Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 323 There will always be leeks
——Wen and Wen gave birth to a daughter, Wen Tao, on the day of the 19th year of the year.

The records in the village diary are a bit arbitrary, but fortunately the village is only so big. Even if everything is recorded in detail, the paper is just a little thicker.

Recorder - Let's first assume that the recorder is the village chief. He didn't write down any trivial things. He only recorded birth, old age, illness, death and major events that happened in the village during the year.

A tuneless humming echoed in the ears, the sound was far away and sometimes near, and the tune was strange and confusing.

The reader was unaware and continued to flip through the village chronicles.

There were quite a few children born in the village at that time, and they could make up five or six childhood playmates. When Wen Tao and her peers were almost five years old, a line was added to the village diary - Wen ■■ Yu and Wen caught the fish from the lake on March 19, [-]...

This line of writing was finished, but someone had smeared it twice with brush strokes, causing the ink stains to smear, making the last few words unclear.

You can't see clearly from the back of the paper, and even the text behind it is blurred.

The subsequent records were recorded normally, but after looking at it, the reader discovered something was wrong.

Wen Tao... there seem to be two of them.

A name generally only refers to one person, and Wenjia Village also has the custom of not repeating names. If you read forward and backward, everyone's name will be unique.

Easy to identify and record.

So, why did two Wen Tao appear?

The reader is puzzled, and the reader continues to read.

At this time, Wenjia Village was quite fond of communicating with the outside world, and the village chief would also write down the days and days of the month to see how many outsiders there were.

When a reader sees a name, it may seem familiar to him, but he may not be able to recall it for a while.

I couldn't remember it, so I just made a note of it in my mind, and then looked down.

Since then, Murasaki's painting style has undergone subtle changes.

Remote mountain villages like this have always had the habit of offering sacrifices.

The same is true in Wenjia Village, but their worship of mountain gods is not so much a belief as it is a long-standing habit, because the older generation left such an oral instruction, and they have implemented it from generation to generation.

Two or three times a year, on specific days, people from the village are gathered together.

The sacrificial activities in Wenjia Village suddenly changed one day. They were moved from the temple on the mountain to the lakeside, and the objects of sacrifice also changed.

If the readers read it correctly... they are offering sacrifices to "Wen Tao".

Wen Tao, is that Wen Tao?Who does the new Wen Tao refer to?
The reader could not wait to pick up the collar of the village chief responsible for recording and shake it, asking him if he could write more clearly.

Write clearly... By the way, are there any diaries that serious people wouldn't write?

The reader temporarily put down the village journal and went to the table to flip through it. After flipping through it twice, he heard the tune humming in his ears again.

This time the human turned his head slightly and saw the black-haired young man shaking his head and looking out the window.

The black-haired young man had no intention of helping. He just stood by the window with his hands behind his back, leaning forward as if he was about to jump out of the window.

On the contrary, the little girl sat there silently, and the dog in her arms squatted on the ground in a neat manner.

Well-behaved, quiet, afraid to move.

Gao Tianyi was a little confused about whether to call Bai Su over to help. After thinking for a while, he didn't say anything in the end.

He couldn't move, and the melody in his ears... got deeper and deeper into his mind.

There are indeed diaries written by unscrupulous people, as if they are giving clues to people.

It is normal for the older generation to record with pen and paper. Maybe when the times develop further, they will have to unlock the password of personal computers to obtain information.

The human boy was diligently looking for clues behind the scenes, while the monster was groping for fish on the side.

The black-haired young man held up the window frame, closed half of his eyes, and watched the live broadcast.

He knew everything that happened on the mountain.

How the two people from the special department ran through the densely white woods, how they carefully moved forward while he was eating, and how they walked into the cave to find the existence of "Wen Tao".

And how the villagers of Wenjia Village, led by the village chief, changed their direction and pointed directly at the cave where the people were hiding.

Oh, I can’t seem to say directly.

The white eyes on the treetop turned, and he saw a human figure condensed from the black mud, and even the clothes on his body were materialized.

It seems to be someone from the village, judging from the reaction of the villagers in Wenjia Village.

The village chief was stunned for a moment, then checked with a middle-aged man in the team behind him and found that this was a person who should not appear in the forest.

The villager with this appearance should still be in the village and would not appear here anyway.

