Chapter 48: The Sacrificial Ritual
Then I remembered the wooden man, could it be...... They made the bearded man into a wooden man?
As he was thinking, the soil in front of him suddenly moved, as if something was trying to get out of it.
We stood alertly and stood back, staring at the soil.
The trembling of the soil layer is getting bigger and bigger, and I feel that the thing below is about to crawl out, and everyone is staring at the soil layer with fierce eyes, and if they find that the other party is in danger, they will immediately beat it to death.
When the other party's head came out of the ground, everyone couldn't help but gasp. It was a bearded man, and his eyes were empty, and his mouth was empty, but he was staring at us like that, and his head was still moving twice.
His head was already shriveled up, and I seriously suspected that it was a hollow wooden man inside. But I'm not sure.
"Bearded." Dayang was shocked and ran up to rescue the other party. I grabbed Dayang and shouted goodbye, he was not a beard, just a wooden man with a big beard.
Dayang's face was full of disbelief: "What are you kidding? Can your wooden man still move? ā
I said that the wooden man of the pan door can move.
As I was talking, there was a sudden banging sound behind me, and then I felt a weight slam against me, and I was taken aback, but I was powerless to resist, and I was knocked to the ground by this force.
Be careful!
Deserted and shouted, and hurried towards me. I immediately turned my head to look, and saw that it was a bearded man who had come out of the dirt and was rushing at me with open arms.
I'm cĒo your uncle. I stretched out my leg and was about to kick the beard away, but the desert was already angrily hugging the bearded arm, shouting and running as fast as possible.
The bearded man no longer dealt with me, but reached out and slapped him on the back with a very mechanical slap, and the desert fell to the ground with a pop.
Tang Yiyi scolded damned, and also stabbed it with a soft sword, piercing the bearded man's stomach at once. However, the bearded man didn't feel any pain at all, and when he turned around suddenly, he threw Tang Yiyi out with a sword. Then he continued to pounce on me.
I'm cĒo fucking, I can see it, he deliberately targeted me. I struggled to my feet, picked up a rock from the ground, and threw it at his head.
I used almost all my strength to smash him, but I only paused for a moment, and then he continued walking.
I immediately gave Dayang a look, Dayang mustered up the courage to take off his pants, strangled the bearded man's neck with the two legs of his pants, and dragged it back angrily, the strength of the beard is not trivial, how can Dayang be able to move? He stumbled several times by the bearded man, and almost fell to the ground several times.
Quietly shouted: "Liu Yang, lead him to the river." It is estimated that there is sulfuric acid and other things in the river, and it is steaming hot. ā
I immediately ran to the river, and the bearded man changed direction and chased after me.
When the bearded man ran in front of me, I quickly dodged away, and Dayang immediately let go of his beard, and deserted to take advantage of the opportunity to run, kicking the beard into the river.
The beard rolled down the river. The moment his body came into contact with the river, a puff of black smoke immediately began to rise from his body, and it seemed that there were indeed substances such as nitrate and sulfuric acid in the river.
But the bearded man quickly struggled to his feet, and by the time he stood up, the skin had already been charred, and large holes had been burned in many places, through which he could see that there was wood inside.
Despite this, the bearded man was still trying to climb up the shore, and I immediately threw the beard with a stone.
The bearded man was visibly exhausted, and although he was crawling towards the shore, his movements became more and more sluggish, and at last his legs began to burn, and finally enveloped him.
After falling into the river, he floated on the surface of the water, motionless.
Dayang was dumbfounded, and looked at me tremblingly: "That...... How can it be a wooden man? How can a wooden man move? ā
I said, "How much do you know about Panmen?" Obviously, only the Panmen Descendant can make such a precise wooden figure. ā
Dayang shook his head: "I don't know at all, what is Panmen?" ā
I said, "You don't have to hide it from us, we have already investigated you and know that you have something to do with Panmen." If you don't take the initiative to confess, you can only end up with the same fate as a beard, I hope you can figure it out. ā
Dayang looked at us with a smile and a smile: "What nonsense, Panmen is a listed company?" Or the world's top 500? How do I know about him? ā
It seems that Dayang really doesn't know anything about Panmen, could he have been used as a gun by that mysterious woman?
Tang Yiyi limped up and scolded her for being uneasy, I asked her if she was okay, Tang Yiyi said it was okay, but her arm hurt badly.
