readx;? The bright moon hangs high and the moon is full like a mirror, and the night sky is like a starry sea. Every time the moon is full www.biquge.info there will be some very subtle changes in people and things between heaven and earth, which will affect people's emotions or affect the surrounding environment, and often develop towards the side of bad luck, of course, there is only one time in the twelve months of the year that this is not the case, and that is the day of family reunion on August 15.

But after all, not every full moon day is a reunion and peace, for all these people who are in awe, on the night of the full moon will can't help but have a touch of fear, the fear of heaven and earth, and everything around them is full of an indescribable fear and jealousy, and this will also make their senses extremely sensitive, upset impulses and depression with the flow of peace blend with each other, as if all the abnormal things that happen around them are related to this round of full moon hanging high in the night.

Curled up in your own familiar surroundings, when the warmth fills your surroundings, and let the familiarity and nature wrap your uneasy heart, everything seems to be much better.

Night City, a quirky city nestled deep in the mountains of Northridge, is even more unusual on a full moon night. Because on this day of every month, according to the rules set by Mrs. Zhao, it is the day when the night sacrifice is to be held, and it is also the day when this bloody yaksha dressed in human skin goes on a killing spree.

There is silence in the acacia forest, and this silence seems to completely freeze the air, and you can't help but feel suffocated. The full moon hangs high in the sky, and the night breeze blows in the acacia forest, occasionally blowing the bamboo leaves that fill the forest to make a soft sound, which is the only vitality in this place at this moment.

However, it is in the depths of such a dead and silent acacia forest that a high platform is built dozens of meters square at this moment, and on top of the high platform are dozens of wooden stakes the thickness of human legs, and the most palpitating thing is that at this moment, on each wooden stake is a comatose person tied to death. These people tied to the stake are all outsiders who have spent the night in the Red Flower Inn.

At this moment, in the middle of the high platform, there are still three empty wooden stakes, and this is the position reserved by Mrs. Zhao for Lu Yifan, Liu Sandao and Xie Yun.

Dozens of torches are lit around the high platform, and the huge flames that burn brightly illuminate the high platform in the depths of the bamboo forest.

And looking carefully along the high platform to the dark bamboo forest around it, it is surprising to find that at this moment, there are people standing around this high platform, and there are too many people to count as far as the eye can see, these people are all dressed as ordinary people, they are all the people in this night city, and they are the people who have been confused by Mrs. Zhao's * technique. At this moment, there were thousands of people standing around the high platform, all of whom were staring at the high platform with cloudy eyes, without saying a word, or even motionless, like a group of living dead. Don't know what exactly these people are waiting for?

And not far from this high platform, is the extraordinarily chic Acacia Pavilion that Lu Yifan and several people visited during the day today. At this moment, accompanied by several black-clothed people who were about to hang scimitars, Mrs. Zhao was sitting on the second floor of the Acacia Pavilion, quietly watching the movements on the high platform while sipping tea. Qing'er, who had brought her to the Red Flower Inn today, was standing beside Mrs. Zhao respectfully at the moment, serving carefully.

At this moment, when the night passes, it is the most quiet and dark time of the day, but fortunately, the full moon is in the sky tonight, so although it is a child at this moment, the bamboo forest is extraordinarily bright, and the moonlight is like water pouring into the acacia forest, which is sprinkled with a layer of more mysterious yellow light.

On the high platform, Yu'er, dressed in white, stood quietly in front of dozens of wooden stakes, her eyes looking eagerly at the darkness in the distance, which was the direction of the Red Flower Inn, and she was waiting for Yu San to come back to her life.

"Miss Yu'er, is it time for us to do it?" said a bald man dressed as an executioner striding onto the high platform with a bull-eared knife in his hand, and asked in a loud voice as he walked up to Yu'er's side. At this moment, under the high platform, more than a dozen executioners dressed in the same clothes as him were sharpening their knives and preparing to start tonight's performance.

"Don't be impatient, wait a minute!" Although Yu'er was very anxious in her heart, she kept comforting the executioner who was already impatient.

"If the time has passed, the effect of digging out the heart will not be so good, and if the lady is to blame it at that time......"

Before the executioner's words were finished, Yu'er suddenly looked cold, and then two cold and piercing rays of light shot straight into the executioner's eyes, and this outright indifference blocked the executioner's words back, and the executioner didn't dare to look directly at Yu'er, and lowered his head timidly.

"Are you teaching me to do things?" Yu'er asked in a cold voice word by word, "I know better than you what Madame means!"

"That's, that's!" the executioner quickly defended when he realized that he had lost his words, "Miss Yu'er is what she says, I'm just afraid that time won't be enough, so I ......."

"Isn't it faster when you don't know how to do it?" Before the executioner finished speaking, Yu'er snorted coldly again, "Otherwise, what is Madam raising you for?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" the executioner simply stopped answering, and hurriedly agreed again and again, and walked down the high platform in a gloomy manner.

