Chapter 718: Burning at the Stake
Zinia was tied to a pole, with a large pile of dry wood at her feet, surrounded by a circle of people, one of whom stood at the forefront, with a man with a torch standing at the forefront.
And everyone else is raising their arms and shouting,
Zinia is only seventeen years old.
Like many black African girls, she didn't have hair, but even so, her beautiful face still made Zinia a well-known beauty.
Especially as she grows older, Zinia's appearance becomes more and more enchanting, as early as a few years ago, people have been coming to Zinia's house to propose.
However, because Zinia's family is very prestigious in the village, and Zinia's own people basically don't look down on these proposers, they will continue to delay until they are seventeen years old.
This is already an old age for many Africans who got married at the age of thirteen or fourteen.
Sierra Leone's educational capacity is extremely poor, 70 percent of the people are illiterate, and the people's livelihood, economy and government control over the country are extremely weak, so most areas are still in a state of semi-self-control.
Families of great prestige in the village, such as the Zinia family, are in fact equivalent to the chieftainical status of some primitive tribes in Africa.
Originally, in Zinia's impression, her life has always been quite good.
Although it can't be compared with some of the upper classes in the city, at least in the villages, it is already one of the best.
So Zinia has always been relatively satisfied, in this land, for many people, it is already a great luxury to be able to eat enough, not to mention that she can often eat some meat?
But all of them have changed in the recent past!
First of all, his father, one of the most prestigious elders in the village, suddenly fell seriously ill, and the village witch doctor was helpless about this disease, and in just a few days, his father began to seep blood from every pore of his skin, while constantly spitting out all kinds of organ fragments.
And then a quick death......
Before Zinia could alleviate the blow, her mother fell ill again, and the witch doctor who had treated her father was also sick!
This is where the nightmare of Zinia and this village begins!
Originally, there were more than 1,000 people in the entire village, and it was the largest village within a radius of dozens of miles, but as her mother and the witch doctor also fell ill, the rest of the village was like being infected with the plague, and they were patronized by this mysterious and terrifying disease one after another!
In a very short period of time, hundreds of people have been infected with the disease!
All of these infected people suffered from similar conditions, and within a few days of infection, their condition deteriorated and they died very quickly!
When they finally died, everyone was bleeding from seven holes, while spitting out fragments of broken organs......
Such a large number of people were infected, and the witch doctors in the village were helpless against this disease, and there was no way to deal with it, which made the rest of the people in the village who had not yet been infected feel extremely frightened!
The astonishing unanimous death caused almost everyone in the village to point the finger at Zinia, believing that this disease was the punishment of the witch god for Zinia's family, which first appeared in Zinia's home, and then spread from Zinia's family to the entire village!
In the eyes of these villagers, if it weren't for the Zinia family, then the village would not have suffered such a hardship at all!
But now Zinia's parents have died of illness, only Zinia herself is left, and at the same time, people who are close to Zinia's family have basically become the first wave of infected people because they often visited Zinia's parents when they were sick, and almost all of them died.
Up to now, basically one of the families of Nuoda is left with Zinia alone in the village.
And Zinia also had a disease infection not long ago, but instead of dying like other people who were infected with the disease, but gradually regained her health, this change made the rest of the village extremely frightened, and even thought that Zinia was the daughter of bad luck, and finally under the pressure of fear, these villagers tied Zinia and put her on this improvised burn at the stake, to burn her cruelly......
Zinia bit her lip tightly, her voice was hoarse and couldn't make a sound, looking at the familiar faces around her like devils at this time, staring at her with a gaze full of hatred, Zinia suddenly felt so strange to this world.
The man with the torch and the hideous face had appeared in his house not long ago, and now he was going to end his life with his own hands......
Zinia was eager to ask the sky above her why!
Seeing that the person with the torch was already grim and about to throw the torch in his hand onto the firewood at her feet, Zinia slowly closed her eyes......
Just as all the villagers were staring at the torch with scarlet eyes and a cruel expression, seeing that the torch was about to touch the firewood, a hand suddenly appeared under the burning head of the torch, just holding the torch up.
Then the hand held it hard, and the burning torch was extinguished by the hand......
All the villagers were stunned at the same time, and subconsciously looked at the person to whom the hand belonged, a yellow-skinned man......
"Ula Ulla tuck!"
The originally noisy shouts around him sounded again, but Ye Su couldn't understand even a word at all.
Frowning, Ye Su looked around at everyone around him, and found that everyone looked at him with some fear in their eyes, it seemed that the act of putting out the fire with one hand made these villagers very jealous.
"Does anyone speak English?"
Ye Su said.
The eldest of all the villagers, an old man, stepped out of the crowd and looked at Ye Su hesitantly, before he asked in rather unskilled English, "Who are you?" Where did it come from? Why organize us to burn demons! β
"I'm from the East, who am I...... I don't need to sue you. I wonder what happened and why did you burn her? β
Ye Su stretched out his finger and pointed to the girl tied to the firewood.
"She is the daughter of doom! Of course we're going to burn her! β
The old man said heavily, and then told Ye Su what had happened in the village during this time.
It's not that he is really patient, it's really because Ye Su's appearance is really a bit shocking, so that the old man doesn't dare to act rashly, he left the village and went outside when he was young, and he can be regarded as having seen some of the world, and his views on some things will not be as impulsive and naΓ―ve as other villagers.
Listening to the old man's story, Ye Su glanced back at the girl with some surprise, if his guess was correct, this girl ...... I'm afraid it's a person who is born with antibodies!
The village was apparently also hit by the Ella virus, but of all the people who were infected, only this girl had antibodies!
"I'm going to take her away, her survival is very important, and she can't be burned to death by you."
Ye Su said seriously.
"No! Oriental! If you take her, you'll kill our entire village!" She must be burned to death! Our village can be liberated! β
After the old man finished speaking, he quickly said a lot of content in local dialect, and the surrounding villagers were extremely excited, and at the same time, they came towards Ye Su one by one!