After Mifune left, silence was restored in the cabin, only occasional sobbing sounds of fear from children and ignorant calls of cats and dogs were heard occasionally.
Cangtai got a small black cat. He stayed quiet behind Bai Liu for a long time before speaking with a trembling voice, "Bai Liu, can you see Xiao Kui? How is she?"
Bai Liu looked at the little Kui laying down under the faint light. Xiao Kui was lying on the bed with her head spread out, pulling on the bandage tied to her wrist, stroking the head of the kitten assigned to her vigorously. Hoarse and faint: "Good cat, so good."
"[Xiaokui] So good."
Cang Tai heard Xiao Kui's voice, he was silent for a long while, almost looking at the little black cat in his arms with an indescribable look, and let go of his hands tremblingly.
The little black cat raised her head in confusion, looked at the boy who didn't hold her tightly, and gave a thin voice.
Cang turned his head cruelly, he closed his eyes short of breath.
… It turns out that this is why they get cats for these sacrifices.
It is almost all children's dreams to have a little animal that has the same name as one's own and is very close to oneself.
But it can't be this way, it's too... painful.
This scared him a hundred times more than letting Cang Tai do a coolie.
When the two kittens named Xiaokui and Shiba Inu were dead, Cangtai, who was shrunken on the bed and dared not squeak, listened to Xiaokui's heartbreaking screams, shivering, covering her ears and daring not to listen anymore.
The scream was so terrible that Cangtai almost thought that it was not the small animal who died, but Xiao Kui herself.
He doesn't want to be the next Xiaokui, so he'd better not have feelings for these distributed pets, and better separate now.
The next wave hit again, the cabin was bumped up, everyone was hit by the wave and slipped to one side. The little black cat's claws could not grasp something, and it was about to slide down the bed, and he screamed twice in panic.
Cangtai, who had turned her head away, subconsciously turned her head in a panic: "Cangtai!"
As soon as he stretched out his hand, he put the little black cat in his arms again and hugged it tightly.
When Mrs. Cang realized what he had done, he stared at the little black cat firmly in his arms, and tears fell involuntarily.
… Why is this happening.
Although it was the first time that he met, he really didn't watch [Cang Tai] go to death.
In the dark cabin, many children cried and hugged their pets at the moment the waves hit, sobbing and calling their pets the same name.
In the vast sea, in the painful journey of an uncertain future, these children who are about to become sacrifices to the evil god try to get a certain temperature of support from the soft and close little animal, or be domesticated by humans. First Give them love the first time I meet.
"You can't let go of the pets they distributed." Lying in front of him, the child named Bailiu spoke flatly, "When you know it's the same name as you, you will let go. It won't open anymore."
Cang Tai hugged the little black cat, sobbing and asked, "Why?"
Bai Liu said calmly, "Just like you, they are all animal cubs used by adults. They are all an individual drifting alone on the sea after being abandoned for trafficking. They are about to be tortured to increase their suffering. Appliances."
"From all angles, you are all of the same kind who share a common destiny."
"In the human world, you should have never encountered a kind who is so friendly to yourself. The kind you have encountered, or human beings, are all harming you, otherwise you will not be trafficked onto this ship. Under these conditions, you When you meet a [kind] who will love you after being carefully selected, and you share a name, it is difficult not to empathize with this animal cub."
Bai Liu turned his head slightly and lifted his eyelids to look at the dazed Cangmai behind him: "—In other words, the cat in your hand is no longer a cat. It is another you, another Cangmai."
"You can't watch it die, just like you can't watch yourself die."
Cang Tai stared blankly at Bai Liu's dark eyes. He suddenly remembered those rumors, trembled, and opened his mouth as if he wanted to ask something, but in the end he fell silent.
Bai Liu said calmly: "Do you want to ask now, if people empathize with another animal in the same predicament, why would [I] in the orphanage abuse and kill animals, right?"
After a long time, Cang Tai hesitantly glanced at the little white cat who was asleep in Bai Liu’s arms and slept with her belly turned upside down, and explained: "Actually I don’t think you did it, but I I just don’t understand. I mean, if there is a rumored person like you, why would he do this?"
Bai Liu was quiet for a while, and said: "There is a very important point in empathy judgment, that is empathy."
"First of all, you must feel that the other party and you are emotionally similar. For example, when you and the black cat in your arms are suffering from the same predicament, they both have pain, fear, and fear. At this time, you will feel that it is Your kind, then you will empathize, and then achieve the purpose of empathy."
"But if a person suffers from any kind of event, the emotions generated are different from those around them, even animals, and the emotions are different, he cannot empathize, and naturally it is impossible to empathize."
"Emotions have nothing in common, so he won't feel that he and the people around him are of the same kind, and he won't feel pain when he mutilates things that are not of the same kind."
"He is the same as us, both children who grew up in the orphanage." Cang Tai arched towards Bai Liu and asked inwardly, "Why can't he have the same emotions as us?" Is it because the brain is different from ours?"
"I personally don't think it is." Bai Liu said in a light tone, "because many normal-minded people can empathize even before they have the ability to exploit others."
