Chapter 9: The Sacrificial Ceremony
readx; The morning sun was shining, and the golden sunlight shone down, as if the whole earth was plated with a thin layer of gold. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info In the morning, the center of the village has been filled with crowds, crowded and lively, everyone under the sacrificial stage is happy, especially some children, all smiling, although there is no lack of nervousness, but most of them are drowned in excitement.
Among the people, Kong Yucheng and Yuan Feng, who had participated in the sacrificial ceremony, and those who were already adults, needless to say, as for Chen Mo, and the group of seven or eight-year-old children, they all came from small villages in various places to participate in the sacrifice. Where have I seen the grand event of 10,000 people in Dazhai once a year.
Chen Mo was the happiest at the moment, pestering Kong Yucheng, who had experienced, and chirping and asking: "Brother Kong, why are there so many people at the sacrifice ceremony?"
Kong Yucheng smiled, obviously in a very good mood, and said: "Yes, the sacrificial ceremony is the biggest event within a radius of thousands of miles, and all the small villages regard it as a top priority. And can be successfully selected, it is possible to be selected by the village to be cultivated, if selected, the selection of the village will also get a rich reward, even shelter, you know, for the population, hundreds or one or two thousand of the village, can get a hundred thousand people of the village of protection is how glorious it is. So it goes without saying that the spectacle of this scene is spectacular. β
At this moment, a black shadow flashed in the sky, and an additional figure suddenly appeared on the altar. When I looked closely, it was a middle-aged man, the man's appearance was very ordinary, and there was nothing special. But as long as you observe carefully, you will find that at the moment when the man first appeared, he only glanced lightly at the stage, and did not speak, as if an invisible aura suddenly enveloped the entire sacrificial platform. In less than three breaths, the crowd that was noisy in the square just now suddenly quieted down.
Looking at the crowd around carefully, most of the people actually showed excited expressions on their faces, no need to think that they must know the identity of the person who came, only a small number of them looked puzzled, but they were infected by the atmosphere, and they also looked at the man on the stage quietly.
This is Kong Yucheng, who was beside Chen Mo, and said in a low voice: "This is my clan, patriarch. After speaking, he paused, and then said: "Patriarch, it is very mysterious, and it only appears during this sacrificial ceremony every year, even my father, except for this sacrificial ceremony, he usually doesn't see it much!"
Chen Mo was shocked in his heart, in this short period of time, he and Yuan Feng had fully understood Kong Yucheng's family affairs, Kong Yucheng's father, that is, one of the few elders in this big village, and was in charge of criminal law, even elders like him had to be polite when they saw his father, which is why Kong Yucheng was able to order the soldier guarding the door when they first met, and let him go to the criminal law to receive the punishment himself. Even with the identity of his father, he can't see the patriarch a few times a year, and his mystery can be imagined.
People often have a special feeling about the unknown, the unfamiliar, and this feeling is reflected in the awe of adults. But in children, it becomes curiosity. At this moment, Chen Mo was exactly like this, and he had a deep curiosity about this patriarch who led tens of thousands of people.
The middle-aged man on the stage saw that the audience was quiet, nodded his head, and said, "The sacrifice begins" He didn't speak loudly, but everyone in the audience heard it very clearly, as if the voice appeared directly in everyone's mind.
After hearing the voice, some people in the audience began to kneel on their knees as if they had agreed. It didn't start much, but in less than a moment, like a tarot card remake, everyone in the audience was already kneeling. A piece of black pressing. Chen Mo was also pulled to his knees by Kong Yucheng and Yuan Feng, although he didn't know the point of doing so.
The middle-aged man was not too surprised when he saw that everyone in the audience had knelt down on their knees, but he nodded slowly, only to hear the sound of gongs and drums coming from behind the stage, and six more people in black robes walked up from behind the sacrificial platform, none of them were wearing dragon-shaped masks, and their faces were hideous, some were majestic, and some were cold. The shape is different.
Offstage, Kong Yucheng whispered: "The one who wears a mask and the mask is majestic is my father." There was some pride in his words, Chen Mo turned his head sideways and asked, "Why do you have masks on your father, the masks are so ugly!" Yuan Feng on the side saw Chen Mo say this, for fear of offending Kong Yucheng, he didn't know that Chen Mo had experienced life and death together with the empty young man in front of him. Some hurriedly whispered: "Xiao Mo, what are you talking about?" I saw Kong Yucheng on the side laughing bitterly, waved his hand and said: "Xiao Mo, you don't know, it's not an ordinary mask, I estimate that few people know the true origin of the mask, maybe only the owner of the village knows some of it now! But those six masks are indeed six holy weapons." I've heard my father mention a little bit before, it is rumored that these six masks were stained with the blood of holy beasts when the wilderness first opened. β
Chen Mo just listened carefully, but Yuan Feng on the side was different. I saw that he seemed to be a little distracted and muttered: "Holy beast? Could it be a holy beast above the brute beast?
It was not surprising that Yuan Feng was surprised, and Kong Yucheng continued: "I heard my father once say that it is said that in the early days of the wilderness, all races were at their peak, and I heard that at that time, real dragons could often be seen in the sky, and holy beasts were not uncommon, and even the ancient battlefields were once stained with divine blood. It's just that now it's a lot down, the true dragon in the world is dead, the holy beast doesn't exist, and the gods can only be seen and heard in ancient classics or legends!" After speaking, he sighed deeply as if he had some regret for not being able to witness the grand occasion of the beginning of the wilderness. β
Chen Mingming on the side listened really, although he didn't know in his mind how powerful the holy beast and the divine beast were, but from this word, he also felt something, the grand occasion of the beginning of the wilderness.
This is the six masked black-robed people on the stage, their hands raised, open, and their mouths are chanting, this is an ancient and jerky statement, at this time many points of light suddenly floated down in the sky, they gathered in front of the six black-robed people, forming a circular ball of light, at first it was only the size of a fist, but with the chanting of the black-robed people, more and more points of light converged, and the ball became larger and larger, until the diameter of the ball reached about one meter, the black-robed people stopped singing, and the size of the ball was fixed at about one meter. I saw that the ball exuded a faint light, and it just floated in mid-air, revealing a sense of mystery!
I saw one person standing out among the black-robed people, this person with a majestic dragon-shaped mask was Kong Yucheng's father, and he only heard him say loudly: "After the sacrifice is over, please ask the children who have reached the age of eight in each village to come to the stage and start the test." After saying that, he took the lead and got off the altar.
At this time, the crowd in the audience slowly stood up, but did not leave, because they knew that the point was to pick up. Under the stage, a group of soldiers in the distance, wearing armor and swords tied to their waists, strode through the crowd to the side of the altar, and the crowd below them took the initiative to avoid it, and they lined up around the altar for a week, surrounding the huge altar, leaving only a vacancy at the stage.
Seeing that the children who had reached the age of eight in the audience began to line up along the gap, Chen Mo was also in the middle of the line. Some of these children are still talking and laughing with the people around them with innocent faces, as if this test is just a little fun in their eyes. Most of them do not know that this test will be decisive for the rest of their livesγγγγγ