Chapter 19: Dragon Hunting (Part 3)

March 23, 2023Ai Hrist

[Don’t attack people upstairs, okay? My hometown is also in the mountains of Nan Province. Not all mountain people are like this. And I tried to understand a little bit after listening. They think that these outsiders from the program team will bring bad luck and disaster to the village when they enter the village. The camera seems to be an unlucky thing in their eyes, so they are so excited.]

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Although the old woman let the program crew walk around casually, both the staff and the contestants felt lingering fear after experiencing the scene just now.

Host Liu walked through the process with a smile: “A little accident happened, but we have already communicated with the village head mother of the village here.”

At this time, it was close to 7 p.m., and there was only a little warm glow left in the sky. The ancient mountain village under the shade of trees was silent and dark. At some point, the villagers lit up torches.

The village head mother pursed her mouth and said coldly: “Today is an important blessing ceremony in our village. This is the tradition of a native village. You can watch from the side, but you must not disturb the blessing by making noises, and don’t ask things.”

Li Chenghe responded again and again and talked to other staff and players.

At seven o’clock, almost all the people in the village came out of their homes and came to the open space in the middle with torches in their hands.

They saw that the village chief’s mother-in-law was wearing a dark red cloth and heavy silverware on her head, holding a bowl in her hand, which contained the blood of some unknown animal.

She was lying on the ground with the support of the people beside her, her trembling fingers kept drawing symbols on the ground covered with blood, each one looked weird, making the strange symbol particularly mysterious under the firelight;

After finishing the drawing, she kept stroking her chest, her eyes closed tightly, and she muttered words.

The contestant who wanted to pay the villagers outside to lead the way was a rich second generation. He didn’t have any psychic or metaphysical skills. He just thought it was fun to go on the show. He thought the show was a script, and he never concealed that he bought the answer.

But since entering this village, his complexion has not returned to normal, and he muttered softly at this moment:

“It’s too weird here, I think these villagers are very dangerous, can we leave?!”

The audience in the live broadcast room was also scared and curious.

Suddenly, the old woman screamed and sang a sacrificial song that no one could understand. Immediately after that, in the firelight, a villager brought four swaddling babies, and the cries of the babies came and went.

They were placed in the middle of the open space one by one, and the old woman shook her rough and dry palms while praying blessings on them.

Gu Zhisang could see a few small faces against the flames from a distance. Those children should have been born not long ago, some had fat faces and opened their eyes, but one of them was very small.

Unlike other frightened people, she could understand the sacrificial song sung by the old woman. This was a kind of sacrificial song to pray for blessings from the gods in ancient times, and it is not something harmful.

The old wizard was praying to the mountain god to protect her villagers.

In the eyes of people from other villages, this place was abandoned by the mountain gods, but obviously, the villagers don’t think so. They devoutly believe in the mountain gods and think that the mountain gods will give them blessings.

It was just that the words were a little strange. They don’t wish these children to succeed in their studies and long life, but they just wish them to grow up healthy and become loyal citizens of Dashan.

She suddenly thought of something, and combined with the strange faces and tense attitudes of these villagers, a shocking idea appeared in her mind.

Suppressing the speculation in her heart, Gu Zhisang looked a little dignified.

The sacrificial blessing didn’t last long, and it ended after ten minutes. The four children who were carried out had already closed their mouths and fell asleep and were hugged back by their thankful parents.

In the largest area in the village, torches and oil lamps were burning in the room, and only a dim yellow lamp above the head was on.

In addition to the contestants and staff, the village head mother sat in the main seat of the auditorium. Around her were several men and women in the village, who were watching the program crew in the room with vigilant eyes.

The village head mother removed the silverware on top of her head, but still, wear the sacrificial attire. She said impatiently, “When will you finish the filming?”

Host Liu forced a smile, thinking that he had never encountered such an outrageous moment in his life:

“Good evening, audience friends. After a night of observation, the nine contestants have made their discoveries, and now it’s time to reveal the answers. What happened in this mysterious village, and what kind of secrets are hidden? We invited the village head mother to check whether each contestant’s answer is correct.”

Immediately afterward, a large blackboard was pushed up, and the answers of each contestant were revealed one by one.

Although the atmosphere was grim and strange, the eye-catching event was essential. This time, the host did not reveal the answers uniformly but revealed them one by one.

Based on the conflict between Xun Yiqing and Gu Zhisang in the previous issue, the director also divided the answers of the two into the first and the last.

Xun Yiqing’s question board was uncovered first, the words written were:

‘Dragon is born in a dangerous mouth, and its luck is overwhelming. It is a place of great danger. Those who live for a long time will hurt their spleen and stomach, strain their energy, and are often accompanied by depression. ‘

He said: “This is the air inlet of the Poshan dragon vein, but it is not an auspicious point, but a fierce place formed during the years of mountain changes. You can see that the geology, the water, and the soil here are at a low level, and it is caused by this fierce place. The land has been affected! I observed the villagers in the village and found that their complexions are often pale, and their faces look sluggish. It should be because the fierceness entered their body and caused physical damage, which will cause great damage to their lifespan in the long run.”

“I assert that almost all the villagers here will not live to be 60 years old, and they will die from various physical diseases!”

The audience: “?!!”

[Is it okay to say such things in front of these villagers? I feel a little scared!]

But the village head mother and the other villagers just looked ugly, but they didn’t deny Xun Yiqing’s words.

The village head mother frowned and said in a cold voice, “It’s true that people here don’t have a long lifespan. Most of the children are sick from the root and die of illness at the age of forty. Those who can live to fifty or sixty years old are long-lived.”

As if to confirm what she said, the woman standing beside her coughed twice suddenly, and a little blood came out of her lips.

At this moment, everyone and the audience suddenly remembered what they saw along the way. The villagers they saw were indeed young and middle-aged, and there were few children, but apart from the village head mother, there was no gray-haired old man!

In other words, each of them was lifeless, so everyone didn’t pay attention to this problem at all.

The village head mother added: “But you are wrong about one thing. Our place is not a dangerous place! Didn’t you say that all the people who come to film the show are mysterious masters? Our village never welcomes outsiders. Letting you come in is just asking to find a way to get rid of the root of the disease.”

Xun Yiqing immediately raised his voice and said: “It’s just the terrain. Old Lady, you are also a member of the Taoist sect, so you can feel the lingering dampness here!”

“For the sake of the health and longevity of your people, I suggest you move out of this place as soon as possible. This place can no longer be inhabited.”

“Presumptuous! How dare you tell us to abandon our ancestral land?” The village head mother slammed the crutch hard, and said in a stern tone, “I forgive you for being a young and ignorant person, so I won’t care about you.”

Seeing that Xun Yiqing still wanted to move, Host Liu hurriedly interrupted:

“We have other players, they should have other discoveries!”

Bai Ci said softly: “The hedgehog immortal told me that funerals are often done in this village. He has seen two people in this house who just had funerals. One on the left and three on the right. And sometimes some funerals have no bones left, and only clothes are in the graves. I can point out the place, but I can only tell what the Hedgehog Immortal saw, I don’t know about the rest.”