Ever since, the chase began.

The village chief left a small group of people to clear the mountain road, and most of the people followed him to chase the "villager".

The village chief, who was supposed to be stumbling on crutches, suddenly walked as fast as flying. The stick hit the ground again and again, as if making an urging sound.

Soon, a large wave of villagers were led from another direction to the entrance of the cave on the mountain wall. When they got there, the villagers transformed from black silt collapsed at the entrance of the cave as if they had completed their mission.

Before disintegrating, the "villagers" smiled strangely at the villagers, and then turned into scattered flesh.

Some villagers who recognized this face gasped, and it was the village chief who tapped the ground with his cane again to calm them down.

Afterwards, the village chief looked at the cave entrance in front of him suspiciously.

I don’t know what the old man was thinking. He waved his hand to the villagers behind him to get ready, and then slowly walked in.

Bai Su also saw that the old man seemed to have taken out some contraband that shouldn't be there.

What happened next... The black-haired young man leaning on the window frame stopped humming and lazily raised his eyelids.

He didn't expect that things would develop like this.

But in this case... the monster is lost in thought, human beings... ah no, the police have a really high sense of professional ethics.

"Gao Tianyi." Bai Su suddenly called out the human boy's name. The latter's head was buried deep in the pages of the book, and the boy showed no reaction when he was called.

Bai Su turned his head and saw Gao Tianyi's head lowered so low that it almost merged with the table.

"Gao Tianyi?" Bai Su called out again, and this time the human boy responded.

The human boy with slightly convex eyes raised his head, his eyes blank.

His eyes were not bulging to the point of wearing fish-eye filters, but they looked a bit like those who wear myopia glasses for a long time, and the shape of their eyes was slightly changed.

Gao Tianyi was stunned for a long time before he responded slowly: "What?"

Bai Su stared at the human boy for a while, and saw an alienated neck beginning to appear on his face. Scales leaked from the gaps in the collar, and the young man was still reaching out to scratch it.

After picking at it a few times, the scales came off. The fallen scales were still covered with fleshy foam and bloodshot threads.

But Gao Tianyi didn't realize it, as if he couldn't feel the pain, he just put down his hand.

Some of the bloody scenes frightened the little girl on the side. She hugged the dog in her arms suddenly and hid her whole face, not looking at the scene in front of her.Although he deliberately caused the human boy to become alienated by eating fish, this point was a bit too fast.

Bai Su stood up straight and walked to Gao Tianyi.

He waved his hand in front of people. After four or five seconds, the young man asked what he was doing.

There was no need to say anything to urge the human boy to go faster, and there was no need to say anything to hint that something might be going on on the other side.

Alas, humans are too fragile, so we still have to rely on him.

The monster sighed quietly and picked up the book spread out by the young man on the table in front of Gao Tianyi.

In fact, the human boy had already flipped through almost all of it, and Bai Su read the rest and the ones he had already flipped through in a few clicks.

To put it simply... the timeline in the village diary is different from the timeline in which the village chief writes his own weekly diary. If you compare the two, you can find that the name of someone who came to play outside is earlier than what is recorded in the village diary.

Humans just feel that this name is familiar, as if they are blinded, but for monsters, they instantly think of it.

Isn't this the name that appears in Wen Rongxuan's notes?

The same name came to Wenjia Village at two different points in time.

Not long after leaving, something unusual happened in Wenjia Village.

Bai Su thought for a moment and wrote down the name for the time being.

As for the two Wen Tao... this has something to do with what Wen Tao's parents caught.

Dugong should have been a fish like dugong at first, but I don’t know what happened in the middle. Bai Su guessed that familiar name as the driving force, but unfortunately there was no other information to support it.

Anyway, in the end, the dugong-like fish took on the human skin.

Its lower body itself is very similar to the mermaid in the fairy tale. After changing the structure of the upper body, it is enough to deceive the less educated villagers in the village.

So what is the name of the mermaid?Maybe it was because he stayed at Wen Tao's house for a long time. Wen Tao's parents called Wen Tao's name all day long, and the cat only responded to Wen Tao's name.

Thus, the second "Wen Tao" was born.

There is nothing to say about the sacrifices that follow. If you encounter inhuman and strange things, they can also bring benefits to the village, so naturally you can make sacrifices.

