256. Sacrifice
In the wasteland of the Misty World, the half-human-tall weeds swayed gently, and this area formed an advantage, driving away the shrubs and growing to the fullest, just like a grassland. Looking down from the sky, there is a gap of ten meters in diameter in this small piece of grassland, as if it has been gnawed by a giant beast.
Jiang Yiming, Lin Sichun, and Martin parted the dense blades of grass and came to this gap. I saw that all the weeds here were lying on the ground, and some of them were even buried in the soil.
"Master Mage, this is where you were discovered in the first place."
Martin hunched his waist and pointed to the gap and said, "I was really dizzy at the beginning, I didn't think that it was only the mage who could create this scene, and the villain misheard the slander!" ”
Jiang Yiming ignored it, reached out and grabbed a bit of soil from under the fallen blades of grass, put it in the palm of his left hand, and sensed it carefully.
Yes, there's a very strong dream atmosphere here, but how do you get back to reality?
"We just fell here, what did we find?" Lin Sichun couldn't help but ask when he saw Jiang Yiming's eyes staring at a small handful of dirt for several minutes.
Jiang Yiming withdrew his thoughts from the dirt and said uncertainly: "I thought of a method, but I don't know if it works." ”
"How?" Lin Sichun asked a little eagerly.
Jiang Yiming glanced at him and found that his face was full of urgency, not like Pei Yong who was willing to spend more time in this world.
Sou! The Treant stretched out a wire rope of roots, tied Martin's bucket-like waist into a sturdy knot, and lifted it into the gap in the grassland, and the roots began to shrink.
"Nope! Master Mage, bypass me! If you want to punish me, give me ten lashes. I confessed to a hundred lashes. Martin seemed to understand his end. Shouted unwillingly. The voice is as sharp as killing a pig.
Lin Sichun saw Martin's tears dripping down like no money, soaking the old face. A little unbearable rose in my heart, and my lips moved, but in the end I didn't say anything.
Jiang Yiming stood aside, unmoved by Martin's pleas for mercy, watching as the roots strangled him to death.
During this process, he didn't blink his eyes, and he didn't let go of every detail. After Martin's death. He sensed that the aura of the dream seemed to be thicker, but there was no white pillar of light as he had guessed.
"Did it work?" Lin Sichun also saw that Jiang Yiming seemed to be doing an experiment just now, which should be related to returning to the real world.
Jiang Yiming shook his head: "I thought about it for a while, why can we come here from the dream realm unharmed?" There should be a force that protects us. In my mind, it must have been the dream that sent us.
In ancient times, emperors would go to Mount Tai to worship the sky, and offering sacrifices should have played some role. It's just that this sacrifice hasn't changed much, and it seems that we have to think of a new way to try. ”
"Sacrifice Martin's soul to the dream?" Lin Sichun looked at the scene of the weeds lying on the ground one step away, and suddenly understood.
A fierce light flashed in his eyes, and he said without emotion: "Is there too little of it?" If we sacrifice all our captives in Redstone Manor. Is it possible to go back to dreams? ”
Jiang Yiming exhaled lightly, as if releasing the pressure in his body: "Those captives are no less than two hundred. Isn't it a bit much? ”
"Hmph, they're not living people, it's good to think of them as dream monsters. And I have three brothers who have died, and I think Pei Yong is happy to take revenge. Lin Sichun's tone was cold.
Jiang Yiming glanced at Lin Sichun's facial expression, and found that he looked firm, not like he was talking about fun, so he had to say: "This sacrifice is just a conjecture, and it may not be useful." ”
"It doesn't matter if it doesn't work, just give it a try. Let your Treant dig a deep pit in this ten-meter-diameter circle, no problem. Lin Sichun turned his head and glanced around, then said.
Jiang Yiming put aside that bit of guilt and gave an order to the No. 1 tree man.
Poof! The tree man stretched out his hands and thrust down from a height of seven or eight meters, his four-meter-long palm sinking into the dirt. Then lift your hands and separate several cubic meters of dirt from the earth and carry them to a place dozens of meters away.
Although there are no modern excavators, there are almost tireless tree people, a large pit ten meters in diameter and six or seven meters deep.
"I'll come when I go, if you don't want to see it, you can go farther later." After Lin Sichun saw that the big pit was dug up, he pulled the corners of his mouth and said.
Jiang Yiming nodded, watching his back get smaller and smaller until it disappeared.
It didn't take long for Lin Sichun to come back and bring the other team members and the No. 2 Tree Man over. Ahead of them was a long string of old elders. If you look closely, it is a captive tied up with hemp rope.
Jiang Yiming suddenly felt as if he had become a big demon king who was grabbing strong men indiscriminately, and he was doing a big bad thing.
No, how is that possible! I just want to go back. He shook his head and threw the bad gray thought into a corner.
In order not to see the scene that made people unable to sleep, Jiang Yiming said to several other people: "Who wants to go with me to explore the surrounding environment?" ”
"I'll go with you." Only Zhao Liang responded, and those retired soldiers wanted to stay with Lin Sichun.
Jiang Yiming asked the No. 1 tree man to pull himself and Zhao Liang up, sit on the thick tree branches, and walk out towards the east. The terrain was gentle, and more than a hundred meters away there was a small hill covered with dense weeds half a man high.
It took more than twenty seconds for the No. 1 Tree Man to reach the hill.
Here, Jiang Yiming, who was sitting on the tree man, could clearly see what Lin Sichun was doing as long as he turned his head, and whether the thing was done or not. If something drastic happens, you can rush back in a short period of time.
"Do sacrifices, you say, work? I really don't want to stay here, and if I go back to reality, I'm determined not to go back to dreams. If it weren't for the monster crystal, I wouldn't have fallen into this hellish place. ”
After a period of depression, Zhao Liang suddenly said.
Jiang Yiming said with a smile: "If you say this, Lin Sichun and I fell into this world, and you are all harmed." Back to reality, you're going to have to treat us to a meal. ”
"Don't worry, when I go back, I invite you to enjoy a few days like a fairy, I have only been there once before, and I will never forget it." Zhao Liang half-squinted his eyes, as if he was reminiscing.
Jiang Yiming was a little curious, this Zhao Liang is a city. The son of the secretary of the party committee, the general beauty wine should not be in his eyes, and now he is so respected?
"It's time to come here!"
A faint voice came from Lin Sichun's direction, drifted into Jiang Yiming's ears, and when he turned his head, he couldn't see the captives anymore.
Jiang Yiming returned to the deep pit dug by the tree man, and now he could only see a patch of dirt.
"Is the second sacrifice still useless? There don't seem to be any natives nearby. Lin Sichun muttered. (To be continued.) )