Chapter 176 Thousand People Cave
Before approaching the corridor, Ran Ran and the others thought they would have to run along the corridor to the very end to find clues. Unexpectedly, not long after they ran, caves suddenly appeared on both sides of the corridor.
"This cave is pitch dark inside, do you want to go in and take a look?" Shen Dinghai suggested first, but his tone was full of reluctance.
He is really afraid of the dark!
Ran Ran looked at his embarrassed expression with his hands folded across his chest and gave him a comforting look.
"I'll go in first."
After saying that, Ran Ran disappeared into the darkness alone.
Shen Dinghai looked very guilty. He really felt that he was useless. Even if he was playing an escape room, there was no reason for a seven-year-old child to rush ahead.
What's more, this is not an escape room, the danger is real!
Shen Dinghai took a deep breath and immediately followed Ran Ran in, fearful but determined.
Wu Pannan was speechless and choked up as he looked at the rich facial expressions on his face.
After entering, everyone discovered that there was not completely no light inside the cave.
There were four white candles placed on the innermost stone platform, but the flames of the flames were too dim to shine light into the corridor.
The group of three people continued to approach the stone platform, and finally saw that the crudely decorated stone platform was empty, with nothing except a wooden tablet.
"There are words on the wooden sign, it should be the name engraved on it." Shen Dinghai said, mustering up the courage to take a closer look.
"Wu Suhua... looks familiar?" A thought flashed through his mind and he excitedly said, "Isn't this the name we saw on the piece of cloth?"
Ran Ran took out a piece of cloth from her arms to confirm it and nodded, "Indeed."
"Could this cave be regarded as the stone tomb of the people of Gude Village?" Shen Dinghai felt wrong after saying it, "But didn't we pass by a large cemetery on the way up the mountain?"
"It's such a large area, and it looks like there's still a lot of open space. Why not bury it there? And this..."
Shen Dinghai's voice became much softer, "There's not even ashes, there's only a memorial tablet."
"It's so humble compared to the tombs in that cemetery."
After speaking, Shen Dinghai bowed twice to the tablet, "No offense intended, no offense intended, just telling the truth. I wish you can live in a big house in the underworld as soon as possible!"
Ran Ran held the piece of cloth in her hand and said, "Let's go take a look in the cave opposite."
"See if the tablets in this mountain are arranged according to the names on this piece of cloth."
"Wu Huifen is the first name on the piece of paper, and Wu Suhua, who I just saw, is the second."
Shen Dinghai squinted his eyes again to identify.
In fact, the two names were enough to verify Ran Ran's conjecture, but in order to ensure accuracy, Ran Ran and the others still visited several more caves.
Without exception, the names on the tablets inside were written on pieces of cloth with bright red paint.
Shen Dinghai was a little scared, "These names are arranged exactly according to the order on the piece of cloth. I can't help but think..."
"Did the tablets be placed first in the cave, or were the names written on the pieces of cloth first?"
Ranran lowered his eyes, "Just go to the last cave with the memorial tablet and you will know."
"After all, Yunxiang's name has been written on the piece of cloth."
The three of them immediately started running along the long corridor without stopping.
The power of the second century has not yet been mastered by the villagers, and the magician who will protect them has not yet arrived. Ran Ran and the others now have almost nothing to fear.
Time and speed are more important.
The speed of the three of them became faster and faster, until they were almost at the end of the corridor. Shen Dinghai stopped and got into the cave next to him to check the situation.
Soon, he came out panting, too tired to stand upright.
"There are no candles... We should have reached the cave at the end where there is no memorial tablet..."
"Damn it, Good Village... so many women have died in the village... This is not normal at all!"
When densely packed red names are concentrated on a piece of cloth, you don’t feel that there are many individuals. At first glance, it is only the content of an article of a few thousand words.
But when Shen Dinghai ran from cave to cave, he was shocked to realize how many lives the small piece of cloth carried.
"Gude Village has only existed for three hundred years, and the names placed in the cave are all people Wu Pannan knows, which means that not much time has passed at all."
"In just a few decades, thousands of women died in this village."
When Shen Dinghai came to his conclusion, he couldn't help but feel frightened.
Wu Pannan's face was full of ridicule, "The actual number should be more. Those like me who did not die in the village were not recorded on the cloth."
"My death is also a sin caused by them, and it cannot be simply erased for them."
Ran Ran didn't say anything, and she went straight into another cave.
"Nabai."
Ran Ran compared it carefully under the dim candlelight, "It's the second to last name."
"Now I'm sure." Ran Ran looked at Shen Dinghai who walked in, "First write the name on the cloth and then place the tablet."
Shen Dinghai scratched his head, "But why do they do that? Men and women are buried separately."
Ranran said in a deep voice: "Perhaps this thousand-person cave is the shrine where Gude Village must worship every day."
"what?!"
Shen Dinghai immediately got goosebumps all over his body.
"The small shrine is built against the mountain, but there are no statues of gods inside. There are only pieces of cloth with names hidden on the base."
Ran Ran sighed, "I should have thought of it a long time ago. The mysterious power that comes once every hundred years... is the ghost of countless dead women in the village..."
She immediately understood what Black Cat said, they were only one step away from the truth.
Anyone who has seen the connection between the Thousand Man Cave and the Divine Hall will quickly come to this conclusion.
"That's why the temple is called the Evil God Hall, so the content chanted by the villagers is full of malice, because this [god] who comes once a hundred years has determined its revenge target from the moment it was born."
"Gude Village is naturally hostile to it."
Shen Dinghai couldn't help but rub the goosebumps on his body, "Then what the villagers chanted was to wipe out these innocent souls?"
Ranran nodded, "It should be pretty much the same. In short, it must be the power of [God]."
"But the women in the village..." Shen Dinghai could hardly speak, "They are doing the same thing."
Ran Ran added with a cold face: "It was because of the deception of the men in the village."
"They all think that what they recite every day can make [God] stronger and stronger, thereby protecting them."
Wu Pannan said disdainfully, "Subvert the most basic facts and fool women."
"This is their old trick."
Shen Dinghai couldn't bear it, "How sad they will be when they know the truth..."
"This is equivalent to hurting the gods who protect them every night."
Ranran pondered for a moment, "It makes sense that Shuigu would change her story after her husband was killed."
"The evil god is protecting her. After she clears her mind, she will naturally protect the evil god and not let the men in the village find out. The evil god is specifically targeting men."
Shen Dinghai scratched his head, "But this still hasn't changed the men in the village's plan to eliminate the evil god... How did they know?"
"I'm afraid this has something to do with Master Ruan."
Ran Ran's eyes were fixed on the bottomless pit at the end of the corridor, where there was a darkness that was so thick that it could not be broken away.
"There is no rue in the cave, so you can definitely find rue down here."
"Let's go."
