Chapter Forty-Eight: The Purple Scales Reappear
The two of them walked down the small steps side by side, and a pale cyan light suddenly lit up around them, illuminating the dark passage made of unknown stone.
If Liu Wei came along, he would definitely be shocked to find that this step was also seven hundred and seventy-seven!
The entrance behind it slowly vanished, and the entire passage was completely shrouded in pale cyan light.
Ferrero walked in front with a solemn expression, and Ramanda's body behind him trembled slightly, as if there was something at the end of this staircase that made her extremely afraid.
Finally, one of Ferrero's feet stepped on the flat ground.
He hesitated for a moment, but finally stretched out his hands and pushed open the stone door in front of him.
A crack appeared in the stone gate, and a dark purple light instantly shot on Ferrero's body.
Ferrero's body trembled slightly, and blue-black veins formed on his arm.
The stone door was finally fully opened, and the dark purple light instantly swallowed the pale cyan light in the passage, and a huge space appeared in Ferrero and Lamanda's eyes.
"Hoo ......"
Ferrero let out a long breath of cloudy air and strode through the stone door, into the seemingly endless space.
Although there was no expression on the face of Ramanda who followed him, there was hatred and fear in those big eyes.
Finally, a statue more than two meters tall appeared in the eyes of Ferrero and the others.
The statue emits a dark purple glow throughout the body, dazzling and dazzling.
The outline of the statue is blurred, barely recognizable as a woman, but she gives people an infinite oppression.
Ferrero stood two or three meters in front of the statue, bowed, muttering something he couldn't understand.
Lamanda stood a little further back to Ferrero's right, also bowing her body, muttering something incessantly.
After about half an hour, the purple light in the space gradually dimmed, and the statue gradually fell to the ground.
Seeing this scene, Ferrero finally breathed a long sigh of relief, straightened up, and said to Ramanda in a deep voice:
"Go and inform all the family elders, and in twelve hours, bring seven hundred and seventy-seven newborn children here to prepare for the sacrifice."
Ramanda let out an instant exclamation, raised her head in disbelief, and looked at Ferrero with wide eyes:
"Commander Ferrero! A hundred years ago you said that there would be no more sacrifices! ”
Ferrero's eyes showed a hint of deep helplessness, and his voice was full of bitterness:
"Do you think, Ramanda, that I am willing to do this? The day I became patriarch, my father brought me here and pointed to the statue and told me that this was the patron saint of Pluto and the hope of our family, and that it was to be sacrificed once every hundred years. ”
As he spoke, he slowly turned to the statue, staring at the dimmed purple scales on the statue's chest and said:
"I remember, at that time, there were a total of three such scales on this statue, five hundred years ago, I participated in the sacrifice for the first time, watching the elders of the clan pour the blood of seven hundred and seventy-seven newborn children on the statue, but it was completely absorbed by the statue, do you know the shock in my heart at that time?"
Ferrero spoke, his expression starting to twist.
"But after that time, a scale fell off the statue's body, and that scale eventually turned into a spiritual plant cultivation base, and even the ancient rogue star people couldn't detect the situation at all. Two hundred years ago, the second sacrifice and the second scale fell off, and we used that scale to cultivate the green pine cone! Now, this is the last piece, and the real last! ”
Tears slowly overflowed from Ramanda's eyes, and she said in a choked voice:
"It turns out that you knew early on that it wasn't the last! Two hundred years ago, you were lying to me! ”
Ferrero's expression instantly became hideous, and he roared bitterly:
"That's right! I'm lying to you! But I'm for Pluto! Not myself! Originally, if it weren't for your mother, that ignorant woman, she took advantage of my unpreparedness to shoot at the falling scales and cut a piece of it and escaped to the earth, and now, our green pine cones may be three-star medium grade! ”
Ramanda's body slowly fell to her knees, and pale blue tears fell to the ground one by one, converging into a clear stream, slowly flowing towards the statue.
Her voice slowly turned from sadness to coldness, as cold as a question from the Nine Shadows:
"You killed my brother, her only son in a thousand years, are you not allowed to resist?"
At this time, Ferrero looked like crazy, and immediately roared angrily:
"Can't! Why did she resist? This is a matter of life and death for the Blue Pluto and the Iron Blood, can't it be worth her son's life?! Every year, millions of people become cannon fodder and slaves of others, and everything I do is for our people and for the continuation of our civilization! ”
Ramanda smiled, desperate and desolate, she slowly wiped away a tear from the corner of her eye, and said lightly:
"If not, what do you think I'm doing?"
Ferrero looked stunned.
Originally, he thought that Ramanda's loyalty was entirely due to love and loyalty to him, but now he found that Ramanda's loyalty was to Pluto, not to him Ferrero!
After a while, Ramanda slowly stood up and said calmly:
"Commander Ferrero, I will convey your order to the family elders, and I will go first."
Ferrero let out a long sigh as Lamanda slowly disappeared, and after taking a deep look at the statue, he also turned and walked out of the stone door.
He didn't see that Ramanda's tears had fallen to the ground and had flowed into the statue......
In the endless void, a purple figure sat cross-legged, and wisps of faint purple qi around it continued to approach it, quietly submerging into its body.
The purple light that kept flickering in her body reflected her face, it was the "Qin Qing" that Liu Wei had seen at the bottom of the pyramid!
Suddenly, "Qin Qing" suddenly jumped up as if he had been burned by fire, and scolded angrily in his mouth:
"Bastard! Damn it! Who the hell is it?! This disgusting kindness! Crocodile tears! Ignorant creatures! Yes! Yes! ……”
When Ferrero reappeared in the garden, he took the calm that had already returned to him, and walked towards the palace.
Liu Wei has been coming to Qingpluto for so long, and it is the first time he has eaten the "food" here.
There is no oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, no frying and frying, and everything on the table is all kinds of plants.
Roots, stems, leaves, flowers, all the components of plants seem to be food here.
Although it has not been processed in any way, it has a very delicious taste.
Liu Wei never thought that just "eating grass" could feed people.
In fact, he hadn't tasted every food before he was too full to eat.
He put down the cyan "chopsticks" in his hand that could automatically hold the food, and said to Ferrero with a smile:
"Thank you General Ferrero for your hospitality, I take this opportunity to trouble the General with one more matter."
The "chopsticks" in Ferrero's hand paused, looked at Liu Wei and said:
"Mr. Liu said that as long as I can do it, I will definitely promise you!"