Chapter 48. At a dead end
Luo Xuan ran for more than ten miles in the darkness in one go, only to find that Dracula was not by his side at all.
The Blood Ancestral Cave was full of dangers, and he was frightened step by step, Luo Xuan thought about it, but he still turned back to look for his traces, and finally found the Count of Blood, who was leaning against the rock wall and panting in the middle of the road.
"How are you?"
Luo Xuan was just about to put his shoulder on him, but Dracula raised his hand to stop him:
"I can't do it anymore, I need to ask you to do me a favor - I must not appear in front of my wife after I transform, there is a cliff behind this rock wall, and I will break myself there, but I have no strength now, I am afraid that I can't wait to climb to the edge of the cliff, I have become a blood clan, quick, you help me over!"
Luo Xuan looked at his white face with the help of the reflection of the rock, knowing that he was helpless, he sighed secretly, and propped him up, and the two of them staggered to the cliff behind the rock wall.
When he reached the head of the cliff, Dracula broke free of Luo Xuan's support, took two steps forward while holding his chest, stepped on the edge of the cliff and turned around:
"Please tell my wife that I love her, but I can't save her, it's my incompetence! Before the blood moon disappears, you must kill Cain and save Sophia!"
At the moment when Luo Xuan nodded, Count Bloodthirsty jumped, and Luo Xuan's eyes suddenly lit up, only to see a red light inlaid with Dracula's figure, which disappeared into the boundless darkness at the same time as him.
Luo Xuan was stunned, but he heard Dracula's voice shouting over the cliff: "What kind of place is this?
Luo Xuansheng leaned into the outside of the cliff with his palm, and found that his arm actually poked straight into a red light barrier that appeared out of thin air—sure enough, beyond this cliff, it was not a bottomless abyss, but a Demon Sect Law Realm!
"Is there anybody? Is there anybody here? Hey, hey!"
Seeing Dracula talking loudly over there, Luo Xuan thought for a while, stepped into the cliff a few steps, and a large blood-red law boundary barrier suddenly trembled behind him, and when he looked around, the two of them were in a desolate wilderness that stretched as far as the eye could see.
At present, the night is thick, the huge white moon is full like a disk, hanging high in the sky, Luo Xuan squinted, only to see a red dot the size of a broad bean was crossing the moon, flying quickly towards the wilderness, to be precise, it was smashed headlong.
He hurriedly pulled Dracula up and flashed to a rocky beach, and the red dot got closer and faster, and fell headlong into the wilderness with a buzzing roar.
It turned out to be a huge bright red hot air balloon with five people's arms thick, and a basket the size of a square was tethered to the balloon. The night wind was blowing, Luo Xuan pricked up his ears, and only heard bursts of human voices coming from the basket:
"Daddy Daddy, Daddy, the big balloon is broken, what are we going to do next?"
A little girl's cry was already very harsh in the deserted wilderness, and then from under the hot air balloon came the voice of an adult woman trembling with concern:
"Did God find us and drop us here?"
"Don't worry, even if the balloon can't fly in the Great West Sea, I'm already ready for the second hand, come, follow me!"
The man who spoke picked up the little girl who was dragging the balloon rope and wiped her tears, and carried a woman in a burlap shirt down the basket, and the family of three hurried to the rocky beach where Luo Xuan and Dracula were hiding.
Luo Xuan hurriedly pressed Dracula, only to feel that he was trembling violently, and turned his head to see that the Count of Bloodthirsty was staring at the man who was carrying three packages and dragging his children and daughters, and from time to time his throat let out "Drink, drink... With a low roar, his two eyes were already half red and half black, and the blood clan demonization had penetrated deep into his organs.
Dracula's reaction was by no means unexpected by Luo Xuan, the person who came was the Blood Ancestor Cain, but at this time he looked very ordinary, even a little tired - sackcloth and hemp pants, short hair and thick hair, his face was flushed from the hurry, and he didn't look like he was as white and stiff as in the Blood Ancestor Cave. At this moment, his dress was as light and sturdy as that of the women accompanying him, and it was obvious that he was ready to go out of the house.
A few of them didn't have much luggage and looked flustered, indicating that they seemed to be running away from something. Luo Xuan pressed Dracula with one hand, and saw Cain holding the girl in his arms through the crack in the rock, and carried the woman to an inconspicuous gray low rock in the middle of the rocky beach. He put down the girl, pulled out a long iron hoe from the earth, and dug away the whole piece of low rock that was buried deep in the earth with great skill.
Luo Xuan looked through the moonlight, and saw that under the low rock was a long tunnel full of stone stairs, Cain picked up the girl and was about to enter, the woman said on the side:
"Hidden, are you going to hide Elle underground? How long do you want to hide it, do you want Elle to never see the sun for the rest of her life?"
"This is just a buffer measure, I have long thought that the hot air balloon may not be able to fly out of the mainland, so I dug this underground cave on the shore of the sea in advance. I know it's selfish for us to do this, but I can't take this risk and keep Al in the city! Even if my brother Abel is willing to sacrifice his son, we can't guarantee God's thoughts, you and Elle will stay in this cave for a few days, and I will go back to the city to see the situation, if God really chooses my nephew, I will come back to you, and then we will repair the balloon and leave the Meijian Continent forever!"
