The villagers were blocked by vines and could not approach.
They stretched out their bony hands towards Su Qingyu and Bai Huo, with sunken cheeks and gray-blue skin, as if they were trying to grasp the last straw.
A voice came.
"Everyone give in, the village chief is here!"
The villagers made a way, and an old man walked out with a wooden crutch and a staggering step, surrounded by the villagers.
The village chief is quite prestigious in the sick village.
He walked up to Su Qingyu and Bai Huo and got straight to the point: "Two rangers, you are very welcome to our small village. It has been three months since the last time the rangers came. During this time, Because there are no forest rangers, many sick people in the village cannot receive timely treatment.
There is a Taoist temple not far from our mountain village. In the Taoist temple, there lives a Taoist priest with great magic skills all year round. He has a way to cure the diseases of the villagers. "
Su Qingyu raised her eyes slightly: "Then you can take the wounded over and ask for help."
The old man let out a long sigh, his pupils were cloudy, and he said in an old voice: "A sick person cannot find a Taoist temple on his own."
"Oh." Su Qingyu nodded.
Bai Huo's black eyes fell on the patient lying in the middle of the ancestral hall. He touched the vines with his knuckled hands, and the Yingluo leaves shrank, opening a path for Bai Huo.
Yingluo tried her best to prevent her leaves from being contaminated by the white fire.
Bai Huo slowly walked to the sick villager.
He leaned over, stretched out his hand, and uncovered the white cloth covering the villagers.
Later, when he saw the sick appearance of the villagers, he gasped.
The villagers' bodies were covered with black hair, especially like the black apes that stopped them to ask questions when they first entered the mountain.
"A large part of the young people in our village will suffer from this kind of black hair syndrome. This must be the monkey god who is angry and punishing humans for their ungodly beliefs.
Today's young people are full of energy. They are always preaching among themselves that the Monkey God does not exist, and then they believe in the new Potato Sect and Broccoli Sect, which I have never heard of... Alas, the world of young people I can't understand it anymore. They don't believe in the Monkey God, so the Monkey God no longer protects them. Now that they are sick, I can only trouble you to take them to the Taoist temple for treatment. "
After speaking, the old village chief bowed deeply to them.
Bai Huo immediately helped the village chief up. He nodded and said, "We will not leave him alone."
[Monkey God Mountain] Ranger Rules (3) Article 11.
[Helping others is a necessary quality for a forest ranger. If you meet a human being who asks you for help during your work, please bring that person to the Taoist temple for treatment. 】
Su Qingyu recalled that the rules said that people must ask for help. She looked into the village chief's eyes and said, "After today's work is over, we will take them back to the Taoist Temple to seek treatment from Master Zhixu.
Village chief, can you tell us what symptoms these people have when they get sick? "
The village chief's face was full of wrinkles, and he said slowly: "Let's go to the village committee with me first, and we will sit there and talk about this matter slowly."
"good."
"As for these sick people..." The old village chief looked back, with a trace of imperceptible disgust in his eyes. He raised his hand that was like a dead tree and called to the young people under it, "Don't put these sick people in front of monkeys." The temple is very unlucky, and the Monkey God must not want to see these pagans, so you should carry them to the big stone at the entrance of the village to ventilate them to prevent the spread of diseases."
The family members of those patients were also nearby. Women wrapped in headscarves sobbed softly, and children threw themselves on the patients and screamed, "Daddy, wake up!"
The patients with black hair all over their bodies just closed their eyes tightly, breathing heavily, with sharp teeth, and vague murmurs from time to time.
The young adults in the village left carrying the stretcher.
A strange scene happened where no one saw it.
Above the shrine, the originally kind-faced monkey statue suddenly became ferocious and twisted.
The monkey god was looking at everyone leaving the temple with a malicious expression.
Su Qingyu and Bai Huo followed the old village chief to the village committee.
On the way, Su Qingyu hinted at Bai Huo and asked him to write down which families in the village had cut down the trees in the woods.
Village committee.
The front desk staff all looked numb. They were sitting at their desks, doing nothing, just sitting there in a daze, with banana peels at their feet.
The old village chief explained: "The work here is quite tiring. Everyone stayed up late and worked overtime last night, so we don't have much energy today."
Bai Huo said: "When I came here, I saw a lot of firewood placed in the yards of some villagers. Was the firewood cut from the woods?"
The old village chief was stunned for a moment, then blew his beard and glared, and said angrily: "These people are really ignorant. I have told them long ago not to cut down trees in the mountains. Cutting down trees will offend the monkey god, but they just didn't obey!" "
"We will issue fines for their behavior of cutting down trees. We will sort out the list later and then handcuff them from door to door to come to the village committee to pay the fine."
[Monkey God Mountain] Ranger Rules (3) Article 10.
[Forest rangers need to patrol during the day. If you encounter deforestation, please stop them in time and issue a ticket to them.
Do not accept the fine on the spot, ask them to hand it over to the village committee and issue an invoice to them promptly. 】
The old village chief nodded bitterly: "That's what we should do, let them remember it for a long time! Don't worry, you just need to issue the ticket. If they don't pay the money, I will come to them!"
Bai Huo said: "Then I'll trouble you, village chief."
The old village chief took a sip of hot tea and began to tell the story of the sick village: "I believe you already know that there are four hills in Monkey God Mountain, and there is a small mountain village on each hill. The mountain villages are named after birth, old age, illness and death. Each village There are specific customs.
There is a custom in our village that is different from other villages, and that is the annual sacrifice to the monkey god.
We believe that the Monkey God will bless this village and keep us free from illness and disaster. In order to express our devout faith, on the night of the full moon in December every year, we will offer a saint to become the bride of the Monkey God.
In previous years, sacrifices were performed normally and everyone was safe.
But in the past few years, the monkeys in the mountains have been restless. I think it must be that today's young people are no longer pious in their belief in the monkey god. There have been many accidents in this sacrificial activity. The last saint was discovered on the eve of the sacrifice. Got happy pulse.
well! All this angered the Monkey God, and the disease in the village must be the Monkey God's punishment! People suffering from these black diseases will become very vicious, they will speak human words, and pretend that they have been cured, and then they will bite anyone who comes close to them.
They are good at lying, irritable, and highly aggressive. "
