Chapter 184: Sacrifice
As a grown man, I have nothing to smoke. As soon as she left, I cut off the incense and burned it only at the tail to create the appearance of it being burned out.
I thought they would take action at night and reveal their true colors, but I didn't expect them to be so calm, and even now there was no movement.
I counted the time while pretending to be asleep and waiting.
After a while, a group of people opened my door, tied me up in a hurry, and carried me away.
I closed my eyes and only heard the sound of their conversation along the way.
"This kid must have eaten his food. I think the incense has burned away."
"You can rest assured, Xiaoli went to get the bowl herself. Besides, we didn't see any food lying around when we went in just now. Don't worry."
"That's good, but don't wake up in the middle and ruin our good deeds."
I knew these people had bad intentions. Such a poor village was so generous. Not only did the food keep up with the standards outside, but the food was also cooked well. Sure enough, they had other agendas.
The female voice from before came again, "Why are you so slow? I'm worried to death."
"Hey, Xiaoli, aren't we here?"
Several people were talking and they didn't know where they put me.
After I noticed that there was no sound of breathing around me, I dared to open a crack and look.
This is a square, and people outside are still busy, moving a lot of things and placing them around the platform set up on the square.
It looks like there is some kind of activity going on, but now I seem to be forced to participate in this activity.
Looking at how cautious these people were, they had to give me the medicine twice. I must have played a big role in this event.
Not long after, a few more strong men came to help me carry it up. Unlike those who were eating, I occupied the central position as soon as I got up.
Not long after, these people started singing and dancing below. It was not much different from what I had guessed. This was a sacrifice, but the difference was that it was a human sacrifice.
I really plan to wait and see what kind of person can kill me.
Not long after, the sky changed color, there was lightning and thunder, and something seemed to fall out of thin air.
And I also smelled a strong sense of resentment at this time.
This resentment can be turned into reality.
When the villagers saw the wronged soul, they quickly worshiped it and called it a god.
When I saw this scene, I still thought it was a bit funny. What was going on with these people? I couldn’t tell the difference between gods and ghosts.
This ghost indeed showed his resentment and appeared in a mighty manner, but the lightning flashing in the sky was not the effect of his actions at all, and it was a sign that he was committing many evil deeds and that the law of heaven could not be reconciled.
It's a pity that in the eyes of these villagers who have been captured, this is the god who protects the place.
Just when the claws of the innocent soul were approaching me, I jumped up, threw the knife I found earlier, and cut the neck of the innocent soul directly.
The corpses were separated in an instant. If it had been any other person, he would definitely be dead, but the dead soul of the victim would not disappear because of this injury.
Either make him put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha immediately, or kill them all and turn them into ashes.
This kind of innocent soul cannot be melted by the law of heaven. I must have chosen the second option. I took out all the charms. Unexpectedly, the group of villagers suddenly seemed to go crazy and rushed towards me desperately, using the things in their hands as weapons.
There is everything.
Whether it's a bench or an axe, whatever is at hand comes over.
After all, these are still human beings, and I have to be careful when fighting with them, for fear of accidentally killing one or two.
I had some scruples, but the other party didn't. Seeing that I had hurt their gods and eaten them made my heart ache, let alone fear of anything.
I think these people are no different from lunatics, and the wronged soul has also recovered.
If I choose to stay here at this time, I will be beaten by these people.
I left quickly, looking back while running in a hurry, for fear that they would chase me.
At the same time, I also noticed that the wronged souls they believed in were grabbing the last person in the team and putting them in their mouths to devour.
These people didn't notice anything was wrong, so a group of people chased me into the forest.
I don't know how far I ran, but I finally didn't hear their voices. It was probably too late, and these people stopped chasing me.
Not long after walking, I actually saw a trace of fire in the cave nearby.
I have nowhere to go at this time, so I might as well go over and take a look.
It was the group of bandits from before. Thinking about what happened, I might have made a mistake about which side the good guys were. Thinking of this, I didn't hide it and just walked out.
The bandits were also shocked when they saw me, "You actually managed to escape alive?"
Upon hearing this, I realized that these people knew something. I nodded and wanted to find out the information from them.
Just as I was about to go over, I saw that several of them suddenly became defensive and nervous, and some of their hands were still bandaged. I quickly said, "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you earlier."
They didn't look very happy, but they didn't chase me away. I stood at the door of the cave and inquired about the news, "I didn't eat their food and escaped by chance. What happened to that village?"
The bandits looked at each other several times, and they seemed to be considering whether they should tell me or not.
Finally, a man who looked like a leader told me, "We are also from the village, but we escaped. In the beginning... the sacrifices were all made with people from our village."
It turns out that the original cause was a conflict between two similar villages. The water source in the forest was occupied by another village. There were many people on the other side. They were not opponents. I don’t know what the village chief thought. He went out alone for ten years.
How many days.
When he came back, the village chief somehow knew a way to invite gods. He asked him where he found it but refused to reveal it at all. The most important thing was that the sacrifice he invited was a monster full of filth.
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The man sighed and said, "Indeed, the immortal invited by the village chief is really powerful. We have won several battles, but the opponent is very strange, as if he is possessed by something dirty."
The village chief, who had tasted victory for the first time, naturally asked the "god" to continue to protect them, and this "god" also revealed his true face and asked for living people to be sacrificed to him.
At first everyone disagreed, but the village chief pushed his son out because he didn't know what he was bewitching.
The village chief's son was the first to sacrifice, so everyone had no opinion on the matter.
The enemy village simply came to a plague and all of them died. The village chief spread the word that this was the protection of a 'god' and they would be fine. Therefore, the people who stayed in the village now trusted that fake god.
Chapter completed!