Chapter 126: The Banquet
Regarding Carricket's identity, he hadn't explained it to Li Youcai before, but Li Youcai was able to get some guesses from the information he already knew.
For example, he did believe in an outer god, but not Turzcha.
He knew that Li Youcai was not a true liberal, but he was not worried that he would wreak havoc here.
He has his own channels of information, and can get the latest information on several other territories, which is extremely rare in the relatively closed true freedom.
Based on this information, Li Youcai guessed that Carricket was either a follower of some powerful but unsociable outer god, or he was the nail in the coffin of the other realms among the true freed.
All in all, he must not be of the same mind as the mainstream rulers of the True Liberals, otherwise he would not have guessed Li Youcai's identity and cooperated with him.
So after hearing Carricket's words, Li Youcai said: "Your identity is exposed? You are indeed a spy infiltrated by other forces, but you have made an oath to believe in the outer gods, is there also a traitor to the outer gods?"
Carrickett: "You don't have to guess, I won't tell you the details, I can only be friends if we are not enemies, and I need your help now." ”
Li Youcai: "You can't even tell me your identity, how can I help you?"
Carrickett: "No matter which side I am, you and I definitely want the true liberals to be in chaos, and our interests are united in this regard, so helping me in a way is helping yourself." ”
Li Youcai: "You don't really think that just these few words can move me, right?"
Carrickett: "I can give you all the information I can find about another desperate reversal continent in the realm of the True Liberals. ”
Li Youcai: "Not enough. ”
Carrickett: "One more demiartifact." ”
Li Youcai: "Add more." ”
Carrickett: "A drop of the blood of the original unbeliever killer." ”
Li Youcai: "Deal, how do you want me to help you." ”
Carrickett: "It's simple, just show me I'm your friend. ”
While Carrickett handed Li Youcai a piece of record coral, and then continued: "Here is a record of the process of our encounter, I rescued you back then, so you will support me now." ”
Li Youcai took the coral and browsed it aside, easily wrote down the contents, and then destroyed them casually.
Li Youcai: "Are you sure this can work?"
Carrickett: "Not sure, but that's just enough time for me to prepare." ”
Soon, the car stopped at the door of the banquet hall.
This is a famous restaurant in the Blue City, and now it has been completely booked to hold a night banquet.
The protagonist of this banquet is not Li Youcai or Carricket, but the daughter of a local nobleman, because today is her coming-of-age ceremony.
The reason why this girl's coming-of-age ceremony can alarm a character like the city lord is because this girl has been gifted by the top ruler of the old days, the "Devourer of Stars" Amt Saba, and has become its follower.
You must know that the so-called city lord is only a deep diver, and his status is the same as this girl, so the other party's coming-of-age ceremony can be said to have brought together a lot of big people.
When Li Youcai and Carricket got out of the car, the city lord and the nobles who had been waiting at the gate for a long time immediately greeted them.
The city lord greeted them warmly: "Mr. Derek, Mr. Carrick, welcome to the two of you, let me introduce you two." ”
The city lord first motioned to the two of them to a nobleman who was blinding: "This is the father of the protagonist of today's banquet, Mr. Zhepen, who is the current patriarch of the Fei Renlei family. ”
Li Youcai and Carricket nodded slightly to the patriarch of Zhepin Fei Renle, this was already a rare sign of respect between the two, after all, as a follower of the outer gods and even Azathoth, their status was much higher than this patriarch.
Zhe Peng didn't care, but smiled and bowed to the two of them to say hello.
After that, the city lord introduced a lot of big nobles to the two, and the people who could be introduced by the city lord were either famous families here, or their own strength was excellent, otherwise the city lord would not even be able to look at it.
Li Youcai's vision is not low, so being able to get their nod and response has already satisfied many nobles.
I had to be, the atmosphere of this banquet was really good, although everyone knew that everyone was vain.
