Josh followed the crowd through the woods and arrived at the ancestral hall.
The old saint is sitting in the ancestral hall.
Josh looked at the old saint calmly.
She looks to be in her 60s, with obvious wrinkles and freckles on her face. She has two "croissants" on her head, and her long hair is tied into two upturned horns, one on the left and one on the right. It looked like a crescent moon had penetrated her head, with sharp corners exposed on both sides.
The croissant was wrapped with all kinds of tinkling silver chains, gems and flower vines, and her head was covered with a black gauze. Unlike the priestesses like them, the gauze on her head allowed people by to see her clearly. face.
Everyone is assigned work tasks.
Josh was assigned to visit the elderly in the village who were seriously ill.
This one is a bit strange.
Doesn’t it mean that sacrificial women can’t touch men?
There were clearly men on her list.
After receiving the mission and coming out, Josh walked to Yuexi: "Auntie, why is my mission to visit seriously ill people? Doesn't it say that you can't have contact with men?"
Yuexi glanced at her impatiently: "Saints naturally have their own principles. Just follow them."
Not only her, but most of the other people's tasks involve contact with men.
Some people want to get the beards of many old people in the village, and some people want to help the men in the village cook.
Josh thought for a while, but had no idea and could only shake his head.
She followed the large army to the area where the villagers lived in front.
This mountain village is arranged in a straight line from front to back, with the residences of ordinary residents at the front and the ancestral hall in the middle.
The ancestral hall is very long, like a city wall separating the residential area in front and the boathouse in the back.
Behind the ancestral hall is the boathouse where the priestesses live.
There is a cobblestone forest between the ancestral hall and the boathouse, which is particularly eerie.
Josh could feel the eyes of the people around them turning on them.
The eyes were numb and empty.
Josh inexplicably saw a bit of displeasure and indifference, looking at them as if they were looking at some outsider or dead object.
These villagers don't seem to like the priestesses very much.
Logically speaking, the sacrificial maidens are all prepared to inherit the mantle of the saint. The villagers, if not love them, at least don't dislike them.
Unless there's something they don't like about these priestesses.
Aunt Yuexi took them to the place where the residents lived in front and said coldly: "I reiterate, don't have any physical contact with men, don't let them see your faces, do you understand?"
"clear!"
The players scattered around to start the task, and Aunt Yuexi led a few women to patrol the open space and supervise.
Josh walked up to the frail old man. When the old man saw her approaching, he suddenly covered his face and hid away: "Don't come over! You scourges are going to kill my old man!"
She looked at the old man hiding away and frowned slightly.
See the system prompts the task progress (1/8)
In other words, she still has to visit 7 elderly people.
Does this count as a visit?
It doesn't seem to be difficult.
Josh walked to another sickly old man, but the old man looked straight at her with a creepy smile on his face: "You are going to be finished."
She smiled slightly and responded politely: "Thank you, you too."
elder:"……"
Barrage:【……】
After visiting several in succession, there was still one left that I couldn't find.
Josh looked at the last room he had not entered.
This room is different from other rooms next to it. Various white paper lanterns and white notes are hung outside the room. It looks like a funeral is being held.
Just as she was about to approach, a girl next to her carefully held her back: "You don't want your life, enter this room! This room is an ominous place, and anyone who comes close will die badly!"
Qiao Xi smiled slightly: "It's okay, I have a tough life."
She avoided the girl's touch and got up to go in.
The door slammed shut, trapping her inside.
There was the sound of dripping water and the smell of blood in the house.
The simple house was even ventilated from all sides, and the draft passed through the house with a gloomy whooshing sound.
A coughing sound came from inside: "Who is it...cough cough cough..."
Only then did Josh see a broken bamboo door in the house. There seemed to be an inner bedroom behind the bamboo door.
Josh walked over slowly and reached out to push the door open, only to find that the door was locked from the inside.
The voice of the old lady inside was somewhat displeased: "I asked who is outside!"
Josh didn't say who he was, he just raised his voice and said, "The saint asked me to come and see you."
There was no sound inside.
Josh looked through the crack in the door.
Inside is a dilapidated bedroom with a strong smell that is unique to old people who have lived there for a long time.
But there seemed to be no one in the room, and the bed was empty.
Sunlight penetrated into the roof of the thatched house, and there were spots, like beams of light piercing the fog. The dust in the house was so heavy that it really didn't look like it was inhabited.
Suddenly there was a sound of breathing approaching.
Josh was caught off guard and met an old, cloudy eye, looking at her through the crack in the door.
【Holy shit! Daddy was scared to death! 】
【Ah ah ah ah ah barrage escort! Escort! 】
[Damn, this old lady is so scary! 】
The old lady was indeed scary-looking, and her wrinkled face was already ferocious enough, but she actually had a pair of cat eyes, with pale, pus-yellow whites and inconspicuous vertical pupils wrapped in the middle.
Josh took a look and saw that the mission was not completed yet. It seemed that he had to go in.
She knocked on the door: "I'm here to see you."
The old lady laughed "Jiejie", raising the already terrifying atmosphere to the extreme: "Then come in."
With a "squeak" sound, the bamboo door was slowly opened.
Josh couldn't help but burst out laughing and entered the house.
The old lady frowned displeased: "Why are you laughing?"
Josh suppressed a smile and looked at her: "It's nothing, I just think your laughter is quite interesting."
old lady:"……"
In addition to the dust in the room, there were also some paper figures piled up in the corner. The clothes painted on these paper figures were the clothes commonly worn by the Yue people, but they all had expressionless faces and no eyes.
Josh approached curiously: "You are good at your craftsmanship. Did you do all of these?"
"yes……"
Josh stretched out his fingers and touched the paper man, and found that the material of the paper man was very soft and delicate, as if it were made of human skin.
She asked curiously: "What material is this paper man made of? It's so slippery, and it has a strong musky smell."
"I can't tell you the secret..."
The old lady's voice behind her came closer: "Little girl, don't touch these things easily or make them unhappy. They want to eat people."
Josh smiled: "He has a pretty bad temper."
The barrage has gone crazy: [Look back! Look back! 】
[I’m really going crazy. This old lady is not a serious person at first glance! What the hell is Josh doing! 】
[I can’t even look at it, the old lady’s tongue is hanging to the ground! She's even drooling! 】
(End of chapter)
