Before the mermaid could say anything, Zhou Zijing deliberately joked: "Dazhi, I think you shouldn't refuse people's kindness. The mermaid invites you so sincerely, just stay!"
Wu Dazhi was anxious and sweat was pouring down from his forehead. Zhou Zijing saw that he wanted to harm himself. After the mermaid listened to his words, what if he was really tempted?
"You don't want to stay, but I really want to go back with you!" The mermaid seemed to see Wu Dazhi's embarrassment, and deliberately said: "Although you didn't release me personally, I still give you the credit!
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The mermaid said, slowly approaching Wu Dazhi, and said in her unique ethereal voice: "In order to repay you, I will give you a reward from the mermaid tribe!"
Saying that, the mermaid's slender fingers pulled Wu Dazhi's head over, and her cold lips without any warmth kissed his forehead gently.
Wu Dazhi felt as if his body had been electrified and numb.
"This is a sacred gift from the mermaid tribe to you. If you encounter trouble in the future and need our help, the mermaid will appear in front of you when you think about it!"
As soon as the mermaid finished speaking, Wu Dazhi felt something was wrong. He looked up and saw the mermaid surrounded by a ball of white light.
The image became more and more blurred, the light became more and more intense, and Wu Dazhi and the others had to choose to close their eyes.
When Wu Dazhi opened his eyes again, all the scenes became different. They were not building a tall mermaid temple, but they were still in an underground palace without light.
The three people calmed down. Everyone had a different explanation for what had just happened.
"Whether it's an afterimage or something, let's go quickly!" Zhou Zijing was the first to speak out. He was the timidest of the three. Now when something happens, he just wants to run out.
Chu Yu unexpectedly agreed with Zhou Zijing this time: "Brother Skinny, Brother Fat is right, things are getting weirder and weirder. The longer we stay here, the more dangerous it is likely to be!"
Wu Dazhi nodded. He could be said to be the captain of this team now. He could not use the lives of Chu Yu and Zhou Zijing as a bargaining chip to continue searching for Hu Xue. After thinking about it, he sighed and said:
"Let's find a way out now! We'll talk about finding people after we get out!"
The three of them did not dare to stride forward. Through the vague light, Wu Dazhi could clearly see that the ground was densely covered with walking pottery figurines like before.
Chu Yu and Zhou Zijing obviously saw these things, but they did not dare to speak. They just grabbed one of Wu Dazhi's hands, gritted their teeth and kept moving through the densely packed pottery figurines.
Wu Dazhi tried his best not to look at the lifelike faces of those pottery figurines, and wanted to ignore the painful expressions on those faces, but for some reason, he just couldn't calm down. His eyes couldn't help but want to lower their heads to look at those faces.
pottery figurine.
After a long time, even his legs seemed to be out of his control, and he wanted to stop on his own initiative. The situation of Chu Yu and Zhou Zijing was not much better. There were no muddy thoughts in their minds, but their trembling legs
legs, also shows that they are really scared.
Wu Dazhi felt that he had to say something, so he said: "If you hold on, we can go out!"
Wu Dazhi's words were worthless to the ears of Chu Yu and Zhou Zijing. Zhou Zijing even glared at Wu Dazhi and said coldly:
"Get out? Brother Dazhi, tell me how we can get out?"
Chu Yu didn't express his position at all, but instead supported the two of them, trembling and stumbling forward. Fortunately, the three of them took care of each other, so they didn't fall down or disturb the seemingly sleeping pottery figurines.
I don’t know how far the three of them had walked, but Zhou Zijing suddenly shouted excitedly:
"Look, is there any light over there?"
Looking in the direction of Zhou Zijing's finger, Wu Dazhi actually saw a faint glimmer of light. He guessed that it should be the exit of the underground palace.
Although I was scared, the way out was right in front of me. I took three deep breaths and then walked faster towards the light.
It's just that there were not many pottery figurines at first for some reason. The three of them could only be more careful, for fear of something unexpected happening again.
The road to survival was very long. After walking for a long time, the three of them not only did not go out, but seemed to have arrived at a new place. This was a spacious square. Although things were very strange, what made people feel relieved was that there were not many people who could move here.
pottery figurine.
"What kind of place is this?" Zhou Zijing glanced at Wu Dazhi. He was now afraid of something unexpected happening.
"You ask me, where do I know where to go?!" Wu Dazhi responded angrily.
While responding to Zhou Zijing's words, his hands and eyes did not stop working. He squatted down and searched the ground carefully to see if he could find any clues.
The hard work paid off, and the floor of this central hall was obviously very different from the previous underground palace. The floor here was not paved with bricks, but covered with soft red soil.
"Red soil?" Wu Dazhi pinched a little soil and put it on his hand. He glanced at Chu Yu and motioned for her to come and take a look.
Chu Yu did not accept the red clay handed over by Wu Dazhi, but squatted down, picked up some directly from the ground, and rubbed it on his hands.
Instantly, a very strange smell emanated from the red soil. The smell was so exciting that even Zhou Zijing, who was standing behind Wu Dazhi, seemed to smell it. He leaned over and looked at Chu Yu curiously:
"Sister, what is this?"
"There must be blood in it!" Chu Yu spread the red soil in his hands and frowned more and more: "But I'm not sure whether the red soil mixed with blood was transported here, or whether this square has some specific function.
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"A specific function?!" Wu Dazhi and Zhou Zijing asked in unison. They really couldn't think of any special function behind the underground palace, similar to the central square.
"I guess you two have never heard of the first human sacrifice!" Chu Yu stood up and carefully inspected the central hall while explaining to Wu Dazhi and the others:
"In ancient times, there was actually a tradition of using human sacrifices for burials. At that time, every household would perform human sacrifices!"
"Every household is doing it?!" This news was a bit exciting, and Wu Dazhi's immediate reaction was to repeat Chu Yu's words again.
Chu Yu nodded, then continued in a calm voice:
"Generally, a couple will put their first child directly in a clay pot, and then bury the clay pot low in the house!"
"Why?" Zhou Zijing was not calm this time. He had heard of someone using his wife to be buried, but he had never heard of anyone using his own child to be buried.
"Yes!" Chu Yu gave Zhou Zijing an affirmative answer again, and then stopped in an inconspicuous corner of the central hall: "People in ancient times believed that their first child was actually their own enemy who came to claim their children.