Chapter 60: Sacrificing Human Life
When Silka had finished speaking, an old man with a wrinkled face and strange colors pulled a pretty girl of about twelve or thirteen years of age to the altar.
The altar is about 1.5 meters high, and people at this time did not know how to build steps, such a height, young men can go up with a jump, but old people cannot, so the old man climbs up with great difficulty. He should be about forty years old, in this primitive period, the life span of human beings is not as long as in the twenty-first century, because of the long-term consumption of meat, the nutrition is unbalanced, and the aging is very fast, and he looks like an old man about sixty years old in the twenty-first century. The temples are very white, the head of the chicken nest is also a piece of white flowers, and the beard is more than ten centimeters long, which is a very sloppy image.
Although the girl is young, she is round and jade, her breasts have been slightly raised, her skin is fair, and even her fingers are very delicate, it can be seen that she has never worked, and she is not at all different from other primitive tribe women. She was also very beautiful, and her big eyes were full of mist of confusion, like an ignorant fawn.
Such a combination of the old and the young is not very strange, maybe this man is the father of the girl, but they climbed onto the altar at the same time, which made Mo Yier incomprehensible. She opened her mouth and wanted to ask Chu Jiong, but she found that everyone lowered their heads in admiration, and they didn't dare to make a sound, so she had to shut up, but her eyes couldn't help but look at the old and the young on the altar.
I saw the old man speak very solemnly, and his voice was hoarse and low: "O gods! I, the Grey Wizard, will offer you the most beautiful girl on behalf of the people of this land, and I ask you to bless us with peace for generations to come, food to eat, and animal skins to wear ......."
It turns out that this old man with a strange color on his face is a wizard! Mo Yi'er then understood. All he said was to ask the gods for protection, almost to the same effect as Stella's.
The Ao Gray Wizard muttered and chattered, and the people under the altar were still praying sincerely, and only Mo Yi'er peeked at the altar alone. I saw that after the Ash Wizard had finished praying, he asked the girl to kneel, and he held the stone knife pinned to his waist in his hand. The confused girl suddenly showed a frightened expression, but she knelt there and didn't dare to move. The Ash Wizard walked around her in a circle, with words in her mouth, not loud, and many words that Mo Yi'er had never heard, so she couldn't be sure what the Ash Wizard was reading.
It's just that the stone knife was waving, no matter how you look at it, you feel that the girl is not safe, Mo Yi'er flashed bad thoughts in her mind, and asked Chu Wei in a low voice: "Chu Jiong, what is the wizard going to do?" ”
"Mo Yi'er, don't speak, pray sincerely!" Chu Jiong's body didn't move for a moment, and replied to Mo Yi'er.
"But, but...... That girl can't be in danger, right? Mo Yi'er could understand Chu Ji's beliefs, but she was really worried about the girl on the altar.
Chu Wei finally raised his head, swept his eyes over the altar, and quickly lowered his voice: "This is a girl dedicated to the gods." ”
"To the gods? How to give? Mo Yi'er suddenly remembered the plot in the TV series that sacrificed boys and girls to the sea god and the dragon king, they wouldn't be going to kill this girl, right? Without waiting for Chu Wei to answer, as if to verify Mo Yi'er's words, Ao Gray Wizard's stone knife had already fallen on the girl's neck, and the stone knife was not sharp, so Ao Gray Wizard used a lot of strength to stab the girl's neck, the girl's eyes widened in horror, but as if something had caught her, she didn't dare to hide or scream, blood gushed out, and a blood hole appeared in her neck.
Mo Yi'er was the first time she saw murder substantively, she was stunned for a moment, and wanted to stand up and rush up to save people, but Chu Wei grabbed her tightly and whispered, "Mo Yi'er, what are you going to do?" ”
"Help, that wizard killed that girl, killed ...... Could it be that this is called dedication to the gods? The girl had already fallen on the altar, and Mo Yi'er watched her bright red blood flow wantonly!
"Mo Yi'er, this is how our sacrifice is here!" Chu Ji took Mo Yi'er's hand and used a little more strength, he was very afraid that Mo Yi'er would do something, there were not too many people here to condone Mo Yi'er, not to mention, they would not necessarily believe that Mo Yi'er was a god, if they offended the sacrifice, there was only one end - death!
Mo Yi'er stood there weakly, watching the girl lose her life little by little. Indeed, this is the kind of sacrifice here, what can she do? She couldn't save such a young girl, let alone blame them for their faith. Maybe a life isn't anything here!
The next process Mo Yi'er was confused, occasionally following Chu Ji to kneel and bow, and then retreating from the altar with him, obviously, she was frightened, and she was shocked when she saw life leave for the first time.
The girl's body was left on the altar, and everyone seemed to forget that there had been such a person.
"Mo Yi'er, Mo Yi'er, are you okay?" Chu Wei shook Mo Yi'er's shoulder and asked.
"Huh? It's okay! Mo Yi'er responded absentmindedly.
Chu Ji couldn't see her like this, so he pulled her away until she was away from the crowd. "Mo Yi'er, what's wrong with you? Are you blaming me for holding you back? That girl is dedicated to the gods, it's her honor, and you can't stop it. ”
"I know, so I didn't do anything, did I?"
"And who are you now?"
"Hehe, it's nothing, it's just a little lamenting the worthlessness of human life."
"What?" Money or something, Chu Wei didn't know what it was, so he didn't understand Mo Yi'er's words.
"It's nothing, Chu Ji I know how to adjust my mood, can you let me stay by myself for a while?" Mo Yi'er wants to be quiet alone, and she also has to get used to it by herself. She's a human being, and all she can do is adapt to this place, and there's no way to adapt it to her. Even if she could change anything, it wasn't so fast, not to mention that except for Kanneki, other people didn't necessarily trust her. Just like the Haim tribe, although she ate the food she said she could eat, didn't she eat it before eating it? As for the little pom-pom, they didn't believe what she said.
"That'...... Well, you don't go far, there will be danger. Chu Wei was not very relieved, but Mo Yi'er wanted to be quiet, so he had to let her.
"Well, I see, you go back first!" Mo Yi'er waved her hand at Chu Wei and watched him return to his previous resting place. Mo Yi'er sat behind a big tree and buried her head in it with her hands and knees. She couldn't tell what mood she was in now, she wasn't sad, because she didn't know the girl, but she was always uncomfortable!