Gao Tianyi realized it later, and Gao Tianyi let out a short scream.
After being forced to embark on the road of escape being chased by villagers, he realized something.
Bai Su... Bai Su's behavior just seen by the villagers was definitely intentional!
Deliberately slowing down his movements, the human boy clearly remembered waiting for several seconds after he rolled out. He had clearly seen the black-haired young man bending his knees and half-crouching on the courtyard wall, so he had to wait for a while before covering the little girl. His mouth and nose were in a threatening posture.
Then, Bai Su was naturally seen by the villagers, and his loud shout was also captured by the young man.
"Ahhhhhh, Brother Bai, you did it on purpose!" Gao Tianyi said panting as he ran around in the forest in a panic, "You can obviously jump down very quickly!"
The black-haired young man who had already released the little girl in his arms said calmly, "Yes, I did it on purpose."
He deliberately did not warn the humans in advance, but slowly waited for the villagers to notice something strange and rush over, then urged the human boy to leave, while he stayed there to let the villagers at least catch a glimpse of his movements.
Gao Tianyi asked in confusion: "Why?"
Bai Su thought for a while and replied: "To let them know that we have hostages in our hands?"
Gao Tianyi complained: "Then you can leave first and leave a note or something... There is no need to wait there."
Bai Su smiled and looked down at the girl he was holding: "Wen... Wen Hong, right? Do you know that you are very important to the village where you are?"
The little girl responded with a confused look, and even Gao Tianyi on the side looked over in confusion.
The young man asked: "What's important? Oh yes...Brother Bai, you said before that she is special. What is special about her?"
"Look." Bai Su suddenly stopped. They were not chased closely by the villagers in the first place. After running into the woods, they soon lost track of the villagers.
Bai Su took Gao Tianyi to a higher place. From the raised hillside, he could probably have a panoramic view of Wenjia Village.
He also put the little girl he had been carrying on the ground, pressed her shoulders and made her face the direction of the village.
Then, Bai Su leaned down and asked in the girl's ear: "Are there many children your age in your village?"
The girl didn't want to answer, but the big yellow dog in her arms was trembling with fear, so she answered hesitantly.
There were only four children of about the same age as her in the village, with an age difference of no more than three years.
Moreover, she is the only girl.
"Girls are special." Bai Su said, "Girls...are the best sacrifices."
After hearing this, Gao Tianyi felt that he had missed several episodes: "Why a girl? A boy and a girl?" He thought of some bad customs.
"Well... it shouldn't be as complicated as you think." Bai Su patted the girl's trembling shoulder, "Because 'Wen Tao' is a female."
Wen Tao, why is it related to Wen Tao again?
Gao Tianyi remembered that he had not finished flipping through those notebooks, and the notebook was now in his arms.
Just when he was about to watch it, Bai Su told the human boy the answer in a spoiler way.
"'Dugong'... let's call it dugong, right? It has no specific gender originally. It's just because Wen Tao is a female, so after it became 'Wen Tao', it also tended to be female."
The black-haired young man spoke some incomprehensible words in an understatement.
The dugong human boy knew that he had seen it in his dream.
Gao Tianyi had previously studied with the adults in the team whether what he saw at the bottom of the lake in his dream was a dugong. The reason was that the fish tail was too huge.
But how did a dugong become a "warm peach"?
Seemingly sensing the human's doubts, Bai Su stretched out his hand, took out a diary from the human boy's arms, and shook it in the air.
"Sacrifice." The pages of the book were turned over, and they turned to the page full of wishes. "The unknown 'good Samaritan' provided the method, and the people in the village put it into practice."
"Bang." The black-haired young man made an exaggerated gesture, "'Wen Tao' was born."
From the innocence at the beginning to the filth at the end, only a few years passed.
"filthy?"
"Yes." Bai Su clicked on the names of the people on those TV stations, and then mentioned some names written in the village chronicles, most of which were female villagers with two characters. "In your human terms, what is...human sacrifice?"
Gao Tianyi understands this. If there really are gods, ghosts, etc., after being contaminated by the bloody smell of human life, they can only lead to the end of degeneration.
Most of the evil gods in the countryside were born from this.
The amount of information was so overwhelming that the human boy fell into deep thought.
So much so that he didn't notice Bai Su's smooth words.
Another person present heard it, but before the little girl opened her mouth, she met Bai Su's finger in front of her lips.
——Shh.
The monster signaled.
