The sky is very good tonight. The bright moon hangs in the night sky. Although it is not as huge as in the dream world, it is still as big as a millstone.
Mia and Nina were bathed in the moonlight and stood on the altar. Following her order, a burst of music suddenly sounded in the garden.
This music is full of grandeur and solemnity, with a certain religious flavor.
As the music sounded, all the pointed hats took out a religious symbol engraved with the moon from their bodies, and clasped their hands together in their palms.
Only Qiugongyue and the other four did not have such a thing, but Ellie was obviously prepared. She took out several moon statues from her body and handed them to them respectively. Each moon statue was slightly different.
Ellie also warned the four of them: "This thing is very important. You should all take it and don't lose it."
As the music reached its climax, Qiu Gongyue suddenly saw some pointed hats walking out of the castle carrying a stretcher with people tied to it.
This scene immediately reminded her of the bloody sacrifice she saw in the dream world. Is Mia going to carry out such a bloody act again in front of thousands of believers?
But when she looked carefully, she realized that the thing tied to the stretcher was actually a dummy.
The pointed hats carried dozens of dummies to the altar, took out wooden knives from their bodies, made dissection movements on the dummy's chest, and then took out the wooden heart from the dummy's chest. , in each tray.
Even grape juice was smeared on it to pretend it was blood.
Finally, these hearts coated with grape juice were brought to the altar and placed in front of Mia.
Mia turned around and looked up at the moon, raised her hands high, and recited the same prayer that Qiu Gongyue heard in her dream.
"Praise the moon, great Luna, Lord of the Silver Moon, God of Tides, Mother of All Things, please allow us, our devout descendants, to offer you the most delicious sacrifices..."
Following Mia's praises, thousands of pointed hats below also knelt down toward the moon, and devout prayers sounded in unison, intertwining with the music in the garden.
"Hurry up! Do it with me."
At Ellie's urging, the four Qiugong Yue had no choice but to do the same, pretending to be devout believers in the Moon God.
Qiu Gongyue quietly opened her eyes and found that in the dream world, the mysterious "Moon God" condensed by moonlight did not appear.
As for the Moon God believers below, many of them were absent-mindedly deserting, and many were still whispering among themselves, not taking this apparently stupid ritual to heart at all.
At this time, Qiugong Yue's eyes seemed to be split into two worlds, with the same moon, the same altar, and the same pointed hat.
One is a dream full of blood and madness, and the other is a real world filled with relaxation and joy.
The two worlds gradually merged into one in her eyes. Suddenly, she seemed to be back in a dream, surrounded by countless crazy Luna believers.
By the time Qiu Gongyue came to her senses, Ms. Mia had finished reciting the prayer, announced the end of the sacrifice, and left with Nina.
The other pointed hats got up from the ground one after another, chatted with the people around them and left, and the scene soon became as noisy as a vegetable market.
After all, there were thousands of people, and they were all women. It was like thousands of ducks gathering together.
"Is that all?"
Dinah asked in great surprise. Fortunately, she had been nervous for a long time and was mentally prepared for the battle. The result was like playing a cosplay, and it ended in an anticlimactic manner.
Others also felt that the Moon God Sacrifice, which had been exaggerated for a long time, seemed too simple.
Indo Rika asked Ellie: "Didn't you say that you can see the madness of these Moon God believers at the Moon God sacrifice? Why is there nothing?"
"ah?"
Ellie asked strangely: "When did I say such a thing?"
"Hey, you didn't admit it after you said it, right?"
Indo Rika was dissatisfied and wanted to refute, but Akimiya Yue stopped her, and then said to Ellie: "Come with us, I have something to tell you."
The group left the garden and came to Yin Teng Rika's room.
Seeing Rika Yin Teng locking the door tightly, and the others surrounding herself as if ready to attack, Ellie immediately became nervous: "What are you going to do? I haven't done anything sorry for you."
"I didn't say you were sorry for us, but there are some things we need to confirm with you."
Qiu Gongyue originally thought that she would see something different at tonight's Moon God Sacrifice, but the result turned out to be unexpectedly simple. She realized that she could not go on like this, so she had no choice but to have a showdown with Ellie at this time.
She came to Ellie and asked in a deep voice: "During the twenty days in the castle, you will spend a whole day in the library every day, looking for records about the Temple of the Moon, right?"
Ellie nodded subconsciously: "Yes, don't you go with me every day?"
Qiu Gongyue stared into her eyes: "But you read the books you have read again every seven days. Why is that?"
The others were also staring at Ellie's face, preparing to see how she would answer.
"Read the book you have read again?"
Ellie seemed to have heard some incredible joke and grinned: "How is it possible? How could I do such a stupid thing..."
