Chapter 19: Human Sacrifice (II)
Human sacrifice is the sacrifice of a living person. Anyone who knows a little bit about the history of human development knows that no matter which country or civilization, in the stage of primitive ignorance, all more or less respect human sacrifice, but the object of sacrifice is different.
For example, the Shang Dynasty's 'Mao' sacrifice was to hollow out the internal organs of the sacrifice, and then cut it in half like slaughtering cattle and sheep to sacrifice to the gods, which was far more cruel than imagined. However, compared with the Mayans and Indians, the human sacrifice of the Shang Dynasty was much milder.
The mysteries of the Mayan civilization are well known, and four of the five prophecies they left behind have miraculously come true, and although the last prophecy of the end of the world has not come, this has not affected the worship and awe of it. Such a mysterious and great civilization was notorious for its cruel and bloody ritual of human sacrifice, so much so that later generations blamed them entirely for the origin of the horrific customs.
There are many ways to sacrifice the Mayans, such as cutting out the heart, drowning in water, or beheading, which are relatively humane methods, after all, the pain felt before death is the least. And the most cruel ways are fire sacrifices, skinning, and mutilation, all of which are cruel to mention, let alone put into practice. The Maya, indeed, did just that, and they sacrificed not only captives but also their kindred—premature babies, pure virgins, and tribal warriors. The most unimaginable thing is that after sacrificing to the gods, they actually divided the sacrifice into meat and ate it.
This kind of behavior seems to be mad now, but at that time it was commonplace in society, and even the people who were sacrificed were proud of it, we don't know what kind of mentality it was, but from now on, human sacrifice is indeed a cruel and backward foolish behavior, which should be rejected by all mankind.
In fact, since human beings entered the feudal era from primitive society, human sacrifice has been gradually abolished, and in modern times, especially in China, it is impossible to have such cruel sacrificial rituals as human sacrifice. However, this impossible thing happened to me, and less than twenty meters away from me, a group of well-dressed modern people were using a barbaric, primitive and cruel human sacrifice method to burn a young girl alive in front of me.
I saw that the strong men had already lifted the wooden frame, and the girl who was tied to the wooden frame was screaming for help in horror, and suddenly a burst of blood surged, and I didn't know where the courage came from, so I was ready to go out to save people.
The Taoist priest hurriedly stopped me, I was angry, and immediately became angry, turned my head and shouted angrily: "What are you doing, do you want to see death and not save me?" ”
The sound of this drink was a little loud, and the Taoist priest hurriedly covered my mouth and said to me: "Don't get excited, there are so many of them, you just go over like this, isn't that sending me to death?" ”
Lin Qiao'er also came over to pull me, I knew he was right, and took a deep breath to suppress the impulse. Seeing that I had calmed down, the Taoist priest let go of his hand and looked over there again, but fortunately they did not hear any movement on our side.
"What then? You can't just watch that girl get burned alive, can you? I watched the movement over there, and was relieved to see that the strong men had just moved the cross to the campfire, and that the guy with the horns on his head seemed to be presiding over some kind of ritual and did not immediately burn the girl.
The Taoist priest patted me and said, "Little reporter, don't worry, as a cultivator, although he has no ambition to support the righteous path, he must not allow such heinous evil behavior to happen under my nose. Don't worry, Dao Ye will not stand idly by, but even if you want to save people, you can't hit it hard, otherwise people won't be rescued but put themselves in, it's not cost-effective! ”
His words were righteous and awe-inspiring, quite a bit of Taoist master's demeanor, and almost even scared me.
This is really a completely unexpected situation, before we were praying to meet a living person soon, so that we can understand the situation in the town, but now, it is difficult to see so many people, but we find that these people seem to be more terrifying than those monsters.
The Taoist priest pondered for a while, as if he had suddenly made a decision, beckoned us, and said, "I don't think it's better to do this, and then the Taoist master will go out and lure them away first, and you two will take the opportunity to save people, and then go to the west tower to meet up." Remember, act when the opportunity arises, and if the situation is not good, leave nothing and run away,"
As soon as he finished speaking, I didn't even have a chance to think about whether the plan was feasible, when I saw that the ceremony around the campfire had stopped, and several strong men lifted the girl and prepared to throw it into the campfire.
The Taoist priest shouted and acted, and then opened a hole in the vine that sealed the entrance and drilled out. Below the outlet was the river, but fortunately it was not deep, only up to his waist, and it was so fast and loud that his entry into the water was completely obscured.
Lin Qiao'er and I stood behind the vines and watched the Taoist priest wade to the other side of the river, slowly touching towards the bonfire, and my heart suddenly pinched, and an inexplicable anxiety spread.
Under the cover of the sound of the water, the Taoist priest successfully touched the position about ten meters away from the group of people, and the group still didn't find it, but the girl on the other side of the bonfire had been driven to the edge of the raging flames, and she was about to be burned. At this moment, the Taoist priest suddenly turned on the flashlight and shone it over there.
