Chapter X

"Mother, the festival is about to begin"

A little eunuch beside the Queen Mother suddenly said, and everyone heard the sudden commotion in the Grand Ceremony Square. Lin Yan sat lazily on the seat, looking into the distance, it turned out that the iron door of a huge iron cage in the square had been opened, and a group of white-faced slaves were pushed out.

Ning Zhe is one of them.

In a sense, the festival began in earnest.

The nobles in the stands and the people around the square were in high spirits, and they shouted deafeningly at the sight of the slaves.

Jing Ke is afraid that he will never forget the shock that this moment brought him. Because he saw an emaciated teenager in the crowd, the same one he had tested with wolves in Qianshan Mansion a few months earlier. Originally, he thought that he should have been thrown into a mass grave by the people of Qianshan Mansion a long time ago, but how could he appear here again!

Beitang Che quietly looked at Jing Ke's reaction beside him, and the corners of his mouth teased.

Ning folded his fists, raised his head, and looked at the nobles who were raising their arms and shouting in the stands, he didn't know who they were, as his eyes moved, this circle of dense layers of stands was full of excited people. They cheered, the maids danced their colored sleeves, and the guards and eunuchs brandished their swords and whips, as if they were about to be whipped alive.

And he himself, in this square, is so small that he can be ignored.

A few days ago, a richly dressed young man took him out of the water prison and sent him all the way to the capital, telling him that as long as he survived the day, he would arrange a secret errand for himself.

For some reason, he looked at the noble and beautiful boy, and his memory seemed to have been opened.

Familiar and unfamiliar.

But no matter how he recalled, he couldn't remember anything, but he suddenly felt that his memories over the years seemed to be ethereal and no longer real.

The entire procession of slaves slowly moved forward, and the guards wielding leather whips scattered the slaves in all directions, so that there were slaves in every corner of the square.

Ning Zhe happened to be standing in the middle of the square, the dry air was as dry as ever, and he felt that his mouth was dry, and his lips were almost cracking due to severe lack of water.

He had absolutely no idea what his fate would be.

When the slaves were all standing still, the guards quickly withdrew from the square, and for a while, only the slaves who looked at each other silently in the wide square were silent.

Ning hung his head and bit his lower lip nervously, as if waiting for the capital punishment.

"Look over there!" As a slave screamed, everyone in the square looked in the direction he was pointing.

A behemoth was slowly lowered into the square. It was a huge cage, covered with a black cloth, like some monstrous monster was being held.

Ning Zhen was even more scared.

In stark contrast to his reaction, the people outside the iron fence around him were unable to get through, whispering, talking to each other, smiling hideously, and shouting: "Open the iron cage, we want to see, we want to see!" ”

One hundred calls responded, and for a time the calls were higher and higher, and even the nobles in the stands looked at the mysterious iron cage and expressed their interest.

"But the general wants to see it?" Beitang Che still looked careless, and asked lazily.

Jing Ke didn't answer him, just stared at Ning Zhen under the stage, and muttered: "If he doesn't die today, it will be a great disaster for me in the future." ”

Beitang Che chuckled when he heard this, a pair of dark purple pupils didn't know what he was thinking, and his expression was extremely charming.

"The sacrificial ceremony of today's blessing ceremony is to find so many unforgivable criminals as slaves, and our divine beasts will carry them out..." The presiding eunuch stopped abruptly halfway through speaking, his eyebrows and eyes bent, deliberately hanging people's tastes.

And at this moment, there was another commotion in the square, it turned out that the curtain had been slowly pulled up, and driven by curiosity, all the spectators almost stood up.

Ning Zhen held his breath.

When the curtain was completely raised, a monster with the head of a bull and a tiger came into view.

At this time, the eunuch continued: "In this sacrifice, our divine beasts will strangle these wicked people to sacrifice the heroic spirits. ”

There was a bang in the square, and the mythical beast roared out of the cage, and the slaves on the field also panicked and fled in all directions.

"Ah!!!h

A heart-rending cry for help sounded, and it was a ragged woman, trampled to death by the divine beast.

The speed of the mythical beast was too fast, its horns pierced the belly of the slave, and the tiger's paw crushed the slave's head. Everywhere the flesh and blood flyed, ** cracked, everywhere it went, there was blood all over the ground, leaving only the stumps and broken remains, scattered.

Ning Zhen clenched his fists, but the panicked shouts of the slaves were deafening. He was flustered, but he thought that this square was closed all around, and the only way was to climb to the top!

Yes, climb up to that stand!

He gasped, his face turned white, his hands tightly clasped the cracks in the rocks in the stands, and he desperately climbed up.

When the other slaves saw the boy's actions, they also reacted, and for a while, there was a black pressure crawling under the stands. And in order to climb to a safe place, the climbers will mercilessly drag the person on their heads, and people keep falling down and being torn to pieces by the divine beasts below.

Ning Zhen was extremely frightened, and his body couldn't stop trembling. But he inadvertently saw the Thousand Mountains Waist Card on his waist that he had forgotten for a long time.

It is three mountains, which symbolize the three ancient sayings of a thousand mountains. One is loyal to the country, the second is not believing in the destiny of heaven, and the third is dying in a desperate situation.

Although he is not a real person from a thousand mountains, his family revenge has not been avenged, so he can't die like this! Ning Zhen gritted his teeth, grabbed the sleeve knife he was carrying, and let go of the hand that was clutching the wall, letting himself fall.

Jing Ke had been paying attention to his movements, and when he saw that he thought he had no strength and fell, he couldn't help but sigh heavily and sigh with relief, so he got up to say goodbye and asked to leave the table for a while.

But what everyone didn't expect was that after Jing Ke left the table, Ning Zhe, who fell to the ground and seemed to be dying, suddenly turned over and got up, crawled forward, and easily approached the divine beast.

There was an uproar in the stands, and even the first queen mother, her eyes showed admiration.

Ning Zhi touched the sleeve knife, his heart tightened, and when the divine beast was tired of fighting, he jumped up, and with the momentum of thunder, thunderbolt down, and cut a deep wound in the abdomen of the divine beast.

But he still underestimated the power of the divine beast, and as soon as he saw its eyes open, his anger exploded violently, and the serious injury made it lose its balance and rush towards Ning Zhe on a rampage.

Beitang saw that it was strong, and beckoned the presiding eunuch to come over and whisper a few words, and the presiding eunuch nodded frequently, unusually respectful, in the eyes of others, it seemed that this Lin Yan was his master.

Immediately afterwards, several heavily armed guards entered the square and took Ning Zhe away, he only hung his breath, and finally passed out at the moment of appearance.

.......

After a pillar of incense, there was not a single complete person left in the square where the originally black and oppressive slaves were bitten, and the divine beast also fell to the ground exhausted, gasping for breath.

The sacrificial ceremony of the blessing ceremony is preliminarily completed.