Chapter 178: Sacrifice
Han Zhongxun was in a coma for two days and two nights before he woke up, and the first thing he did when he woke up was to ask if anyone had been eaten by the monster in the past two days.
"Lord Han, no one has come to the government to report the disappearance in the past two days, which means that the monster has not come out to harm people again. Liu Chu signaled Han Zhongxun to rest assured.
"That's good, but sooner or later, something will happen. Han Zhongxun gritted his teeth.
"Lord Han, what is the situation with that monster? Evil dragon qi? What is it?" Liu Chu was now full of question marks.
He came to investigate the reduction in fruit production in Dongshan City, how could he be involved in such a strange incident again.
"In Taoze Lake, there used to be a dragon who proclaimed himself the Dragon King. Han Zhongxun told the story.
Liu Chu was shocked, there really was a dragon in Taoze Lake! This is not a legend!
"That must have been an evil dragon, was it subdued later?" asked Liu Chu.
"No, the Dragon King is deeply loved by the people, and after he entered Taoze Lake, Taoze Lake was calm and calm, and there was never a fishing boat swallowed up by a big wave. ”
"And once someone falls into the water, the person who falls into the water will be rescued by the dragon king and sent to the shore. ”
"If there is a drought in Dongshan City, the Dragon King will also use his magic power to spread clouds and rain, and rain will rain down to moisten the earth. ”
Therefore, people have also erected a dragon king temple for it, and it is said that the dragon king also flew to the heavenly realm with the help of the power of the faith of all beings. ”
What Han Zhongxun said was recorded in some wild histories of local chronicles, and Han Zhongxun only listened to it as a myth at the beginning, if there are really fairies and ghosts, why can't they be seen in the world?
In Han Zhongxun's opinion, the Dragon King is at most the top master of the Dragon Clan. Even Shi Yunbuyu's supernatural powers were exaggerated and fabricated by people.
"Since it's a good dragon, why does it have the aura of an evil dragon?" asked Liu Chu.
"There are two sides to everything, the dragon king is more good than evil during his lifetime, and evil spirits are born after death. Han Zhongxun said.
"Ghasts, I don't believe in these gods and ghosts, but if you tell me it's a demon, I do. ”
Liu Chu shook his head, even if he had faced it himself, he still didn't believe that it was a ghost.
"At first, I didn't believe the records of this local chronicle, but I have been entangled with the dragon qi formed by this evil dragon's soul for five years, and I am sure that it is not any kind of demon, but a real ghost!" Han Zhongxun said with great certainty.
Liu Chu frowned, still unwilling to believe it.
"Whether immortals exist or not is two theories, but gods do exist. God is the gift of death, and immortality is the cultivation of life. Han Zhongxun said a statement he had once heard.
Gods may be some powerful beings who are chanted after death, and thus condense special life forms, which can be immortal or life-limited.
Immortals, it is cultivated by cultivators to the realm of immortality is immortals, but it seems that no one in the world can break through the shackles, and the half-step immortal gate is already the limit of the world.
"You say that, which means that after the death of the Dragon King, people will never forget him, and a ghast spirit will arise from this?" Liu Chu also heard these words for the first time.
Han Zhongxun nodded.
"My lord, my lord, my lord, my lord
"Ahem, what's the matter so flustered?" Han Zhongxun coughed twice, his body obviously still very weak.
At the same time, I thought to myself, could it be that the ghast spirit came out to eat people again? This shouldn't be, now in broad daylight, it is not cultivated enough, it should not dare to come out.
"Wang Daoren led a group of people to catch children everywhere, saying that they would catch enough ten, and go to Taoze Lake at two o'clock tonight to carry out sacrifices!" said Catcher hurriedly.
"Where's Ma Yuan?" Han Zhongxun stood up, and Liu Chu hurriedly stepped forward to help when he saw this.
"Lord Xiancheng has already brought people to stop it, but we are seriously understaffed, and there are as many as 1,000 people in that group of arresters. "Catch and report the situation.
"Take me right away!" Han Zhongxun exerted a little force, and blood marks appeared on the bandages on his back.
"Lord Han, you lie down and rest, I'll take a look. Liu Chu pressed Han Zhongxun back.
"You go to the doctor and clean up the wound again. Liu Chu said to another catcher.
"No, I'll have to take a look. Han Zhongxun is still insisting.
"Life is important!" Liu Chu glared at him, although Han Zhongxun's spirit was commendable, he couldn't be reckless.
In the end, Han Zhongxun was persuaded by Liu Chu to go back and lay on the bed obediently.
The catcher quickly took Liu Chu to the street, and Liu Chu saw that the normal order on the street had been disrupted, and the people in front of the small stalls had all run to join in the fun.
At the front, a group of people were confronting more than a dozen people with knives.
"Lord Night Wanderer is angry, we must perform sacrifices to appease its anger, you officials, you should help us!"
At the front of the people, there was an old Dao, who looked like he was in his sixties, probably the so-called royal man.
