Nightmare Attack

Chapter 588 The Covenant

Chapter 588 The Covenant

"Is this song widely spread among you?" It was Luo He who asked this question. His pair of blue eyes made him very special among the crowd.

Stared at by these eyes, the woman couldn't help lowering her head, and her voice became smaller and smaller, "Actually, it's not very wide, it's just near my hometown."

Through the woman's introduction, everyone learned that the woman came from a small place, and there was a temple in her hometown, which enshrined the god representing the grass man.

Every year when the cherry blossoms are about to wither, someone will come to the temple to ask the priest on duty for a straw man, and the straw man will be taken home and placed under the cherry tree.

Luo He's eyes swept over the faces of several women, and when he caught his gaze, several timid women lowered their heads one after another, trembling all over.

Withdrawing his gaze, Luo He looked back at the woman who spoke, "You all come from the same place?"

"Yes." The woman replied in a low voice, "We moved here together. The people in Huishi Town are all from my hometown."

Everyone understood what the woman meant. The orientals in Huishi Town all came from one place. It seems that the soldiers first occupied this place by force, and then brought their families and fellow villagers with them.

After all, Dongyang belongs to an island country, and its land and resources are very barren.

This is very common in wars, and it can be regarded as the prototype of the pioneering regiment.

Adding cultural aggression on the basis of military occupation gradually blurs the people's sense of identity. Compared with simply resorting to force, this is the means of subjugating the country and genocide.

"What's your name?" Jiang Cheng stared at the woman and asked.

The woman held the child tightly in her arms, and said in a small voice, "Just call me Yoko."

Jiang Cheng nodded without dawdling, and said directly, "Well, Yoko, you've been around here all this time, right?"

Hearing that Yoko raised her head suddenly, a look of panic flashed in her eyes. After Jiang Cheng saw it, he explained flatly, "Don't be afraid. I might have some questions to ask you during this time."

"We're not here all the time, we're all..." Yoko stopped talking halfway, obviously, they're in a bad situation right now.

I'm afraid they will go there if they can find a bite to eat. They don't have a fixed foothold, and they may even be driven around.

"Well, you'll be staying around here for a few days, and I may come to you at any time." Jiang Cheng said, "As a reward, I'll take all of your things, how about it?"

Hearing this, the eyes of the women lit up. They raised their heads cautiously and looked at Jiang Cheng's face, as if they were trying to tell whether what he said was true, or if he was just teasing them for fun.

"Hurry up, how much is it?" Jiang Cheng frowned.

"No money, one...one for one steamed bun." Yoko stretched out a finger and said quickly.

She was still holding a steamed bun in her hand, which was just given by Jiangcheng and the others, and she hadn't had time to eat it yet.

"Okay." Jiang Cheng agreed, and pointed to a corner not far away, where there was a very simple stall with white steam rising from the stove, and there were drawers of steamed buns in the huge steamer.

Their steamed buns are bought from here.

"Did you see that stall? I'll go and tell the boss in a while, you can go there to get steamed buns for a few days. I will deposit some money in advance, and your account will be deducted from it."

"But you can only eat steamed buns, don't think about vegetables and buns, and you can only eat them, you can't take them, do you understand?" Jiang Cheng asked.

Yoko and the others nodded repeatedly, "Understood."

Before leaving, Jiang Cheng turned around and warned them that if he came and found that they were not there, then the agreement would be void.

"Wait." Jiang Cheng, who had already walked a few steps, heard someone calling, turned around, and found that it was Yoko who ran up with small steps, and she was carrying a cloth bag, which was bulging. Yoko stopped and looked at him very seriously. Said: "You forgot to take your things."

The remaining oriental women stood not far away, watching.

Opening the cloth bag, there are some small toys inside. They have seen them before, rough dolls sewn from broken pieces, small mirrors, wooden combs and the like.

It's all stuff they don't use.

"You keep it for yourself, it's useless for us to hold it." Linghu Yong refused very simply, and he didn't have a very good face towards these women.

Just when everyone was about to leave, Yoko seemed to have made up her mind, and took out a small cloth bag from her wide sleeve.

The cloth bag was wrapped around her arm, as if it contained something very precious.

This action aroused everyone's curiosity. They watched Yoko open the cloth bag carefully, as if they were worried about breaking something inside.

But after everyone saw what was inside, they were taken aback for a moment, and then a burst of icy chill wrapped them up.

"Please accept this gift." Yoko held up the gift with both hands, and bowed exaggeratedly to Jiang Cheng, "It's my repayment to you!"

Under the gaze of more than a dozen eyes, a rough straw man lay quietly in Yoko's hands, exactly the same as the ones I saw on the altar of the Feng Mansion before.

"This straw man." Looking at Yoko, Zhao Xingguo's throat rolled a few times, "Where did it come from?"

Half an hour later, in a teahouse facing the street, the waiter went upstairs with a huge teapot to make tea for the guests in the box.

Originally, he wanted to say something pleasant and ask for some rewards, but after feeling the oppressive atmosphere in the private room, the man still retreated out wisely.

In the private room, four people sat around the only table, Jiang Cheng, Lin Wan'er, Luo He, Zhao Xingguo, and the rest stood behind them.

A straw man wrapped in cloth lay quietly in the center of the table.

Perhaps it was a psychological effect. After looking at the face without facial features for a long time, it became more and more weird, as if it would pull out a weird smiling face at any time.

Zhao Xingguo looked a little irritable, drank the hot tea in one gulp, and put the cup on the table with a "boom", "This straw man is the same as the one on the altar. It's about the straw man." Zhao Xingguo said viciously.

After all, everyone remembers that Pan Du was the first person to touch the straw man with his hand on the Buddhist altar.

What surprised everyone even more was that Yoko said that she begged for this straw man from the temple in her hometown, and because she didn't find a suitable opportunity to make a wish, she kept it with her all the time.

"Could it be that this ghost is not from our local area, but from the East?" Pi Ruan's question sounded a bit strange at first, but after thinking about it, it was very appropriate.

"Perhaps it's not just the ghosts inside the door, the disciple carrying this door might also come from the East." Luo He analyzed, "The disciple is from the East. He followed his companions all the way to Huishi Town, but he couldn't bear I was eroded by the door, and the ghost behind the door ran out."

(End of this chapter)