Cain said, taking the three luggage one by one and putting them into the cave: "We have prepared water and food for several months, plus these we have brought, enough for you and Elle to live in it for half a year." In half a year, if I don't come back, you can pry open the top and leave here on a merchant ship in the spring, remember, don't look back, don't go to the city to find me!"
"But why are you going back? Why don't you come with us? What if Elle doesn't have a father?"
The woman grabbed Cain's garment with trembling arms and wouldn't let him go.
Cain turned around and hugged his wife tightly, and said softly, "I know you're worried, but now that Elle is out of the city, I still have to go back and persuade my brother Abel not to sacrifice his own flesh and bones, and no life should be used as a sacrifice to defuse the plague! God always teaches us that every life is a gift from God, and we should cherish every soul, why did he change his mind when it came to the end?"
"But this plague has turned more than a dozen countries into deaths, and even the power of God cannot make up for it! Now that the Meijian Continent is in danger, God needs a human body to bind these plagues, and the sacrificed people will be swallowed by the plague of the entire continent, and one person will bear the suffering of all. But, hidden, it's not your fault that someone is willing to sacrifice his son! Don't go back, why do you want to go back to a place like that?!"
"No, I know the power of God! He can make amends, he can eliminate the plague with one hand without any sacrifice, but there must be something wrong with why he is unwilling to do it this time! I want to go back to face God, I want to ask him for an answer. Once the custom of human sacrifice is formed, even if the plague is resolved, then the next time, the next time, floods, earthquakes, natural disasters, locust plagues, will every natural and man-made disaster have to be exchanged for human lives?"
Luo Xuan was secretly surprised when he heard it all the way, and then turned his head to look at Dracula, the Earl of Blood, who was beside him, only to see that he also had a stunned and puzzled look.
Not a single person in the city objected to God's approach, and they thought it was right to sacrifice one person to save the whole world, because they didn't have to sacrifice their children. God only chooses one of my flesh and blood and Abel's flesh and blood, just because our brother is His most faithful servant, who prescribed such a twisted law? I don't obey, I can lose my life, but I can't accept my fate! Abel and I are not wrong, our flesh and blood should not be treated like this!"
The little girl who had been put into the cave called out to her father and mother one after another, and the woman buried her hair in her husband's chest, burst into tears and shook her head bitterly.
Cain stroked his wife's back and continued softly:
"Kelly, I feel like God is making mistakes, and I love him, so I want to be able to tell him the truth and stop him from making mistakes again and again. You are waiting for me here, and my soul will be with you in the future, whether in life or in death!"
Cain leaned down, kissed his daughter's forehead, and got up and kissed his wife, and he helped her into the cave. Seeing that both mother and daughter were settled, he tensed the muscles on his arms to move the dwarf rock back to its original place and block the entrance to the cave.
"Daddy, remember to put away the hot air balloon, we'll use it again next year!"
The crunchy cry of the little girl came from the depths of the cavern, and Cain stood still beside the low rock for a long time, wiped his face, turned and walked away.
When Cain walked far away, Luo Xuanshi stood up from behind the rocky beach and watched him leave alone.
"What's going on? This demon still has a family?"
The Earl of Bloodthirst was surprised. Luo Xuan turned around, walked around a few steps, stretched out his finger and clicked at random in the air, and sure enough, he saw that the air around him had turned into patches of red light, and the surrounding scenery also changed rapidly.
This time, what caught the eyes of the two of them was a continuous field of wheat ears, a young man with a handsome face, and a hat obliquely buckled on his head was skillfully hoeing in the wheat field, where the silver swaying hoe passed, the yellow and clear ears of wheat were piled up into high rice stacks on both sides of the ridge, and the whole wheat field was cleaned up properly with a stick of incense.
At the border of the wheat field, on a large green hillside, another young man in a sheep blanket is walking slowly towards the foot of the mountain with a cane and a flock of black and white sheep.
"Ah Yin, little uncle, I'm back for dinner!"
The woman's cry drifted far from the hut at the foot of the hill, and the two young men let out a "hey" at the same time, and each threw away his work and ran towards the cabin.
Luo Xuan and Dracula stood aside, watching the sweaty young Cain emerge from the wheat field and brush in front of them as if it were skimming through the air.
"What the hell are these? What the hell is this place?"
Seeing that the Count of Bloodthirsty was becoming more and more confused, Luo Xuan raised his finger and tossed another round in the air, and said:
"This is the memory of the Blood Ancestor Cain, and there must be some memories here that he didn't want to keep in his mind, so he placed it here. That cliff is just a trick to cover up this memory. ”
With Luo Xuan's continuous guidance, the life of the blood ancestor when he was incognito came out spontaneously - meeting with the flower arranging girl in the city, falling in love, getting married, believing in religion together, worshipping every week, preparing Christmas dinner for the people of the city every year, and surprise ushered in the first little life Ai'er, which means "love child".
