Chapter 435: Approaching
Izumoko has no objection to Li You's decision, and there is no room for opposition. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info There is no other possibility than nodding in agreement.
After leaving Izumoko and his party, Li You suddenly sped up, and ran for about ten miles in one breath before stopping to take a breath. There is a grass shed at the foot of the mountain not far away, which is condescending, facing the direction of Li You. Seeing this grass shed, Li You knew that this was the outpost of Nigu Village. If outsiders come in, they can get the news from the hut and make a judgment based on the number of outsiders, so that the village can take a different approach.
But there was no one on the hut at this time. Li You stopped, looked around the grass hut, and found no hidden sentry. I was amazed for a while. But he soon understood why there was no secret post in this place, and he thought that he had heard the news brought by the hunter who had fled back in front of him, and he had been scared away.
A grass shed is not yet worth it that Li You left to take a closer look. After making sure that there are no traces of living people around, move on. After another five or six miles, Li You suddenly found that the hunters who had chased out Yunzi before were not far in front of him. However, the hunters' route has changed, and the direction of the hunters is not Nikozhai, but another place.
Li You quickly confirmed the target location of the hunters. It is the holy mountain in the mouth of the mountain people, and it is also the direction of the evil dragon mountain in the mouth of the cultivators. This discovery made Li You a little surprised.
This means that the Niguzhai side has already begun the ritual of sacrifice, and the hunters, regardless of whether they have harvested or not, have rushed to this place. From this point, Li You can find that Niguzhai treats him without a little carelessness and luck.
Li You's conjecture was quickly confirmed. He caught up with the hunters in front of him as fast as he could, and after a fight, several of them were killed and wounded, and the others fled into the mountains and forests, leaving two hunters who could speak a little Chinese to question. From it came the answer he wanted to know.
After Nika fled back to the cottage, he brought back the news that Li You had slaughtered dozens of hunters, and the village was shocked and immediately prepared to retaliate. However, the most elite hunter team was crushed and wiped out by Li You without difficulty, and although there were many people in Niguzhai, they also knew that the wicked people who killed them in the mountains were no longer enemies they could deal with.
Under the impetus of Nika, the whole village decided to invite the mountain gods to deal with the demons outside the mountain. Nigu Village has been deep in the mountains for thousands of years, in addition to the protection of the mountain gods, more is the strength of the villagers. This is not a simple individual toughness, but bottom-up toughness, in the Nigu Village, there is no such thing as old and weak women and children, from the eight-year-old child to the eighty-year-old dying old man, the skills and nature of the hunt are flowing in the blood.
The villagers set out in groups as quickly as possible, spreading out, plundering as many people as possible around them, which according to Nikozhai called human animals.
The process of sacrifice was very cumbersome, and the sacrifice of human animals was the last sacrifice procedure, so the hunters continued to hunt and throw. Hearing this news, Li You breathed a sigh of relief, threw down the hunter who was tortured to death in the process of being forced by him, and ran all the way towards the sacrificial site Evil Dragon Mountain.
According to the hunter's confession, Li You deduced that the captured human animals would live for at least three to five hours. This time is not long, but it is not short, if you are lucky enough, it is enough for Li You to save them. But the follow-up matter, Li You has no way to further control it.
Nothing to say all the way. Approaching the realm of Evil Dragon Mountain, Li You encountered several very cleverly set traps along the way. However, the trap is obviously new, and it is not difficult to find that only the last serial trap caused a little trouble to Li You, but there is also no danger, easy to crack, and then it will be smooth all the way.
When approaching Zishi, Li You finally approached Evil Dragon Mountain. When he arrived at this place, Li You cleaned up his breath. With the black stone in his arms, the aura released by the Kun Fu was infinitely close to zero. However, even such a faint aura was covered by the black stone, and there was no sound at all about ten centimeters around him.
Even if the beast released its perception search, if it was not clear where Li You was, it would be difficult to lock Li You's location.
Without further exploration, Li You quickly found the place where the sacrifice was made. It was a small hill, facing the river, and at the end of the river was a steep cliff, and the source of the river was pouring out of the undercurrent below the cliff.
The rain had stopped half an hour earlier. At this time, torches supported by animal fat were lit on the mountain, and there were many of them, and I don't know how many were burned, and the clouds on the horizon were burned brightly, showing a touch of scarlet.
Li You only looked at the mountain slightly. At the foot of the mountain and around the river, there are patrols of hunters, as if they were facing a great enemy. Li You knew that they were vigilant and searching for themselves. But these amateur levels, it is too difficult to find him. Other hunters, even hunting dogs with an extremely sensitive sense of smell, are difficult to spot Li You.
Li You sneaked over quietly, knocked out a hunter hiding in the corner and sentry, dragged him into the woods, and after waking up, he asked a more specific question. From the hunter's mouth, Li You learned that the sacrificial procedure had begun, but there was still more than an hour before the time of sacrifice, and the human and animal sacrifices were not sacrificed to the mountain god until the end of the hour. At this time, the owner of the village, that is, the wizard in the village who can communicate with the mountain god, is still doing things to communicate the will of the mountain god at the moment.
When Li You asked about the people who were captured as sacrifices, Li You knew that the actions of Niguzhai were really fast, and they swept a radius of more than 50 miles in one day, and captured nearly 200 people in total. This is still the result of time constraints, and if they are given more time, they will only be able to capture more sacrifices. Even the owner of the village once thought of leading the strong to capture a certain fangren village more than 100 miles away, and sacrifice all the living mouths of the village with a population of nearly 1,000 people in exchange for the favor of the mountain god.
It's just that the time is too late, and this plan can only be abandoned.
Li You listened in horror. More than two hundred living people were sacrificed, which already made him feel a huge anger, and he cursed the line of Niguzhai in his heart, but at this moment, Li You found that for the hunters of Niguzhai, there is not much difference between two hundred and one thousand, they are all sacrifices, just human animals, not living kind.
This made Li You feel disgusted at the same time, but he vaguely thought of one thing. He sensed that this matter seemed to have something to do with the customs of these mountain people.
That was still a thing that Professor Qi inadvertently mentioned when he was chatting with Professor Qi when he was studying. It is a secret story in the process of replacing the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty. Of course, the so-called secret news is actually just Professor Qi's own speculation. There is no real evidence.
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