"We know that the conditions of death in this painting are superimposed every night." Mu Yiran said, "The first condition is that the specified number of tents is not met. We have thirteen people, but we are limited to only Two people can have one account, and one person is excluded. If this kind of setting is viewed in the context of religion, what kind of behavior is it."
Qin Ci's eyes flashed: "Exclude dissidents."
Sha Liu suddenly realized: "Yes! That's right! No matter what kind of sect, no believers with dissent will be allowed to exist. It is necessary to maintain the purity of belief in the religion. If you don't believe in it, why should you join the religion? To be excluded!"
"Using the number of tents to express the act of excluding dissidents is a symbolic manifestation of sectarian behavior," Mu Yiran continued. "Dissidents are excluded and enter the second screening, which is the second night. The act of excluding dissidents still has to continue, it cannot be just for a while, this is also in line with the actual practice of the sect, and at the same time, it is necessary to further purify the interior of the sect, so the dishonest people, that is, those who did not prepare sacrifices themselves, were selected and killed. Eliminate."
Qin Ci nodded: "This is also in line with the reality of the sect."
"After eliminating the dishonest people, we entered the third level of screening. And just yesterday, everyone prepared all the sacrifices - assuming all the sacrifices are correct, I think this situation has ushered in early. Sacrificial preparations." Mu Yiran continued.
"Indeed," Qin Ci pondered, "the man said that the sacrifice will be held on the seventh day. If we prepare the sacrifice on the sixth day, the sacrifice will be ushered in on the seventh day, and we have already prepared it yesterday. Once the sacrifice is made, it is now equivalent to being in a state of preparation for sacrifice at any time."
Mu Yiran's eyes were deep and dark: "As far as I know, there is a branch of Sudaism. Before the sacrifice, there is a protocol for human sacrifice, and the candidates for human sacrifice are the most devout believers in the religion. After all, for believers For us, offering sacrifices in person is the ultimate manifestation of piety, the greatest honor, and the most glorious way to be invited and accepted.”
Shaliu nodded again and again: "That's right, this is also God's grace to believers. From God's perspective, it is not killing believers, but fulfilling, absorbing and saving."
"So, so, is it still a good intention to co-author that thing?" Wei Dong was stunned, "The original intention of this painting has also become a sincere prayer and a wish to dedicate yourself willingly?"
"But we are not believers," Geng Ma was shocked, "what's the use of killing us!"
"To convert non-believers into believers, isn't that the purpose of mission." Sha Liu said gloomily.
"So, our act of preparing the sacrifice has become a hint to apply for the black corpse to become the sacrifice?" Qin Ci's expression was complicated and unspeakable.
"After all the sacrifices are prepared," Mu Yiran continued, "as a grace, last night, Black Corpse Heaven selected the most devout believers and sacrificed themselves. At the same time, the screening conditions for excluding dissidents and purifying believers still exist. , so Li Ziling was also not spared."
Everyone was startled, Qin Ci's voice was low: "So, Zhou Bin was chosen as the most devout believer... It makes sense to think about it, Zhou Bin is indeed more important than us in preparing sacrifices. Take the initiative, and more... let it go."
Shaliu looked at Ke Xun hesitantly, and said hesitantly, "But Ke Xun didn't meet the required number of people in the tent last night, but he was safe and sound. How should we explain this?"
When everyone heard the words, they all looked at Ke Xun and Mu Yiran.
"Yeah, why? That guy stared at my head for a long time, obviously wanting to get me out." Ke Xun also looked at Mu Yiran, "Could it be that that guy dislikes me just like you?"
"..." Mu Yiran was expressionless, "I said, maybe there is no power that can be stronger than faith. Gods exist by faith. Faith is a kind of spiritual power, I think, it is better to fight against spiritual power. Spiritual power. It was on your tent last night, and maybe it felt the power to fight it."
"So you mean, I used my mental power to defeat it?" Ke Xun raised his eyebrows.
"Or maybe there is no way to win," Mu Yi's face was indifferent, "People who have no faith and spiritual power are probably invulnerable to the gods who need faith to exist."
Ke Xun pampered his face: "You are handsome, you are right."
Mu Yiran ignored him with a sullen face.
But Sha Liu listened to what he just said, and couldn't help but ask Ke Xun, "You must be religious, right? Are you religious?"
Ke Xun looked up at the sky, and then smiled: "My belief may not apply to you, and, no matter which religion or god you believe in, first of all you have to strengthen your spiritual power... Or make yourself change. into a rock."
Sha Liu bit his lip and looked at Mu Yiran: "I don't want to die, I have a strong desire to live, does this count as spiritual power?"
Mu Yiran answered her lightly: "No one wants to die, no one wants to live. I believe that Zhou Bin's power of thought is not inferior to yours. As parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geng want to protect their children and long to live. The power of mind may be several times stronger than yours."
Sha Liu's face turned pale: "Then... how can Ke Xun be like this?"
Mu Yiran refused to answer with a face, but seeing that everyone was looking at him waiting for an answer, he had no choice but to say indifferently: "I think, this so-called belief power, or mental power, mind power, refers to It is all the spiritual power that a person really has and is hidden under the surface.
"This power is not at a certain time, and even we ourselves cannot measure its strength.
"Maybe it's stronger than you expected, as people often say, human potential is limitless, you just don't know it.
