The ancestral temple in Hongding Village has a large internal space, divided into two floors, inside and outside. The altar table in the ancestral hall is filled with fireworks, candlesticks and many spiritual tablets.
Chen Zhi noticed that everything here was completely different from an ordinary ancestral hall. All the spiritual tablets and tables had clear lines and were uniform, and the indoor layout was also square and orderly.
And the most important thing is that the names on all the spirit tablets are officials and civilians.
Chen Zhi walked silently to the tribute table in the temple, raised his hand to pick up the spiritual tablets on the table, and looked through them.
"Hey, Orange..."
Upon seeing this, Fat Wei behind him quickly stopped Chen Zhi's movements in a low voice, and at the same time winked in the direction of Yingzi behind him.
It is disrespectful to randomly turn over the spiritual tablets of other people's ancestors in front of their descendants. Fat Wei is really afraid that he will be shot into a hedgehog by the people from Hongding Village when he goes out.
However, when Fat Wei turned around, he found that Yingzi behind him was still standing there stupidly, looking at Chen Zhi with a confused expression, but did not speak to stop Chen Zhi's behavior.
In this way, Chen Zhi began to carefully look through all the spiritual cards on the table, then turned to look at Yingzi,
"Yingzi, you said these people are the ancestors of your village, then do you know what they do?"
"this……"
When Yingzi heard this, he didn't know what to say for a moment. After thinking for a moment, he slowly replied:
"They should be farmers like us!
I have never met these people. My parents died when I was very young. I was raised by people in the village. They told me that the ancestors of the village are enshrined in this temple, and they come to worship during festivals.
, I don’t know the rest!”
"Is it……",
Chen Zhi looked at Yingzi's clear eyes and said nothing. He turned around and walked around the long tribute table and went straight to the back of the ancestral hall. This is the back hall, which cannot be seen from the front. It is a dilapidated area.
The floor in the back hall was littered with broken wooden boards, and there were many curtains underneath. These things seemed to be very old. With a light touch, the curtains immediately fell apart and turned into dust.
The wooden boards were all broken. Chen Zhi rummaged inside for a while, and finally found some rusty weapons under the wooden boards. Those weapons were all Qing Dynasty weapons, with the Qing military seal engraved on them.
They were scattered in a mess under the wooden board, and something seemed to be pressed under the wooden board!
Chen Zhi casually picked up the debris on it. There seemed to be a deep hole underneath. Chen Zhi put his hand into the gap and touched it. He touched a large smooth wooden board with several uneven carvings on it.
A big character. When Chen Zhi's hand touched those words, all his guesses were confirmed...
"Eiko, don't you want to know what the movies in the city are like? Can I tell you a story from the movie now?",
Chen Zhi stood up from the ground, walked slowly to Yingzi, found a place to sit down, and looked directly into Yingzi's eyes.
"What on earth do you want to say? Why are you babbling so much?"
Yingzi saw that Chen Zhi's appearance was obviously abnormal, and looked at Chen Zhi and Pang Wei with some uneasiness.
"Chengzi, don't..."
Fat Wei seemed to have noticed what Chen Zhi wanted to say, and immediately came over to stop him in a low voice: "Didn't we just agree to it? Don't tell her anything yet! Wait until you take her back and tell her slowly, and let Xiao
The girl has time to accept it~~~~"
"If you don't reveal it, can you keep it secret forever?" Chen Zhi turned to look at Fat Wei, "The most basic right of all living beings is to know what they are!"
"What on earth are you talking about? Why are you so scary? If you keep talking like this, I will go back to find my uncles in the village!",
Yingzi was obviously frightened by Chen Zhi's appearance, and turned around to leave.
"They are not your uncles, and they can never give you the truth!" Chen Zhi looked at Yingzi and said calmly,
"But I can give you the truth. The question is, do you want to hear it?"
"I……",
Yingzi glanced at Chen Zhi with twinkling eyes, and then at the other people around him.
In addition to Fat Wei, there were also Mina, Ji Ying, Ding Ning and Lao Jiudou who stayed in the village. At this time, Yingzi had clearly noticed that these people in front of him were no longer just tourists.
"I want to tell you about a foreign movie now!" Chen Zhi looked at Yingzi and said slowly.
"There were a lot of zombies in that movie, and the heroine in it always thought she was an ordinary human being and was fighting zombies all the time.
But in the end she discovered that she was just a clone made by humans, and there were many clones, and she was just one of them, a puppet..."
"Ah~~, I've never seen those foreign things!" Yingzi looked at Chen Zhi with wide eyes, eyes rolling around in panic,
"What exactly do you mean by this?"
"I mean..."
Chen Zhi's eyes stared closely at Yingzi:
"Some people look exactly like humans, but they are not humans. Even from childhood to adulthood, from birth to death, they don't know that they are puppets created by others!"
"You mean, I'm a dummy?"
Yingzi's eyes were fixed on Chen Zhi. Because of her excitement, her eyes were red, the blood vessels on her forehead bulged, and her face was as red as fire.
"You liar, do you want to deceive me by saying this? I have long heard that you people in the city are full of lies. If I am a fake person, how can the uncles and uncles in the village be so kind to me? Who would use their own food to raise one?
Where’s the dummy!”
"It's not that they are good to you, but that their manipulators ask them to be good to you...",
Chen Zhi looked at Yingzi with firm eyes and said softly:
"They have no subjective consciousness. Everything about them is set by others. Your village called Hongding Village is not real at all. The villagers in the entire village, including you, are all created by others.
Come out the puppet!"
"You, you, you are talking nonsense, you have a demonic disease..."
Yingzi shouted angrily, stood up and looked at Chen Zhi and the others:
"You outsiders just love lying. Our Hongding Village has been on the top of this mountain for so many years. Our ancestors' ancestral halls are still here. Those on the spirit tablets are all our ancestors. How could they suddenly become fake!"
"The people on these spiritual tablets are not your ancestors at all...",
Chen Zhi said firmly,
"These are the officers appointed to guard the mountain here, and that village is not called Hongding Village at all. It was originally the imperial military camp of the Qintian Prison.
After Chen Zhi finished speaking, he stood up and returned to the pile of broken wooden boards, and dragged out the wooden boards from under the debris with his hands.
I saw this was a wooden plaque, covered with dust, but the five large characters sealed in red paint were still eye-catching:
"Given by the Emperor, Zhenshan Division Barracks"