Chapter 885: Cruelty
But there is something more important in front of us.
The meaning represented by Lux's actions seemed to be very deep, and countless guesses flashed in Lin Anxin's heart in an instant, and his eyes fell lightly on the bone ring, and after a while, he said casually:
"Amda saved Angus, and I forgive him for this offense."
Lux and the others were visibly relieved, and Amda resigned himself to no longer struggling.
Their eyes were fixed on Angus, who ordered the wooden spears, daggers, and whips in addition to the skin pockets.
The wrinkles at the corners of Lukes' eyes relaxed slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "The punishment given to you by the adults, you should accept it well!" I don't thank you for your forgiveness! ”
"Thank you, Lord forgiveness."
The four of them, led by Lukes, bowed down and bowed respectfully on their knees.
When he heard Lux and the others' footsteps move away, Lin An asked in the same language that he had spoken to Angus before:
"What do those four things represent?"
"The customs vary from place to place in the Demon Realm, but there are some similarities," Angus said softly, "If I'm not mistaken, the wooden spear means that the punished must hunt alone the most powerful beast he has ever hunted;
The dagger, which represents the cutting of the tendons of the hand, sheds half the blood of the body weight;
The long whip, that is, the whipping, is to whip the victim every day until he falls unconscious, and lasts until the appearance of the next demon day;
The last animal skin pocket, presumably containing some kind of poison. ”
"Demon Day?"
"It seems that you have really forgotten a lot of things," Angus smiled, "every thirty to forty-five days, the sun of the demon world will be as blazing as a red fireball one day, one of the demon gods worshiped by the demons is Sihuo, this day is also the festival day of the demons, and many heavy events will be held on such days - just like our human race worships the muse, and the dawn moon is the first day of every month." ”
It was popularized by science.
But based on Lin An's observation of Angus, it was only a matter of time before he discovered how much he had "lost his memory", and it was better to hide it and show his defensiveness against him.
So Lin An didn't hide it, and continued to ask: "Looking at it this way, these four punishments all have a certain chance of causing the tortured person to die?" ”
"Except for poison, nothing else is mortal. And the demons respect strength and bravery, even if they die in the hunt, it is considered an honor, believe it or not, the punishment that Amda got must be a wooden spear, I don't know which of the remaining two is stronger, and he will be whipped. ”
Well, such a cruel punishment turned out to be divided into one, two, three, four, and so on.
What Angus said can give a glimpse of the customs and values of the demon race from the side, which has a great effect on the present.
Lin An was silent for a moment and asked, "So, ...... bone ring?"
"At the cost of removing his priesthood, Lux begs you not to anger the other mountain people he is sheltering - the demon clan believes in the demon god, and the royal family is the spokesperson of the demon god, and Lux's prayer may not be effective for other demon powerhouses, but for the demon royal family, the priest who serves the demon god has a different status,"
Angus said calmly, "This is equivalent to a kind of reprieve, in fact, after removing the bone ring, Lux can no longer perform magic to warn of the coming beast tide - without the protection of the priest, those mountain people can no longer live in the mountains." ”
……
There was a commotion at the entrance of the village, and Lux walked out with a new wooden staff, and saw a huge bloody stabbing pig bound with four hooves, gathered on a thick wooden bar, hanging upside down and being carried back by several young men.
Amda was also carried back, lying on a stretcher made of makeshift sticks, still conscious.
“…… Grandpa, I'm back. ”
Luxton paused his cane, uncovered the herbal paste at the wound site, and a deep wound was slanted from the left side of his waist and abdomen to his chest, almost disemboweling, and he couldn't help but snort, "You're lucky...... How dare you go to the trouble of the Blood Thorn Pig! ”
He turned and went into the house and took out a bowl of black paste from the cabin.
A woman stepped forward and quickly changed the medicine for Amda, and the wound on Amda's abdomen completely stopped bleeding, and she was groggy and half-closed and half-closed, and said vaguely:
"Guise and Cocohen ......"
Lux sighed, "Gisse is still alive, but Cohen ...... He's scrapped! ”
The surrounding demons all showed a look of pity, although the mountain people can give birth, but there are not many talented people in the next generation, the three of Amda are the best among them, they have been able to become the main force in the hunting team.
But there was no way, but Cohen was inferior to Amda and Guisse, and they could only choose the two best preserved, and even Cohen himself voluntarily chose to be circumcised.
The corners of Amuda's eyebrows twitched, and he instantly sobered up a lot, struggling to sit up, "It's all my fault...... I told them to torture, if it were me......"
"Shut up!"
Lux drank low.
Even if he took off the bone ring, he still had absolute authority in this mountain village, and the mountain people did not know the reason for Amda's punishment, but they did not hesitate to do it when Lux ordered them to torture, and the priest was the spokesman of the demon god in the eyes of the mountain people.
Amda was stunned.
Luxs said, "If you mention the relevant matter again, I will gouge out your tongue with my own hands." ”
At this time, another hunting team returned to the village, and the demon clan leader Wen Lux was located, and rushed to this side.
