Chapter 20: The Sacrifice
"I, I, I, I, don't kick me. ∈," Chester had already hid in a corner, crying, "After Betty chose me, the day before yesterday, those people told me that the time was almost up, and I had a relative living with her, a relative in the big city to the north, and hoped that I could go there to live, and I could take her with me." She had already wanted to go to the north to live, and she was very happy to hear my promise, but she wanted to go with Uncle Ke so that my plan would be ruined, so I used the previous example of Uncle Ke preventing her from going to the north to scare her, if she went out, she would definitely be stopped again, and she would not be able to go with me. She believed it and didn't know what to do, so I taught her to leave a note for Uncle Ke and brought her here. ”
"In the upper room, I knocked her unconscious, and then I put her in the secret room, and tore off her thighs with the tools of the prey, and she woke up in pain so many times that I did not dare to listen to her, so I blocked my ears with cotton. Finally I tore her leg off, locked her in a secret room by herself, changed her clothes, and went to the morning group therapy rally. After the rally, I dragged Uncle Kerk so that he wouldn't have a chance to go home, and when it came to the dinner party, I deliberately drunk Uncle Kerk so that he wouldn't find out that Betty was missing in advance. ”
"When I sent Uncle Neo home, I took him to Neo's house, didn't you guess it, I killed Neo in the wild, left Betty's leg aside, and mixed some of Betty's luggage with Neo's, making a disguise that they ran away together, and then returned here, waiting for Uncle Kerk to find out the fact that Betty was missing the next day. ”
"I don't quite understand. Catherine asked, "You hurt Betty, but you were tempted by those two ghouls, but why did you kill Neo? This matter has nothing to do with him at all, so why are you involved in him?"
"I want to make everyone think that Betty is walking with him, so that people don't suspect me. At this point, Chester no longer held on to his luck, and replied very quickly, "I have to be in the town for a few more days, so I want to create an environment where Zào is not suspected." That's why I devised a plan to first lead everyone to think that they had run away from home, and if they didn't have any suspicions, it would be easier, and if everyone was suspicious, I would induce them to find Neo's body. When they find it, they will mistakenly think that Betty and Neo died tragically after encountering wild beasts, and no one will suspect me. ”
"It's a good plan. Catherine nodded, "However, since you have already acquired a lot of wealth and status, why should you stay in the town? ”
"They, the ritual is not completed until six days have passed, and if my actions are discovered halfway, the ritual will fail. Causing a lot of damage to their churches, not only will I not get the money, but I will also be punished the most severely. That's why I'm going to take everyone's attention away from me and Betty as much as possible, so that I can have enough time for the ritual. I didn't want to do that at first. But they reminded me to find a way to look away, so I chose this method. ”
"Oh, by the way, use specific people in a certain range. Catherine patted her forehead and said suddenly, "In that case." I don't have any questions, do you have any other questions? If you still have questions, it's best to bring them up now. ”
"There's something I'd like to ask him privately. Just Pannis's explanation. The more the old father listened, the more frightened he felt, he didn't want to imagine what his daughter had experienced, but all kinds of imagination couldn't help but appear in his mind, but the unique perseverance of the snow people and the habitual awe of high-level professionals made him barely suppress the angry impulse in his heart, and only then did he clench his fists and said, "I want to ask him, what is there about my daughter who is sorry for her, so that he can be so cruel to her." ”
"You better ask one last time later, I'm afraid that you will ask him to death now, and he is still a little useful now, and he can't let you ask for death so soon. "Catherine, did you bring anything with you?"
