Another year is the twenty-eighth of the tenth month of the lunar calendar - the Sea God Festival.
The bottom of the white altar was soaked by the sea water, and the two solemn stone statues of sea beasts were separated on both sides.
Everything is similar to last year, but a little bit different.
A circle of unlit torches was placed beside the altar, and the distance between each torch was extremely small, I don't know what it meant.
The people below were whispering, and the environment was noisy.
Shen Fengyue stood under the basket with a basket in her arms, and he lowered his head and reached out to touch the two jars of honey he bought. Thinking about how excited the Siren would be when he saw that he had bought him his favorite honey, he followed with a smile on his face. A slight smile.
The priest walked to the altar and knocked the wooden scepter in his hand to the ground, and a light cough made the bottom instantly fall silent.
This movement recalled Shen Fengyue's thoughts, he looked up following the sound, the priest was still the same, with snow-white hair and beard, wearing a black robe, and a mysterious pattern outlined by blue paint on his face.
The priest saw that the people were quiet and said: "Dear people, after a year of hard work, you are self-sufficient with your own hands. However, we must never forget who gave us this kindness! It is great! Lord Sea God!"
Then the priest started a long speech, eloquent and eloquent, with gorgeous and exaggerated words, brilliant writing, and only one central idea
- Pat the rainbow fart of Poseidon as much as you like.
From the school principal's speech to the leader's speech at work, Shen Fengyue has experienced this kind of routine scene for more than 20 years, so it is not surprising that she is emptying herself underneath and wandering the world.
After speaking for more than half an hour, with the thunderous applause below, Shen Fengyue instantly retracted her thoughts and began to applaud reflexively with both hands.
The priest looked around, and after enjoying the applause, he started the following speech: "This year is different from previous years, and we have a big harvest!"
There were boos from below, all guessing what the big gain in the priest's mouth was.
"We actually caught the legendary merman!"
These words were like a thunderbolt thrown into the open space, causing a commotion.
Shen Fengyue's eyelids twitched, and then his right eyelid began to beat wildly again. He pressed his right eye with his hand, and used his only left eye to look at the situation on the stage, but his heart beat inexplicably as fast as a drum beat.
"Dear people, today, let's open your eyes! See and see this legendary beast in the water." After the priest gave an order, four strong men carried the limbs of a humanoid creature and walked to the altar.
The human-shaped creature had the baby's arm-thick iron rope fastened on its limbs and locked him firmly. Even so, he still struggled greatly, and the foreheads of the four strong men who lifted him were already covered with dense fine sweat, thinking about it. It has reached its limit.
After the four strong men threw him heavily towards the center of the altar, they fastened two iron ropes to the rings on the altar, and then left, and then someone took sparks and lit the outer circle of torches.
All the torches were lit, and the raging fire was burning, and the surrounding temperature also rose a few degrees, and the air was filled with the smell of fireworks.
"Dear people, please see."
The moment the torch was lit, the humanoid creature stopped struggling, and then let out a heart-piercing roar. The pitch was so high that it was not a sound that a normal person could make. All the people present immediately covered their ears and waited for this wave. Sound waves past.
Shen Fengyue put down her hands, the basket fell to the ground, and with a clatter, he was facing the painful sight of Siren in the firelight.
The black eye sockets receded the moment he saw him, and turned into a normal appearance. He closed his wide open mouth, and his sharp teeth were hidden again.
Mouth opening and closing, silently repeating two words
— Anton…
The hood on his head had already slipped off, and the black hair was scattered, revealing the two ear fins in the mess.
People were relieved from the sound waves, and when they saw the siren, the most obvious symbol of the merman, the scene suddenly fell into chaos.
"It's really a mermaid!"
"Look at those two ear fins!"
"Are the gills on both sides of his neck? The first time I saw it, the gills of the merman were there, it looked like a wound opened by six knives. If you put your hands in it, what is inside? "
"Didn't you say that the merman is very good-looking?"
"My God, he's so ugly!"
"Mom, is the merman really scary? But it doesn't look like he's great at all, but rather pitiful."
"Silly boy, this is evil, ominous, stay away from him. Beware of bad things."
Shen Fengyue turned her head to look, just to see a woman holding her child back a few steps, she saw Shen Fengyue looking at her again, and asked, "Sir, what's the matter with you?"
Shaking his head, his eyes returned to the altar.
The Siren on the altar lowered his head slightly, and when he heard people talking loudly about him, he quickly looked up and then looked down.
Very quickly, but Shen Fengyue still caught it, the helplessness and panic in her eyes.
People in the town criticized his appearance, tsk tsk amazed at his existence, and despised him as an ominous evil.
Your words, my words, these words turned into sharp arrows and shot at the innocent Siren on the stage, piercing his flesh, and blood flowed from the wound, dripping down the red altar.
The hands were clenched unknowingly, and the nails were deeply embedded in the flesh, causing a tingling sensation. Shen Fengyue was surprisingly angry, angry at what these spectators did and said.
