Chapter 239: Ritual

Chu Zihang has heard that there is a dish in France called Ortolan, which is translated as roasted puff in Chinese, the main ingredient is a conservation animal called puff that inhabits the southwest region of France, the shape is a petite bird less than the size of a palm, the time to enter the recipe can be traced back to the Roman Empire, hunters in the jungle hunt unsuccessful will hit a few pinch roasted and eaten, and then on the menu of the arrogant and lascivious ancient Roman nobles.

Due to its delicacy and edible value, the European Union included the nursery in the conservation list in 1976, but France did not follow up the legislation until 20 years later, during these 20 years, the dish was widely respected by the upper class, a bite can be soaked in the aroma of the bird whole into the mouth, after a bite of the offal and meat aroma rich flavor will rush to the nose, fat, internal organs, bones and flesh are bitten into a hot stream swallowed into the stomach The deliciousness can make people swallow their tongues.

The demand has led to a shortage of supplies and increasing fines for poaching, but the dish is still a perennial fixture on the French upper class menu, where diners often open the white napkins on the silver tray and cover their faces when the whole podium is devoured.

- Do not let God see the ugly face of greed.

This is their last self-deception and solace.

In the church, the bells are ringing and some people are singing hymns.

Everyone picked up the white cloth from their knees in unison, took off the hood of their black raincoats, put the white cloth over their heads, looked reverently and enthusiastically at the woman who gave birth on the high platform, bowed their heads in the cries of pain that surged to the top of the tide and fell back to the trough, and they trembled with excitement and prayed vigorously, hoping for the coming of the Son.

With the roar of metal colliding, the red goat's head slapped the iron frame that had been prepared long ago on the vigorous fire, and the iron frame and the black furnace collided with a little spark and floated to the audience, and several priests wearing animal heads slowly walked towards the woman who gave birth, and they sang a chaotic prayer with each step.

Serpents dance in the dark, each line telling the story of an ancient sin. The maidens tumbled on the stone-carved altar, screaming in pain, like a harbinger of imminent childbirth. The white-haired woman who was bound by iron chains on the Monkey Sky Bronze Bell opened her eyes and shed a drop of blood and tears in her golden pupils.

The scene in front of him inexplicably overlapped with the scene of his hallucinations on a stormy night, scorching Chu Zihang's nerves like a red-hot steel bar piercing into his brain, and at the moment when the butcher's knife fell out of the sleeve of his black robe, he suddenly stood up from the seat and stepped on the seat in front of him and was about to jump onto the high platform, the white cloth fell from his knees, and his eyes were full of dazzling gold.

No one noticed his abnormality, and everyone bowed their heads and prayed with their hearts, but before he could rush to the high platform, someone interrupted the evil ritual before he could rush to the high platform.

A familiar, violent gunshot rang out in the church, and the unique explosion of guns interrupted the prayers of all believers, and everyone subconsciously looked up at the source of the gunshots.

On the front row of seats near the high platform, a dark-haired girl in a raincoat stood up, the light of the fire on the high platform illuminated her soft and distinct side face, and the Glock in her hand was pointed at the four or five priests on the high platform and shouted coldly: "Get out of the way of that woman, I will only warn you once!" ā€

Chu Zihang instantly recognized the identity of the other party, even if he didn't see her face clearly before, he could see Glock clearly, this girl was the female student of the Kassel Academy who attacked him before!

The church suddenly fell into dead silence, only the aftermath of gunfire lingered around the reliefs and stone statues rising towards the blood-stained murals on the roof, and only Chu Zihang and the girl stood under the entire church, and they looked so standing out in the crowd of people who were bent over.

The black-haired girl glanced at Chu Zihang with her afterglow and didn't react much, no matter what kind of conflict they had outside the church before, now that their purpose was unified, there was naturally no reason for another confrontation.

Now, all they have to do is interrupt this wrong, ridiculous ritual and save the woman who gave birth.

The priests on the high platform stopped what they were doing, and no one knew what kind of expressions they had under the goat's head in the face of the aiming of modern firearms, was it frightened? Is it intimidation? Or because of the fanaticism and anger that is brainwashed by the teachings and is not afraid of everything.

Slowly retreating, crouching in the corner with his hands held high and his head in his hands. The girl swung the muzzle of her gun and motioned for the priests who were in front of the operating table to get out of the way, and she couldn't hear the howl of the woman in childbirth from just now, which made her heart gradually cold, and her fingers couldn't help but gently press some triggers.

The four priests glanced at each other, from Chu Zihang's point of view, the four goats were looking at each other affectionately, this scene was a bit ridiculous, but in the current environment, it could only make people feel weird and crazy, and there was always a premonition that they would break out and hurt people in the next moment.

