It's time to become an evil god.

Shouldn't anyone run away?

Mr. Li stared at Bai Ge with suspicion. Perhaps he did have other means to dare to say such a thing. Then Mr. Li nodded and said that he would not leave no matter what happened later.

After receiving a positive reply, Bai Ge handed over the phone. The old man approached the image of the deity, fumbled for the switch, and the shrine slowly rotated, revealing a dark passageway that looked downwards.

Several burly men carrying torches seemed to be familiar with the terrain. They entered the passage, lighting the oil lamps hanging on both sides along the way. A brightly lit staircase appeared before them.

"Let's go."

One of the old men picked up the dazed little girl in the red robe and carried her step by step toward the end of the corridor. Bai Ge and the others were also pushed forward.

The number of Ding family villagers who entered the cave decreased. Apart from the two who went down earlier, only three young men remained following the old man.

A cold wind blew from the depths of the staircase, like sharp frost blades slapping against everyone's faces, making the lights on the walls flicker precariously.

The stairwell seemed very deep. After walking for two or three minutes, he still hadn't reached the bottom floor. The further he went down, the more uneasy Bai Ge felt. He could vaguely hear something rubbing against the wall, and the rubbing sound was gradually getting louder.

After finally stepping off the last flight of stairs and arriving at the enormous, lattice-shaped cave, the scene before them made all three stop in their tracks. Da Zhuang, who was following next to Boss Li, almost collapsed, muttering to himself.

"So ghosts and gods really do exist."

Hanging from the ceiling of the underground cavern was a giant, transparent cocoon, encased in a yellowish-brown liquid. Within the cocoon was a dark, amorphous shadow, constantly shifting its shape.

Inside the cocoon, tentacles-like structures have begun to grow, constantly clinging to the surrounding rock walls and forming a spiderweb-like structure.

Countless pained female faces emerged from the cocoon; they were the poor villagers who had been sacrificed earlier.

"Is this the White Lady you've been talking about?"

Bai Ge said with a sneer, "In my opinion, he looks no different from those ancient gods. You wouldn't let an evil god bless you with good weather and abundant harvests, would you?"

"Actually, Lady White Snake died long ago."

The old man with the cane turned around, ignoring the mockery behind him, and explained softly, "About two hundred years ago, a powerful monster killed the Seventy-Two White Lady Goddesses and cast some kind of vicious curse. Now, the White Lady Goddesses can only barely maintain their will, their physical bodies have long since rotted and died. For three hundred years, we have sacrificed a daughter of a god-blessed bloodline every year to maintain her consciousness. Until that bastard Widow Zhao disrupted the whole plan."

"Why? Isn't her daughter a monster born from the White Snake Lady's divine enemy?"

"What daughter? She doesn't have a daughter at all!"

The old man gripped his cane tightly and said coldly, "Widow Zhao had a daughter who died unexpectedly. She already had some mental issues. That day, when she suddenly grabbed a girl of unknown origin and claimed she was her daughter, I felt something was wrong. At first, the villagers didn't pay attention, but soon I discovered that the memories of the villagers living around Widow Zhao's house seemed to have been altered; they believed this was the daughter she had raised alone for ten years. Sensing something was wrong with this girl, we deliberately fabricated a lie and drowned that daughter according to clan rules and family law. Unexpectedly, this almost caused the ceremony to be interrupted."

"For three whole years after that, we didn't offer any holy maidens to Lady Bai. At first, we were hoping for the best, but Lady Bai's curse only intensified. After that, many children died in the village. Everyone thought it was because of Widow Zhao's vicious curse before she died, but in reality, Lady Bai could no longer maintain her form. At that time, we discussed choosing a holy maiden from women over eighteen years old. After much deliberation, only Village Chief Ding's wife, who weighed two or three hundred pounds, was suitable. But we dared not offer her as a sacrifice, fearing that we would violate the laws of the gods and incur divine punishment."

"The Ding family's bloodline is completely bound to Lady Bai; if one is lost, the other is lost. Fortunately, Heaven had eyes, and a girl was eventually born, allowing the sacrifice to resume. Professor Bai, this is the secret of the Primordial God Village that you wanted to know. Now that you've heard it, are you ready to set off?"