Siren's eyes dodged, but most of them came in the direction of Shen Fengyue.
Shen Fengyue noticed it
- He's begging for help, begging him for help.
This feeling of being fully trusted by others is like a boulder pressing on his chest, both heavy and with a sense of mission that must be done.
After getting along for so long, the Siren has melted into his life, wrapped around it like a thread.
"Dear people, it is said that if the merman is killed on the altar by the sea, we will be blessed by the sea god in the coming year."
"Kill him!" One person in the crowd shouted, and then the others followed Ying He and shouted blindly.
"Kill him!"
"Kill him!"
"Kill the shark!"
The words that threatened to kill the merman came one after another, and finally turned into a neat slogan. Hundreds of people shouted in unison.
Shen Fengyue's heart was tense, and she urgently called: "System!"
The system replies in seconds: "Received." The speed limit has been reached.
As soon as the system came into play, Shen Fengyue nimbly scurried through the crowd, blazing a bloody path, and reached the edge of the altar in the blink of an eye.
He lifted his foot and kicked the two torches in front of him, jumped over the fallen torches, ran to the Siren, and made trouble against the two thick-armed iron ropes.
"Anton..." Siren saw Shen Fengyue coming, his eyes lit up, Nuonuo said, "I'm so hot."
"Good, I'll be fine soon." Shen Fengyue gave him a reassuring look, picked up the iron rope and turned it around.
"System, can you let me split this iron rope?"
The system decisively refused: "Although I am an assistant and nurse, I can't drive you to the level of the Hulk."
"Who is that! How did you get to the merman!" Following the man's questioning, the eyes of the town people instantly surrounded Shen Fengyue and Siren.
"Anton! Come back quickly, what are you doing there?" Smith Arbor narrowed his eyes and found that it was actually Shen Fengyue, stomping his feet, "That's a dangerous mermaid, boy."
Seeing that Shen Fengyue was holding the iron rope in his hand, the priest frowned, and said solemnly, "I am afraid that this poor child was bewitched by the merman, hurry up and bring him out!"
Immediately afterward, two strong men ran towards Shen Fengyue. The strong man was nearly 1.9 meters tall and his muscles were knotted. They came up and grabbed his arms from left to right, and lifted him up as effortlessly as a chicken.
Shen Fengyue was stunned and quickly reacted, struggling to get rid of them. When Siren saw someone coming to catch Shen Fengyue, he was so angry that he struggled again and again, Tie Suo made a loud clattering sound because of his movements.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He tried to jump forward again and again, but was pulled back by two ropes, and fell heavily to the ground. Even so, he still did not give up and rushed forward decisively.
"Dear people, let us complete this devout tribute to Lord Sea God in the wailing of this beast." The priest glanced at Shen Fengyue with a sympathetic expression, "This poor child who was bewitched and lost by the beast can also find his way back. "
People watched everything on the stage nervously, their adrenal glands soared, and they were all looking forward to the moment when the beast was killed and howled.
Someone picked up a bow and arrow, and the arrow was wearing a spark, burning red flames. Pull out a full moon and aim it at the siren's heart.
Shen Fengyue's side just relied on insidious tricks to kick the strong man out of the way. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the flaming arrow coming towards this side at a high speed. His brain was already on fire, and he subconsciously reached out to stop it.
The huge pain in his hand made Shen Fengyue show a satisfied smile, and he did it.
The body swayed forward.
The sharp arrow pierced through his palm, firmly planted on the ground not far away, a blood hole appeared in the middle of the palm, and there were burn marks around the wound.
Injury after injury, horrific.
The atmosphere suddenly became solemn, the Siren's desperate struggles stopped, and the people below stood still, shocked by all this.
I don't know who made a gasp, breaking the strange atmosphere.
The sound of the chain dragging on the ground sounded, and Siren stared at the bleeding hole in Shen Fengyue's hand, the red stinging his eyes.
He stood up and looked at the people below, his eyes were contemptuous, and the cheeks around his neck were all closed. Suddenly, he screamed at the bottom of the stage with a ferocious expression, with blue veins protruding from the corners of his eyes, and his six gills suddenly opened, shaking in the air.
The powerful sound waves attacked the people under the stage, causing them to kneel down with their knees soft.
Lines of blood flowed down their fingers.
The sound wave broke most of the iron cables, and the siren broke free with a slight movement. He hurriedly ran towards Shen Fengyue, hugged him by the waist, and crossed the line of fire.
As soon as the Siren's skin was close to the fire, there were scorched marks, and black spots appeared on his face.
He didn't care about all of this, and jumped into the sea with Shen Fengyue in his arms.
The sound wave disappeared, people put their hands down in a daze, and only the buzzing echoed in their ears.
Only a faint sound of falling into the water could be heard, and a figure jumped into the water and disappeared without a trace.
When the sight is clear, only the boundless blue sea remains.