Paintings of Terror

Chapter 38: Faith 16 ┃ Skull Bowl

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Qin Ci lowered his eyes, thinking to himself: "It seems that we have to usher in the death of one or even several people tonight, is there really no way to do it..."

Mu Yiran said: "I don't know much about the culture of Sudaism, and I only have a limited understanding of what others have said orally. I think, if you want to find the seal, or avoid being hurt by that thing, Still need to think more about the related things of Suda teaching.

"And the difficulty is that there are many branches of Sudaism, and each branch sect has a set of doctrines and gods and demons that are almost independent and independent of the religion, and even in terms of doctrines and gods and demons, sometimes they define each other. Contrary to the setting, it is like the existence that belongs to the devil in this religion, but becomes a god in the branch, and there are many such examples.

"Another example is this giant shadow. We speculate that it is the eight-armed black corpse sky, but the eight-armed black corpse sky is in different branches, with different good and evil, and there are many kinds of images. In some branches, it is a female god. In some branches it is also a Dharma protector, and in others, it simply takes the form of a human during the day and a beast at night.

"If we can't figure out where it belongs, there's no way to target it, and I think that's the key to finding clues."

Sha Liu next to him opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but hesitated for a while, then kept his mouth shut.

Everyone ate dinner like chewing wax, and Geng's mother didn't even eat a mouthful and cried silently.

Before dark, the middle-aged man came in and said, "Tonight, there is a tent for every three people. Remember, there must be a tent for three people."

The crowd fell into silence.

Now there are nine people left. Although three people can share a tent evenly, it also indicates that it is very likely that three people will die tonight.

"Then," Qin Ci said in a low voice, "Big Brother Geng's family has three members and one tent. Let's share the rest."

"No! No, no!" Geng's mother suddenly cried out, grabbed her child, rushed to Ke Xun in a few steps, and pushed the child towards Ke Xun, "Young man, I beg you, let my son follow him tonight. You, okay? I beg you, it's okay if I die, I just want my son to come out alive - boy, you have that mental power, I beg you, please protect my son, he's still young, he's still so young , you sent kindness..."

Geng Ma said that she was about to kneel down and kowtow to Ke Xun, but was stopped by Ke Xun.

"Okay, let him follow me." Ke Xun looked down at the mother in front of him, remembering that he once had a mother who loved him like his life.

Ke Xun didn't speak any more. He looked away from the mother and son who were hugging and crying, and looked at the dark night sky outside the tent. The snow light from the distant mountains reflected in his eyes. flash.

Mu Yiran stood in the shadow where the snow couldn't shine and looked at him, restraining the young man with a sloppy and playful attitude, his eyebrows were like the sea, and his face was like a peak.

"Brother Ke..." Sha Liu was about to talk to him, "Can I..."

"Dongzi is also with me." Ke Xun said lightly without turning his face towards her.

Shaliu bit his lip, but didn't make a sound.

Ke Xun pulled the child and asked Wei Dong to go outside the tent. When he passed Mu Yiran, Ke Xun stopped and turned to look at him: "Sorry. Take care."

Mu Yiran didn't say anything.

Ke Xun had said long ago that if he needed to choose between him and Wei Dong to live at the moment of life and death, he would choose Wei Dong.

Of course, Ke Xun also said that at the moment of life and death, he Mu Yi chose to save himself at the expense of Ke Xun, and he would never blame him.

For the remaining six people, Mu Yiran suggested that Mom and Dad Geng form groups with the others.

Dad Geng was stunned for a moment before he understood. Mu Yiran's proposal was obviously to keep at least one of the couples, lest that thing just happened to pick on the tent where the couple was and cause the child to lose both parents all of a sudden.

"Thank you." Dad Geng whispered to Mu Yi.

"No need." Mu Yiran's face was light, "I just don't want to see the second person who hides family photos in the closet."

I don't want to see the second child who is forever missing a corner of his heart.

The remaining six were finally separated by men and women, and each walked to the small tent outside.

Before Mu Yiran was the last to enter the tent, he saw Ke Xun taking the child and Wei Dong out of the tent next to him, and instructing the two to pull the tent to this side together.

Mu Yiran stood outside the tent and watched him until he saw him too.

"Guess what I thought," he smiled at him, his facial features were no longer as cold as mountains and seas, and the corners of his eyes and the ends of his eyes curled up, "Why don't we bring the tents closer? The distance between the hearts is closer, how about it?"

Before Mu Yiran could speak, the Shaliu in the tent in the distance stuck his head out, a little horrified: "If you are like this, will you be implicated if you are too close? Everyone - it's safer to stay far away."

"What she said seems to make sense," Ke Xun stopped and looked at Mu Yiran, "What do you think?"

Qin Ci's voice came from the tent: "I think it's better to be closer. Maybe I'll have to trouble you to be a firefighter. If there's danger on our side, I'll come over and confront that thing temporarily."

