I heard that reincarnation can obtain the truth

The next townsman was a woman, probably in her fifties, with a bloated body, freckles, a gloomy expression, and an unfriendly vibe.

The first time Chu Yi knocked on the door, the woman didn't hear it. She was doing her own thing in the house, as if she was weaving, and there was the intermittent sound of the loom inside.

The second time Chu Yi didn't knock on the door, but yelled directly at the door. The woman stopped the work at hand, maybe it was because her work was interrupted, she came out to open the door with a somewhat impetuous expression, not very willing.

"So it's you, what's the matter?" Seeing that it was Chu Yi, the woman frowned slightly.

"Sorry, I didn't know you were busy, sister, so I'll wait until you're done." Chu Yi hoped that his polite behavior would impress the hostess so that he could inquire about the news later.

But the woman didn't let Chu Yi leave, she enthusiastically pulled Chu Yi into the room, took out a stool from inside, wiped off the dust with a rag, and signaled Chu Yi to sit down.

It was not easy for Chu Yi to refuse. The host had already invited him, so how could he not show favor as a guest, so he sat down.

"Have you always lived on this?" Chu Yi asked looking at the rusty loom.

"Yeah, occasionally I earn money for you outsiders to travel. There is little demand in the town. If there are no tourists from other places in the off-season, we will sell them outside the town. Almost every household in the town has people. Knowing how to weave, you can’t sell it.” The woman was talking, but the work in hand didn’t stop.

"Is there someone in every household who can weave?" Chu Yi grasped the question, "But sister, seven of the twelve of you are men, and men should not know how to weave. I can't tell from their hands that they used to be Traces of a loom being used, why do you say that?"

The woman weaving paused, then continued weaving. Chu Yi didn't necessarily ask her to answer immediately, but sat there quietly, waiting for the woman to make the final decision.

I don't know how long it has passed, the sun is hot in the sky, and the piercing eyes can't be opened. Chu Yi feels that his mouth and tongue are a bit dry, so he asked the woman for a glass of water to moisten his throat. Strong suffocating thirst.

"Oh, the town is very lively. If it wasn't for that incident, natural disasters and man-made disasters are destined to be avoided." The woman murmured to herself, and she didn't know if she was telling Chu Yi.

"Did something tragic happen?" Chu Yi asked cautiously.

"It's not terribly tragic. It can only be said that those people committed their own crimes and provoked things that shouldn't be provoked. If they had listened to the mayor, that kind of thing would not have happened." The woman said expressionlessly, as if Tell an old story that has nothing to do with you.

When it was discovered that the devil was living in the ancestral hall, a dozen or so bold and strong men in the town rushed into the ancestral hall by the light of the moon. Each of them held an ax weighing more than ten catties in their hands, and chopped at the ancestral hall in unison. demon.

The demon was chopped into more than a dozen pieces, but he was not dead. Every part of his body was still wriggling, and his head could even speak.The devil said that if someone pieced its body together and worshiped it as a god, it would grant him supreme glory and inexhaustible splendor and wealth.

The dozen or so strong men naturally didn't believe it at first, or to put it another way, can the devil's words be believed?

Believe it or not, the seeds of temptation have already been planted in more than a dozen strong men.They didn't tell the people in the town what happened, but each of them took part of the demon's body and negotiated with the demon in private.

But after all, paper can't contain the fire, and this matter was discovered, and it was the mayor who discovered this matter.

"What did the mayor advise?" Chu Yi asked.

The woman shook her head, "I don't know, no one knows. The mayor asked them to talk to them by himself. No one followed them at the time. Only a dozen of them know what they talked about."

Chu Yi said: "Then do you know the names of the dozen or so of them?"

The woman still shook her head, "I don't know, I came back from other places after the incident happened, and the previous incidents were all mentioned by the neighbors while chatting."

"What else did they talk about while chatting? For example, why do we have to pray every day... and things like that." Chu Yi took out the booklet and began to write down clues that might involve half-human, half-ghost.

It's a pity that the woman didn't continue to answer. She sent Chu Yi out after a few perfunctory nagging words, and closed the door firmly. Chu Yi had no choice but to leave and continue looking for the next one.

On the other side, Bai Ye also found his first townsman - an underage boy.

The boy is very tall, about 1.9 meters, much taller than Bai Ye, but extremely thin, his thighs are as thin as his calves, like a bamboo pole, which will break when the wind blows.

"Hi, is it convenient for me to go in?" Bai Ye smiled slightly.

The boy blushed and opened the door at a loss, "Sister, please come in." He moved out a wooden chair for Bai Ye.

"Thank you." Bai Ye sat down unceremoniously, seeing the young man's shy appearance, couldn't help but want to tease him, "Are you afraid of me?"

"No, it's not." The boy stammered, "It's the first time an outsider comes to our house as a guest, and I'm a little uncomfortable."

