Chapter 182: Careful Sacrifice

In a small valley, a team was meandering.

The great witch walked in front, while Su You was clean and sitting on a soft sedan chair.

Li Shuanshuo hugged the bookcase and cried so hard that he couldn't even look at it.

Atunmi followed beside the soft sedan, with his head lowered, tears falling to the ground.

Su You said: "Can you please stop doing this? Just act like I'm dead."

Atunmi said: "Brother, why are you doing this? If you don't agree to the witch, what can he do?"

Su You said in a low voice: "If you can be more forceful, then what else does it have to do with me? It's a pity that the timing is not right."

Atunmi raised his tearful eyes: "What do you mean?"

Su You said: "The general and Mr. Fan will have to solve this problem in the Shama Department sooner or later. The economic lifeline of the Jinsha River must not be in the hands of others."

Atunmi stamped his feet: "Are you still thinking about this now?!"

Su You said: "I really need to think about this matter. After I agreed to this matter, I didn't let the great witch and the Sha Ma ghost master come within three feet of me. I ate the peach slice cake I made myself and drank Shuan."

I have changed everything inside and out with the stone root water I received..."

Atunmi said in surprise: "You mean, the great witch...the great witch might..."

Su You sighed and said: "Sister, there is a kind of people that I actually admire. They are willing to sacrifice the lives of others and their own lives for their own ideals, and they will do whatever it takes."

"Their will has been tempered thousands of times. The so-called indestructibility cannot be shaken by just a few words."

Atunmi opened his eyes wide: "Then you still said so much?"

Su You said: "That is for everyone to hear. Sometimes people convince themselves that they only need a small reason from the outside. After listening to my words, do you think it is acceptable to cancel human sacrifice?"

Atunmi nodded.

Su You said: "The great shaman has a high prestige and is answered by hundreds of people in the tribe. Having him help, or at least not helping each other, is a huge benefit to the Erlin tribe."

"Although the Erlin tribe is still weak, with the support of Song Dynasty and Dali, it will be strong soon."

"The Shama Department seems to be strong now, but Mr. Fan has been running it for 20 years, and today it has become a bad situation. They are the fish under the cauldron."

"If we get the support of the big witch again, many small tribes will definitely abandon Shama and switch to Erlin. The big ghost master and Mr. Fan also see this, so they don't dare to be disrespectful to the big witch."

"Whether it's bad or good this time, it will be enough for the general and the Shama tribe to quarrel for a while after the incident is over. You can also send people to the Song Dynasty to complain that the Shama tribe forced you to perform obscene rituals and sacrifice humans and animals."

"But Song Ting is unreliable, but Meishan Jiangqing definitely shares the same hatred and will give you the greatest support and assistance. When Mr. Gao returns to Dali and completes the layout, that's when the situation will turn."

Atunmi sighed: "You men..."

Su You said: "I'm just a boy, not a man..."

Atunmi said: "You are it! You are more upright than my brother and my father!"

Su You sighed: "Okay, just say so, I'm too lazy to argue with you."

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The valley soon reached the end, and Su You looked around at the karst landforms.

There is a cave halfway up the mountain, with clouds and mist pouring out from the upper half of the cave entrance.

There is also a small ditch on the side of the cave, gurgling and misting in the chill of early winter.

Su You noticed that the attachments on the edge of the ditch were white in color.

The scene of puffing clouds and mist at the entrance of the cave made the team feel very magical, but to Su You, it was just a hot spring inside.

There is no rotten egg smell in the air, it is not a sulfur spring, and it does not contain toxic hydrogen sulfide. This is a carbonic acid hot spring, which is basically the cleanest water source in the world.

Then the question arises, why can’t all the animals survive three days?

The team came to the entrance of the cave. There was a dense bronze fence erected at the entrance, which seemed to be closing something.

Su You got off the sedan, squatted down and touched the water in the ditch with his hand. It was indeed warm.

I rubbed my fingers and found that there was no greasy feeling. After digging at the sediment on the edge of the ditch, I felt much more at ease. The carbonated hot springs could no longer escape.

The great shaman put on a mask, held a yak tail and a bell, and began to dance Nuo dance at the entrance of the cave.

