A faint smell of staleness mixed with the fishy smell of earth lingered in the nostrils. This was a rather dilapidated tiled house with no furnishings except for a roll of yellow cloth hanging on the wall, with cinnabar runes on it very eye-catching.
"..."
Feng Bingwen pursed his lips, looked at this unfamiliar environment, and silently felt his current state.
The evil spirit that oppressed and weighed down his limbs has dissipated, and he can move freely without any restraints on his body. It seems that the situation is not too bad.
"Were you also abducted here?"
Feng Bingwen looked at the children around him who were about the same age as him. Although they were all gray and exuded a faint smell of sweat, looking at their facial features, they all looked like boys.
, not a girl.
"..."
There was silence, and none of the other three children who had probably experienced the same thing as him answered his question.
But now was not the time to be embarrassed. Feng Bingwen took a step forward, pointed at the bruises and scars on their bodies, and asked again,
"Are these all beaten by those bastards? They are really nothing!"
Now getting closer, Feng Bingwen could see more clearly the appearance of the three boys. Just looking at the appearance, there was no good flesh to be found, there were bruises everywhere, and some parts were even blue and black.
Such an injury looks painful, but looking at the calm, or numb, look on the faces of these three children, they seem to be used to it.
"Do you know where this place is?"
Feng Bingwen was not reconciled to not getting an answer and continued to look for words.
"Do you want to escape?"
Finally, one of the children spoke. His numb eyes looked at Feng Bingwen, with a wave of emotion in his eyes, but his tone contained a hint of ridicule that children of this age should not have.
"Don't you want to go home?"
Feng Bingwen asked rhetorically.
"We can't go back, they are all outside."
The tone of the only child who spoke was full of despair. Feng Bingwen was shocked. He wanted to talk to him again, but this guy ignored him. No matter how much he tried, he stopped talking to him, just like a puppet.
Feng Bingwen could only shake his head helplessly. In the dark and damp low-tiled house that he inspected carefully, all the windows were sealed. There was only one exit, but it was blocked with a thick solid wood door. He tried it, and it didn't work at all.
Can't open.
"Calm down, stay calm!"
In a completely unfamiliar environment, with no way to escape and no useful information, Feng Bingwen tried hard to maintain his shock.
"Wait, wait patiently, I don't believe they will lock me here and starve to death. This door will open sooner or later."
Feng Bingwen sat on the uneven mud floor, staring blankly at the door, waiting for the moment the thick wooden door was opened.
Finally, with the sound of the plug being pulled open, and a sour creaking sound, the wooden door was finally opened, and the cunning moonlight poured down like water and fell on the mud floor.
"Yeah? Why is there one more?"
The moonlight shining into the house from outside outlined a shadow that was not very strong. As he walked into the house, Feng Bingwen could clearly see the appearance of the person coming.
He was also a rather honest-looking man, with rough, dark skin on his face that had been worn away by wind and sun over many years.
But now, how could Feng Bingwen judge a person by his appearance? The person who knocked him out and brought him here is also inconspicuous and does not look like a villain.
"Forget it, one more and one less is like this. There is only so much left, whether you like it or not!"
With that said, the person who came threw the things in his hands to the ground, then turned around and left. Before Feng Bingwen could react, he closed the door without giving him a chance to think about it.
The moment the door closed, the other three children in the tile-roofed house were covered in bruises and almost sat still. Like three hungry dogs, they rushed down the things thrown by the man and then started to chew them.
The sound rang.
Feng Bingwen stood up with a frown, then leaned over to take a look. Surrounded by the three children was a wooden basin filled with various food scraps.
swill!
When Feng Bingwen saw this scene, his little face couldn't help but twitch, and his hands unconsciously clenched into fists.
Although this description is somewhat inappropriate, the scene at this time is basically like feeding pigs. But at this time, the pigs are not fighting for food in the barrel, but the children who should be carefully cared for by their parents.
"Don't let me find a chance!"
Feng Bingwen sat back. Although he was hungry now, he would never touch this kind of food fed to pigs.
So, after enduring hunger for a while, Feng Bingwen struggled to survive the night in this dilapidated tile-roofed house. It was just that the heat had just passed, and the night was not cold at all.
After waking up from sleep, not long after Feng Bingwen opened his eyes, he heard the sound of the wooden door opening again. This time, it was not a single person who walked in, but a group of people.
Among this group of people, there were two people he was quite familiar with, including Qi Laosi, who once tried to turn him into an animal.
"Hey! You caught this kid yesterday, right? Why are you locked up here?"
Everyone who entered the room saw the unique Feng Bingwen at a glance. Although his clothes were stained with some dust, his fair face caught his attention.
"This kid is a bit unusual, so he was temporarily detained here."
Qi Laosi replied.
"It's unusual. What's so unusual? It just so happens that this time Baicrocodile Bay is going to worship the River God, so let's send this kid there. The price they paid this time is very high!"
As soon as these words came out, all the eyes of the people who entered the tile-roofed house fell on Feng Bingwen.
Feng Bingwen, who originally wanted to observe it again, was also shocked.
Obscene sacrifice and evil sacrifice!
The government explicitly prohibits human sacrifice, and if anyone dares to violate the prohibition, the government will never mind wielding the butcher's knife, but I didn't expect that there would be a village that dared to do this.
"Hahaha, you're so tall. Bai Crocodile Bay only produced two gold bahts this time. But Qi Laosi said that this kid will lose money if he sells it for less than ten gold bahts."
Someone burst out laughing when they heard the words, and everyone else burst into laughter when they heard the words. Qi Laosi, who came with him, suddenly became angry with embarrassment.
"You ignorant idiots, this is the grandson of a scholar, and he is full of culture. Do you understand?"
"Save it, Qi Laosi, don't fool us country bumpkins with this kind of talk. When you meet a rich man, you can fool again!"
"Okay, stop talking nonsense, hurry up and pick up the goods and send them to Bai Crocodile Bay. They are in a hurry over there! If we miss their time, we won't get the money."