After awakening, I actually became the ceiling of force value

Chapter 46 Changes in the Village

The old man's home is in the center of the town, not very far.

Chu Nanxing arrived within a few steps.

When he arrived at the old man's home, the old man poured Chu Nanxing a cup of hot water. The hot water covered his face, making him look a little weird.

Chu Nanxing ignored this strange feeling, looked at the old man, and asked, "Old man, what happened here?"

Seeing Chu Nanxing's curious look, the old man didn't hold back, and opened his mouth slowly.

His voice carried a taste of vicissitudes.

Many years ago, the town was not a town, but a small fishing village.

The small fishing village is next to the sea, and the surrounding environment is very harsh. Except for the natives, no outsiders are willing to stay.

This makes life in small fishing villages much more difficult than elsewhere.

But the people in the village could not leave.

They make a living by going fishing every day to earn some money, but this money is too little to support them from leaving this fishing village.

From what the old man said, Chu Nanxing felt that what the old man had to say might be very long.

But she didn't have other things to do at first, and she just patiently listened to the old man's words.

She held the hot water, looked at the old man's face with a bit of melancholy and nostalgia, and continued, "On the sea..."

The weather at sea is always changing, and the life and death of those who go to sea can only be left to fate.

From time to time, someone will die while fishing, leaving the whole family behind to live a difficult life. Occasionally, people in the village will lend a helping hand if they have the spare capacity, but this is still a drop in the bucket for a family.

The better families cut down on food and clothing until the children in the family are brought up, and let the children continue to go fishing at sea to support the whole family, repeating the fate of their parents.

However, some fishing villagers were buried in the sea or in the belly of fish without even leaving a bloodline.

Countless people died in the sea on which they depended for their livelihood.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people in the village, the village chief felt that he could not continue like this.

He wanted the villagers to find other ways of living.

But the small fishing village is really too poor.

He was so poor that he had no other way to survive except fishing.

The village chief tried many methods, but none of them worked. Instead, he got complaints from the villagers.

He didn't know what was wrong with his thinking, why they were unwilling to accept that he was clearly thinking of the villagers, and they were more willing to seek opportunities in the environment of near death at sea.

He was at a loss.

It happened that a Taoist priest came to the village.

The Taoist priest heard the village chief's confusion and said with a smile, "Do you really want to know why the people in the village don't understand you?"

The village head nodded, "I obviously don't want them to lose their lives at sea, why are they unwilling to accept it?"

The Taoist glanced at the village head and said, "Because the fate of the people in your village is connected with the sea, they cannot live without the sea."

"But I can't just watch the people in the village lose their lives because of going to sea!"

The village head immediately became anxious.

If everyone in the village died, it would be meaningless for him, the village chief, to still be alive.

The Taoist priest looked at the anxious look of the village chief, smiled and stroked his beard, and said, "This matter is not completely impossible to solve."

When the village head heard the Taoist's words, his eyes lit up.

He looked at the Taoist priest expectantly and asked, "Taoist Master, is there anything you can do?"

"The gods in the sea are dissatisfied with your greedy absorption, so they will take the lives of those who go to sea."

"Every drink and every peck in this world has its destiny."

When the village chief heard this, he immediately panicked.

He only has one son. Although the life at home is pretty good, his son will go to sea from time to time in order to make a living.

Although there has been no accident, the village head has been worried that his son will be swept away by the sea like everyone else in the village and never come back.

His son has never married a wife, let alone has any blood.

If something happened, their family would be in ruins.

Now that there is a way to solve the danger of the sea, it is natural not to miss it.

When the village chief thought of this, he looked at the Taoist priest expectantly and said in an anxious tone, "Taoist priest, is there any way to solve this problem?"

"You also know that the villagers in our village are fishing for a living. If the gods in the sea are angry, we will be finished!"

The Taoist looked at the anxious look of the village head, and said calmly, "Sacrifice."

"Sacrifice?"

In the village chief's confused eyes, the Taoist priest said unhurriedly, "Yes, sacrifice."

"The gods need sacrifices. Your village has never performed this ritual, and it always steals resources from the gods' territory, so it makes the gods dissatisfied."

The village chief was a little excited when he heard what the Taoist priest said, "How do we make sacrifices? What are the things needed for sacrifices..."

The Taoist priest saw the village head's heartbeat, with a satisfied expression on his face, and very patiently told the village head the request of the sacrifice.

The village chief didn't notice the Taoist's expression.

All his attention was attracted by the Taoist's words.

After hearing the Taoist's words, the village chief's face changed drastically.

"This...is using human sacrifice?"

The Taoist priest had already guessed how the village chief would react, and he was not surprised to see him like this.

He just pretended to be embarrassed and said, "Village Chief, it's not that I have to use living people as sacrifices. You have offended the gods before, and now the gods are very angry, so I can only use this method to calm them down."

Chu Nanxing didn't need to continue listening to the rest of the content, he could guess what the village chief made.

A person's life and the interests of a village, needless to say, the village chief must choose the interests of a village.

The old man continued talking, and the next development was exactly as Chu Nanxing expected.

The village head agreed to the Taoist priest's proposal, and the Taoist priest presided over the first sacrifice.

The child used for the sacrifice was an orphan in the village.

His elders were buried in the sea long ago when they were fishing, and they were fed by the kindness of the villagers on weekdays.

It is not suitable to choose anyone's child for this kind of sacrifice. The village chief gritted his teeth and chose this helpless child.

The Taoist had no opinion on the candidate chosen by the village head, and held the sacrificial ceremony step by step.

On the day of the ceremony, everyone in the village gathered at the beach to watch the Taoist priest throw the child into the sea.

A huge surge came and took the child away.

The child's water skills were very good, and he struggled several times to get out of the sea, but the sea water wrapped around him kept beating, and the child soon lost his breath and was completely taken away by the sea water.

The villagers on the shore watched helplessly as the child struggled until he lost his breath. They were all silent. The village chief tightened his grip on his crutches, with a flash of pain in his eyes.

"Sacrifice into..."

(End of this chapter)