Before, Xu Xin had seen on the hills that the statues on these stone pillars had changed.
Is it because the needs of those "gods" are changing
Xu Xin took his hand off the stone pillar.
He felt that the stone pillar was getting hot, and it didn't seem to be due to the sunlight, because Xu Xin's hand was touching the backlit side of the stone pillar, not the side that was not exposed to the sunlight.
He took a few steps back and looked at the stone pillar in front of him with some caution.
"Hmm?" Coco on my shoulder was a little confused. It didn't feel any danger.
Xu Xin looked at the Silver King beside him and found that the Silver King's body was trembling slightly.
"What's wrong, Silver King? Are you scared?"
"Ouch..." The Silver King let out a weak moan, his voice trembling a little.
Xu Xin touched Silver King's head and said, "Go outside the altar first."
"Ah!" The Silver King howled after receiving the order, and jumped three or four meters directly out of the altar.
Silver King’s strong reaction made Xu Xin himself a little scared.
Xu Xin glanced at Coco on his shoulder: "Aren't you scared, Coco?"
"Hmm." Coco shook her head.
Xu Xin lowered his head and thought.
This is an altar for sacrificing wild beasts, and there is a statue of a wolf on one of the stone pillars. From this point of view, the Silver King is actually a kind of sacrifice. No wonder it is so scared.
Turning his head to look at the stone table in the center of the altar, Xu Xin decided to go to the stone table and take a look.
Xu Xin walked quickly to the stone table. He kept an eye on the changes in the map, but nothing dangerous happened during this period, and no monsters suddenly emerged from the ground. He walked over safely.
This stone table is about half a meter high and very large, as big as a bed, and can easily accommodate several wild boars.
Xu Xin reached out to touch the stone table. Unlike the pillars, this stone table was still extremely cold even under the scorching sun, like an ice cube, causing Xu Xin's hand to shrink due to the cold.
Altar and Table (Blue): If you offer enough sacrifices, you will get the attention of the "Gods".
It’s the “god” in quotation marks again. What does this gaze mean
Xu Xin looked at the statues on the surrounding stone pillars, weighed the pros and cons, and finally decided to perform sacrifices according to the requirements of the "gods".
He didn't know what this so-called "god" was, but since it was a sacrifice, he would naturally get something. Since ancient times, the purpose of sacrifice was to get something from the gods, and it was to ask for something from the gods. I think this altar is the same.
And the current task is hunting, so it is just right to complete the hunting activities and offer sacrifices to the altar at the same time.
The four statues are a wild boar, a wolf, a wild cat and a rabbit. Xu Xin hunted a wild boar and many wild rabbits on the way here, but unfortunately, they have all been decomposed by him.
After thinking about it, Xu Xin took out more than ten kilograms of rabbit meat obtained by cutting up those rabbits from his backpack and placed it on the altar.
I don't know if it would work if it was just rabbit meat.
Suddenly, Xu Xin felt the temperature in front of him drop. The stone table exuded a faint coolness. He subconsciously took a step back and clenched the stone spear in his hand.
The changes on the stone table made Xu Xin's eyelids twitch. He watched everything that happened in front of him without blinking.
Under Xu Xin's gaze, the blood-red pattern on the side of the stone table suddenly became brighter. The blood-red color that was originally only on the side of the blood-red pattern actually began to move and spread toward the table.
"嘤!" Coco was startled. She grabbed Xu Xin's shoulders and hid behind him, leaving only her little head exposed to look at the altar and the altar table.
The blood-red patterns did not spread quickly, but there were many of them, like countless blood-like insects crawling from all sides of the table towards the rabbit meat piled high in the middle of the table. Then, an amazing scene happened.
Those blood-red patterns on the table actually crawled directly onto the rabbit meat!
These blood threads are actually alive!
