Early the next morning, Zhang Fan and the two stretched out, walked out of the corner, and wandered around Haitang Village.
While walking around, they found that all the villagers were looking at them with strange eyes.
Zhang Fan didn't pay much attention to their looks and pretended he didn't see them. Today is the last day of the maze scene mission. As long as they spend today, they will have completed the mission and can leave safely.
However, the biggest danger today also comes from the villagers of Haitang Village. According to Sai Yao, today will be the day when Haitang Village sacrifices old trees.
I just don't know how they will attack them. Zhang Fan and the two saw the remaining survivors on the edge of the village.
Currently, there are only ten survivors left, and the remaining few have gone to unknown places.
Perhaps those few survivors may have sensed the imminent danger in Haitang Village in advance and chose to leave.
But as everyone knows, the outside is actually more dangerous. After they leave Haitang Village, they will first be attacked by birds inside, and eventually their internal organs will be eaten and they will die in pain.
You must know that the two of them just experienced the terrorist attack of the Inner Bird yesterday. At the critical moment, if it were not for Sai Yao's help, their lives might not be saved.
Zhang Fan didn't talk much to these survivors. After all, we are not from the same place, no matter how much we talk, it will be useless.
Now they are waiting to find a time at night to set a fire to burn the old tree so that Sai Yao and the others can come to save their people.
Just when Zhang Fan and the two left the survivors and hadn't gone far, they saw villagers from Haitang Village starting to appear around them one after another, approaching them with various weapons in their hands.
The other party came menacingly, with a vicious look on their face, as if they wanted to catch all the survivors in one go. Seeing this scene, Zhang Fan and Zhao Ping looked at each other, turned around and ran away without saying a word.
According to their inference, if these villagers wanted to take action, they would probably have to wait until the afternoon or evening.
But who would have thought that before they even passed the morning time, they could no longer hold back and wanted to prepare in advance.
Zhang Fan did not escape in the same direction with Zhao Ping, but divided his troops into two groups, each fleeing his own way.
In this way, even if one person is caught, another person can find a way to come to the rescue. The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
The two of them basically didn't run out of the current street. In the blink of an eye, they were surrounded by a group of villagers.
Seeing that these people still wanted to take action, Zhang Fan's expression changed and he hesitated a little. He could only say helplessly to give up resistance and stood still.
Seeing Zhang Fan's cooperation, these villagers looked at each other in disbelief, with a sinister smile on their lips, a little triumphant, and then they took the rope and prepared to get closer, wanting to tie up Zhang Fan.
However, when they were only one meter away from Zhang Fan, Zhang Fan suddenly took out a handful of dust from his pocket and sprinkled it directly on the faces of the villagers.
For a moment, they were all blinded by the dust, and they all rubbed hard, looking very painful.
To be honest, they never expected that Zhang Fan would be so mean and want to pull such a dirty trick.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Fan immediately ran away and escaped from the surrounding crowd. After running for a while, he looked back at Zhao Ping.
His luck was not very good, because he was surrounded by villagers at this time. After the villagers got close to him, they tied him tightly with ropes. There was even a sixth man who knocked him unconscious with a stick. .
Seeing this scene, Zhang Fan felt a pain in the back of his head. If he hadn't escaped in time just now, he might have ended up like Zhao Ping.
But...when Zhang Fan just turned his head, a sap hit him on the forehead without warning.
In just a moment, a strong feeling of fainting hit him. The next second, Zhang Fan's body went limp, and with a thud, he passed out on the spot.
And the second before he passed out, he vaguely saw the face of the person who hit him on the head. That person turned out to be Wan Zimo.
.......I don't know how long he had been unconscious for, Zhang Fan opened his eyes in a daze. At this time, he had a splitting headache, and there seemed to be some warm liquid flowing down his forehead.
By this time, the sky was already dark and dark, and it was night. Unexpectedly, he actually passed out for a whole day. It was obvious how much force Wan Zimo used when he hit him.
Zhang Fan raised his head with difficulty and looked at his body. He found that he was tied up with hemp ropes and couldn't move at all.
And besides him, he also saw sixteen or seventeen unconscious survivors lying around. Zhao Ping was also among them, but the place where he lay was far away from Zhang Fan.
And he hasn't woken up yet. Even if Zhang Fan wanted to talk to him, he couldn't. Zhang Fan swallowed and tried hard to calm down.
Only when you calm down can you think of ways to escape. The place where they are currently is, not anywhere else, but in the courtyard of Jia Dashun's mansion.
The yard was filled with a group of villagers holding torches. Judging from their size, there were nearly thirty people.
At this moment, Jia Dashun was standing in the center of the courtyard, his eyes full of amusement as he glanced over Zhang Fan and the other survivors.
There were not many survivors who woke up. Counting Zhang Fan, there were only three of them.
"Yo? Are you awake?" Jia Dashun suddenly laughed out loud when he saw Zhang Fan waking up, his face full of contempt.
"Why are you doing this?" Zhang Fan asked coldly.
"Why do you do this? Do you even need to ask? Of course we are here to worship our ancestors!" Jia Dashun sneered.
"Using living people to worship ancestors? I think you people must have some hidden secrets!" Zhang Fan shouted with anger on his face.
"Of course we have to use living people to worship ancestors. Young man, don't get excited. You should feel honored for this!" Jia Dashun didn't pay attention to Zhang Fan's anger.