Bai Ye said: "That means someone has been to the house as a guest, right?"

Obviously so.The young man lowered his head and thought for a while, then remained silent for a long time.

"Yes, all relatives have been here." The young man said bravely, "There are not only twelve people in the town, all the others have died, and there are only twelve people left."

"Then why did you lie to us, saying that there are only twelve people in the town?" Bai Ye asked.

"That's because... because this matter is taboo in the town, you can't tell outsiders, especially in the ancestral hall, if it hears it, we will all be killed." The boy looked nervous and kept looking out.

Bai Ye patted the boy's shoulder comfortingly, "Didn't you stand up and resist? Or find a way to kill it."

The young man sighed, "We have resisted, and we have invited experts to practice the law, but it is useless, and people still die the same. As long as someone speaks and disrespects it, they will definitely die!"

This is obviously someone who informed the monster!

"You must have doubted someone, right?" Bai Ye said, staring at the boy's face.

The boy nodded, "We doubted the sorceress, after all, the sorceress is the guide who brings everyone to pray, and all the blessing procedures are handled by the sorceress, so the mayor of the town ordered the sorceress to be arrested and tortured to extract a confession In order to survive, the sorceress was beaten into a trick, and escaped from the town on a quiet night."

In other words, the current witch is not the witch from the beginning, so where did the witch from the beginning go?Is it still alive?

Bai Ye continued to ask: "Which witch is this witch?"

The young man said: "This is the seventh one. We kept selecting new witches, and the people in the town kept suspecting them. Due to the previous experience that witches would run away, we locked the newly selected witches into the dungeon and sent people to 24 hours of guarding, as a result, the newly selected witch died inexplicably in the dungeon, and the newly selected witches also died in very different ways. In the end, everyone in the town knew that they suspected the wrong person, so they stopped embarrassing the witch, she said Whatever, do what you do."

It can be heard that the existence of the witch is only the role of a tool person, completing the next meal ceremony for "it".

Bai Ye didn't continue to ask, he saw that the boy would not continue to answer the question, smiled and said thank you, and walked out of the boy's house.

Fortunately, another townsman lived opposite the boy, so Bai Ye didn't have to walk hard.

The townsman is an old man in his 60s, with a red birthmark between his eyebrows and half-squinted eyes, like a fox.

The old man didn't invite Bai Ye in, even Bai Ye could hear a trace of disgust from the old man's tone.

But it's nothing, the left and right are just tools to provide clues, there is nothing to be angry about.

Bai Ye didn't beat around the bush, skipped even the polite words, and went straight to the point, "The others are all dead, and they all died in the ancestral hall, am I right?"

The old man was expressionless, as if he guessed that Bai Ye would definitely ask this question, and said directly, "Yes, their blood has provided fertilizer for the weeds near the ancestral hall, and they grow bright red, which makes you panic when you look at them." But this is what they deserve, human nature is greedy, no wonder others."

Bai Ye didn't interrupt the old man's words, but just listened quietly.

The old man went on to say: "Those bastards are damned, they have harmed themselves and everyone else. They believe that the devil can help them realize their wishes, give them endless glory and endless money, keep inciting everyone to believe in the devil, and provide the devil with a steady stream of money. Constant food."

"It's ridiculous that the people in the town are still proud of this, and they make small calculations in their hearts. Every time someone dies, they think that this happened because their hearts are not pious enough, and they even petition the devil, immediately He laid down a lot of rules. Huh, this is nothing more than self-deception, obviously he is the most terrible executioner, but he put the responsibility on the devil."

The old man talked one after another for half an hour, and Bai Ye wanted to interrupt halfway, but was severely taught a lesson, and finally Bai Ye could hear that the old man didn't want to answer his remaining questions, so he left and went to the next town. civil.

The sun at noon is getting hotter and hotter, and the people who are exposed to the sun feel a little achy, and feel like sweating like rain after taking two steps.

Gradually, Bai Ye became sleepy after asking the sixth townsman, his eyes drooped tiredly, his vision began to blur, and every step he took felt extremely heavy.

He forgot the most important thing, if Chu Yi didn't stay by his side, the symptoms of drowsiness might become more and more serious, and then he might fall asleep wherever he went.

Bai Ye walked another distance alone, frowning to try to keep himself awake for the last time, drowsiness almost swept over his whole body, his eyelids were so heavy that he could hardly keep his eyes open, if this continued, he would definitely fall asleep within a few minutes.

At this moment, Chu Yi ran over from the other side, put his hands on Bai Ye's shoulders, and gasped, "Ye Tong, what happened to you? Look at my brain, I actually forgot such an important thing!" Yes, I should ask with you."

Bai Ye wanted to speak, but was so sleepy that he couldn't open his mouth, so he could only fall into a deep sleep.