The rabbit meat was slowly covered with blood-red patterns. Under Xu Xin's gaze, the more than ten kilograms of rabbit meat was completely dyed bloody by the blood-red patterns. Then the bulging blood-red rabbit meat began to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Finally, all the rabbit meat disappeared, and the patterns on the rabbit meat fell onto the table, scattered around, returned to the patterns carved on the side, and dimmed.
During this process, Xu Xin didn't dare to breathe, he just held the stone spear in his hand. He wanted to stab the blood-red pattern on the table more than once, but in the end reason overcame impulse.
The abnormality on the stone table had stopped, and the temperature around Xu Xin gradually rose under the sunlight.
"What the hell is this thing!" Xu Xin felt that this thing was too weird.
He waited for a long time, but the altar just ate his rabbit meat and nothing else happened.
"What's going on? Is there not enough sacrifices?" Xu Xin remembered that the introduction said "enough sacrifices".
"Hmm!" Coco pulled at the leather armor on Xu Xin's body.
Following the direction Coco pointed, Xu Xin looked at the base of the stone pillar with a rabbit carved on it.
He was shocked to discover that the patterned stone pillar, which was ten meters high in total, had a pattern about a few centimeters at the bottom that had been dyed blood red!
"What does this mean? Is this the progress of the sacrifice?" Xu Xin looked at the surrounding stone pillars and found that only the stone pillar below the hare statue was stained red by blood by a few centimeters.
"Does this mean that you want me to dye these four pillars red?" Xu Xin's eyelids twitched. This was a big project. The rabbit meat just now was all the meat Xu Xin got from hunting five rabbits, and it was only dyed a few centimeters red.
To dye an entire ten-meter-high pillar red, that would require an inordinate amount of rabbit meat!
This is just one pillar.
No, it shouldn't be that much. He only put rabbit meat on it, not a whole rabbit. If it was a whole rabbit...
etc!
Xu Xin suddenly felt that these statues had other meanings.
When Xu Xin saw these statues for the first time, he felt that they were extremely exaggerated, because certain parts of the beast statues were magnified to an outrageous degree.
The tusks of the wild boar statue are extremely huge and curved, longer than the entire pig's body. Does this mean that the tusks of a wild boar are the most suitable sacrifice
Xu Xin walked to the stone pillar of the rabbit statue and a wave of heat hit him in the face.
Unlike the altar, this pillar actually radiates heat.
This statue is also very exaggerated. The originally cute rabbit appears very ferocious on the statue, with eyes wide open and teeth bared, as if it is looking up and howling at the sky. The two rabbit ears, which should have been the cutest part of the rabbit, now look like two sharp swords, placed straight on the rabbit's back, longer than the body.
"Rabbit ears? Are the special parts of the rabbit statue rabbit ears?"
Xu Xin looked at the statues of the wolf and the cat again. The most exaggerated part of the wolf was its fangs, which were even more exaggerated than those of a saber-toothed tiger and almost pierced his feet. The cat's fangs were the sharp claws of its front paws, with the long claws wrapping around one side of the stone pillar and even piercing directly into the body of the stone pillar.
"Pig's fangs, rabbit's ears, wolf's fangs, and cat's claws. These parts of the statue look very exaggerated. Could it be that these parts are the real sacrifices?" Xu Xin murmured to himself.
But he had dissected all four animals and had not obtained materials from these parts.
"Do you cut it with a regular knife, or put the whole thing on?"
Xu Xin felt something was not right. He thought there must be something he had not discovered, so he walked around the altar and started searching on his own.
Sure enough, there was a pattern that was out of place at the bottom of the edge of the altar. Xu Xin poked it with the stone spear and actually pushed it down. When he retracted the stone spear, the sunken part immediately popped out, like a stone drawer.
In the drawer lay a small knife with a black body and a blood-red blade.
Xu Xin hesitated for a moment, but still reached out and picked up the knife.
Altar Knife (Blue): A knife used to cut sacrificial materials. Remember to put it back to the altar after use, otherwise the "gods" will be angry!
That's it! His guess was correct!