In his eyes, Zhang Fan is just a little shrimp who can't make big waves. He can easily crush him to death with just a move of his hands.
"I know that we fell into your hands today and there is no way to escape. There is only one way to die. Can you please ask Village Chief Jia to answer the doubts in my heart before I die, so that I can die more clearly! "Zhang Fan seemed to have accepted his fate, closed his eyes and begged in a low voice.
"Is it your last wish before you die? Well...I can help you fulfill it. That's all. Who said I'm a good-hearted person? I just want you to be a sensible person!" Jia Dashun yawned and smiled contemptuously.
Since people like Zhang Fan are dead on both sides and cannot escape, let's satisfy some of his doubts.
"What do you want to know?" Jia Dashun asked with a smile.
"Why are there no old people in your village? Have they all been eaten by mermaids?" Zhang Fan glanced around the place, and there was not even an older man.
And not only could he not see the old man now, but when he was walking around the village during the day, he did not see an old man.
In fact, Zhang Fan made a bold guess when he spied on Jia Dashun cutting off the mermaid flesh last night.
Of course, this is just a guess. If you want to truly verify it, you have to ask the locals in Haitang Village to find out completely.
"This isn't really a secret. It doesn't hurt to tell you!"
"Actually, there's one thing I didn't tell you before, that is, mermaids are not useless, but rather valuable treasures!"
"No matter who you are, as long as you take a bite of mermaid meat, you will be able to achieve youthful appearance and immortality!"
"Unfortunately, a piece of mermaid meat can only maintain youthfulness for one year, and it can only exert its effect once in a year! Even if you eat too much meat in a year, it will not work. This effect cannot be superimposed. If you want to continue to maintain your beauty, You have to eat the second piece of mermaid meat in the second year!" Jia Dashun explained.
"So what you are saying is that you all ate mermaid meat to stay young..." After listening to what Jia Dashun said, Zhang Fan's suspicion was confirmed.
In fact, it's not that there are no elderly people in Haitang Village, but that these people all ate mermaid meat and gained the effect of immortality.
"You are very smart. Yes, we are hundreds of years old."
"I am alive now because I eat mermaid meat once a year. I have lived to be almost 146 years old this year. As long as I sacrifice you tonight, we can extend our lives by another year!"
"You should be proud that we can live a long and far-off life!!" Jia Dashun laughed, his words full of sarcasm.
"I would like to ask again, what is that old tree wrapped in black cloth at the entrance of your village?"
"Could it be that you want to sacrifice us to it?" Zhang Fan continued to ask. This is his second question.
"Sacrifice to it? No, don't get it wrong, it is not the object of our sacrifice!" Upon hearing this, Jia Dashun was stunned for a moment, but soon burst into laughter.
"Not a sacrifice to it? What does that mean?" Hearing this, Zhang Fan narrowed his eyes. Because this passage is slightly different from what Sai Yao described.
Sai Yao said that the villagers of Haitang Village would sacrifice themselves to the old tree at the entrance of the village. But Jia Dashun said that he was not offering sacrifices to it.
If you don’t offer sacrifices to it, then who should you offer sacrifices to?
"Tsk, tsk, I'm going to keep this question secret for now. I can't tell you. You'll understand when you see it later!" Jia Dashun said with a smile. It seemed that he didn't intend to answer this question.
"Okay, you've been asking for a long time, but I don't have the patience to chat with you anymore! It's time to take you to the sacrifice site!" Jia Dashun raised his head and glanced at the crescent moon hanging in the night sky, his eyes turned cold, and he said coldly said.
"Carry these people over! As soon as the auspicious time arrives, the sacrificial ceremony will begin!" Jia Dashun waved his hand and ordered to the villagers standing in the courtyard.
"Of course there is no problem! As long as the sacrifice ceremony is completed and we eat the mermaid meat, we can continue to extend our lives for another year!" A villager said excitedly.
They don't care how many people die as long as they can continue to live longer. Keeping yourself alive is the most important thing.
After finishing speaking, a group of villagers stepped forward, lifted Zhang Fan and a dozen other survivors, and then walked out of Jia Dashun's house and headed outside.
They were heading towards the entrance of the village. Zhang Fan was carried by two tall and thick men. As they moved forward, his body heaved violently, making him a little dizzy.
As he walked forward, the corner of his mouth raised a strange arc, and then he looked in a certain direction on the street.
At this moment, Sai Yao, who was wearing a white dress, was looking at him with a smile. The two looked at each other, as if they had reached some kind of agreement.
In fact, everything that happened tonight was within Zhang Fan's expectation. When he first woke up in the morning, he had already talked with Sai Yao and made corresponding plans.
He and Zhao Ping were unable to rescue Sai Yao's tribe. The only way to save him was to set fire to the old tree at the entrance of the village and let Sai Yao and the others come over in person.
After communicating with Sai Yao, they learned that the mermaids could go ashore, but because of the existence of the old tree, they were blocked and could not succeed.
In fact, they had tried to burn the old tree secretly, but there were many villagers stationed near the old tree, and they had no way of doing anything, so they had to choose the hard-to-get method.
First, they allowed themselves and others to be caught by the villagers so that they could get close to the old tree. Then Sai Yao helped to untie the hemp rope. Then they took advantage of the villagers' unpreparedness and decisively set fire to the tree.
