This actor is full of tricks.

Chapter 180 Someone else
In the dead of night, a female ghost covered in blood suddenly put her face close to him. Anyone would probably be frightened to have a heart attack, but Lin Jue seemed completely unaware, with his eyes tightly closed, and even let out a slight cry.

The female ghost stared at him, tears of blood flowing from her eyes. After a long time, she sighed, turned around and prepared to walk back to the mirror.

Although this ghost looks scary, it is not an evil ghost that kills people on sight. It seems that it only wants to find its own child and has no ill will towards living people.

However, just as the female ghost turned around and was about to leave, a hand covered with black runes stretched out from the raincoat and grabbed her leg.

The female ghost's body stiffened, her dry hair fluttered wildly, and she turned around suddenly.

The living person who was originally sleeping on the bed suddenly opened his eyes and was staring at her, and a ghost figure was slowly crawling out from the raincoat next to him.

The ghostly figure carried a terrifying oppression, and the female ghost immediately understood that this living person was controlling a monster that was much stronger than her.

She forced a bleak smile on her face: "Have you seen my child?"

"I haven't seen your child." Lin Jue shook his head and sat up from the bed: "But if you are willing to tell me where your child is, I can take you to see him."

"But before that, I need you to answer a few questions for me seriously and honestly."

The female ghost's expression was stunned: "Why are you helping me?"

"Because I'm a very kind person." Lin Jue smiled. "And I'm very curious about the truth of this village. I want to find out all the mysteries."

Hearing his words, the female ghost's eyes were filled with inquiry, but when she sensed the surging momentum coming from the old man beside her, she could only nod: "If you can really help me, I will tell you everything I know."

"I'm not the kind of person who goes back on my word. You can ask the person next to you." Lin Jue pointed at the old man in the shop.

"Sister, although he's not a very good person, he will definitely do what he promised."

Although the old man had some complaints about Lin Jue stuffing him into the raincoat, he had to admit that the other party was indeed a man of his words, with a strong yet convincing personality charm.

Ten minutes later, Lin Jue got the answer to the question from the female ghost.

It was almost exactly what he had guessed. The female ghost was indeed forced to marry at the age of 23. After giving birth to a child, she was captured by the messenger of God and brought before the gods.

In other words, before her death, this female ghost had seen the so-called god of this village.

According to the female ghost's description, the god was sitting in a shadow as thick as ink. She could not see what the god looked like, but she could hear the god's voice.

The other person is a man.

This is different from Lin Jue's guess. He speculated that Wu Xiumei was the god, but the female ghost said that the god was a man.

This means that the god is someone else, a man who may be Wu Xiumei's relative or lover pretending to be a god and wants to resurrect Wu Xiumei.

In addition, the god also said something to the female ghost.

[You are the seventeenth one, almost, you will be the last one]

From this sentence, we can infer that the god really wants all the women in the village to replicate Wu Xiumei's experience so that they can become souls qualified to atone for their sins.

Every woman will experience a level of punishment in hell.

When the eighteen women have experienced eighteen different punishments in hell, Wu Xiumei will be resurrected.

"Do you still remember the location of that god?" Lin Jue asked while thinking.

The ghost woman's face, covered in blood, showed a thoughtful expression. "I don't know. When the messenger of God found me, I fainted. When I woke up, I was already in front of the god." "It was pitch black all around, without a single light, and I couldn't see the surrounding environment clearly."

It was pitch black, without any light.

Is it a windowless house? Or underground? Or maybe in a cave?

Lin Jue thought of many possibilities, but the most likely one was in the cave, because from the beginning he suspected that there was something hidden in those hanging coffins on the mountain walls, and those gods and messengers might have carved a cave in the cliff to hide.

Therefore, the villagers in the village have never seen the gods.

The vermilion coffin might contain Wu Xiumei's body, so the old black man kept silent about it and regarded it as a taboo.

"I can't leave the vicinity of the mirror. How are you going to help me?" The female ghost asked the question that concerned her most. After she became a ghost, she realized that she could only move within a range of ten meters around the mirror, so she had no way of secretly watching the child by herself.

Can't leave the vicinity of the mirror?

Lin Jue was stunned. Was this another earthbound spirit? Or some kind of seal?
He shook his raincoat: "I have a good baby here who can help you get rid of the bondage."

……

The next morning, Lin Jue put on his bag and went out.

Dazhu was making breakfast and invited Lin Jue to eat with him. Lin Jue sat down at the table and asked Dazhu, who was busy in the kitchen, "Brother, you said there's a wedding today. When will it be held?"

"Twelve o'clock in the morning." Dazhutou didn't even reply.

Twelve o'clock?
Which good person gets married at twelve o'clock?
However, considering the customs of this village and the truth behind it, it is reasonable to set the wedding at this time.

Lin Jue suddenly realized something was wrong: "That's not right, brother. Aren't we not allowed to go out after 8pm? How can we go to the wedding?"

"On the wedding day, the gods will bless the newlyweds. You can go out to attend the wedding at that time, but you must go home after the wedding and cannot run around." Dazhu came out with two bowls of noodles.

"Thank you." Lin Jue took the noodles. It was a simple pork and chili soup noodle with an egg on top and sprinkled with chopped green onions. It was delicious and fragrant.

Lin Jue took a bite and praised: "It tastes good. Brother, you can definitely make money if you open a small noodle shop with your cooking skills."

"Go out..." Dazhu chewed a few bites of noodles in his mouth, his eyes flickering as he spoke vaguely, "Except for those with masks who can go out for two or three days, how can ordinary villagers like us go out?"

mask?

"Is it the Nuo mask that the witch has?" Lin Jue thought of the ghost mask he saw at the witch's place.

"Yeah." Dazhu nodded, eating noodles in big mouthfuls. "Villagers who have masks are qualified to hold grand ceremonies. They will go out of the village to purchase sacrificial supplies, but they can't be away for long. Someone once went out under the pretext of purchasing supplies, but he was caught and brought back in less than a week."

He seemed to be recalling some horrific memory, his pupils trembling. "That guy endured the most cruel punishment in the world. From then on, no one dared to escape."

This is the authority of the superior. The god controls the village through various means, whether it is the curse of death or various customs and bloody and violent punishments, all in order to make the villagers become puppets dominated by him and defend his own authority.

Lin Jue swallowed the noodles in his mouth and drank a mouthful of noodle soup: "Brother, do you know Wu Xiumei?"

Bang!

Dazhu was just about to pick up the bowl to drink soup, but when he heard Lin Jue's words, his hand shuddered and the bowl fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)