But what about you?"

As Ah Cai's words fell, Shen Chuanyuan frowned tightly, and had no intention of leaving.

No matter what kind of feelings he had for this little girl who was far from being familiar, whether it was a simple use, or whether it was more or less mixed with a little pity and reluctance, it was impossible for Shen Chuanyuan to leave her here alone.

In the face of life and death, people's feelings will inevitably be infinitely magnified.

The greed and indifference of the selfish will abandon their conscience on certain occasions, make cruel decisions that others cannot understand, and they will not even bother to maintain their hypocrisy, and the mask concealed under peace will be completely shattered. And people who are accustomed to suppressing their emotions in the deepest part will also reveal clues of their emotions because of the knee-jerk decision of life and death, and realize that their hidden softness is actually an illusion, and he is far from being as ruthless as he imagined.

is like Shen Chuanyuan at this moment.

Reason told him that the best way to deal with it at this time was to be alone, and the unknown forces could not be resisted, leaving only deep fear. The only analytical ability allowed Shen Chuanyuan to quickly sort out the causes and consequences, and all the mutations were obviously caused by that pair of red candles, and they were constantly concretized in Ah Cai's body, which caused the current mutations.

The longer you stay in this eerie ancient temple, the more uncontrollable dangers you will face.

But how could he leave Ah Cai alone?

If you step out of the gate of the ancient temple now, you can really get a glimmer of life and get rid of this terrible experience. But what will Ah Cai, the girl who was involved by him for no reason, face it, will it collapse or die? After making the choice to escape, will Shen Chuanyuan really not regret it for a long time, or is Shen Chuanyuan really as indifferent as he boasts of it?

These complex thoughts were obscured in the hidden gaze behind the man's lenses in just a moment.

At this moment, at the other end of the mirror, Bai's gaze stopped on the little princess's face and asked casually.

"What do you think he'll do?"

In response to him was the delicate voice of the little princess Loulan, who seemed to be lamenting and as if she was stating the facts.

As she spoke, the little princess rested her elbows on the carved throne and watched with one hand on her cheek as if she were enjoying a play in progress with great patience. And the madly growing and rapidly withering mandala flowers beneath her feet were exactly the same as the vines that were entangled in the poor girl's body in the scene.

"He didn't have time to think about what he was going to do, and the flower soul had already begun to grow. ”

As the little princess's words fell, there was another thunder in the mirror.

Ah Cai's expression was a little trance-like, as if he was fighting against some kind of force.

The shadow of the candle outlined her outline, and the girl's still childish cheeks softened a little, revealing a ghostly poignant.

"It's too late, it's a curse in our stockade. ”

"What curse?"

Shen Chuanyuan asked anxiously, but he didn't have time to pay attention to the changes in the girls around him, his eyes were fixed on the outside of the ancient temple, and the monsters condensed by mud and sand were like zombies, slowly moving in the direction of the ancient temple. As they approached, the disgusting smell in the air became stronger and stronger, and Shen Chuanyuan almost retched.

"Do you know why our stockade is in tatters like this?"

Ah Cai's voice was a little ethereal in the violent wind, as if it had been separated by a layer of thick fog, and the tail note was not really heard.

Ah Cai didn't want to say these words to anyone, even if the person she confided in was Shen Chuanyuan, but now she didn't care about it.

"Why?" asked Shen Chuanyuan.

"Because my mother is gone, she shouldn't have betrayed her people, this is the punishment of the gods. ”

Ah Cai bit her lower lip tightly and muttered in a low voice.

Outside the window was the violent sound of the storm pulling the dead branches, but the dilapidated ancient temple seemed quiet, and the red candle burned with a faint smell of blood, which was endlessly depriving Shen Chuan of the clarity of the source of the sea. He had to be distracted, turned his head to look at Ah Cai, and waited for the girl's explanation later.

But Ah Cai was like a lifeless puppet, standing in place sluggishly, she was so wooden at the moment, as if her ability to think had been deprived. What came to her mind was the fire that burned for three days and three nights on the day her mother left, and the woman's delicate and beautiful face was distorted in the firelight, and finally completely engulfed by the firelight.

At that time, she looked at the high priest with resentment, as if she was mercilessly sarcastic.

What did my mother say at the time?

Ah Cai thought hard, and couldn't help frowning tightly, she really wanted to tell Shen Chuanyuan the truth behind this sacrifice, but many things became ethereal, and even her consciousness became trance. At that moment, the gap in time and space seemed to engulf Ah Cai.

A huge sense of emptiness enveloped her, and the line between the unreal and the real became no longer clear.

Her ears echoed with her mother's terrible words in the fire, Ah Cai originally thought that she didn't remember anything, but at this moment everything was so clear and distinct, as if it was the burning fire in front of her, with a cruelty like destroying the world.

