Lu Xiaohong didn't stop me anymore, but he didn't mean to slow down at all and walked forward on his own.
I gradually opened a considerable distance from him, so I had no choice but to concentrate my energy on my feet and catch up with him at odd paces.
"It's best not to let people know you are a psychic later!" When I caught up with him, Lu Xiaohong snorted coldly and said to me in an almost inaudible voice.
"Why?" I was stunned and asked intuitively.
"There is no reason. If you don't want to cause more trouble, you'd better listen to me, otherwise I won't be able to protect you and your friends!" Lu Xiaohong was still unwilling to explain more and said coldly.
"Yeah" I said, and I followed him closely and walked forward.
I found that Lu Xiaohong was actually walking towards the village.
I couldn't help but wonder, did Xia Xiaobei run into the village alone? Didn't she tell me that the village was weird? Why did a person sneak in without saying a word?
After walking for about twenty minutes, a dim yellow light appeared faintly in front of him. Lu Xiaohong quickened his pace and walked towards the light, and I trotted closely behind him.
After coming out of the ancient tomb, for some unknown reason, although I could no longer see Qi or Yin spirits, my Qi seemed to be getting stronger and stronger. I didn't feel tired at all as I trotted along with him.
Soon, the light became bigger and bigger, and when I got closer, I realized that it was the light coming from a room. The room was very big, and it looked vaguely like an ancestral hall.
"Be careful, don't make any noise!" Lu Xiaohong slowed down and warned me in a low voice.
Seeing me nodding, he carefully walked around behind a big tree and slowly approached the house.
Seeing how careful he was, I followed him and tried my best to tap the ground with my toes without making any sound.
The distance was getting closer and closer, and when there were only ten meters left, I finally saw clearly that it was indeed an ancestral hall. The ancestral hall was full of people, as if they were doing some rituals. On top of the ancestral hall was a densely packed layer of black objects.
People stood in front of the stacked tablets and pointed at the place where the altar table should be.
"Ah——" A scream suddenly came from the ancestral hall, and my heart suddenly tightened. It was Xia Xiaobei's scream.
I almost couldn't help but rushed out, but Lu Xiaohong grabbed me tightly.
His hand was slightly cool, with a faint warmth. It was not the kind of touch I had in Shouning Village, but the size and strength of that hand, as well as the sudden feeling of peace of mind, made me feel that Lu Xiaohong and
That person is definitely a person.
I definitely didn't admit my mistake this time.
Suddenly I remembered that strange dream. Could it be that the dream was telling me that Lu Xiaohong was that person and had just forgotten me?
Lu Xiaohong raised his finger slightly and pointed at the door of the ancestral hall.
I looked in the direction of his finger and found two people standing at the door of the ancestral hall. One of them held a gun in his hand and looked around with a vigilant look.
Could it be that Xia Xiaobei didn't come here by herself, but they captured her?
I looked at Lu Xiaohong in confusion. He made a silent gesture towards me, pointed at a big tree next to the entrance of the ancestral hall, and gave me a questioning expression.
I understood what he meant. He was gesturing for us to find an opportunity to sneak up the tree.
I nodded to him, indicating that I could climb trees, and he looked relieved.
Next, Lu Xiaohong squatted down on the ground, picked up a pebble, and threw it in the direction opposite us.
"Who?" The stone fell to the ground with a soft sound, and the two people guarding the door of the ancestral hall followed the sound and rushed over with their guns.
Lu Xiaohong took my hand and quickly ran towards the big tree. Before I could react, I found myself being pulled into the dense canopy by him.
It turned out that he was not asking me if I could climb trees, but he was worried that I might be afraid of heights or make noises out of fear.
By the time we had just found a suitable place to stand in the tree, the two men guarding the door had already returned to the door with guns in hand.
If I go at my speed, I will definitely be discovered by those two people.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the view from the tree was much better than on the ground, and I could have a panoramic view of everything in the ancestral hall. However, when I saw everything in the ancestral hall clearly, I felt an incredible and strange feeling that made my eyes widen.
Under the rows of stacked memorial tablets, there was a bright red coffin. Xia Xiaobei was sitting astride the coffin, wearing snow-white linen clothes, looking at the people surrounding her and the coffin with horror on her face.
Villagers.
Each of the villagers was holding a bag filled with rice. They circled around the coffin and Xia Xiaobei. Every time they circled, they would throw a handful of rice towards their head and body. The red coffin was on top of the coffin.
The ground below has been covered with a thick layer of rice grains.
What kind of strange ritual is this? Why have I never seen it before? Even in the book left by Grandpa Xiu Cai and the books left by my fourth uncle and grandma, there is no record of this strange ritual.
Every time the villagers threw a handful of rice at Xia Xiaobei, she would hold her head and scream in terror. Two villagers desperately pulled down the hand holding her head.
Seeing this, the two villagers walked up to an old man with white beard and hair at the front of the crowd and whispered something. The old man nodded, and the two villagers walked out. After a while, they found a rope and a piece of white linen.
He stuffed linen cloth into Xia Xiaobei's mouth and tied her hands behind her back with ropes.
Xia Xiaobei could no longer cover his head with his hands. His mouth was stuffed with linen and he could no longer scream. With eyes full of fear, he let out a desperate "wuwuwu" sound like a trapped animal.
Looking at Xia Xiaobei's appearance, I was frightened. What were those people going to do to Xiaobei? They wouldn't use her life to hold a memorial ceremony, right? Thinking about this, I couldn't help but turn around and look at Lu Xiaohong for help.
He shook his head slightly at me, leaned close to my ear, and lowered his voice: "It's okay, they won't kill her yet."
"Who are they? Why did they arrest Xia Xiaobei here and what do they want to do?" I asked softly.
"She was not captured, she came here on her own!" Lu Xiaohong looked at the ancestral hall and said coldly.
"Impossible! No matter how curious Xia Xiaobei is, he would never come to this place alone at night!" I said.
Based on what I have learned about Xia Xiaobei in the past half day, she seems to be chirping carelessly, but is actually very timid and cautious. If she really came to the village out of curiosity, she would at least ask me to come with her, and she would never
Maybe a person could come so far away without saying a word.
"What if she was led here on purpose?" Lu Xiaohong asked me with cold eyes.
I was stunned, looked at him and said, "You also know that there is something righteous about her. Is there anything that can lead her here?"
"These villagers are ordinary people!" Lu Xiaohong said, "No immortal family will take action against ordinary people!" This chapter has been completed!