The rickety figure knelt there tremblingly, and his clothes trembled slightly with the trembling, showing a strange hollow feeling.
Darkness enveloped the main hall, and Yu Xing had to squint his eyes to see what Granny Li was doing.
Granny Li took out a knife from her clothes.
"Do people here carry knives with them? It seems that the folk customs are not simple!" Yu Xing thought, touching the rusty kitchen knife that he had never left behind, and condemned the villagers.
Granny Li took the knife and lifted up her clothes shivering.
"..." Yu Xing quietly moved closer, thinking silently: I am not a voyeur, this is just because of necessity...
He moved lightly. The set of clothes given to him by the goddess included a pair of black cloth shoes. At this time, the soles of the shoes made no sound when stepping on the ground.
He noticed this himself and suspected that he had good physical control before.
When he came to the side, the extremely frightened Granny Li still didn't notice him. From his angle, he could see Granny Li's protruding backbone and silvery white and scattered hair. She was holding the knife in one hand and her shirt in the other.
The hem of clothes, under the hem of clothes...
Yu Xing's pupils shrank and he almost made a sound.
It can be said that there is no meat at all under Granny Li's clothes. Where her belly should have been, there are only white bones left.
No kidneys, no intestines.
The top part was covered by clothes, so Yu Xing couldn't see it.
No wonder she looks so thin and her clothes are so empty. It turns out - there is nothing like a normal living human body inside!
Does she count as a living person?
A gust of cold wind blew by, adding a bit of coldness to this terrifying scene. Yu Xing opened his eyes motionless and carefully watched Granny Li's next movements.
Granny Li is searching for herself.
"Where is my meat? Where is the meat? I want to offer it to the gods... I have to hurry up..."
She became more and more anxious, her face twisted ferociously, and finally, she seemed to have touched a remaining piece of flesh behind her spine, and raised the knife with joy.
"Ah——" The not-sharp knife cut back and forth at the joint between the meat and the bone. Granny Li screamed miserably, the skin on her face was shaking, her eyes were about to pop out of her sockets, and she looked heartbroken.
"Hiss..." Yu Xing felt pain just looking at it. If the flesh in other places was like this, wouldn't it mean that he had cut himself into pieces?
The piece of meat was finally cut off, and Granny Li didn't care about the splattered blood. She stood up holding the bleeding fist-sized piece of meat and placed it on the plate in front of the stone statue like a treasure.
Then she knelt down again and kowtowed to the stone statue over and over again. Her forehead hit the ground with a thud, making a muffled sound that echoed in the main hall: "God bless me, please protect me from being taken away. God bless me..."
Yu Xing felt that the voice had been echoing in the empty main hall, as if it was in his ears.
After kowtowing like this for almost a minute, Granny Li's forehead was covered in blood and flesh. It was obvious that there was no movement in the stone statue and the meat on the plate was intact, but she seemed to be relieved and said to the air: "Thank you, God, God. Thank you, God."
grown ups……"
Seeing that she was about to get up, Yu Xing shrank back and hid behind a piece of furniture to better hide himself.
Granny Li's thin figure staggered away. Although she was injured in two places, her mood was much more stable than when she came. She seemed to have received some reassuring answer and walked out of the main hall with satisfaction.
Yu Xing hid in the shadows and waited quietly. It was not until ten minutes later that he was sure that Granny Li was really gone and stood up from behind the furniture.
He doesn't know where these habits of his come from. Perhaps he is so cautious because of his past experiences.
Holding the kitchen knife to prevent accidents, Yu Xing walked to the stone statue and looked at his feet.
His eyes have adapted to the dark, and he can see things clearly even if there is no lighting.
There was a small pool of blood at his feet.
The stone statues were no different from the daytime ones. The plates in front were filled with flesh and blood. It was shocking to see the strange behavior of the people in this village - Granny Li would be so decisive. Obviously she was not the only one to do this.
She said that every household in the village enshrines such a small statue, which means that at least on the matter of "how to enshrine it," the people in the village should be consistent.
"Sigh... How can I say they are stupid... How can any priest let people use flesh and blood as tribute to seek blessings? Obviously only evil spirits and the like can-" Yu Xing sighed midway and suddenly froze.
Evil ghost? Why does he seem to be very familiar with the concept of evil ghost?
This is not the point. The point is that he now knows that this village has obvious terror tendencies. I am afraid that what the goddess said to him is just a way to stabilize him by letting him stay temporarily.
Yu Xing didn't believe that the goddess had no intentions for him, so she kindly gave him clothes and found him a place to stay.
His existence is definitely useful to the goddess and the so-called immortals, but just by offering this flesh and blood, you know that the goddess is not a good thing, and the "immortal" can't figure out where the evil spirits come from.
So this is not a good thing for him.
It is not advisable to stay here for a long time.
Yu Xing lowered his eyes and had the urge to leave under the cover of night. Since the goddess came from the town, it meant that there must be a road leading to the town.
What he has to worry about is the food problem on the road, the direction problem, and whether the group of Goddess and the group who hurt him in the first place will catch up.
Okay...there are so many questions.
Still can't act impulsively, as it's easy to fail.
After sorting it out, Yu Xing gave up the idea of leaving now, looked at the stone statue again, turned around and prepared to go back to the room.
He needs to figure out the origin of the "Master Immortal", find a way to protect himself, and also need to figure out what the goddess is planning for him.
Also, he must determine the general direction of the town before setting off to avoid running in the wrong direction. His supplies will never allow him to make the wrong attempt.
The only sound in the darkness was Yu Xing's breathing. He was silent for a while, feeling like he was starting in hell with nothing.
Is this reasonable?
The only consolation is that his injury healed a little quickly, but for some reason, he was subconsciously resistant to this fact.
Yu Xing turned around and walked towards the door of the main hall.
However, a bright light suddenly appeared in his sight.
Granny Li was holding a kerosene lamp and leaning on a cane. There was a large and hideous wound on her wrinkled face, but the blood had been wiped clean and she didn't look so embarrassed.
But it's scary.
At least Yu Xing's breathing paused for a moment.
"Mr. Shi Wei... I just wanted to see if you were sleeping well, but I found that you are not in the room." Granny Li used a name that was very unfamiliar to Yu Xing. Her throat was very torn from the scream just now.
The hoarseness made her words sound like the call of an innocent ghost.
Granny Li took two steps forward until the light illuminated Yu Xing's face. Fan Wei asked, "What are you doing here?"