Chapter 187： People are not humans, ghosts are not ghosts

The village chief led people to the well again.

Apup sensed their presence, but did not speak, only waiting for them to speak.

After a moment of silence, the village chief finally made up his mind to tell what happened in the village. Finally, he asked:

“Senior, what should we do?”

"What should I do? Isn't this your own choice?" Ah Pup's confused voice came, "You begged me to keep you alive at the beginning."

When the villagers heard this, they immediately asked angrily:

“Can we still be considered alive now...?”

“We have no breathing, no heartbeat, and are cold all over. We can only live within the confines of Liucun. Whenever we step out of Liucun during the day, we will be burned by the sun in the sky.”

“We are like ghosts and ghosts who can only come and go at night and are incompatible with normal people.”

“We can’t continue our family lineage, there will never be new life in the village, and we can’t leave here and find ways to integrate into the outside world.”

“The whole village has become a cage trapping us. How can we be considered alive like this?”

A-Pup didn’t react at all after hearing this. She just said lightly:

"You have made your own choices, and I have done what I promised you. You can't want both. Could it be that everything in the world revolves around you?"

“You, on the other hand, promised to send me new blood and flesh, but you haven’t done anything yet. People like you who don’t keep your word still want to ask me for help?”

"The real dead should be buried in the soil. If you don't want to live, go dig a hole and bury yourselves. Don't be presumptuous in front of me."

Without the villagers sending fresh flesh and blood, Ah Puppet could still come out, but it would just take more time.

So to be precise, it is the villagers who need Ah Pup, not Ah Pup who needs the villagers.

The village chief heard Ah Pup’s dissatisfaction and promised:

"We will send you fresh flesh and blood as soon as possible. When you succeed in cultivation, please help us to be free. We don't want to live like this, neither human nor ghost."

From this day on, the people of Liucun began to think about how to bring back living people from the outside world.

The villagers wanted more living people to come here, so they renamed the village "Living Village" for a very simple reason.

Just like thousands of years ago, their ancestors changed the name of the village to "Liu Cun" because they worshiped Liu Xian.

But this is difficult to do—

Because they can only go out at night, and whenever they see the sun outside, they will be burned by the sun and suffer very much.

Since you can't get out, you can only wait for someone alive to come to the door automatically.

But in the following years, there were very few living people who came to the Living Village, only a scattered seven or eight, all of whom passed by and got lost.

The villagers did not let them go.

When they met people staying overnight or asking for water, they welcomed them in with great enthusiasm, drugged them in various ways, and then threw them into the well as sacrifices to Ah Pup.

Later, it was probably the news that someone was missing here. No one passed by here for a long time, and no living person set foot in the Living Village for a long time.

Apup is not in a hurry about this matter.

Although she longs for power and needs the blood of living people, she doesn't have to. It's just that her cultivation speed is a little slower. Hundreds of years have passed, and now she is not intolerable.

The ones who are really anxious are the villagers.

They have had enough of their current life, living or dying, without any hope in life, suffering and despair repeated day after day, and they desperately want to be freed.

Several years have passed. The country has developed, people live and work in peace and contentment, and everyone has money and leisure to travel. In order to promote the development of tourism, this mountain was developed. When the relevant departments developed this mountain, they avoided the location of the living village.

It’s not that they specifically avoided it, but because in the eyes of the outside world, the Living Village has long since ceased to exist. There are two reasons;

First, it does not exist in the physical sense.

Imagine a village located deep in the mountains, which has remained the same for decades, never leaving the local area, never going out, and never having any contact with the outside world.

All the living people associated with the living village were thrown into the bottom of the well and became sacrifices. No one knew what was going on in the village.

In this case, the outside world has to suspect that this village has long been destroyed.

Either they all died in the war, or they did not survive the famine and could no longer survive. In short, the outside world did not know that there was a village here.

Second, some people don’t want this village to appear in front of the world.

In order to cover up the secrets of the village and prevent the outside world from knowing that she was at the bottom of the well and destroying her cultivation, Ah Pup used a huge amount of death energy to cover this place.

Although Ah Pup is half human and half ghost, after all, he has the majority of ghost power.

The death energy she releases is equivalent to the ghosts planted by the pure ghost king. It is an independent space that outsiders cannot enter without permission.

Those who enter by mistake will lose their way inside and will not be able to get out without permission.

Based on these two reasons, people from the tourism planning department, under Ah Pup's confusion, avoided the location of the living village and chose a more suitable place to build the temple.

This temple later became Ji'an Temple.

The temple was built, the stone steps were dug, the plank road was repaired, and the Ruyi Mountain Scenic Area was officially put into operation to receive tourists.

But no one knows that there is an unknown village of the living dead on this mountain.

However, the construction of a city in the Ruyi Mountain Scenic Area is an excellent thing for the Living Village. It means that more people come to the mountain and they have more targets to target.

Tourists have worked hard to climb up the mountain, and most of them choose to stay overnight in the temple to see more of the scenery in the mountain before going down.

The villagers of the Living Village used this night time to go out to "hunt."

They select those tourists who are alone, either weak women or thin men, and get the tourists to the village through various deception and abduction methods.

Then he threw it into the well and offered it as a sacrifice to Ah Du.

Like this day after day, as long as the Ruyi Mountain Scenic Area is still in operation, the living village will never lack fresh human sacrifices.

During the period when the Ruyi Mountain Scenic Area was most prosperous, the villagers could deceive one or two bad guys almost every night.

That's why there are so many corpses at the bottom of the well, all of which are innocent tourists.

The reason why no one noticed it back then was because A-Puppet absorbed too many new human lives. Her power became stronger and her cover for the living village became even more hidden.

Her deception is very clever—

Ordinary people can't see the village at all, they can only see a cliff. If they don't want to die, they will take the initiative to stay away from the cliff, so they won't enter the village by mistake.

Only if the villagers of the Living Village take the initiative to bring them in, outsiders can discover the location of the village.

Of course, there are not many people who have accidentally fallen off a cliff over the years. Of course, the Living Village will accept these people without hesitation.

In this way, the villagers fulfilled their promise to Apu by abducting tourists.

Seeing that Ah Pup's strength is growing step by step, there is only one person left to break through the bottleneck, successfully break away from the Taoist priest's suppression, and regain his freedom.

The matter of missing tourists became a big deal, and the Ruyi Mountain Scenic Area was closed.