Her voice gradually changed and became deeper, and the expression on her face became visibly nervous and panicked.
"I don't……"
Seeing her clearly having a ghost in her heart, Indo Rika immediately asked: "Ellie, what are you hiding from us?"
Yin Fulin also frowned. She had signed a soul contract with Ellie. Logically speaking, Ellie would not betray them, but she was obviously hiding many things.
Faced with Yin Tenglixiang's question, Ellie shook her head in panic and denied: "No, I didn't hide anything from you."
Akimiya Yue stopped Indo Rika's questioning, and then told Ellie about the dream world for the first time.
Ellie felt incredible at Qiu Gongyue's words: "How could such a thing be possible? I have lived here for several years, why have I never met what you said..."
She subconsciously wanted to retort, but midway through her words, her expression began to become confused and nervous, and sweat began to form on her forehead.
"Hey...why do the things you said...feel familiar to me?"
Ellie covered her head with her hands and kept whispering to herself: "Why... why..."
Her strange state was very similar to her behavior in the library today, but this time she had no way to escape.
Yin Fulin took a step forward, grabbed Ellie's wrist, and pushed up her sleeves, exposing her forearm, which was covered with many red scars, more than what she saw in the library today. .
Before Ellie could resist, Yin Fulin came up from the other side, grabbed Ellie's other hand, and pushed up her sleeve forcefully.
Sure enough, her other hand was also covered in scars.
Ellie looked down at her hands with an expression of disbelief on her face: "Why is this happening? Why do I have such scars on my hands?"
"Ellie!"
Qiu Gongyue took a step forward and said with a solemn voice: "Take off all your clothes and let us see your body."
"no, do not want……"
Ellie subconsciously refused, with a horrified expression on her face, full of resistance to Qiu Gongyue's words: "Don't look at my body."
"Why?"
"I don't know, but don't..."
There was a cry in her voice.
However, her refusal was in vain. Yin Tenglixiang and Yin Fulin took action together and took off Ellie's clothes, revealing her naked body.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, seeing that Ellie's body was covered with various hideous wounds, which looked shocking.
Especially the chest. I thought she had a flat chest like Indo Rika, but I didn't expect it to be cut off.
The person who reacted the most violently was Ellie herself.
She looked down at her body that was riddled with holes, covered her head with her hands, and let out a shrill scream.
"No!"
Amid the screams, her body began to become transparent.
Sensing something was wrong, Qiu Gongyue and the other three took a step forward at the same time to try to catch her, but failed as several hands penetrated her body.
"help me!
"
Ellie turned pale and asked them for help, but her body gradually became transparent and disappeared before everyone's eyes.
"Why is she missing?"
Dinah screamed, while the other three were in shock. This was definitely a situation they had never imagined.
Ellie, a living person, disappeared like this?
And what happened to her body? It was obvious that she had suffered inhuman abuse.
After being shocked, Yin Tenglixiang and Yin Fulin came to their senses and turned to look at Akimiya Yue at the same time.
Qiu Gongyue forced herself to calm down and said in a deep voice: "Go and see what's going on with the others, catch one of them and tell her about the dream, and see if she disappears too."
Yin Tenglixiang and Yin Fulin nodded, but before they started to take action, they heard bursts of bells coming from the window.
Winter winter winter!
The bell rang, and Qiu Gongyue felt a slight trance in her consciousness. This was exactly the same feeling she had when entering the dream world at night.
"Why so early today?"
Doubts arose in her mind, but when her consciousness returned to normal, she was surprised to find that the three of Yin Teng Rika were in front of her and did not disappear as usual.
"I didn't enter the dream world? No..."
Qiu Gongyue suddenly realized that the three of them had followed her into the dream world.
She looked up at the time on the wall, and sure enough, it was around eight o'clock at night, and in the blink of an eye it became past ten o'clock at night.
The lights in the room have dimmed, the temperature has dropped significantly, and the noisy sounds outside have also disappeared and become dead silent. Everything is exactly the same as in the dream.
The other three people also discovered something strange, because the feeling they suffered was exactly the same as the feeling described by Akimiya Yue of entering the dream world.
"Xiao Xue?"
Dinah exclaimed, then looked around the room: "Why didn't Xiaoxue come in with her?"
Only then did everyone realize that the Snow Wolf God had not followed them into the dream.
Yin Tenglixiang pretended to be relaxed and said: "That's okay, let the dog help us take care of our health outside."
Yin Fulin turned to look at Qiu Gongyue: "What do you think?"
Qiu Gongyue closed her eyes and meditated. After a long time, she opened her eyes with a solemn expression: "Everyone, I'm afraid the real sacrifice to the Moon God has just begun."
