Chapter 11: The Sacrifice of the Living Child
"It really doesn't look right here. If it were somewhere else, the streets would still be full of people. ”
"If only a normal place could crush me like this......?"
The silence in the ancient city, and the vast night made this deserted place even more ghostly, as if there was a potential danger anywhere.
"Where are we staying tonight?"
"Sleeping on the floor. ”
"Young Master Ben doesn't want it!"
Just as they were about to start arguing again, a woman burst out of a small house. The woman was very fat, with a big belly, and walked cautiously, as if trying to avoid something. Seeing Tian Zeye and Que Zhaoyan, they were obviously surprised, and after looking at their outfits twice, they breathed a sigh of relief and continued to walk forward as if nothing had happened.
"Shall we go up and ask about the situation?"
"Wait......" Tian Zeye stopped Que Zhaoyan, "Why is that person's body so bloated ......?"
"You think too much, people just get fatter. ”
Perhaps the woman was walking too fast and accidentally fell, but she didn't seem to feel any pain, got up and continued walking.
But through the hazy moonlight, Tian Zeye and Que Zhaoyan vaguely saw that the woman seemed to have dropped a pillow or something.
The woman's figure was immediately much thinner, and when she noticed that the pillow had fallen, she quickly tried to put it back, but when this one was tucked, the other fell again.
The woman glanced at the direction of Tian Zeye and Qi Zhaoyan, and was completely confused, and her movements became more and more chaotic, and finally all the pillows stuffed on her body fell off.
It was then that they realized that the woman was pregnant.
Seeing that they had not taken care of themselves, the woman looked grateful, picked up the pillow and tried to run.
"Stop!"
A few officers and soldiers sprang out of the attics and kicked the woman to the ground.
"Why are these people like this!" Que Zhaoyan just wanted to step forward to help, but Tian Zeye had already fallen heavily beside him, and it seemed that he was unconscious.
"Zeye!"
Que Zhaoyan knew very well that if he used his spiritual power or strenuous exercise again, Tian Zeye, who had gathered his soul, was likely to be in danger of his life. The top priority was to drag Tianze Ye to a small shade to hide.
Those people didn't stand up and punched and kicked the pregnant woman, and the pregnant woman was desperately protecting the child in her belly, and she gritted her teeth when she saw it.
Tian Zeye put his shoulder very weakly and said, "Even if you want to help now, we are helpless." Those people looked like officers and soldiers, and if they meddled at will, they might break the rules here. ”
Que Zhaoyan nodded unwillingly, and could only eavesdrop on the conversation of those people.
"Do you know that there are children who don't report it, but it's a capital offense?!"
"Don't ...... Other...... Don't touch my child...... Don't kill him......"
"Hurry up and give birth, and then take it to the living child sacrifice!"
"Please spare him...... I beg you to ......"
"Hey, do you know that the children who can be selected for the living child sacrifice are all favored by God!
The officers and soldiers lifted the woman's feet a few more times, but this time it was different, and the pregnant woman began to scream, and the more she screamed, the more desolate and sad she became.
The officers and soldiers were startled and said a few words to a person, and after a while, another woman came.
The woman approached the pregnant woman, as if trying to deliver her, but the pregnant woman did not want to live or die, and kicked her legs hard.
"You beasts, let go of my children!"
Several officers and soldiers held her impatiently, while another woman ignored the screams of the pregnant woman, and after a while, a child with mutilated limbs and covered in blood was pulled out and handed to several officers and soldiers.
The officers and soldiers looked at the child, held him in his hands, and said, "Another child chosen by God!
Several other officers and soldiers took one look at the pregnant woman, stepped on her abdomen in disgust, and left.
"What are these people doing!"
"It turns out that the so-called 'ancient city' has even been reserved for pedantry, so let's go up and see her situation first. ”
Que Zhaoyan nodded, and helped Tianze Ye to the faceless pregnant woman.
When the pregnant woman saw them, she seemed to see some kind of savior, and she grabbed them by the hem of their trousers and murmured, "Please...... Save my child......"
Tian Zeye and Que Zhaoyan squatted down together, looking at the pool of blood under the pregnant woman, and the immortal eyes, and hated those officers and soldiers even more.
"Your child ......, why was he taken to ............? And what ......?"
Qi Zhaoyan, who wanted to ask a lot of irrelevant questions, turned his head suddenly, feeling that he was lucky not to ask.
It is worthy of Tianze night, asking questions and focusing only on the key points.
"Living Child Sacrifice...... Chop ...... Child...... Fire...... To give...... Tenjin ......"
