Hearing Chu Haoman's words, Yu Yong couldn't help but show a strong expression of sarcasm on his face, "Rescue others? Not to mention you are trapped in this mutation, how to save others,
I have never heard of killing people first before saving them."
"..."
When Chu Haoman heard this, he shook his head and smiled helplessly, saying: "If it were possible, I wouldn't want to do it.
Nearly two months ago, accompanied by two guards, I went to the area west of Bingzhou for inspection, looking for epigraphic cultural relics.
I visited the nearby villages and listened to the old legends relayed by the villagers. I learned about the existence of Qishui Village and the special folk customs of Qishui Village. I couldn't help but feel curious. I went to Qishui Ao and without thinking, I was involved in the change.
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Chu Haoman paused and said: "Similar to your experience, I also saw thick fog all over the mountains and plains, as well as villagers who behaved suspiciously.
Two of my guards were accidentally killed by villagers at night.
But I myself survived by hiding here and there, and went into the village to collect information during the day when the villagers had not turned into ghosts."
He took out a few pieces of paper from his arms, which had the same oracle bone rubbings as Li Ang's. "I found some oracle bones in the rock formations around the village. I guessed that the changes in Qishui Village were related to the huge bronze at the bottom of the lake.
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The zong is an ancient ritual vessel and cooking utensil, and judging from the description in oracle bone inscriptions, this zong is clearly a tool used by merchants to torture captives, slaves, and please ghosts and gods.
I don’t know how many cruel deaths I witnessed before it was lost in Qishui’ao.”
Chu Haoman shook his head and said: "According to my speculation, it is possible that this beast absorbed too many slaves' pre-death resentment and became an alienated object.
It is possible that the businessman used special casting techniques to make the zong become an alienated object the moment it was successfully cast.
In short, it has some special ability,
After the fall of the Shang Dynasty, it was lost here and sank into the lake, and no one knew about it until the Sui Dynasty, when a group of refugees appeared."
Ji Xingwang frowned and said: "Those ancestors of Qishui Village?"
"Exactly."
Chu Haoman nodded and said: "In the legend of Qishui Village, a young man jumped into the lake on his own initiative, caught the hard-to-catch black fish for others, and saved all the refugees. In order to commemorate him, people erected a statue for him.
Worship him as a god.
But that’s weird, isn’t it?
Everyone knows the state of the refugees who have left their homes. They are so hungry that their chests are touching their backs. How can they still have the strength to jump into the cold lake and catch snakeheaded fish that can feed hundreds of people?
What's more, if that young man has a high status, why is his name or the names of his family members missing from the genealogy?
Is he really so selfless that he is still willing to sacrifice his life for others even when he is the only one left in the family?"
Guan Anyan opened her mouth when she heard this. Although Luli Academy teaches Confucianism and advises its disciples to pursue benevolence and righteousness, she also knows how difficult it is for people to practice moral behavior once they are extremely hungry.
"To speculate with the worst malice, the young man may not have died voluntarily, but was forced to sacrifice."
Chu Haoman said: "I spent some time looking for other clues in the village.
For example, genealogy, idols, tombs, and this tunnel.
Behind the stone door at the end of the tunnel, I saw the stone sunk in the rock formations.
The upper part of the turtle is soaked in the water of Qishui Lake.
The lower part of the temple, which is the four high legs, stands in the tunnel through the bottom of the lake.
The ancestors of Qishui Village were probably self-taught and mastered the method of using this alienated creature - using human resentment and hatred as fuel and corpses as firewood."
Chu Haoman's way of describing it was quite obscure. Scholar Yu frowned, vaguely feeling that he had guessed something.
Li Ang narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "Are the corpses that disappeared in the coffins on the grave hill used as fuel..."
He paused and explained to the puzzled Scholar Yu and others: "Do you still remember the scene we saw on the tomb mountain?
In the eighty years since the establishment of Qishui Village, there have been no corpses in any of the coffins.
Eighty years after the village was founded and one hundred years later, all the coffins contained corpses.
If I guessed correctly, during the eighty years since the village was founded, the villagers of Qishui Village have been using their own corpses as fuel to continue to light and heat the bronze ware at the end of the tunnel.
And the effect is to make the hemorrhoids produce a steady stream of black fish."
Li Ang thought of what he had seen at the bottom of the lake before. Black mist was continuously emitting from the holes on the top of the bronze vessel.
