Quick Wear: The Cannon Fodder Male Supporting Character's Counterattack

Chapter 349: A Strange Journey (4)

Minle's flat voice came over, and Jinghua turned around quickly, "A Ning asked what the room was used for? I, I was just telling him. The room is useless, and it's pitch black at night. There's nothing to see."

"Why are you asking that? Brother Aning, there's nothing to see over there, and it's getting dark, so let's go back. Sister Jinghua, you should go home too."

She made arrangements for both of them in a few words, then came over and took Ning Ning back.

At night, Ning Ning listened to the silence, quietly got up, walked out of the house without making any sound, and followed the route she remembered to see the strange house.

The strange thing was that the whole village was dark, with only that room having a red lantern lit.

This little bit of red in the darkness not only does not make people feel warm, but instead makes people feel weird and solemn. The red is like blood, permeating the surroundings.

There was a person standing at the door, it was Jinghua.

She stood there with her head down, her expression blank, like a soulless puppet.

In order to avoid being discovered by her, Ning Ning didn't dare to move too close.

However, by using his mental power, Ning Ning's five senses can be enhanced, so he can hear...some ambiguous sounds coming from that room.

It seemed like someone was moaning, and the sound sounded like both pain and comfort.

But not long after, the sound stopped and three people walked out!

Ning Ning’s eyes widened. Three... three?

These three were all women. The one leading them was the clan leader, and the other two women following her were also tall and strong.

The clan leader looked unhappy, as if he was still not satisfied, and he spat fiercely, "Bah! He is getting more and more useless, he even fainted! He is so useless that no one in the village has been pregnant for almost a year. It's really more useful to raise a pig than him!"

"Don't be angry, clan leader. Fortunately, tomorrow is the day to worship our ancestors. The new man has already arrived. We will depose him after the ceremony. Humph, the village doesn't support idle people."

"Hey, Jinghua, why don't you say anything? Do you think you didn't get anything good? It's okay, when he wakes up, you can go in and play around."

"Jinghua is the one who doesn't want to go in. Maybe she feels sorry for me. When she encounters such a thing, she avoids it if she can, and pushes it away if she can. I'm afraid she has never been in there once."

The clan leader's face turned even worse after hearing this. He looked at Jinghua coldly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Jinghua forced a smile and said, "Patriarch, don't listen to what they say. The reason I didn't go in the past two years was because I was young at that time and didn't dare to do such a thing."

"Oh, you were seventeen or eighteen then, you were still young?"

"Yeah, everyone comes here this way, are you the only one who is special?"

"okay."

The clan leader waved his hand, not letting them continue, "Jinghua, I won't bother with you about what happened before, but tomorrow when someone else changes, you can't act so noble anymore. There's no point in keeping someone who can't have children in the village."

Jinghua lowered his head and shuddered, "I understand, Patriarch."

"That's good."

She strolled away with the two women.

Jinghua raised his head and watched them walk away. Suddenly, he turned his head and looked towards where Ning Ning was hiding. Then he waved at him, motioning him to come over.

Ning Ning thought about it, stood up and walked over.

Jinghua pulled him aside and asked, "You're here?"

"Didn't you ask me to come? You specifically mentioned that there's nothing to see here at night. Didn't you want me to come here at night? I want to know what's going on in this village. Ren Xin persuaded me to come here in every possible way, even lying that his mother was seriously ill. But after I got here, the village was full of weirdness. You told me to leave quickly, but can I really leave? I just don't want to stay confused and want to find out what's going on in the village."

"Hey, never mind. You won't believe me even if I tell you. Come in with me."

She was also afraid that if she kept talking to Ning Ning outside, they would be discovered by others, so she pulled Ning Ning inside.

Ning Ning frowned as she entered the room. The ambiguous smell in the room was too strong.

The room was not big, and a large bed took up most of the space.

There was a man lying on the bed, his limbs tied to the four bedposts with ropes.

The man was naked, unconscious with his eyes closed.

He looks good, and if he can be taken care of well, he can even be said to be handsome.

But he was now extremely thin, his face was sallow, his cheeks were sunken, his lips were chapped, his body was covered with bruises and bite marks, and he looked very weak.

The small window in the room was closed, so the smell lingered.

Jinghua bit her lower lip, took out a sheet from the side, gently covered the man with it, and opened the window to let in some air.

"I'll keep it brief for fear of being discovered. You must have noticed that our village is secluded and doesn't interact with the outside world, and there's no marriage. But the village has to continue to grow, so there's a rule in the village that every three years a family will offer a man to help all the women get pregnant. He...his name is Wen Ang, yes, he's the man I offered."

"You... offered him up?"

As if he didn't expect Ning Ning to be able to ask calmly after hearing all this, Jinghua paused, but then continued, "Three years ago it was my family's turn to offer a man, but there are only me and my brother in my family. My brother is born weak, and if he was offered, he would never survive three years. The clan leader also said that we are all in the same village, and most of the women have the surname Min. Even if we have a small surname like us, we have lived in the village for a long time and are related to everyone. If we offer a man from the village, the blood relationship is too close, and it is best to offer someone from outside the village. But I am a woman and cannot leave the village. I was anxious and happened to save him--"

"Ahem, uh, ahem..."

At this point, Wen Ang woke up and kept coughing.

He opened his eyes and saw Jinghua and Ning Ning in the room, looking puzzled.

But he didn't even have the strength to move his head, and he couldn't do anything.

Jinghua went over and lifted his head up, fed him a few sips of water, lowered his eyebrows and said in a gentle manner, "Brother Wen, I know I am sorry for you. This is Ning Ning, the person who was tricked into entering the village to replace you. But don't worry, I will definitely save you. Since I missed it, I can't make the same mistake again."

When he heard that Ning Ning was the one coming to replace him, Wen Ang's eyes showed deep anger, but then he coughed twice, made a mouthful of movement to Ning Ning to run, and then his eyes returned to dead silence, without any light in them.

"Alas, Brother Wen, you still don't believe me. Ning Ning, I think you understand. At that time, Brother Wen was a traveler who specialized in exploring uninhabited landscapes. He found that our place was sparsely populated, so he came to travel. He accidentally fell from the mountain and was rescued by me. But my strength was limited, and when I brought him back to the village, he was seen. The tribe leader said that if he didn't sacrifice him, he had to sacrifice my brother. In order to save my brother, I had no choice but to betray his trust and sacrifice him to the village."

Ning Ning, "Then why do you want to save us now?"

"I don't want to make the same mistake over and over again. In fact, I have been condemned by my conscience every day for the past three years. I have never asked Brother Wen to do that kind of thing. Besides, my brother was too weak and eventually he didn't make it. He has passed away. I don't have anything to worry about anymore."