Chapter 10 Story Sacrifices in the Tavern (Part 2)
Cherki continued to speak, a frightened expression slowly appeared on his face.
"Five giant ship-eating whales! They are as big as large sea-hunting ships, and they are extremely ferocious. Even if you don't mess with them, they will attack you.
I didn't think much about it at the time, I just thought that one of the hunting ships had returned with a big catch, and I felt sorry for them in my heart! It was not a good idea to go back to the port at this point.
But just when I finished rubbing my damn legs and was about to continue on my way, I suddenly felt something was wrong.
The alley I'm taking leads to the outside of the city? The returning ship should return to the port. The direction is completely opposite. No matter how strong the sea wind is, the smell of blood shouldn't be so strong when it reaches here?
Moreover, the direction in which the smell of blood wafts is right at the exit of this alley, but after exiting this alley, isn't there a city wall outside?
Who would drag their catch to a place like that for slaughter?
I felt something was wrong, so I thought of avoiding the alley next to it, but after I walked through three alleys in a row, the smell of blood still didn't dissipate from my nose.
It's getting late. If I don't leave the city quickly, I'm afraid I'll have to spend the night in an alley full of sewage, rats and cockroaches everywhere - I don't want to run to a hotel when those bastards are arresting people all over the city.
Accommodation, who knows if they would pull me out of bed in the middle of the night and chop off my head?
Just like that unlucky guy in the pub.
So I had no choice but to brave myself and touch the place where the smell of blood emanated.
Mist bless me, I really wish I had finished the glass of wine in the tavern, so at least I wouldn't be shaking all over from the alcohol.
But you know what? When I cautiously groped out from the shadows of the alley, what I saw in front of me was so frightening that my soul almost flew away!"
At this point, Cherki stopped again. He grabbed the cup and wanted to take a big sip, but he couldn't pour the liquid in the cup down his throat.
His hands were shaking so much that the wine in the cup kept spilling out like a fountain.
Xue Hua, who was sitting next to him, couldn't stand it anymore. He stretched out his left hand and pressed the old man's shoulder. A stream of spiritual energy with a soothing effect was sent into Cherki's body. With the help of spiritual energy, he finally
It's calmed down again.
"What did you see?" Xue Hua asked.
"I saw...Gudu..." Cherki swallowed dryly, fear appeared in his eyes again. He grabbed the wine glass in front of him, drank all the remaining wine in the glass in one gulp, and then
Turning his head to look into Xue Hua's eyes, he said.
"Corpses! I saw corpses! Lots and lots of corpses! Corpses piled up like a hill!"
Cherki's voice was slightly distorted by fear. Fortunately, the noise in the tavern was loud enough, otherwise his voice would have attracted everyone's attention.
"Those corpses are bleeding! Some are still twitching slightly! Those guys in beautiful armor are moving more corpses out of another alley. They pile them up against the city wall like they are throwing garbage. The corpses are
The blood flowing out of the pile even dyed the soil on the ground blood red!
I......"
Cherki suddenly lost his voice and even opened his mouth several times but could not utter a single syllable. Xue Hua had no choice but to send a wave of soothing spiritual energy into his body again so that the old guy could calm down his emotions.
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"Huh..." Cherky grabbed the cup and wanted to take a sip, but found that the wine in the cup was empty.
Xue Hua quickly knocked on the table and called the bartender to refill their glasses.
A silver sail coin can be exchanged for fifty cups of bitter algae wine here, and the two of them drank far less than half of this amount.
After the cup was full again, the old man grabbed it and took a big sip. Then he seemed to have found the courage to continue talking.
"It's not that I've never seen dead people, but so many dead people piled together...cough cough cough...
Moreover, I also saw a familiar face on the pile of corpses, the guy who was beheaded on the spot by the professionals in the tavern not long ago!
I understood it all then!
These people are all dead! All are dead! All the people who were arrested as ‘cultists’ are dead!
They're all here..."
There was a look of uncontrollable panic on Cherki's face, and cold sweat on his forehead flowed crazily down his cheeks.
The bar where they were sitting was still some distance away from the brazier in the center of the tavern. Logically speaking, it should be colder, but the beard and hair on the old man's face were all soaked with sweat, and they were as soft as strips of white kelp.
's hanging there.
"And it's not over yet!" After a while, the old man recovered. He grabbed the wine glass and stared straight ahead, as if he had seen the horrific scene he saw that day again.
"I was stunned at the time. My whole body was as stiff as a piece of wood. All the joints in my body were numb. There was only a blank left in my mind. But I still remember waiting for the professionals sent by the nobles.
After the army piled up all the corpses, a group of guys in black robes emerged from the alley where those guys had left.
These people looked very strange, with their whole bodies covered in robes, as if they were afraid that others would see their bodies.
There were probably six or seven of these black robes in total. I can’t remember exactly. I just remember that these black robes surrounded the pile of corpses after they came out. Then they opened their hands and spoke in a strange language.
Speaking to those corpses...
Then I saw that the corpses began to melt slowly, just like candles slowly burning out, slowly melting into the ground!
The smell of blood got stronger, and my ears began to buzz, as if someone had stuffed a crazy killer bee into my brain.
With Mist Girl on top, in just a few dozen seconds, I was almost driven crazy by the sound and smell!
I don't know what happened, and I don't care what happened. I just want to run! No matter where I go! As long as I can stay away from this damn place, even if I sleep in a rat's nest for one night, I will
And willingly!"
Cherki shouted excitedly, his voice was sharp and hoarse, and he was obviously very frightened at the time.
"I don't know what tricks those black robes and noble gentlemen are playing, and I don't care about them. I only know that when I came to my senses again, I was already lying next to a sewer well.
The dirty, smelly and sticky wet smell kept rushing into my nose from the sewage well. In the past, I would have run as far as I could.
But at that time, I just felt that this damn smell was so reassuring that I almost wanted to jump directly into the sewage well..."
Cherki's voice slowly turned from high-pitched to low. The scariest part of the story was over, and the old man gradually gained control of his emotions.
"In this way, I spent the night huddled next to the sewage well. The whole night, I kept my eyes wide open, for fear that I would be caught by those men in my sleep, and my head would be cut off and melted into wax.
Oil......
The next morning, I crawled back to my small home outside the city. I didn't dare to run to the city again for two or three months.
Later, when I finally had the courage...or I couldn't stand the temptation of the wine bug and entered the city again, I took a look along the base of the city wall in the direction where I saw the pile of corpses before.
There was nothing there, no corpses, no learning, not even a trace of bones..."
