Chapter 1082: Human Stake
The group walked in the village for a long time, and finally, at Yu Chengmu’s suggestion, they went to the Dushui River again.
Standing on a slope not far from the river, looking at the Dushui River, the whirlpool in the river has disappeared, replaced by a strange calm.
Looking at the slightly dark water, everyone felt an indescribable sense of depression in their hearts.
A subtle emotion flashed through Yu Chengmu's slightly squinted eyes, which was caught by Chen Hao. He asked seemingly casually: "Mr. Yu, have you seen some clues?"
Yu Chengmu ignored it, turned around and looked in another direction.
Under the trees, a strange building looms.
It’s the Yizhuang they visited last night.
Chen Hao's voice attracted everyone's attention, and everyone's eyes were focused on Yu Chengmu.
After pondering for a moment, Yu Chengmu counted with his fingers, his face becoming more and more gloomy, "The yin and yang are reversed, the dead become immortals, these people are so brave!"
"Mr. Yu, please speak more clearly." Du Moyu urged, the words "dead man ascended to immortality" instinctively made him feel uneasy.
“No wonder so many top masters of the underworld gathered together, it turned out that they were planning such a heaven-defying act.” Yu Chengmu gritted his teeth in hatred, “But why is it this woman? What kind of thing does this woman have? What great opportunity is worth the price they pay?"
Yu Chengmu seemed to have fallen into madness, always talking to himself.
"Master, are you okay?" Zhang Junyu gently patted Yu Chengmu's back, which made Yu Chengmu wake up.
Noticing the way everyone looked at him, Yu Chengmu frowned, and the first words he blurted out made everyone's hearts tremble, "We are in big trouble this time, if I guessed it right. , now the Lady of the River in the water is no longer a ghost, she...she is about to become an immortal!"
"Becoming an immortal?" A strange look appeared in Lei Mingyu's eyes. In his impression, there were only two kinds of things: ghosts and weird things above ghosts. What kind of immortals are they?
After Yu Chengmu calmed down, he took a deep breath, pointed at the Dushui River in front of him, and whispered: "Look, although the surface of the Dushui River seems to be stable, from left to right , there are still a few irregular water lines."
The fat man had a good eye. He counted according to Yu Chengmu's fingers and then raised his head and said in surprise: "Yes, a total. A total. 9 ripples. "
"Each water ripple represents a dark vortex under the water. In the theory of Yin and Yang, nine is the number of extremes, and there is no big one." Yu Chengmu stared at it seemingly calmly. On the surface of the river, his voice trembled slightly, "They are driving human stakes, setting up corpses, and paving the path to immortality."
"Human stakes?" Zhang Junyu obviously understood the weight of this word, and his expression changed instantly.
Lei Mingyu was a little confused by the attitudes of these two guys, "What is a human stake? Can you please explain it more clearly?"
Jiang Cheng touched his chin and said in a subtle tone: "I I heard it from a friend , he works in construction. When the construction team builds bridges on rivers in some remote places, they will encounter situations where the bridge piles cannot be driven firmly. Even if they are just laid, various conditions will cause collapse. "
“Some superstitious statements There is something strange in the river here. Unless sacrifices are offered, the bridge will not be built anyway."
At this point, Jiang Cheng's expression became strange, and he turned his head and looked at the vast water crossing. River surface, "if forced When building bridges, very strange things will happen. "
"Accidents such as workers who are familiar with water and drowned for no reason, or contractors who are killed by falling steel while inspecting the progress of the project. "
"The weird thing is that as long as the bodies of these people are buried in the bridge piles, similar things will calm down and the bridge piles will not collapse again."
"Such a bridge pile is called life. Human piles, dead people are sacrifices to the river.”
Yu Chengmu nodded and continued: "The 9 water patterns you saw, there is a human pile under each place, which means that there are piles of corpses under each place."
Speaking of this, everyone recalled what the village chief said.
Not long ago, also on the banks of the Dushui River, the village chief told them what happened in the village 10 years ago. Piles of corpses were salvaged from the bottom of the Dushui River.
Seeing everyone's expressions change slightly, Yu Chengmu took a deep breath and whispered: "Yes, now it seems that what they salvaged out of the water were the human stakes at the bottom of the river."
"You said What does "The Road to Immortality" mean?" the fat man asked nervously.
“I once read in a broken ancient book that if you cast one stake every year for nine consecutive years, you can build a corpse platform and pave a road to the sky.” Yu Cheng Mu explained.
"This is too ridiculous. I don't believe that this road to heaven can really reach the sky, and there is also such a thing as ascending to immortality. Where can there be immortals? This is not a book about cultivating immortals." Lei Mingyu seemed to have recovered from his initial surprise. Overwhelmed, with a trace of disdain on his face.
"And the time calculation is wrong." Lei Mingyu said more truthfully: "According to what the village chief said, strange things happened in the village 10 years ago, but if there is a human stake every year, it will be as big as the sky. The road was built a year ago and could not wait for our arrival.”
Du Moyu interrupted him with a sad face, "You are wrong, you did not count the corpses that were salvaged."
After a moment, Lei Mingyu suddenly realized, "Those corpses are one of the dead bodies. The pile was originally built, but it was destroyed because it was fished out of the water.”
“That’s it. ." Yu Chengmu made the final decision, "So their entire plan has been postponed for one year, and this year is the tenth year, which is when the ninth living pile is completed."
"These ghosts. People who practice it want to achieve enlightenment and become immortals by building a road to heaven?" Although Chen Hao also found it incredible, the current evidence points to this result.
He believes that Yu Chengmu's speculation is tenable, at least most of it is true.
Yu Chengmu slowly shook his head, "It's not that they want to become immortals, and they can't become immortals at all, but that they want to become immortals in the name of Empress Dahe."
"Why?" Jiang Cheng immediately asked: " These shady people have paid such a high price and spent ten years for a woman they have never met?”
“Yeah, that doesn’t make sense,” the fat man said.
“What do you know!” Being questioned one after another, Yu Chengmu looked slightly angry. These people did not have his knowledge and did not understand how critical the situation they were facing now was.
“The Yin Xing people naturally have their plans. The Yin Xing seniors who came to gather in this mountain village are all top figures in their respective professions. These people are contaminated with too many causes and effects. If I hadn’t guessed If they are wrong, there is not much time left for them. They have to get together to avoid the disaster.”
"No, it's better to resist the catastrophe!" Yu Chengmu suddenly became excited, "Use Empress Dahe to fight against this catastrophe!" (End of Chapter)