The first time Elle was baptized, the first time she toddled, the first time she sneezed, the first time she called Daddy, the first time she went to church with them, the first time she ate all the cherries on top of the cake at the Christmas meal, the first time she broke the dishes, the first time she read and read a book, the first time she chanted sacred words, the first time she sat in a hot air balloon, and she was immediately hooked on the feeling of flying。。。。。。
The little girl ran around unscrupulously in the memory of the Blood Ancestor Cain, and countless first-time surprises came to an abrupt end in front of a faintly blood-red horizon.
Elle held a small balloon in her arms, staring at the countless pockmarks flying from the sky in a daze. The magnificent mountains and rivers and clear grasslands have withered, the sky seems to be full of thick ashes, and the cries of human beings rise and fall on the earth.
A panicked Cain called out his daughter's name and ran across the wheat field toward the little girl at the edge of the field.
Dracula looked motionlessly at the memories of his past life that had been abandoned here by the Blood Ancestor Cain, and suddenly the ground was dark, and under the boundless black hood, he looked at Luo Xuan suspiciously, who was folding his sleeves.
There was silence in the dark tunnel for a long time, and suddenly saw the red light shaking all over the wall, Luo Xuan took the lead in stepping out of the memory realm, standing on the cliff, and said:
"Don't look at it, it won't help. ”
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Nie Xiaofeng lay on Hua Ge's wet back, holding the fluffy fetal hair on her neck tightly in her hands, and moved her body very gently and slowly forward, and she didn't dare to take a breath.
It turned out that the two of them didn't know the direction of the ground, and they couldn't climb three miles, and they found themselves trapped in this fragrant sleeping cave where tens of thousands of sleeping tongue demons were lying quietly.
To make matters worse, by the time they discovered what was beneath them, they were already trapped in tens of thousands of bloody tongue fetuses.
It was difficult for Nie Xiaofeng to crawl over hand and foot without causing the strange sensations of the blood tongues, so Hua Ge, the fetal god who had turned into a golden powder tongue fetus, simply rolled her up on his back, planning to use his soft belly to slide all the way from the "same kind" all the way, at least to reduce the abruptness of the blood tongue demon.
Fortunately, it was a tall, warm and humid cave in the middle of nowhere, and the bloody tongues in the cave were curled up one by one, and they slept comfortably in drooling, and at this time the fluffy Hua Ge slipped past their backs, and there was nothing unusual except for the extra weight.
Hua Ge carried Nie Xiaofeng on his back, one person and one tongue crept forward with his breath closed, Nie Xiaofeng watched the bloody tongue fetal demon sliding under him, rubbing the corners of her skirt from time to time, and couldn't help but feel so uncomfortable that she opened her eyes for a while and closed her eyes for a while, and swallowed the gastric juice that came up several times.
Hua Ge under him "chirped" twice very lightly, Nie Xiaofeng looked up, and saw that there was an obvious light behind a wall that spanned the entire cave about half a zhang in front of him, it seemed that this time they could not only leave this sleeping cave, but also leave the entire Blood Ancestor Cave!
Nie Xiaofeng happily touched Hua Ge's head, the golden powder tongue fetus took a deep breath of air, shook his body, slowly moved to the side of a particularly fat blood tongue demon, and symbolically shook the tail of the powder.
Nie Xiaofeng knew that this was a precursor to Hua Ge's full-speed sprint, and it seemed that she was also ready to use the big tongue tire as a help for the tail sprint, so that she could jump out of the hole in one fell swoop. Nie Xiaofeng hurriedly clamped Hua Ge's fat body left and right, tightened the fluff in his hand, and sure enough, he heard Hua Ge under him let out a burst of "Hmph... Hum... Two rows of small baby teeth creaked under the belly, like gears about to run at high speed.
It was too late, it was fast, the fat bloody tongue fetus turned over, the abdomen opened, and something fell on Hua Ge's back and Nie Xiaofeng.
The Meijian female student who had been kissed on the lips by the drunken Nie Xiaofeng dragged her half-swallowed body, hugged Nie Xiaofeng, and rolled off her back, falling right in front of Hua Ge, and the bloody small intestines that were dragged hung all over her head.
In the quiet Xiangmian Cave, only Nie Xiaofeng and the Golden Powder Tongue Fetus let out a long and shrill roar at the same time. The female student reached out and hugged Hua Ge's neck, looking up in despair to gnaw, Hua Ge was so frightened that she yelled, jumping around with her head up, Nie Xiaofeng buried her head and hugged her, and almost didn't overturn her to the ground several times.
The bloody tongue demons in a cave woke up one after another, yawning and yawning, spitting out the residue, and lazily opened their bloody eyes to look at the only golden-pink fat tongue fetus in the field.
Hua Ge carried the trembling Nie Xiaofeng on his back, with half of the squirming corpse hanging on his neck, lying in the center of the Xiangmian Cave in a daze, dumbfounded.