Soon, the banquet got to the point, and the previous Mr. Zhe Peng knocked on the cup, and the banquet, which was not noisy in the first place, quickly fell silent.
He said loudly: "Thank you for being able to attend the women's coming-of-age ceremony today, which makes our Fei Renlei family feel very honored, and now I ask my wife to bring my precious daughter out to meet you." ”
As he spoke, two female blind men entered through the side door of the banquet hall and slowly walked to the side of Zhe Fei Renti amid the applause of the crowd.
Zhe put his arm around the young Eye-Blind and said, "This is my daughter, Neon Fei Renlei, who has been recognized by the 'Devourer of Stars' and is about to become a follower of the Top Dominator today. ”
Every truly free person makes a sacrifice at his bar mitzvah to affirm his faith.
It's just that most people will confirm before the coming-of-age ceremony which old ruler will respond to their sacrifice, so as not to have an accident at the coming-of-age ceremony.
Like Meiguo Temeliu, played by Li Youcai, before the coming-of-age ceremony, he did not get the approval of any of the old rulers or external gods, so he was expelled by the Temeliu family before the coming-of-age ceremony.
After introducing or showing off to everyone, Zhe Peng announced that the coming-of-age ceremony was in the main topic, and soon a waiter brought a tray with a fist-sized pearl on the upper cushion of the tray.
On the other side, four attendants came to the center of the hall against a statue.
The statue was a huge mass of darkness with a lot of shots on it, and anyone who looked at it felt as if it was about to swallow itself.
Everyone lowered their heads slightly, and there were only two people in the field who could look directly at the statue, Li Youcai and Carricket's female bodyguard.
Li Youcai has the aura of Azathos, and the female bodyguard seems to have a similar smell.
Li Youcai sighed in her heart, no wonder she was able to suppress Jasmine head-on.
This is the information that Li Youcai obtained from reading Jasmine's memories, and the last time Jasmine ambushed Li Youcai, she also attacked Carricket at the same time.
Jasmine, who thought she was nine out of ten, put most of the power in her hands into this battle, and the rest went to deal with Li Youcai.
As a result, she was fended off by her subordinates who were trained by Carrickett's dead, and eventually depleted.
And she herself was suppressed by this unknown female bodyguard.
According to Jasmine's memories, the female bodyguard could change her appearance at will, and her fighting style was varied, and her strength was strong and long-lasting, suppressing Jasmine for a long time, allowing Carricket and his dead soldiers to eliminate Jasmine's men.
Thoughts drifted back to the scene, and after everyone had lowered their heads, the girl picked up the pearl, raised it above her head and began to chant a hymn.
The hymn was naturally a celebration of Amt Saba, the "Devourer of the Stars", and as the hymn reached its climax, a terrifying will descended on the statue.
This will is not aimed at anyone, but everyone will feel boundless fear, even Li Youcai and the female bodyguard have been affected a little, after all, their own strength is still unable to compete with the real old dominator, even if it is just a will.
The others were even more unbearable, but the will only lasted for a moment, and then they left.
With its departure, a large number of living creatures flew out of the pearl in an instant.
Most of them are fish and shrimp, but about 30% of them are people, to be precise, the inhabitants of the Sea of Freedom, and there are those who worship the light and those who ignore it.
As soon as the creatures appeared, they immediately flew into the statue, and then the statue shot a ray of light and flew into the neon body.
As the sacrificial ceremony ended, the statue was lowered by the attendants.
After the ceremony was announced, Neon came of age, the gods were praised, the rulers were praised, and all the guests were thanked, the official theme of the dinner ended, but it was the main thing that came on.
No nobles came here just to see a coming-of-age ceremony and a sacrifice, they came here to catch up with friends and consolidate their existing networks, and at the same time to meet new nobles and expand their networks.
As a result, a lot of business and contracts were completed in the process of pushing the cup and changing the lamp.
Among them, the most traded and valuable business is the buying and selling of sacrifices.
