Du Chuanxiong, who was dressed in white and black pants, stood by the gate of the castle with his hands in his hands, and outside the open gate, there were four outsiders, they were Qin Ge, Sha Bo, Tang Wan and the thin man. The four strangers came in a hurry, and they were a little embarrassed, they were sweating on their heads, they were stained by the mountains and soil, carrying their own luggage, and they were still gasping for breath. Only the woman in pajamas, expressionless and glazed, was supported by a man, as if she was seriously ill and unconscious.

Du Chuanxiong listened to Qin Ge finish talking about what happened, his eyebrows tightened, and he was silent for a moment. Qin Ge and the others over there stared at him anxiously, for fear that he would say something to refuse.

When Shicai escaped through the back door of the Nightsleep Inn, the noisy voices of people in the side street were clearly audible. I don't know how many people flocked to the Nightsleep Inn at this moment, and they even heard the smell of anger and hatred in the noise.

They had to flee.

Qin Ge and Sha Bo took turns carrying Tang Wan, and Tang Wan was like a puppet at this time, at the mercy of others. Head north from the alley behind the inn and up the hill. Turning over the hill, the Sleeping Lodge came into their sight. Seeing the legendary owner of the Sleeping Mountain Villa so easily, they all found some comfort in their hearts. Sleeping Hill was not as eerie as the legend suggests, and through the open gate, they saw a few workers walking around in the empty square in the center of the castle, and a quiet and peaceful atmosphere enveloped the castle.

"If you can assure me that you have nothing to do with the killings, then I can keep you for the time being and explain it to the townspeople on your behalf." Du Chuanxiong finally spoke.

Qin Ge took a step forward: "We had nothing to do with those incidents in the first place, but now it's just that the people in the town are excited and lose their minds, and we are forced to flee here." Du Chuanxiong stared at him for a long time, and finally nodded.

Qin Ge and the other four entered the castle, and the gate slammed shut behind them. Du Chuanxiong led them to a hall that looked like a reception, told them to rest for a while, and he sent someone to the town to observe the movement.

When Qin Ge and the others entered the castle, they were attracted by the buildings in the castle. Although the buildings in the castle are not magnificent, they are definitely ingenious, the inner ring room and the outer ring building are so harmoniously intertwined in one place, and the ring-shaped cornices on the top of the castle are all integrated, and there is no trace of patchwork. Standing in the castle and looking around, there are dozens of doors that can be seen alone, and I don't know how many are invisible, so it can be seen that there are no less than 100 houses in this castle.

Now they are in one of the inner ring rooms. The room is not large, more than 100 square meters, with thick wooden beams on the top, gray floor tiles on the floor, walls made of bluestone, and two red lacquered wooden doors that look bulky and solid.

When Du Chuanxiong left, he walked to the door and turned back: "Here in me, I hope you don't cause me any trouble." So, until I come back, you'd better stay in this house and don't run around. The two doors closed after Du Chuanxiong left. The light in the room was very weak, but fortunately the thin man quickly felt the light switch by the door. The incandescent lamp illuminated the room, and everyone looked at each other, not knowing what it was like to feel in their hearts for a while.

Qin Ge walked around the room and didn't find anything suspicious, but he still couldn't put his mind at ease, he said to Sha Bo and the thin man in a deep voice: "This owner is modest on the outside, but in fact he is quite scheming, we must not take it lightly." Sha Bo said: "Now I only hope that the people in the town can listen to the explanation of the owner, otherwise, we don't know how long we will have to wait here, and besides, hiding here is not a long-term solution." Everyone was speechless for a moment and fell silent. Sha Bo and the thin man were worried about the situation at the moment, Tang Wan hadn't said a word since she escaped from the Nightsleep Inn, and she was always expressionless, as if she had lost her soul. And Qin Ge had countless thoughts in his mind at the moment, and he had much more worries in his heart than Sha Bo and the thin man, but he didn't know how to tell the two of them what he knew.

"I suddenly had a hunch that someone had arranged all of this now." Qin Ge said.

"You mean Jiangnan?" Sabo was thoughtful.

Qin Ge nodded, he now likes Sha Bo more and more like this young man, although he has not undergone professional training, but when something happens, he can always grasp the key to the matter quickly under his own guidance.

"Jiangnan is definitely not a company like he himself said, business failed, in order to avoid black debts to escape to the sleeping valley. If I'm not mistaken, he would have been a sensation ten years ago. "You already know his details?" Shabo asked.

