"I believe you all want to make sacrifices when you hear this." Mifune put her hands behind her, and the smile on her face became meaningful. "But I can tell everyone good news. In Luming County, sacrifices and sacrifices The attendants are fixed, and there is a test every six months."
"In this test, not so good sacrifices were reduced to attendants, and outstanding servants were promoted to sacrifices."
"We must be very curious about this test for judging sacrifices and attendants. What are the criteria?"
All the children look expectantly.
Mifune looked around everyone, and said slowly, "Pain."
"Which of them is more painful can become a sacrifice."
The children were a little bit "confused" and retracted in fear. The abstract concept of "pain" made them subconsciously terrified.
Mifune looked at the performance of these sacrifices, snorted from his nose, and said, "Of course, the pain of becoming a sacrifice is very sharp, but only for a while, you only need to sacrifice once and you need pain again, and become a servant. Although human suffering is intense, it will last a lifetime."
"Long pain and short pain, it depends on how you choose."
Mifune said, looking down at his watch, and said contemplatively: "Children who are now sacrifices, their pets can get the most meticulous treatment in the hospital."
"For children who have become attendants, we can only arrange for ordinary veterinarians to see their pets. If they can survive, it depends on the good fortune of these cubs."
The children facing each other began to group in twos and threes, hesitatingly grouped, and automatically divided themselves into two groups of [sacrifice] and attendants, and then grouped together. The expressions on some people's faces changed obviously, and the children cried in fear. Some children clenched their fists, their eyes gleaming.
Bai Liu watched this scene calmly, without moving.
When these children were induced by Mifune to actively divide themselves into two equal classes of [sacrifice] and [servant], the food chain of desire had already been formed.
Cangtai's face turned pale and looked left and right, and finally walked behind Bai Liu, folded her hands in front of her, and bowed her head respectfully and tremblingly—this is the posture of an attendant who decided to serve Bai Liu as a [sacrifice].
Bai Liu glanced back at the Cang Tai who was standing behind him: "Make a choice? Are you sure you want to choose me?"
Cangtai nodded slowly. He glanced at Kwai standing in the crowd moving from the corner of his eye, and said in a dumb voice: "... I'm making a sacrifice, Kwai is like that, I'm so scared..."
"Kitahara Aoi, send back to the original houseboat." Mifune ordered indifferently, "Let her stay with her former attendant, and let her see how her responsible friend is tortured after she flees weakly and utterly. ."
Aoi's shoulder shook suddenly, and was quickly pulled away by the two adults.
"The leftover child." Mifune swept away his clothes. "Follow me and go to the houseboat where we live."
Bai Liu followed behind the Mifune and arrived at the houseboat in Mifunekou. Seven days later, this houseboat was much newer than Bai Liu when he practiced the Cthulhu Sacrificial Dance as the heir of the Cthulhu, facing the sparkling sea. .
At this moment, in the afterglow of the setting sun, the waterproof paint on the shell of this strange and elegant houseboat is glowing with a dazzling gold "color", with a red "color" on the edge. The boathouse pattern drawn at the entrance is in the sea against the sun. The photo "shot" shone brightly, like a cage that is about to bring pain to the sacrifice, but like a resplendent ship palace.
All the children looked stupid. One of the children pointed to the houseboat and yelled confidently: "This is where we live?!"
"Yes." Mifune turned around and pointed to the side entrance, "Go there and get the wooden sign with your name. After you get the wooden sign, go in and "insert" the wooden sign in the wooden niche next to some room. That room will go home."
When the children were excited to rush over to lead the wooden sign and run into the houseboat, Mifune spoke, and he said coldly, "But the house sacrifice is chosen first, and the attendant chooses later."
"You have to wait for every sacrifice to choose a room before the attendants can choose."
The excitement on the faces of the children with the identity of [Servant] stagnated, they watched [sacrifice] eagerly as the children rushed into the houseboat and cheered to choose a room, yelling how wide and good this house is, holding them in their hands. His own wooden tiles slowly tightened.
