Chapter 22: The Maiden's Sacrifice
He shouted, struggled directly to get up from the ground, Xiao Lengran raised the flashlight and shone it towards the ground.
Another dried corpse appeared in front of us.
The wearer of this dried corpse was dressed exactly like the previous one, and its pupils had not yet become dilated.
"Alive, alive!" Kuroki pointed to the corpse and screamed excitedly, the expression no different from seeing a ghost.
And the dry corpse did blink his eyes, Xiao Lengyan suddenly stepped forward, and I don't know when, he actually put on the grimace mask.
"What's going on?" Xiao asked coldly, staring at the man who had fallen to the ground.
The man's eyes were weakly open, and when he saw Xiao Lengyan with a grimace mask in front of him, his emotions became a little excited.
"Tell the master, eyes, eight!" The man raised his withered hand and grabbed Xiao Leng's sleeve tightly.
"Hachime?" Kuroki's eyes widened.
"You mean, something with eight eyes, attacked you?" Xiao Lengyan stretched out his hand to support the man's shoulder.
The man's eyes closed: "Blood-sucking monsters, they, they're in danger, go?" ”
Before the man could finish his words, he suddenly tilted his head and lost his breath.
Xiao Lengyan examined his whole body, and finally found that there were no other external injuries except for a few dot wounds on his neck like the dry corpse in front of him.
Kuroki's hand holding the gun trembled violently, and the whole person seemed to be stunned.
Xiao Lengyan and I couldn't help frowning, before, I thought why the "Eight Eyes" were all gods made up by the people here, but I didn't expect that there really was.
Moreover, seeing that these people obviously have guns and weapons, but they all died so tragically in the end, presumably "Eight Eyes" is indeed very powerful.
"Let's go." Xiao Lengyan took off the grimace mask and urged.
I immediately took my gaze back and walked to Xiao Leng's side, but Kuroki stood still.
"Kuroki, let's go." I turned my face sideways and said to Kuroki.
Kuroki drooped his head and refused to go any further.
"Let's go, your brother's life may be in danger if it's late." I looked at Kuroki, who was stunned, and reminded him.
Kuroki shook his head, and said in a low voice: "It's useless, eight eyes, the sacrifice you like can't live." ”
It turns out that there is a local saying that the living creatures that are seen by Hachime are all sacrifices, and these sacrifices are absolutely impossible to live.
After we heard those cries for help just now, there was also the sound of Black Mist, that is, Black Mist should have also seen Hachime, so he was also a sacrifice.
"Then do you want to give up your brother now?" I asked, looking at him.
Kuroki hesitated for a moment, but finally, nodded, and reached out to remove the red rope from his neck and handed it to me.
This red rope may have been slightly blackened because it has not been cleaned for a long time, and the middle of the red rope is a long-life lock, which is very light and should be copper.
"See the corpse of the fog, give it to him, hang it." Kuroki said, his eyes reddening slightly.
"How can you be sure he's dead, didn't we hear his voice just now?" I didn't reach for the sign.
Kuroki suddenly raised his head and glared at me: "Outlander, what do you know?" The will of the gods cannot be changed. ”
His emotions had gradually calmed down, and I could feel that Kuroki's heart, which had been desperate to save his brother, had cooled, and he had given up his only relative.
"Since you gave up, then I'll give him this for you." I said that I took the red rope, and I originally thought that Kuroki had a deep brotherhood, but I didn't expect it to be just like that.
"Eight eyes, the god of our Black Qian Clan." Seeing that I was willing to help him, Kuroki didn't wait for us to ask, and directly told me and Xiao Lengyan about the legend and origin of Kuroki.
Their village was originally isolated from the rest of the world, and they lived in this wild forest, and Hachime was depicted on the cover of their family tree.
It is an ancient "sacred object" with a length of several meters, eight eyes, and a round mouth.
Moreover, the patriarch of their clan will contribute all the daughters of his family who have reached the age of fourteen to Yame, so that Hachime can bless them.
But later, I don't know what happened, they were forced to move out of the forest suddenly, and now the oldest people in the village were all born after moving out of the wild forest.
They are full of reverence for Hachime, but they have never seen it, but it has been rumored for generations that Hachime is a god, and this idea is also deeply ingrained in their hearts.
Moreover, the custom of giving a girl as a sacrifice to Yame continued to Kuroki's grandparents.
Later, after people had more contact with people outside, this custom was changed, and no one wanted to be any longer a patriarch, and naturally there was no such thing as a maiden sacrifice.
"Hmph, maiden sacrifice?" There was a hint of mockery in Xiao Leng's eyes.
"I can't tell you outsiders." Kuroki heard the sarcasm in Xiao Leng's mouth, and was also annoyed, turned around and prepared to leave.
In fact, in the final analysis, they themselves don't know why they revere Hachimu, and they haven't traced the roots at all.
"That monster was raised by you with human life, but if there is really a god in this world, I would like to see it." Xiao Lengyan said coldly and didn't stop Heimu, he directly pulled my wrist and continued to walk forward.
I glanced back at Kuroki, who was already turning around and walking back quickly, because the fog was so thick that he had disappeared without a trace in a short time.
"I'm here, don't be afraid." Xiao Lengyan thought I was scared and wanted to retreat, so he actually opened his mouth to comfort me.
"Xiao Ye, I'm not afraid, it's just, what do you say are those eight eyes?" From Kuroki's description, I really couldn't guess what kind of creature it was.
Xiao Lengyan also shook his head: "It is estimated that it is a thing in this forest, which has become a essence, and the principle of the snake mother." ”
"Eh, the same principle as the mother snake?" I couldn't help pursing my lips, and the half-human, half-snake appearance of the snake mother came to my mind again, and now I still have a numb scalp when I think about it.
"Let's go." Xiao Lengyan saw that I was already thinking about it, and opened his mouth to remind me.
I nodded, and followed Xiao Lengyan to continue walking towards the thick fog, squinting as much as I could to look around as much as I could.
"Click, click."
As soon as he and Xiao Lengyan walked forward less than twenty meters, they vaguely heard movement around them, Xiao Lengyan's footsteps gradually slowed down, and the movement disappeared instantly.
I raised my head and glanced at Xiao Lengyan, Xiao Lengyan raised his hand violently, as if he had grabbed the black wood before, and threw a short sword directly towards the source of the sound, and he also rushed in that direction.
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Behind the tree, there was a man sitting, but the man was now in an extremely shriveled state, a dried corpse to be exact.
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