Catherine silently took out Betty's stump and handed it to Lina, Lina took it and looked at it repeatedly, glanced at Lao Ke again, sighed and pouted, "I'll do my best, but ...... Forget it, let's do it later, by the way, eldest sister, this is for you, I took it down below, those things of the divine servants, it seems that they are used to stop bleeding quickly, in order to prevent the human pillar from dying due to excessive blood loss, there should be a supporting medicine, which is to stimulate the spirit of the human pillar, so that they will not die of pain, and they will not be able to fall into a coma and madness to avoid the pain. But I didn't find those, and I don't really want to find them. I'll go down first, do any of you want to go down with me? Be mentally prepared before you go down. But forget about men, her current appearance is inconvenient for men to see. ”
"I'll go. "The more solemn Lina's, the more no one wants to go, only Aiwa, who wants to observe human nature, follows Lina" I don't know a lot of things I saw today, I hope the following things can deepen my understanding of today. ”
"Unfortunately, I'm afraid it will only confuse you even more. Lina didn't stop her, but climbed down the ladder of the secret room and reminded her in advance, "I know you want to understand human nature, but you must remember that this person has been overwhelmed by greed and desire, in fact, he has completely lost his humanity, and observing his behavior does not make you understand human nature more deeply." ”
The secret room is located very deep underground, and although the two people who died were ghouls, after all, they were legendary professionals when they were alive, and it was not difficult to build such a secret room in three months using earth attribute magic. The two climbed the ladder all the way to the bottom, and Lina held up the lantern and walked down the tunnel, soon reaching the underground chamber. The chamber was pitch black, and this ordinary fuel-powered lantern could only illuminate one location. However, with the light of the oil lamp, Lina walked around the four walls of the chamber and lit several crystal lanterns on the walls at the same time, making the chamber brighter.
The layout of the secret room is very strange, and the walls in all directions are carved with a large number of various magic circles, and the dark red magic circle exudes a strange atmosphere. In the center of the chamber is a marble altar, the circle around the altar is the densest, but there are no circles engraved on the altar.
There was a person lying on the altar, it should be a young girl from the shape, her limbs were spread, her limbs were intact and were nailed to the altar by dozens of long nails, the root of the only remaining thigh of the severed limbs was also nailed to death by the long nails, and even her torso was pierced by more than a dozen long nails, the parts of the nails were selected accurately, just avoiding all internal organs, and in addition to bringing pain, it would not cause any substantial damage. The magic equipment that Lina took off before to stop bleeding can effectively stop the bleeding of the wound caused by the spike, so that any slight movement of the nailed person will bring great pain, but it will not be truly fatal.
Anchored to the altar was apparently Betty, who had been made into a human pillar, and her head was the only body part that had not been nailed, though an iron hoop attached to the altar was tightly clamped around her forehead, preventing her from even moving her head. Betty's eyes had been gouged out, her mouth had been stretched open by a huge iron ring, her tongue had been pulled out and cut off, the corners of her mouth had cracked a little, and not only that, but a deep wound had been cut in her neck, which had cut off her vocal cords accurately, not only did she not say a word, but it was difficult for her to even moan.
One of her stretched limbs was one of the arms that was very strangely shaped, and a closer examination revealed that every bone in this arm had been crushed in detail, not even the fingers. And judging from the shape of the broken bones, these bones were not smashed by hand, but were crushed little by little by tools such as large iron tongs, it is estimated that time does not allow, and the remaining arms and legs have not been poisoned, which is a blessing in misfortune.
On Betty's body, a thin piece of trap was tightly covered, the trap was made of slender but tough wires, and each wire was strangled close to Betty's body, so that her skin and muscles were strangled into an even two square centimeter diamond-shaped protrusions, and the abuser then used the hunter's steady dìng technique when handling prey, slowly but delicately cut off these bulges, and the cut skin and muscles were discarded around the altar at will. At the same time, the magic equipment and the accompanying medicine played their own role, effectively preventing the death of the human pillar, and only soberly enduring all the pain in the process.
And judging from the situation at the scene, this act was obviously carried out more than once, Betty almost no longer had any skin and body surface fat on the front of her body, and the muscles had been cut off several layers, and some non-lethal parts were almost faintly visible under the white bones under the muscles. But even so, her remaining muscles still occasionally flicked slightly, and she let out a faint gasp from her open mouth, and it was clear that she was not only alive, but also awake.
Betty had lost her eyes and couldn't see anything, but her hearing was still intact. Obviously, Lina had spoken to her when she entered before, so she didn't show fear at this time, but the frequency of muscle beats was obviously much higher, and some blood seeped out from the inside of the bare muscles from the wound where the bleeding had stopped. (To be continued......)
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