When he didn't answer, Chen Qing dripped blood onto the children's faces. As the blood dripped, their faces twitched, and the old man's body straightened up in an instant.
Breathing heavily through his nose, Chen Qing asked again: "What exactly is yellow sand? You don't know that blood can attract these..." He hesitated, and then spoke again: "These creatures?"
At this moment, when the child's head in the old man's abdomen was completely dead, he nodded: "I know... Of course I know... But this is the price... This is the price we must pay for the shrine to respond to our prayers! "
The old man gritted his teeth and looked resolute. He looked at Chen Qing and his eyes widened: "Everyone can leave from here... because the shrine does not agree..."
Chen Qing ignored it, pointed at the second head with blood, and asked again: "The price, the price is that you need to feed these yellow sands?"
"Hehehehe...hehe!" Halfway through his laughter, Chen Qing's blood had already dripped onto his second face.
"No...stop! Stop!"
He roared, but the sound could not be heard under the cover of the sandstorm.
He roared, and the blood on Chen Qing's hands gradually dried up.
"Stop..." He closed his eyes and panted for a while, then hesitantly said to Chen Qing: "We are not enemies... I know... you thought it was us who harmed you... you thought it was us who wanted to sacrifice Sacrifice you... no.
you are wrong. "
He looked directly into Chen Qing's eyes and continued to explain: "We can understand your anger... Your female companion was not our fault! Including you!
Each of us will return to the shelter of the shrine at the end of our life, and we will all evolve into new lives at the end of our lives!
It is you who answered the call of the shrine! It was you who chose Him!
Yellow sand! It is the shrine’s means of answering our prayers! This is also how He protects us! "
He gritted his teeth and fiddled with the two dead heads on his stomach: "This is... His way of protecting us. The price we paid Him has ended long ago..."
"Oh?" He looked at the old man in front of him and asked him with a half-smile, "Do you regret it?"
"Regret?! We must never regret it in this life!" The old man roared, and the two heads in his abdomen were torn off alive, but there was no blood at the connection point on the abdomen.
He looked at Chen Qing, gritting his teeth with a hateful expression: "No one can regret the past... No one can change the past..."
He whispered, as if the expression on his face was a little confused. Seeing this, Chen Qing secretly thought something was wrong and immediately changed the topic: "What on earth is yellow sand! How does it protect you!"
The old man lowered his head, as if thinking for a while, then raised his head and answered slowly: "It... will stop the enemies outside the city wall, and it will kill all the defectors.
It is our hope…hope. "
"How do those yellow sands protect you?" he asked again.
"He..." The old man fell silent and shook his head.
"Since His arrival, there have been no enemies and no residents have died." The old man suddenly grinned and smiled at Chen Qing: "I don't know! I don't know! Hee! Hee hee hee!"
"You just lost one of your former companions today. That woman and her child."
The old man shook his head without any regret: "She regrets it! She regrets it!"
"I regret it, so I will die?"
The old man suddenly leaned forward and crawled in front of Chen Qing: "Because she lied! She is not afraid at all! She is not afraid of what she wrote!"
"Written... thing?" Chen Qing took out the document in his pocket, shook it at the old man and asked, "Is this it?"
"Yes...yes." He nodded and replied again: "You need to write down the things you fear most on the document... You must write it like this. Once you write it down, those things can protect us from the enemies of the outside world! Use fear to resist the enemy... This is the gift God gives us...
Write down the scariest thing here!
Only after killing those enemies... can anyone leave from here! "
Chen Qing frowned and felt something was wrong: "What are you using to trade with the shrine?"
"Everything...everything." He grinned and added with a smile: "I used the future, I used the past. I used the past, except for the present..."
Chen Qing frowned. Just when he wanted to ask again, the baby heads on the old man suddenly fell into madness. They roared, swung their necks and pressed their mouths against the old man.
His body twitched with the movements of the children, but after twitching for a while, Chen Qing saw that the children's movements became smaller and smaller, and the beating of the old man's chest became smaller and smaller.
He frowned, and as soon as he took two steps forward, he discovered that under the old man's recliner, there was a wooden bathtub half a person's height. The bathtub was filled with blood.
The blood has solidified a little. He did not move forward again. He looked at the old man's slightly trembling beard and already had a rough guess in his mind.
