Chapter 24: The Sacrifice

Along the way, I didn't dare to stare at the gentle slope, only dared to stare at my feet, until I reached the end of the road, I finally reached the gentle slope at the top of the mountain, and the dazzling fire and pungent smell made me a little confused for a while, and the feeling of tears in my eyes made me unable to see what was in front of me.

But no one asked me anything, but at this time, I don't know who pushed me into the crowd that was dancing weird steps, I didn't react at all, and for a while I stood in the crowd stupidly, which was very conspicuous.

And this weird dance step is constantly moving, when I realize that I have been pushed into the crowd, I have been pushed forward by the people moving behind, I don't know how to dance this kind of dance step at all, for a while the whole body is covered with hot sweat, so I am afraid that I will be more conspicuous when I am pushed, right?

The crowd was still quiet, but a cold snort came from above, and as I moved my steps, I looked up and found that behind the huge fire around the people, there was a platform made of wood, and on the platform there were several people in black robes, and the cold snort was made by them.

What about these people? At this moment, I have lifted the eye of heaven, but I still notice that the aura they exude is very strange, in short, it does not look like the breath of a human being, and there is something else on the platform, and I don't have time to look closely, so I am pushed forward by the crowd again.

At this moment, a deep and old voice sounded beside me: "You must be attentive during the sacrifice, the last time someone was not attentive, they were thrown into the Yellow River in advance, you don't know how terrible it is to concentrate." The people above are already angry. ”

I didn't know who the person next to me was, because he was also wearing a black cloak, and no one could see who was who, and he probably thought I was a native of the town, and he reminded me out of kindness, but it made me realize that the people in this town are not as cold as I thought?

At this time, I was destined to not be able to fool around, but fortunately, I have practiced many sets of martial arts since I was a child in order to strengthen my body, and my body is also flexible, I began to pay attention to the movements of others, and followed the imitation of this strange movement and footsteps, although it still seems a little clumsy, but it is not so conspicuous.

There was another cold snort from above, which made my whole body tense, but after two minutes there was no extra movement, which made me know that this time I was fooled, and as time passed, I found that this strange dance step was just a few simple movements, like rowing while constantly pulling something out of my body and discarding it on the ground (or in the water?). And then I worshipped it reverently, so I quickly became familiar with it.

It's just that with this familiarity, weird feelings also began to emerge in my mind, what to take from myself? After carefully pondering the movements of my hands, I realized that it was the position of the internal organs of the five elements, then the flesh and blood of the limbs, and finally the head of my own body. I couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth in my heart, and a weird feeling immediately spread all over my body! This is simply an evil sacrifice, what sacrifice is offered to one's own flesh and blood?

I remembered their veneration of skeletons, and the corners of my eyes jumped unconsciously.

The dance continued, and after I became familiar with this set of movements, I began to observe the high platform behind the fire, but unfortunately, the fire was only surrounded by people in the center, and the light was blocked, and on the high platform, only in the center of the front was a huge brazier, and above the brazier was a large ceramic bowl, and the large bowl emitted curling blue-black smoke, from which the strange and pungent smell came from.

And because the brazier was hanging high, but because of the angle, I could only see the black-robed people standing in front of the high platform, and the shadow behind me made me think that there was something, but I didn't know what it was?

How long will this sacrifice take place? Even if I am leaning on the fire, I keep doing weird exercises, my body is still getting colder and colder, the yang energy is locked, it is not a simple blood flow, close to a warm place can restore the body temperature, my heart has begun to be a little anxious, if necessary, I must untie the lock yang knot, not to mention the danger of life, as the body is cold, the limbs will be stiff, how can I still fool?

However, the lock yang knot has only been tied once, and the second time it will hurt me a lot, and I suddenly regret such an adventure, so that I suddenly have no way out.

It was also at this time that a cold middle-aged man's voice suddenly sounded on the high platform: "Ignition!" Then, the people around me began to roar in unison, and then began to hum a strange tune from their mouths, and the throat was indistinctly roaring in some language, and I couldn't hear it clearly, but this tune was really creepy, just like the music of the evil goblins in Journey to the West, and like the weird scene soundtrack in a ghost movie, the tune that ghosts will appear at any time.

Are the people of this town evil? Humming such a tune?

I opened my mouth speechlessly, but the low humming and chirping was simply perfunctory, and no one paid attention to me anyway, but I found that after a fire, several copper basins were lit up on the high platform one after another, and finally the entire high platform was illuminated.

Then, I finally saw the existence of the high platform, but the discovery made me gasp, it turned out that in the middle of the high platform was placed a wooden boat, the whole wooden boat was painted blood red, tied with a large red cloth flower to represent the festivity, and in the boat sat four beautiful children, two men and two women, who looked no more than 5 years old.

The boy was wearing black satin clothes, with a small cap from the Qing Dynasty, with two red feathers on behalf of the groom and the groom's official on the hat, and a big red flower on his body, while the girl was wearing a red wedding dress, combing the bride's head and the four children sat on the blood-red boat in horror, their faces were smeared with white powder, and they were rubbed with red rouge.

And around them, there were several huge plates, one plate with large bloody hearts, one plate with large bloody internal organs, and the other plate with piles of flesh and blood, just looking at these plates, I wanted to vomit, what was that?

The crowd was still turning, just when it was my turn to turn to the side close to the high platform, I endured the nausea, and took a closer look, it turned out that these bloody things were just models carved out of wood, but they were drenched with a layer of blood that I don't know what it was, but how could a child bear this?

My heart suddenly became angry, I don't know what they are doing with their children on the high platform? But I don't think that's a good thing at all?

People were still humming weird tunes around me, but I thought I was going to do something, but what should I do? What am I going to do?

But at this moment, the man in black who was standing in the middle on the high platform suddenly raised his hands, and then shouted: "Stop!" ”

The people who were still dancing and chanting just now seemed to have suddenly pressed the button, all stopped, and there was no movement, and then they knelt down towards the high platform in unison.

Again, I didn't react, I didn't kneel, and in the whole crowd, I was standing very abruptly, but I couldn't do it if I knelt down to these evil guys who didn't know what it was.

The person on the high platform noticed me again this time, and one of the people standing next to the man in the middle snorted coldly, and it seemed that he was about to jump off the high platform, but he was blocked by the person in the middle and didn't know what medicine was sold in the gourd.

I knew that everything was not so simple, took a deep breath, and I began to quietly untie the lock yang knot tied to my body, this kind of knot can not be torn apart, suddenly tearing it will cause the yang energy to gush out at once, causing the breath to be poor, so I can only untie it in a special way, but this is not difficult for me who has long been familiar with it!

I was untying the knot, but my pants were quietly being pulled by the person next to me, reminding me in a very small and anxious voice: "Kneel, kneel down" It can be seen that the person next to me is really worried about me and is not the same person who reminded me just now! Once again, I feel that the people in this town are not as cold as they seem.

"The boy has been selected and sent to the Holy Village, and as for him, he is the new river god sacrifice." On the high platform, the man in the middle finally spoke, his voice was cold, and he was pinching my life like the life of an ant.

Hiding in the shadow of the cloak, I laughed angrily, didn't I? and make me a sacrifice.

At this moment, more than a dozen hurried steps sounded behind us, and an old and weak voice also came from behind us: "Don't cough and make evil again!" ”