Village Guard

There is an ancient tradition in Huaishu Village - the villagers keep watch over the ancient locust trees at night to prevent evil spirits from entering the village. Lin Mo is a village guard of this generation. He is taciturn but can see things that ordinary people cannot. When a series of murder cases occurred in the village, and the deceased had strange smiles on their faces, he realized that these were no ordinary murders. Village chief Li Dequan claimed that this was a sacrifice to the Sophora God, and seven people must be sacrificed every thirty years, otherwise the whole village would suffer. But Lin Mo discovered that Li Dequan secretly manipulated the candidates and used legends to cover up the murder. As the investigation deepened, Lin Mo teamed up with Su Yuqing, a returning college student, and discovered the bloody altar under the abandoned village temple and the history of living sacrifices that had been deliberately buried. When the seventh sacrifice was tied to the ancient locust tree, the trunk split open, and the real locust tree god appeared - it was not a god, but a resentful spirit that was sacrificed alive a hundred years ago. Li Dequan fell into prey, and Lin Mo was forced to face his family's village secret: Is his bloodline a seal or a key? Thirty years of reincarnation have not been broken, and the new cracks in the tree trunks indicate: the countdown to the next blood sacrifice is already... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.