Outside the valley on the lake, a large group of people was greeted.
There are two people in the lead.
One is the lord of Sahara during the Bunji period, Sahara Anji.
One is the lord of Sawara during the Yuanwa period, Sawara Soga.
The heads of the Sahara family from two eras were present, so naturally both the living soldiers and the shadows of the soldiers should obey orders.
And the fact that they will come here is also an unfolding that has not been changed.
In the "original timeline", because Misaku Sahara has not brought Nishikiyo back to revive him, Anji Sahara sent people out to look for them, and at the same time, he and Souga Sahara came to the Lake Valley first to confirm.
The current status of "gods".
Although Sahara Anji had previously questioned the "god" identity of the fallen ghoul based on his understanding of the "Amazong Cloud Sword Fragments", this did not mean that he would regard him as an enemy.
As we have said before, for these people of the Sawara clan, maintaining the rule of the family is the ultimate goal. As long as this can be guaranteed, it does not matter whether the fallen person is a god or a ghost, whether he is evil... they don't care, even now
The fallen ghoul himself can speak and clearly tell them that he is a demon from outer space, but he can cooperate with the Sahara clan in the form of sacrifice or trade, and the Sahara clan's gang will happily agree.
"Uh-huh... cough... cough..." After leaving the crowd and walking into the narrow passage at the mouth of the valley with Anji Sahara, Soga Sahara suddenly let out a violent cough.
Anzhi heard the sound and looked at Zongga, but at a glance he saw a trace of blood flowing out from between Zongga's fingers covering his mouth and nose.
"Soga, your body..." Sahara Anji couldn't help but worry about the physical condition of his descendant.
"Haah... Ancestor... don't worry..." Sahara Zongga breathed a few times and replied, "This is an old problem of mine. I once asked a doctor from outside the domain to look at it. Ha... the doctor said at that time
I couldn't survive more than half a year." He paused, shook off the blood in his hands, and showed a bitter smile, "But then I relied on the help of 'Sacred Water' to survive for five or six years... This is not
, am I still alive and well?"
"'Sacred Water'..." After listening to Soga's words, Sahara Anji looked thoughtful. He repeated the word and then said, "My descendants...you should know that using 'Sacred Water'
The price?"
He asked this because in his time, the Sahara family's classics already had very detailed records of the so-called "sacred water", or... something similar to experimental records.
Here we have to mention Nasahara Masahiro again. The originator of the "First Sacrifice" can also be regarded as a generation of heroes of the Sawara clan. The Sahara clan later followed a series of rules surrounding the fallen ghoul sacrifice and the most basic understanding of alien creatures.
Some observation and research records were completed by him.
For example, the efficacy of "divine water" was accidentally discovered by Sahara Masahiro during the battle when he personally led a team to hunt down a fugitive who escaped into the Lake Valley.
According to our modern parlance, the fugitive later became "Experimental Subject Zero."
Starting from him, Masahiro Sahara later conducted no less than thirty experiments, most of which were conducted on death row prisoners, and a small number were conducted on family members who were seriously ill and injured, and were basically incurable. people.
So what exactly is "sacred water"?
First of all, theoretically speaking, all the water in the valley above the lake is "sacred water", that is, water that has been soaked in the body of a "god" will have this special property.
But in fact, among them, only the water that is very close to the fallen man can have an immediate effect after drinking it directly, and the effect is more significant the closer it is; while the water with a radius of more than 20 meters from the fallen man, Even if you drink it directly, the effect will be very thin.
In addition, the water in the valley on the lake is not actually stagnant water, but will slowly replace... In addition to several mountain springs that slowly flow down the cliffs on all sides, rainfall is also one of the sources of water in the valley on the lake; and when the water level in the valley on the lake reaches At a certain height, the pressure generated by its unique topography will cause the water in it to flow to the underground veins at a very slow speed, and then enter Sawara's streams through some very small tributaries... In other words, these waters that have soaked in the fallen ghoul The water will eventually flow away and infect Sawara's land and crops.
Of course, the people of Zuohara will not intuitively feel the impact of the "sacred water" on them, because they are only exposed to trace amounts of the special ingredients in the water every day, so the impact of the water on them is cumulative over time. I'm afraid I can only understand the truth when I die.
And people who directly drink the "high concentration" divine water can experience the effects of this stuff on both the physical and mental levels while they are alive...
Seeing this, some people may have realized why this "god" is also known as "The Fallen One".
"Fall" refers to the way it comes, but what about "death"? Literally, it means to devour the dead, or to turn life into food.
In this world, human beings' understanding or conjecture about death...whether it is reincarnation, entering a different space such as heaven and hell, or turning into free energy between heaven and earth, etc., all have one thing in common, That is, death does not make life or soul disappear, but only changes their form and location or dimension.
But when it falls, it will swallow "dead life" as its own food and interrupt this transformation, and the "divine water" is its medium.
In the past five hundred years or so, almost all the residents of Sawara were devoured by the fallen ghouls after their death. Even the babies who died young were not immune because they had already been exposed to the divine water in their mothers' wombs. ...It’s just that the living people don’t know this. After all, what is devoured by the dead is something that has already “died”.
But people who drank the "sacred water" at close range were an exception.
Like the fallen, these people will immediately obtain some life energy from the water, achieve the effect of quickly healing wounds and controlling the pain in the body, but the price is... after drinking the water, they will begin to observe some things that do not belong to this world. s things.
And this kind of "observation" is not "seeing ghosts" in the general sense, or even seeing with the eyes, because the fallen ghoul is not the same species as humans, and using its ability to observe these is more like a spirit
pollute.
The average person cannot survive this kind of pollution for long. It can take anywhere from a few days to a few months, and they will basically collapse, go crazy, and commit suicide.
But Soga Sahara, he has persisted for several years, and he can even keep it a secret and pretend to be fine, which shows his strong willpower.
"Ancestor, you should be able to understand Soga... As long as you can protect Zuo Yuan, these costs are nothing." Soga was very grateful to the ancestor for his concern, but his attitude was also very clear.
"Okay..." Sahara Anji sighed and turned his head to look ahead again.
No matter how much he said, he wouldn't say it. They were all buried in the complicated expression on his face and the silence that followed.
Not long after, the two of them walked into the valley side by side, and the scene that appeared in front of them next shocked them...