Chapter 13: The Sacrifice
Early the next morning, the guards of the stables found that General Batu's mount, Huofeng, had died, and that the wolf child had mysteriously disappeared.
Yesterday, General Batu returned from a field trip and stayed here temporarily.
As soon as he came back, he heard that the Iron Cavalry had caught a monster on the border of Dongchen and came back, it was said that the kid could not only mobilize wolves and know how to communicate with wild beasts, but also was very aggressive, everyone called him a wolf child.
Batu had wanted to come and see it last night, but unfortunately he drank too much wine and delayed, but he didn't expect to come here today and heard that the wolf boy had killed his mount and fled.
It's just that Batu thinks it's strange no matter how he thinks about it, it is said that the kid is seriously injured, and his hands and feet are tied with iron chains, plus this is the territory of Aqim, which is heavily guarded, even if he is given a pair of wings, it is difficult to escape from here.
How did the wolf child manage to disappear without alarming anyone?
When he walked into the stable, Batu was slightly stunned, and the scene in the stables was really a bit bloody.
Huofeng fell to the ground, his limbs stiffened, the white snow and cold air formed a large area of blood on the ground into a red ice surface, Huofeng's stomach seemed to have been torn by someone with a blunt object, the internal organs were dug out and discarded aside, and most of the horse's heart was torn and frozen together with the blood-red ice.
Rich wolves, tigers and leopards like to dig out internal organs to eat, but it seems to be the style of the wolf child.
It's just that the internal organs have been dug up, why is the horse's belly bulging?
Batu squatted down and touched the horse's belly, then his eyes darkened, and he quickly put his hand into the horse's belly that had been cut open, and then pulled it violently, and pulled out a bloody child from the horse's belly.
Qisheng was held by Batu's ankles and dragged out like a newborn cub, covered in mucus and inverted, and bursts of white mist rose after the warm liquid met the cold air.
"Ahem, cough, cough," Qisheng coughed violently.
Suddenly dragged into the cold air from the horse's belly soaked in warm liquid, Qisheng only felt that his limbs were as painful as pins and needles, the air he inhaled condensed in his lungs, and his frozen heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys trembled together, and he no longer had the strength to struggle.
"You kid is so clever that you got into the belly of a horse to keep warm. There was a bit of playfulness in Batu's tone.
Qisheng was dizzy, squinting slightly, because she was being dragged upside down by her legs, she only saw a pair of golden boots, and the corpse of a horse that fell to the ground and was red with blood.
Last night she was alone in the stable, cold and hungry, and a horse was brought from the stable.
There was only one horse in the stable.
She doesn't want to die, even if she is bullied like a beast like now, she also wants to live, and only by living can she have a chance to turn the tables.
So she forced herself to try to stay awake, and with what little strength she had left, she broke a plank from the fence of the stable, and made it into a blunt object with her hand, which was almost numb from the cold, and it was a breeze for her to kill a horse for many years in the labyrinthic forest.
On a cold and quiet night, warm blood gushed out, and a white mist appeared, she cut the horse's belly, put her cold hand in and took out the internal organs, and ate the horse's heart raw to restore her strength, and climbed in while it was hot.
In this way, she lived another day, and for a child like her, every extra day she lived was earned.
"What did you say, Batu took the boy away?" said Acim angrily.
He said...... said that he wanted the child, so he took the child away. "Iron Mask half-knelt in the tunnel, General Batu is the god of war of the Northern Moroccan Kingdom, and he is the younger brother of the king, no one here can stop General Batu, even Aqim and the queen are helpless.
"Bang!" Akim angrily knocked the sacrificial iron tools on the table to the ground.
It is taboo for sacrificial items to be taken away.
Moreover, this sacrifice required seventy-seven forty-nine boys and girls, all of which were indispensable, and now that the wolf child had been snatched away by Batu, there were not enough to complete the sacrifice.
"You also think that the sacrifice of the god Xuemo is a trick to deceive people, don't you? You also think that I am a god stick, the biggest liar in the Northern Mo Kingdom, right?" Aqim roared, pointing at the Iron Face with his staff, his eyes glaring as if they were about to fall, and there was a cruel cold light.
"No, no~ Dear Aqim, you are the greatest priest of the Northern Morchia Kingdom, and the Northern Moroc Kingdom was awakened by the singing of the priests, and no one is closer to the gods than you. "The iron face prostrate on the ground, palms facing up, pious words.
In the past, the high priest was the most admired existence of the people of the Northern Horse Kingdom, they were the spokesmen of the gods, not only could predict the solar terms and bless the world, but even for a long time, even the succession to the throne of the Northern Horse Kingdom had to be determined by the deduction of the high priest.
After several generations like this, the inevitable problem finally erupted.
The existence of the high priest has undoubtedly become the biggest threat and obstacle to the royal power, and the struggle for power is endless, after two hundred years of evolution of power, the power of the high priest has gradually been withdrawn and exploited until now...... It has almost become a dispensable existence.
No one believed in them anymore, and even the annual sacrifices became more and more casual, even with the sacrifice of living people, including slaves and one-horns.
Today's Beimo royal family regards her as a god who can only cheat and cheat, disdain her, and is full of contempt......
For this sacrifice, Aqim finally persuaded the princess to ask for blessing from the god Xuemo on the grounds of curing the little princess's illness. and persuaded the princess to agree to secretly dispatch the Iron Cavalry to the Dongchen border to catch 7749 boys and girls to come back to make medicine.
In such a world, the children of criminal slaves and poor peasants are born with sin, and it is their greatest glory to be able to exorcise evil spirits and drive away diseases for the little princess.
As for the Dongchen Kingdom, which has a lot of land and resources, but there are only a few sons of border slaves and poor people, they will not care, and they will never be unhappy with the North Mo Kingdom for this, breaking the peace that has been maintained for decades.
Seeing that the little princess's condition was getting worse and worse, and even the most famous healer in the Northern Mormo Kingdom was powerless, the princess compromised and used her power to assist Aqim in completing the sacrifice.
Originally, everything was going well, but I didn't expect that at the most critical moment, Batu, who had returned from the wild tour, disrupted the situation and snatched away the sacrifice to the god Xuemo.
"Snatching the sacrifice of the Snow Festival and disobeying the will of the Snow God is the greatest blasphemy against the Snow God, and the God will condemn it...... God will condemn ......" Achim opened his arms and roared in grief and anger, more like some kind of anticipation and curse.
With the passage of time, the comfortable and peaceful life made them forget the tens of thousands of frozen corpses under the vast sea of snow, forget the city buried by the blizzard, and forget the blood of the royal family who were martyred for the North Morocco.
O great god Xuemo~Wake up~Punish them~