Qin Ci made a joke while having fun, but Dad Geng also agreed with Ke Xun's method. He was willing to be closer to his children, in case... If that thing unfortunately chose Ke Xun and their tent, he would Knowing that he is beyond his means, he has to work hard with that thing for the sake of the child.

Neither side objected, so Ke Xun and Wei Dong dragged the tent next to the tent of Mu Yiran and the other three. go.

Geng's mother in Shaliu's tent also wanted to be closer to her son, but she didn't know how Shaliu persuaded her, so she ended up staying farther away.

Ke Xun let the child lie in the middle of the tent, with Wei Dong and himself on either side. He was next to the tent door, and he could lift the curtains of the two tents with his hand, and saw that Mu Yiran was also on the side of the tent door.

It was not yet time for the forbidden time. According to past experience, there was no danger at this time. Ke Xun didn't want to lie down, so he sat up, pulled the two curtains aside, and Mu Yi, who was also sitting cross-legged. speak.

"Do you really believe that my power of faith can fight against that monster?" Ke Xun rested his chin in one hand, his voice hoarse as he lowered it, sounding like he was condoning someone's wild imagination.

"Don't think that you can just sit back and relax," Mu Yiran said in a cold voice, "mental power is the same as potential, it doesn't explode all the time, and it doesn't happen when you want to. Depending on luck, you may only have one in your life."

"You're really bad," Ke Xun sighed, "you just won't give me a love encouragement. Maybe if you encourage me, I will have a big outbreak and be able to stay strong for a long time."

Wei Dong: "Hehe."

Ke Xun: "Shut up."

Qin Ci: "Xiao Ke, love and grief are the two ways to stimulate your potential the most. You can choose the one that suits you and give it a try."

Ke Xun looked at Mu Yiran: "Look, love can stimulate potential, the doctor said."

Mu Yiran gave him a cold look: "Pain can also stimulate potential, do you want to give it a try?"

Ke Xun: "Look at this tent, it's big and round, does it look like an upside down bowl?"

Ke Xun just changed the subject casually, but Mu Yiran's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he got up and stepped out of the tent.

Ke Xun hurriedly followed him out, seeing him walking a dozen paces away from the tent, turned around and stared at the tent.

"Yeah, like a bowl," Ke Xun said.

"Maybe this is the bowl." Mu Yiran dropped a sentence and turned back to the tent.

Ke Xun did not go back to his tent, but went to Mu Yiran's tent. The four of them were crowded inside. Mu Yiran raised his head and looked closely at the top of the tent.

"I've also noticed the tops of these tents," Qin Ci said. "There are some complicated patterns on them, but most of them can't be seen clearly because of the fading over time. Does Xiaomu think something is wrong?"

"The skull bowl mentioned by Shaliu is indeed an important tool for certain factions of the Sudo sect," Mu Yiran replied to Qin Ci's words while staring at the tent, "The brain under the skull is believed to contain all human beings. Soul power and vitality. Most of the gods in certain factions like to eat fresh human brains in their skulls, so that they can possess people's soul and vitality."

Qin Ci was startled when he heard the words, he quickly touched the tent, and then took a closer look. After a while, he said in surprise, "This tent... is made of thin human bones! Could it be... "

"Skull?!" The expression on Geng Dad's face was both disgusting and disgusting.

"So we people are actually the food for that thing from the very beginning," Ke Xun said. "The tent is the skull bowl, so aren't we the food in the bowl? The human brain and the human body are all in it. If you want a soul to have a soul, To have vitality and vitality, it also comes with a pair of launching."

"Then if we don't stay in the tent, can we not be the food for that thing?" Dad Geng said quickly.

"Obviously not," Ke Xun said, "Li Ziling was not in the tent when he died."

Dad Geng said sadly: "That's right, you can pick up and eat the food that falls out of the bowl."

Mu Yiran didn't pay attention to the words of the few people, and was always carefully identifying the patterns on the top of the tent. Unfortunately, these patterns were so blurry.

Time flies, and seeing the night, Ke Xun had to go back to his tent and lie down near the door curtain.

Leaning on his side, looking at the opposite side between the two curtains, under the reflection of the snow, the curve of Mu Yiran's profile looks like a splendid mountain in the distance. Ke Xun couldn't help but stretch out his fingers and follow his shadow on the tent. outline. Starting from the forehead, it is a rounded arc, then it sinks, it is a slightly deep eye socket, it rises, it is tall, it is a straight nose peak, and then it sinks abruptly, and the fingertips stop on the soft two small arcs.

Seeing Mu Yi Ran move, he quickly retracted his hand, coughed a little with a guilty conscience, and then answered with a condescending sentence: "Have you put any sacrifices in your tent?"

It was Qin Ci who answered: "No, nothing was put away, but I think Shaliu still left all the sacrifices."

Dad Geng seemed to know about this, and couldn't help but get furious: "She's looking for death! She's going to kill my wife!"