The woman had fainted. When she was picked up by Sang Qi with one hand, she glanced at her in confusion, and then lowered her eyes to see her feet in the air.
She subconsciously turned her face to the side and saw the fair and petite face of the little girl who picked her up. Even her body looked delicate and frail, but it was effortless to pick her up.
Before the woman had time to think clearly, the next second she was thrown into the scalding water. Her body was cold. After being thrown into the water, she struggled subconsciously and was held down by the girl beside her.
"Don't move around, sink your body." Her voice was calm, with an unmistakable command.
The woman paused and obeyed.
Strangely enough, when she entered the scalding hot water, she did not feel any obvious discomfort. On the contrary, the severe pain was relieved a lot. Her cold hands and feet gradually warmed up, and a warm current spread throughout her body.
She opened her eyes drowsily and saw Sang Qi squatting beside the bathtub, seemingly reaching out to test the water temperature, and then he was shocked by the heat.
Sang Qi shook his hands that were burned red and muttered, ready to stand up and continue reading the diary. When he raised his head, he caught the woman's gaze, and a business smile subconsciously appeared on her face.
"Are you awake? How do you feel?"
The woman rubbed her eyebrows and said, "Much better, thank you."
"You don't need to thank me. This problem arose because I didn't think carefully." Sang Qi smiled: "It's great that you're fine."
The woman stared at her, then lowered her head and bit her lip, "I...my name is Xu Yue. I had just entered college when I married the elder. Unfortunately, the notice was torn up without me even seeing it.
I thought my whole life would just pass like this.”
As if she had found someone to talk to, she started talking nonchalantly, and when she got excited, she held Sang Qi's hand.
"When I saw you, I felt like a friend of mine when I was young. It's a pity that she went to school and I was left in the village. After all, our lives were different." Xu Yue sobbed softly: "Little sister, you are smarter than me. How dare you
I dare to do it, but I have been trapped here for too long and have long been assimilated into one of them... I can't get rid of it."
Sang Qi listened patiently. She always had endless patience with girls.
"Sister, if it's like what you said, when the great elder asked you to open the plastic bag and let him go, why didn't you do it?" The girl gently held her hand and said, "Do you believe me?"
Xu Yue looked up blankly. The woman's tearful eyes were bright, with a different kind of fragile beauty.
"Of course I believe you. I have no one to rely on now. I just want to protect my son." Xu Yue shed tears, held Sang Qi's hand tightly, and asked her uncertainly: "I helped.
You, you will also help me, right?"
The girl squatted in front of the tub and glanced at her silently. In the woman's somewhat uneasy eyes, she slowly raised her lips and nodded gently, "Yes."
When Sang Qi walked out of the house, Chen Shen was sitting on the stone table in the yard, playing with the Great Elder in a plastic bag out of boredom.
The encyclopedia was opened and set aside.
Sang Qi walked over and took a look, and what was opened was a page from Centipede.
Chen Shen looked up with a smile on his face: "You're here, how's it going?"
"It's okay, she has stabilized." Sang Qi sat down on the other side and placed the diary on the stone table.
"I heard what you were saying just now, but I was too far away to hear clearly," Chen Shen said.
Sang Qi held his chin up and knocked on the stone table expressionlessly, saying in a calm tone: "She wants to use me."
Shows of weakness, tears, traded favors.
They are all the weights on the other side of the scale.
The First Elder was caught, and the affair between the Second Elder and her was revealed. She must have hesitated when she placed the ancient books, as to whose side it would be better to side with.
"She chose me, not because of how much she trusts me, but because she realized that the Great Elder would not let her go. She couldn't believe whatever the Great Elder said." Sang Qi thought: "Two liars In front of her, I am a liar who is more beneficial to her interests."
So she chose Sang Qi.
Mentioning the original deal was a reminder to her that she had completed what Sang Qi asked her to do, and then it was Sang Qi's turn to fulfill his promise.
"To overthrow the First Elder?" Chen Shen also thought of this: "But compared to the First Elder's son who is only five or six years old, it is obviously easier to win people's hearts if the Second Elder or the Third Elder takes over."
"Well, it's a bit difficult." Sang Qi nodded.
Chen Shen sighed: "In other words, kill all these people -"
Before he finished speaking, he saw Sang Qi's surprised eyes.
Chen Shen blinked in panic: "What's wrong? I was just thinking about a possibility..."
"Not long ago, you had to prepare your mind for a long time even if you hit an NPC." Sang Qi whistled: "You are growing up very fast."
She smiled with her eyes bent, her expression still calm deep in her eyes.
"I only dare to propose things as bargaining chips when I have a certain degree of confidence in the things I promised." Sang Qi said: "But your idea is too reckless and not very feasible."
Chen Shen smiled and found that Sang Qi still had his eyes lowered, tapping his fingers lightly on the stone table to draw circles, and he understood that this method would most likely not work.
Sang Qi inevitably makes some small movements when thinking, and unconsciously drawing circles with his fingers is one of them.
After being rejected by Sang Qi, Chen Shen also thought about it and felt that he was a bit too idealistic. Not to mention that he was lucky to be tied to the first elder. The second elder had already seen them. He must be on guard against them and wanted to kidnap them. It is almost impossible to kill all the respected elders in the village.
They are not familiar with this place, and they don't know what cards these people have.
With two foreigners, it was really whimsical.
Chen Shen lowered his eyes in frustration, and saw a slender white hand pushing the diary with yellow paper in front of him. Sang Qi raised his chin at him, "Look at this."
Chen Shen took it without knowing why. After flipping through two pages, he realized the importance of this diary. Almost the entire process of the sacrifice was recorded here. He looked up in surprise: "Where did you find this?"
Sang Qi: "It's on the table."
The young man was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "So, is this left by the priest?"
"It should be." Sang Qi nodded slightly: "According to what the diary said, I plan to restart the sacrifice."
Chen Shen pondered: "Do you want... to recreate the scene? But this ritual has been abandoned for a long time. Even if you want to restart it, for what reason?"
"Do you still need a reason?" Sang Qi chuckled: "Isn't it the best reason for the goddess to return to the tribe?"