Awu looked at me for a while, and I just thought he was about to speak, but he shook his head again, sighed, and lowered his head.
Seeing this, I suddenly lost my temper. I looked around, picked up a stick and pried open the door lock of the cell. Then I rushed into the cell and slapped Awu hard without hesitation. , slapped him in the face.
The crisp applause shocked Awu. He raised his head, but before he could speak, I had already cursed: "Tell me, don't you have a crush on Qianyi? I tell you the truth, Qianyi has just been raped by your village." The people inside were taken away from here, and I want to know what they are going to do with her! If you really have a crush on her, why don’t you tell me everything so that I can rescue her?!"
I don’t know whether it was my slap or the fact that Qianyi had been taken away, which made Awu cover his face with his hands and tremble. At the same time, he said in a voice that was almost crying: "Okay, for Miss Lin, if I say it, I will say it!"
I clenched my fists anxiously, waiting for Awu's next words.
Awu said: "Those kidnapped people, as well as Miss Lin, are actually sacrifices prepared by people in our village..."
I was stunned for a moment and said, "Sacrifice? What kind of sacrifice?"
"They are sacrifices to the Water God!" Ah Wu suddenly raised his voice and screamed, "These women are sacrifices prepared by the people in our village for the Water God! They will be sacrificed to the Water God in exchange for The blessing given to us by the water god!"
"What? You mean...were all the women who were taken away from here before, eventually killed by you?" I asked, glaring.
"No, we did not kill them, but dedicated them to the Water God. Those women were actually eaten by the Water God in the end..."
"Wait..." I didn't understand. "What is the water god you are talking about? How can it also eat people?" When I heard Awu mention the water god just now, I originally thought that he might be talking about the water god. In addition, it is one thing to worship mountains and rivers as gods, but who knew that now it sounds like the water god in Awu's mouth actually seems to be a living creature, and this living creature can actually eat people?
"The Water God is the Water God. When you came, didn't you see a big hot spring next to the altar?"
Seeing me nodding, Awu continued: "The water god lives in that hot spring. It usually lurks at the bottom of the hot spring. Only when we hold sacrifices, the water god will emerge from the hot spring..."
After listening to Awu's explanation, I thought to myself that this water god is some kind of creature that lives in hot springs? For example, a big fish, a water monster or something? And the so-called sacrifices in the village actually treat the kidnapped women as Food, feed it to the water god?
But why do they do this?
"Didn't I say that we do this in order to get the blessing of the Water God?"
"Then what is a blessing? If you feed living people to monsters, can the monsters still bless you with good weather?"
"How is that possible?" Awu smiled coldly at me and said, "Don't confuse the water god's blessing with that kind of feudal superstition, okay?"
Superstitious? I can’t help but find it funny that a guy who regards the creatures in the hot springs as gods actually talks about feudal superstitions to me here?
Awu seemed to see through my thoughts, and he continued: "I know what you are thinking, but the blessing of the water god is not an illusion, but a real reward. This reward can be expressed in words that are easier for you to understand.
Say, it’s actually a kind of medicine!”
"A medicine? What medicine?"
"Elixir."
"Elixir?" I shouted loudly: "Nonsense, how could such a thing exist in the world!"
"Look, I knew you wouldn't believe it." Awuyin said with a smile, "But this is indeed the truth. After we held a sacrifice and dedicated those women to the water god, the water god would drop a kind of food on the edge of the hot spring.
Something, as long as we eat that thing, we can live a long life."
"By the way." Ah Wu suddenly seemed to think of something and said to me: "You should have heard the rumor that our village is a longevity village, right? In fact, the rumors are half true and half false. Our village is indeed a longevity village, but
The life span of people in the village is much better than what the outside world knows. Take my mother for example, how old do you think she is now?"
"Widow Liu?" I saw that Awu didn't seem to be having fun with me, so I replied, "Isn't your mother only in her forties this year?"
"Hahaha." Awu laughed loudly and said, "More than forty years old... To tell you the truth, my mother is actually eighty-five years old!"
Eight, eighty-five years old? How is this possible?!
In fact, when I first saw Widow Liu, I thought she was actually only in her thirties. Later, I thought she must be in her forties, also because I saw that Widow Liu was as old as Ah Wu.
Only then did Widow Liu’s age increase by more than ten years in her mind.
Awu looked at my disbelief, and continued to throw out the bomb: "And our old village chief, has he told you how old he is? He seems to be ninety-five, right? In fact, it has been so long
, he always reported this age in front of outsiders, but in fact, the old village chief is already over 200 years old!"
I tried my best to calm myself down and said, "It's impossible. If the old village chief is really that old, he must have already caused a sensation throughout the country!"
"Hmph!" Ah Wu said disdainfully, "Don't forget, there are people in our village and at the nearby police station. What's the difficulty in modifying the household registration book and ID card?"
"This..." I was speechless for a moment, because I suddenly thought of the police station director in the town. Indeed, with his help, it would be impossible for outsiders to modify the ID cards and household registration books of people in the village.
It's impossible to notice.
I asked him again: "What about you? Don't you actually look in your twenties?"
Awu said: "No, I am really about the same age as you, because in fact, I have only just started taking the elixir for a few years."
Probably because he was afraid that I still didn’t believe it, Ah Wu said again: “Don’t you believe it yet? Then I’ll prove it to you.”
As he said that, Awu suddenly walked into me. I thought he wanted to do me harm, so I immediately took out the gun and pointed it at him: "What do you want to do? Stay away from me!"
"No, I don't mean anything, I just want to show you the power of the elixir."
Awu smiled, suddenly turned around, and hit the wall with his head. He hit it almost with all his strength, and with a dull sound, I saw a big hole was opened in Awu's forehead.
, blood kept falling from his face, and soon he turned into a bloody man.
Awu shook his head and turned to look at me again, but there was still a smile on his face.
I looked at him with wide eyes. At first, I didn't understand why he would do such self-harm. But then, I noticed that there was no blood flowing out of the bloody gash on Awu's forehead. Moreover, he The cut on his forehead actually began to heal quickly.
It only took about a minute from the time Awu hit the wall in a self-inflicted manner until the wound on his forehead began to heal, but there were no traces left on his forehead.
Seeing this scene, my voice sounded like I didn't want to say it myself: "What... is going on?"
Awu laughed: "I told you, the elixir!"
I murmured and repeated: "Elixir?"
Awu said: "Yes, this is the power of the elixir. Not only can it prolong our lives, but it also gives us super healing abilities."
Seeing that I was speechless for a moment, Awu immediately continued his narration. What he said next can be roughly summarized into the following three points: (1) The underground village we are in now is not actually a village. It was built by the villagers in this village. When the people in this village moved here from Jiangxi to escape the war, a villager accidentally discovered a cave leading to this underground village on this mountain, and in Here I met the Water God and received the blessing from the Water God, which is the elixir of life.
(2) After obtaining the elixir, in order to keep the secret of the elixir forever, the people in the village built a village almost exactly the same as the underground village on the ground of the underground village, and they have lived here for generations.
(3) The so-called elixir is just the name given by the villagers to the reward given to them by the Water God. In fact, that thing does not really make people immortal. It can only extend people's lifespan and give people extraordinary healing abilities. Originally The villagers who discovered the elixir discovered the secret of the elixir because they noticed this.