Chapter 26: Have You Ever Experienced Despair?
The blonde girl fled into the woods outside the village, but it was too dark for her to see the obstacles under her feet, and she fell several times in a row, and finally became entangled in thorns and could not move, and was surrounded by villagers with torches.
Two strong middle-aged men grabbed her by the arm and dragged her out of the thorn bushes, and the sharp thorns cut through the girl's dress and left several bloody cuts on her.
The girl was brutally strung in the center of a glade, already weak and lacking in nutrition, and was frightened and beaten, the little girl did not even have the strength to get up, she shrunk into a ball, and begged bitterly: "Please spare me, the earthquake really has nothing to do with me, I don't know anything......"
"Hmph, liar! Many people have seen you use the devil's magic to control the earth to crack and the earth to float, and say that the earthquake has nothing to do with you? ”
"That's right, more than once, the mining disaster in the first two years is probably also her hands and feet, in order to sacrifice her soul to the devil, how many miners died in the village in that mining disaster, you must avenge them!"
"We can't just let her die happily, we have to let this demon bitch pay for her sins before she dies, we have to avenge the dead!"
The villagers were spitting frantically at the girl's throats, and there was a frenzied and chaotic atmosphere in the air, and several strong men stepped forward and punched and kicked the girl fiercely, not thinking of her as a girl with a good face, as if she were beating a brute, and rolling on the ground screaming and beating the girl.
The death knell lurking not far away couldn't stand it anymore, and said in a low voice: "Boss, we should come forward to stop it, right?" ”
The black-haired boy squinted and observed for a while, shook his head lightly and said, "What's the hurry, as long as she has breath left, I can keep her alive." Only through a moment of true despair will she realize how important our salvation is to her, and she is not yet in a desperate situation. ”
The indifferent eyes of the twelve-year-old boy couldn't help but shiver at the death knell of the veteran mercenary who was accustomed to life and death, and sighed in his heart: "Sure enough, it is better than the blue, with the cold-blooded character of this kid, it is absolutely impossible to be a nosy bat monster!" ”
The girl was beaten to the point of dying, and even the strength to struggle was almost gone, and suddenly a man with a complicated face came out of the crowd, and when the girl saw him, she seemed to see hope, and hurriedly shouted with her last strength: "Daddy...... Help me...... Please tell them that I am not a witch......"
The man's eyes wandered, dodging the girl's pleading gaze, and he whispered, "It's all because of you that Ilona will die...... Only you will bring disaster to this family......"
With that, he turned around and left without looking back.
The girl was stunned on the spot, as if her soul had left her body in an instant, and she forgot to cry out in pain when she was slapped down again by a strong villager.
An old man who seemed to have a good status in the village shouted: "Let the women go, and then the men will execute the witches, the scene is not beautiful, you will have nightmares!" ”
The female villagers obediently left, leaving only a group of adult male villagers, who began to bring firewood and tie the crosses in the pretense way of burning the girls at the stake in the Middle Ages.
Deathstroke shook his head and said softly: "What age is it, it is unbelievable that there are such ignorant and backward villages in Eastern Europe!" ”
"What's so strange about that? There are countless such ignorant villages in one of the world's largest democracies, and there are even village elders' councils that openly sentence the punishment of X, even in villages and towns that want certain sects in the country to control. ”
The black-haired boy sneered: "But the country of hope believes that this does not violate human rights, as long as it is democratic and the people are voluntarily willing, there is no human rights problem!" Superheroes don't interfere much with this kind of ignorance of human nature caused by 'backward customs', have you ever heard of superheroes who specialize in cracking down on 'trafficking', 'child marriage', 'domestic violence' and 'whaling'? ”
Deathstroke pursed his lips, not wanting to continue the topic, and said: "That man is too cowardly, if my child suffers such a catastrophe, even if it is with the child, I will never stand idly by!" ”
As he spoke, he also glanced at the black-haired boy a few times, intentionally or unintentionally.
Damian shrugged his shoulders and said in a low voice: "After all, he is just an ordinary person, and it is normal to be greedy for life and afraid of death, but this is very beneficial to us, and that girl is one step closer to true despair." ”
The black-haired boy didn't tell the whole truth, this situation will happen, and he also has the credit for driving behind the scenes, a few days ago he sent someone anonymously to send a box of money to the girl's father, and there was a note in the box that read: "Leave your daughter alone, take the money and fly away." ”
That box of money is enough for a man to be a wife and concubine, a group of small tyrants, and it is really a dilemma to exchange a daughter who is hated by the villagers for it.
Besides, this is not an exchange for his daughter's life without money, the man is afraid of fighting hard, but he is just dying in vain, and he has no ability to save his daughter at all, his choice is only to die with his daughter and take the money and fly away to live a good life.
Even if you want to escape in advance, it is impossible to be under the heavy surveillance of the villagers.
Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, the hatred accumulated by the villagers has long been so thick that it is irresolvable, and the girl's family has been closely watched, and if you want to escape, this "execution witch" operation will be staged in advance.
"Isn't that really despair?" Deathstroke frowned and said, "Boss, although I'm not a good person, you're really a little ......"
The black-haired boy's face sank, and Deathstroke hurriedly swallowed back the second half of what he wanted to say, and he suddenly remembered how Damian had planned to concoct him in the first place.
Lao Tzu is afraid that his son will be a little embarrassed to say it, but in reality, many families are really their sons riding on Lao Tzu's head and, and they are miserable by the little cub of the cheating father, but they are helpless, and the death knell can only swallow this breath and endure the young man in front of him who is suspected of being his own son.
The stake to burn the witch was built, but the male villagers present did not seem to be in a hurry to tie up the girl, and the atmosphere became a little strange, and the men showed evil smiles.
"This stinking bitch's evil power must have been obtained by messing with demons!"
"We have to purify her, or even if we burn her, her evil spirit will curse the village and we will never be at peace!"
"That's right, before sending her to the stake, it's time for a 'purification ritual' to expel the demonic essence in her body!"
"Everyone line up, take your time, we have a whole night, don't play too hard in the front of the line, leave a soup for the back."
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The men surrounded the girl and tore at her already ragged clothes, and the girl did not even have the strength to scream, and stared at the sky with empty eyes, thinking that she could die a hundred times and end a miserable and short life, but she did not expect to suffer such a painful humiliation before she died.