"Look, Lord Priest, the blood grass is red!" The demon man carefully took out an ordinary grass plant with only a reddish leaf tip from the animal skin bag on his waist.
His words caused a commotion among the mountain people.
There were not many mountain people who knew that he had lost his status as a priest, and Lux did not correct it, so he carefully took the grass, held it and looked at it for a moment, and said hurriedly: "It is indeed blood grass!" ”
Many mountain people's faces changed, and some voices exclaimed, "No, this year's beast tide is coming so quickly!" ”
"Pack your things now and get ready to migrate!"
Lux ignored the mountain people and hurried back to the house with the blood grass in his hand.
In the middle of the room is a shallow square pool of water.
Lux threw the liquid powder from the bottle next to him into it in order, and finally threw it into the blood weed, stirring for a while, and the pool turned up with a red light, and the ripples were sent into the air.
Looking down from above, blood-red ripples spread unhindered in all directions, and the mountain village became the center of blood-colored ripples.
As soon as the mountain people, who remained outside the house and were still in some confusion, saw the bloody ripples appear, the riot immediately stopped, and some people ran to every house in the village quickly, shouting:
"The beast tide is coming! The beast tide is coming! Ready to migrate!! ”
On a ridge more than a dozen mountains apart, the hunting team that tracked a ewe to find the cave where the rock sheep was hiding shot crude wooden arrows from all directions, impacting the escaped rock sheep and neighing to the ground, leaving a third of the herd behind, and escaping from a bloody path.
"Ulala, thank you to the Demon God!"
"Thank you to the demon god for giving us food!"
After the two little lambs of the fattest and fresh were placed on the makeshift altar for sacrifice, the huge hunting party was smiling and about to pack up the prey, when suddenly someone exclaimed:
"Look!"
"Holy Ripple!"
The blood-red ripples that swept to this place were already very faint, but they could still clearly discern the direction in which the ripples were coming from.
The leader of the hunting team immediately made a decision, and threw down the two rams that had been carried on his back, and the ram corpses slammed to the ground, "The holy ripple has appeared!" Quick, everything is gone, go back to the village immediately! ”
The same thing happened one after another in the mountains near the mountain village.
Between the mountains and rocks, on the wooden stack, no matter what they were doing, as soon as each demon clan saw the appearance of blood-colored ripples, they immediately put down what they were doing and gathered towards the mountain village.
……
"The plane law of the demon world is really special - the power of that demon god may have begun to infect the plane law, even if his priest loses the power of divine magic, he can still use special methods to achieve effects similar to divine magic."
Angus was thoughtful.
Lin An had already read two books stored in the space, which were placed in the most conspicuous position, so she knew that this was a world with magic and gods, and she was very curious about the content of Angus's words, but she didn't reveal anything.
She could let Angus know that she had forgotten most of the things about the Demon Realm, but she couldn't let him know that she had forgotten even the power of the original owner himself.
In fact, she didn't completely forget it, she always felt that there was some kind of power lurking silently in her body, as if she was suppressed by something, and it was difficult to exert it...... And there seems to be more than one kind of power.
"Why is it so messy out there? What is Beast Tide? ”
Even though Lux had cordoned off the area near the cabin they were, she could still hear the chanting of "The Beast Tide is coming" outside in her ears.
"Beast tide?" Angus's face was slightly condensed, and he smiled bitterly, "There was some bad luck outside, and when I first arrived, I actually encountered a tide of beasts." ”
Lin An listened to Angus's explanation and understood what the beast tide was.
The Demon Realm is rich in elements, and it will continue to give birth to a large number of Demon Beasts.
Warcraft have the instinct to tend to have a high concentration of elements, so every once in a while, especially in the spring and summer when Warcraft reproduces, they will migrate in large numbers from the open sea to the inland sea, forming a large-scale migration beast tide, and then impacting the settlement of the demon race.
The Anbuqi Mountains are located in the eastern part of the open sea, and in the vast area of the open sea, they are only inconspicuous poor mountains and bad waters, but they still suffer from the impact of animal tides every year.
Especially since Lux had just lost his magical powers, it was even worse for the three thousand mountain people under his protection.
Lin An digested the newfound information and asked, "Why didn't they come for help?" ”
The demon clan has a strict class division, and the superiors are respected and revered and given to death to the point of obedience, but one thing Lin An still knows is that since he enjoys such a status, he should also bear the corresponding obligations, even if they just appear here by accident.
"The law of the jungle is the norm that the demons have always pursued; Kindness is seen as weakness by them. ”
Angus smiled, "The superior of the demon clan acts cruelly, slaughtering the clan and destroying the village at every turn, and taking pleasure in his life, you should have seen this." With their usual way of doing things, unless we are willing to take the initiative, those mountain people will never dare to come to ask for help. ”
Lin An's pupils shrank slightly.
"Again, if we ...... No, it should be you, if your true identity is exposed, our fate will be a hundred times more miserable than the three demons who were punished! ”
(To be continued) RS