Chapter 376: A Strange Village, Villagers Kneeling on the Mountain

"Hmm?"

Xu Ye was surprised and looked at Professor Lu Bode, "Have you been to Songfeng Mountain?"

Lu Bode nodded: "Yes."

His expression became quite serious, "It's a pity that I clearly found signs of the possible appearance of Juebao among the many traces on the mountain."

"But no matter how I looked, I couldn't find any clues or Juebao."

"After I reported this to the government, the government also sent several assistants to investigate, but they also found nothing."

"In the end, I concluded that perhaps someone had taken the lead and taken the Juebao on the mountain in advance."

Xu Ye's expression became slightly solemn.

Lu Bode came to the same conclusion as him.

"I promised Fang Tianyu that kid that I would come to help you search." Lu Bode continued, "So I want to tell you what I know in advance."

"Of course, my original investigation may also be biased, so I will also do my best to search with you."

"Then I'll leave it to you, professor." Xu Ye nodded to show his gratitude.

Since Songfeng Village is located outside Heicheng, it is dozens of kilometers away, and the mountain road is bumpy.

Soon, the people in the car felt drowsy and fell asleep.

Lele's head was resting on An Lan, and her saliva was flowing out of her sleep, but she was still holding her two dolls tightly in her arms.

After an unknown period of time, Xu Ye woke up slowly, looking at the barren ground on both sides and the mountains around, and yawned uncontrollably.

"Why, are we here?" His yawn woke up Professor Lu Bode who was also asleep.

The professor rubbed his eyes and opened them, and the whole person looked exhausted.

"Don't worry, we are almost at the entrance of the village. In ten minutes, we should be able to take you into the village."

The driver heard the conversation between the two and shouted with his head slightly tilted.

Xu Ye's sight swept out the window, but was suddenly attracted by several figures.

"What is that..."

He murmured, and immediately attracted the attention of several people in the car.

An Lan opened his eyes expressionlessly and looked out.

But he saw several villagers in simple clothes kneeling on the ground in the wasteland in the distance, looking fanatically and kowtowed to the front.

"Who are they worshipping?" The professor looked in the direction they were worshipping, but saw nothing.

For a moment, a gloomy feeling came to his heart.

Could it be that these villagers were worshipping something they couldn't see?

"Are they worshipping... the mountain?" Xu Ye was not so superstitious, just looking forward.

The direction these villagers were worshipping happened to be a towering mountain.

If he guessed correctly, the mountain in front was one of his goals this time - Songfeng Mountain.

"Strange..." The professor was puzzled, "I have never heard that Songfeng Village has the habit of worshiping the mountain god."

"When I came here three months ago, there was no such thing!"

Xu Ye frowned slightly, inexplicably feeling a strange and uneasy feeling.

For many civilians, worshiping mountains and waters is a kind of prayer, hoping that their efforts can be recognized and rewarded.

But for most people in Longguo.

Praying to gods and Buddhas is more of a spiritual comfort, which contains their very simple wishes.

But he has never seen anyone show such a fanatical expression when worshiping mountains and waters!

The expressions of those villagers were like some brainwashed cult believers, full of weirdness and horror.

Before he came here, he had also investigated the files and materials of Songfeng Village.

But those materials never mentioned that they had any special beliefs.

Could it be the same as what the professor said?

This weird belief was formed within these three months?

Suppressing the confusion in his heart, the vehicle continued to move forward.

As he went deeper into the village, more and more villagers knelt on both sides to worship the mountain.

In just a few minutes, Xu Ye and his friends saw at least twenty people kneeling on the mountain.

Each of their expressions was exactly the same, with fanaticism in their joy, as if they were kneeling to worship gods and Buddhas, full of piety.

It was not until the vehicle completely entered the village and saw the houses on both sides that the few people stopped seeing the strange scene.

"Okay, we're here!" The taxi driver stopped the car at the entrance of the village, "The road inside is narrow and it's hard to turn around, so I'll stop here."

Xu nodded, paid the money, opened the door and got out of the car.

Lele woke up slowly.

Her first reaction after waking up was to check the doll in her arms.

After confirming that she was not dreaming, she showed a happy expression, followed An Lan out of the car, and looked at the village excitedly, "Xiao Zi will be very happy to see this!"

Songfeng Village is not a big village, and because many young people go to Heicheng to work, there are only some old people and children walking around in the whole village.

Although there are adults, most of them are in their forties and fifties, and most of them are women.

The taxi turned around and left quickly.

Several people entered Songfeng Village and immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding villagers.

The moment these villagers noticed the few people, they immediately showed vigilance and rejection.

But after seeing Lele, their expressions softened a little.

Lele was not aware of these things at all. She held the doll in her arms excitedly and pulled An Lan's hand hard: "I... I'll take you to my house!"

"Xiao Zi will be very happy to see you!"

An Lan looked at Xu Ye with an inquiring look.

Xu Ye nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, we also want to meet your sister."

"Yeah!" Lele nodded vigorously, her rosy face full of smiles.

Then, she ran forward with ease.

"Big brother, big uncle, hurry up!"

Lele ran in front, leading a few people around the village, but she didn't look lost at all.

Xu Ye looked at her movements and touched his chin thoughtfully.

This look really didn't look like a disguise.

This means that their meeting with Lele was just a coincidence?

About ten minutes later, under the guidance of Lele, the few people finally came to a corner of the village.

There was a dilapidated house in front of us, with a few chickens scattered in the yard.

Compared with other houses in the village, this house was as simple as it could be.

"Xiaozi, Mom, I'm back!!"

Lele didn't look embarrassed at all, but ran into the yard excitedly and shouted loudly.

At her shout, a pale woman hurried out of the side room with an anxious look on her face.

After seeing Lele, anger emerged in her eyes, and she rushed up with her sleeves rolled up.

"Lele, where have you been? Do you want me to be anxious to death?!"