Zhou Ze was very shocked. This was such a grand occasion.
Even the Taoist priests in TV shows who set up an altar for sacrifices are not so grand. In ordinary temples, offering some fruits and a pig's head for sacrifices is already considered very good conditions.
And here,
It's a human sacrifice!
More than twenty living people,
That family,
It was placed here artificially as a tribute to the sea god!
Zhou Ze has had a special experience. He has been to hell. In his two lifetimes, he has seen a lot of people and ghosts. Logically speaking, there are really not many things that can shock him.
But the scene before him made Zhou Ze lose his mind in an instant.
You know, there are not only old women with white hair and wrinkled skin, but also very young children. These people should have their own lives and their own laughter, but now they are all imprisoned here. They can't even drift freely like fish, but can only be crashed from one side of the cage to the other with the waves.
Even after death, they are kept in captivity!
The people who were performing the sacrifices and arranging all this seemed to be afraid that the offerings they had carefully prepared would spill out and cause the Lord Poseidon to not eat all of them and be unhappy and hungry. They were so thoughtful.
“Gulp…”
His health was not good now, so he had to hold his breath for a short time. Zhou Ze reached out and lifted Bai Yingying's wrist which was hugging his waist, motioning her to carry him up for a breath.
However,
Bai Yingying was indifferent, as if she felt nothing.
Zhou Ze pinched his hand.
She remained indifferent and motionless.
Zhou Ze grabbed her arm.
She still seemed completely unaware.
Zhou Ze turned his head and glared at her.
It turned out that Bai Yingying had her eyes closed!
I can't see.
People can’t see it. They can’t see it.
The nail on Zhou Ze's right index finger grew out.
Bai Yingying's body suddenly trembled.
Immediately holding Zhou Ze and floating up,
“Huff…Huff…Huff…Huff…”
After taking a breath, Zhou Ze felt much more comfortable. He didn't care about Bai Yingying's little thoughts just now, and said directly:
"Go up."
"Okay, boss!"
Bai Yingying didn't mention what happened just now. Then, like a small King Kong, she wrapped her right arm around Zhou Ze's waist and picked him up like a rag doll. With her other hand, she grabbed the hull and climbed up directly.
Clean, neat and effortless.
Zhou Zexian sat on the chair, catching his breath while waiting for some of the water on his clothes to fall off, otherwise the clothes were too heavy and a little difficult to wear.
"Boss, what happened down there just now?"
"you do not know?"
"How could I know?"
"Wasn't your wife thrown into a pig cage after being caught having an affair with a scholar?"
"Forehead… … "
"Someone is using living people as sacrifices to offer to the sea god." Zhou Ze said.
"As a sacrifice? As an offering?" Bai Yingying was very surprised. Even for a zombie, she felt that this was too cruel and inhumane.
"So what's going on now? We are here, and there is an iron cage below with corpses inside. What are we doing?"
"I don't know either. I have a feeling that this matter may be related to that old man or that woman. At the very least, that old man is definitely involved."
Why must the old man have a share
Could that vixen be an exception
Bai Yingying thought so in her heart.
At this moment, the wind started to blow, and it was very strong. The originally calm sea surface suddenly became turbulent, causing the cruise ship to sway back and forth constantly, as if it could capsize at any time.
Zhou Ze continued to sit on the chair. To be honest, he was a little helpless. If he were a judge now, he might be qualified to communicate with the other party on an equal footing. But now, it was obvious that he was not taken seriously by the other party.
Of course, the most important question at the moment is, in traditional concepts, is this Lord Poseidon considered a good or bad person
Did he accept the sacrifice and give the sacrificer corresponding rewards, or did the sacrificer's behavior make him feel angry and blasphemous, so he came to punish him
At his level, traditional concepts of right and wrong, good and evil should be difficult to restrain his behavior, right
"Bang..."
Waves of sea water hit the ship, and the cruise ship was swaying more and more. Bai Yingying stood still, grabbed Zhou Ze's shoulder with one hand, and helped Zhou Ze stabilize on the deck.
"Boss, this boat is going to capsize."
"I know."
Zhou Ze held on to Bai Yingying's arm and stood up with difficulty. When he looked forward, he found that there seemed to be land in front of him. No, to be exact, it should be an island, an island of not small size.
"Crash"
A harsh sound of mechanical friction was heard, and the cruise ship finally couldn't bear it anymore and turned over. Bai Yingying was quick-witted and grabbed Zhou Ze and jumped into the sea before the cruise ship capsized.
So, Zhou Ze is lucky. Many drowning people wish that there was a white warbler by their side before they drowned.
Bai Yingying swam while keeping Zhou Ze's head above the water so that he could breathe fresh air. Zhou Ze was like a little kangaroo in the pouch on the mother kangaroo's chest, being delicately cared for.
I could only raise my head, breathe and spit out the water that splashed into my mouth and nose.
While... looking at the sky.
Finally, Bai Yingying came ashore.
Zhou Ze lay on the beach, breathing heavily.
"Boss, there's another person lying over there."
Bai Yingying suddenly pointed at the beach over there and said.
