After listening to Awu's story, I finally had a general understanding of the village's secrets, but then a new mystery emerged. I asked Awu: "Since you have already taken the elixir, why do you still have to go to the village every day?"
Perform a sacrifice every month?"
My question made Awu's face suddenly look a little strange. He said a little lonely: "That's because we have all become slaves of the Water God... Although the elixir has given us a long life, in turn, we...
Everyone in the village has also been controlled by the elixir."
Awu told me that the original elixir, in addition to allowing people to live longer and gain extraordinary healing abilities, actually had very strong side effects. That is, people who took the elixir would feel as if they had taken drugs.
It creates a strong dependence and must be swallowed again after a period of time. Once the elixir is not taken for a long time, the drug user will also have a withdrawal reaction similar to drug withdrawal. And this withdrawal reaction is far more painful than drug withdrawal.
For this reason, coupled with the desire for immortality, the people in the village are so frantic in kidnapping tourists passing by. As for why they specifically select young women, it is because over the course of hundreds of years, the people in the village have
A rule has been gradually figured out, that is, the sacrifices to the Water God should be women, and the younger and more beautiful the better, because only young and beautiful women can get the elixir given to them by the Water God.
This is also the reason why people in the village were so enthusiastic about Lin Qianyi at first, because in their opinion, with Lin Qianyi's appearance, the water god will be very satisfied, and maybe it will give the people in the village an extra
Elixir reward.
Although so far, I still don’t know what the water god is and what the elixir given by the water god is, but the facts before me make me unable to believe Awu’s words.
I really didn’t expect that just because of a not-so-simple kidnapping case, Lin Qianyi and I would be involved in another mysterious incident. This made me think of what the third fat man said to me back then.
, he said that I was a bad guy and would encounter mysterious events wherever I went. It really seemed like this.
On the other side, after saying everything, Awu sat back in his original position in the cell and said to me: "Okay, I have said everything that needs to be said, and you can leave here. Since you said that Miss Lin was taken by them
The altar, the ceremony must be about to begin. Usually at this time, everyone in the village will gather there. If you want to escape, now is the time."
I raised my head and said to him: "Wait a minute, I have one last question, you have to answer me!"
Awu laughed loudly: "Yes, but if you want to ask me how to rescue Miss Lin, there is only one answer, it is impossible! Those of us who have taken the elixir, even if we are shot by a gun, as long as it is not
You won't die if you are hit directly on the head, so unless you bring an army, it is impossible to rescue Miss Lin from their hands."
"No, that's not what I want to ask." I said, "What I want to know is actually why you want to help me? Don't say that you have a good impression of Qian Yi. I think that for an immortal person,
Said, love is probably the cheapest thing."
Awu put away his smile and shook his head: "I really have a crush on Miss Lin. But you are right, I want to help you. Apart from this reason, there are actually other reasons. That reason
, is my father..."
I once heard the old village chief say that Awu's father and his mother, Widow Liu, had left the village and lived outside for a long time, until after his father died.
Widow Liu returned to the village with her three children who were born in other places.
However, what I don’t know is that the reason Awu’s father wanted to leave this village with the elixir and go out to work was not for money. The real reason why they left here was actually to get rid of it.
Life in this village, get rid of that elixir that is like a drug!
According to Awu himself, his father has been a kind-hearted person since he was a child. When he grew up, he was exposed to some ideas from the outside world because he went out to do errands for the village, and he began to have an interest in what the villagers were doing.
I don’t know since when, Awu’s father began to feel guilty about the villagers’ continuous kidnapping of foreign women and using their lives to exchange for elixir. He felt disgusted with the life in the village. Finally one day,
He secretly left the village with Widow Liu, and the two lived together in the field for more than ten years.
In the past ten years, Awu and his two younger brothers were born one after another, and the family of five lived peacefully like ordinary people for several years. However, just a few years ago, Awu's father probably suffered from not taking the elixir for a long time.
As a result, his physique began to gradually degrade to the level of ordinary people, and he suddenly suffered from severe kidney failure. At that time, if Awu's father chose to return to the village and take the elixir again, his kidney failure might still be able to survive
He received treatment, but was tired of life in the village, so he chose to stay in another place, and eventually died of the disease.
Before dying, Awu's father told Awu about the elixir, and also reminded Awu that if he died, their mother would most likely return to the village. He hoped that by then, Awu could try his best to convince his mother,
Even if you return to the village, don't take any elixir. Because although that thing can give people more life, it is exchanged for the lives of those innocent girls. It is exchanged for one's own life at the expense of other people's lives.
Even if you can live hundreds of years, you will go to Avici Hell after death and will never be reincarnated.
And sure enough, the death of Ah Wu's father changed Widow Liu's temperament drastically. Since leaving the village, Widow Liu has experienced painful withdrawal reactions several times every year because she stopped taking the elixir. It is only because of the presence of Ah Wu's father that she can persevere.
.After Awu's father passed away, Widow Liu finally couldn't hold on any longer and decided to take her children back to her hometown.
After returning to the village, Widow Liu not only took the elixir again, but also let her three children take it too.
At that time, Awu had just grown up, and he didn't quite understand what his father said. Instead, he was very interested in what his mother said about the elixir that could prolong life. In this way, Awu forgot his father's last words and his two children.
The two brothers participated in the village's sacrifice together for the first time, took the elixir, and became slaves to the elixir like everyone else.
After taking the elixir, Awu was still immersed in the joy of the magical effect of the elixir at first. But as he lived in the village for a long time, Awu began to gradually recall his father's words.
In addition, after Widow Liu returned to the village, the farmhouse she ran became a trap used by the village to kidnap foreign women. When she saw again and again, those girls who fell into the clutches of the villagers because of their mothers were sacrificed to the water god for burial.
After his death, Awu gradually realized the guilt his father felt at that time.
"Did you know? In the few short years since I returned to the village, I have actually seen dozens of young girls being pushed to the water god. Those girls are all young and beautiful. If it weren't for
My mother, they may still have a lot of good times, but now, their flesh and blood has become the elixir that we eat. The people in our village are like vampires, using the life span of others to exchange for our own.
Longevity! This is really disgusting!”
Awu's words finally solved the doubts in my mind. At the same time, I could also understand his feelings. The villagers in this village have obviously become different because of the existence of the elixir.
Living cannibals, although they don't really eat people, their behavior of using those young girls and exchanging their lives for the elixir is actually no different from real cannibalism. Such behavior is usually somewhat