"I just hope now that he doesn't have anything to do with us." I don't know how long it has been, but the door is still closed, and even outside is extremely silent, and there is not even the slightest human voice. Looking at the watch, it was almost noon, and several people began to be suspicious again. Even if Du Chuanxiong sent someone to the town, he should be back at this time, no matter what the situation is, Du Chuanxiong should come and talk to them.

What's going on outside in the past few hours?

The thin man walked to the door, which was not even a crack in it. The thin man groaned for a long time, and finally reached out to open the door. When Du Chuanxiong was leaving, he only asked a few of them not to run around, and opened the door to look outside, which of course could not be regarded as causing trouble for him.

But the door was locked from the outside.

Qin Ge Shabo ran to the door, and they pulled the door together, but the door still didn't move. An ominous feeling appeared in the hearts of the three men at the same time, and they looked at each other, and no one could do anything.

Sha Bo slowly walked back to Tang Wan's side, Tang Wan was still sitting in her chair blankly, as if she didn't care about her situation at all. Her eyes were hollow as if even fear was gone, and that was what worried Sabo the most. He stood beside Tang Wan at this time, squatted down, put his hands on her shoulders, and gently called her name.

Tang Wan's gaze moved, falling on Sha Bo, Sha Bo was happy in his heart, and was about to speak, but his gaze moved lightly, and he didn't know where it fell in the room.

Shabo stood up in disappointment and couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Her current state is very dangerous, and if she can't be sent to a major hospital for treatment as soon as possible, she is likely to have a nervous breakdown and become a psychopath." The thin man said.

"Then there's no other way?" "There is another way for her to wake up from this state of confusion, and that is to be stimulated more deeply. This is like a doctor giving a heart lift to a person whose heart is about to stop beating, and this is also the same principle that we often say that fighting poison with poison is also true. Sha Bo was silent, he stared at Tang Wan, thinking to himself that Tang Wan was already so weak, how could he withstand any stimulation?

About another hour passed, and everyone waited even more anxiously. They took turns walking to the door continuously, keeping their ears close to the crack in the door and listening for the sounds outside. In the second half hour, there seemed to be some movement outside, but they couldn't really hear it, which added to their worries and doubts. At this time, the lights suddenly went out, and the house was hidden in darkness. Sha Bo by the door hurriedly ran back to the position of the chair, and after touching Tang Wan, he stood in front of her. Over there, Qin Ge said in a deep voice: "Don't panic, stay calm." The thin man smiled bitterly in the dark, not long ago, he also used darkness to punish a girl named Yuan Li, but he didn't expect the darkness to fall on his head so quickly. If it is retribution, it will come too quickly.

No one dared to move in the dark, and because of the panic in their hearts, no one spoke, only the sound of each other's breathing could be heard. The sudden darkness caused Tang Wan to let out a scream, and then, her frightened voice sounded in the darkness.

"Tan Dong, Tan Dong, where are you ......" Sha Bo was overjoyed when he heard this, and Tang Wan finally woke up from her ignorance. He stepped forward to try to comfort Tang Wan, in the dark, Tang Wan hugged him tightly, he also hugged Tang Wan, caressed her back with his hand, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we will protect you." "Can you go and turn on the light, I don't want this darkness, I'm afraid of the dark." Tang Wan said, there was a little ethereal feeling in her voice, "Tan Dong, do you know that I didn't sleep in the dark when I was ten years old. Shabo knew that she was still in a trance at the moment, and she thought she was Tan Dong, but he had no intention of saying it, now, he just wanted to give this poor girl as much comfort as possible.

"I've been hiding it from you, because I'm afraid you'll dislike me. I really like you, from the moment I met you, I fell in love with you. Do you remember, the first time I saw you, you were fighting with someone else, and two people who were much bigger than you were beaten and fled. I stood in the crowd of onlookers, and my eyes were fixed on you, watching you swing your fist at the two men and hit them so hard that they couldn't stand up. At that time, I thought, I'm going to be your girlfriend. Tang Wan's memories made the three men in the dark listen very attentively.

"Then the two men were beaten away by you, and as they ran, the onlookers quickly scattered in all directions, but I forgot to dodge because I was only looking at you, and I was knocked to the ground by one of them. You came over and lifted me up, and that's how we got to know each other. Later, you often ask me why I like you, I always say that liking is liking, there is no reason, Tan Dong, in fact, I am lying to you, I like you for a reason. Because you are strong, you can protect me, you can drive away the demons that have followed me all these years, you are my hero. Tang Wan paused, and after gasping heavily, her emotions quickly became excited.