"I have a question."

Bai Ge raised his head and said, "You said that Widow Zhao's daughter was drowned in a pig cage, but the ghost I saw had a bowl-sized hole in its skull, which is different from what you said."

"what?"

The old man said in surprise, "Wait, I remember that Widow Zhao's biological daughter was killed by a brick that rolled down accidentally."

The experienced Bai Ge had already noticed the system's trick and quickly turned around to look at the sacrificial girl in the arms of another person. The other person was staring at him with a strange smile, and dirty water kept seeping from her nostrils and mouth.

Bai Ge said, "So you were the real boss hiding behind the scenes."

Chapter 558 Tanks are the True Saintess!

The old man, holding the saintess in his arms, was momentarily at a loss, unsure of whom to believe. He looked pleadingly at the other two elderly men, who were equally at a loss.

The three elders, who were used to ruling Genshin Impact Village and controlling everything, were now completely bewildered and at a loss.

"You actually guessed the identity of the mastermind."

Upon hearing this, the elder holding the little girl immediately let go and threw the girl out of his arms, taking several steps back. He hadn't realized that the person he had just been holding was not human.

The girl's body was constantly oozing water, like a corpse just pulled from the water. Her once delicate face was swollen and pale, and the bright red silk was completely soaked, emitting a fishy smell of seaweed.

After a moment of silence, the little girl slowly spoke, "When did you start to doubt me?"

Bai Ge shook his head and said softly, "No, I originally just wanted to sow discord, I never expected that there was actually another culprit behind the scenes."

"you!"

The girl's hair instantly floated and danced, her eyes fixed on the man in front of her, wishing she could tear him to pieces.

Bai Ge explained casually, "Among all the known vengeful ghosts, the most troublesome are not those fundamentalist ghosts that kill when their rules are triggered, nor those super-strong, mindless monsters, but those intelligent and conscious ghosts that possess intelligence and information gaps and will secretly plot against you at any time."

"Because there were so many suspicious points when we subdued and dealt with the ghost in the well, I always felt that something was not quite right. According to the previous mission prompts, I should first try to get more information about Widow Zhao from the village's third elder. But I didn't expect that Widow Zhao was so closely connected with the mastermind behind the scenes. So when they finished filling in the background story, I realized that there must be something else following the crowd, but I haven't guessed its true identity yet."

"Then you're so smart."

The saintess extended a pale, swollen finger, a sinister smile playing on her lips.

"You must have guessed my real identity by now?"

Water vapor began to condense on the rock walls, making the entire cave extremely humid, with many invisible water droplets seemingly suspended in the air.

"It can stay submerged in water for so long without dying."

Bai Ge adopted a Detective Conan-like expression, adjusted his glasses, pointed at the Saintess, and said, word by word, "Your true identity is, Water Monkey!"

"..."

You're the one who's a water monkey!

The saintess tried to calm her soaring blood pressure, staring at the man in front of her with a suspicious look, unsure whether he was wise in disguise or foolish in disguise.

The saintess turned around, glancing disdainfully at the fearful eyes, and said with a sneer, "These fools who have been kneeling and worshipping for thousands of years have no idea what the White Lady is. She is the pure divinity left behind by the supreme ancient god, which only became the so-called White Lady after merging with an ignorant girl."

"As for what killed Lady White Snake, it was a colorful star that fell from the sky and corrupted the last remaining piece of her divinity."

"The colorful stars are constantly being polluted and fused with the power of the old gods, and eventually it will become a complete constellation of stars. These foolish villagers have no idea that the god they have always worshipped has long since fallen into monster and is constantly being sacrificed to catalyze and deepen the divine pollution."

Bai Ge frowned and asked, "Then who are you?"

"I am nothing but a fragment."

The saintess's form continued to change, and she said in a cold voice, "My true form is called Kotanid."

"I originally intended to use the Saintess's power to forcibly seize control of the Starry Sky, purify and devour its divinity, but an accident occurred along the way. I must have used my power to alter the memories of all the villagers the moment I descended, but those who continued the bloodline possessed the last bit of divine power for protection, which is why I was killed by chance before I could recover my power. I reclaimed the girl's body, but I didn't expect you to expose me at the crucial moment. I have to say, now I have no other thought but to kill you all."

