Chapter 58 Li Mu
Chapter 58 Li Mu

Bai Yanliang looked at him quietly. Xiaobin's behavior was abnormal from the beginning.

Yesterday, when the village chief suggested letting them go into the village to rest for a night, Xiaobin's response was strange.

It didn't sound like dissatisfaction after a conflict with Tian Dawei at all, but more like a request, asking the village chief to let them leave.

Bai Yanliang believed that he was definitely not the only one who understood the hidden meaning of Xiaobin's words.

"Who is she?" Bai Yanliang asked.

Xiaobin's expression suddenly became very strange. He looked at Bai Yanliang and said, "Do you believe... that there are ghosts in this world?"

The air in the room seemed to suddenly become colder. Bai Yanliang nodded: "I believe it."

Xiao Bin smiled, stared at Bai Yanliang and said: "Well, I'll tell you..."

Bai Yanliang's heart moved and he looked at him quietly.

"That old house belonged to a woman. She died and was sacrificed with blood."

Xiaobin's words were concise and to the point, but to others, they were creepy.

"Blood sacrifice?"

Bai Yanliang didn't have any extra reaction, although the word was so cold that it was frightening.

Xiaobin felt a little strange about Bai Yanliang's indifferent reaction, but he didn't care too much.

He nodded.

"The Snow Village is not called Snow Village. Its original name was Wuji Village."

"One year is the Homecoming Festival, and ten years is the Homecoming Memorial Festival."

"So, the Wuji Village holds a small ceremony every year and a big ceremony every ten years?"

"You can say that."

Xiaobin confirmed Bai Yanliang's understanding.

Small sacrifices to gods, big sacrifices to blood...

It is obvious that the God here does not refer to immortals, but to... the soul and mind.

"How about it... Very stupid, right? In this day and age, there are still such stupid customs? Isn't it unbelievable?" Xiaobin looked at Bai Yanliang with a distorted expression.

Bai Yanliang nodded clearly: "It's really stupid."

"Correct!"

Xiaobin's eyes lit up, and his cheeks turned red because of the excitement as blood rushed to them.

“What a bunch of disgusting, shameless, ignorant, and selfish people! They deserve to be poor here and deserve not to be able to leave the Wuji Village! Hahahaha!”

Xiaobin's emotions were a little out of control, but Bai Yanliang did not stop him. Instead, he let him vent his anger with saliva flying everywhere.

Suddenly, Bai Yanliang thought of something. He glanced around and didn't see any calendar, so he asked, "What day is tomorrow?"

Xiao Bin's emotions finally stabilized after venting. Hearing this, he glanced at Bai Yanliang and said, "October 1st."

He was talking about the old calendar.

The first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar...

Bai Yanliang looked at Xiaobin and asked, "Do you know what day is the first day of October in the lunar calendar?"

Xiaobin was stunned, then shook his head.

He grew up in a village and the only two festivals he knew were the New Year's Festival and the Homecoming Festival.

Bai Yanliang said a few words calmly: "Tomorrow is the Cold Clothes Festival, also known as the Dark Yin Festival, Ghost Head Day."

It is definitely not a coincidence that the Homecoming Festival coincides with the Ghost Day.

Bai Yanliang never believes in coincidences.

If everything is as Xiaobin said, then... the ghost haunting the village must be her.

The woman whose blood was sacrificed at the festival last year.

"what is her name?"

Bai Yanliang asked.

"Her..." Xiao Bin's expression was somewhat complicated, with nostalgia, fear, doubt, and even a little...admiration. "Her name is Lu Rendong, she is...an excellent woman."

Bai Yanliang nodded, stood up and said, "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

Xiaobin ignored Bai Yanliang. Ever since he mentioned the name Lu Rending, he seemed to be lost in deep memories. He did not wake up until Bai Yanliang left his room.

Bai Yanliang looked back at Xiaobin, but what he was thinking about was not Lu Rending.

But...what role did Xiaobin play in last year's homecoming ceremony, or in other words...in this series of events.

……

After Li Mu left the village chief's house, he went straight to the back mountain.

He found out that the place where the sacrifice would be held tomorrow was in the back mountain at the end of the village.

The sky was gloomy and the sun that was there in the morning was no longer visible.

Occasionally, some villagers would cast glances at us, but they disappeared after we entered the forest at the end of the village.

Because there is not much farmland nearby.

Li Mu stepped into the forest and suddenly felt something was wrong.

It was a feeling he couldn't describe... In short, it was a bad feeling, as if... if he continued to move forward, he would encounter something very bad.

Reason told him that he had to stop.

But... this is Wu Ji, he can't deceive his own brain, what he wants now is to go to the back mountain to take a look at the place where the festival is held.

If you don’t go, terrible things will happen to you because of your negative behavior.

Li Mu was in a rare dilemma. At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the depths of the forest: "Hey? You're here too?"

It’s Tian Dawei.

Li Mu looked in the direction of the voice, and besides Tian Dawei, there was He Miao holding a dog, old man Chen Qingshan, and the taciturn Sun Liang.

Except for Tong Li, who was taking care of her husband's body in the village, they were all here.

But Li Mu noticed that what Tian Dawei said was also.

"Did you meet my friend just now?" Li Mu asked.

"Yes...it was the little brother named Huang Yourong...He originally said he would go with us, but as we walked, he disappeared." Chen Qingshan said.

Hearing what they said, Li Mu's heart skipped a beat. He knew... something might have happened to Huang Yourong.

Looking at the people in front of him, Li Mu suddenly had an idea.

"He might have gotten lost in the woods. Everyone...can you come in with me to look for him?"

This request was not excessive, and after a few expressions changed, they agreed.

"Okay... let's go!"

Li Mu nodded, finally made up his mind, and stepped into the forest.

However, at this moment, the warning signs in his heart suddenly reached their peak!
A strong feeling of suffocation surged into his heart, just like... Wu Ji's call.

No...something is wrong!
Li Mu hung behind, looking back and forth at the four people.

Finally, his heart trembled and he stared at a person's back.

He... is not right!

Just when Li Mu noticed something strange, Tian Dawei, who was walking in front of him, suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at Li Mu, and said:
"Why are you walking so slowly?"

Li Mu's heart was pounding, but he was the one who survived the longest in the fog after all.

Hearing this, not only did he not panic, he even managed to control his accelerated heartbeat.

"I haven't exercised for many years, so I feel a little tired from walking."

Li Mu replied.

Tian Dawei stared at him and suddenly smiled: "Then, you go ahead of us."

Li Mu only felt a chill on his back, but now... he couldn't refuse.

He nodded and said, "Okay."

(End of this chapter)