Chen Zhen walked quietly to Su You's side and whispered: "Now is the time to take action."

Su You sighed: "In that case, Mr. Fan's twenty years of hard work will be wasted. Ji Chang, don't worry, with the three rites of the sages in hand, I will not be afraid of any random forces and monsters."

Chen Zhen also sighed and stepped aside gently.

After finishing the Nuo performance, the great shaman came over carrying a silver bowl.

Su You asked: "Great witch, what is this?"

The great witch said: "This is an intoxicating drug. After drinking it, you will fall into a coma quickly, so you won't feel any pain when you go to see the gods."

Su You said: "I am not afraid of pain. I have to go to the gods to make my case. I must stay awake."

The great witch said: "This is also one of the rituals. If you don't drink it, the ceremony will be incomplete."

Su You looked at Atun Chizun, and Atun Chizun nodded slightly, indicating that there was indeed such a ritual.

Su You turned to the great witch again, stared at him for a long time, and said softly: "Okay, I'll drink."

The great witch picked up the silver bowl again, and Su You said again: "But I'm a tricky person, so I want to drink something fresh."

The great witch frowned: "My child, you can't trust me?"

Su You said: "The places where we Han people offer sacrifices are all bright and magnificent. For the great witch, this place is more like a place to suppress nightmares."

The great witch stopped talking. A trace of shame flashed across his face. He lowered his head and retreated. He checked the herbs and started brewing them again.

Su You stared at the big witch's operations, not daring to relax at all, and whispered: "Sister, I want to drink the milk tea from the Erlin Department again."

Atunmi immediately waved: "blazing fire! Bring the leather bag over here!"

By the time the drug was brewed again, Su You had already had a full stomach of milk tea.

After drinking the poison handed to him by the great witch, Su You adjusted his shirt, took the book box from his tied hands, bowed gracefully to everyone, and turned around to enter the cave.

The iron bars closed with a clang behind them, and then came the cries of being chained and Atunmi's screams: "Brother, we will be stationed in the valley, and my sister will come to pick you up in three days! You must persevere!"

Su You walked forward quickly. After turning around the entrance of the cave and seeing no one else, he immediately threw the book box away, knelt on the ground, violently picked his throat, and vomited loudly.

After he vomited all the milk tea, Su You opened the bag again, filled his stomach with milk tea again, and then vomited again.

After vomiting twice, it was estimated that all the medicine in his stomach had been vomited. After rinsing his mouth with the remaining milk tea, Su You stood up, took the book box and opened it.

There are three books in the bookcase, which are from Meishan. They are "Three Rites", "Rituals", "Zhou Rites" and "Book of Rites" that Su You took from Mr. Fan.

Put the book aside and open the inner compartment. It turns out that the book box has a mezzanine.

The southern miasma was rumored to be extremely mysterious. In Su You's eyes, the so-called miasma was nothing more than poisonous gases, unclean water, mosquitoes, bacteria, and microorganisms.

It was very hot when Su You and his party set out, so he also brought his own set of things.

Opening a wax paper package in the box, there was a mask inside.

The mask is made of two layers of leather wrapped with a filter interlayer and a belt. The interlayer can be replaced. This is Su You's creativity and Wusao's craftsmanship.

Sister-in-law Wu’s craftsmanship is not to mention, the mask fits tightly around the mouth and nose.

The reaction between water glass and hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid can gradually condense to form polysilicate pellets.

Polysilicic acid is a gel-like compound that contains many water molecules and other ions. Use hot water to wash away the soluble salts, and heat to remove most of the water to obtain porous solid silica gel.

However, this silicone and the common silicone rubber in later life are two different things and cannot be used to replace rubber, but there is an advantage.

It is a highly active adsorbent material that can be used as a desiccant, adsorbent, and decolorizing agent.

In later generations, it was used in waste diesel filtration, beer filtration, gas masks, and blue desiccant in medicines.

Su You's original intention of making this thing was to deal with the overwhelming smell released by the ducklings in the greenhouse. He brought it all the way here but it was of no use at all. He didn't expect it to be used here.

In fact, the cave itself is not scary. We have seen many carbonate caves in karst landforms in later generations. The carbonate rock itself has a filtering effect, so it should be a fairly clean environment.
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