Chapter 21: Sacrifice of Live Animals, See the Abyss Again!
"Earthquake? This is the first time I've seen it. Keisha emerged from nothingness, put away her helmet and muttered as she looked at the epicenter.
The Void Armor had fully strengthened her senses, and Keisha felt the vibrations more intensely than Kane.
"I don't think it's an earthquake......," Kane disagreed, "It stands to reason that this strong tremor shouldn't have lasted for a moment, it felt like ...... It's like something has fallen. ”
"Just like we did?" Keisha exclaimed, then calmed down, thinking of a lot of possibilities.
"Will someone fall off?"
"The Void creatures should feel it, too."
"It's better to go over and have a look."
She said, her purple eyes staring at Kane, her subtle expression full of layers of temptation.
For this kind of contingency, the choice lies with Kane, and Keisha is not allowed to explore without his permission.
If something really collapsed, would there be humans, as Keisha said?
Kane was worried about this, if it was humans who fell, they wouldn't survive for a day, but their words before death could directly destroy Kesha's innocence.
He wanted to slowly make her understand the cruelty and indifference of human society, but the unexpected event disrupted his plan, should he destroy this innocence now?
But Keisha's eyes tingled him.
Forget it, if it's really fate, then come on!
"Then let's go check it out."
Kane took Keisha's hand, and she couldn't wait to pull it towards the epicenter.
……
"Uhhh
Arriving at the center of the epicenter, Kane had not yet entered the cave when he heard a familiar sound of cattle screaming.
"It's a goat!" Keisha was pleasantly surprised, and then quickened her pace.
Goats are earthly creatures, and as Kane expected, something on the ground fell.
They walked into the cave and found that the dome of the cave had collapsed in a large chunk, and in the rubble below, dozens of sheep and livestock were buried, most of which had fallen to their deaths on the spot.
Keisha tried to jump down the slope to contact the goat below, but Kane didn't let her go, grabbing her arm with one hand.
"Don't worry, look what that is!"
He pointed to the deep terrain behind the ruins, the purple abyss, in which the energy of the void rose and flowed, occasionally stirring into ugly shapes.
Keisha was stunned, although the abyss in front of her was not as big as the previous one, the majestic death energy made its existence irrefutable.
It's really the kind of abyss they saw a year ago.
Approaching the abyss was extremely dangerous, and Keisha immediately stopped her impulses.
"How could it be so coincidental that the place where it fell happened to be near the abyss?"
Keisha was baffled by what they saw, and there was no abyss around the ruins when they fell.
This is perhaps not a coincidence......
"Kesha, will the sheep and animals prepared by the village be taken to a specific place for sacrifice?" Kane felt that figuring out the relationship, even if he already knew who was behind these tragedies, did not mean that there was no point in channeling practical reasoning.
Perhaps he could figure out the rules and intentions of the cultists' sacrifices?
Then he knew a little more about their common enemy.
"I don't know, but the goats that were prepared that night were no longer in the sheepfold the next day, and must have been taken away by those strangers."
Looking at the goats in the ruins, Keisha recalls some folk customs that she did not understand.
- Hang a bouquet of pearls of the moon on the fire, dance under the crescent moon, pray to Nasus for prosperity and prosperity, or leave a few sheep and animals outside the door to satisfy the mouths of the beasts.
What made her think about it terrified was that if she deciphered the customs that she couldn't understand at first, she would reveal many terrible things.
Are the sheep and animals here to satisfy the beasts in exchange for peace?
No, it's ringing the bell for the void creatures to eat!
Those cults have never intended to sacrifice for peace, they have been luring void creatures to the surface!
This discovery made Kesha's heart tremble, like a lightning strike.
"We need to hurry up and tell the truth! Let them stop listening to those cults, everything they do is harming others and themselves! ”
She looked up at the collapsed cave dome, as if trying to get back to the surface through there.
But Kane immediately poured cold water on her and forced her to calm down.
"You use your brain before you do anything, okay, how are you going to tell the people on earth? In other words, would you like to believe in someone who looks like a monster? Or is it a human-like monster? ”
"Don't forget how we got left behind? Isn't it because there were no sheep and animals ready for sacrifice, and they didn't complete the tasks of the cult, so they were cast by people and thrown into the ground. If those people openly resist the cult, they will end up exactly the same as we did at the beginning. ”
"Also, if you look closely, there is a dead end above the ruins, and the earth cracks and then closes, and it is impassable!"
Kane's denial triple blow knocked Keisha to the ground, her enthusiasm extinguished, and now she felt like she had been a fool a second ago.
"Then what do you say?" Keisha pouted aggrievedly, racking her brains and thinking of nothing else.
"What do you want to do now? You see the height of this dome, at least hundreds of thousands of meters high, which means that the void creatures are still some distance from the surface, and the sheep and livestock dropped above are not enough to lure them up. As long as people are obedient, they are safe for the time being. ”
Kane was relieved that no living people had been found in the ruins, and that Keisha had no contact with the living. But he didn't dare to be too lax, after all, it was a hurdle that Keisha would have to face sooner or later.
"What about these goats...... "The goats in the ruins were still struggling and screaming, their screams tugging at Kesha's heart.
"Eaten, of course." Kane licked his lips, he had been hungry for the lamb for a long time.
It's been a year! Do you know how he got through this year?
He was now at the age of his life, and he had a natural thirst for meat, and when he saw these goats waiting to be slaughtered, his long-dormant stomach began to pound his heart. Wave after wave, the bell rang for the decisive battle.
"Huh? Sheep and sheep can be so cute, how can you eat it? ”
Keisha didn't expect Kane to come up with such a devilish idea, this lonely and miserable underground world finally came to some docile creatures, he actually wanted to eat them!
Kane raised his eyebrows: "Don't tell me you haven't eaten mutton, you don't eat less during the New Year's holidays." I still remember you showing off in front of us with a roast leg of lamb, sprinkled with spices that your father had brought back from outside, and the child next door and I cried on the spot, tears unconsciously flowing from the corners of our mouths. ”