Chapter 1: The Great Sacrifice of 30,000 People
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In the wilderness overgrown with artemisia grass, dozens of crooked stone piles stand in the middle, like barren graves.
If it weren't for the occasional human figure, no one would have noticed that these "stone piles" turned out to be a small town.
Blackwater.
It's just that at this time, the town is noisy, and on the distant horizon, a black tide suddenly appears, with a rumbling roar, surging towards Blackwater Town!
"What is this......" Many people in Blackwater Town had just noticed this "tide" and felt the ground tremble.
"It's ...... It's cavalry!" waited until the "tide" came a moment nearer, and finally someone saw what it was!
A black flag embroidered with crossed knives and forks waving in the wind!
"Run, run! It's the food delivery team of the Western Xinjiang City League!"
", this year's Giant Sacrifice has been advanced!"
"Help! I don't want to die yet!"
The originally quiet town was immediately in chaos, and the ragged crowd scattered and fled, but it was too late!
Thousands of cavalry quickly dispersed, surrounding the entire Blackwater Town, and the black banners of these cavalry were a sign of death in the eyes of the people of Blackwater!
At the sound of the order, the cavalry galloped through the town, shouting banter, throwing out lassoes, chaining the townspeople, and dragging them to the ground like livestock.
It is said that it is a small town, but in fact it is only a few dozen stone houses, dozens of families, and some traveling merchants are only a few hundred people, and they are all quickly caught and thrown into huge and simple prisoner cars. Originally, there were a few people who scolded loudly, and when they were whipped, they were immediately silenced.
The cavalry, all in leather armor and armed with spears, was not at all a way for the poor townsfolk to resist.
"Count Gerald, plus more than six hundred people in this town, our food delivery team in the Duchy of Waldo has gathered enough three thousand sacrifices to go to the plain of food preparation. A knight in chain mail rode up to a middle-aged man with a mustache and said.
"Well, thanks to Viscount Nord. Gerald raised his mustache and squinted his eyes.
"Your Excellency Earl is gracious. Nord nonchalantly rode his horse a few steps forward and came to a corpse. The corpse was a yellow-skinned little beggar of only sixteen or seventeen years old, who looked to be out of breath for a long time.
"Five meters...... Three-meter ...... One meter ...... Don't come here, don't come here......" "Corpse" Li Yunfei lay motionless on the ground, and shouted in his heart while calculating the distance through his voice.
"Tsk, I wonder what these untouchables eat on weekdays?" Nordson smiled, and casually waved his spear, stabbing at the little beggar's "corpse", trying to cut open his belly.
Li Yunfei scolded secretly in his heart, knowing that he couldn't pretend anymore, he suddenly opened his eyes, rolled over, dodged the sting, and then a carp stiffened and ran in the direction of the town!
Playing dead, Nord teased his face and gently rode the horse, and after a few breaths he had already caught up, pinching the back of the little beggar's neck and carrying it up like a chicken.
"Fuck your uncle!" Seeing that there was no way to escape, Li Yunfei revealed his ferocity, scolded, and opened his mouth to bite Nord's arm.
Nord snorted coldly, the yellow fighting energy on his body burst out, and he suddenly let go.
"Bang!" There was a muffled sound, and the corners of Li Yunfei's mouth were already shocked and bloody, and he flew out like a rag bag.
"The ant dared to pretend to be dead, and he was arrested, and the sacrifice could not be wasted. As soon as Nord's voice fell, several soldiers next to him grabbed the little beggar, who had fallen to pieces, and threw him into a cage.
Li Yunfei fell heavily into the prison car, only to find that there were already seven or eight shivering people stuffed inside, most of whom looked like residents of the town, and the other three were wearing prison uniforms, which seemed to be prisoners in prison.
Closing his eyes and opening them suddenly, his eyes flashing with mixed and excited emotions, he finally had a clear understanding of his current situation.
This world is no longer the earth!
Just ten minutes ago, he was still a shining star in the physics world, a twenty-year-old super genius, known as a rare young ghost, "Einstein's evil side", "scientific scoundrel", but he didn't expect an inexplicable explosion when he was doing the "quantum entanglement" experiment, which blew his body into flying ashes!
And by the time he regained consciousness, he had already turned into a "dead corpse" lying on the ground! He actually crossed over to a little beggar who was sick and starved to death! A parallel universe really existed!
Then the soldiers of the "food delivery team" came to arrest people, Li Yunfei couldn't figure out the situation for a while, so he had to continue to pretend to be dead, who would have thought that Viscount Nord would have a **** hobby of dissecting the human body, and finally exposed himself and was arrested......
The little beggar was a fool when he died, and his memory was blurry and intermittent, except that he had a mother before he was fifteen years old, and that he had been living on the streets since she died a year ago. At this time, Li Yunfei was still confused about the current situation.
"Uncle, what the hell is this for?" the prisoner cart started, and Li Yunfei asked an old beggar next to him who was covered in stains.
"What are you doing? What are you going to do? I'm going to be by a giant!" the old beggar said, snot and tears flowed down together, "I didn't expect Lao Tzu to be shrewd all his life, and finally capsized in the gutter, this time the giant sacrifice was actually advanced! It's too tricky! There is no place to hide!"
As soon as the old beggar cried, several people around him were also sad, and they began to cry together.
One of them, a bearded man in prison uniform, cried and said, "Don't cry, I heard that when you are eaten by giants, you must lie down, let him catch you and start eating from your head, so that it hurts, or you start gnawing on your legs, it will hurt for a long time before you die......"
As soon as he said this, the people in the prison car cried even more.