"Tan Dong, don't blame me for hiding from you, because I don't want to lose you, I don't want you to say, I like you, in fact, I'm just using you. I'm afraid, I'm afraid of losing you, being with you, for the first time I have a sense of security, those demons, they see you from afar, they are too scared to come near you. But those demons are still there, they haven't disappeared, they just don't dare to come near me for the time being, they are all hiding in the dark, waiting for me to come and hurt me again when I am alone. The thin man in the dark felt a throbbing in his heart, and suddenly became shy for no reason, the demon in Tang Wan's mouth was simply a true portrayal of him.

You know, I learned when I was ten years old that there were demons in this world. When I was 10 years old, I was a little girl, and at that time, I liked to wear pink dresses, pigtails on my head, and smile everywhere, and everyone said that I was a happy and cheerful little girl. However, all of a sudden, my joy and cheerfulness disappeared one day when I was ten years old.

It was spring, and I went with a few classmates to play on the Rose River, where grass grew on the riverbank. We were chasing on the grass, and I fell and broke my leg, and it didn't take long for me to fall behind my classmates. I endured the pain and chased them desperately, I wanted to be with everyone, I didn't want to be alone. That's when the demons appeared, they were in front of me, I didn't care at all, I wanted to get around the side, they caught me. It was filthy devils, they stenched and their hands covered my mouth with filth. I struggled desperately, but my strength was not as strong as the devil, and besides, there were three devils.

The devil lives in the bridge hole, which is full of garbage. The devils took me there, tied my hands and feet, and stuffed a rag in my mouth. The cloth was so dirty, and the smoky smell almost made me vomit. I was terrified, and I didn't know what the devils were going to do to me. Three devils in tattered clothes, one of them pushed me to the ground, his hands still covering my mouth, and the other two sat across from me and looked at me. Later, when it got dark, I watched my classmates call my name on the riverbank and look for me everywhere. I wanted to tell them I was here, but I couldn't speak, and I certainly couldn't scream.

The classmates are gone, and there is no one by the river, only the sound of cars passing by from time to time can be heard on the bridge. I was even more frightened, crying so hard that my body went limp, and at that moment the madman who was holding me down suddenly began to undress me, and I was vaguely aware of something, but still couldn't fully understand it. What the hell are these lunatics going to do to me? Tang Wan really cried out at this time, and her voice became choked. By this time, Shabo Qin Ge and the thin man had already guessed what was going to happen next, and their hearts burned with the same anger.

"I suddenly felt so much pain, so much pain that I felt like I had been torn apart by them. The devil lay on top of me and bit me with his foul-smelling mouth, and his tongue crawled on me like a maggot. I'm so sick, I'm in a lot of pain, Tan Dong, they're going to kill me, they're tearing me apart. The other two devils also came around, and they also stretched out their dirty hands to me. I think I must die, because my bodies no longer belong to me, and they are gradually numb to the point of being unconscious......" Tears flowed from Shabo's eyes, he hugged Tang Wan tightly, and felt that his body was trembling violently with Tang Wan: "Okay, don't talk about it, there are no demons, the demons are dead, they can't hurt you anymore." As if she couldn't hear his words, Tang Wan cried to herself and said, "If I really die, I think I will thank God for your favor for me." Are there really gods in the sky? The gods fell asleep that night. When I woke up, the first thing I saw was a sky full of stars, and the demons had abandoned me far away on the riverbank. The stars twinkled in the sky, and I desperately wondered what had happened, what about the demons, they had taken me to another world. The wind was blowing, I was cold, and I didn't even have any clothes on me. I wanted to go home, I couldn't move, my body was so numb that I didn't feel anything. Sha Bo held Tang Wan's head in his arms as much as he could: "Don't say it, those devils are gone, they can't hurt you anymore, believe me, don't say it." "These scumbags!" Qin Ge's angry voice was accompanied by a loud sound, as if he had kicked over the chair.

Tang Wan's words were like a needle, piercing everyone's heart and bleeding. At this point, they finally understood why this girl was so frightened, as well as the melancholy that seemed to be born in her, and her morbid attachment to Tan Dong. Over the years, the demons that had hurt her had never left her body, and they had tormented her all the time.

