221. Chapter 221 Villagers who keep disappearing
Under the leadership of the village chief, all the villagers came to the field with the remaining grain in their homes and knelt down to worship the viper, and promised that as long as the viper did not infringe on the village, they would cast clay statues for him and build temples, and would continue to worship it all year round.
"These villagers really worship a snake that is about to turn into a spirit? Isn't this asking for death?" Lao Zhang's face turned cold.
I nodded secretly and walked forward, and continued to look at the information. Tian Weimin took the initiative to act as a guard and looked around carefully.
I don’t know if the viper understood their promises, or if he had no intention of invading the village, and actually wiped out the insects, he rushed to the dry well in the middle of the village. He started hibernating in August.
"What is hibernation? It's obviously cultivation!" Lao Zhang sneered, and looked up at the empty village with some anxiety.
Later, the villagers believed in their words and built a small temple on the dry well. Moreover, they built the altar on the dry well, and specially left a meter-wide exit behind the altar for the viper to enter and exit, which was very thoughtful.
It wasn't just something. For many years, many bugs appeared in the fields in the valley every time the harvest season. Fortunately, there were vipers. Since he came, the harvest in this village has been very good, and no one has been starved to death again.
Gradually, these villagers believed in vipers more and more. Even the villages on the hillside had people who came to worship the vipers in order to seek a good harvest. The incense of the Viper Temple became more and more prosperous.
After hundreds of years of peace and stability, although there were some rumors during this period, they were nothing.
"Until more than 30 years ago, after the reform and opening up, many villagers began to work outside, and the incense of this Viper Temple eventually declined. In addition, over the years, the stories of vipers have been passed down by word of mouth by word of mouth by word of vipers by elders. Few young people who have received scientific education believe it and think it is feudal superstition. In the end, only the elderly in the village will take turns to worship the vipers."
Tian Weimin suddenly said quietly, and stopped, staring straight ahead.
Lao Zhang and I looked at each other strangely, and looked forward one after another, but found that there was an empty stone square in front of us. Although it was not big to us, it was definitely a luxury in Viper Village.
In the middle of the open space, there are very well-preserved buildings standing in the middle.
"This is the Viper Temple?" Old Zhang looked at the building with disbelief.
My pupils also shrank, and my instinctively became alert.
The building in front of me is well preserved, and I can't even see the smell of wind and frost. The atmospheric and dignified dark vermilion paint is still bright, and even the green tiles on the roof don't look much dust.
Moreover, on the plaque above the door, the three characters Viper Temple have a strange feeling, as if the characters themselves are twisted little snakes, which look particularly vulnerable under Tian Weimin's flashlight.
I murmured in my heart, it was like this temple was only ten years old, and I couldn't tell that this temple had existed for hundreds of years.
"It must have been renovated, right?" Tian Weimin laughed dryly and took two steps back slightly.
I turned his eyes blank. Since this has been abandoned for twenty or thirty years, who will renovate this temple?
Tian Weimin obviously felt that his statement was unreasonable. His face was slightly pale and his lips were trembling. He hesitated and continued:
"It is said that starting thirty years ago, every month, this village will disappear."
I'll wipe it!
Tian Weimin's voice was trembling. In front of this strange temple, it was so scary. Lao Zhang and I were both shivering, turning our heads stiffly, and waiting nervously for the following text.
At this time, the three of us were not in a hurry to go in.
"Every month full moon night, I will disappear for a few years. When those who went out to explore returned, I found that there were fewer and fewer villagers in my hometown, and in the end, there were even only some lonely and widowed elderly people left."
Tian Weimin became more and more nervous, and he couldn't see the coldness and decisiveness he usually had on weekdays.
"Around 1990, the village also went to the local news in the provincial capital. It was said that the left-behind people were picked up by a few families who were successful in their journey, and the rest were all missing. The villagers who had not stayed for the past two years and returned home called the police, which made the police station frustrated. Until now, these missing cases have become unsolved cases in the police station and have not been solved at all."
It turned out that the police who had investigated Guo Guoqiang before found this information. Before getting off the car, Tian Weimin happened to see these.
But he had no idea before that the legendary Viper Village was actually in the village where Guo Guoqiang's ancestors lived.
"Go in and take a look!"
I shook my head, greeted the two of them, and took the lead in entering the legendary Viper Temple.
Although this temple is very strange, it has no special atmosphere. Even the temperature is much more normal than outside.
I was a little suspicious and wondered if the viper had also changed its place after the villagers disappeared.
However, although the Viper Temple is very new, there are still many spider dust on the ground.
"It's like I've been wasted for many years!" Tian Weimin breathed a sigh of relief.
The temple is not very big. On the altar inside, there are stone statues more than three meters high. As expected, it is similar to the legend. This is a giant snake standing on the plate!
On the triangular snake's head, two lifelike vicious snake eyes seemed to be looking at us tightly.
"Is it looking at us?" Tian Weimin was a little nervous.
Damn, it turns out that I don’t feel this way?
My scalp was a little numb, but fortunately, this thing was really not alive, and Lao Zhang and I didn't feel possessed by the soul.
I breathed a sigh of relief, I turned to the back of the altar and there was a real exit.
Tian Weimin shot the flashlight in and said unexpectedly: "This dry well is so deep, at least ten meters."
"But, your grandfather is not here either? Is there any other weirdness?" Old Zhang swept the circle in the temple and looked at me in a tangled manner.
My nose moved, as if I could smell the unique green fragrance of our ghost veins. I turned my head and wanted to tell Lao Zhang, but I didn't expect that the smelly green red light once again soared into the sky, penetrated the caves that broke above the temple and rushed into the sky.
Tian Weimin and I were overturned and flew out by the breath carried by this light.
In a trance, I seemed to see that the stone statue was suddenly wrapped in green light. In an instant, the stone statue's eyes lit up.
"A evil beast, you won't die!" A familiar loud shout came from the ground.
Chapter completed!