The smoke is swirling and floating in the water,
As it slowly rises in the lake, it gradually changes into the shape of a fish. By the time it reaches the middle of the lake, it has completely transformed into a black fish.
"In the early days, snakeheaded fish was an important source of food for Qishui Village. As the disaster situation improved, snakeheaded fish became a commodity that Qishui Village relied on for survival.
Only by selling black fish can Qishui Village become rich in the mountains."
Li Ang said: "In order to maintain this kind of life, all the villagers in Qishui Village, or some villagers, have reached a consensus in private.
Every household continues to offer bronze vessels.
Later, the sale of black fish brought considerable wealth to Qishui Village, and they no longer needed to use the bodies of themselves and their family members as heating fuel.
You can directly spend money to hire outsiders to bring the corpse back from afar."
"That's it."
Scholar Yu's eyes lit up and he immediately said: "Then that weird genealogy makes sense.
In the eighty years before the village was founded, even babies who died young were recorded in the family tree.
This is not out of concern and sadness, but out of guilt."
"Exactly."
Chu Haoman nodded and said: "The last and most critical issue is the connection between Qishui God and Qihuai Empress.
Do you still remember the description of the water-dwelling god?
After people eat the fish in Qishui Lake, there is a certain probability that they will be able to see the face of the young man who later became Qishui God in their sleep.
As a ritual vessel, the zong is composed of three parts: a steamer, a grate, and a kettle.
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The heat of the fuel passes through the retort, forming steam, which passes through the grate and heats the food in the retort.
As an alienated substance, anion,
It uses corpses as firewood, resentment as fuel, and finally forms black fish.
Those who eat black fish can see the appearance of a young man, precisely because the black fish itself is the product of the youth's resentment.
In other words, in the 180 years since Qishui Village was founded, the Qishui villagers have been abusing and torturing the young man to make profits for themselves."
"..."
Scholar Yu was dumbfounded, and it took him a while to react, "Wait a minute, you're saying that the God of Water has been imprisoned in the alien creature and tortured for one hundred and eighty years?"
"It's not surprising. The highest-level alienated objects have all kinds of strange abilities.
What still time is like watching chess while Wang Zhi was cutting wood in the Jin Dynasty, and it flashed forward for a hundred years.
Create illusions, such as Huangliang Yimeng."
Ji Xingwang still looked directly at Chu Haoman and said slowly, "So, regardless of whether the water-dwelling god sacrificed himself voluntarily or was forced to sacrifice,
Is he still in the alienated object?"
"No, he should have been freed."
Li Ang said: "According to Scholar Yu, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Bingzhou fell into famine due to a long drought. It was the rain of fish from the sky that saved the lives of the people in Bingzhou County.
In order to commemorate the gods, the people of Bingzhou established the Qihuai Empress Temple.
This is quite strange. Instead of worshiping the Dragon King Temple, they created a god of their own. And the image of the god is the same as the hallucination I saw after eating black fish."
He paused for a moment and said: "There is only one explanation. The fish rain that saved the people of Bingzhou actually came from the Qishui Lake, so it has the same characteristics as the Qishui snakehead fish.
And the reason why she is the female Qihuai Empress, not the male Qishui God,
It was because of an accident during the destruction of Qishui Village in the late Sui Dynasty - the male Qishui God was changed into the female Qishui Empress."
"From male to female?"
Yu Yong blurted out subconsciously, "How is this possible? According to Chu Haoman, isn't the water-dwelling god always being imprisoned in the alienated object..."
The words stopped abruptly, and Yu Yong suddenly realized the problem, "Wait a minute, it's not that the gender of the god himself has changed, but that the victim of the evil has changed."
"Correct."
Chu Haoman took a deep breath and said: "It is precisely because the victim who was mistreated and resentful changed into another person, so the hallucination image produced by Heiyu changed from the God of Qi Shui to the Empress of Qihuai."
"And the hallucination of the Qihuai Empress that I saw after eating the black fish provided by Zhuo Wenbai's family also proves one point."
Li Ang said: "Empress Qihuai has long replaced the position of Qishui God.
At this moment, Qishui'ao, Qishui Village and the villagers in the village do not really exist, they are just some kind of illusion.
If I guess correctly, tonight is the time in history when Qishui Village is destined to become extinct, and they will appear soon."
"Who are they..."