"Or maybe it's too weak to satisfy you, you just overestimate yourself.
"So I can't confirm for you, whether you can fight against it like Ke Xun, you want to be sure, you can only try it yourself. Success and failure are half and half possible."
Shaliu didn't dare to try, so he could only look at Weidong, looking for someone with the same fate.
Wei Dong: "… "
"I think Xiao Ke is just a special case," Qin Ci said after thinking deeply, "If everyone can compete with the belief in demons, then the existence of gods is meaningless. I don't think there is a second among us who can It’s like Xiao Ke, so the most urgent thing is to think about how to deal with tonight, and to find clues related to the seal as soon as possible.”
"Yeah, when I was in school, I was easily distracted, and it was impossible for me to compete with any demons by my mental power," Wei Dong quickly followed up, "Let's hurry up and think about recruiting, I'm afraid we have to choose another one tonight. There are still tents for those who offer sacrifices, and there are only nine people left, if it is still a group of three, maybe three people will be selected to offer sacrifices."
Geng's father and mother were also anxious when he heard the words, and Geng's mother paused: "What can I do? Listen to what you said, if you don't prepare sacrifices, you will die. If you prepare sacrifices, you will die. There is no way to survive!"
Wei Dong smiled bitterly: "It's normal not to give a life, don't forget that this is in the painting. We were originally brought in to kill us in various ways. It's unrealistic to give you a spacious life. Basically, we These people all need to find a life in the nine deaths, going forward and going backward is a dead end, and you have to find another way of life on the dead end."
Shaliu looked at Mu Yiran and said, "What do you think about the seal?"
Mu Yiran said: "I only know that the artist Qiu Jian is a fanatical Sudha, and his seal is likely to be hidden in places related to religion."
"Will it be in the Sutuo Temple?" Geng Dad asked.
"It may also be on some kind of sacrificial instrument." Qin Ci said.
"And... will it be in the sky burial platform?" Sha Liu said, "After all, that kind of place is where the souls of their believers can be sublimated."
Qin Ci nodded slightly: "We can't just talk about it here, we have to take action and find everything we can think of. Brother Geng's family of three can try to find it in a nearby village. Zhao Dan asked her to stay first. Here, I think she may not be able to escape from Zhou Bin's death and grief in a short period of time. The remaining five of us are divided into two groups, one group goes to the celestial burial platform to look for, and the other group goes to the nearby Sutuo Temple to look for , come back as early as possible in the afternoon, if there is no harvest, we still need to focus on how to deal with the way tonight. "
Everyone had no objection. Since the sky burial platform was far away, a man with good physical strength and fast legs and feet was needed to go, so Qin Ci took the initiative to sign up and asked Ke Xun who of the three of them would like to go with him.
Mu Yi said: "I'm going to the temple to inquire about something."
Ke Xun looked at him, then at Wei Dong, and smiled: "Doctor Qin, I will go with you, the three of them will go to the village."
When the people were divided into groups, they immediately took action and went all out for their own lives.
When it was still a while before it got dark, Ke Xun and Qin Ci returned to the tent area and saw that most of the people had also returned, except for Mu Yiran.
Zhao Dan seemed to faint from crying and was placed in a corner of the tent
"Where's Mu Yiran?" Ke Xun asked Wei Dong.
"The two of us were dumped as soon as we left here in the morning," Wei Dong was depressed, "I don't know where we went, but we went around the nearby temples and found nothing that looked like a seal."
"Where's Brother Geng?" Qin Ci asked.
Dad Geng shook his head gloomily: "I have searched all the tents and houses nearby, and found nothing."
Sha Liu asked Qin Ci, "How about you? Have you found the burial platform?"
"I've searched, but nothing." Qin Ci said solemnly.
"What to do..." Geng's mother was anxious, "Where else can I be? Where else can the seal be?"
No one could answer, and the tent fell into silence.
When the sky was about to turn dark, Mu Yiran came back, facing the expectations of everyone, and said lightly: "The sacrifices you have prepared, it is best to dispose of them."
Qin Ci's eyes narrowed: "Have you heard the exact situation?"
Mu Yiran said: "No, the language barrier is the biggest obstacle. However, I went to the temple with some local plants that Ke Xun and I picked up yesterday, and the elders in the temple asked me to go to these things. What to do with them, but I'm afraid I won't know before tonight, so I have to wait until tomorrow morning.
"I asked you to dispose of the sacrifices that were prepared, but I thought about it on the way back, and I still don't think these sacrifices will do us any good.
"I've said before that the thing grows stronger with these sacrifices, and we're not sure what will happen when it grows as much as it wants, for us, will it be A catastrophe.
"And since we know that whether or not sacrifices are prepared, they may be selected and killed by that thing, so instead of keeping these things and making them stronger, it's better to just deal with them."
Shaliu looked at him hesitantly, and said hesitantly: "But... I think that if the sacrifices are kept, the thing may only pick out one of us, or a few of us, but if all the sacrifices are kept If it is dealt with, it is very likely that all of us will die once…”
Mu Yiran's expression didn't change at all, and he said lightly: "To stay or not to stay, you decide for yourself, I'm just making suggestions."
Shaliu stopped talking, lowered his head and wiped his glasses with the corner of his clothes.