"Ah Jiu!" Yu'er gave the executioner a cold look again, then turned her head and shouted softly without looking back.

"I'm here!" A clear and indifferent voice suddenly came from the darkness not far from the high platform, and before this voice could fall, a vague black shadow quickly passed through the bamboo forest, and in the blink of an eye, it landed steadily beside Yu'er.

This thin man dressed in black is named Ah Jiu, and it is not difficult to guess that this person does not look too old with his slightly immature face, but his eyes that ignore everything are always revealing a sense of maturity and coldness that is extremely inconsistent with his face.

Ah Jiu is the first guard by Mrs. Zhao's side, and he is also the number one person who helps Mrs. Zhao to govern the many master guards under him, generally Mrs. Zhao will let Yu'er or Qing'er talk directly to Ah Jiu if she has any orders, and Ah Jiu has always spoken little but is extremely reliable, and has never disappointed Mrs. Zhao once over the years. However, Ah Jiu and his masters were hidden all over Acacia Forest most of the time, and even Madam Zhao rarely let them appear.

"Ah Jiu, let your people investigate Yu San's situation and see how his affairs are doing!" Yu'er is Mrs. Zhao's personal maid, although her identity is far less noble than Ah Jiu's number one guard, but because of the particularity of her personal maid, she will listen to Ah Jiu on weekdays.

"Good ......"

"Damn, I'm tired of Lao Tzu!" Before Ah Jiu could agree, he heard a hoarse complaint in the darkness in the distance, and then saw Yu San, who was sweating profusely, pulling a broken cart that he didn't know where to recruit, and was walking towards the high platform step by step, and at this moment, there were three people lying on this cart covered in blood that were difficult to distinguish between life and death, and these three people who were motionless like corpses were Lu Yifan, Liu Sandao and Xie Yun. At this moment, their Immortal Sword, Moon Slashing Knife, and Cloud Piercing Spear were also confiscated by Yu San, and they were still in the corner of the board car at will.

Seeing Yu San, Yu'er couldn't help frowning, and then looked at Yu San suspiciously and asked, "Did you succeed?"

"This time, I've gone through nine deaths, and I'm almost dying!" Yu San complained bitterly, "It's really exhausting to let me, a bad old man who is half buried in loess, pull three big men over...... Phew!" Saying that, Yu San also spat on the ground, showing a full hard look, and shouted at Yu'er as he spoke, "I said Miss Yu'er, I've come here, why don't you hurry up and find someone to help me?"

Yu San's words made Yu'er frown, and a touch of disgust flashed inadvertently in her eyes, but disgust was disgust, Yu San went to do something for Mrs. Zhao after all, so Yu'er waved her arm lightly, and the people who lost their souls who were standing around the high platform came out and helped Yu San pull the cart under the high platform.

Ah Jiu's eyes were like torches and he always stared coldly at the three people in the carriage, and in an instant, his eyes changed suddenly, and then he asked in a cold voice, "Are they not dead yet?"

"Nonsense!" Yu San jumped to his feet and shouted, "If they die like this, won't the living hearts that Madame wants be gone?" In this way, if Madame is to blame, who can afford it!" Saying that, he also glanced at Lu Yifan and the three people in the car, and his body inadvertently leaned forward, just covering Ah Jiu's gaze, and then said with a hippie smile, "But even if they don't die, there is only half a breath left, anyway, let's let them return to the west in a while, just have a breath!"

"It seems that Madame's puppet skills are very good, I originally thought that it might take some effort to deal with these three people, but I didn't think that we didn't waste a single soldier!" Yu'er smirked.

Hearing Yu'er's words, Yu San couldn't help but sneer in his heart, but on the surface, he still showed a flattering smile, and his mouth was even more complimentary.

"Okay, don't waste time, you guys hurry up and tie the three of them to the stake, the sacrificial ceremony is about to begin!" Yu'er instructed the executioners standing aside, and then turned to Ah Jiu and smiled slightly to show his gratitude, while Ah Jiu nodded silently, and then flew away from the high platform in a flash, and disappeared into the darkness of the bamboo forest again.

According to Madam Zhao's rules, the night sacrifice ceremony Ah Jiu and these guards were not allowed to participate, so as not to be disturbed by mistake.

The night sacrifice actually has two functions, one is to dig out the hearts and lungs of the captured living people for Mrs. Zhao to maintain her face forever. The second is to gather the people of the night city in batches, because Mrs. Zhao's * technique cannot control these people forever, and the * skill is only a few years of effect, so in order to maintain her lofty status in the night city forever, she will gather a group of people in the city every month at the night festival, and through this night sacrifice she will once again deepen the poison in them. This cycle has been controlling hundreds of thousands of people in Night City.

It is not an easy thing to lift Lu Yifan and the three of them, one or two big men can't shake the bodies of the three of them at all, especially Liu Sandao, it took nearly twenty executioners to use all their strength to barely lift Liu Sandao's body on the high platform, and it took a lot of effort to tie the three of them to the stake indiscriminately, after such a toss, these executioners were also tired and half dead.

