Vicious cannon fodder is prohibited for beauties to play

Chapter 312 He is the cannon fodder ex-boyfriend (20)

"Let's go, forget about this for now, let's first figure out what's going on with the puppets in this town, and then it will be easy to guess a lot of things."

Chen Yinan greeted them, and the two of them walked into the house in front of them side by side.

I didn't expect to see someone I knew in there.

"Brother Shao?!"

The room suddenly became cool, probably because there were many trees outside and the room was in the shade.

The light inside is a little dim. As soon as you enter the door, you can see the most conspicuous thing: a clay sculpture facing the door and a tall figure standing in front of the clay sculpture.

It was Shao Jinyun who said he wanted to act alone.

He was holding a yellowed book in his hand, and he must have been reading it by the faint candlelight on the altar in front of the clay sculpture. When he heard Liu Zhi's surprised shout, he looked up.

Chen Yinan's heart skipped a beat.

I always feel that at this moment, in that light that blends light and dark, the man with the clay sculpture standing behind him and looking at me with calm eyes exudes a kind of... inhuman temperament?

Chen Yinan was confused by his own nonsensical feeling.

"So you were planning to come here too? How did you find this place? You were faster than us." Liu Zhi was very confident and rushed over happily. "Brother Shao, what good stuff did you find?"

He leaned over to look at the notebook in Shao Jinyun's hand.

Shao Jinyun simply handed him the notebook and moved aside a little.

His movements were very natural. Liu Zhi didn't notice anything. He took the notebook and started looking at it.

However, Chen Yinan discovered that he had indeed become even more indifferent.

I don’t know what happened between her and Si Cen. Why did she become even colder?

"Eh? What are these? They seem to be all names of people? Deputy Captain, come over and take a look!"

Chen Yinan walked over and looked down with Liu Zhi.

Sure enough, the yellowed old notebook was filled with many, many names.

"What is this? A list of people who worship the ancestral goddess? Or something else?" Liu Zhi said.

"This could be a list of everyone in this town."

Shao Jinyun's words made Liu Zhi a little stunned.

"Why is the list of townspeople placed here?" Chen Yinan looked around the house. "The kid who led the way just now said that this place has been abandoned for a long time, but I see there is no dust here, and the candles on the altar are even lit... Is he lying?"

Liu Zhi's focus was elsewhere, "Eh? Is this Ancestral Goddess... pregnant?"

Shao Jinyun and Chen Yinan were both startled and shifted their gaze to the clay sculpture behind the altar.

It can be seen that this is a relatively rough clay sculpture. The gender of the clay sculpture can only be identified by its hairstyle and clothes. It should indeed be a female.

Her facial features may have become a little mottled and blurred due to the passage of time, but if you look closely you can still make out that the corners of her mouth are upturned, as if she is smiling.

The carvings on her clothes also show that they are of ancient style, with a long skirt and wide sleeves, and many folds and textures.

Because the costume itself is loose and has wrinkled texture, if you don't look closely, you won't notice that this clay sculpture seems to be... indeed the image of a pregnant woman.

Her belly was actually slightly bulging.

The way she stood and the way one hand pressed the sleeve of the other hand actually looked more like she was caressing or even protecting the baby in her belly.

"See if there is any record about this statue in this room." Shao Jinyun said.

A pregnant god, it is hard not to associate her with "new life".

Liu Zhi and Chen Yinan were accustomed to following Shao Jinyun's instructions, so as soon as he opened his mouth, they quickly dispersed and started looking for him.

Finally, Chen Yinan found the records about this statue on the second floor.

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About seventy or eighty years ago, Xingfu Town was just a small fishing village by the sea.

At that time, people made their living from the sea, and everyone believed very much in the blessing of the ancestor goddess.

It is a belief that has been passed down from generation to generation for who knows how many years. Every nine years, a suitable woman will be selected from the village to serve as the next incarnation of the ancestor goddess on earth. She will enjoy the incense of the world, calm the sea, and bless the villagers with peace and good fortune every day.

It sounds like an ordinary myth, or a legend of faith.

But when Chen Yinan and the others saw how this so-called Ancestral Goddess was selected and how she was supposed to perform her duties, they were left with only disbelief and anger.

The so-called selection of a suitable woman from the village refers to a pregnant woman.

Once chosen, the woman will be tied to a small boat by the villagers, including her husband and family, and sent to the vast ocean in a grand ceremony.

The villagers would wait by the sea for three days.

If the boat does not float back after three days, it means that she has passed the test, gained the recognition of the Ancestral Goddess, and will become the next Dharmakāya of the Ancestral Goddess in the human world.

The whole village celebrated for a whole night, and then asked the village puppeteer to carefully make a clay sculpture of the woman in her likeness. The sculpture was then placed in the village temple, where it was worshipped with incense and offered every day, in order to ensure good weather for the fishing village for the next nine years.

These are the records about the origin of the Ancestor Goddess.

Shao Jinyun looked at it, with no expression on his face.

Liu Zhi was so angry that he kept shouting "stupid".

Now when I look at the clay sculpture in front of me, I no longer feel that the corners of her mouth are smiling happily. I even feel that her hollow and mottled eyes are full of fear and sorrow. How can that be a smile? It is a cry of sudden misfortune and powerlessness to resist.

"How did the small village become a happy town? Why did people abandon the beliefs passed down from generation to generation and no longer believe in the ancestral goddess?" Chen Yinan whispered.

they do not know.

I searched all two small buildings, but found no other records.

"Go find the puppeteer."

Shao Jinyun suddenly said.

"That's right. The puppeteer is so scary in the mouths of children, and this profession appears again in the records of this book... No, maybe the puppeteer back then is the same as the puppeteer today. Then he must know what happened to the small village back then and how it became the happy town it is now." Liu Zhi clapped his hands, "Let's go and ask."

Chen Yinan was not as excited as him. "He may not tell us. You forgot that the kids said he was the most dangerous."

"You just said that those kids are not as simple as they seem. Does that mean what they said is necessarily true? Besides, our boss Cen has a close relationship with the puppet master. For the sake of the boss, the puppet master might be easy to talk to."

Only after saying this did Liu Zhi feel that something was wrong and looked at Shao Jinyun awkwardly.

He did not forget that Brother Shao went to the puppet master to find the boss yesterday, and when he came out he looked disheartened, with serious internal injuries, and his heart was broken.

"You go find the puppeteer, I'll check the list."

He picked up the notebook full of lists that he had found earlier, ignored Liu Zhi's hesitant look, and turned away.