I hurriedly looked at her arms and found that their arms were all broken, and they were bruised. Tang Yiyi said that he fell on a big rock just now, but fortunately, he didn't hurt his bones, but his strength may be weakened a little.
I said it's okay, let me protect you.
Deserted sneeringly, tsk, what about heroes saving beauty, why didn't such a romantic thing happen to me?
I said don't be poor, didn't you see seven or eight people before? It is estimated that there must be a wooden man waiting for an opportunity to attack, so let's get rid of the wooden man first.
Deserted for a while: "It's so difficult to deal with a machine, if there are six or seven more at once, we will still be a fart." ā
I said probably not so many, and I suspect that half of them were skinned people, and the other half were wooden people.
It makes sense to desert, so let's look for it first.
But Dayang stopped and asked us if we were hiding something from him.
I said, what can we hide from you? Dayang hesitated: "What's going on with Panmen?" ā
I said, "Panmen, one of the world's top 500 companies, specializes in furniture. My grandfather was one of the shareholders of Panmen, and the boss disappeared with a huge amount of money, so I came to the boss. ā
"What's your boss? Do you want you to look for him at the bottom of the Linqing Tower? Dayang was quite skeptical of my answer. I didn't expect him to believe it anyway.
Desertion threatened him to beat you out if he was disobedient, Dayang was very angry, but he was helpless.
We quickly found the rest of the wooden figures. Thankfully, the rest of the wooden figures had fallen apart, and it seemed that the quality of the workmanship was not very good, so we threw them all into the river just in case of an accident.
After solving a few wooden people, we were a lot more relaxed. I was determined that we would continue to follow this river of nitric acid, and maybe we would find something. Several others agreed.
Nothing was found, so we came back and climbed up the chain.
The further you go, the more space there becomes. I really can't imagine that there is such a large underground cave under the outskirts of a city.
Luckily, there are enough roots down there, so we don't have to worry about lighting.
After continuing to move forward for a while, we found that there were gradually traces of human beings, first there were artificially carved patterns on both sides of the cave, but they were corroded and intermittent, and then many production tools were found, most of which were carpenters', and finally an iron chain was found.
The iron chain is exactly the same as the iron chain I saw before, maybe it was too long and corroded and broken, and this iron chain lay quietly on the ground and stretched forward.
We also found several skeletons underneath the chains, broken and broken, presumably broken by the chains.
When we came to the end, a behemoth in front of us caught our eye.
It was a huge uncle root, growing out of the underground river, and I suspect that ten people may not be able to embrace the uncle root with their arms open. The thick iron chain surrounded the roots of the big tree, and there were more than a dozen bones on the iron chain, which were firmly tied to the uncle's roots, and even several bones had grown into the roots of the big tree.
There was a hole next to the root of the tree, which was supported by something metal, and after an iron chain circled the tree, it went into the hole. It was swarthy inside, and you couldn't see anything.
We stood in front of the big tree root, looking at it with a look of fear, and we didn't know how many years old this big tree root was, and it was still full of life.
How did it survive without sunlight? The top of the tree had been cut off, and the top was bare. It's like a pretty big platform.
Deserted and said, how do you look at how do you think this thing looks like a site where some kind of sacrificial ceremony is held, I think it's quite similar, but whether it is specific or not remains to be verified.
Tang Yiyi's voice was a little frightened: "Why, I think I've been here before?" ā
Deserted smiled and said that bragging, not drafting.
Tang Yiyi shook his head: "What I said is true. ā
"What do you remember?"
"I don't remember anything." Tang Yiyi said: "But that familiar feeling is very strong, and it can't be fake." ā
I nodded thoughtfully.
Puff, puff!
At this moment, the sound of falling water came from behind him. My heart thumped and I quickly turned my head to look, and there was darkness behind me, and I couldn't see anything.
"Grass, someone." Deserted and cursed, and we immediately went into a state of alertness.
But after the sound of falling water, it was deathly quiet, and there was no other movement.
Just now...... What's going on? Desert swallowed hard and asked.
I shook my head and said that it was better to be careful, it must be that girl named Li Xueqin who is playing tricks.
Everyone nodded, cautiously looking at the darkness in the distance, and only then did they breathe a sigh of relief after confirming that there was no movement.
As soon as he breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly shouted, "Look, what's in the river?" ā
We immediately looked in the direction of Quiet Finger, and when we looked at it, we immediately felt a numb scalp.