Yu San had already pushed the cart and hid behind the crowd in a hurry, and before he retreated, he also quietly placed the blades of Lu Yifan and the three of them in the dark place behind the high platform, and if he didn't deliberately look for it, he wouldn't be found at all.

At the moment when Lu Yifan was tied to the stake, his originally closed eyes suddenly opened a gap, and he silently looked around at everything, he wanted to see what the hell was going on in this night sacrifice.

Yu'er watched Lu Yifan and the three of them being tied up, and the corners of his mouth finally showed a satisfied smile, and then he said lightly to the executioners: "You guys get ready, and after the ceremony is over, you can quickly dig out their hearts and soul cores." ”

With that, Yu'er turned around abruptly, facing the "walking dead" under the high platform, her arms stretched out slightly, and at the same time, two red lights also burst out from her hands, and the red light instantly shot into the surrounding flames, and the flames burned even more violently after experiencing this red light, not only violently but also became extremely irritable.

"On the day of the full moon, at the time of the night sacrifice, let us offer our most sincere respect to the incomparably noble master of the night city......" Yu'er's cry mixed with a hint of strange tones sounded a little sharp and piercing at this moment, and when this voice reached Lu Yifan's ears, he actually felt his spirit tremble suddenly.

At the same time, under Yu'er's sharp shout, the thousands of people around the high platform all shouted to the sky together, and accompanied by the vague sacrificial words in their mouths, these people who were confused actually danced strangely, this dance has no beauty, and can even be described as weird. His eyes wandered, his mouth was slurred, and his hands were dancing and swinging and shaking. In the dim night, under the strange round moonlight, in the bamboo forest with gusting winds, thousands of people danced as if they had lost their souls, their movements were surprisingly consistent, but their limbs seemed so stiff, everything looked so eerie and terrifying at this moment, and it was strange that people couldn't help but feel a palpitation.

And the torches that stood around the high platform, the furious flames flew up and down and jumped to their heart's content, and even if there was no wind, the shape of the flames still changed and twisted rapidly. It's like a strange sacrificial dance that accompanies these people.

And with the burning of the torch, the flame gradually evolved from the initial red and yellow color to blood red, this blood red is simply more real and vivid than blood, and this color of fire is something Lu Yifan has never seen. The blood-red flames reflected in the eyes of everyone present, making these already chaotic people even more depressed. And Yu'er has been standing on the high platform, and her mouth quickly tells a kind of sacrificial text that Lu Yifan can't understand at all, although she can't understand the content of this sacrificial text, but in such an environment, this continuous sound makes Lu Yifan always feel a sense of drowsy exhaustion.

"Dance?" Lu Yifan squinted his eyes and looked at everything in front of him in surprise, but at this moment, a picture suddenly flashed in his mind, it was when he first met Ah Chang's mother at the city gate that day, that crazy and weird old woman kept pulling the corner of Lu Yifan's clothes, and kept shouting 'Hmm' in her mouth. At first, Lu Yifan thought that this was just the old woman's crazy words, but until this moment, he suddenly understood that what the old woman said that day was not 'hmm', but "dance, dance, dance!" was exactly the scene in front of him.

As soon as he thought of this, Lu Yifan's heart trembled violently, because he remembered that the old woman had finally shouted 'killed' after saying the word 'dance' that day.

"If that's ......"

"You can do it!"

Before Lu Yifan could say something to himself, Yu'er's voice suddenly came from the front, and her words were obviously said to the executioners in the audience who were holding bull ear knives and had been eyeing them for a long time.

"Are you going to start?" Lu Yifan originally wanted to lure Mrs. Zhao out before making a move, but now it seems that things have developed and he can't continue to disguise it.

"Yifan ......" Liu Sandao's voice came quietly from the side, "These people who were tied to the stake are not dead yet, they just fainted, can we save them now?"

"Help!" Lu Yifan said categorically.

"That Mrs. Zhao hasn't appeared yet, and we don't know how many masters are hidden around here!" Xie Yun shook his head vigorously, and then reminded in a low voice.

"I can't care so much, I won't allow Mrs. Zhao to kill one more person!" Lu Yifan said resolutely.

At this moment, an executioner with a beard on his face had come to Lu Yifan with a bull ear knife in his hand, and his eyes were staring at Lu Yifan fiercely, like staring at a pig and dog that was about to be slaughtered, full of cruel disdain.

"Boy, even if you are unlucky to come to Night City, today next year will be your death day! Lao Tzu will send you to Elysium! Hehe......" The executioner sneered, and then spat at the bright blade, and wanted to plunge the tip of the knife straight into Lu Yifan's heart.

"That place in Elysium isn't quite suitable for me, why don't I give you a ride!"

At this moment, Lu Yifan, who had been closing his eyes tightly, suddenly opened his eyes, and at the same time, a bloodthirsty smile appeared strangely at the corner of his mouth!

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