Pulling a few hemp ropes in the hands of Wang Daoren, Liu Chu looked back along the hemp rope, his pupils constricted.
Behind these hemp ropes were a group of children who had been tied up, the oldest of whom looked to be eleven or twelve years old, and the younger one was probably less than three years old.
"Stop, let the children go!" Liu Chu immediately stepped forward and said angrily.
"Who are you? These children are to be sacrificed to the Night Wandering God, and they can't be released!" Wang Daoren waved his hand and refused.
"Night Wandering God, it's just a ghast, you call it a god?" Liu Chu sneered.
"I know that Lord Night Wanderer devoured five people in anger two days ago, and in order to appease its anger, ten children must be sacrificed to it!" said the king.
"What did it tell you, give it ten children, and it won't be angry?" Liu Chu had a cold face and a cold look in his eyes.
"Yes, it gave me a dream, what's wrong?" said Wang Daoren.
Liu Chu suddenly felt angry and funny, a large group of people were deceived by such a thing to incite emotions?
"Big guy, let people go, it's a ghast, Lord Han and I will find a way to destroy it. Liu Chu said to the people behind him.
At a critical time, it is still necessary to rely on the strength of the masses, as long as they can agree to let the child go, then there is nothing to do with this royal man.
A large group of people looked at each other, and no one said anything.
"My lord, save my little hair!" At this time, an old man, supported by a man and a woman, came running from a distance.
"Uncle Hu?" The process was stunned for a moment, it was Hu Tian who ferried them to Dongshan City.
"My lord, my little hair...... Xiao Mao was captured by them. Hu Tian raised his trembling hand and pointed to the tied up children in the crowd.
"Grandpa, Daddy, Mother!" the youngest child shouted, crying and shouting.
Xiao Mao wanted to run over, but he was pulled back by the royal rope, pulled back, and fell to the ground.
"Xiao Mao!" Hu Tian exclaimed at the same time as the man and the woman.
"Demon Dao, hurry up and let people go!" Liu Chu was furious.
"Fart, let people go, take you to sacrifice to the night wandering god?" Wang Daoren snorted.
"That's it, if we don't sacrifice, what if the wandering god comes out that night and eats us?"
"Yes, as long as the sacrifice is carried out, then our Dongshan City will be safe!"
In line with the idea of "friends who die do not die in the poor way", many people resolutely support the sacrifice of children and the exchange of other people's lives for their own lives, and of course they are happy.
"I promise everyone that Lord Han and I will definitely catch that evil spirit, and it is useless to sacrifice children for sacrifice. Liu Chu shouted loudly.
"Don't listen to him fart! The world is as black as a crow, how can these officials care about the life or death of us ordinary people? For five whole years, the night wandering god has been doing evil, do you think the government has half a dime of use?" Wang Daoren snorted again.
"Yes, the Night Wandering God gave a dream to Lord Wang, let us sacrifice ten children, and we can never offend our Dongshan City again, this is a thing once and for all, what does it matter if we sacrifice a small number of people?" someone said.
"They're just children, don't you have sons and daughters?" Hu Tian cried.
Many people are silent, they are indeed fathers, mothers and grandfathers, grandmothers, children are their lives, and they will have some experience when they lose their children.
But if they don't sacrifice, then the night wandering gods may come out to eat their children, and between other people's children and their own children, they must choose to sacrifice other people's children and save their own children.
"Son!"
"Daughter!"
At this time, several more pairs of parents ran over, they were all knocked unconscious just now, and their children were snatched away by force, and now they have only woken up.
"Big guy, don't talk nonsense with them, don't delay the time, if you can't make it to the sacrifice in a while, the Night Wanderer God will be angry. The royal man instigated.
A group of people rushed up at once, and there was a direct conflict with more than a dozen catchers with knives here, and the human wall composed of catchers was "crumbling".
"Draw the knife!" Liu Chu ordered angrily.
Whew......
More than a dozen knives were unsheathed at the same time.
Seeing that the catcher drew his knife, the people in front of him were startled and immediately retreated. Because the retreat was in a hurry, the people behind did not have time to retreat, so there was a collision, and the crowd fell backwards in a row, and the scene became even more chaotic.
"Da Wei's knife has always been aimed at foreign races, and I never thought that one day, this knife would be aimed at my own people. Liu Chu squinted, sensing a hint of sadness.
Before entering the rivers and lakes, he felt that Dawei was beautiful everywhere, but after entering the rivers and lakes, he found that Dawei was actually not as beautiful as he imagined.
There is really a sense of "you can look at it from a distance and not play with it", and if you look at everything in detail, there will always be flaws.
But this may be the purpose of Emperor Wei to let him enter the rivers and lakes, to repair all the flaws that Emperor Wei did not find.
Wang Daoren frowned, he didn't expect to jump out of Liu Chu, but tonight's sacrifice must be carried out, otherwise everything that has been planned for a long time will lose its meaning.