Whether it is an outer god or an old ruler, the sacrifice they need is simple, and that is life.
As destroyers of another universe, many of them have hatred for living beings, and the rest of them treat other living beings as ants, not caring about their life or death.
And the greatest value of these ants in their eyes is probably some snacks that taste good.
In fact, most of the old rulers and outer gods have no ill will towards this world, they are just eating.
If you want to please these believers of God, you naturally have to prepare God's favorite things.
And when it comes to sacrifices, it is best to use intelligent life.
So in front of Li Youcai, behind this prosperous banquet scene, there was blood flowing silently, and it was countless innocent lives.
Hearing the business negotiations of the nobles and understanding the meaning behind them, Li Youcai felt that he had begun to feel sick for a long time.
When Li Youcai thought that he had understood the darkness here, these nobles showed even more unbearable faces.
First of all, it was a blind person who came to Li Youcai's side, he first bowed to Li Youcai, and then said: "Dear Mr. Derek, I have admired the name for a long time, I am Idari of the Zhen Zuo family, and on behalf of the Zhen Zuo family, I would like to extend my sincere greetings to you. ”
"At the same time, I would like to ask if the slave girl behind you can be given to me, and I can make a price that satisfies you. ”
After Li Youcai refused, the other party began to stalk, and he proposed all kinds of high-value items, and even treasures given by the old rulers.
Seeing that Li Youcai was not moved, he changed his strategy again and peddled his "sacrifice".
It turned out that the Tsusa family, to which Mr. Idari belonged, was a place that specialized in cultivating high sacrifices.
In the realm of the True Liberal, the level of sacrifice is determined by two aspects.
The first is the strength level of the sacrifice itself, the higher the strength, the stronger the energy contained, there is no doubt about it.
The second is the degree of pain of the sacrifice, which determines how delicious the outer gods and the old rulers are when eating, and the more painful the sacrifice, the more delicious it is.
The stronger the person, the more difficult it is to become his sacrifice, so many people pay attention to the second article.
Then a profession called "torture division" was born.
They call themselves "God's cooks," implying that they are the ones who prepare food for God.
And this Idali Zhensa is one of them.
His best result was to the satisfaction of an old ruler, and thus to give him a threefold reward as planned, and one can imagine the extent of the pain of the so-called sacrifice at that time.
Strengthening oneself is the common goal of every strong person, and obtaining high-level sacrifices here is a shortcut to strengthening oneself.
Li Youcai listened to the other party's introduction and once again refreshed his perception of cruelty.
Physical torture?Idari said he was already beyond that stage.
For example, a top-level sacrifice he introduced to Li Youcai, Idali grabbed the elder of the Rao family, and was ready to torture his family members to death one by one in front of that person when he needed it.
Even Idali gave Li Youcai a detailed description of how he planned to torture them.
Li Youcai listened to Idari's perverted imagination, and suddenly felt that he had always regarded these guys as people similar to him, was it a little too hasty, or did these things really deserve the title of "human"?
He wanted to send a message to Carrickett and ask him to come and relieve him, but found that the situation on his side was even worse, and there were many people surrounding him.
Li Youcai listened carefully and found that the topic over there was even darker.
For example, how to torture people so that they can not go crazy, how to make a Rao's spirit on the verge of collapse for a long time without really collapsing, how to make a painful crazy person come to his senses without losing the painful memory that made him crazy.
Li Youcai only now understands that his past life is actually full of sunshine, no matter what blow life has given him, compared to those sacrifices here, he is too happy.
At this moment, Jasmine suddenly used the unique spell of the two to link, thinking about Li Youcai and said: "Something is wrong, those people in Carricket may be going to do it." ”
Li Youcai: "What do you mean? Why don't I see that there are not many of them?"
Jasmine: "You don't really think that the nobles would discuss such perverted content at their usual gatherings, but now they are so abnormal, because someone is going to test you with these things." ”