The next day after the rain, the sky was clear, there was not a trace of impurities in the clear blue sky, and occasionally white clouds in the form of cotton wool floated slowly in the blue mirror-like air, as if specially prepared for today's sacrifice.

Ban Dan asked the female relatives to pass the word, saying that Zhang Ningyao was no longer needed to find a replacement, and this matter was put in the past, Zhang Ningyao had to break the casserole and ask to the end, but now she doesn't care who she loves. This was originally an internal matter of their clan, and it had nothing to do with her. Luo Fei had already known the result of the sacrifice, he didn't say to Zhang Ningyao that Dunzhu had replaced her, she knew that although Dunzhu was not her biological mother, her conscience would still feel uneasy.

On the large sacrificial square, the statue of the roof god hangs proudly on the mountain and looks down on all beings, the colorful wind and horse flags are like that day, and they are wound into an arch shape again and again, as if protecting the people of the Menba tribe, Pandan Juemu sits on the platform in front of the roof god statue, and on the left and right stand Bamo and Yangjin respectively. Yang Jin's expression was very anxious, she didn't know that today's sacrificial candidates had been replaced, but Ban Dan ordered her not to go anywhere next to her, she didn't dare to disobey Grandma's order, and desperately looked at Ba Mo, Ba Mo glanced at her, and that look told her not to worry, but how could she not be in a hurry.

After a while, Pandan Juemu got up, took the cane that belonged to her power and stepped forward step by step to the altar of sacrifice, the cane 'dong dong' three times to the ground, indicating that the ceremony was about to begin, the Bawo danced beside Pandan Juemu, this is the dance of asking for holy water, no one can speak when the dance begins, and wait silently. After the music ended, Dunzhu walked to the altar with the mask of the goddess and was carried by two babies, Yang Jin saw that the figure should not be Zhang Ningyao, but who could this poor woman be? She watched as Grandma was communicating with her, but she couldn't hear what they were saying. "Ajia, this is your moment, it is you who sacrificed to the roof god for the whole clan, and became the bride of the roof god, you should be happy." Pandan couldn't see Dunzhu's expression, but he could see the cloudiness and blankness of her eyes. "Mother Pandan, thank you for giving me such a high honor." Then she shouted, "I hope that my Menba people will be glorious for ten thousand years, and they will never be tormented by illness." Bandan waved his hand, and the two poisonous horses stepped forward, fed her the sleeping Gu, and placed her in the sacrificial altar. With a wave of his hand, Bandan instantly burst into flames, crackling sounds echoed in the vast square, and black smoke stretched into the sky, as if to pierce through everything and follow the great roof god.

Dunzhu's body burned for a long time, and finally there were only some black slag and white powder left in the altar, and Poison Ma scooped the ashes and black solid in the altar into a jar, which was the holy water that was begged from the holy water of the sacred mountain the night before, and each of the clansmen lined up, each of them took a bowl in their hands, and Poison Ma scooped a bowl for everyone, and everyone took a bowl full of holy water, and went to the roof of the statue to prostrate three times and then drank it. The whole holy water sacrifice ceremony ended like this, and the life of Dunzhu Baimu also ended like this, Yang Jin wanted to come forward to comfort Ban Dan but was taken away by Bamora, handed her a bowl and motioned for her to drink, Yang Jin looked at this bowl of turbid water with a fishy smell and smell, and drank it reluctantly, the liquid slowly went down her throat, and the taste was extremely unacceptable, like the smell of a rotting corpse, disgusting. Bamo glared at him, this was Abba's harshest day of the year, as if she could avoid death after this bowl of water, but she knew that her soul could no longer spend peacefully in this slowly decaying body, she could feel her soul getting lighter and lighter and her body getting heavier and heavier, so heavy that she could no longer dominate this body, as if it was not herself who dominated this body but another life, this life was more tenacious than herself, and the most terrifying thing was that she seemed to feel that every night when she was asleep, Your own soul can come out of your body, float above your body and look at your own shell.

