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[The young man is in agony.

To him, food, money, marriage, or gods are all insignificant things.

The ridicule from the outside world is insignificant, only your own family is the most important.

The sudden death of his mother devastated the young man, and he completely gave up the idea of ​​living.

The young man buried his mother and placed her in the grass behind his house. He went on a hunger strike at home for one, two, and three to five days, completely losing contact with the outside world.

On the fifth day, the young man was so hungry that stars were in his eyes and acid water poured into his stomach. He was about to starve to death at home.
Suddenly the young man's mother's voice came to his ears.

The old mother's voice lost the previous feeling of difficulty breathing, and she became angry and urgent:
"My child, why don't you eat?"

The young man thought he was having another hallucination before his death, and tears immediately fell down his face, crying out that he was useless and could not support his old mother.

The old mother comforted her child, saying that since she died, she would not be a burden to the child, and there would be no need to buy medicinal materials, or eat in separate portions, and maybe he could still get married and find a wife, and so on.

The young man kept saying that these were not what he asked for. He cried for a long time and then suddenly realized——

No, my mother is dead, but this voice is obviously talking to myself!

The young man was a little unresponsive for a moment. He looked around and after making sure there was nothing, he tentatively asked again:
"Mom?"

The old mother answered the filial child again and said:

"It's me, that's right."

The sound had no source, as if it appeared in my own ears.

The young man couldn't believe it. How could his mother, who had been buried by his own hands, suddenly come back and be able to talk to him, asking him repeatedly what happened to his mother?

The old mother seemed a little unclear, but facing her child, she still said clearly:

It felt like I had entered a place with a huge thunder light, and there was wind in my ears, and everything seemed unreal.

Originally there was a force pulling her forward, but when she heard the cry of her child on the road, she couldn't hold it back and finally turned back.

Walking back all the way despite the wind, he returned to his home and saw his children.

Of course, things were not as simple as the old mother said, but both mother and son were afraid that the other would miss each other, so they only said good things.

The young man was stunned when he heard this. He vaguely felt that his mother had turned into the 'spiritual' creature that the witch doctors said, and he asked again and again:

"Do you feel uncomfortable now? Are you still able to touch things in the house as before?"

"Why don't you have a body?"

"Can you find a way to survive again?"

The young man knew that the mother's body buried in the soil was most likely broken.

But he really wanted his mother not to leave, so he proposed several plans in succession.

The old mother tried touching things in the house, denied it repeatedly, and listened to the young man's guess. She even said that her body seemed to be lighter and she could 'run' quickly. Perhaps, you can go to the tribe's shaman and have a look, maybe you can find a solution.

The young man thought that this seemed good, so he ate something in a hurry and waited for his mother to come back at home.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for his mother's voice to come back to him.

The old mother said:
'On the contrary, I arrived in front of the big witch and witch doctors, but before I went in, I was stopped by a few weird-looking things. They looked like people but not people. Others couldn't see me or them. '

'But they could see me and asked me where my ignorant 'spirit' came from, and asked me to get away quickly. '

'There was a 'person' with a slightly bigger temper who wanted to attack me, but another person wearing a big wizard's antler hat said, without a statue to fix the spirit body and support itself, I am destined to dissipate quickly, so don't worry about me.'

Although the young man was all muscular, he was not a fool. When his mother said this, he had some idea of ​​what had happened.

The reputation of the tribal shaman is very great. In recent years, people from far away often come to ask for a statue of the shaman to build a temple.

Every time the great witch announces a statue of a very benevolent and virtuous person who is the reincarnation of the ancient power, the river god, the earth god, and the dragon god. As long as everyone worships them, everything will go smoothly.
Because the young man often visited temples and places of worship for his mother, he also inadvertently saw the faces of those statues. They seemed to be very similar to the deceased relatives of the wealthy nobleman.
Could it be that after death, as long as a person can hear the sound returning, he will become this kind of 'spirit', and as long as he builds a statue of a god, he can become a variety of gods?

The young man had guesses and doubts.

But the idea gradually became clear. The most important thing now is of course to build a statue for his mother!
Even if it is a small statue, as long as it can temporarily stabilize the mother and stay with her at home for a long time, it is a good thing!

After the young man and the old mother analyzed the situation, they regrouped under the mother's warning and began to rush to the shaman's territory to find work with high morale.

He didn't have a lot of money, food, or even materials to hire someone to do the work, but he had a lot of strength. As long as he worked hard, he would definitely be able to give his mother a place to stay.

For example, first go and see how the shamans make statues of gods, learn a little secretly, then work hard and then chisel a big stone to start shaping the image of your mother.
He thought very well.

But when he found a job helping to install the statue, he discovered that the shape of the statue was completely different from what he thought.

The inside of the statue is made of clay, and the middle is hollow, and the inside also needs to go through a process of decoration.

This is okay, just follow along and learn, but the most important thing is——

Before the clay sculptures were dry, the master followed the orders of the great witch and captured and disemboweled five men who were forced to sell themselves into slaves because the harvest in the fields was not good and they did not have the strength to hunt.

That was real disembowelment.

In front of the statue of the god that was about to be worshiped by thousands of people, in the temple that was about to be full of incense, he took the knife and cut open the slave's abdomen with a sharp knife and took out the beating organs inside.

Then the great shaman with the antlers on his head will take the bloody organ from the master's hand, chant something in his mouth, and stuff it into the statue. He does this five times, and then announces the most important decoration in the statue statue process. Dirty ritual' completed.

The young man's head was completely out of his mind, and he followed the others in a daze to seal the statue, pretending that the master was satisfied.

When he got home, he lay on the bed tossing and turning, feeling even more horrified in his heart——

It's so terrifying inside the statue of the god that you worship day and night! 】

So sleepy, tired and drunk, fell asleep (what)