Chapter 501: Selfishness (Part I)
Although, everyone had been prepared for a long time, and Xiaoba might refuse, but when he heard it, he still chuckled in his heart.
Allure hurriedly said: "Little eight brothers..."
But before he could say anything, Hachi stretched out his hand and stopped him from continuing. Looking at Allure, Xiaoba said lightly: "Get out of the way, don't let me make a move." ”
After speaking, Xiao Hachi took the two children and passed straight through the middle of the strong people who surrounded him, and because of Xiao Hachi's strength, no one dared to stop him during the period.
Hachi flew over the harbor, glanced at the crowd gathered below, and quickly found the target he was looking for, which was a pair of parents.
Hachi came to them with two children in his arms, and with the frightened expressions on the faces of the two couples. Gently put the two children down. The children immediately found their parents and immediately ran to them crying.
The woman broke free from the man's embrace, threw herself forward, fell to her knees, took the two children in her arms, and let her go and burst into tears. The man didn't move, and the look in his eyes looked complicated, as if he was making a difficult decision.
Hachi saw the man's hesitation, but he didn't ask, the child had been delivered, and there would be no more danger, which was enough. Next, there is a battle waiting for him, and he wants to completely erase the sea god sacrifice from the history of Alan City.
Hachi turned around and looked at the growing whirlpool on the sea. Just as he was about to step forward, a voice suddenly came from behind him, and it was a man's voice.
"My lord, please send these two children back..."
Xiao Ba was stunned, and the steps he took were retracted, he turned around, he knew who the voice was that spoke, and the voice belonged to the father of the two children. Hachi looked at the man, looked at him coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Aren't they your children?
The man glanced at his wife and the two children in her arms. At this time, his wife was shaking her head desperately at him with tears on her face, although she did not say anything, but her actions had already shown that she did not want to lose her child.
The man's expression was very painful, especially when he saw the two lovely children, he couldn't bear or dare to look at them again, he was afraid that he would not be able to be ruthless anymore. The man turned his head away, used all his strength, and nodded to Xiao Hachi. The moment the head was clicked, the man seemed to collapse, his body shook for a while, and he almost fell to the ground.
Xiao Hachi looked at the man in front of him, a trace of killing intent flashed in his eyes, and his voice became colder: "Why?" Xiao Hachi saw that the man must have a hidden secret, and with what Allure had stopped him saying before, he knew that the Sea God Sacrifice was probably not as simple as he thought. But the killing intent in his eyes was real, and it didn't appear to scare men. In Xiaoba's opinion, no matter what the reason is, the lives of children should not be sacrificed like this.
"Because—" Just as the man gritted his teeth and was about to say what he knew, a soft cough interrupted him. Hachi's eyes were cold, and he looked towards the place where the light cough came from, only to see that the crowd there gradually parted to both sides, and a silver-bearded old man wearing an azure robe walked out of the separated crowd.
Hachi recognized this person, the person the couple had seen before was him, judging from the awe of others, this old man should not be simple, and he had a certain status in Alan City.
The old man walked towards Xiaoba step by step, facing Xiaoba's cold gaze, the old man raised his head and stood tall, walking like a tiger, his gaze intersected with Xiaoba, but he did not give in half, he had a natural might, not afraid of any strength.
When the old man walked in front of Xiao Hachi, the old man said to Xiao Hachi: "The old man is the city lord of Ailan City, let the old man come and tell the young man the reason." ”
"Grandpa...", a soft cry, inserted between Hachi and the old man, after hearing this voice, Hachi was stunned, he looked at the source of the sound fiercely, to his surprise, this voice actually came from the mouth of the little boy who came back before, at this time the little boy was stretching out his hand, to the old man to hug. The coldness in Xiao Hachi's eyes instantly disintegrated, replaced by incomprehension, he never thought that this old man turned out to be the grandfather of two children. He would never have thought that the old man would send his grandson to a dead end.
