A sudden exclamation came from the direction of the big tent, and the huge strange face on the top of the head suddenly lifted up, and then took the eight arms that danced wildly with excitement, and walked in the direction of the scream.
The scream turned into a scream in an instant, because it was too terrifying and twisted, Ke Xun couldn't tell who was making it.
Juying's arms gathered in front of him, his body blocked Ke Xun's sight, the screams twisted and tore in front of him, and soon disappeared, just when Ke Xun was ready to wait for it to turn back, However, it walked to Zhou Bin Qin Ci's tent step by step, leaned down, stretched out its arms, and in the next instant, a person was picked up from the tent.
The man shouted something, and then was grasped by the giant hand, and the sharp and shrill scream sounded again, and the stabbing made people feel cold.
Ke Xun was stunned when he suddenly saw a figure flashing past the tent. Before he could react, the curtain of his tent had already been opened, and someone quickly squeezed in.
To be precise, it was two people, Qin Ci, carrying Zhao Dan, who fell into a coma, on his back.
"Why—" Ke Xun just opened his mouth, but Qin Ci covered his mouth to stop him, and quickly put Zhao Dan next to him, and he also lay down.
Ke Xun was completely clueless this time. He lay in a daze, listening to Zhou Bin's screams quickly disappearing into the air. The giant shadow turned around again and walked towards the tent step by step.
Ke Xun raised his eyes and saw its huge figure standing above, with six arms dancing in the sky, and the other two arms carrying something that was still dripping with sticky blood.
The giant shadow bent down, and the arm carrying the thing was placed on the top of the tent, and the two things fell on it, reflecting the pale snow, with clear outlines.
Two complete, fresh, skeletons.
There was still uncoagulated blood on the skeleton, and something I didn't know whether it was viscera or minced meat was slowly sliding down the arc of the top of the tent.
Ke Xun stared at it, clenching the stone in his hand, thinking that he would give it a hard blow in its eyes before he died.
Before the sky came up, the giant shadow left the ground with its offerings for the night.
Ke Xun sat up and looked at Qin Ci.
Qin Ci's face was a little haggard, he pinched his eyebrows, and said in a low voice: "I don't know what's going on, it stands to reason that Zhou Bin is the one who has prepared the most sacrifices, but last night, that thing still chose us. That tent... Zhou Bin saw that the thing was going to arrest him, so he asked me to bring Zhao Dan to you... Maybe, he also held the last glimmer of hope for Zhao Dan. Seeing that the sacrifice he prepared didn't work, let us three Let's form a group, hoping to avoid the killing of that thing."
Ke Xun looked at Zhao Dan, who was still in a coma, and looked up at the scarlet skeleton blood mark left there on the top of the tent, the head with the skeleton blood mark, and the two empty eye holes seemed to be staring at Zhao Dan in the bottom of his eyes.
"At least he treats his girlfriend very well." Ke Xun retracted his gaze, stood up and was about to walk out, but saw the tent curtain being opened from the outside, Mu Yi stepped in with a gloomy face, and the corner of Ke Xun's lips twitched. He was about to say hello, but he was punched in the face, staggered two steps back, and lay down on the felt blanket, with two lines of nosebleeds hanging from his face, looking up at Mu Yi with a smile.
"No next time." Mu Yi stared at him coldly, turned and walked out of the tent.
Ke Xun wiped his nose with the back of his hand, slumped on the blanket and gasped for a few breaths, then turned to look at Qin Ci with a smile: "Guess why he beat me."
Qin Ci sat beside him and rubbed his temples: "I think it's because you stunned him yesterday without his permission."
Ke Xunxi moved his chest and laughed twice: "Is that so, I thought it was a violent expression of the word 'worry'."
Coming out of the tent, Ke Xun saw Mu Yiran covering two corpses curled up on the ground not far away with two felt blankets.
It's not accurate to say it's curled up. The two corpses were more like rubber men that had been released of gas, slumped and crumpled into a pile.
In the tent where Mu Yiran and Wei Dong were, the curtains were half open, and the half pale face of the man sitting tucked inside was faintly revealed, which was Shaliu.
When Wei Dong woke up, Zhao Dan also woke up from a coma, and a heart-piercing cry resounded between the tents. Zhao Dan, who was originally very timid, threw himself on Zhou Bin's body without bones, and would not leave if anyone tried to pull it.
"Why?!" Wei Dong asked Ke Xun and Mu Yiran with red eyes, clenching his fists tightly.
"Didn't you gather all the sacrifices? Why are you still killed?" Dad Geng also asked in a trembling voice.
Qin Ci frowned tightly: "There must be something wrong, we may have made a mistake, or something has fallen."
"Wuhuilu, Wugong meat, Dom, libations, offering bowls, lamps, Gala, Dangka," Shaliu held on to his glasses, his lips bloodless, "We have already prepared all of them, and even more varieties are prepared. Much, why... why..."
No one answered her, and everyone fell into unprecedented confusion, helplessness and panic.
"I remember," Shaliu's bloodshot eyes suddenly widened, "the book said that these should be dedicated to the angry god and placed on the little boy's corpse! Because the little boy's corpse can Restrain the life-blocking demons who try to sabotage the rituals - is this the reason why we all fall short?"
