Chapter 36: The Sacrifice
The impact stirred up layers of dust, but fortunately, the child and Chubby were fine, patted their clothes, and stood up.
Ling Qu and An Yao ran over.
"It's okay. Ling Qu touched the sobbing child and let out a sigh.
Behind him, there were footsteps, and the village guards came, and the woman just now squeezed through the crowd, stronger than the child, but instead of thanking her, she raised her eyebrows and stared at the little fat fiercely.
Xiaopang was also blinded, smashed it, smashed it, and swallowed what he wanted to say in his stomach.
"I didn't call you," the woman muttered quietly, leaning away.
If you change to a short-tempered person, you have to quarrel with her a few times, but after getting along with Ling Qu, Xiaopang has become as indisputable as him, just a few embarrassed wry smiles.
"What a strange person. An Yao was close to Ling Qu, and it seemed that although she was willing to save people, she was still hostile to the people in the village.
"Yes, maybe it has something to do with the backward level of culture. Ling Qu thought of the signs related to the gods and said.
"Maybe not!" Unconsciously, the tooth leader appeared behind the three of them, slowly coming out of the grass with a slight smile.
"I'm sorry. ”
Ling Qu felt embarrassed and immediately apologized to the leader, but fortunately, the other party didn't care about this matter, but shifted the topic to the woman.
"She, the difficult times in the belt are here, and there are indeed too many things to go through, and you will be a little wary of her when you first arrive. ”
"Then why did she call for help?" An Yao asked.
"No, maybe she's helping her instead of you taking over?"
Ling Qu's eyes widened slightly, and when he turned around, a chubby mutter, "When is she still playing word games?"
"How do you know!" The woman was the closest to An Yao just now, and she heard it most clearly, if the leader said so, there was indeed a certain difference between "help me" and "save my child", but he was not there!
An Yao shouted out her doubts, attracting the attention of all the eyes around her.
The leader's hand twitched slightly, and then took a step forward (An Yao subconsciously took a step back), bent down, and whispered
"Maybe I can guess from the character she's always had? We've been together for a long time. ”
The words that seem to make sense are like dozens of ** bursting in the desert for An Yao, and the lethality is full.
"It's almost finished. The leader then spoke to An Yao, but instead raised his arm, and in front of his fingertips was the altar with a rough outline on the outskirts of the village. "Outsiders should come and see and feel our culture. ”
The outsiders here obviously referred to the three of Lingqu, but the leader hadn't looked at them since they got up, making them a little confused, looking around like headless flies.
"That's you. When these words came out, Ling Qu and the three of them understood what he meant.
"We're still waiting for our companions, and we're going to leave after that. An Yao didn't want to stay for a minute.
"Don't worry, there's still a month, isn't there an uncle to help us, it will be soon, let's stay here and eat something good." Chubby licked his lips and said.
"I'll come. Ling Qu directly established his position, "Quite interesting, isn't it?"
When the two sides agreed, the little noise dispersed, and the sun began to shift, from noon to night and from night to early morning to noon, about four times.
During this period, the craftsmen used Ling Qu's incomprehensible speed to quickly create the prototype of the altar into a huge ground space, a magnificent dome building, exquisite hand-carved stone bricks and bricks are regularly scattered together, plus special jungle paint, the appearance is not inferior to the civilized world.
An Yao still has a skeptical attitude towards this place, but it will be much more reassuring to act with Ling Qu Xiaopang, the smile of the past gradually returned to his face, and everything became better, but Jiang An and Moge still did not have a whereabouts, and there were more and more flags made of straw to worship the gods, coupled with the increased demand for cloth, there were more and more teams going out to hunt, and there would always be a few young people sneaking out, and I didn't know what they were doing, but the people who came back were not always the same, and Ling Qu also roughly understood something......
The village was extraordinarily luxurious that morning, and the clothes that had never been seen before were put on by a few delegates, and the ordinary people were also dressed in new clothes.
Looking down at the dirty clothes on his body, Ling Qu could only make him look neater, pulled the corners of his clothes, pulled the collar down a few times, and showed a smiling face is the best preparation, looking back at Xiaofat, good guy, as usual, at most there is not so much dust, looking at his eyes shining and standing in a relaxed manner, you can know what his goal is.
What surprised him was that An Yao's clothes were as clean as new, white and flawless, as if the dust had avoided her body, even if she was not at ease, she still paid good attention to her appearance.
The three of them followed the large army slowly, bypassing the bustling crowd and people with inconvenient steps, shuttling between the dirt roads that had been walked many times, which had a unique flavor.
When the trio arrived in front of the hall, the team responsible for carrying the flag on the other side also came to the front, the grass flag swayed in the wind, and the tattered cloth with the word "protection" was hung on it, the flag was not large but predominant, the red cloth and the yellow hay were practiced together, and firewood was piled up underneath, probably to be burned?
The procession began to move like inside, although the hall did not look large in the playing area, it was more than enough to accommodate these people, and the seats were also made of stone bricks, cold and cold, a little chilly.
The tooth leader, who had not shown his face for several days, walked out of the crowd, and as soon as he stood in front, there seemed to be a force, although everyone sat down in order, and there was no silence.
Chubby twisted his body and stood on tiptoe to look around, but was pulled by the person behind him, and as soon as he returned to his seat, he was about to turn back when the leader spoke.
His voice seemed to have its own amplification, permeating this hall, and everyone could hear it clearly, maybe because of the material, or maybe he himself was talented, which is not very important.
"Today is our most important day. He said something first, then coughed a few times, "The ceremony every five years is coming, and this time there are more guests than before." ”
His gaze swept towards Ling Qu's chubby An Yao.
"In order not to be disturbed again, I am here to preside over this sacrifice, let's begin!" the sound of fangs pierced through the walls, and the people outside lit a fire, and in a short time the smell of burning grass spread.
Then he dodged away, there were three crystal spheres behind him, Fang stepped forward, took out the nearby crutches and lightly clicked the small ball on the left, the sphere immediately flashed, and several villagers who were waiting nearby hurriedly ran up, lit a fire with dry wood and put it under the small ball, baking it.
After a while, the ethereal pillar of light rose and floated high, and if you didn't look closely, you thought that the smoke was flying out through the dome.
Then a red light filled in the smoke, turning from a white ethereal to an orange-red pillar of light.
"Next, I hope Mr. Qian Li can help me. ”
Xiaopang, who was suddenly named, was a little confused, and was shaken by Ling Qu only to realize that someone had called him, and he was at a loss to look at it and was embarrassed to shirk it, so he had to go on stage hard.
"There's no need to be nervous, as long as you use your crutches to point a little bit of this ball as well. The leader pointed to another ball and splashed a bucket of water on it.
"Oooh. Chubby quickly understood what he meant, and clumsily picked up the crutches he was leaning on, this one was a little longer.
Poked the ball like the leader had just done, and the same white mist floated up, and the villagers who had just lit the fire for a while walked forward with a bucket of spring water, and the water tilted out, but at the last second when it came into contact with the sphere...
The current swirled as if it was being controlled, striking the nearest villager hard, and the force directly caused him to fall to the ground and retreat a few meters.
"I didn't do anything!" cried Chubby, glancing at Ling Qu.
But Ling Qu didn't look at him, or no one looked at him, two figures appeared at the door, and Ling Qu knew the reason for the scene just now after seeing it.
"Don't touch him, let's go!" a familiar voice sounded.
"Don't be fooled. ”
It was Jiang An and Mogg's voices, it was the two of them, the two people who had been missing for a week, standing at the entrance!