"And this kind of thing!"
"Where are your children?"
The pregnant woman used all her strength to point in one direction, with a little gratitude and regret in her eyes.
"Save my child...... Thank you...... Child...... Blame me for not being able to accompany you......"
The pregnant woman's eyes completely lost their brightness, and her head was tilted to one side.
Tian Zeye pressed her cold neck with his hand, and then withdrew his hand.
"There's no pulse. ”
Que Zhaoyan clenched his fists, pointed in that direction and said, "Kill those bastards!"
Tian Zeye nodded and struggled to stand up.
"Are you alright......?"
"It's fine. Tian Zeye's eyes flashed with a cold light: "Some people, it's better to live than to die." ”
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"Zeye, where are those children locked up......?"
"If I knew I would have rushed in with you. ”
The two of them followed the direction pointed by the pregnant woman to a large square. There was a group of people around here, there were many houses around, and many officers and soldiers were covered in blood, looking like they had just experienced something.
"Young Master Sparrow, have you ever been to this kind of occasion?"
"I didn't ...... No...... But the smell of blood can be adapted...... Where are the kids?"
"Listen. ”
"??? how do you want me to listen to ...... so noisy here?"
"If you are calm, you will be able to hear it. ”
Que Zhaoyan closed his eyes in disbelief, but there was still a noise in his ears.
"The noise naturally has to be removed, otherwise Linyang and I would have died a long time ago. ”
After carefully discerning for dozens of seconds, Que Zhaoyan finally heard the cry and screams of a child, and opened his eyes suddenly.
"What are you hearing?"
"Fourth, what about you?"
"Again, it looks like you've learned a little bit. ”
The two secretly wounded two officers and soldiers standing guard, changed into the clothes of officers and soldiers, and covered up in the crowd.
"The gods are still unhappy today, so we have to give them another gift!
There was a sudden boiling sound from the high platform, and a teenage child was tied and pushed onto the high platform, and two officers and soldiers stood on his left and right. One was carrying a sword, the other was holding a torch.
The people in the audience began to cry and exclaim leisurely, and some people kept shouting for the children on the stage, apparently the parents of the children.
The children on the stage trembled, their eyes full of fear. Looking at the severed arm and stump in front of him, he already knew what he would become.
"This is to ......" Que Zhaoyan just wanted to come to the stage to save people, but was stopped by Tian Zeye: "If you save him, other officers and soldiers will strengthen the vigilance of that room, my current situation cannot be separated, and saving him is equivalent to giving up other children." ”
"But......" Que Zhaoyan looked at the high platform, his eyes hesitant.
"Zhaoyan, sometimes if you want to get some, you have to give up others. ”
Que Zhaoyan finally reluctantly turned his head: "Let's go." ”
He couldn't bear to look at the child, but the screams of the severed limbs and the burning of the fire were etched in his heart.
"Will the woman's child be there too?"
Tian Zeye raised his hand weakly and pointed in the direction of the bonfire.
Only then did Que Zhaoyan see clearly that the bonfire was full of dead baby corpses.
His lip had been bitten and bleeding, and for the first time he realized that he was so incompetent.
The parents of the children behind them roared to resist the officers and soldiers, but they were all mercilessly slaughtered.
He didn't want to look back, and he didn't want to look back.
"Stop!
Tian Zeye and Que Zhaoyan stopped at the same time, and a sense of foreboding spread around.
"We're ...... New ......"
"Oh, the new guy, why didn't I see you reporting?"
"We ......"
"What kind of wine are you drinking tonight?"
Tianze Night's Que Zhaoyan looked confused.
What is this...... Signal......?
Que Zhaoyan obviously began to panic, but Tian Zeye was as calm as ever, quietly took his hand, and whispered in the man's ear: "Baby blood wine." ”
Tian Zeye's voice sounded particularly eerie, and the man didn't ask any more questions.
"Cut, two offal, let's go, let's go!"
Tian Zeye and Que Zhaoyan had just breathed a sigh of relief, and several children were suddenly dragged out of the house by an officer and soldier and fell to the ground: "Today's dinner!"
Tian Zeye and Qi Zhaoyan were already far away from the crowd at this time, and no one heard this sentence.
The officer and soldier were about to raise the knife in their hands, but Que Zhaoyan opened his hand.
"What are you doing!"
The officer and soldier looked at them in surprise, and were about to have a seizure, when Tian Zeye took the lead and asked, "Can the 'gift of the gods' also be used as food?"
The officer and soldier looked at them as if they were looking at some strange animal: "New here? Actually, there are no gods at all, and disasters are just man-made by us. Aren't these children all disguises!"