After the young man finished digesting the news, he held his forehead and complained that it was difficult to think now, and now he was even more dizzy.
"By the way, Brother Bai, is there something wrong with you calling me in front?"
Hearing this, Bai Su hammered his palm: "Yes, I have something to tell you."
The black-haired young man suddenly put his arm around the human boy's shoulders and asked seriously: "You can start thinking about how to save your teammates from now on."
"Teammate?" Gao Tianyi had questions on his head.
"Yes, teammate." Bai Su nodded, "Xia Chengyin, Tang Nuo, Qi Zhuyue... they all rely on you."
Gao Tianyi:...?
Gao Tianyi:? ? ?
…
Water poured in from the nose, and the throat was blocked by mud.
As a last resort, humans opened their mouths in order to suck in the air they needed to survive.
Something reached in.
The slender, rough but powerful fingers got stuck between the teeth, forcefully widening the mouth, and pressing the long tongue that seemed to be resisting underneath. Then, the other hand pinched something and stuffed it inside.
"Eat...eat..."
Human voices kept talking and persuading in my ears.
It doesn't matter if you can't swallow, the throat is opened wider, and the fingers continue to penetrate inside, constantly pushing the foreign object down.
Stuff it in, eat it, and don't allow it to be spit out.
Strong resistance is of no use, because the hands and feet cannot move, and if the head struggles violently, someone will hold it down from behind.
"Eat it, eat it."
The nonsense continues, refusing to give up until the goal is achieved.
In the end, it was the resisters who gave up first.
After the resistance disappeared, a large amount of air poured in, and the strange smell continued to spread in the mouth. A fishy smell could be tasted between the teeth and under the tongue coating with a casual lick.
People are finally awakened by thirst.
He raised his eyelids to receive the light from the outside world again, his mind was groggy, and it took him a long time to remember what happened before he lost consciousness.
Xia Chengyin thought that they were attacked by villagers.
They had no idea how the village chief led the people away from the mountain road and found the cave they were in. After seeing the "Wen Tao" they were carrying on their backs, the opposite party's eyes visibly lit up for a moment.
Then the village chief asked them how they found "Wen Tao". Seeing that they didn't answer, he simply took the pot away.
It is said that they colluded with Wen Rongxuan and acted together to take away the people from their Wenjia Village.
It was a crude excuse, but the village chief obviously just wanted something to say.
What happened next? Somewhat difficult to describe.
Just - it would be nice if they were engaged in other professions. Even Xia Chengyin was thinking that if it were him who had not been recruited a few years ago, that fist would probably be gone.
It's not that he can't beat him or run away, it's just that he's slightly inferior to the lower limit.
The dim environment inherently blocks people's vision.
The villagers still had lights for lighting at first, but they soon lost the lamps. It is not known whether their senses have also changed after their own mutation. The villagers can see things more keenly than ordinary people in the dark.
However, this was not the main reason for Xia Chengyin's failure.
The main reason is... that the elderly people in power in Wenjia Village are too insidious.
And – some “bad luck”.
The village chief of Wenjia Village stood at the rear and ordered the villagers to block their way out at the cost of the lives of the villagers.
Behind them was an abyss made of black mud, and in front were villagers who didn't know whether to live or die and jumped on top of them with their whole bodies.
Even if the appearance of the villagers changes again at night, what they see at this moment when the light in their hands shines on them is still ordinary human faces.
Some moral senses were competing in their hearts, and after hesitation, they still chose to avoid it.
However, just when they wanted to change the path, their feet got stuck.
On the black land that was supposed to be flat, a lump suddenly bulged out and stuck firmly in front of the person's toes. It was too late for Tang Nuo to change his position. He was just about to call Xia Chengyin to pull him to avoid throwing Qi Zhuyue. When he got to the ground, he saw that Xia Chengyin had been planted even harder than him.
As a result, they were surrounded by villagers.
Time returns to the present.
Tang Nuo, who woke up earlier than Xia Chengyin and couldn't move, said hello to the former calmly amidst the babbling opera: "You're awake."
After trying to use his hands and feet, he found Xia Chengyin who was tightly tied up: "...What is going on?"
Not only was he tied up, but the feeling of the rope tied around his wrists also gave people an uneasy feeling, as if he had been given a muscle relaxant and was unable to exert his strength.
The thirst in his throat could not be quenched. Xia Chengyin looked up and saw a patch of red of different shades.
Light red silk and satin, dark red lanterns, and blood-red blessing characters.
