Chapter 5 Sacrificial Infants
The place where Li Yiheng is located is a high platform, and there is also a circular pattern on the ground. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ info There are steps that extend downward, and the steps are also engraved with circular patterns. There is a large platform under about two dozen steps.
On the ground in the center of the platform, a larger circular pattern is drawn. In the middle of the pattern is a round platform with a diameter of one meter, about two meters high, and more than a dozen steps are attached to it. Further down the platform are steps, dozens of steps, which look relatively steep and extend all the way to the ground. The steps are also engraved with patterns.
Li Yiheng looked at the patterns, platforms, and steps under his feet, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was an altar. So, these two children must have been sacrificed, right?
Below is a large circular square, about hundreds of thousands of square meters. In the center of the square there is a high platform on which a circle of guards stands, and a circular pool twenty meters away. The square is surrounded by flowers, mussel shells, and other decorations, and it looks very festive.
The square was full of people, dressed in elaborate dresses, carrying various musical instruments, guitars, basses, accordions, singing and dancing. At a cursory glance, it was peaceful and peaceful.
But on closer inspection, these people are clearly not so happy. The smile on someone's face is from the bottom of his heart, but there are also many people whose smile is squeezed out, obviously, this event is not everyone's event.
Judging from their appearance, these people all belong to the long face type, with a little square. The face is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, the chin is a little pointed, the eyebrows are long, and the eyes are large, long, and bright. Occupies most of the upper half of the face, the bridge of the nose is extra long, tall and straight, and the mouth is a bit wide. Most of the people with this kind of appearance are unsmiling and relatively old-fashioned.
There were guards standing around the high platform in the center of the square, and three people stood in the middle, with a middle-aged man in the front. The middle-aged man was dressed in the same style as those below, but the texture was much better.
Behind him stood a man in a black robe, with a hat on his head, the brim of which was so large that his face was obscured.
Further to the side was a very young man, judging by his appearance, he should be the son of the middle-aged man in front. The same well-textured and complicated costumes wore a transcendent sense of elegance on him, probably because he was relatively tall.
The middle-aged man looked at Li Yiheng and waved his hand to the person next to him, and the person also glanced at Li Yiheng, then turned around and got off the high platform, and led people towards the place where Li Yiheng was.
The middle-aged man no longer paid attention to Li Yiheng, took a step forward and stood on the side of the high platform, and a burst of cheers broke out in the crowd below. The middle-aged man raised his hands to signal the people below to be quiet, and when the people below were quiet, he began to speak.
"My townspeople...... Our home is harassed by a water monster...... So it's worth sacrificing a few children for the sake of the lives of all of us...... Next, the secret ballot begins. β
The city lord babbled a lot, but only these few sentences were the main point. And the whole time, the man in black behind him stood motionless, as if staring at the crowd below.
As the city lord spoke, several women in the crowd fainted from crying. But the people next to them didn't dare to let them fall, and tried to support them, making them look like they were just not in good spirits and needed help to help them.
The guards weaved through the crowd with a large box, and people threw notes into the box. When they encountered the women who had already fainted, the guards only pretended not to see them, and gently reached out and took out the note from their hands and put it in the large box in their hands.
Looking at the voting meeting that was taking place in the square below to decide the life and death of the children, Li Yiheng was shocked. The city lord actually asked his people to vote on which children's lives and deaths, and among these people, there must be parents of those children, is this still a human thing?
The city lord continued to stand on the high platform and make generous speeches, but Li Yiheng no longer cared about this, he understood that behind the so-called democracy, there was actually endless dirt, and no matter what the real vote result was, those children were destined to die.
Li Yiheng was orphaned when he was a child, and when he saw other children suffering, he felt the same way. Although he admits that he has a rebellious side to his personality and even has blood on his hands, he will do his best to help and protect those children who are not cowardly.
Now, Li Yiheng has made up his mind: It doesn't matter if you sacrifice or not, these two children, the master will be saved today!
