Sleepiness, exhaustion, and burnout, these states are superimposed on the human police officer's body.

By the way, there is also dehydration, itching...... The bound hands were completely unable to tickle and could only endure it.

I don't know if I should thank the villagers for putting them in a sitting position, not tying them to a wooden shelf and holding them up, at least they can touch the ground with their legs when they sit down, although they just think that they can feel better.

Xia Chengyin lowered his head, a cloth bag was covered on his head, and the smell seemed to be a bag of rice or flour, which was not cleaned, making the tip of his nose uncomfortable and wanting to sneeze.

Before being covered with a bag to block his vision, the inch-headed police officer still saw the arrangement on the altar.

There are several familiar pillars around, and the platform in the middle is also a one-to-one replica of the one under the Minghui shopping mall, and Qi Zhuyue is lying on it.

The unconscious woman was lying there peacefully, her hands folded in front of her abdomen, and she was also changed into a white long dress, I don't know which female villager changed it for her, and the whole person looked ...... Holy.

like a lamb to the slaughter.

The village chief of Wenjia Village actually revealed a lot of things, and the old man seemed to have determined that they couldn't run away, so his appearance changed and he began to chatter.

There is a bit of a villain dying from talking too much, but I don't know when the rescuer will arrive.

The village chief mentioned that he thanked Xia Chengyin and them for accompanying "Wen Tao" back.

He said that it is easy to control when there are many people, and there is naturally no way for people to leave their friends and run away when they are concerned, and the village chief's original plan was to arrest one or two people between them.

At first, the village chief looked like an underage boy and another thin little white face.

The underage boy is Gao Tianyi, and the thin little white face refers to Bai Su.

Xia Chengyin didn't know what to evaluate for a while, and the village chief also picked a very difficult one.

It's a pity that the two of them are too slippery, like loaches, and the villagers obviously saw their traces in the village chief's house, and after chasing them into the woods, there were only footprints left, and there was no trace of leaving.

When Xia Chengyin heard this, his eyelids jumped.

It's too bold, but they occasionally need to be brave.

The inch-headed police officer can also step on the path of the two, and if there is no trace on the ground, it must be running along the tree.

Looks...... I'll have to re-evaluate someone when I go back.

Not only does it have to be done for Bai Su, but Gao Tianyi also needs it.

The village chief's chatter continued, and he said that the things he had left in his house had been turned over in a mess, and that there were a few village chronicles and notes missing, which were still very important records.

"But it's okay anymore, wait for the sacrifice to be over for a while...... It's done. The old man's attitude was very determined, and while he was still at the birthday banquet, his eyes drifted away and drifted to the room in the distance, "Wen Tao has come back." ”

"On such a star-optic day, she returned. She was supposed to be ...... Tsk, she escaped back then. ”

"It's all her parents...... "The village chief said the names of two strange people, "those two confused people." ”

Xia Chengyin immediately understood that this was the name of Wen Tao's parents.

After that, the villagers sang the opera, and simply cleaned up the birthday banquet scene, perhaps in a hurry, and did not pay attention to it thoroughly.

Xia Chengyin and Tang Nuo were packed and carried away together, their treatment was much worse than that of the elderly with inconvenient legs and feet in the village, and they carried them casually, as long as they didn't hurt them, the villagers didn't care.

The mountain road was still the one that had been blown up by Xia Chengyin, and the villagers simply laid a wooden boardwalk, like a single-plank bridge, barely fixed at both ends.

Walking up gives a crumbling feeling, but everyone passes it like that.

When they arrived at the altar, the two big men were thrown away like this, and only Qi Zhuyue was gently placed on the platform.

After the cloth was pulled, all they could hear was the village chief's loud recitation.

They were interested in the past and history of the village, but they were not interested, and as they listened, people's thoughts diverged.

Where are Gao Tianyi and Bai Su?

The human police suspect that it should not be in the village anymore, there is no one in the village now, and all the villagers have gathered on the hill.

There is a high probability that the two of them are wandering in the mountains and forests, and I can only hope that they can find the strangeness here as soon as possible and find them quickly.

It should be quite obvious that the villagers are sacrificing here, right? When it's dark, you need to light a fire to illuminate it, and this must be the most eye-catching presence in the whole mountain.