The sky turned dark, and it took about a few hours of walking. Since there was no sun, it was not easy to distinguish. Xia Chengyin judged according to his own intuition.
They returned to the village and were taken to a residence where a birthday banquet was being held.
Tang Nuo had been to the venue before, and the people sitting at the main table had also been met by Tang Nuo.
The birthday banquet was interrupted before because of the accident of bombing the mountain. Now that the villagers have returned, it will continue.
I don't know what stage the birthday banquet is at, but Xia Chengyin and Tang Nuo have set up a simple stage right in front of them. The villagers from the village should be standing on it wearing simple costumes, singing operas to celebrate the birthday.
The old man who had passed his birthday was sitting in the middle, his face seemed to be smiling with squinting eyes. I don't know if she heard it clearly.
Do you want to say that this play is well sung? To be honest, it's not good. In addition to being able to hear the shape, the key is barely in the upper key, but every time it reaches the high notes, it always fails to go up.
The audience below didn't mind either. The villagers were cheering just to create a lively atmosphere.
The two people who were left in the corner of the yard woke up and no one came to disturb them for the time being, allowing them to exchange a few words.
Tang Nuo asked Xia Chengyin why he fell harder than himself before.
The short-haired police officer frowned and replied with some confusion: "Something is wrapped around my ankle."
The young man wearing glasses raised his eyebrows: "You too...?"
"What do you mean?" Xia Chengyin turned his head.
Tang Nuo lowered his head helplessly: "My toes were tripped."
The experiences of the two men revealed one thing, that is, the black ground in the cave was controlled by others, and it tricked them at the critical moment, blocking their actions and throwing them back into the circle of villagers.
The black ground...should still be Wen Rongxuan, right?
"Why did he do this?" Xia Chengyin closed his eyes with a headache, his throat was still smoking, "Isn't he opposed to the village?"
Are their assumptions wrong? Wen Rongxuan and the people from Wenjiacun are acting?
No, that's not necessarily the case.
"...Where is Wen Tao?" Xia Chengyin opened his eyes again. He glanced around and found that there were only two of them sitting in the corner.
"I don't know." Tang Nuo shook his head, "I only saw you when I woke up."
Tang Nuo also tried to search in the yard, but it was obvious that the villagers did not release Qi Zhuyue. Maybe it was because Wen Tao, whom she played, was a key figure. After being kidnapped once, they simply kept her under strict supervision.
The two of them always felt thirsty after talking too much. After coughing twice, two glasses of water were placed on the table in front of them.
Perhaps seeing that they had no hands to drink from, the person carrying the water picked up the cup again.
He opened his chin and poured it directly in. He poured half of it in with a rough technique and sprinkled the other half. The sprinkled half slid along the neck and into the collar. The cool breeze blew it, making people's skin crawl.
"You guys are awake."
The village chief came over at some point and tapped his cane. He looked at the two people he brought back with a smile.
"You two are quite difficult to catch." The old man pretended to sigh, "Several young men in the village have fallen. They were really ruthless."
Xia Chengyin didn't reply. He moved his hand behind his back, and something seemed to grow between his fingers. It was very smooth under the friction.
The old man observed this, thought of something, and complained: "However, what I didn't expect is that none of you have eaten the fish we produce here."
"Why don't you eat? Did we not entertain you well?"
At this point, there seemed to be no need to maintain superficial harmony. The short-haired police officer snorted and asked, "Wouldn't your fish become like you if you eat it?"
The smile on the old village chief's face became deeper and deeper, the creases at the corners of his eyes wrinkled, and he arched his back a little: "Isn't this good? This is the blessing it brings us."
The two of them didn't respond. Apparently they didn't think that transforming into an inhuman species was a good choice.
Furthermore, they were not members of the village, and the village chief looked at them like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Finally withdrawing his scrutinizing gaze, the village chief put on a hypocritical smile: "Wen Tao has been found. In theory, you are not needed anymore."
"But now that we're here -" the old man said, "We've already come here and it's better to stay for a meal. Let's join in the evening sacrifice together."
The human's eyelids twitched.
night?
Didn't you say it should be tomorrow?
"Of course it's because you, outsiders, are too noisy." The village chief replied, minding his own business. "In order to prevent more accidents from happening, when the stage ends here, everyone will prepare to go to the mountain."
As he said that, the babbling singing in the distance reached its climax.
"May you live longer every year."
The soaring lyrics reflect the greedy vision of the villagers.
(End of chapter)