Although the frail girl's body couldn't withstand her strength, she still managed to take the remaining people with her at the last moment. The situation inside the cave had reached a tense point where swords were drawn and bows were ready to be drawn, when a noisy commotion came from outside.

"what happened?"

An injured villager stumbled down the stone steps and lay before the three elders. His face was bruised and swollen, and blood flowed freely. Despite the pain, he grabbed the elder's clothes and said with all his might, "The village chief's wife has rebelled! She brought a bunch of outsiders in and started killing everyone she saw!"

The elder cursed viciously, "Are you all useless? So many of you couldn't even stop the village chief's wife, a single woman?"

The villager said weakly, "Elder, you know how heavy the village chief's wife is. Even ten of us couldn't weigh her down."

"I can't go on, I'm so tired, I think I see... the King of Hell coming..."

The villagers' last gazes were fixed on the entrance to the building, where a menacing figure slowly emerged, carrying a sickle, like a grim reaper reaping lives.

Even Boss Li's lips twitched when he saw the village chief's wife, and he asked his bodyguard, Da Zhuang, in a low voice, "Can you handle her?"

After thinking for a moment, Dazhuang said in a low voice, "If it's bare-handed, it's 40/60."

Mr. Li was secretly delighted and quickly asked, "Now that she's holding a sickle, a 50/50 chance shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"Boss, you're overthinking it."

Dazhuang said helplessly, "It's me four and her six."

"..."

"Now she's holding a sickle, probably splitting it 30/70."

"..."

The village chief's wife pulled out a pistol, raised it above her head, and fired a warning shot.

boom.

A gunshot rang out, startling everyone so much that they instinctively covered their heads and crouched down.

"All right."

Da Zhuang said helplessly, "From now on, she's a fully armed Tiger armored tank; whoever she aims at dies."

The village chief's wife's fierce gaze swept over everyone present, settling on the three elders. The three easily swayed old men immediately shut their mouths and obediently squatted down. Being punched by this guy was tantamount to being hit by a speeding dump truck.

"Everyone stay still. If anyone moves, don't blame me for leaving a few holes in you."

However, the saintess did not squat down. Looking at the village chief's wife in front of her, her eyes gleamed, and she muttered to herself, "This tank, she is the best candidate for fusion!"

Chapter 559 The Greatness of the Second Dimension

"Mr. Li, you haven't forgotten the portion we agreed on before, have you?"

The voice of Village Chief Ding rang out from behind. Boss Li turned around and saw Village Chief Ding, covered in blood, standing behind him, holding a small knife and staring at him greedily.

"Village Chief Ding! What are you trying to do? Are you trying to rebel, you ungrateful wretch!"

The three elders were getting anxious and immediately stepped forward to reprimand the other party. However, Chief Ding, who was used to being bullied, kept his knife pressed against one of the men's necks and coldly said, "Don't move."

With the situation under control, Boss Li breathed a sigh of relief. He turned to look at the three old men in front of him, straightened his collar, and said, "Take care of the three of them."

"No."

Village Chief Ding immediately and righteously refused the other party. Pointing to the trembling old man in front of him, he said, "These are all villagers who saved my life. How could I possibly harm them because of this?"

The three elderly people were moved to tears after hearing this. One of them grabbed Village Chief Ding's hand and said with tears streaming down his face, "Little Ding, we have always been sorry for you."

Boss Li looked Village Chief Ding up and down and said, "You, a money-grubbing guy, would actually care about feelings?"

Of course.

Village Chief Ding said seriously, "I'm sorry, Mr. Li, so you'll have to pay more."

Boss Li held up five fingers and said, word by word, "Okay, kill them, and I'll give you another 500,000."

"Okay, no problem."

The three old people were terrified. "You, how could you change your expression so quickly?"

Village Chief Ding smiled and looked at the old man who was retreating step by step, and said, "Give me 500,000 yuan and I'll kill not only the three of you, but even my own mother."

Faced with this money-grubbing madman, the three elders were so frightened that they huddled together and kept backing away.

"you."