Looking at the guards who were getting closer and closer, Li Yiheng gritted his teeth and tied the two children to his back, and before he could tie a rope around his waist to fix it, the guards had already surrounded the steps. But they seemed to have some scruples, and just blocked Li Yiheng's possible way, but they didn't go up the steps to catch Li Yiheng.
The guards held the weapons in their hands and formed a circle, and one of the guards on Li Yi's side, I don't know if it was nervousness or what, the arrow in his hand shot towards Li Yiheng.
When this arrow was shot, the guards themselves were dumbfounded, and they were dumbfounded as they looked at the arrows flying towards Li Yiheng, and the two guards next to him collected their weapons and restrained him and dragged him away with one left and one right.
Hearing the wind next to him, Li Yiheng quickly opened the umbrella shield on his arm and waved his hand to block the arrow.
Li Yiheng looked in the direction where the arrow was flying and saw a guard being dragged down, and the position should be the one who shot the arrow at him.
Looking at the guards who were dragged away, Li Yiheng secretly pondered: They were not allowed to attack this place? No wonder they only dared to surround like this, but they did not dare to come forward to attack.
Li Yiheng looked at the guards below, although they didn't dare to come up, but they couldn't get down, and standing here all the time was not a way after all. I turned around and tried to push the door out, but I found that the door closed at some point, and even the traces were gone, and it became exactly the same as the surrounding glass.
Looking at the guards below, Li Yiheng took a deep breath and slowly walked down. At a height of more than 30 meters, he was naturally fine if he jumped down, but he still had two children on his back, and if the guards fired arrows when he fell, he was not sure that he could ensure the safety of the two children.
Walking to the place where there were still five steps, it was only about a meter from the ground, and the guards still did not dare to surround it. Li Yiheng crossed the surrounding guards to look at the terrain again, supported the child on his back with his left hand, opened the umbrella blade with his right hand, glanced around, and jumped down the steps with a force on his legs.
At the same time, the surrounding guards swarmed up and attacked Li Yiheng.
In the distance, the voice of the city lord was heard, "Catch the Gajers!"
Li Yiheng was fighting with the guards while thinking about countermeasures. Looking at the guards coming from afar, he immediately decided to open a gap and rush out, otherwise he would not be able to bear it at all when the guards who helped arrived, and attacked one after another.
After several attempts, I finally found a weak point in the defense. Li Yiheng immediately rushed over, and the guards were shocked by his sudden blow, and they didn't stop Li Yiheng, so they let him knock down the two people and run out.
The leader of the guards looked at Li Yiheng's back and shouted, "Hurry up!" The guards reacted and chased in the direction that Li Yiheng ran away.
At the same time, the alarm system was fully activated throughout the city.
In the crowd, everyone was very happy to hear that the children had been rescued, but they did not dare to show it, so they went home and took out their weapons and began to follow the guards to search for the Gaj. But most people still think that if they can meet the Gajay who saved the child, they must help him.
Xiao Ji obviously supported Li Yiheng's current approach, and stayed quietly on Li Yiheng's shoulder to be responsible for the break, and warned Li Yiheng as soon as he saw the figure.
Li Yiheng's sense of direction is not very good, especially in a place that he is not familiar with, and he is still carrying two babies. The two children were very well-behaved, and seemed to know that they were facing great danger, and they ran so far with Li Yiheng, although there were still tears on their faces, they stopped crying.
Li Yiheng felt that he had to find a safe place to hide these children, but he was not familiar with his own life here, and it was difficult to find such a place.
Looking at the smiling faces of the children with teardrops, Li Yiheng felt distressed for a while. Now, he is in great need of the help of a local man and, preferably, a mother who can help him take care of the children and feed them some milk.
Li Yiheng can't remember the first time he ran into a dead end, but this time he was really tired and wanted to take a break. Xiao Ji went out to reconnoiter and told Li Yiheng that no one had caught up.
Li Yiheng put down all the children he was carrying, wiped the tears off his face one by one for them, and one of the children smiled at Li Yiheng.
