Looking up at Fanyin, his face was still spotless and nothing could be seen.
Lingyu was immersed in her own thoughts and did not notice that Fanyin glanced behind him thoughtfully. In the forest behind them that should have been empty, a strange red figure suddenly appeared.
It was still dark the next day, and mist shrouded the river surface. Orange flames danced around, turning the half-dark sky into a layer of hazy yellow.
The sun seemed a little weak, rising heavily from the river, but it could not dispel the mist on this side. The river surface was sparkling, and the black water was undercurrent.
Lingyu stood on the observation deck, looking down at everything around him. He could only see clusters of lights swaying on the ground in an orderly manner, as if they were rehearsing something.
It was already early in the morning when they walked out of the forest. When they got here, Lingyu vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. When he asked Fanyin next to him, he looked blank and felt nothing.
Lingyu felt that she was like a mindless puppet, being controlled by an invisible line to move forward.
The two of them went down the river. They thought of asking someone at the dock to find out what happened, but when they saw Lingyu, the group of people were astonished as if they had seen a ghost. Those who worked stopped and those who chatted stopped chatting.
, they all held the things in their hands and surrounded them.
"The Dragon God is going to be angry, the Dragon God is going to be angry!"
Even before they had time to speak, the group of people started beating them with sticks while crying and screaming. Fanyin quickly protected Lingyu in his arms, formed a seal in his hand, and quickly opened a hole. Lingyu felt
My waist tightened, and a warm voice came from my ear: "Don't be afraid."
Then, they flew towards the nearest ship. As soon as they landed, the group of people rushed towards them as if they were desperate for their lives.
"Give us the Dragon Goddess, and put the Dragon God down!"
Fanyin cut off the cables on the boat and wanted to use his spiritual power to push the boat away. However, those people had been hanging out on the river all year round and had already clearly touched everything on the boat. Before Fanyin could take action, he was grabbed by someone with a strong arm.
He hit me hard on the back with the stick.
In just a moment, the ropes and sticks around him fell like rain, and Lingyu was tightly protected by Fanyin in his arms. Only then did he realize that his spiritual power had been exhausted to a certain extent, otherwise he would not have brought her here, nor would he have faced this group of people.
There is no room for resistance.
The smell of blood spread from her nose, Lingyu's eyes turned red, and she wanted to break away from his arms, but he seemed to have used all his strength to hold her, using his body to form an invisible copper wall to block her from the outside.
A hail of bullets.
"Stop fighting, stop fighting!" Lingyu's muffled voice came from Fanyin's arms, but was suppressed by the shouts and curses around him.
"You damn monster, you dare to touch the Dragon Goddess! Beat you to death, beat you to death!" The group of people's eyes turned red, and they would not let go even if Fanyin fell to the ground.
"Let go of me, Fanyin, let me go quickly!" Her voice was a little more choked, and she desperately struggled to get her head out of his arms. After the person closest to them saw her face, the stick in her hand hesitated, and fell on Fanyin.
Somewhere else.
"Stop fighting, stop fighting, tell me clearly what you want to do first!"
"There is nothing to say to this monster, brothers! Kill this monster and get the Dragon Goddess back!"
Seeing that they were about to kill her, Lingyu still didn't let go of her arms holding her. It took a lot of effort for Lingyu to pull out the hairpin from her head and put it on her neck.
"If you kill him! I will die here too, leaving you unable to explain to the Dragon God!"
When the group of people saw her determined look, they unconsciously stopped holding sticks in their hands.
While they were paused, Fanyin tried his best to get up and jump into the water with Lingyu, but was stepped on the ground. Lingyu heard his suppressed groan and looked up, only to see that face
There was still a faint smile on his face.
As if telling her, don't be afraid, I'm here.
Lingyu felt as if her heart was being clenched tightly. One person on each side of the group forcefully asked them to separate, but Fanyin's strength was too strong. She would rather be beaten than let go. Seeing them, they were about to cut off his hand with an axe.
Lingyu grabbed his hand and motioned for him to let go.
At that moment, there seemed to be a flash of struggle in his pair of pale and unwavering eyes.
"After this disaster, we will get married." Lingyu smiled and opened her hands on her waist.
Fanyin's vision was a little blurry, and he could only watch the figures pulling her away, and his willpower seemed to have finally reached his head. When the clothes in his hands turned into rags, he closed his eyes.
Lingyu vaguely saw something crystal flashing before his eyes. She thought it must be the moisture condensed by the heavy fog, or the water that collapsed to the river surface during the fight just now.