But is it enough for just the two of them?

The human police officer regretted it a little, he should have asked the bureau to send someone over when he could still contact him, and he should have sent out the normal words and phrases in the last garbled period.

Even if it is a landslide, there must be people in the bureau who can cross over it, but whether their situation has been turned over or not.

In fact, as time goes by, they can't be contacted here, and they will definitely send someone over to check the situation...... But in that case, it's too late.

sacrifice

The inch-headed officer, whose head was covered in a cloth bag, followed the light and the sound as he shifted his perspective, and the head of Wenjia Village seemed to have reached the end of his lengthy speech, and he slammed the ground with the harpoon he used as a crutch in his hand.

"Now, Wen Tao is back!"

There were echoes from below, but the language function of the villagers had degenerated into the sound of purring bubbles, and the muffled shouts were endless.

The villagers are cheering, the villagers are celebrating, and the villagers are dancing.

The light shifted, as if many people were turning in circles with torches in their hands, around the altar, their steps heavy and inconsistent.

The village chief seemed to be a little dissatisfied with the actions of the villagers, but he didn't know what came to mind, so he just sighed.

The crutches struck the ground again, and the movement of the circle changed and went in the opposite direction.

Every time the crutches hit the ground, there would be a change, and the village chief would stop and go, and the tapping action would continue.

Eventually, he appears to have walked behind the two human police officers.

Behind them...... There is only the platform where Qi Zhuyue is lying.

Thinking of this, the human police officer struggled.

I don't know if it's because the villagers tied them up too strongly, or if the debuff effect of the fish produced in Wenjia Village was too strong, and both of them struggled a few times, but it didn't work.

Except that the wrists that were tied up were red and swollen by the hemp rope, it was all in vain.

Out of sight of the human police, the head of Wenjia village raised his harpoon.

The sacrifice of living people means to kill human beings, and "Wen Tao" is the sacrifice selected by Wenjia Village this time.

Before the head of Wenjia Village was about to poke the raised harpoon down and plunge it into the heart of "Wen Tao" with the murmuring of the fish-man villagers, the accident happened.

Explosions erupted one after another, blasting around the place where the sacrifice was located.

Whenever the head of Wenjia Village followed the prestige, within a few seconds, an explosion occurred in a new direction, and the continuous forest sea broke the trees everywhere because of the explosion, and some flew far away and hit the villagers outside.

The villagers panicked for a while.

The village chief stomped his feet several times, and the harpoon knocked on the wooden platform several times, finally calming down the villagers.

The village chief's gaze couldn't be hidden, and the sacrificial ceremony was interrupted, so he had to start all over again.

Fortunately, it was still early, and I still had time to do it again.

With a wave of his harpoon, the old man sent out some of the younger, stronger villagers to see what was going on, while the rest remained around the altar.

The villagers who had been separated walked in unison, and when they passed by a certain bush, the little paper figure hiding under the broken trunk of the tree hid down, and when the villagers were far away, the young man in the distance took a deep breath.

He didn't succeed either.

Success refers to interrupting the sacrifice of the villagers with an explosion, at least judging from the operation of the village chief at the head, his previous actions should be useless and need to be repeated.

Unsuccessful means that he only interrupted and did not divert more people from the altar.

The movement of the explosion was still too small.

Gao Tianyi held a piece of yellow paper between his fingertips, he looked at the pattern drawn on it, and decided that if he could go back alive this time, he must improve the imitation detonation charm.

He shouldn't have listened to his master or anything, saying that the movement would cause trouble too much.

The explosion is not very powerful, so is it still called an explosion? You see, it's a little bit of a no-brainer right now.

I should have buried a few more just now, and it would have been better to blow up the mountain...... Wait, does this effect stack? He didn't seem to have done the test.

But it's too late to think about it now.

The young man crouching on the side that did not explode frowned, and many ways flashed through his mind, all of which were feasible to touch the edge of the altar.

But what about after that? If he uses some means to set the altar on fire, then how can he take Brother Xia and Brother Tang to run? As far as he could observe, the two were not in good shape.

The young man stretched out his fingers, which were already connected together, and scratched his arms, neck, and cheeks, and he did not dare to scratch too hard, for fear of deducting a few more scales.

It's one thing to be in pain, it's another to get attention with the smell of blood.

