Winter Sakura looked melancholy and seemed a little sullen, and she asked softly, "Does Nanzhu really want to do this?" ”

"Our wish is about to be fulfilled, and we are about to take the last step, don't be afraid of Winter Sakura, I will always be with you."

As soon as the haze on her face dissipated, Dong Ying's face turned from gloomy to sunny, "I know that Nanzhu is the best, with you by my side, I won't be afraid tomorrow." ”

"Of course, I'll be with you all the time."

The armadillo wondered, "What's going on tomorrow?" Who are you talking to? ”

"This is my good friend Nanzhu, she is my best friend!"

The armadillo was stunned, and before she could speak, Winter Sakura then said, "Tomorrow is the Dragon King Festival." ”

She paused word by word, her smiling cheeks became hideous and terrifying in an instant, her blue eyes became deep, and every word carried a deep hatred.

"It's a day that will die."

The armadillo couldn't help but shrink his neck in fear, "What is the Dragon King Sacrifice?" ”

As soon as the winter cherry blossoms jumped to the bottom of the water, the sea was only startled by a small handful of waves, and it seemed that they had never appeared.

Her half-cut body floated on the water, her huge tail hidden in the water like a dormant beast.

"The Terrans grind our skulls into powder, flesh and blood into dan, flesh and skin into lanterns for people to see, and teeth and bones into ornaments that the rich and noble like.

They also cut off the meat from our bodies one by one and roasted them in the stove, refined them into oil and used them to light the lamps, and our scales were plucked off one by one to make shiny pendants, and even the eyeballs were squeezed out alive for people to see. ”

She was very calm, whether it was her tone or expression, it was the same as the grief and indignation just now, and her deep eyes looked up at the night sky, like a pool of stagnant water.

Calm to the extreme, is cold.

Eerie cold.

"Finally, we will open up the Dragon King Sacrifice and use our dying people to lure us into the bait." Her eyes were like torches, and her voice trembled slightly, like raindrops falling into the sea, rippling in circles.

The armadillo listened to the goosebumps, and the anger in his heart was rising little by little.

That sentence lingered in my head.

…… You are not supposed to live in this world

"They deserve to die for the Terrans!"

"They deserve to die for the Terrans!"

A merman and a divine beast, sympathetic to each other.

Dawn is approaching, but the gloom on the horizon has not dissipated.

The next day's Dragon King Festival kicked off early in the morning.

The fishermen living in the inner city have already begun to beat gongs and drums with great fanfare, the corners of their mouths turned up, and their faces are smiling.

The fishermen each held a vessel in their hands, and they surrounded the huge reefs.

On top of the stone stood the five brothers of the Lao family.

"I've been waiting for a long time, why haven't you started yet?" Someone shouted from below.

One by one, they were looking forward to it, waiting for the opening of the Dragon King Festival.

"Big brother, are we going to start?" Lao San looked nervous.

Lao Da nodded, his face was blue and purple, and his speech was leaky, "Now that it's all come to this point, can you go back again?" ”

The Dragon King Festival does not refer to a specific day, but to a certain month.

They will specially ask the elders in the temple who can watch the stars to look at the day and find the sunniest day.

It is also the day when the sun is shining that it is easier to subdue the shark.

He looked up, the sky was still overcast, the sun was pulled by the dark clouds and could not come out, and it was dark and ethereal in the distance, and it seemed that it might rain.

It was the first time he had encountered this kind of weather, and he couldn't help but feel a little frightened.

"Hurry up, we can't start yet!"

"Urge, urge!" Lao Da was grumpy and scolded.

It has been three years since a new merman has been baited, but since these people have tasted the sweetness, they have become more and more greedy, like white-eyed wolves who can't be fed.

The fishermen standing under the reef thought the same, and looked at Lao Da with deep disdain.

The Lao brothers have made enough money, but they still hold on to the mermen, and it would be nice if they gave them all the mermen.

The brothers were the first to discover the mermaids, and at the same time, they frequently arrested and sold them outside the city without telling the villagers.

These were discovered by fishermen, whose family secretly made a fortune and made a lot of money.

However, this sea is their common wealth, how can they be left alone?

Although they came up with the Dragon King Sacrifice, what they earned was only used by the Lao brothers to stuff their teeth, and the fishermen were naturally quite prejudiced against them.

"Did you secretly sell the mermaids who sacrificed to the Dragon King?" The fisherman standing below shouted.

"What to sell? Am I like you? "A bunch of unfed white-eyed wolves!

Lao Dabai glanced at it, and naturally the words behind him were not spoken, after all, they still had to live in this village.

Lao San carefully pushed the merman up with a cart, covering it with a white cloth, and even if it was not opened, he could smell the thick smell of fishy and rotten.