What kind of life should that be?

Tang Wan's crying was still flowing in the dark, and everyone's hearts were extremely sour at this time...... Suddenly, there was a sound outside the door, and then a bright light slanted in from between the two doors. Tang Wan let out a low voice, and buried her whole head in Sha Bo's arms. Qin Ge and the thin man took a step back, and at the same time stretched out their hands to block their eyes. The bright light grew stronger and stronger, and the two doors burst open. After the bright light, a figure stands in front of the bright light.

White shirt, black trousers. It is Du Chuanxiong, the owner of Sleeping Mountain Villa.

After a brief period of discomfort for the three men in the room, their eyes regained their vision. Qin Ge and the thin man walked towards the door to meet Du Chuanxiong, but before they reached the door, they were stunned for a moment.

Behind Du Chuanxiong, there was a crowd of black oppression.

These people were tall, short, fat and thin, of different ages and different attire, but at this moment, their expressions were unusually calm, and they all lost the excitement they had when they rushed to the Nightsleep Inn not long ago. What is the reason for these people to calm down in a short period of time?

Behind the crowd, they also saw two tall wooden stakes erected in the square, and on top of the two wooden stakes was a horizontal log, and Tan Dong's arms were tied to the horizontal log and hung in the air.

The elegant Du Chuanxiong stood by the door with a sneering expression, as if wondering how these outsiders could come to the Sleeping Mountain Villa to seek refuge. Sleeping Mountain Villa is in the Sleeping Valley, and it has long been integrated with the Sleeping Valley, how could he be an enemy of all the people of the Sleeping Valley for the sake of a few outsiders?

Now, he looked at the four people in the room like he was looking at a bunch of nerds. Caged nerds.

This is the third time Yang Xing has gone to drink.

The moment the wine entered his body, it was like a warm current flowing through his body, and a warm feeling made him feel extremely comfortable, and the feeling of hunger was much weaker. However, the warm current, like boiling water in the open air in winter, will soon become cold, and the feeling of hunger will come back again, and it will become more and more unbearable for him.

After drinking too much wine, his face had turned red, and every time he finished drinking, he would lie on the ground with his head resting on Xiaofei's legs. His mind was a little blurred.

Xiao Fei sat against the wall in a distraught, holding Yang Xing's head weakly with both hands, and the wooden barrel was not far in front of her. She didn't seem to want to stop Yang Xing from drinking anymore. Something must have been wrong, they had fallen into an elaborate trap that had nothing to do with the wine, but she didn't know how to stop it. Yang Xing kept muttering something in his mouth, indistinct. She didn't bother to listen either. Her heart had long since become as cold as ice, and now, she only hoped that what she feared would not happen.

Yang Xing struggled to sit up for the third time, and he didn't even have the strength to stand. He sat up only because he was hungry again and he was going to drink.

He crawled slowly towards the barrel, his red face contorted with longing.

Xiao Fei over there suddenly jumped up and reached the wine barrel before Yang Xing. There was the sharp knife on the ground next to the wine barrel, Xiao Fei held the knife in her hand, and slashed towards the barrel frantically. The barrel was very strong, and the first few knives only cut out a few shallow wounds, but the next two knives cut two openings in the barrel, and the wine overflowed at once. Xiaofei is still chopping, as if she wants to use up all her strength before she wants to stop.

"Don't!" Yang Xing screamed heartbreakingly, and he didn't know where the strength came from at this time, he actually staggered to his feet, and suddenly reached the edge of the wine barrel. He turned around and pushed Xiao Fei hard, Xiao Fei was caught off guard and was pushed to the ground by him at once.

Yang Xing didn't care about Xiaofei, and quickly aimed his mouth at the wine leaking out of the barrel, and swallowed it greedily.

Xiao Fei looked at Yang Xing in front of her indifferently, and her heart was gradually filled with some despair. She stood up again and rushed to the barrel, her knife slashing at the barrel again.

More wine leaked out, and Yang Xing panicked to block it with his hands, but where could he block it. He turned around angrily and pushed Xiaofei down again. When Xiaofei fell to the ground, she felt that her leg hurt hotly, and Yang Xing had already walked towards her step by step at this moment, with red eyes open.

"Don't cut it anymore!" He hissed, "If you cut me again, I'll kill you!" "Yang Xing is crazy, Xiaofei thought, is this the result that Du Chuanxiong wants to see?

