Shui Han took a deep breath and calmed down his messy mood. In fact, since he experienced so many things, he has always felt that his life of the past ten years was wasted. Although Shui Han is a person who is not very courageous, but due to his nature, he has always believed that his life should be unusual. Now, following Richu, he has experienced a series of seemingly real and illusory events of unknown nature and reason. After the abnormal adventure, I came to this unknown place again. Not far from the stone where Shuihan and Richu were hiding, there was a black and white animal face carved in stone, and the other end of it corresponded to a cave. Just now, a group of people walked out of the cave, and now they are slowly walking towards the black and white beast face.
Shui Han hid behind the rocks and squinted at the group of people. His first impression was that those people were moving very slowly, which was unusually slow. Shui Han was sure that this slowness was definitely not a result of his own psychology. This slowness was as if those people had lost their souls and were being controlled by something. Their steps seemed to have been trained for a long time and were extremely consistent. . Shui Han felt that those people were like a guard of honor. The reason for this idea was that they held the kind of "Festival Talisman" similar to that used for sacrifices. This "Festival Talisman" is a stick. A long pole with a flag hanging from the top.
In the Central Plains, all the princes regarded sacrifices as very grand. Although Yan State was located in a remote place, for some unknown reason, during a period of time in Shui Han's memory, sacrifices were popular in Yan State. The sacrifices at that time were not only in the palace but also in the palace. , even ordinary people also worshiped their ancestors privately. For a while, "obscene sacrifices" (unofficial sacrifices) became a very troublesome thing. Shui Han remembered that at that time, the relatively large-scale sacrifices used this method. This "Jie Fu" is said to be the token leading to the Prince of Hell's Mansion in the human world, and the "Jie Fu" currently held by this team is very similar to the one in Shui Han's memory.
What also concerned Shui Han was the clothing of those people. Their clothing was also very uniform. They were all wearing a black robe. There was a certain pattern embroidered on the back of the black robe. Shui Han looked carefully and found that it seemed to be two Animals like dragons or snakes biting each other's tails. Shui Han felt that this pattern was a bit familiar. He immediately remembered some ghost-like patterns carved on the "Shengmen". At that time, he didn't pay attention to those patterns. When he saw them, he immediately recalled the patterns on the door. There seems to be a pattern similar to this. Shui Han has always felt that patterns like this are magical since he was a child. It is easy for people to think that there must be some mystery hidden in them. But now is really not the time to consider the connotation of this pattern. He looked at Richu beside him and wanted to talk to him. She exchanged her thoughts with her eyes. At the beginning of the day, she also seemed puzzled. She just made a gesture not to speak. She seemed to want to continue to observe and find out the situation before talking.
Shui Han felt that the only way to wait and see what happened was now. He saw those people walking in front of the beast face in an orderly manner and straightening the "Judgment Talisman". They immediately lost their movement. After a while, there was a sound in the crowd. He chanted neatly, and the sound quickly filled the entire space. It seemed to be a very ancient singing style, much like a long-standing spell or something like that. Shui Han heard it incomprehensibly, and saw it in confusion. Logically speaking, their team was uniform, and they all wore special uniforms, held "Jiushi Talisman", and were chanting this mantra-like song. Judging from the situation, it should be There is no doubt that there is a guard of honor for the sacrifice. Normally, sacrifices are made to worship ancestors, or to pray for God's blessings. Of course, in some places, according to local customs, sacrifices are made to river gods, mountain gods, etc. Villages like Yishui Town, which are built next to rivers, hold festivals during festivals. They would go to worship the river god, but this group of people would chant so seriously to an unknown animal-faced stone carving. Could it be that the animal-faced carvings on the stone wall are their ancestors? This makes no sense no matter how you think about it.
Moreover, there is another thing that puzzles Shui Han. In general, no matter what the sacrifice is, there should be a sacrifice. Usually it will be an animal such as a cow, a sheep, a pig, etc. However, in this sacrificial ceremony, in addition to singing, There was nothing. Shuihan looked at Richu. Those people were concentrating on singing. Thinking that it would be safe to speak now, he whispered his thoughts to Richu. After hearing this, Richu looked incomprehensible, as if he was talking to others. She didn't know much about the world's sacrifices, but when she heard about the sacrifices, her eyebrows furrowed, as if she had thought of something.
Shui Han asked:
"What's wrong?"
At first Richu didn't answer immediately. He just looked up and said:
"Do you think these people whose blood was drained in the blood cocoons were sacrifices?
After Shui Han heard this, he immediately felt his scalp numb, and at the same time he felt a sense of enlightenment, and then he raised his head and looked up. Judging from Shui Han's current position, those hanging blood cocoons had the feeling that blood would drip from them and drip into his mouth. Shui Han immediately felt nauseous. Although there was no direct evidence, What Richu said was indeed reasonable. Those ice silk threads soaked in blood, one by one, transferred the blood they drew from the people in the blood cocoons into the huge mouth of the black and white animal face, It's like a beast sucking human blood through a pipe. This is the most direct sacrifice. From Shui Han's point of view, this is simply an act of dehumanization. What kind of sacrifice is it and for what purpose can people sacrifice so many innocent lives to satisfy an inexplicable stone carving that looks abominable? ?
Shui Han felt that such behavior had already violated the original intention of the sacrifice to pray for people. This was not so much a sacrifice as a living, bloody massacre. Unknowingly, he had clenched his fists. Richu saw Shuihan's abnormal expression. She quickly realized that the young man in front of her, who was new to the world, had obviously never seen such a scene and was about to collapse. She was very worried. Worried that if Shui Han does something drastic now, the situation will be uncontrollable. Richu wanted to stop Shui Han. She pulled Shui Han with her hand and found that Shui Han's body was trembling. A pair of blood-red eyes stared in the direction of the black and white beast face. Richu immediately realized that something was wrong and lowered his voice:
"Shui Han, calm down."
But Shui Han didn't seem to hear it at all. His squatting body was already tense, and even the giant in Shui Han's hand seemed to have become restless.
Damn it, can't you stop it?
Pure land.
Xun Kuang looked at the looming light on the skyline. In fact, there was no light at all. Everything was just his hope. Everything was suppressed by darkness. There was nothing but darkness in the night sky. He had not slept all night. He knew that he would never fall asleep this night, because he had to wait for the arrival of dawn, and he knew very well that in order to see the first glimmer of morning light he hoped for, he had to get through this final darkness, for Therefore, he will never close his eyelids. He will be here, standing here, waiting for everything to come. This time, he will never miss anything, because he no longer wants to lose anything.
This can be considered a way of atonement.
Xun Kuang laughed at himself in his heart.