In just two nights, the merman's corpse had begun to decompose.

Whether it's filled with mercury or a layer of wax oil, it still can't stop them from rotting.

Therefore, the brothers of the Lao family chose to do more than less, and sacrificed early, even if there is no sunshine today, they can only bite the bullet.

"Is this the case, big brother?"

In the past, the dragon king festival used the body of a dying merman as bait. They don't dare to fight with the Terrans, they just want to save their people.

It was by taking advantage of this psychology that they caught wave after wave of mermen, but now they were holding corpses, and they were so enraged that they saw the corpses of their companions and fought with them.

Coupled with the fact that there is no daylight today, there is no imprisonment for them, and Lao San is undecided.

"If you can't, you have to do it, otherwise what can you do?"

Lao Da roared angrily, and his heart was also a mess, why did he listen to the words of that stinky Taoist priest and make a dragon king sacrifice in the first place!

Now it has not been able to fill the bellies of these fishermen, but it has fed their appetite.

It's really miserable, they couldn't catch the sharks a few years ago, and their brothers could only take out their own private treasures to provide them with shares, which they had caught and imprisoned before.

Now this is the last one, and if the sharks can't be lured out, maybe these fishermen will do something.

Lao Da nodded at Lao Er, Lao Er cleared his throat, and said loudly to the people below: "Fathers and fellow villagers also know how much sacrifice our Lao family has made for the inner city, and now the number of mermaids is getting smaller and smaller, and this is already the last one, so if we can't do it this time, then we have no choice, and there will be no dragon king sacrifice after this year." ”

"Bah, we don't believe it, you want to stop when you make enough money, so what about us?"

"Unless you take out the trick of catching the shark and share it with us, in the future, we will each rely on our own abilities, and this dragon king sacrifice will not be opened!"

"How to share? If we had a way, we would have caught the merman long ago! "And share a hammer! Lao Er said angrily.

"I don't believe it! You must still have hidden mermaids and refuse to take them out...... "The fishermen are crying out below.

I am determined that they are turning public into private, and no one wants to be taken away by others to make money on their own.

Moreover, the Lao brothers are used to being cunning and treacherous on weekdays, and they have a way to make a fortune and keep their mouths shut, and secretly do big things in silence, until some fishermen find out the clues, they also hide and deny them.

Because of the crusade of the people, they couldn't withstand the pressure to start the Dragon King Sacrifice, but they only took out a little sweetness for them to taste.

The fishermen didn't believe what the Lao brothers said, even if they saw with their own eyes that no mermaid had taken the bait.

"I don't care if you catch the merman or not, as long as you get my share."

"That's it, no matter what method you use, whether you catch it or not, it doesn't matter if this Dragon King Festival is done or not, as long as we can get the share we deserve!" Fishermen raise their hands below.

"This group of people is really crazy! They don't believe us, what should we do? "Lao Er is anxious.

The other brothers waited for Lawda's idea.

"Big brother, what should I do?"

"What to do, what to do! What can I do? Lao Da roared angrily, "Since you think we are hiding, let them find it, it's a big deal for us to leave this place." ”

"Yes, we have money anyway." The brothers looked at each other and nodded in unison.

A huge wooden door hangs from the reef, and the thick wood is hugged by two people.

Two long ropes as thick as an arm hang from it.

They tied the merman's head and tail to these two long ropes.

"This ...... How did it split in half? ”

"It's dead!"

The fishermen on the side looked surprised one by one, after all, the dragon king sacrifice in the past was all sacrificed to live sharks.

Although he is dying, he is not as thoroughly dead as he is now.

The corpse was in a state of decay, and all that remained was skeletons, with only a few small pieces of flesh stuck to it.

The two black eye sockets seemed to be watching everything silently.

"It's scary!" Some children covered their eyes in fright.

The stench of decay seemed to travel thousands of miles away, and everyone covered their noses and frowned.

The mermaids with different heads and feet were pulled to the top by thick ropes, and the fishermen who stood under the reef and watched cheered.

"Ignition ......"

With a loud shout, a burning torch was thrown at the fire, which was higher than a person. In an instant, the flames burst out, and the tiny flames burned into raging flames in the blink of an eye.

The orange halo is reflected on the faces of every fisherman who participates in the Dragon King Festival, and the smell of fireworks in the sky cannot hide the salty and fishy smell that has been lingering for many years.

Zhao Yuanling clenched his nose and frowned at this bloody and absurd sacrifice.

When she saw the merman whose body was cut in two, her eyes were like torches, and her body seemed to be frozen and motionless.

"Before...... She also spoke to me. ”

Mo Bai was dressed in the cloth clothes of an ordinary fisherman, his eyes were staring directly in the direction of the merman, and something seemed to be surging in his eyes, and he disappeared for a while.