Yang Xing returned to the barrel again, the strength of the wine was much weaker, he closed his mouth again, and the wine flowed onto his head and face. His expression was already extremely weird, his eyes were rolled up, his mouth was slightly open, and his facial muscles twitched rapidly. Suddenly, he rolled over and fell to the ground, unable to move again.

After stopping for a while, Xiao Fei endured the pain and crawled over, and heard Yang Xing on the ground snoring slightly.

He actually fell asleep under the influence of alcohol.

Xiaofei thought that it was good to fall asleep, so that he could no longer be hungry and drink the wine. She sat down pityingly against the barrel and rested Yang Xing's head on her lap.

At this time, she knew that she shouldn't blame Yang Xing, it was all the trick of that damn Du Chuanxiong, he wanted to completely collapse Yang Xing mentally. She was now aware of the plot, but there was nothing she could do to stop it except to break the barrel. That wine is poison, it doesn't poison people, but it can poison people's hearts. Yang Xing used wine to quench hunger, which was clearly to drink to quench his thirst.

Yang Xing's body is getting colder and colder, but Xiaofei's heart is even colder than his body.

Sha Bo's body blocked Tang Wan again, Tang Wan curled up in horror, her expression was very conflicted, as if she wanted to know what was going on outside, but she didn't dare to know.

Qin Ge by the door glared at Du Chuanxiong angrily, and suddenly smiled.

Du Chuanxiong made a surprised expression and said, "I really can't figure out why you are laughing at this time." "Because of you, of course." "You want to accuse me of being a villain?" Du Chuanxiong smiled slightly, "If I said that when you came in the morning, I forgot what day it was, you wouldn't believe it." "Today." Qin Ge was stunned for a moment, "Could it be that today is a good day?" "I don't know if it's a good day, but I remember it now, every year today, it's the day of our Sleeping Mountain Villa to worship the god of wine." "Sacrificing Bacchus?" Qin Ge was obviously stunned again.

"Sleepy Hill Villa produces wine, and the residents of Sleepy Valley have also made a living by growing grapes over the years, so the wine of Sleepy Hill Villa is closely related to the lives of the people in the town. According to local customs, every year during the autumn harvest, the town holds a grand ceremony to worship the god of agriculture. Now that the Sleeping Hill Villa is in the customs of the locals, it is chosen to worship the god of wine at this time of year. "But the sacrifice to Dionysus doesn't seem to have anything to do with us." Qin Ge frowned.

"It didn't matter, but now it's different." Du Chuanxiong's eyes lit up, "The annual sacrifice to the god of wine is presided over by the town's Tima, and now, the Tima Tianyangzong has been killed by your friends, so the people in the town want to use your friend's blood to sacrifice the god of wine and the dead Tima." Qin Ge was startled, his gaze crossed Du Chuanxiong, crossed the black crowd behind him, and landed on Tan Dong, who was tied up high. Tan Dong drooped his head and didn't move, but his body was already in disarray and bloodstained. Qin Ge suddenly became angry: "You don't have the power to decide a person's life and death. "So, I consulted with the people in the town and decided to give you a chance." "What chance?" Qin Ge asked.

Du Chuanxiong was silent for a moment, staring at Qin Ge like a torch, and said word by word: "Go up the ladder!" The crowd quickly parted behind Du Chuanxiong, revealing a passage in the middle. The passage leads directly under the tall wooden piles. Du Chuanxiong made a gesture of "please", and put a smile on his face: "Anyway, since you are in the Sleeping Mountain Villa and it coincides with its meeting, we will not neglect the guests for such a major event as sacrificing the god of wine." Qin Ge turned to look at the thin man, and then turned back to look at Sha Bo. At this point, they don't really have a choice. When Sha Bo helped Tang Wan to stand up, Qin Ge finally walked out first.

Sha Bo hugged Tang Wan and tried his best to block her vision with his body. When Tang Wan passed through the passage formed by the crowd, her whole body had already fallen softly on Shabo's arm. Shabo couldn't bear it, but at this time, what could he do?

"Tan-Dong!" Suddenly, Tang Wan let out a hiss, and she had already seen Tan Dong, who was tied high on the crosswood. I don't know where the power came from, but she suddenly broke free from Sabo's support and ran quickly under the stake. The thin man in front of Qin Ge wanted to stop her, but he was all vigorously gotten rid of by her at the moment.

Qin Ge and the other three could only speed up and rush over.

