Chapter 45: The Sacrifice

"Swing a little tighter, swing a little tighter, it's still so empty over there, push this box over, won't this be able to put it down? The tighter the box, the safer it is, and the looser it is easy to have problems." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Be lighter, this is an electronic component, a delicate thing, you think it's a stone on the side of the road, so hard to put it down, if it really breaks, you can't afford to pay for this box for ten years." ”

"Come on, come on, help me pull this rope from that side, yes, don't let go, wait for me to tie it here." Okay, a few of you, tie the rope tightly, I remember you, if there is a box shaking on the road, I will see whose rope is delivered, and he will carry the box to Huashan City for me. ”

"Oilcloth, bring another piece of oilcloth, you xx, there is still such a big piece leaking, xx said it's done, are you xx stupid, in case of heavy rain, this car will be finished." Look, still xx look, are you xx standing here to watch me work?x, why don't you hurry up and do it, xx. ”

"Oil circuit, safety, brakes, safety, exhaust, safety, tires, safety, engine, safety, water tank, full load, fuel tank, full load, supply oil drum, full load, fixed firmly. No, who's in charge of this car, you're xx, what's the point of putting an empty barrel in the car? Are you going to fill the fuel tank with air on the road?x, don't you move it quickly. ”

In the morning of Wanhe City, the air is exceptionally fresh, after a night of precipitation, the dust in the air has settled to the ground, the sky is no longer gray, and the sun is particularly dazzling. In the city, the residents wear dusty clothes, numb and shuttle through the streets and alleys, for them, as always, one day, walking on the streets as always, repeating the work as always, returning to their homes as always, facing the same faces as always, day after day, every day, no ups and downs, no waves, always lifeless.

However, in Boss Mi's camp, this morning was full of vitality.

Three days ago, the last group of mercenaries who accepted the task had rushed to Huashan City, and after assigning the task, it took another three days to count all the goods and load them into the car, and the tedious preparatory work finally came to an end. Before dawn today, everyone in the camp had already moved, starting the final inspection before departure, although each team had five or six ordinary workers in charge of daily chores, but the usually lazy mercenaries, at this time, it was like a different person, every place had to be personally asked, and the key questions were even checked repeatedly. Even the high-ranking mercenaries, who usually look at all their work coldly, are now hovering around the convoy they will be in charge of, their eyes have never left the convoy, and occasionally the two of them get together and whisper a few words with solemn faces.

No one sleeps lazy, and no one is lazy, and every mercenary in the camp is like a longbow with full strength, the bowstring is tight, ready to go into battle at any time.

This is the state of the mercenaries when they really work, usually they indulge in lust and do not do their jobs, and do nothing all day long, that is just to enjoy every day of life, in order to adjust the tense mentality, only when they enter the working state, will they show their professional ability, meticulous, efficient, and meticulous.

Of course, the mercenaries will have this attitude, because everything they are doing now is related to their own lives. Leaving the city and entering the wilderness, just like a boat sailing on the angry sea, completely isolated, especially now this way of advancing, if it is a way to advance in echelons, it is okay, several convoys can still take care of each other, but now everyone is scattered in a vast range, before entering the next city that does not know when it will arrive, everything can only rely on the thirty or forty people in the convoy themselves, so from the beginning of the preparation to do everything to the best, after all, the wilderness is already dangerous enough, there is no need to use human negligence to create difficulties。

"First convoy, ready. "Second convoy, ready. "Third convoy, ready. ”

"Fourth convoy, ready. The crow dressed in black squatted on the top of the front truck of the team, one big and one small two crows landed on his left and right shoulders, knowing that now was not the time to mess around, even the female leopard and the crow had restrained their temperament, especially the crow, in the fourth convoy, among the six high-level mercenaries, two of them were impulsive and violent, one lived in a simple place and couldn't even find a figure, one was like frost and rejected people thousands of miles away, and the other claimed to only understand beasts and not people, looking for them, and only the crows were barely leading the team. Therefore, it was the crow who reported to Mi Xin in the end.

Mi Xin is wearing a cyan dress today, and anyone who knows a little about history knows that this is the ceremonial clothing of the Maple Leaf Empire. The huge empire that lasted for thousands of years was Yimu Dexing, and cyan was the most noble color of the Maple Leaf Empire, and only the most formal occasions could be dressed, and even members of the royal family could not wear it casually.

In the square of the camp, a half-meter wooden platform was erected, surrounded by tall colored flags, in the middle of the wooden platform, a heavy long table was placed on it, in the middle of the wooden table was a bronze incense burner, behind the incense burner were enshrined three animal sacrifices, and in front of it were placed three wine cups.

After the four teams returned, the dressed Mi Xin was wearing the glass crown on her head and walked towards the wooden platform, and the captains of the four teams followed Mi Xin side by side, without saying a word and with a solemn face.

The captains stopped at the bottom of the stage, and Mi Xin climbed the wooden platform along the steps, stood in front of the offering table, lit the incense prepared on the table, and bowed deeply to the offering table three times. After three times, the incense is inserted into the incense burner, Mi Xin takes up three wine cups in turn, one cup is sprinkled to the sky, one cup is sprinkled on the ground, the third cup is held in the hand, bowing to the southeast and northwest four times and then drinking it all, respecting the heavens, the earth, and the spirits of the four directions, which is the standard process of sacrifice.

In the audience, the four captains moved neatly, and every time Mi Xin picked up a wine glass, the four of them bowed at the same time. Although the crow has just joined the ranks of mercenaries, this process is familiar with it, and it is no worse than the other three experienced high-level mercenaries around him, after all, sacrificing the sky is a task that must be carried out before every large caravan expedition, and the crow himself has presided over many times before, of course, it will not be a stranger.

After the sacrifice, Mi Xin and the captains returned the same way and walked to the neatly lined convoy, where someone had already sent a full-fledged rooster by her side. Qianqian Su clenched the sharp blade in his hand and cut off the rooster's neck with a knife, and warm blood gushed out and spilled into the bowl that was being held.

After putting the chicken blood, Mi Xin took the porcelain bowl, put her white fingers into the bowl, let the blood stain her jade fingers red, slowly paced, walked past the head of each team, stopped, her fingers stretched out, first on her forehead, representing life and death with the team, and then used blood to draw a closed ring on the front of the car. The circle must be closed into a ring, symbolizing the fulfillment of the wish, for the mercenaries who leave the city and live and die, there is nothing more important than having an auspicious color head before departure.

"Smack", the bowl full of blood was smashed on the ground, the blood splashed around, Mi Xin raised her hands high, and solemnly shouted, "The time has come, all convoys, go." ”