But no one expected that it was the girl with the gun who was the first to hurt people, and no one acted according to her will three seconds after giving the order, she really did not hesitate to shoot, and a shot was shot in the knee of the head red goat-headed priest, and the blood splattered and a man's howl sounded in the hood, proving that no matter how terrible the atmosphere was, these people were still mortal beings who could be killed by bullets.

But just as the red goat's head was shot and knelt on the ground, a female voice immediately sounded from the black goat's head on the side, and screamed: "They want to rob the Holy Child!" ā€

The girl immediately turned the gun and aimed it at the woman with the head of the black goat, but before she could pull the trigger, the two ordinary believers sitting on her left and right suddenly pounced on her as if they were not afraid of death, and grabbed her wrists holding the gun with both hands to prevent her from aiming.

"Hurry up!" The head of the red goat, who had been shot on the high platform, hurriedly shouted to his companions beside him, and the other two priests suddenly came to their senses, turned around and leaned towards the operating table behind them.

Chu Zihang didn't hesitate any longer, stepped on the seat in the front row and jumped directly onto the high platform, and kicked on the black goat-headed woman who tried to pounce on him, and the huge foot force directly kicked and shattered several ribs of the other party, and the whole person fell on the high platform like a rag doll and struggled a few times but couldn't get up.

"Sure enough, it's a half-blood."

The girl in the audience couldn't help but murmur in a low voice when she saw Chu Zihang's burst of power, but more and more fanatical believers around her who were not afraid of death rushed up to grab her gun, grabbed her shoulders, wrists, and forearms, and the power that several people burst out together overwhelmed her for a while, who was not a power-type commissioner.

She really wanted to shoot off these people around her, but when she opened the 'Bloodline Knot' before, she found that she was being followed by an unknown half-blood, and she had already replaced Glock's magazine with live ammunition that killed people, and now as long as she fires, every shot will be a human life, but these believers are all ordinary people who have been brainwashed, and there are even students under the age of fourteen or fifteen, how can she kill them?

In desperation, the girl could only choose to pull the trigger and let go of a shot, and with a snap of the thumb of her right hand she removed the magazine, and her left hand instantly caught it and slipped into her sleeve, and then let go of Glock and let go of the crazy believers around her to snatch it.

Without the interference of the gun, she kicked the crook of one of the believers who rushed towards her, stepped on the back of the other man, jumped onto the high platform of the church, and rushed straight to the war group by the operating table.

Two priests wearing goat's heads on the edge of the fire were tightly surrounding the woman on the operating table behind him, opening his hands to stop Chu Zihang from approaching, at this time the girl who rushed up shouted directly and squatted down, Chu Zihang turned around and saw a cold light flashing, and without hesitation, he squatted down, and a dagger flying over his head wiped off several of his hair, directly piercing the shoulder of a priest in front of the operating table.

Between the painful screams, there was a gap in the defense line in front of the operating table, Chu Zihang immediately kicked under the crotch of the priest who was still standing, and took off the black goat hood of the priest who bent over to cover his crotch with both hands, revealing the face of the distorted man inside, he got up without mercy and hit that face with blood, snot and tears mixed in a patch of red, and the whole person fell to the ground softly and rolled and howled in pain.

At this time, the girl also rushed to the operating table to determine the condition of the pregnant woman, and she reached out and touched the other person's wrist to determine the pulse of the pregnant woman.

From the moment she fired the shot, there was no more crying from the pregnant woman, replaced by an unsettling dead silence.

When the girl's hand touched the wrist of the pregnant woman on the operating table, something jaw-dropping happened. The pregnant woman on the operating table suddenly hit a spirit, broke free from the girl's hand, jumped up violently, and rolled off the operating table more flexibly than a monkey, spread her legs and rushed to the bottom of the high platform with a big belly!

"It's—" The girl at the operating table was stunned.

Not to mention that she was stunned, even Chu Zihang was stunned, only to find that the so-called "pregnant woman" was constantly sliding down the water bag and falling to the ground after jumping off the high platform flexibly.

At this time, Chu Zihang reacted, turned around and lifted the white cloth under the operating table, and sure enough, there was already a simulated baby toy and a large pot of white flowers and meat under the operating table.

"Don't let her run!" The girl on the operating table shouted to Chu Zihang, and at the same time, the angry red goat-headed priest on the high platform shouted the same line as her.

However, the "pregnant woman" who ran faster than a dog in the audience had already rushed to the door of the church, and as she ran, she turned back to the high platform in even more anger and yelled: "You didn't pay the old lady to let the old lady eat the gun... I don't want the money! Play for yourselves! ā€