Tang Wan in front was stopped by two people in strange costumes, no matter how she rushed left or right, she couldn't break through the defense line of the two.

The two people wore fan-shaped crowns, embroidered with five auspicious celestial statues, and embroidered the words "day" and "moon" on the yellow streamers floating down from their ears on the left and right ears. The clothes on his body are wide-bodied, large-sleeved red robes, and the left side of the collar is embroidered with golden yellow "Thousands of Male Soldiers", and the right is embroidered with "Ten Thousand Fierce Generals". The left and right sides of the shoulders are embroidered with the golden word "day" and the silver word "moon", and the front chest and back are embroidered with golden gossip pictures. The lower body wears eight skirts, which are made of eight pieces of cloth that are one foot wide and three feet long, and are not connected to each other.

These two people in strange costumes, no matter which direction Tang Wan rushed from, there was always one person in front of her, and the other shook the copper bell in one hand and held the knife in the other, jumping back and forth, and still singing in his mouth: My yang eyes are sealed, my yin eyes are opened, I listen to God when I am young, babbling when I am young, listening to ghosts!

My yang mouth is sealed, my yin mouth is opened, I say God when I am young, I babble when I am babbling, I say ghosts!

Qin Ge and the others rushed over, and Sha Bo pulled Tang Wan hard. Tang Wan was still hissing at Tan Dong in the high place and calling his name, that expression showed that he had lost his mind and fell into a state of madness.

Tan Dong on the crossbar ** made a few sounds, opened his eyes slightly, and the power magically returned to his body. He also began to shout her name at Tang Wan, his voice sad and desperate.

At this time, Du Chuanxiong also came to their side, and Qin Ge turned around and glared at him: "What do you want?" "It's not that I want to do anything, it's that the people of the town won't let your friend go, and besides, he did kill people, three people, one of whom is Tima from the town. It is a matter of course to repay debts and pay off people, and this truth is practiced all over the world, you will not know it. Du Chuanxiong said.

Qin Ge was speechless for a while, but he still had to say: "Only the law can decide a person's life and death, and the people in the town, or you, don't have this power." "This matter has nothing to do with me in the first place, why should I want him to die?" Du Chuanxiong smiled faintly.

"Then don't condone them to do such illegal things." "Something illegal?" Du Chuanxiong's eyebrows furrowed, and his expression was slightly excited at this moment, "What is the law, and whose interests does it protect?" I don't know how many evil things happen in this world every day, and less than 12 out of 10 can really be punished by the law, which is not only the fragility and imperfection of the law itself, but also the more important reason is that the law itself is a kind of trampling on human nature. Only the trampling on human nature is the real evil, the avenue between heaven and earth runs, there is its own karma, the law is just a footwrap used by some people to do evil, ignorant people will always be ignorant, just like you, you think you are educated, you can use the weapon of law to accuse others, but you ignore the most common good and evil cause and effect of the operation of heaven! Du Chuanxiong suddenly turned around, raised his hands at the silent crowd, and said loudly: "If someone comes to destroy the home you have worked so hard to build, how will you treat him?" The crowd stirred up, and the noise came like a tidal wave. Those simple faces, hoarse and desperate, hatred distorting them.

Qin Ge and the others all changed color, and this kind of crowded scene was by no means something that a few of them could deal with. Qin Ge took a step forward and said to Du Chuanxiong: "Even if there are some evils in this world that cannot be punished by the law, at least the law is a yardstick that restricts the occurrence of some evil deeds. Everything has a process of gradual improvement, and as a bystander, you can ignore the process, but you can't deny it. "What about the people who were hurt in the process?" Du Chuanxiong looked at Qin Ge forcefully, "Do they also have to ignore this process, do they want to use the happiness of their lives more than their lives to maintain this process?" Qin Ge was speechless in a daze, no matter how hard an order tries, it can't guarantee the interests of everyone at the same time, people are hurt in it, it can't be healed with some theories, and the scars will always exist. It's like people build airplanes, and how many families are grieved by plane crashes every year, but you can't say it's the plane's fault.

Du Chuanxiong over there obviously didn't want to argue with Qin Ge anymore at this time, he frowned and said, "If you can cooperate with today's sacrificial Dionysian ceremony, maybe you still have a little chance, you choose." Qin Ge turned around and looked at Qin Ge's thin man, and finally nodded slowly.

