass among them without disturbing them.Fortunately, the three of them were very careful. They successfully walked through the big dome and reached the opposite side.

Jiang Luo picked up a stone from the ground and dropped it from a height.

A crisp sound resounded, and the lifeless paper figurine instantly came to life and rushed towards the place where the sound came from.

Jiang Luo threw three fire talismans on them, and the flames burst up, and the paper figurines were engulfed in the flames, fueling the flames continuously.

When the fire reached the entrance of the cave, the three left in time.

The moment he turned around, Jiang Luo suddenly remembered a question.

Why did Chi You pretend to be the god here?

Jiang Luo believed that Chi You would not be so idle. He possessed a contestant to participate in the competition and wanted to get the first place and get the Yuan Tianzhu. It was reasonable, but what did he want to do to become the god of a village?

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