Looking at these two children, Li Yiheng once again remembered his childhood, and couldn't help but feel sad, and he was more determined to protect them. I can't help but think of the words I heard in the square before, what is going on here, why sacrifice these children to resolve it?
"Hey, heyβthe Gaj!"
A slight voice sounded out of nowhere, interrupting Li Yiheng's thoughts.
Li Yiheng guarded the children and looked around vigilantly, but did not find anything abnormal.
"Gaj, I'm on this side of the wall. β
Li Yiheng followed the sound to find it, and sure enough, he saw a woman behind the wall.
The woman was still dressed in a costume, as if she hadn't had time to change, and she still had a harpoon in her hand.
Li Yi glanced sideways at the harpoon in her hand and took a step back.
The woman looked at Li Yiheng's appearance and understood that he was not at ease with herself, and as soon as her hand was loosened, the harpoon was thrown aside, and continued, "Gajieren, don't be afraid, my name is Sunita, and I am the mother of a child. One of the children you rescued was my sister's child. β
Li Yiheng looked at the woman who called herself Sunita suspiciously, neither speaking nor acting.
Sunita saw that Li Yiheng didn't seem to believe herself, and continued to say to him, "Gajie, look at it, there is a child's right arm with a birthmark that looks like a flame. That's my nephew. Also, the little quilt in his cradle was made by myself, and there were a lot of dandelions embroidered on it. β
Li Yiheng looked at one of the children, and indeed one of the children had swaddling clothes embroidered with dandelions. Li Yiheng looked at Sunita and asked her very seriously, "Can I trust you?"
Sunita listened to Li Yiheng's words and looked at him very seriously, "I swear in the name of a mother, you can trust me." β
Sunita's firm eyes made Li Yiheng have a moment of trance, and at that moment he seemed to see his mother, "Okay, I believe in you." β
Li Yiheng picked up Sunita's nephew and handed it to her, "You can change him to a swaddling baby, and then change another family to raise it temporarily, so as not to be discovered." β
"Yes. Sunita took the child in Li Yiheng's hand, and Sunita immediately burst into tears when she saw the child. The child seemed to know Sunita too, and struggled to reach out and grab Sunita's braids hanging down from her chest.
Li Yiheng thought for a while and said embarrassedly, "You...... Do you have any milk?" he said, pointing to the child in Sunita's arms, "he's hungry." β
Sunita nodded, turned around and sat down on a rock, and did not shy away from picking up her clothes to breastfeed the child.
Li Yiheng looked at the child in his arms, returned one, and the other, he had to take a child to escape in the city again. He knew it wasn't a good idea to do it himself, but now, was there any other way for him?
Li Yiheng really wanted to entrust this child to Sunita, but he knew that he couldn't, Sunita was okay with a child alone, she was with two children at the same time, wasn't she just telling others that she had met with her "Gajie"?
"Gajren, what's your name?" Sunita spoke to Li Yiheng while breastfeeding the child.
Li Yiheng was stunned for a moment and replied, "It's good that you still don't know my name." β
Sunita was silent for a moment, "You're right, I still don't know you well." Gaj, you help me take care of my nephew again, and I'll go find the child's family. β
"No, I can't. Li Yiheng rejected Sunita's suggestion, "I can't stay here for a long time, those people will come over." β
Sunita handed her nephew to Li Yiheng through the wall, "It's okay, there are very few people here, if I meet someone who wants to come here after I go out, I will tell them that I have looked for it carefully...... Don't worry, I'll bring someone soon. β
Li Yiheng took the child from Sunita's hand and agreed to Sunita's suggestion, he really needs help now. Sunita's suggestion wasn't the best, but Li Yiheng had no other choice right now.
On the square, the city lord scolded the guards angrily, "It's been so long, I can't even find a single Gajie, what's the use of me raising you?
"Yes, City Lord. The guards responded in a trembling voice, then immediately turned around and ran away, leading people to continue to search for Li Yiheng's whereabouts.