Under the action of hunger, cold, and cold, they were not so much sleeping as being tortured, but in this way, they were not willing to leave their bed, after all, they could only feel the warmth here. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's just that as soon as the morning dawns, the man outside doesn't even give them this last bit of warmth. As soon as the sun shone into the world, he reached out and rubbed his face, trying to warm up his frozen face, but his hands that had been frozen outside all night were already colder than his face, rubbing on his face, like two stones colliding, and there was no warmth at all.

He put down his hand in annoyance, took away the last trace of pity in his heart, kicked the door open and rushed in, dragged the two brothers out of the bed, and said fiercely: "Get up for me." ”

"What's wrong?"

The little boy and his brother fell out of bed, stimulated by the cold ground, and instantly sobered up, but they still didn't quite understand what was happening, and looked up at the man who was guarding them in ignorance.

"Come with me to the conference room on earth."

The two brothers were pushed out of the door, even their shoes were crooked, and the cold wind poured in along their torn clothes, like needles pricked on their bodies, and the two of them couldn't help curling up, Rao was like this, and their faces were also pale from the cold.

As soon as they woke up, the whole world changed, and the people they were familiar with in the past seemed to have lost their memories, and when they saw them being treated like this, they turned their backs to them one by one, silent, and occasionally looked at what they were in contact with, and quickly turned their bodies around, unwilling to have more intersections.

"Auntie......"

The elder brother recognized a passer-by and called out that it was a well-wisher who had helped them, and had brought them a lot of food and food when their father had just died and their mother had just been sick.

It's just that she was also in a hurry in the same ragged linen clothes, as if she couldn't avoid something, and after being stopped, she only paused for a moment, and then left here at a faster speed.

Overnight, they were abandoned by the whole world, and they felt that they were walking in the forest, and they were no longer walking among their own people, but wild beasts that wanted to eat their own flesh and blood.

Restless at home, even more uneasy when they came out, and with the feeling of not pressing to the extreme, they finally went to the so-called reception room.

It is said that it is a reception room, but in fact it is just a very ordinary wooden house, because people from the outside world continue to enter, and those big people in the world have gradually learned about the information of the outside world, and changed this place to its current name, but although the name has changed, the layout here is still the same, and there is a trace of ignorance in the backwardness.

People in the world have been closed for too long, and while yearning for the outside world, they are also afraid of the outside world, not knowing what will become of them after contact with the outside world.

A dozen people knelt in the reception room, as if they had said yes, and at the same time turned their heads and looked at the brothers with their eyes faint, and for a moment the little boy almost thought that he had strayed into the forest and was intercepted by the wolves.

"Is this the two children, will the Tengu be satisfied with such physical fitness?"

The old man at the head glanced at them and spoke. He was the head of the village in the world, the manager of the village in the world with the approval of the barnyard family, and he used to be kind and kind, and often came back to visit the brothers in their house and comfort their seriously ill mother.

It's just that now, his expression is so cold, the muscle lines on his face are so distinct, the whole person seems to have turned into a marble statue, and there is nothing else on his face except indifference.

"Well, they have no relatives, it's the best choice."

The middle-aged man next to him responded to the word, and his words aroused the recognition of the people around him, and they all nodded yes like obedient quails.

"What do you want us to do?"

The elder brother couldn't hold back any longer, plucked up his courage, and asked in the opening of so many people, but his speech fell into the vacancy, obviously so many people were here, but no one answered him, and no one responded to him, as if he was no longer human, but air.

A strong uneasiness swept over his body, how he wanted to escape from here, to leave this strange place with his brother, but his body, which had not eaten since last night, did not allow him to do so, and the man who had watched over them for a day had been standing behind them, like an impregnable wall, blocking their way out.

They have fallen into a trap and have no way to escape.

"I'm against it!"

Just when the matter was about to be finalized, someone came out to stop it, Teacher Huiyin appeared at the door, holding the door frame with her hand, and her five fingers were pressed on it, almost owing it, she was now missing her old smile, her expression was extremely serious, and the anger and unwillingness in her eyes almost turned into substance.

