After some careful and detailed preparations, in the early morning of the second day, Nan Ling followed this team composed of young and middle-aged forces from the village of Tsukimi and set off in a majestic manner. The leader of the procession was the man with a scar on his chin named Yuexiong, and under his leadership, dozens of people rode horses, uniformly carried a piece of ebony moon snake god plate on their bodies, and after receiving the blessing of the high priest of the village, they carried some grain and grass and drove towards the depths of the North Underworld Forest.

The North Immortal Forest Hill is in the northeast corner of Zhongzhou, with such a wide area, if you rely on walking, I am afraid that you will not be able to walk out without two or three months of day and night.

Due to its close proximity to the sea of ruins, the terrain is low, and the deep landform of Senqiu is strange and complex. The humid sea air from the sea of ruins lingers in the sky above the forest hill all year round, and the vegetation in the forest hill is extremely lush, and the sea of green is everywhere you look. Dense clouds formed by the condensation of sea air are dense in the sky, and it is often rainy and rainy, and it is several days at a time, and in some places, it is even exaggerated to the point that there are almost no days of sunshine.

The soil on the surface of the forest hill is crowded with a variety of plants, and the nutrients have long been robbed. The soil is sparse and soft, filled with dead and decaying plant roots and oxidized bones of animals that have outcompeted with other plants.

Grab a handful, you will find that the soil is dry, fragile and not agglomerate, and the crazy growth of plants in order to compete for the already scarce sunlight, desperately growing upwards, has long formed a green "protective film" on the surface, and there is very little direct sunlight on the surface of the ground. In the depths of the North Underworld Forest, there is a mysterious and dark plant kingdom, and no one knows what is there.

The surface soil is loose, but the terrain is very uneven, resulting in a lot of deep pits in the swamp in the forest hills. According to the legend of Tsukimi no Village, the bottom of the forest hill is hollow, and there is also a sea hidden in it, and some say that the sea was formed by the perennial rain that seeps down from the quagmire and swamps that dot the forest hills. It is also said that the sea is a large hole at the bottom of Zhongzhou, which is filled with the seawater of the Xuhai Sea. But no one has ever been to the underground of this forest hill, although there are different opinions, but most of them are random conjectures, after tea and dinner, and in the course of the journey of ridicule, there is no factual basis.

Nan Ling rode a horse with red dates and white ears, walking beside Yuexiong. The young man named Yueliuer was silent all the way, riding on his thin horse, staring at the surroundings with curious eyes.

A large snail slowly wriggled along the trunk of the tree with its colorful shell. The little flower spider felt the ground shake and burrowed under the fallen leaves. Before he knew it, Nan Ling and his party had been gone for a day.

From noon, it is already necessary to light a torch to walk through the hills. The "harvesting" procession was dragged for a long time because of its slow progress, and the dense vegetation above their heads was black and oppressive, dripping rain from time to time, and the sultry air was damp and breathless. The horses moving forward were one foot deep and one foot shallow, and they walked with great difficulty.

Nan Ling walked at the front and glanced back at the team. The horses stiffened their necks, panting and struggling to move forward, drenched all over, not knowing whether it was water or sweat. None of the villagers sitting on horseback showed a slack expression.

The procession continued.

Three days later, the team marched to a giant tree engraved with the mark of the Moon Serpent God. This is the deepest part of the last Moon Village, and if you don't have anyone to lead you, it's like entering a dark forest, and you can't get out at all. There were also people in the village who did not believe in evil and ventured into it alone, but as you can imagine, they disappeared completely, and not even a ghost could be found.

"Set up camp here, and starting tomorrow, the 'harvest' ceremony will be held and the holy relics will be collected. Remember, in a group of three, bring the stinky jade and blood jade, and you must return to the team before the third watch every day. Yuexiong gave the order, and the villagers unloaded the goods with all hands and feet, erected a simple fence, and set up camp.

"Shaoxia, you and me, Yue Liu'er act together. Yuexiong said to Nan Ling.

Along the way, Yuexiong explained to Nanling in detail what the "harvesting" ritual was. According to the belief of the village of Tsukimi, the moon snake god is an immortal and does not eat mortal things. Fortunately, the village of Yuejian was established on the outer edge of the North Underworld Forest Hill, and in this thousand-year-old forest, there are many rare and exotic beasts, mountain spirits and wild monsters. According to rumors, this moon snake god has a preference for the heart of a strange beast called a monster.

The so-called "harvesting" ceremony is actually very simple. It is to catch the hideous in the forest hills, but spare its children and grandchildren. After slaughtering the mother, take out the heart, collect its blood and fur, and leave the mark of the Moon Serpent God on its descendants. A few years later, when it was time to harvest, the smell of blood and fur that had been preserved by the secret method attracted the children and grandchildren who came to find their mothers to complete the harvest in the same way.

If it is found that the insect attracted by it has no mark on its body, it proves that it has not been harvested, and the villagers will arrest it in the same way, and start a new round of harvesting over and over again.

Nan Ling couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, and broke out in a cold sweat, according to this, the hideous beings who were selected by the Moon Village for generations and generations could not escape the fate of being ruthlessly slaughtered!

Nan Ling was very puzzled, since seeing these villagers, their attitude towards this matter is very pious, talking about those who were cruelly harvested, their expressions were also very relaxed, Nan Ling's back was cold, in their eyes, being harvested seemed to be nothing more than a weed, that for generations lived in the shadow of being hunted down and killed, and the strange beast that had been hunted down and cared out of the heart for generations naturally became the sacrifice of the villagers.

"Our apostles created the Three Realms, and all beings are equal. "The master once taught Nanling like this. Nan Ling didn't understand, even if it was the law of the jungle, it should be out of survival instinct, follow the laws of heaven, be grateful, or if people don't offend me, I won't offend people. Why is it so cruel and murderous?

"Equal? We are equal to them. Yuexiong smiled for no reason in the face of Nanling's question, and his white teeth were white in the firelight.

"If the position is reversed, and the beasts need to be sacrificed, we humans will be treated in the same way, and it may be even more cruel. I never felt sorry for them, I hated them. Because they are guilty. Yuexiong stared at Nan Ling with straight eyes.

"To be weak is a sin. ”

With a bang, Nanling fell into a huge confusion.

Is it a kind of equality for the weaker side to survive with the innate karma of sin, so it deserves to be harvested by the strong?

Nan Ling looked at the depths of the pitch-black forest hill and stood for a moment, as if he heard some kind of hoarse scream, faintly faint, hidden around, bright eyes with resentment, and bloody corpses hanging from the branches, stripped of their hearts.