Volume 1 ᅠ The Back of the First Entry into the World Chapter 53 Rituals and Metamorphosis
As the giant man continued to move forward, this road became more and more wide, and finally he came to a natural patio, and the shimmer of the moon shone in along the wellhead of the sky, allowing Director Li to see the surrounding situation clearly.
Directly below the patio was a circular platform, on which stood a man of strange proportions, wrapped in a tight tan robe, looking sleek, thin, but with long arms, wrists above the knees.
About ten meters away from this platform, there was a circle of silver-gray crosses erected barely, looking extremely cold.
Behind the cross there are piles of random things, high and low, but they are all covered with burlap bags, so it is not very clear to see.
Before Director Li could figure out the situation, his whole person was directly tied to one of the crosses by the giant man carrying him.
"Big brother, are you villagers here? What are you going to do? In this kind of society under the rule of law, although Director Li was a little panicked in his heart, he still retained a bit of reason, and he spoke to the giant man with his back to him in a good voice, "I came in accidentally, I didn't come to the cemetery in your village on purpose, can you let me down first?" Is that the village chief on stage? I'm going to apologize to him..."
Before he finished speaking, Director Li saw that the giant man suddenly turned around, and his big hand like a pu fan directly pinched his chin, and with a sudden force, his jaw was directly broken out of the joint.
Li Taichang was so painful that tears burst out of the corners of his eyes, and the whole person kept struggling on the cross.
It seemed that his commotion disturbed the strange man on the platform somewhat, and the giant man even opened his hand again and choked him by the neck.
I couldn't breathe at all, my hands and feet were trapped, and I couldn't resist at all, and at the moment when Director Li felt that he was going to suffocate to death in the next moment, the big hand was directly released.
Without speaking, Director Li took a sharp breath, and he seemed to feel a low whine in his lungs and trachea.
Before he could recover from it, in the corridor where he came, several giants appeared one after another, and one of the giants also carried a black figure on his shoulder, but the person hung on his shoulders so softly, and his hands and feet shook with the shaking of the giant man's body.
Just like Director Li, the giant man tied that person to the cross very neatly, and it was only seven or eight meters away from him.
After the rope around his neck was slightly tightened and the person's head was slightly raised, Director Li realized that he was not Xiao Tao?
"Tao? Tao? Li Taichang's jaw couldn't close, so he could only shout two words indistinctly, and the giant man in front of him turned around and glanced at him coldly, and suddenly scared him so much that he didn't dare to squeak anymore, but Xiao Tao didn't react at all, I don't know if he was drunk or fainted.
Next, two more people were carried back, and there was no need to guess at all, just that all four people in the dormitory were arrested neatly.
After all four of them were tied, the strange man on the round platform finally moved, he raised his head, and his two long arms were like crab pincers, and he opened his arms to the night sky above his head.
The strange man began to mumble something in his mouth, and the giants knelt down on one knee one by one, and the dark green light above their heads became brighter and brighter, like lanterns.
The moonlight that kept sprinkling from the sky, with the constant repetition of their strange behavior, also seemed to have a volume, imperceptible to the naked eye and really stacked up.
Unconsciously, the moonlight, which was originally as thin as fluff, turned out to be like a carpet, and finally condensed dewdrops. The dew continued to accumulate, and finally turned into a wisp of moonspring with a silver brilliance flowing down the surrounding of the platform, slowly flowing down.
When the moon springs began to accumulate around the platform, Director Li was surprised to find that the ground of this patio was outlined with countless patterns, including circles, diamonds and ovals.
The patterns are layered and intertwined, and finally they are dizzying.
Moonspring followed the lines of the patterns, and the strange man's voice grew louder and louder, and at last he danced like a madman on the platform.
As he continued to shake, the bottom of his robe, countless black balls the size of fingernails were shaken off.
These black balls were like dead things at first, without any movement, but after soaking in the moon spring a few times, they stretched out one after another, and they were insects that had never been seen before.
Being able to hide insects on himself, this kind of creepy behavior made Director Li swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva in a row, and he couldn't help but look left and right a few times, but unfortunately his three brothers were still in a coma and couldn't see this terrifying scene.
As if awakened from hibernation, the insects shook their heads and moved a few times before they raised their heads and looked at the strange man.
