Chapter 145:
Half an hour ago, those women were curled up in the wooden house, madly telling the past.
And now, they are bustling together in the woods, taking care of the children with smiles on their faces, without the slightest torture.
"Are these people... real people or illusions?"
Just a glance into the forest, Angie already felt a splitting headache. The aura of divine power was buzzing in his mind, and his reaction was more intense than when he faced the most evil devil in his previous life.
Tang Xiao: "Everything here cannot be simply distinguished by true or false. Remember this."
The further you go, the sparser the trees. After passing through a thicket of thorns, the scene in front of him suddenly became clear, and an open space large enough to accommodate many people appeared in front of everyone.
Many people stood in the open space, young and middle-aged people chatting and laughing, elderly villagers kneeling on the ground praying and chanting mantras, women taking care of children, and placing sacrificial items. They were bustling around, bustling in and out of the small space, and everyone seemed to be a living person.
They seem to be surrounding something, preparing for the upcoming sacrificial ceremony.
"Who are you?"
Someone saw everyone and immediately shouted.
The crowd in the center of the open space was disturbed and slowly dispersed, and then everyone saw what was surrounded by them—
It was a sloping, huge altar!
Different from the lively scene, the altar was covered with traces of blunt instrument damage, and a small part was buried in the soil, as if it was thrown here after being destroyed in a panic. Weeds and penicillium even grew on the long-abandoned countertops, and swarms of ants crawled on it.
The villagers turned a blind eye to this. They reverently surrounded the altar and knelt down and prayed to the empty place on the altar, as if there were some statues on it.
"Who are you? Why did you come to our village?"
Several villagers from Xiaoshi Village came out, holding wooden sticks, trying to drive away the uninvited guests who broke into the sacrificial ceremony.
Wushi whispered: "Look at that altar!"
A few people looked carefully, only to realize that the altar was not a smooth stone surface: a human-shaped groove could be vaguely seen on the table, and there seemed to be a statue in the middle of the groove, but now only What remains is the mutilated base, which is not even noticeable at first glance.
The villagers kneeling on the ground are kneeling at the location of the statue. In their eyes, the altar seemed to be intact. They prayed as if they could see a statue.
"Whoever you are, hurry up and leave the sacrificial ceremony in our village! If you insist on staying here, we will drive you away!"
Faced with the intimidation and threats from the villagers, Tang Xiao was indifferent, "We came only at the invitation of the village. If you don't believe me, see, the direction we came from was not the direction of the village?"
The villagers did not believe: "Everyone in our village is here, how could someone invite you here?"
"That is, it has been a whole year that no foreigners have passed through our village. Who knows what purpose you are here for..."
Seppo, who had been shrinking in the team for a long time, saw the reaction of these civilians, and suddenly realized: "These villagers kill passersby every year, and there must be messengers from the royal capital. They are afraid that the capital will send someone to seize Xiaoshi Village!"
The villagers' expressions changed when they heard this, revealing killing intent.
However, Tang Xiao's side is also considered to be a lot of people, most of them are young and middle-aged people, and the villagers may not be able to gain the upper hand.
The villagers did not act directly. They hesitated for a moment, and then walked out of a plump and tall woman. Without a word, she smiled and apologized to Tang Xiao and the others:
"Since it is an invited guest, Xiaoshi Village is of course welcome. It's just that it is not convenient for entertaining. I will take a few people to rest in the village first, and then entertain and celebrate after the sacrifice is over, how about it? "
If it hadn't been known that Xiaoshi Village is a black shop that has been controlled by a cult/religion and can eat people without spitting bones, everyone would believe it.
But to everyone's surprise, this plump woman is obviously a female villager, but they haven't seen this person in the wooden house in Xiaoshi Village... Why is this?
The most experienced Rusa pondered for a moment and understood the reason: "Under the long curse and torture, even the most beautiful person will become as thin as a bone."
The scene that everyone saw in front of them was obviously the scene of sacrifices by the villagers of Xiaoshi Village before all the curses happened.
And the plump woman here may be the poor woman they have seen curled up in the corner in the wooden house. The changes are too different to recognize.
"What ritual are you holding? Which **** do you believe in? How come I've never seen one before?"
Tang Xiao ignored the plump woman's invitation.
"Insolent!"
The old people kneeling and praying were furious, slapped the ground with their palms and cursed, "You will be punished by the gods and fall into boundless hell..."
"This is strange, which **** is punishing us, and which **** are you worshipping? There is obviously only an empty stone platform here - you don't even dare to say a word, and How to convince us?"
“…”
The surroundings were quiet for a moment, and the old man who cursed suddenly grinned and laughed: "Because...when you hear the name of the gods...you will become the same...the same as us. The... ah-"
The old man seemed to want to get up with a cane, but let out a shrill scream. Only then did everyone see that his knee was driven into the ground by two long nails at some point, and as the body moved, the kneecap was torn alive, and the screams lingered in everyone's ears.