Qi Zhaoyan's hand had been pinched and bleeding, and he pulled out Yan Lie and cut off the man's head.
When the people around saw it, they immediately pointed their weapons at them and rushed up.
A few small chops are indeed not a problem for the two of them, but there are many people, and Tian Zeye's physical strength is constantly consumed, and it is obviously no longer able to support it.
Que Zhaoyan held on to the crumbling Tianze night, and for the first time felt in a desperate situation.
Damn it......
Several officials walked down from above, looked at them and said, "Dare to disturb our sacrifices, kill them!"
"You...... Damnation!"
Although Tian Zeye's voice was hoarse, he still had the demeanor of the top ten wanted warrants after all, which startled the man.
"Dangerous ...... Alarmist!
Several officers and soldiers raised their weapons at the same time and stabbed at them in unison.
"Bang!"
A black thunderbolt flashed, and several officers and soldiers were split into pieces.
By the light of the fire, Tian Zeye could still see clearly that it was chopping down with the thunder and lightning
Yin ghost.
The people in the square saw that all the thunder and lightning had been evacuated, and suddenly there was silence again.
The yin ghost who came down with the thunder and lightning pulled Que Zhaoyan's sleeve and prayed very pitifully: "Big brother, help us kill these dog officials." We are all innocent...... Why is he taking us from ......"
"I know it without you saying it. Que Zhaoyan raised his fan high and aimed it at the necks of several people.
"Don't!"
Several women and children suddenly ran out of the wall and hugged several officials.
"Please...... Don't kill him...... He was really nice to us at home......"
Que Zhaoyan hesitated for a moment, and the ghosts began to be unhappy.
"Big brother, they killed so many children, why didn't they kill them?"
"I ......"
Que Zhaoyan hesitantly raised the fan again, but a child and a woman pounced on an official.
"Don't touch my dad!
"If you kill my father-in-law, I will kill myself to show you!"
As soon as this statement came out, others followed suit.
Que Zhaoyan hesitated again.
Tian Zeye was panting on the side, and his voice was almost inaudible.
"Why don't you do it......"
"Ze Ye...... I ......"
Que Zhaoyan's eyes showed confusion, completely devoid of his previous look.
"That's how I ...... Exactly right...... Still not right...... If I kill one person, I will destroy the whole family...... Do this...... What's the difference with them......
When Ye Shengzhuo killed his whole family, his expression was exactly the same as that child.
What am I going to do...... What is the right one......
"Then don't do it. ”
"Huh?"
Tian Zeye suddenly stood up and hugged Que Zhaoyan and covered his eyes with his hands.
"It's never been your fault, and you don't have to blame yourself. If you take all the blame on yourself, you will be crushed one day. ”
"But I ......"
"Zhaoyan, our position is not for 'chivalry and righteousness'. ”
Tian Zeye's voice was very soft, but he woke up the dreamer with a word.
"Our position is 'clear conscience'. ”
Que Zhaoyan held Tian Zeye's cold hand with his backhand, nodded and said, "I understand." ”
"Well, let yourself bear the mistakes they have made. ”
The yin ghosts pursed their lips very dissatisfied, and muttered, "In the end, it's not for us to do it ourselves. ”
"But it's okay, it's better to solve the hatred with your own hands!"
Que Zhaoyan couldn't see everything in front of him, but the sound of his body being torn apart and screams were endless, his expression was calm, and he knew that he should have been calm.
The hand was finally slowly lowered, and there was already a mess in front of him. Men, women, and children are all torn apart by the hateful ghosts. All the Yin Spirits were also satisfied, and disappeared into thin air.
Yes, you don't need to be "chivalrous" and "have a clear conscience".
Maybe it's because the yin qi has all dissipated, and although Tianzeye's state is still very weak, it is much better than before.
"Gone. Tian Zeye turned around and called him, motioning for him to follow.
"Just ...... Thank you ......."
Tian Zeye turned his head without seeing his expression, and his voice was obviously a little surprised.
"You called me?"
"No!" Que Zhaoyan blushed and waved his hand. "I just wanted to ask if this is the way to go!"
"This question...... Tian Zeye smiled bitterly: "Master Finch...... I find that we seem to be overlooking something......"
"Huh?"
"Master told us that the ancient city can dissolve the soul ...... But how to lift the ...... Where to dismantle...... Did you know......"
Que Zhaoyan was stunned for three seconds, and after reacting, he shouted:
"God, pit, sky, sky, !!!"
"God!pit!finch!zhao!yan!!!"