Li Yunfei finally understood at this time that this was actually going to be captured as a sacrifice and feed the giants!
The most powerful creature in the world is none other than giants!
As the strongest creatures in this continent, the giants are numerous, occupying the most abundant and superior regions, even the dragons dare not plunder their peaks, and even the coming-of-age rite of many high-level giants is to bathe in dragon blood.
Although human beings also have their own civilization and magic, they cannot compare with giants, so they can only build cities and form huge urban clusters to survive.
However, giants, especially the higher giants, do not know why they have an inexplicable thirst for human flesh, so attacks on human cities occur from time to time.
The Human Cities Alliance, which is located in the Western Frontier Region, secretly reached an agreement with the Giants every five years to offer sacrifices to the Giants in exchange for the Giants from attacking the Western Cities Alliance.
The tribute consisted mainly of various low-class people who were forced to live outside the giant city, as well as criminals, prisoners of war, and so on. These armies that escorted the offerings were also known as food delivery teams. Almost every giant sacrifice is a cleansing of those hidden villages and towns in the wilderness!
"Why is it ahead of schedule this year? It's only been half a year since the last giant sacrifice......" The old beggar chattered all the way, and his eyes were full of despair.
Li Yunfei's heart was extremely complicated at this time, on the one hand, he was worried about what would happen next, but on the other hand, he was extremely curious and excited about everything in this new world, you must know that this world of magic and fighting spirit was completely different from the earth in the past, and it had already made the side of the scientific research madman in his heart burn.
Knowing that complaining at this time would not solve any problem at all, he immediately sat down with his clothes, began to close his eyes and recuperate, while feeling out the remaining piece of bread and eating it, no matter what happens next, only saving enough physical strength is the capital of strain.
The speed of this cavalry was very fast, more tribute was captured, and the prisoner cart where Li Yunfei was was quickly filled.
The soldiers would also select boys and girls to come out and be held in solitary confinement in larger, more comfortable-looking prison vans, and they were well fed and fed, not knowing what to do.
After leaving Blackwater, the 3,000 cavalry escorted more than 3,000 living sacrifices to the west.
After communicating with other people in the past few days, Li Yunfei has figured out that the living sacrifices are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, those specially selected boys and girls are exclusively for high-level giants to eat, and sacrifices like Li Yunfei that are not fine and tender are shared by ordinary giants.
Originally, he wanted to escape with the people in the same prison car, but found that the weakest of the escort cavalry was also a high-level apprentice swordsman, and the Earl Gerald who led the team was even a bronze swordsman. Although he didn't know much about the hierarchy of human warriors, he also knew that there was no possibility of escape.
After three more days of walking, and after passing through a jungle, the sacrificial procession of the Duchy of Valdo finally appeared on a flat grassland.
When the prisoner cart came out of the woods, Li Yunfei couldn't help but be surprised when he looked at the scene outside.
I saw that in this vast wilderness, all the soldiers in various costumes were all soldiers, as well as thousands of prisoner carts. There are dozens of flags of all kinds, waving in different ranks.
At a cursory glance, the total number of people is at least seventy or eighty thousand!
Obviously, the cities of the so-called Western Xinjiang City Alliance have sent living sacrifices from their own countries!
"This year's 30,000 offerings seem like a lot. At this moment, the self-talk of a knight not far away came into Li Yunfei's ears.
Li Yunfei couldn't help but be stunned, followed by deep anger.
The number of sacrifices reached 30,000! That is, these 30,000 people were about to be sent to the mouths of giants to become living food!
It was a massacre, and the compatriots of those who were slaughtered were the biggest accomplices!
"Queue, all queue! Hurry up!" At that moment, a soldier with a leather whip whipped the sacrifices, making them line up.
At this time, Li Yunfei discovered that not far in front of this plain was a huge rift valley, almost several kilometers wide.
On the other side of the rift valley is a huge platform nearly 100 meters higher than the plain on this side, which can be regarded as a high ground, and the area is also extremely huge, the wild grass on it is particularly dense, and the soil is all red.
On the side of the plain where everyone was, there were only a dozen huge stone beams with a width of a thousand meters leading to the highland platform in the middle.
"The Giant's Table...... This is the giant's table...... This is ......" The old beggar said in a trembling voice when he saw the highland platform in front of him, "the place where the legend says that the sacrifice to the giants is this dining height, also known as the giant's table...... For thousands of years...... At least tens of millions of human remains are buried here......"
"Smack!" the whip struck the old beggar on the back, whipping him to the ground, and the knight with the whip said viciously: "Go quickly, don't be grinding! You pariahs, you should feel infinitely honored to be able to let giants eat and contribute to mankind!"
Li Yunfei held the old beggar, glared at the knight with eyes that were almost capable of killing, and roared angrily: "Do you still have a little humanity? Aren't we all human beings the same?"
The person who became a sacrifice can be said to have sacrificed his life for the entire human race, but he was treated so badly!
"What are we? I'm not like you pariahs, I'm a noble nobleman!" the knight laughed, and said viciously as he gripped his sword, "and you're just a bunch of lowly pariahs!"
"Great Sacrifice of the Giants, start now!" At this moment, a mighty voice suddenly came, obviously from a distance, but everyone felt that the voice seemed to be ringing in their ears, extremely real.
Then I saw an old man with white hair and white beard in a black robe fly into the air, pointing the staff in his hand in the direction of the giant's table.
With the swing of the black-robed old man's staff, the already extremely noisy huge camp immediately ushered in a commotion, and the soldiers of various cities all drew their blades and aimed them at their sacrifices.
Then they began to charge at these sacrifices, like driving cattle