The rest of the villagers stood there indifferently as they witnessed this **** scene. Although the thick black blood splashed all over the altar, prayers rang out around the old man:
"May the gods bless me and save me from the disaster—"
"May the gods bless me and take me into the temple—"
"God bless..."
All the villagers stared straight at them, with a stiff smile full of maliciousness on their faces, overlapping with the sound of prayer, and digging into everyone's eardrums—
"Stop!"
Angie screamed unbearably, her body fell forward involuntarily, and the chaos was brought back, only to find that the surroundings had returned to darkness and silence, Tang Xiao stood behind her, He frowned and said, "Turn off all your thoughts and don't think about what just happened!"
This sentence is like a heavy clock, which makes Angie calm down quickly. She immediately cast a sealing technique, sealing her mind with divine power.
If it wasn't for Tang Xiao's reminder, An Ji might not be able to remember this insignificant spell in the chaos. When all the thoughts and memories that were screaming and screaming in his mind were closed, Angie felt a little better.
She opened her eyes again, but a chill spread down her spine.
The secluded path, the bushes full of thorns, they actually returned to the place before they entered the sacrificial ceremony?
"We weren't there just now... Wait, what about Wu Shi and the others?"
There are three people missing from the full team, it is Ushi, Rusa and Barlow. The place that belongs to them is empty, and there are no figures around them. The rest of the people looked at each other in dismay, and they didn't seem to come back to their senses.
Seppo looked like he was about to faint: "Will they be taken away as sacrifices? Then what should we do?"
Tang Xiao: "Again, don't believe everything that happens here, no matter who you see or what words you hear, don't put it in your head. Everything follows me - touch yourselves Is the yellow paper bag around your neck still hot?"
The yellow paper bag is still hanging around her neck, which makes those who are not missing feel a little better.
Tang Xiao once said that as long as the paper package is still intact, it proves that no one died. If the paper package is hot, it proves that someone is in danger, and the more hot it is, the stronger the danger.
Now the yellow paper bag is so hot that people feel that their skin is being burned, and they still can't feel the position of the three of Wu Shi. Prove that they are in danger, but not dead, and have room to be found.
"Keep going."
Following the previous route, this time Tang Xiao walked into the open space where the sacrificial ceremony was being held. A little boy ran out laughing and bumped into Tang Xiao's waist.
"Are you from outsiders? Are you coming to see our sacrifice?"
The little boy rolled his eyes, only to find that Tang Xiao walked straight past him without any reaction at all.
"It's all bad people coming out! I'll keep you here forever!" The little boy picked up the stone angrily and threw it at Tang Xiao. The black flames engulfed the air, and not even the **** was left.
The little boy took a step back, and his immature face showed an age-inappropriate surprise. He immediately ran back to the open space with his eyes covered, and disappeared into the crowd.
Those villagers are still doing things in place, their words and deeds are exactly the same as what they saw when they came in "the last time". Similarly, they soon discovered Tang Xiao, and the villagers surrounding the altar scattered, holding wooden sticks in their hands to approach Tang Xiao and his party...
—"The old man is gone."
"What?" An Ji turned her head blankly, but did not respond.
Tang Xiao: "The group of elderly villagers who were kneeling and praying around the altar are gone."
Sure enough, there were only women caring for the children and men guarding the altar, and the kneecap was torn to pieces just now. Disappeared in this sacrificial scene.
At the same time, a small pool of blood gathered in the deserted altar groove, and Yingying radiated red light.
The strange red light they saw came from here! Everyone's scalp went numb for a while, but they saw Tang Xiao walking straight to the altar, looking like he wanted to observe carefully.
This behavior of course caused great indignation among the villagers. The young male villagers with wooden sticks roared and ran over to attack Tang Xiao. The man in the front swings the stick—but the head falls faster than the stick.
Until it completely turned into blood, everything happened in just two short moments.
"May the gods bless me and save me from the disaster—"
"May the gods bless me and take me into the temple—"
"God bless..."
An Ji was sprayed with blood by the nearest villagers, and collapsed to suppress the screams in her throat, trying to get closer to others to gain a sense of security.
However, the next second, her feet are empty, and when she opens her eyes again, the cold wind blows her face, and the whole person is stupid.
They actually returned to the front of the thornbush, the original location!
There was silence behind.
An Ji was silent for a moment, and Shi was about to turn his head away, but suddenly heard the voice of Saibo:
"We have no Tang Xiao here."
—The hard breath was stuck in his throat, and at this moment, Angie's mind went blank. So much so that he even forgot the crazy warning of divine power, and instinctively turned his head to see what happened—
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After a whirlwind that seemed to displace every organ, Angie vomited with a wow. After spitting up, he raised his head and found Tang Xiao standing in front of him.