A moment ago, Hachi had murderous intent towards the man, because in his opinion, the man must be afraid of power, so he had no choice but to abandon his child. But then he realized that he was wrong. According to this statement, then this man should be the young city lord of Ailan City, and his status is definitely the highest level in Ailan City, how could such a person be afraid of anyone and send his children into the fire pit? Especially since it was his father, the grandfather of the children, who made him send his children.
The old man caught the surprise in Xiao Hachi's eyes, he was short, took the boy from the woman and picked him up, touched his head kindly, then turned his head to look at Xiao Hachi, and said: "Shaoxia, there is no doubt that I am indeed their own grandfather, and I am also an incompetent grandfather..."
"Why don't you get rid of that monster. Hachi finally asked his doubts, and since before, Hachi has always had this doubt in his heart. Originally, he thought that Ailan City did not have the strength to get rid of that monster, so he would always sacrifice sacrifices under the obscenity of that monster to ensure the safety of the ship. But when he rescued those two children and saw so many masters besieging him, he knew that Ailan City was by no means incapable of getting rid of that monster. With such a big city and a trade capital, how can his background be small, but they are still conniving at this monster, then it is enough to prove that there must be a hidden secret.
"We've gotten rid of it. ”
Xiao Ba's eyelids were raised, staring at the old man, only to see the old man say slowly: "We have eliminated, no, it should be said that it is the previous city lords of Ailan City, they have eliminated these monsters entrenched in the sea, and there is more than one." Hundreds of years ago, although the city of Eland was a port city, there were no merchants who dared to come here by sea to do business, because there was a sea monster on the shore of the city of Alan. This sea monster frequently attacks merchant ships and fishermen who go out to sea. Therefore, although it is a coastal city, Alan City is very barren because of the sea monster. Later, a city lord of Alan City made a decision, and he gathered nearly a thousand soldiers and fishermen who were familiar with the water nature of Alan City to hunt and kill the monster. ”
The old man stewed for a moment and continued: "That battle was so fierce that blood stained the entire sea. But no matter how tragic it was, one thing to be thankful for was that Alan City, under the leadership of that martyr, finally succeeded in killing the sea monster and won the victory. Since then, ships have begun to dock in the city of Aylan, and people have been able to go out to sea to fish normally. ”
"But the good times didn't last long, and a few years later, a sea monster appeared in the sea outside Alan City, once again blocking the foreign trade of Alan City, stopping the gradual growth of Alan City, and from then on, the people of Alan City once again lived in the shadow of the sea monster raging, and the sea monster, even more hateful than the previous one, often attacked the civilians on the shore. ”
"Later, the ancestors of Alan City, they gathered the warriors again and conducted a campaign against the sea monster. But Alan City is like the home of the sea monster, every time the martyrs worked hard to get rid of the sea monster, thinking that they could bring peace to the people from now on, there would be another monster here, they wantonly attacked the merchant ships, bringing nightmares to the city of Alan. ”
"After hundreds of years of this, the ancestors discovered that as long as there was one sea monster in the offshore waters, no new sea monsters would appear outside of Alan, so they finally came up with a solution. They brought in Lumi's best psychic to communicate with the sea monster. After trying for several years, he finally got in touch with the sea monster at that time. They agreed that the city of Alan would attack each year with enough tribute to the sea monsters, including a pair of boys and girls. Sea monsters, on the other hand, do not attack merchant ships that come and go. ”
"If he wants a boy or a girl, you will give it, this is a human life!" Hachi asked with a frown.
The old man sighed and said, "At the beginning, the ancestors also tried to replace the children with others, but the sea monster said that this was his bottom line and would never back down. In our eyes, we are human beings, and it is cruel to use human sacrifices, but in the eyes of the sea monster, we are just aliens, we can deprive cattle and sheep of their lives, and he can naturally deprive us of our lives. In the end, in order for Ailan City to get out of that darkness, the ancestors agreed to the request of the sea monster, and since then there has been a sea god sacrifice. ”