hotmtlnovel Chapter 562: Xianxi Village
Chapter 562: Xianxi Village
【Dear players】
[Next plane location: Xianxi Village]
[Opening time: 6:29 on June 18]
[Players must arrive on time, otherwise they will be punished]
Summer had already arrived in Haicheng when the prompt on the panel finally appeared.
Gu Chaoxi took a sip of the milk tea on the coffee table, squinting his eyes slightly. What was supposed to come finally came.
I just don’t know what kind of tricks it will be this time.
She was originally hunched over on the sofa, and now she raised her hands and grabbed the back of the sofa to slowly sit up.
I used the remote control to change TV programs one after another, but I was still very dissatisfied.
In the end, Gu Chaoxi sighed, threw the remote control to the other end of the sofa, and then fell straight down.
When Pei Yan came down from upstairs, he saw her lying on the sofa, waving her hands in the air, and he didn't know what she was doing.
Hearing footsteps, she blinked and dropped her hands to rest on her stomach.
"Ayan!"
"Yeah, I'm here." He responded and walked over to the sofa.
Gu Chaoxi moved a little inside to make some space, and Pei Yan sat down beside her waist.
She raised her hand again, grabbed Pei Yan's arm, slowly moved it down and held Pei Yan's hand.
"What do you want to do?"
Pei Yan chuckled.
Looking at Gu Chaoxi's appearance, it seemed that he felt uncomfortable all over and wanted to move.
When she heard this, she became excited and immediately jumped up from the sofa and hugged Pei Yan's neck from behind.
"I heard there's a tourist area over there, how about we go there?"
There is a large tourist area in the city where Xianxi Village is located. It was a place where movies were filmed in the past. Later it was expanded into a tourist area and many other things were built.
Gu Chaoxi wanted to go there and take a look.
Shen Yao just came down from upstairs at this time, holding a tablet in his hand.
"I just searched for information about Xianxi Village, but there isn't much."
Gu Chaoxi let go of Pei Yan, moved to the side, and then knelt down and sat down.
Shen Yao fiddled with the remote control for a few seconds and projected the contents of the tablet onto the TV.
Xianxi Village is no longer a place where people live, but an underwater museum.
During severe floods in the early years, the location of Xianxi Village was submerged due to flood discharge, and the people there had long since migrated and dispersed to other places.
Later, the residents there built Xianxi Village into an underwater museum for outsiders to visit.
Now you can also find a lot of videos about the Xianxi Village Underwater Museum on the Internet.
Of course, this is not the point Shen Yao wants to make.
He continued to slide down, and saw some records about the past deeds of Xianxi Village.
One of the records states that the flooding of Xianxi Village was not caused by natural environment, but was a divine punishment brought down by the Dragon King on Xianxi Village.
"what is this?"
Gu Chaoxi narrowed his eyes. It must have been less than a hundred years since Xianxi Village was flooded, right?
Shen Yao slid his finger down on the tablet, and the content displayed on the TV also slid down synchronously.
Xianxi Village is a relatively backward place. To be more serious, it is not just slightly backward, but extremely backward.
The people here believe in the existence of the Dragon King, and firmly believe that it is because of the Dragon King that they have good weather and good harvests.
Therefore, there is a custom here that an unmarried girl will be sacrificed during the full moon every year.
The girl would bring some tributes and take a raft to the pavilion in the middle of the lake.
That lake is the habitat of the Dragon King.
After the girl took the raft to the pavilion in the middle of the lake, she placed all the offerings inside the pavilion and then waited patiently for the Dragon King to come and pick her up.
The Dragon King accepted the girl, which meant he promised the village that he would bless them with good weather and good harvests in the coming year.
But later, one of the sacrificed girls fell in love with a young man.
The young man didn't want his love to be sacrificed, so he secretly paddled a raft to the pavilion in the middle of the lake at night and took the girl away.
The two paddled along the lake to the other side, where they merged into a river and walked down the river, and then they disappeared.
The villagers discovered that the girl was missing the next day and initially thought that the Dragon King had taken her away.
But when they went to clean the pavilion in the center of the lake, they found that all the tributes were gone. They were taken away by the two people who had escaped as dry food.
People were in panic and everyone was guessing what was going on.
It was not until someone said that the man who was in love with the girl was also missing that everyone knew they had eloped.
In order to prevent the Dragon King from punishing them, the villagers immediately found another young girl to offer as a sacrifice.
But it was of no use. Soon, a severe flood came towards the village.
With the orderly transfer, half of the people here survived.
Even though outsiders told them that this was just a natural phenomenon, they still believed that it was because they had violated the Dragon King's majesty that the Dragon King brought down such divine punishment.
"Ah, there is actually such a backward place?"
Gu Chaoxi couldn't believe it.
Pei Yan nodded in understanding. It was possible that in that era, there were still closed places that were so superstitious.
However, believing in the Dragon King is one thing, but sacrificing young girls does sound a bit weird.
Moreover, those sacrificed girls were taken away by the Dragon King, which is impossible.
If it wasn't the Dragon King who took the people away, then who took the sacrificed girl away? Who was this person hiding behind the scenes?
"But, this sacrifice seems to have lasted for a long time?"
Pei Yan was more concerned about this point, and Gu Chaoxi naturally noticed it as well.
Sacrifice started almost very early in this village. Even as the village developed, this custom was still followed, and the local people even believed in it.
This is very strange. According to the circumstances at the time, it is clear that the Dragon King does not exist.
“Perhaps, there are some unknown secrets in the village?”
Gu Chaoxi tilted his head and proposed this idea.
If the person in the village who is in charge of offering sacrifices to the Dragon King has some secrets, and uses this to control the entire village and prevent anyone from going out to accept new knowledge and ideas, it is entirely possible.
"Yes, but we won't know the situation until we get to the plane."
Shen Yao's hand slid across the tablet again, and the remaining content was basically various fabricated short stories.
It’s not to say that it has no reference value at all, but the times of those are relatively recent and it doesn’t seem like they really know the past of Xianxi Village.
On the contrary, these may be some eye-catching stories written based on the local environment after the Xianxi Village Underwater Museum became popular on the Internet.
The story that Shen Yao focused on was the older one.
It was a story posted on Strange Stories at the time, and later someone uploaded the electronic version to the Internet.