He sighed and retreated to the outer corridor of the earth building.
As soon as he went out, Jiang Wan walked up to him. She looked curious, as if she had regained a lot of consciousness at this time.
At least there was a complex expression on his face, instead of the dull look ahead.
Before she could ask, Chen Qing had already pulled her aside and left the door ajar. After waiting for a while, he saw several people appearing in the room.
Those three people seemed to be women and children living in earth buildings.
Each of them cut off a head, soaked the blood under the couch, and picked it up in their arms.
Jiang Wan frowned slightly. After all, those were the heads of four or five children, and she seemed a little embarrassed.
But Chen Qing shook his head to persuade her and whispered: "Those heads... are not human."
He paused and then added: "At least not a living person in the legal sense."
Although she didn't understand, she didn't say anything about it under the emergency situation.
After seeing everyone in the house leaving, the two of them left the room and returned to the previous house.
As soon as she returned, Jiang Wan started chatting.
"What the hell is going on in this place! Those yellow sands! Why did it become like this!"
Chen Qing frowned slightly, still worried that this weird power would continue to affect her.
"This yellow sand...tsk." He scratched his head and started with these people: "They don't seem to be the entities in our previous definition. They don't seem to have any extremely special powers. They may even die."
Jiang Wan's expression turned pale and she turned to look out the window.
"Of course, I don't recommend you to rescue them. I'm afraid this place will become a back room... I don't know if more than a hundred years have passed. They can't be ordinary people."
"Then what are they?!" Jiang Wan was a little excited. She still remembered the mother and son who were killed by the two of them.
"Maybe..." He frowned and murmured in a low voice: "Maybe it is some kind of man-made, or God-made creation.
projection? Or a clone. It seems that it would be more appropriate to say this. "
He shook his head and told Jiang Wan his conclusion: "Let's not talk about how the people here survived. Let's just talk about this cannibalistic yellow sand and the isolated environment here. Do you really think it depends on people eating people? , how long they can survive.”
Jiang Wan listened, although she still felt guilty, but the previous guilt had been reduced a lot.
"Secondly... I just forced a confession... No, I just had a chat with the old man. He thought I attacked him because of the trauma, so he told me something about..." He was silent for a moment, and then changed A description of the opening: "That parasitic thing.
The threat of those yellow sands makes it almost impossible for new outsiders to appear here, let alone so many young children.
They are definitely not human beings in the traditional sense. So... rest assured. "
She nodded, indicating that she understood, and then asked: "So... where is Huangsha? How do we leave... No. What does this other party need from us?"
She frowned and added: "Everywhere you go, you aim to find the shrine, but this time, the shrine is there, but nothing seems to be out of reach."
Chen Qing nodded and looked at the document in his pocket: "The shrine is indeed right in front of us...but that doesn't mean that the shrine can help us.
This place seems a little strange..."
He recalled what the old man had said before: "Do you remember what is written on the entrance to the back room?"
Jiang Wan frowned and nodded: "Records are for truth, and things outside of time can always be trusted.
Listen, only those who have numerous records and are at the forefront will live. "
"But do you know what I heard at the shrine?"
She shook her head and only heard Chen Qing talking.
"Sing its true lies! No words from outside time can be trusted!"
"Remember the history of the past, leave your footprints, and let the world sing about you..."
She looked at Chen Qing, who had a strange look on his face.
"Ever since I saw the shrine, I always felt that I had forgotten something. But I never remembered it."
"Then, do you know what the old man said to me?"
She shook her head again.
"You need to write down the things you fear most on the document..." He pointed to the document in his hand and continued to say to Jiang Wan: "He also told me...the yellow sand is not the price. The yellow sand is their origin...or rather The shrine responded to them, gave them the answer in the person of the god."
He asked me to write about the scariest thing here!
That's not the price. Maybe not one of the three is lying...
In these three sentences, everything they said is true!
Write down the greatest horror that happened here, write down the greatest truth here, write down the greatest falsehood here!
He looked at the document in his hand and put pen to paper on it for the first time.
"Ten-meter-high donuts running all over the ground."
As the handwriting came true, one line of the document began to turn yellow.
Jiang Wan looked at him with a bit of fear and confusion on her face.
"Chen Qing, if you don't wake up, you can go to sleep first."