"Do you really think that you are some kind of righteous defender? Today, of course, I can't escape, but I have never regretted choosing Brother Wen, nor have I regretted leaving with him. Compared to the dark life in the Wu Clan day after day, the past few years with Brother Wen, although it was as short as a dream, were the most lively time of my life. ”

"How foolish and ignorant, you have always believed in the gods, but you do not know that the lie was planted thousands of years ago. If I hadn't seen that woman and learned the truth, I might have been as ignorant as you. Forever closed in this dilapidated mountain village, relying on the lies that have been passed down from generation to generation, to put it bluntly, it is just a frog at the bottom of the well. ”

The past and the past continue to overlap, and Ah Cai opened his mouth in a low voice.

"At that time, I was still very young, but I was five or six years old, I couldn't understand my mother's words, why did I leave the village, wouldn't it be good to live so peacefully, do you have to leave me and my grandmother, and go with my father to see the wider sky?"

Ah Cai lowered her eyes and muttered, as if she was seriously thinking about something.

There are many things she couldn't understand and couldn't understand when she was a child, but even now, she has grown from a little girl to a big girl, and she still can't understand why her mother made such a decision back then. Mother is the most beautiful woman in the hearts of the clansmen, and she dances and sacrifices to the gods at the annual sacrifice every year, she is always so high, and her status is higher than that of the clansmen, and she accepts everyone's admiration. She and her father were finally together under so much pressure, and they were recognized by the high priest, and then they lived a peaceful and peaceful life.

With such a high salary, what is there to be dissatisfied with.

Why do you have to leave the Wu Clan and follow your father outside?

"Mother is the holy daughter of the Wu clan, and it is the most noble symbol of our clan. The saint was destined to give her life to the gods, and the end of life is eternal life, and the people can be blessed forever. But because of his mother's betrayal, the gods were angered. ”

"What gods?"

Ah Cai didn't answer Shen Chuanyuan's words, she stood in place like a delicate puppet, as if even the thinking process had been gradually omitted, and she just used a mechanical tone to tell a certain past story by herself, and made the past that had been sealed for a long time public.

"In order to appease the wrath of the gods, the high priest burned my mother alive, and it was a fire that burned for three days and three nights, and the air was filled with the smell of soot, which was terrible. As the fire subsided, the clansmen thought that this little episode was over, but the bad luck in the stockade never ended, and the clansmen died one after another. There are fewer and fewer people left, and they are getting more and more panicked, what should I do about the sacrifice, without the Holy Maiden and the Twelve Concubines, isn't the sacrifice of the Wu Clan going to be forced to end?"

Shen Chuanyuan frowned, he didn't even want to speak.

He knew that no matter what he said, or if he didn't say anything, it was meaningless, the girl opposite was obviously abnormal, but Shen Chuanyuan didn't know how to save her, he could only watch this hellish situation continue to deteriorate, he couldn't do anything, or it was meaningless to try to do anything.

"Later, all the people in the stockade died, and in the end, except for the high priest, only my grandmother and I were left....... One night it was raining heavily, and the high priest actually came to my house. I hid behind the crack in the door of the back room, and heard the high priest tell my grandmother that it is impossible to stop the sacrifice, this is the fate of the Wu clan, and it is a reincarnation that cannot be escaped, and no one can do anything about it. The division of the Wu clan did not prevent reincarnation, and even the death of her mother could not prevent the next saint from entering reincarnation. No one can put an end to this twelve-year sacrifice, and the death of the clansmen now certainly does not stop the process of things, but the sacrifice will be staged in another form, which is different from the past, a ...... unimaginable form. ”

Speaking of this, Ah Cai's words suddenly stopped, she tilted her head to look at Shen Chuanyuan, and suddenly smiled coquettishly.

"Didn't I tell you that I am actually a saint in the village. ”

Before the end of these words could be completely settled, it was interrupted by a thunderclap outside the temple.

The sound of the repeated chanting became more and more rapid, and the singing voice from nowhere was ethereal and ethereal, with a vast sense of emptiness interfering with thinking, the voice was clear and soft and moving, but it made people feel terrible from the bottom of their hearts, and even their hairs stood up.

Shen Chuanyuan didn't have time to digest the excessive amount of information revealed by Ah Cai's words, and he didn't even ask more about the Wu clan sacrifices that were closely related to his teacher, but just subconsciously took Ah Cai's hand and said hurriedly.

"Don't say it, Ah Cai, I'll take you away. ”

........

However, it was too late after all.

The smell of blood in the air became stronger and stronger, and then it was unexpectedly miserable.

The tears of the candle that had just been lit took root on the ground and grew into an entangled sea of flowers at an astonishing rate. Shen Chuanyuan watched the sea of flowers spread wantonly, gradually covering the entire ancient temple, and those mandala flowers that spread were like hideous ghost claws, entrenching on Ah Cai's body at an unstoppable speed, entangling her firmly.

"Ah Cai, Ah Cai ......."