Lingyu originally thought that they just recognized the wrong person and recognized her as an untouchable local figure. However, when they escorted her to the house, Lingyu discovered a strange phenomenon. Along the way, there were all kinds of people around her, but she was...
There is no woman.
And she obviously became that exception.
She and Fanyin were detained separately. Even if they didn't want to, they had no choice now.
The tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by the dog.
When being sent to the house, Lingyu did not forget to confess: "If I don't see him when I go out, you will only see me as a corpse!"
When the leader heard something, something flashed in his eyes. His attitude towards her was not as respectful as expected, but rather indifferent and contemptuous. He only responded lightly, had the door locked, and headed in another direction with Sanskrit.
Go.
But Lingyu was missing, and Fanyin, who had been dragged halfway, suddenly stood up, and everyone around him was extremely respectful to him.
Hearing no more footsteps outside, Lingyu was about to look for a way to escape when she heard two people talking outside.
"Where did the patriarch find these two unlucky guys? There seems to be no women in our town for a long time!" A hoarse voice sounded first, sounding like a young man who had just grown up.
"It is said that he caught it from the dock and is planning to elope!" Then, a slightly unfamiliar voice lowered his voice and said.
"If you ask me, that man is really a man! He dared to compete with the Dragon God for a woman. Hey, you know, I have lived for more than twenty years, but I have never even touched a woman's hand." The young man felt a little regretful.
"Who wouldn't be? I heard that when we caught them, the man passed out and held her in his arms without letting go. Even if I asked him to, he wouldn't let go. After all, that woman is so pretty~" The older one seemed to be full of yearning.
"If I were to touch it, it would be worth dying for!"
"You two, what are you doing!"
The conversation between the two people was quickly interrupted by a middle-aged voice. Following a burst of compliments, the sound quickly disappeared.
The two gatekeepers sounded like they were easy to fool.
Lingyu had a flash of inspiration, and immediately lost all thoughts of escaping, and started chatting with people outside.
As she thought, the two people outside were indeed easy to talk to, and soon Lingyu found out from them why this town was so weird.
It turns out that their area is close to the river and floods occur all year round. Whenever it rains, the floods flood and wash away countless homes. The people complain and the government does nothing and only cares about eating, drinking and having fun. As a result, there are fewer and fewer people here.
Until ten years ago, a wizard came to the village and said that as long as two young women were sacrificed every year on August 15th, the floods could be stopped. People didn't believe it at first, but this wizard did know how to do something.
He could turn stones into gold, use gold to bribe people from the government to do things for him, and rob women to sacrifice, which indeed stopped the flood. In addition, people from the government helped to build momentum, and soon the area was ushered in.
A large number of supporters.
In this era, women are already redundant, not to mention natural disasters and man-made disasters. Women's physical weakness prevents them from resisting and can only be treated like animals.
Even without this wizard, women are still a vulnerable group here due to successive floods, which is a pity for everyone.
Some people even bought and sold their wives and daughters just for a morsel of food. After the flood, many local people did not have enough to eat and chose to eat the flesh of female infants and dead people, starving to death everywhere.
That's how human nature is.
Most of them are doing it to protect themselves.
The first year was fine, but in the second year there was no flood and the food income could not keep up with these people. Moreover, most people lost their ability to work due to the flood, so they went to seek help from wizards.
The wizard is also willing to help them, but he must pay more price, that is, sacrifice more women.
In this way, women are exchanged for food and livelihood. The demand is getting more and more year by year. There are fewer and fewer women here, but the life is getting better and better.
Ten years have passed, and there are basically no women here. The young people guarding the Lingyu outside have their mothers captured when they were young and sacrificed as young women.
Many times he didn't understand this system, but more often than not, faced with the persuasion of the people around him and the life in front of him, he still chose to swallow his anger.
Before losing their mother, they were wandering around everywhere and never even had a bite of white flour steamed buns. But after losing their mother, they had wine and meat every day, except that they had no women, but they lived like a fish in water.
As time passed, he forgot what his mother looked like and what a woman should be like.
Lingyu vaguely mentioned to them that she saw the group of people when she came here, but the two of them unexpectedly remained silent. She told them that she was from outside and did not belong to this town.
"Hey, actually we can tell that you are not from here, but who made it so unlucky for you to break into this place." The young man said regretfully.
"I don't think it's bad luck."
"Huh? You are such a strange person!" The young man seemed stunned by her words.
"Blessings and misfortunes depend on it. God must be trying to tell me something to give me this ordeal." After chatting deeply with the two people, Lingyu leaned against the door and looked at the moonlight showing through the gap.
.
At that moment, time seemed to be beside her.
"You...this person is really not an ordinary weirdo." The young man muttered, but the older one was silent.