Chapter 167 God has eyes...
Shen Dinghai listened in a daze, "I still don't understand. Even if the thing that killed Shui Gu's husband is the thing being worshiped in the shrine, how can we deduce that it really didn't hurt Shui Gu?"
"Why did Shui Gu lie later?"
He slowly lowered his eyes, thinking silently.
"It's just a guess on my part at the moment. I really don't have any evidence to support this statement. I just feel that..."
"That should make sense."
Shen Dinghai frowned, "Should I say that he is a metaphysician? Indeed, idealism is relatively strong."
Ran Ran couldn't help laughing, "My guess is not completely unreasonable, it just needs some practice to verify it."
"What kind of verification method?"
"The overall action is still the same as before. We need to enter the temple, but before that..."
Ranran looked at Dongsheng, "We need to know more about this mysterious existence."
"I wanted to ask when you were talking about it before, Dongsheng. Things that hurt Shui Gu's husband are called monsters in the village. Why do you call it a monster?"
"Does Shuigu's description contain anything about its specific form?"
"Shui Gu didn't elaborate. She only said that she was very scared at the time. She looked around in a panic and saw something like black water flooding her husband's body."
"And according to the people who went to deal with Shui Gu's husband's body afterwards..." Dongsheng shrank.
"He was stretched to death."
Shen Dinghai opened his mouth hesitantly, "The one who eats too much?"
"No." Dongsheng lowered his head, "It's because every hole in the body has been stretched open...You can see the intestines and internal organs from the navel, you can see from the eye sockets...brain..."
"It was as if something penetrated through his seven orifices and strangled him to death."
Shen Dinghai felt chilled and said, "This monster is too perverted! And..."
"The belly button can't be considered an eye! It's obviously closed!"
Dongsheng suddenly raised his eyes and stared at Ran Ran, "Actually, some people in the village were thinking the same thing as you when they were guessing what killed Shui Gu's husband."
"They also think that the person who killed Shui Gu's husband was something from the Evil God Hall."
"And the fact I learned is that after Shui Gu's husband died, the village resumed worshiping the Evil God Hall. The original God Hall had been abandoned in the back mountain for a long time."
Shen Dinghai frowned, "Isn't that right? Since it is believed that this evil god killed Shui Gu's husband, why do the people in the village still worship it?"
"Generally speaking, shouldn't we worship other gods to seek refuge, or destroy evil gods in some way?"
Ran Ran thought of the words murmured by the women in the village when they paid homage. Those unknown words full of malice could never mean that they were sincerely paying homage...
But the women's expressions were extremely pious.
If so... everything will be explained!
The conjecture in Ran Ran's mind instantly became clearer.
She suddenly said, "The women in the village are not worshiping the evil god, but as the second nephew said, they are performing some kind of ritual to eliminate the evil god."
"They just thought they were worshiping!"
Shen Dinghai saw a look of sudden enlightenment on Ran Ran's face, but he only felt that his mind was a mess.
"Ah? Then why do the women in the village worship the evil god sincerely? Isn't the evil god bad because he kills people?"
Ranran shook his head, and the seriousness in his eyes almost turned into a thin layer of frost, making everyone who saw him couldn't help but become quiet.
"We don't care about good and evil, just follow this idea." "The women in the village devoutly follow the men's instructions to visit the Houshan Shrine every night. There is no problem with this. This is what Dongsheng learned. ”
"Even at first we thought that people in the village visited the temple to obtain the mysterious power that appears once in a hundred years, until I vaguely felt the atmosphere of chanting."
Shen Dinghai nodded blankly, "In this way, we can put it together. The mysterious power that appears once every hundred years is a monster among the villagers. We thought the villagers wanted to worship it to gain power, but in fact we want to destroy it?"
The more he spoke, the more uncertain his tone became.
Ran Ran nodded, "From here we can know that the men and women in the village actually have two different attitudes towards the evil god."
"Women think that what they do every night is worshiping the evil god and doing something good for the evil god; men secretly destroy the evil god while hiding it from women."
Shen Dinghai nodded solemnly, "That's right."
Ran Ran looked into Shen Dinghai's eyes, "So let's put aside the women and evil gods in the village for the time being, but this will cause problems again."
"If they are from the same camp, why did Shui Gu [frame] the evil god after experiencing the death of her husband? Is this [framing] good for the evil god?"
Shen Dinghai frowned, "No way!"
"If the people in the village think that this evil god kills both men and women, this will only make his sins worse. Then wouldn't the people in the village want to get rid of him even more? Where is the benefit?"
"But if we assume that the women in the village and the evil god are on the same team, then we must also assume that Shui Gu is framing her, which is good for the evil god."
The more Shen Dinghai listened, the more dizzy he became, "But this is not in line with common sense at all."
The reasoning came to a standstill for a while, and more clues were needed to answer more questions.
At the right time, the sky gradually dawned.
While Ran Ran and the others were concentrating on their reasoning, as the fire in front of the shrine gradually extinguished, the women's chanting continued all night long.
Shen Dinghai reacted, and a look of excitement immediately appeared on his face.
Finally let them wait! Men and women have to change their shifts!
"I'm not telling you that the women in Gude Village are really tired. They worship all night long and have to serve the wretched "uncle" at home during the day. If God has the vision, these men should suffer!"
Ran Ran was walking through the layers of low trees, preparing to approach the shrine. Through the overlapping branches and leaves, she saw women whose feet were numb and unable to move because they had been sitting on their knees all night, supporting each other.
After a whole night of chanting and praying, their faces were tired, but everyone looked happy and their eyes were shining.
It was as if some kind of hope was becoming more and more concrete in their eyes.
"This is not the expression someone would show after working hard all night to seal the evil god."
"That's right." Shen Dinghai agreed, "It's basically certain that the women in the village have some kind of belief in the evil god."
Ran Ran's eyes kept wandering over the women who were rushing down the mountain.
"Compared to faith, I think trust is more appropriate. They look more like they regard the evil god as a being that they can rely on."
Shen Dinghai scratched his head, "But why would you trust a murderous evil god?"
"Are all the women in Good Village collectively possessed by evil spirits?"
Ran Ran suddenly smiled, "Second nephew, did you say that God has eyes?"
"No way, I said God has no eyes! If God had eyes, how could he let the women in Good Village live such a miserable life!"
"But retribution has indeed come, hasn't it? Shui Gu's man died tragically. Isn't this a sign that God will open his eyes?"
Shen Dinghai didn't react, "Wasn't Shui Gu's husband killed by an evil god?"
"If a man being killed by an evil god is God's eyes open, doesn't that mean..." Shen Dinghai was inexplicably frightened by his own words.
"The evil god is the God of the women in Good Village?"