It's hard to imagine that the always gentle teacher Huiyin would be angry like this.

"Teacher Huiyin, what do you think?"

The village chief didn't get up, looked at her with calm eyes, and said lightly.

"Their father died to defend the world, he is a hero in the world, they should not be sacrificed and sent to the monster mountain!"

Sacrifice!

It turned out to be a sacrifice!

Intense fear swept over the brothers in an instant, and they looked stiffly at the big guys, hoping to hear some different answers, but all they waited for was the silence of the big guys.

Silence means acquiescence and speechlessness.

After a long time, the old village chief spoke: "So is there any other candidate for Teacher Huiyin?" ”

This question is very simple, and it is not difficult for the popular teacher Huiyin to find a few people from the world.

But it was such a simple question that stumped her, and she pursed her lips and did not speak for a long time.

Whoever Teacher Huiyin mentions is to send him to a dead end, not murder, but better than murder, how can she say such words!

Seeing that Teacher Huiyin restrained his anger, the old village chief stood up straight and continued to persuade: "This is a matter that has been decided by the world and the monster mountain in the place where Gensokyo was established, and those of us who are juniors have no way to change it.

"It's a very forgiving condition to sacrifice one person every nine years."

Yes, this is undoubtedly much better than when youkai had to eat people every year, every month, every day.

Nine years is only one person, how generous this condition is. In the past nine years, the number of people who have died of disease, old age, eaten by wild beasts, fallen to death, and crashed to death is definitely much greater than this.

Being able to exchange one person for the friendship of Youkai Mountain and the food in the famine year is really a great thing for the vast majority of people in the world.

But it's not fair to them, they are also inhabitants of the earth, and they are also human beings, so why should they go as sacrifices and not others?

As if he had caught a glimpse of their unwillingness and their anger, the old village chief finally turned around, looked at them, and said unhurriedly:

"Because you have no loved ones, no one will be sad that you are dead. If you don't go, there will be other people in the world who will die, and they all have families, and their families will not want to, and they will make trouble......"

Fertility has always been encouraged in the world, so basically there are children in families now, and whoever speaks out to stop them, whose children will be pushed to the sacrificial position by others, and there is a difference between relatives and relatives, although people in the world sympathize with the brothers, but they will never speak for them.

Even, the residents of the human world will intensify their efforts against them because of the guilt in their hearts, and no one can stop them.

The world has been closed to Gensokyo for many years, and it can't communicate with the outside world, so it seems very simple most of the time, but because of this kind of self-isolation, sometimes, the world will show a cruelty that shocks outsiders.

"Such a barbaric custom......"

"Teacher Huiyin, this is not barbarism. Monsters are monsters after all, no matter how much they look like humans, no matter how they behave and imitate humans, they are still different from us in nature, and it is their nature to eat people after all. ”

Things are getting more and more funny, as a half-beast, Teacher Huiyin is sheltering his brothers, but the village chief, who is a human, is talking to the monsters, pushing them into the abyss step by step.

"Although in Gensokyo, they don't need to eat people, they don't need to collect fear to live, but just as those outsiders know that lighting firecrackers will only pollute the air, only cause fires, and only noisy people can't sleep, they will still tirelessly do wrong things, and just like the name of tradition, the youkai born from the fear of humans also have such bad habits.

"Although they don't have to eat people, they also covet the taste of humans, and in order to avoid the rules of the youkai sage, they made an agreement with the ancestors of the human world under the pretext that the little tengu needed human flesh for the coming-of-age ceremony."

His words made sense, but the little boy didn't want to hear them, he and his brother couldn't control their emotions and wanted to escape, but they were stopped by the man behind them, and finally cried silently.

Teacher Huiyin bowed her head silently and walked over, took the two into her arms, and let their tears wet her clothes, but she never knew what to say, and she didn't know how to comfort them.

For the sake of the world, please die?

In this case, it is unreasonable.