Chapter 508: Blood Feast (Part II)
Many people heard the voice of the Black King, and they looked at the Black King with puzzled eyes, as if they suspected that they had heard it wrong.
They heard it right, and after a few seconds, the Black King repeated: "Moth! Damn it! ”
It was also at the same time that I noticed that someone in the crowd had collapsed to the ground, and the group that had collapsed at first was the one who had grabbed the most alcohol and drank the most, and the people around them thought they were drunk and laughed at them.
Soon, however, weakness swept over everyone like a plague, and people were slumped on the ground, first men who had drunk relatively much, then women and old men.
Soon someone reacted that it was the Black King who had moved his hands and feet in the wine, and at first they were only puzzled, and their faces did not show much fear. Until the Black King issued an order to the vine armor soldiers: "Kill these moths!" ”
At this point, the Black King and his army finally showed their ferocious side, and the vine-armored soldiers pounced on the villagers ten times their size with spears and axes, and the tragedy began.
For many of the villagers who were reveling, the killing came without warning. When the first man was pierced in the throat by a spear, the splatters of blood frightened the others, and they began to shout and scream, some were crying out to the Black King, some were loudly questioning the Black King and the spear-wielding soldiers, and some were staring at the men with butcher knives with wide eyes and horror.
The Black King didn't say a word, just watched quietly, as quiet as an emotionless stone sculpture.
The soldiers, who appeared to be seasoned veterans, were killed every time they stabbed their spears, and each of them had no extra movement to raise their spears mechanically and plunge them into the chests and throats of the villagers.
Their methods were rough and efficient, and in a short period of time, the crowd that was still reveling just now turned into a mass of corpses lying in the village.
I watched from afar as the Great Witch came out of his house, and he also witnessed the killing that was taking place, and I saw him slowly fall to his knees, looking directly at those who had been killed, and tears streaming down his face.
When the last man was dying, the Black King suddenly asked a soldier, "Have you seen the Great Witch?" ”
The Great Witch was in the dark, and the Black King couldn't see him, but in fact, he was not far from the Black King, and he could hear the Black King's voice clearly.
It seemed as if it took all his strength to get up from the ground, he took one last look at the center of the village full of corpses, turned and rushed to his house.
I knew he was going to use that secret door to escape.
Liang Houzai once said that after the Black King slaughtered Dazhai, only one person escaped. It seems that that person is the Great Witch...... No, it doesn't have to be a witch, if I'm not mistaken, the mountain horse should still be in the village.
Then the Black King said to his soldiers, "Leave ten men in the stockade to look for the Great Witch, and the rest, go, and burn the nests of these moths." ”
As if enchanted, the soldiers immediately rushed out of the village and ran in the direction of the village.
We left Dazhai through the secret door of Dawu's residence and came to the entrance of the village in advance.
At this time, Yamama stood at the entrance of the village and looked at Dazhai, he may not know what was happening in Dazhai, but his eyes showed deep uneasiness.
The Black King's army soon came into view, and the Black King changed his usual amiable image by sitting on a makeshift palanquin, carried by some of the most burly soldiers. The night wind blew past him, and the torches in the hands of the soldiers illuminated his majestic face, as if at this time, the Black King had become a true king.
A king who has lost his mind and is cruel and murderous!
Seeing the Black King from a distance, Yamama walked towards the soldiers, who also saw him and frowned tightly.
Nearly a thousand soldiers stopped more than ten meters away from the village, their faces expressionless, their eyes swept past the mountain horses, and looked at the rows of houses in the village.
Standing on the opposite side of the phalanx, Shanma shouted at the Black King, "Great King! ”
He thought the Black King would respond to him, but the Black King didn't.
After a moment, the Black King waved his hand and slowly spat out two words: "Ignition." ”
Nearly a thousand soldiers immediately threw their arms and threw torches at the wooden houses in the village.
The first to be ignited were the thatched houses, which were made of pure wood and did not burn so easily, but the torches kept falling on the roofs, and after a period of burning, sparks began to appear on the roofs, and then these sparks slowly spread to the rest of the house.
Yamama looked back at the fire that was gradually rising in the village, but he still didn't react to what was going on, and shouted at the black king: "Why did the king burn the village?" ”
At this moment, the shout of the Great Witch was remembered in the distance: "Mountain horse, go quickly!" ”
I looked in the direction from which the sound came, and saw the Great Witch rushing like a madman, coming from the direction of the mountain pass, with a package of animal skins on his back.
It can be seen that he originally planned to leave the village at night, but probably halfway through the way, he remembered that the mountain horse was still in the village, and turned back.
The Black King also saw the Great Witch and immediately ordered the soldiers: "Kill him!" ”
These soldiers were like machines, and without any hesitation, they pounced on the Great Witch with a blank face.
The Great Witch took out a metallic bottle from his baggage, uncorked it, and sprinkled the light yellow powder from the bottle on the vine armor soldiers who rushed towards him.
