Chapter Eighty-Eight: Who Can I Save?
Silent!
Ever since Murphy asked, the room has fallen into a state where the pins can be heard!
Leon put Yan Ling back into the wooden box, took the pen and paper on the table and wrote a small note!Get up and nod to his subordinates, and when he picks up the box and takes the lead out of the door, he puts the note in Ma Shuo's hand!
The four of them followed in turn, and the whole process did not make any sound!
Send a letter to Eagle City first, you may not be able to reach Huanxi Port tomorrow!
As soon as the crow went to the sky, the village chief happened to staggered over with a cane, and bowed slightly: "A few adults, the ceremony is ready!"
Leon nodded and smiled when he heard this, and gestured to Simon beside him before walking towards the riverside!
The taciturn Simon immediately took out dozens of banknotes from his arms and handed them to the village chief while interrupting the old man's words: "The dignity of the royal guards cannot be desecrated, this is the cost of eating and buying animal bones and wood!"
Without waiting for the village chief to excuse himself, he quickly followed Leon's footsteps! Only the old man stood in place with those banknotes in his hands, staring at the five tall figures disappearing far around the corner!
Who can I save?
Who can be saved by just relying on Grandpa Yu and some theories of fucking off?
Ever since Murphy asked this question, Ma Shuo was stunned in his seat like a thunderbolt from the sky!
Speechless because of lack of faith! And because all the deep memories of the past are strong testimony of powerlessness!
Can parents and aunts be saved?
Can Grandpa Yu be saved?
Scenes from the past are circulating, and fragments of various scenes are lingering in my mind!
Blood, screams, screams, wails! The final picture is frozen in the face of an old man who is endlessly unwilling to even die!
The answer is: no!
No one can save it!
This feeling that he can almost just go with the flow of events makes Ma Shuo feel like he is in the deepest part of the vast and boundless sea, and the ocean currents are constantly impacting from all directions, crushing and crushing his thin body into powdered minced meat countless times!
What do I need to do, and who can I save?
Ask yourself, he can't even save himself now! The only and most fundamental reason is weakness!
All the memories in the green realm flashed again, and the words of expectation that seemed to be the words of my parents when I was born: brave, knowledge, wisdom, vision!
Maybe add martial arts and money!
The thought flashed, and the decadence of the previous second slowly disappeared!
"Whoa!" The sound of rubbing the paper startled Ma Shuo! Hurriedly looked down: "Only the young eagle that has gone through a lot of hardships can spread its wings and soar! Once you have figured it out, you will come to the shore to find us—Leon Kennedy." ”
Shimo Village, on the banks of the Wujiang River. The sandy land on the shore that was originally used to dry aquatic products is now vacated with an area of about 300 square meters!
The whole village worked hard for three hours to build a huge "wooden basin" made of dead branches and wood!
There are a large number of fish and beast bones piled up in the wooden basin, which are used by the wolf dogs in the village to bite and eat, and are dried and used together with wood for heating in winter! Under certain special conditions, the dead will also be burned for the dead when the bones cannot be found!
This may be the main method used in the Northern Sang tradition to tell the dead after the corpse is "eaten" or reduced to ashes by the enemy during the Inhuman War!
Now, except for some old people or veterans from 20 years ago, no one else may have seen or even heard of it! If it were another twenty or thirty years, maybe no one would know about this kind of ceremony, right?
The five Leons put their weapons on the ground, walked to the front of the line, and stood in a horizontal row five meters away from the wooden basin!
Behind them stood almost all the villagers of Shimo Village in a semi-encirclement, more than a dozen young men held torches, and under the afternoon sun, the rising green smoke drifted away with the wind! Although most of them had a trace of dazedness in their expressions, they still maintained basic silence!
All the elders waited in silence, while the young people and children kept whispering, talking, and curious!
A few minutes later, Ma Shuo, with a firm gaze, helped the village chief he met by chance to walk from a distance! Walking to the front row from the passage vacated by the crowd, Leon saw the great change in the child's demeanor, and the two looked at each other and nodded!
The village chief who left the longest person in Shimo Village presided over the ceremony, and Ma Shuo turned around and retreated to the crowd to watch quietly! When he came, the village chief had already told him the meaning of this special ceremony, and the misunderstanding and knots of Leon and the others were completely solved!
This is a different group of "good people"!
The ceremony has officially begun!
The village chief walked to the edge of the tub, holding his cane in one hand and gently stroking the edge of the tub with the other!
While returning to his original position, he barely kneeled down facing the wooden basin!
Leon and the others also knelt on one knee almost at the same time, touching their chests with their right hands and bowing their heads, and some other old and middle-aged men and women at the front of the crowd knelt on their knees!
Seeing this, the others really stopped talking, although they didn't know what it meant, but they still knelt down!
"The glory of your ancestors will guide you!"
The village chief used his usual voice to mutter as clearly as possible while bowing down!
Leon and the others repeated: "The glory of your ancestors will guide you!"
The other villagers and Ma Shuo also bowed down!
"Back to the embrace of nature!"
After saying the second sentence, he bowed down again, and as soon as everyone behind him finished speaking, the village chief reluctantly bent down, grabbed a handful of dry river sand on the ground, and scattered it along his fingers: "Dust to dust to dust!"
"Dust to dust!"
After three bows, he clenched his crutches and stood up tremblingly, turned around and glanced at everyone: "Light the fire!
After Qingzhuang threw the torch in his hand into the wooden basin in turn, the village chief came to Leon and Ma Shuo and the others: "Don't leave until the flames are completely burned out, if you have anything to say, say to the flames!"
After that, he sighed slightly, looked at the wooden basin that had begun to "crackle" and emit black smoke again, and then walked to his family waiting not far away!
The heat wave on their faces made several people can't help but squint their eyes, looking at the raging fire in front of them, and just standing without saying a word!
When Ma Shuo saw that Leon didn't speak, he also chose to be silent, but there were waves in his heart! There was no need to express many words of Leon who were soldiers! Just remember them silently in his heart!
"Crackling" wood crackling!
"Whirring" the sound of residual water vapor steaming and burning in the wood!
"Zizi" bone marrow bone oil gushes out of the bone, and the sound of contact with the flame is intertwined!
After more than five hours, it was not until the bright moon shone deep in the night that the last trace of spark slowly extinguished!
Dashan walked to the ashes, raised his feet and ran over the white ash four inches thick on the ground, and turned his head to look at Leon: "Boss, it's all gone, let's go!"
"Please wait a minute!" As soon as he turned around, Ma Shuo suddenly stopped everyone, Leon looked down at the moonlight, and saw a look of determination in the child's eyes!
"Can the chief guard teach me how to kill?"