Bandan stood beside the altar for a long time, until his legs had begun to grow. She looked at the residue in the altar, wiped away the few tears that had fallen, and remembered the past that Ajiala had done to her many years ago. When she was 16 years old, Ajiala went to study outside the mountains despite the opposition of her family, but later her family gradually let her go, because at that time she was already recognized as the next generation of Jue mother, and she had already understood Amola's Tibetan medicine needle. So the family didn't care about Ajiala anymore and let her come. She was most happy that Ajiala would come back during the hottest and coldest days of the year, and each time she brought herself a lot of books, and there were so many words in them that she couldn't even recognize. It's still Ajiala, word by word, sentence by sentence, to herself. Every time the first night she came back, she would run to her bed and beg her to tell her the story outside the mountains, and she said that she didn't really go outside, but she lived a different life there than in the mountains, although everyone still spoke Tibetan and ate tsampa and yak meat. But there are tall buildings, flat roads, four-wheeled cars, and people who don't wear Tibetan clothes, and life here is somewhat similar and some is not similar. She said that she was in school, and many people studied together, and there was a huge reading room in the school where there were all kinds of books, not only in the reading room but also borrowed to read, as long as the books were returned within the specified time. As she spoke, she pulled out a book from under her pillow, and I knew the three men called Little Women, but I couldn't spell the curved Hanyu Pinyin, and she told me that it wasn't pinyin but the English alphabet. "English?" She smiled, "This is a country that straddles the same ocean as our country, and their people there have white skin, yellow hair and blue eyes, and our Chinese pinyin to their country is the English alphabet." After she finished speaking, I inexplicably had some longing for the outside of the mountain.

But more than that, it was the fear of the unknown, so I arched into Ajiala's arms, hugged her tightly, and told her that I still wanted to be in my own home in the mountains. She patted me on the head and laughed at me, "Coward." "I laughed too, I would rather be a coward back then. If every time Ajiala comes back is my happiest day, then every time she leaves is my saddest day, and that day is also my hardest day, I will hide in the inner sanctum and practice needles on the acupuncture point diagram until the sweat on my head falls on my hands.

What is it that makes the most enviable relationship between me and Ajiala what it is now, human life is really very fragile, just now I was still a living person, and now there is only a handful of ashes left.

In a cave

Luo Fei took advantage of their sacrifice to come to Bamo's laboratory alone, the laboratory was not locked, maybe Bamo was careless, Luo Fei walked straight in and found that the laboratory had nothing else to use except for the symbol of the mysterious organization. He knew very well that there were strange habits in this village, and there were secret doors everywhere, and now whenever he touched the wall, he wanted to touch it, touch it. But there is something in the whole laboratory that makes Luo Fei feel very strange, but he doesn't know what the specific place is. After walking around the laboratory three times, the walls are fully enclosed, and if there is a cat, it can only be a seamless cabinet from the beginning to the end. Luo Fei observed carefully, the other cabinets were all separate entities, only the conjoined cabinet on the north side was as high as the ceiling, and the door was also made of metal, and he squatted down, and there was some fine sand in front of the cabinet, which was not found elsewhere in the laboratory. "Looks like it's another secret door."

The wall next to the secret door has no handles, no turntables, and white walls throughout. There is only one table in front of him, and there are all kinds of experimental equipment on the table, so under the table, Luo Fei pressed a button, and the cabinet doors opened from both sides, and there was a sliding track at the bottom, it seems that there are often people walking around inside, and it should not be to store things or something. Luo Fei walked inside, and the door of the cabinet slowly closed as Luo Fei entered. Inside is a dry corridor, dry without a pungent smell, Luo Fei walked along the corridor for about three minutes, and there was another scene in front of him, which could be described as magnificent and spectacular. The light inside is unknown, the smell of blood is everywhere, there are exposed rocks all around, looking up at dozens of baskets of different sizes hanging in a place where there is no end in sight, Luo Fei can't see what the basket contains, he suppressed his surprise, the whole place is about the size of four football fields, in front of him is the staircase leading to the front, Luo Fei saw that the end of the stairs is similar to a temple, and there are a total of three stairs on the left and right sides leading to the temple. The stone lanterns on both sides are dancing with red firelight, and the stone steps are a little old, and it seems that no one has renovated them, and there are many places that have been damaged, and it is easy to fall if you are not careful. Luo Fei counted a total of 142 steps, and he saw that the things hanging in the basket just now were like silkworm cocoons, wrapped in thick black shells, and there were dozens of them in each basket, "This should be a Gu worm." Luo Fei muttered to himself, he found that some Gu worms were still writhing, they were actually alive! But looking at the black shell with a thick layer of ash floating on it, it must have lived for a long time, so how did they eat in it? How do you excrete? After reaching the top, when Luo Fei looked down again, he couldn't see the way he came, the whole building should be built in imitation of the Bon temple, the color of the wall is not clear now, if you look closely, it should be deep vermilion, the hanging wind horse flag and the decorative tassels are golden, although this gold has been dilapidated, and the tower on the top is also golden, but the color has also fallen. Strangely enough, there is no trace of the Roof God and Mivo Buddha in the temple, only a coffin, a stone coffin, with gold paint depicting some kind of incantation, only this incantation should be painted regularly, and the color is very bright. It feels like this is not an offering but a binding thing, so what exactly is this kind of thing?