A few chairs were placed behind the erected wooden stakes, and Du Chuanxiong let Qin Ge and the others enjoy treatment that others did not have. Tang Wan was still excited, but Sha Bo held her down and whispered softly in her ear.

The ceremony had already begun, and the two men wearing crowns, red robes with large sleeves and eight skirts were dancing around two wooden stakes. The copper bell in their hands was tied to a wooden stick of about one foot, and there were more than a dozen iron rings strung on the knife, and the handle was decorated with five-colored pieces, and the copper bell and the knife rattled in their hands. They danced in a posture that only kept jumping from side to side, dancing in the air with their hands holding ritual weapons, and chanting incantations incantations in their mouths.

Du Chuanxiong said: "Your friend killed Tima in the town, these two people are Tima apprentices, and the people in the town call them Dharma disciples. At this time, two more people appeared in the field, and Du Chuanxiong said on the side that they were the helpers, the people who assisted Tima in completing the ceremony. The helpers each held a big red flag in their hands and danced on the heads of the disciples who taught the Fa.

At first, the crowd hummed softly, but gradually the voice became excited, because the dialect was extremely heavy, and Qin Ge and the others couldn't hear what they were humming. At this moment, someone came up with two long mahogany boxes, and the two Dharma disciples danced towards the boxes before finally opening the boxes.

There were knives in the box, and there were more than twenty of them.

The disciple took the knife in his hand in a dancing posture, and after spinning and dancing again, he actually inserted the handle of the knife into the wooden stake that was erected. Only then did Qin Ge and the others notice that there were some neat grooves on the stake, which just matched the handle of the knife. At first, they didn't care, just thought it was just a ritual. When the two Dharma disciples inserted more than 20 knives into the wooden stakes, the noisy voices suddenly stopped, and the Dharma disciples and helpers also stood aside, but Du Chuanxiong stood up and stood in front of Qin Ge and the others.

"As I said, if you want to save your friends, there's still a chance." Qin Ge's spirits perked up: "What are we going to do?" "Ladder to the sky!" Du Chuanxiong said heavily.

The ladder is a knife inserted into the stake, and the meaning of going up the ladder is to ask people to climb to the stake with their bare feet, if the rope that binds Tan Dong can be untied, then the people in the town will spare Tan Dong's life. Moreover, the ladder itself is already a ritual for the dead.

The knives stuck in the stakes, the blades pointing upwards, glowing in the sun.

Qin Ge and Sha Bo looked at each other, and they were speechless for a moment. Tan Dong, who was tied to the crosswood, weakly let out some **, his weak gaze was cast here, his lips squirmed, as if he had something to say, but because of his injuries, he could only make some indistinct syllables. However, from his desperate gaze, Qin Ge and the others could still see his intentions. He asked everyone to leave him alone, and his gaze was full of apologies in his gaze at Tang Wan.

Tang Wan looked at Tan Dong on the crossbar in a daze, and her excitement had unconsciously calmed down. This calm made everyone feel a little uneasy.

Shabo suddenly stood up, and he said heavily: "The ladder, I'll go up!" As he spoke, his expression had taken on a tragic tone.

Qin Ge was faster than him, and he stood up and stopped in front of him: "I'm coming!" Du Chuanxiong frowned and stared at the two of them, as if he was puzzled: "You have nothing to do with him, why do you want to do such an extremely dangerous thing because of him?" "If we come together, we will go back together!" Qin Ge said.

"But unfortunately, neither of you can go up to the ladder, and according to the rules, the one who ascends the ladder must be a close relative of the redeemed. As far as I know, none of you are. "I'm sure I can!" Tang Wan appeared in front of Qin Ge and Sha Bo with an awe-inspiring expression, "I am his wife, and we just had a wedding in this town. I am his dearest person, so I will go up this ladder. "Tang Wan!" Sha Bo came up and grabbed her, but she gently broke free, she looked at Tan Dong on the crossbar, and actually smiled slightly, that smile was extremely sad.

Tan Dong on the crossbar stared at the few people below in astonishment, and suddenly, he let out a heart-rending cry: No-to——! Tang Wan had already walked under the stake step by step, her pale blue pajamas were already stained, a pair of pink slippers fell behind her while walking, her feet were delicate and fair, and there was still a faint sparkle in the sun. Now, the feet were about to step on the glittering blade.

- Ladder to the sky!

(1) For the description of folk customs in this chapter, please refer to "Chinese Soul Faith", by Ma Changyi, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.