Bai Liu walked in with his wooden sign, and entered a neat row of houseboats, but one could clearly see that the width of each houseboat was gradually shrinking, and the boathouse on the innermost side was only as wide as two doors.
At the moment of realizing that the house here needs to be robbed, these children who had been on the boat through the storms and cultivated a bit of joy and sorrow immediately began to run wildly, trying to plug their wooden signs into the wooden niche in the widest and largest room. inside.
"This room is mine!"
"I put the wooden sign in first!"
Several children scrambled around the biggest room, blushing.
Bai Liu Yuguang swept away, retracted his gaze, and squinted past the largest rooms. He wanted to be in the orphanage with a bunch of children grabbing toys.
But this kind of thing generally has nothing to do with him. Bai Liu likes the toys that this group of people like. Just like this time, he walks directly to the last room, looks up and flatly "inserts" his wooden sign in, and pushes it. The door walked in.
Sure enough, the layout of this room was exactly the same as that of the room where Mrs. Cang took him to rest afterwards. Even the wave chart on the wall was the same. Only this time there was no shrine behind the wave chart.
Bai Liu retracted his hand to "touch" the wall.
It seems that there is no idol in the last room, so a key idol of this branch line should be on [Old Cthulhu·Spirit].
—In other words, according to the setting of "The Siren Copy", it is on the body of Sieta.
The footsteps of children pouring in came from outside the door, but these footsteps quickly stopped.
Bai Liu looked down—it seemed that these [Servants] had already discovered.
These children were quiet for a long time, staring blankly at the houseboats they had been yearning for for a long time outside the door, thinking they could live in, and asked: "These houseboats are full. Where do we live?"
All the wooden plaques next to the quadruple houseboat room have been "inserted", and there is not a single space left.
"We have a place to live." Mifune looked at these children's stunned expressions, with an inexplicable weird and excitement, "In this houseboat, there is another place where these inferior attendants can lie down. rest well."
He stepped forward, walked forward slowly, passed through the row of houseboats, stopped by an "exposed" stone water storage tank, turned and smiled and looked at the group of children: "Here."
These choices became [Servants] the child looked at the building of the stone water tank in disbelief.
The land around the water storage stone tank is "tide" wet and dark, densely packed with creatures similar to barnacles, blood stains on the ground from killing fish, discarded oysters and shells, and some decaying fish and shrimps. It is obvious here. In a place where food is processed, the muddy ground is like being pickled by these things, giving off a stench.
This is what shocks these children the most.
Cang Tai looked at the water storage tanks in a daze. The sharp-roofed steel wire cages that were only half of their bodies were densely arranged. A tattered plastic shelter was built on top of them. A bowl and a feed were placed in front of the cage. The bowl, which was dirty and filled with muddy water, and the various chickens, ducks, and other meat and poultry in the cage next to it were clucking.
—This is just a dog house or cat litter for pets.
There is a place on these cages, where the names of these [servants] pets or the names of these servants are already hung on that place.
Mifune pointed at these cages: "This is where we live."
All the children looked at these cages blankly, no one spoke.
Mifune kept saying, "We will crawl from this cage with our pets at 5:30 in the day, and then catch the animals in the cages next to them, kill them, and send them to the kitchen to cook for the chefs. In this way, before eight o'clock, the sacrificial adults can eat the freshest and delicious dishes."
"Attention five and a half days in the morning, the sky here is still not bright, the sky is darker. If we catch the animals in the cage by mistake, we catch other people’s pets and kill them, we are all responsible, and we take care of it ourselves. good."
Mifune thoughtfully said, "It might be a bad thing for you. After all, the last servant whose pet's heart was killed by someone next to him, because of excessive pain, was successfully promoted to a sacrifice in the first round of assessment that year. grown ups."
"That's a really hard-working kid, I like him very much." Mifune seemed to think of something interesting and smiled with satisfaction. "He was promoted to a sacrifice and enjoyed the honorable life of the sacrifice adults because he was too much. I am afraid that I will be reduced from a sacrifice to a servant again in the round of assessment, so to consolidate my pain—"
"—The child "forced" himself to eat his pet."