I don't know what the powder is, but as soon as the rattan armor touches them, it immediately burns, and the soldiers who rushed to the front are immediately covered with tongues of fire, but I didn't expect the screams, and I didn't see them struggling.
The men rushed to the Great Witch and stabbed the fiery spears at the Great Witch, who tried to dodge, but there were too many spears that pierced him, three spears pierced his back, and two spears pierced his abdomen.
The Great Witch fell, but did not die immediately, he desperately climbed backwards for a while, and then shouted at the mountain horse: "Mountain horse, run, go to the Yelang King!" ”
The mountain horse didn't leave, he pushed away the few vine armor soldiers who were eyeing the Great Witch, as if he wanted to go to the Great Witch.
At this moment, a bloody spear pierced the horse's chest, and the man holding the spear was the Black King.
The Black King drew his spear and handed it to one of the soldiers beside him, then he turned his head to look at the growing fire in the village, and said to the people around him, "Go back, the sacred tree is waiting for us." ”
As he spoke, he got on the sedan chair, which was carried by the soldiers, and walked towards Dazhai.
I thought that one of the two people would definitely survive, but the horse was dead, and the blood on the witch would be drained. I don't understand why the Great Witch came back, he knew that his return would be a dead end, and besides, he had sacrificed the whole village because he was afraid of death, so why did he risk the mountain horse to come back alone.
He should know that even if he rushes back, he won't be able to save the mountain horse, and he will have to put his life into it in vain.
The Great Witch lay on the ground, and he looked at the mountain horse lying in a pool of blood, and his eyes were full of endless pain.
That kind of pain has nothing to do with pain, it seems to come from the sadness of the heart.
The Black King and his army were getting farther and farther away, and just as I began to wonder who had told the Yelang King what had happened in Dazhai, there was a rapid coughing sound at the entrance of the village.
An emaciated old man climbed out of the village with difficulty, holding on to the wall.
I took a closer look at his smoky-blackened face, with a large hooked nose and thin lips, and he was Uto.
Unexpectedly, at this time, Utop, who had been in a coma for a whole day, woke up.
After he came out of the entrance of the village, he sat on the ground at a loss, and he looked at the Black King and the vine armor soldiers who were getting farther and farther away, his eyes were extremely empty.
I felt that his current state seemed to be somewhere between the living and the dead, his body could move, but his consciousness had not yet fully recovered.
It took a long time for Uto's eyes to have a look that a living person should have, and he looked at his surroundings in a daze, until his gaze fell on the mountain horse and the great witch, and Uto's consciousness was gradually awakened.
The expression on his face slowly recovered from his stiffness, then slowly became confused, and then suddenly changed from confusion to shock.
Urto struggled to get up from the ground and staggered to the Great Witch.
He pushed the witch's head with his hand, and the witch slowly opened his eyes, and then coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Utuo immediately took off the hairpin on his head and pushed it Da Wu's body a few times, he seemed to have sealed several acupuncture points on Da Wu's body, Da Wu no longer vomited blood, and his sanity gradually recovered.
It took a long time for the Great Witch to recognize that the person in front of him was Uto, and he raised his hand with almost all his strength, patted his burden, and said to Uto, "Take it ...... To...... Yoro...... King. ”
Uto carefully examined the injuries on the Great Witch's body and responded, "I can heal you, I can heal you, don't talk now." ”
The Great Witch shook his head with difficulty, and raised a finger to point at the mountain horse: "Can you ...... Heal him? ”
Uto shook his head: "Great Wu, the mountain horse is dead. ”
The Great Witch suddenly laughed: "My only ...... The child died...... I'm going to heaven...... and he ...... Meet, tell...... Tell him he's my child. ”
Uto paused, he looked into the eyes of the Great Witch, and after a long time, sighed.
At this time, the Great Witch was getting weaker and weaker, and when he was dying, he used his last strength to say a complete sentence: "Tell King Yelang that the prophecy has come true, the Black King has killed everyone, and the sacred tree ......"
He couldn't finish his words, and in the light of the fire, the Great Witch's pupils lost their last brilliance.
Uto took the witch's burden in his arms, and he stood up weakly and left the area illuminated by the firelight.
I think that Utuo should not have left immediately at that time, and if he did, the next scene would not have appeared in the ancient book that Grandpa Li passed on to Liang Houzai.
After Uto's figure had completely gone into darkness, the fog that had been hanging around the sacred tree dissipated.
The huge tree finally appeared in my field of vision, it looked like a huge birch tree, with many eye-like markings on the tree, each of which was facing Dazhai, as if the holy tree was watching everything that happened in Dazhai.
As I saw in the vision, the tree was at least tens of meters tall and twenty stories tall...... No, it was at least thirty stories tall, it must have been close to a hundred meters high, and the tree was not only tall, but also very thick. The other trees in the deep valley were like weeds growing under his feet.
But the tree was about to wither, and the season in the illusion should be close to midsummer, and the valley was full of life, but the branches of this tree were bare, and not a single leaf grew on the whole tree.