Zhou Ze turned sideways and looked, and sure enough, there was a young man lying there, wearing very tattered clothes. If he was a salted fish before, then that person was the salted fish that was about to be roasted dry.
"I'm going to kill him."
Bai Yingying said this with the aim of nipping any signs of danger in the bud.
Zhou Ze reached out and held Bai Yingying down, shook his head, and said, "Don't you feel that the guy looks familiar?"
"He looks familiar?" Bai Yingying looked hard. Finally, she seemed to have thought of something and said, "He looks like that old man. Is he the old man's son? Oh no, or grandson."
"It doesn't look like it, and it shouldn't be like that." Zhou Ze denied.
At this time, a python crawled out from the sea.
Zhou Ze also felt that this python looked familiar. It really looked like the one he had fought with before, except that the snake looked smaller now, and the scales on its body were not as thick as before.
The snake slowly climbed onto the young man's body. There was no murderous intent or viciousness in it. Moreover, it seemed that it didn't notice that Zhou Ze and Bai Yingying were right beside it. It just stared at the man below it.
"Boss, this snake is almost becoming a spirit." Bai Yingying suddenly said.
"I can see that."
This python gave people a feeling of being full of wisdom and anthropomorphic emotions, a bit like the monkey that Zhou Ze saw for the first time.
The python opened its mouth, but instead of biting the young man in front of it, it bit its own torso, making a hole in its body. Then, the snake climbed on the young man's body and brought the wound to the man's mouth.
At first, the python's blood just dripped slowly into the man's mouth. Soon, the man seemed to have regained some consciousness and began to actively suck the snake's blood. The color on his face was also slowly recovering.
Finally, the man let go of his hand and let out a long sigh. Then he opened his eyes, and when he saw the python for the first time, the man trembled with fear.
The python didn't stop for a moment and swam directly from the beach back into the sea, leaving a pool of blood on the ground.
After the python went into the sea and flew away, the man immediately got up, kowtowed several times in the direction of the python, muttered something, then reached out and picked up a piece of snake scale remaining on the ground.
"What is he shouting?" Bai Yingying asked. Because the man's dialect was a bit heavy, Bai Yingying couldn't hear it clearly.
"He is thanking the sea god for rescuing him." Zhou Ze replied.
The man walked into the woods on the island and disappeared.
"Then the question is, Boss, how do we leave?"
Bai Yingying tilted her head and asked, then she seemed to have thought of something and asked:
"I think it's pretty good for us to be Robinson Crusoe here."
There was a copy of Robinson Crusoe in the bookstore, and Bai Yingying took some time to read it.
Zhou Ze felt that his maid seemed a little abnormal recently, as if she had watched too many Korean dramas and became stupid.
At this moment, the cruise ship that had just capsized on the sea appeared again.
"Wow, boss, the boat is back again."
"I can see that."
The cruise ship came back again, but this time there were people on board, and a lot of people.
An old man sitting in a wheelchair was pushed off the boat by a waiter. The waiter was a woman with a white veil on her face, but judging from her figure and temperament, this woman looked somewhat familiar.
"My breasts are sagging a little, my butt is getting fatter, and my waist is getting thicker. Boss, if you lose some weight, won't you look like someone else?"
It was that woman, the old man’s wife.
Many people got off the boat. An old man was sitting in a wheelchair with an IV drip hanging on it. It was obvious that the old man didn't have much time left.
At this moment, Zhou Ze's eyes suddenly focused. He saw another priest coming down from the cruise ship, an Asian priest.
Yes, that's right.
This guy was the one who stole my ashes!
However, the priest now looked a little younger, with fairer skin, a round face, and a harmless look.
He walked up to the old man, and the old man stretched out his hand to send the woman away. The woman walked away, very far away. There were some things that were not convenient for her to know, and she was very conscious and tactful.
The old man seemed to be talking to the priest, and the priest nodded in agreement.
Then,
The old man took out a piece of black scale from his arms.
The priest looked at the scales, then lowered his head and whispered something in the old man's ear.
When the old man heard this, a look of shock first appeared on his face, then a look of struggle. He seemed to be hesitating and struggling. Finally, the old man looked at the infusion bottle that was still hanging on his body and then at the charming woman standing in the distance.
His fingers clenched the scales tightly, and the veins on his fingers were exposed.
Then he gritted his teeth, with a violent look on his face.
At the same time, nodded.
The priest bowed slightly beside him.
"Boss, they are talking so quietly, I can't hear them."
Bai Yingying said helplessly. She tried to move forward to get closer to the old man and the priest who were talking, but the further she moved forward, the distance between the two people became correspondingly longer.
Zhou Ze waved his hand.
Said: "No need to listen."
"Then how do we leave here?" Bai Yingying was a little uneasy.
"You can leave." Zhou Ze smiled, "In fact, there is no Poseidon at all."
Bai Yingying didn’t understand, but Zhou Ze didn’t understand either. Yes, there was no Poseidon.
"ha?"
"There is no Poseidon, only a snake that was mistaken for the Poseidon."