Originally, worshiping the mountain god in the village was just a formal activity, but after the appearance of "Wen Tao" it became of substantial significance.

"Wen Tao" has indeed brought benefits to the village. Fresh and plump fish are continuously produced from the lake - the large flat land in the mountain forest, where the altar is now, was indeed a lake in the past. .

Wenjia Village became wealthy, and then people became greedy.

There is no end to what people want.

But "Wen Tao" can't do more.

Maybe over time it can be done?Bai Su thought uncertainly, he thought it was possible.

But, the time is too short.

Bai Su's fingertips moved from the time when "Wen Tao" was born to the time when the flash flood occurred. There was not much difference between the two.

As mentioned before, "Wen Tao" can't do more. It can't stop the flash flood, and it can't save the people in the village.

So, there were casualties.

What happens if human desires are not satisfied?
The black-haired young man suddenly pressed the back of the book against his chin.

He was quite familiar with this topic. Greedy believers prayed and prayed again and again. They would not look for problems within themselves. They would only wonder if their dedication was not enough. Why didn't their gods show mercy to them?
Then, and then—Bai Su tried hard to remember.

What did he do?It seems like they changed a batch...?Alas, it seems that I just removed the leeks and replaced them with a new batch.

There are still believers.

Bai Su couldn't recall the details and gave up, but he could see that "Wen Tao" couldn't do it.

At least the "Wen Tao" at that time couldn't do it.

The village chief wrote in the record: They must not have done enough sacrifices. If you use... to...

Crazy and paranoid words, Bai Su can taste the impulse just by touching the handwriting.

"Bai...Brother Bai?" When he saw this, the human boy beside him suddenly spoke.

He had obviously not drank water for more than ten minutes, but the sound coming from his throat sounded like he had been dehydrated for a long time. It was burning and painful, and he was extremely hoarse.

Water... where is the water?
A cup appeared at hand at the right time, and the young man couldn't care less. He picked it up and poured it into his mouth. After drinking it, he felt that he was alive.

"Thank you Bai...huh?" Gao Tianyi put down the cup and realized that he had thanked the wrong person.

The little girl stood and handed a glass of water, holding a roll of bandages that she didn't know where to find.

Without saying a word, she threw the things on the table, ran back and sat down, hiding behind the big yellow dog.

Gao Tianyi's attention was immediately transferred to the bandage. He was still thinking about why he was given a bandage, and then there was a stabbing pain in his neck.

The young man reached out and touched it, and felt blood and uneven lines on his hand - fish scales.

"You just scratched it yourself." Bai Su raised his chin, "She's pretty good."

Gao Tianyi: Can you be nice?They were all scared.

The young man grinned and opened his collar. He slid it down from the open collar. The lines like fish scales were extending little by little, and it was a little itchy.

When he stretched out his hand again, the gaps between his fingers were still normal, but the angle of his eyes seemed to have changed a bit.

The human boy touched the wound, put a bandage on himself, and looked at Bai Su in confusion, as if asking why Bai Su was fine.

Of course the monster will be fine.

The black-haired young man smiled and chose to change the topic.

Bai Su said that there was no response when he called Gao Tianyi's name in front of him. When he turned around, he found that the young man was standing still. He was afraid of disturbing anything, so he simply picked up Gao Tianyi's half-opened book and continued reading.

Without mentioning what he saw, Bai Su threw a few notebooks with more important contents into Gao Tianyi's arms.

Halfway through the bandage, the human boy was suddenly lifted up by his collar from behind his neck, and his feet quickly left the ground.

Bai Su quickly opened... without hammering open the window at the back and threw Gao Tianyi outside. Then he turned back and picked up the little girl with a confused face.

He climbed out of the window and stood under the courtyard wall, urging Gao Tianyi to climb out quickly. Although the human boy was a little confused, he still obeyed.

When Bai Su stepped on the bricks of the courtyard wall, he changed the movements of his hands, completely hooked the little girl into his arms, and even covered the little girl's mouth and nose with his palms.

He looked like a bad guy who snatched children, commonly known as a human trafficker.

From a distance, the villagers who had not rushed back from the mountains saw this scene and shouted: "The remaining outsiders have entered the village chief's house——"

"——He took Wen Hong away!"

(End of this chapter)