"Just like Master Mifune just now, he should be the county magistrate of Luming County that Xiaokui said. He sounded like a good person before, and he should be good to Xiaokui, but now he has no empathy for Xiaokui at all. Aoi is treated as a living person, but as a sacrifice."
Cang Tai asked softly, "... Yes, why is this?"
"I think it's because of desire." Bai Liu continued to explain in a flat tone, "When a person desires too much, seeing any living thing first produces a sense of exploitation, not likeness."
"Extreme desires make people imagine that they are in a huge social food chain, and other people are also in the food chain with them, then they will only have two judgments of the people around them, those who can exploit them, and those who can exploit them. ."
"What they can exploit is low-level animals like kittens and puppies, and what they can exploit is the supreme god."
"In their world, the weak eat the strong, the fittest survive, and the human nature is evil. People are born to cannibalize the same kind below the food chain to increase their assets and value. They take for granted that empathy is a manifestation of weakness, because wild beasts will not be The prey is empathetic."
Cang Tai asked weakly: "But we are humans, we are not beasts."
Bailiu paused: "People who stay in the food chain of self-desire for a long time will degenerate from people to beasts, or even monsters."
"Humans who have only desires can eat people."
Cangtai fell into a kind of creepy dullness, and he suddenly repeated Bai Liu's words: "Cannibalism...?"
Xiaokui's nervous chuckles came from the lower bunk, and she murmured: "Xiaokui, cat, so good."
The wind and waves on the sea finally stopped, and the big ship carrying Bai Liu and their sacrifices docked at the port of Luming County on a sunny afternoon.
Mifune stood neatly in the harbor, with a stick made of bamboo sticks in his hand, condescendingly looking at the sacrificial offerings who walked down from the cabin with their heads down, their footsteps vacant, and their faces weak.
The sacrifices are all children under the age of fifteen, who are just sensible and a little ignorant. They are the favorite age of sacrifices in Luming County.
Bai Liu is considered big inside, almost seventeen. Normally, there shouldn’t be such a big sacrifice, because it’s not good, but he is thin and looks only about fifteen, so he was smoothed out. The land is sold here.
These sacrifices who have experienced the storm are all holding the small animals in their arms tightly. Some children are still very weak, but they don't care, and they rush to the same weak small animals in their arms.
They repeatedly checked the paws of puppies and kittens, pressed their faces on their belly, and felt whether they were breathing up and down, and while checking, tears fluttered off the floor, but they dared not say a word, nor dared to look around. People asked for help, but cried silently with their heads down.
Mifune nodded with satisfaction when looking at the tearful sacrifices, and nodded sideways: "Go and help them cure their pets and send them to their houseboat."
Bai Liu looked at it from the end of his eyes, and he saw that many children were afraid of this Mifune even because of Xiaokui's affairs before, but also because of this order from Mifune.
Several other children whispered: "Thank you Mifune-sama."
Fifteen years old is the age when the concept of right and wrong has not yet taken shape. At first glance, many children have grown up in a cramped and abnormal environment. It is estimated that they have insufficient awareness of the world.
It's too easy to deceive.
Mifune slowed down his expression: "You children are good children, love animals, love relatives and friends, and have a lot of affection. I am very satisfied."
"I know you saw me teach Xiao Kui on the boat and were very scared, but what I have to say here is that Xiao Kui is a bad boy!"
Mifune's face suddenly sank, and he held his cane and pounded heavily on the ground: "She doesn't like small animals. She failed the ritual test for several years before, and injured his attendant and the dog to escape from us. I went out, she was a very bad girl!"
"We are naturally not very friendly to such a bad child. I hope everyone will not learn from Xiaokui and strive to be a good child. We will treat you very well."
All the children turned their heads to look at Xiao Kui, standing motionless among the sacrifices. She didn't seem to notice that the children's eyes became repellent and alert when they looked at her. She still held the cat and stood there numbly.
Mifune retracted her gaze on Xiaokui, and fell on the group of sacrificial children who looked up at him:
"The place where you live is called a houseboat. On a coast not far from here, you can see the sea every day when you get up. It is a very beautiful place."
"But you still need to do a small thing before you arrive at the houseboat."
Mifune said, "I need you two to be good friends, and then one of you will be the servant of the other, and the other will be the sacrifice."
His eyes became dull:
"Being a child of a sacrifice, you can enjoy the best things in Luming County, food, clothing, travel, education, even your pets can enjoy the best treatment, no one dares to hurt them anymore."
"We will select for you people from the most famous big family in Luming County to be your adoptive parents. You are the noblest existence in Luming County, surpassing all the common people, and if you can succeed in the Cthulhu Sacrifice Provide the pain of a round of sacrifice, and after that, you will enjoy it forever."
The eyes of all the children couldn't help but longing.
"But to be a child of a servant." Mifune's tone became a pity, "It's just a servant."
"—Like the days you lived before, you are just a servant who will be abandoned at any time."
"If your good friend doesn't like you or doesn't need you anymore." Mifune smiled friendly, "We will send you back."
"But I will leave your pets here."
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