Zhou Ze raised his head, looked up into the sky, and shouted:
"You can't beat me, and I've seriously injured you. This illusion can't last too long, right
Especially after I found out that you are not actually the God of the Sea, your illusion has lost 99% of its deterrent power. Do you think you still have a chance to kill me here?"
“Sizzle, sizzle…”
A snake head slowly emerged from the sand beside Zhou Ze.
All the illusions around began to shatter.
Zhou Ze was sitting on the floor of the living room at this time, and Bai Yingying was standing next to Zhou Ze. Everything around him returned to normal.
"I didn't mean to kill you with this..."
The python, which was scratched all over by Zhou Ze's nails, actually spoke in human language at this time, but his voice was a little sharp.
“Tsk tsk.” Zhou Ze reached out and patted the snake’s head, then raised his head and said helplessly: “You actually wanted to kill me directly at the beginning, but you didn’t expect that I could do this to you, so you changed your method and took a roundabout approach.”
If the hard way doesn’t work, then try the soft way.
"He deserves to die..." said the python.
"I have a monkey at home, and you two should have something in common. But you're in such a state that you won't live long before you turn to ashes. It's a pity."
"He deserves to die..." This seemed to be the only sentence the python could say.
Zhou Ze did think of the monkey, and thought of the process of his fight with the monkey in the hospital, as well as the final outcome, including the fact that his conscience was "eaten" because of that incident.
The same choice, but this time, Zhou Ze made a different choice. He raised his hand and said seriously:
"That woman shouldn't have died."
The python hesitated for a while and nodded slightly, which was considered as agreement.
Then, Zhou Ze put his hands down and looked away.
The python nodded to Zhou Ze, rubbed its tongue on Zhou Ze's arm, and then squirmed its remaining body and crawled towards the stairs.
Bai Yingying was a little confused. She looked at Zhou Ze and asked, "Boss, didn't the snake save him? It saved him back then, why is it trying to kill him now?"
"It's simple. Sixty years ago, this python had just become enlightened and was practicing to accumulate merit, so it took the initiative to save a young man who was washed up on the beach and was about to die after a shipwreck.
The young man survived, then became prosperous, made a lot of money, became very wealthy and had a high status, and then the young man became an old man suffering from a disease and dying.
The old man doesn't want to die. He still has a lot of money and he wants to continue enjoying his life.
For other people, it is basically impossible to prolong their lives except for medical means, but the old man is different. He had seen the "Poseidon" when he was young, and he regarded the snake that saved him as the Poseidon.
Therefore, the old man planned to use this to extend his life. He thought that since Poseidon saved him once sixty years ago, Poseidon should be able to save him again sixty years later.
He also found a quack... "
Speaking of the Japanese priest, Zhou Ze's eyes flashed with murderous intent.
That bastard, this time, as soon as I recover from my injuries, I must kill him, no matter what else happens at that time, I must kill him!
"The priest taught him a way to sacrifice to the evil god, which was to use the lives of his relatives to extend his own life."
"Ah..." Bai Yingying exclaimed, "So the family on the cruise ship that drowned five years ago?"
"You saw it all, didn't you? The old man specially arranged for them to be sacrificed. He used his first wife, sons and daughters, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. as sacrifices to prolong his life."
"And then what?"
“He succeeded because he had that scale in his hand, and the method given by the priest was not groundless, so he succeeded.
Didn’t you see that? Five years ago, the old man was in a wheelchair and could die at any time, but five years later, he could still walk on his own and even have sex with his lovely wife from time to time.
He succeeded, he really succeeded.”
"Does that mean that the python reached an agreement with the old man?" Bai Yingying asked, "Then why did the python come back to kill him five years later?"
Zhou Ze shook his head.
“No agreement was reached. The python was cheated, badly by the old man. It had been practicing for a certain number of years and was following a very orthodox path. But because the old man used his own scales to make a sacrifice, it was directly forced into the ranks of evil gods that were not tolerated by heaven and earth. All of its previous hundred years of hard work was basically wasted.
It was like a mouthful of poisonous milk, and the python was overwhelmed by it without knowing it.
It's even possible that the python had some problems in the first place, and it took five years to solve part of the problem. Then, at all costs, even at the risk of its own life, it came to the land to seek revenge on this old man!
It was it that saved him in the beginning, but he betrayed it in the end."
Bai Yingying nodded thoughtfully, "So, there is no Sea God at all?"
"I don't know."
"Boss, are you letting it go up there to get revenge this time?" Bai Yingying asked.
The implication is, this is not what you did last time, monkey.
"I'm badly injured and can't beat it. I don't want to risk my life." Zhou Ze explained.
Bai Yingying pouted and pointed at herself.
What I mean is, I can handle a snake that you almost smashed to pieces.
"You're a little girl, you're afraid of mice and cockroaches, how can you possibly stop it, right?"
Bai Yingying understood what he meant.
He immediately clenched his fists and clasped them to his chest, shaking them and saying:
"Oh, oh, oh,
Yes,
I’m really scared.”
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PS: This chapter has more than 5,000 words. I will post it after I finish writing the story, so there are no breaks.
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