"What you said is a cult at all!" Geng Ma couldn't help it anymore, she cried out angrily, and protected her child with her hands. Sha Liu's words mentioned the little boy, which made her extremely nervous and alert. .
"Which serious sect would use this kind of thing as a sacrifice?!" Dad Geng also scolded angrily.
Shaliu glanced at the Geng family and his wife silently, and said softly, "Dedicating oneself to the teaching is a kind of honor for the devout believers.
"I have seen such a statement, saying that in Ganxiong, people's devotion to Sudaism can be so high that even for a second, they are as enthusiastic as you are a friend, and they are happy with you, but as long as the elders say a word , the next second they can cut off your head without hesitation.
"The more people who have not been baptized by science, the greater the influence and control of beliefs on them. For them, death is not terrible. Life and death are part of reincarnation and return to nature, so they will not Treat this cruel and bloody sacrifice as something terrible and inhuman.
"In other words, in their view, death and new life are both God's guidance and gifts, life and death are equal, the body is just a stinky sack, not worth rejoicing, nor worth giving up, and many sects even torture the body to As a way of cultivating the body and mind, the more pain the body suffers, the deeper the cultivation, and the more purified the soul.
"So... it may be difficult for outsiders to accept and understand the sacrifice of one's body, but it may not be surprising at all in a place where Sudaism is prevalent. What they practice is the soul, the spirit, not the body."
"Go away!" Geng Ma pointed at Shaliu's nose and scolded, "I don't care where this is, or what religion or god they believe in, our family doesn't believe this! No one wants to hit our family's head. No matter where you heard it, if you dare to say one more word, I will fight with you!"
Shaliu didn't answer, just lowered his head and adjusted his glasses.
"The top priority now," Qin Ci said, "is to find out why Zhou Bin was selected last night, otherwise everyone else will die tonight."
While he was talking, he said, "Last night Zhou Bin and my tent, as well as the tent of Big Brother Geng's family of three, put almost all the sacrifices we prepared, even one of the five Huilus owned by Li Ziling, Zhou Bin. He also got it yesterday, plus the other four kinds of Huilu distributed from Shaliu, as well as the Wugong meat he got by himself, and yesterday from the celestial burial platform... Those things, he also said according to Shaliu when he came back. It can be said that the sacrifices in our tent are the most complete, I don’t understand why we were selected instead.”
Dad Geng also thought about it and said, "Maybe he violated some taboo. He killed the people in this painting just to get human flesh. Yesterday, he also went to rob the corpse on the celestial burial platform. This, this is simply blasphemy. This kind of behavior is likely to arouse the anger of heaven and earth, so that thing will pick him!"
"It's not impossible to say that," Qin Ci pondered and looked at Ke Xun again, "I still have a question, last night that thing arrived at the tent of Xiao Ke who met the first screening criteria, why didn't he choose a medium or small school? What about Ke? I don't understand this, did Xiao Ke notice anything when he looked into the tent?"
"I don't understand either," Ke Xun shrugged and saw Mu Yiran's eyes swept towards him coldly. Humans and animals winked harmlessly at him, and quickly retracted his gaze before Mu Yiran's gloomy face, looking towards Qin Ci, "but I think it actually wanted to take me out. It stared at me for a long time, and felt like it was watching me, but I don't know why it took so long."
"It may be picking the appearance of this piece of meat," Wei Dong said.
"Then I shouldn't hesitate, I still need to choose my appearance?" Ke Xun said.
"I don't think it will let anyone who doesn't meet the requirements," Mu Yiran said, "Li Ziling is an example. She and Zhou Bin are in the exact opposite situation. Zhou Bin not only met the number of tents, but also gathered the most For all the sacrifices, Li Ziling did not meet the number of people in the tent, nor did he have any sacrifices. Both of them were selected. There is only one explanation for this - the second screening condition that everyone speculated before is wrong, but it cannot be Ignore it, Ke Xun is the only one who didn't meet the first condition and survived."
"So that means," Qin Ci looked at Ke Xun in slight surprise, "Xiao Ke is perhaps someone who has met the conditions for self-protection?"
Everyone's eyes immediately turned to Ke Xun's face.
Ke Xun looked down at himself: "I don't seem to be doing anything, I didn't even take Wuhuilu, and I was alone in the tent at the beginning of last night. Could it be that there are two souls in me, a man and a woman, in me Was taken away by them without knowing it?"
"What were you doing when that thing was by your tent last night?" Mu Yiran asked him coldly.
"I miss you." Ke Xun said.
Seeing that Mu Yiran's face changed and he was about to raise his hand, Ke Xun hurriedly took a step to avoid the edge: "I remembered it wrong, I think about it... Well, I seem to be scolding it, and I even pointed it with my middle finger— Could it be because this gesture made a mana attack on it, so it didn't dare to take me?"
"Damn it, if you say that, then how much has my mana hurt me since I was a kid?" Wei Dong pointed his middle finger at him.
"If it wasn't for this, I don't know the reason." Ke Xun said.
"I have a guess," Mu Yiran suddenly looked at everyone, "about the setting of death conditions."