The strange man's voice became more and more high-pitched, as if he was extremely excited, and the whole person began to spin in place as if he had drunk wine.
The little worms also seemed to have received some orders, shaking their round butts excitedly, and the two rows of serrated teeth on the left and right of the mouthparts were constantly hitting.
The sound of 'hiss' began to sound in the courtyard one after another.
With a few swings, the bugs spun around and burrowed into what was stacked under the burlap sack behind the cross.
After eating, he turned his head, and Director Li looked behind him, as if he was eating, the bulging burlap bag gradually decreased, and at the same time, a strong smell of blood began to permeate the patio.
Director Li's eyes became more and more frightened, and he vaguely saw that as the burlap bag became more and more shriveled, the silhouette that was faintly revealed was like the corpse of a different creature.
The insects scattered around and frantically eating, after a full meal, gathered on the platform again, they shook their pincers, and the blood stains were so clear in the silver light.
The strange man seemed to be quite satisfied with the insects' feeding, and he pulled out a rattle out of nowhere, waved his wrist, and beat it repeatedly.
As the rattle beat faster and faster, those bugs actually reversed the direction directly and looked at the four of them.
A bad feeling rose in his heart.
The next moment, those insects turned into four strands and crawled towards the four crosses where people were tied.
He shouted the names of his bedroom brothers in his mouth, and his body was also struggling frantically, Director Li wanted to wake them up and fight together, he didn't want to die in this cave inexplicably.
It's just that his shouts didn't get any response at all, and the ropes that bound him were so strong that they couldn't break free at all, seeing that those insects were already close to the bottom of the cross, Director Li followed his survival instinct, and he shouted at the strange man with all his might, "Please, let me go, whatever you want, I'll give it to you!" ”
As if his shout had aroused the stranger's interest, he slowly walked towards Chief Li, and the bugs at the bottom of the cross stopped climbing up.
"You don't want to die?" The strange man's voice was very ugly, like a rusty saw, sawing a steel pipe with no effort.
His shouts were answered, and Director Li nodded busily, he still has a bright future, he can't die here.
"Look at me..."
As if he was enchanted, he looked down at the strange man, his face seemed to be covered with black mist, and it seemed to be covered with a veil, and he couldn't see his appearance at all, but two silver stars flickered in the position of his eye sockets.
"I can keep you alive, but you have to give everything you have!"
"I do, I do!" Director Li said with difficulty, his jaw couldn't even hold his saliva, and wisps of saliva flowed down the corners of his mouth.
"Your name, your destiny, your bloodline, whether it is past, present, or even the future, as long as everything you have, it belongs to me!"
The weirdo seems to be reciting poetry, but in Captain Lee's view, this is the hope of living.
"I do! I do! Saliva splashed, and even two drops were thrown at the weirdo, but the weirdo didn't care in the slightest.
"Look at me..."
As the strange man spoke, he raised his thin arm and pressed it down on the top of Chief Li's head, and green smoke suddenly rose from his scalp, and the smell of burnt flesh suddenly bloomed.
The heart-rending pain destroyed what little sanity Director Li had left almost instantly, and he shouted frantically.
Like grains of sand about to be squeezed out of the pores of his skin, like a mechanical gear that has been stuffed into his head and spinning wildly, like pins poking into his eyes one by one.
"From today onwards, you are the new candlestick, follow in my footsteps and get an immortal future!"
When all the pain was finally gone, the ropes that bound him were automatically loosened, and the strange man looked at him lying on the ground like a puddle of mud, and said in a beautiful tone that he did not understand at all.
However, the next moment, he had no such trouble in his mind at all, he was very hungry, very hungry, he clearly felt that his stomach was empty, and the constant secretion of stomach acid seemed to decompose his stomach.
Like a mad beast, he looked around for what he could devour, until he saw three bloody corpses hanging from the cross.
"I'm so hungry!"
Director Li pounced frantically, and the front ends of his hands, the fingernails that had been trimmed smoothly in the past became extremely sharp, like a knife, which could easily tear through those flesh and skin.
His jaw was dislocated, and he couldn't swallow it at all, but the maddening hunger in his stomach made him stuff the torn strip of meat directly into his throat.