Calm, calm...... Calm down again.

Gollum spat out a few bubbles, and Gao Tianyi rubbed his swollen eyes.

He could...... He could...... By the way, if the humidity is so high and it's still raining, you can use thunder...... He can strike with lightning.

The young man stood up holding on to the trunk of the tree, dodging the villagers who were about to search his area, playing a game of hide and seek, and finally moved to the closest position to the sacrifice.

A little further on, he will be exposed to the eyes of the villagers.

The young man blinked, slurred in his spoken language trying to be clear.

He took out the compass from his pocket and tied the yellow rune paper to the stone he picked up from the ground, it was too difficult to throw it empty-handed, he needed a little assistance, and the slingshot should be the most convenient operation.

The imaginary handsome picture does not exist, and the human boy stands in the rain in embarrassment, drenched and drenched.

The young man had words in his mouth.

“…… Haste as a law! ”

The stone wrapped in yellow paper flew over the heads of the villagers like a bullet arrow, and the village chief standing on the high platform saw this scene, and he also recited the last few sentences too late to evacuate.

But this time, the older ones are prepared.

As if he had received an order, the villager who was squatting on the side of the altar swooped upward, jumped to the platform and stood up again, not caring where he jumped out, and met the arc in the air.

As the last syllable of the young man's spell fell, the thunder struck, but it didn't fall where he had imagined.

The young man did think a lot, such as the rune paper that the slingshot ejected didn't fly far enough, or the effect of his mantra being affected by his personal state was not good.

But he did not expect that the head of Wenjia Village would take the lives of his own villagers as a substitute to stop this thunder in mid-air.

Thunder exploded in the air, and the electric light that split brightly lit up the entire "lake", and the raised harpoon fell against the strong light.

What is the sound of skin and flesh when it is pierced by sharp metal? There was an ordinary thud, and at the end it was the click of the tip stuck into the wooden platform.

Blood gushed out in an instant, trickling out of the wound, dripping down the wooden platform to the ground, and further sliding into a shallow pit in the ground.

The villagers carved a magic circle on the wooden platform, waiting for all the blood to flow in.

The elderly village chief shouted and sang, his hands raised in the air, waiting for the blood to run out completely, waiting for a strange scene to happen.

Then, one minute passed, two minutes passed.

Nothing happened.

The elder's eyes widened in disbelief, and his wizened fingers clenched the harpoon in his hand.

"Why...... Why didn't anything happen? ”

The previous sacrifices were all the same process, but the difference in the sacrifices was not to mention that the main body of the living sacrifice offered by the village this time was still Wen Tao.

The village chief's eyes widened with rage, and he swung his harpoon down heavily, stabbing several times in succession in the unbearable gaze of others.

Blood splattered and splashed on the old man's cheeks.

However, there is still nothing echoed.

No, the response is still there, just very weak.

Weak, or rather weak.

The village chief didn't quite understand what was happening to Wen Tao, which caused its response to weaken and not show up for a long time, and he observed for a while, and all he could see was a little ripple in the distance where it should have been the middle of the lake.

The ripples on the surface of the water appeared out of thin air, and the waves rose and fell for a long time before a soft and boneless white hand stretched out from it.

"Wen Tao." There seemed to be a resentful voice shouting, "Wen Tao, ahh ”

"Snort...... Poofha! ”

Along with the sound of resentment was a sneer, and the movement of the trees crushing, approaching at a slow pace.

Faster than a pale hand crawling out of a ripple, the mountain-like presence rumbled through the outermost forest and rushed into sight.

It was a filthy place, and one could not see the whole view of the hill at eye level, so he could only look up.

At the top of the hill, a humanoid creature protruded, with only a straight upper body, a silhouette visible on the body and head, and arms that had completely blended with the black silt.

The visitor laughed stupidly, and the laughter grew louder and louder, and gradually became crazy.

"Failed...... You have failed. ”

The black silt rained down, and the villagers who were close fled in panic, and a few who did not move were watered until they fused with the black silt in a daze.

Wen Rongxuan, the young man who could vaguely be called Wen Rongxuan, lowered his eyes and looked at everything on the ground, especially the old man who was staring at him.

"Warm Peach...... Guess where the real warm peach is? ”

(End of chapter)