Before Scholar Yu could finish his question, there were flickering lights and bursts of footsteps coming from the tunnel in the distance.
A group of Qishui villagers appeared. They were dressed in celebration clothes and escorted a woman who was tightly tied up and her face was wrapped in cloth. In the escort team, Guan Anyan also saw two familiar figures - Zhuo Wenbai and his wife.
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Unlike other expressionless villagers, Zhuo Wenbai and his wife grabbed the arms of the escort, with sad and sorrowful expressions on their faces.
This group of people looked extremely shocked and confused after seeing Li Ang and others. Just as they were about to ask, Wang Linian, a monk from the Wang family in Taiyuan, swung his sword. The sword energy spanned a long distance and struck at the top of the tunnel.
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Boom!
The rubble fell from the top of the tunnel and hit the group of villagers in front, separating the two sides.
"What are you doing?"
Yu Yong said angrily: "Those people..."
"That group of people is just a part of the illusion that makes up the illusion, it doesn't matter."
Wang Linian said calmly: "Don't you understand yet? All this has already happened in history. No matter what we do, things will not change.
Tonight, the victim in the war is destined to be replaced."
"Zhuo Lu..."
Guan Anyan suddenly realized something and murmured: "When Zhuo Wenbo invited us to his home, he mentioned to his wife that their daughter was playing with her companions in the ancestral hall and did not come back at night.
The figure being escorted just now was her.
She probably accidentally discovered the tunnel while playing in the ancestral hall and found this place..."
"After she discovered the truth, out of sympathy or perhaps being induced, she released the Qishui God who was originally trapped in the trap, causing the celebration to fail."
Li Ang said quietly: "Without the victims, naturally there will be no endless supply of black fish, and Qishui Village will not be able to maintain its prosperity.
In order to ensure long-term prosperity, the group of villagers living in the water, as well as Zhuo Lu's parents, decided to seal her into a trap and make her the next victim to continue the cycle."
"That's right."
Chu Haoman sighed: "It's possible that the Qishui God was too resentful after being released.
It is also possible that her parents' betrayal made Zhuo Lu extremely desperate and angry.
In short, not long after she was sealed in the cave, the situation completely got out of control.
The constant outflow of resentment from the demon directly destroyed Qishui Village, pulling all Qishui villagers into this specious and never-ending illusion, repeating what happened during this period over and over again."
"Keep repeating..."
Scholar Yu pursed his lips, stared at Chu Haoman and said, "How many cycles have you gone through here?"
"Twenty-five times in total."
Chu Hao sighed: "At the beginning, I also wanted to save Zhuo Lu and end the endless tragedy. But how could I change what has happened in the past?
No matter what I do, Zhuo Lu will fall into the trap, generate strong resentment, and destroy Qishui Village.
If classified according to the levels of the academy, this can definitely be classified as a first-level mutation.
The aftermath can even impact all parts of Taiyuan County - in history, the fish rain that accidentally saved Bingzhou was a by-product of the explosion of resentment in Qishui Lake.
It was Zhuo Lu's resentment that formed those countless fish falling from the sky.
After eating those fish, the people of Bingzhou 'saw' the outstanding face, mistakenly thought she was some kind of god, and erected the Qihuai Empress Temple for her and offered incense to her."
"...That's it."
Ji Xingwang was silent for a long time and said slowly: "And the reason why you don't want us to come here..."
"Three hundred years have passed since the end of the Sui Dynasty when Zhuo Lu was sealed,"
Chu Haoman said bitterly: "Not long after she was sealed in the prison, the resentment she generated was enough to destroy Qishui Village, causing the villagers of Qishui Village who killed her to suffer reincarnation torture and become neither human nor ghosts.
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Only her parents, who are a little bit special, can retain a certain degree of sanity - maybe Zhuo Lu still has some feelings for them.
But now three hundred years have passed, and three hundred years of reincarnation have accumulated countless resentments and hatreds.
Once it detonates again, it will not be as simple as destroying Qishui Col.
Bingzhou, Taiyuan County, and even the entire Hedong Road are in danger."
Ji Xingwang was silent for a long time, then turned to look at Wang Linian, "You attacked us for this reason."
"To be precise, I only attacked Yu Yuan, Liao Kaifeng, and Yan Yan."
Wang Linian said expressionlessly: "In my estimation, they will put their own lives above the people of Taiyuan County and Hedong Road, which is considered a factor of instability."
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