My name is Jing Ning, and I was born in a remote mountain village in the northwest.
When I was three years old, my brother was born. He was not yet one month old. My father went to work on a construction site and accidentally fell from a twenty-story building.
The fortune teller said that I was a lone evil star that could kill my father and my whole family in the future. The fortune teller was wrong. In fact, my brother is the debt collector. I can see things that ordinary people can't.
I saw a few strands of black energy lingering around my brother's body. When my father dies, there will be less black energy on his body. Although I don't know what happened, I believe it must be related to my father's death.
After the people in the village learned about my fate, they avoided me like the plague, for fear of suffering.
I remember that there was a drought here. There was no rain for three years, and even the reservoir bottomed out.
The villagers discovered that many white bones appeared at the bottom of the dry river. They could not tell whether they belonged to humans or animals. There was a well surrounded by these bones.
This reservoir was built in the early 1960s. I heard that before the reservoir was built, this place was still a village.
However, when the reservoir was being built, the villagers had already been relocated. It's not surprising that there is a well here. But there was a very thick chain at the mouth of the well. Some curious people pulled the chain, but they didn't see the end after pulling it for a long time. From time to time, animal-like roars came out of the well.
The person pulling the chain heard the news and was afraid, so he had to give up.
There seems to be something alive in this well.
Because of the serious water shortage here, the village chief called in an outsider who looked at the situation in the well and said that a dragon was trapped in the well.
"If you offer a living sacrifice, the Dragon King may see your sincerity and take pity on you, and send manna from heaven."
The villagers were very encouraged to hear this and could finally bid farewell to the days of water shortage, so the village chief threw the live pigs and cows into the well.
But there was still not a drop of rain falling, so he invited the expert over again.
Two or three days later, the village chief and the wise man suddenly came to my house and brought a lot of good things, including rice, white flour, jujubes, peanuts... In the drought years, it was great to be able to eat these delicious things. OK.
That day, my grandma made me a big jujube steamed bun for the first time. As long as I can remember, I have never eaten something so delicious. Usually when the whole family has something delicious to eat, they stick to the younger brother first. When it was my turn, there was nothing left to eat.
Not only were there white-noodle steamed buns, but my mother also made me a bright red dress. I wore new clothes for the first time in my life, and I was so happy.
After packing up, my mother took me out.
She took me to the reservoir and ran directly to the dry well. Mom squatted down and looked at me levelly.
"Aning, our family has raised you for seven years, and you have grown up. You see, it is too difficult for us now. Your brother is still young, but he has never had enough to eat, is still weak, and has been sick. You are his Sister, I believe you don’t want to see your brother in such pain."
I nodded confusedly. My mother had tears in her eyes and she kept holding my hand.
"Then now there is an opportunity for you to do something for your brother and the people in the village. Are you willing?"
I didn't answer, I just felt something wasn't right. She makes me feel strange.
My mother didn't wait for me to say anything and pushed me into the well.
Only now did I understand the meaning of my mother's words, and the reason why my family was acting strangely today. It’s not that their consciences found out, it’s that they wanted to sacrifice my life to something in the well.
I fell into a dry well and thought I would die like this.
Drop after drop of blood dripped from my forehead, dripping onto the bottom of the well. A light lit up at the bottom of the well, and the light softly dispelled the coldness around me.
The last thing I saw was an extraordinary handsome face, and a pair of eyes that were still as bright as dazzling stars in the dark. Is it a hallucination before I die?
"Finally found you." The voice was sweet, with a hint of hope. I slowly closed my eyes...
When I heard someone at the wellhead calling my name, I gradually woke up from the dark trance.
"An Ning, An Ning? Are you there?"
I heard that person's voice, it was my grandma, the only person in the world who loved me.
"Grandma, I'm here." My voice trembled.
Grandma called other villagers to fish me out of the well.
She took me to the next village, and strangely enough, after I fell into the well that day, it started to rain heavily. The rain has been falling and the reservoir is about to be filled. If the floodgates were opened and water was released, my original village would definitely be flooded.
I stood at my grandma’s house and looked at the heavy rain, with a smile on my lips.
If my grandmother hadn't gone to my house to look for my mother on the day of my accident, she wouldn't have known that I was pushed into the well.
I won't be rescued by my grandma, then I will be submerged in the reservoir and have already become a water ghost.
The heavy rain finally stopped, the reservoir did not open the gate to release water, and the village was saved. Everyone thought that this matter would just go away, but they were wrong. The most terrible thing was everything that happened afterward.
At dusk, when people were enjoying the cool under the trees, someone hurried over.
"No, it's not good!"
"What's wrong?" everyone asked.
"Snakes, I saw thousands of snakes in the village!"
"How is that possible? I'm afraid you were deceived and mistook the hemp rope for a snake?" someone joked, and others followed suit.
While they were talking and laughing, they saw the second pillar of the village limping towards them crookedly.
"What happened to Erzhu?"
"This young man who is usually very nimble, was bitten lame by Widow Li's dog!" Everyone burst into laughter.
The man who was joking had already gone towards the second pillar, but he stopped as soon as he got close to the second pillar. The two pillars he saw in his eyes were still alive.
Erzhu's face was full of bite marks, and one of his eyeballs was bitten off, and it is still reverberating on his face.
There was blood all over his body. When he saw the man, Erzhu opened his mouth and rushed towards him. Just bite that person's ear.
This time, the villagers realized that something was a little evil. The brave ones ran over to them, but the timid ones kept far away.
Erzhu bit the man while making a hissing sound like a snake from his mouth. He was still crawling on the ground, looking exactly like a snake.
The village security team came and tied up the second pillar.
Villagers began to show this crazy phenomenon one after another. One thing these people have in common is that they have all been bitten by snakes.
The village chief called for the expert again. After understanding the situation, the expert said that someone had snatched the sacrifice away. The Dragon King was so angry that he was sending a disaster from the sky and wanted to destroy the village.
The only way to save the village is to find the female doll and sacrifice it again.
"As expected, it's the evil star who wants to curse all the people in our village to death."
The village chief became angry, and he took his people to the next village, my grandmother's house...
That group of people didn't come either. By the time we found them, those people had already expired and died in the mountain col.
They died miserably, with no sound limbs. There were signs of being eaten all over their bodies. In some places, their bones were exposed, and their blood flowed all over the ground and solidified in the soil.
We haven't heard of any wild beasts in our village, so it's obviously not the work of wild beasts.
These people had unchewed pieces of meat in their mouths. Like Erzhu, they killed each other.
It made people panic for a while, and the villagers raised funds to hire the original expert. When he came, he just took a look and ran away immediately.
Some people died in that village every day, until my uncle came with his master. Reset the altar and restrain the things in the water again.
The man who said he was my cousin's master was actually younger than my cousin. I saw that his face was extremely handsome, especially his eyes that were as bright as stars.
There was just an extra scar on his forehead, but it didn't affect his handsomeness at all.
Later, before leaving, my cousin gave me an amulet and told me to wear it at all times. He told me that when I turned eighteen, I had to leave the village.