"Hello! What the hell are you doing here, do you have a bonfire, how about counting the Taoist master? ”
At the same time as the Taoist priest shouted these words, in the shocked and stunned eyes of the group, a stone was thrown out, which happened to hit the head of a strong man, knocking him to the ground, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
At this moment, the stunned eyes of those people immediately turned into anger, and the strange man with horns on his head pointed at the Taoist priest with the scepter and shouted, "Catch him!" Suddenly, the townspeople who were crawling on the ground rushed towards the Taoist priest, and when I saw that they seemed to still have a dick in their hands, I immediately became worried for the Taoist priest.
Fortunately, the strong men were also enraged, and they threw the wooden frame and the girl to the campfire, and chased after them. The Taoist priest picked up the steel pipe and knocked over a few townspeople who had run to the front, and seeing that the goal had been achieved, he hurriedly ran up the river, and soon disappeared into the night with those who were chasing him.
While praying for the Taoist priest in my heart, I was just about to go out, when I suddenly saw that the strange man with horns on his head was still by the campfire, secretly screaming that it was not good, why was there only one left?
The Taoist priest has a limited amount of time to delay, and if those people catch the Taoist priest and come back, or give up catching the Taoist priest to come back, the opportunity created by the Taoist priest risking his life will be in vain.
Thinking about it, I saw that the guy was rickety, and he wasn't particularly strong, so I said to Lin Qiao'er to let her wait first, I went to attract the guy's attention first, and she knocked the sticky stick in the back.
After discussing it, I quietly went into the water, but I didn't expect the impact of the current to be so strong that I was immediately rushed out before I could stand still, and when I struggled to stabilize my body, I found that I had reached the downstream of the campfire. The strange man had his back to the river, facing the campfire, and he didn't see me.
I couldn't help but rejoice when I heard him talking to the girl on the ground who was being sacrificed, and while he was paying attention to the girl, I squeezed the steel pipe and quietly touched it. Everything was going well, but less than three meters away, I suddenly saw a green-faced and fanged demon appear on the boulder in front of the campfire, grinning at me.
This scene frightened my scalp, and for a while the strength under my feet was not well controlled, and the banks of the river were full of pebbles, and suddenly there was a slight sound. Before I could recover from the horror of seeing the grimace, I heard the sound again, and my heart said that it was not good, and sure enough, I saw the strange man turn around.
The moment I saw his face, I almost fainted with fright, only to see that the man's face was exactly the same as the grimace I saw on the rock.
The strange man was obviously stunned when he saw me, but when he saw the steel pipe I was carrying, he immediately reacted that I was going to attack him, and hurriedly raised the scepter to smash me. I was stunned, I forgot to dodge, and subconsciously raised the steel pipe to block, but this was completely a conditioned reflex, and I didn't use any force in my hand, and the steel pipe was immediately knocked away.
At this time, I also came back to my senses from the shock just now, and suddenly found out what kind of grimace was there on this dog day, he was clearly wearing a mask, and it was not him who had strange green fangs, but a mask!
At this time, it was too late to wake up, and the bony scepter had smashed towards my head, and I saw that I couldn't hide, so I was ruthless, and my heart said that Lao Tzu fought with you, and then hit the scepter head-on. The guy obviously didn't expect me to have this kind of reaction, the action paused, he slammed the scepter in half of the force, and when it hit my head, it was only a sharp pain, but it didn't knock me out, I endured the pain and hit him in the chest, knocking him to the ground, and then staggered to the girl's side to untie her rope.
The girl was so frightened by the sudden situation that she had no intention of getting up and running until I had completely untied the rope.
I was anxious and shouted, "What are you doing in a daze, run!" She just reacted, just wanted to stand up, suddenly screamed and pointed at my back, at this time I also noticed the wind coming from my back, my heart said that it was not good, just wanted to dodge, the back has been firmly hit, and the whole person was knocked to the ground.
Almost at the same time, I heard the sound of falling to the ground behind me, and when I looked back, I found that it was Lin Qiaoer who gave the masked man a stick, and it seemed that he had knocked him unconscious.
The masked man smashed me completely deadly, but fortunately, the backpack behind me blocked part of the strength for me, I endured the pain and gave Lin Qiao'er a thumbs up, she hurriedly came to help me, and the girl on the side also came to hug me, I told them to go quickly, those people will come back soon.
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw that a few flashlights had rushed back, not a Taoist priest. I was startled and hurriedly beckoned them to run, but I didn't expect that after I ran a few steps, I felt dizzy, as if the whole world was spinning, and then countless demons flew to my side and dragged my body straight back. I watched Lin Qiao'er and their figures running away in front of me, and suddenly I felt that my eyelids were so heavy, and my vision became blurry and blurry, and then I lost consciousness completely.