"It hurts me to death. It hurts so much, and it smells so bad. The pus keeps leaking out. I don't want to eat or drink, and I can't sleep. I have no strength. Even performing the ceremony feels a lot of pain. But Master Yuiluo said it's not possible.
, they must not be dealt with, and they must be allowed to develop freely, otherwise it will be a serious blasphemy to the Silkworm God. I am the most loyal subject and believer of the Silkworm God, and I trust Lord Yui Luo extremely, so I must be patient and be more determined.
one’s own beliefs.”
"Today is the half-moon day."
Sure enough, the adult he was talking about refused to let him heal his wounds, and even hinted that this was an important part of the ritual. Once cured, it would destroy the continuation of the ritual.
Although it is still impossible to understand in detail the true content of the ritual and the damage it causes to the human body, from the existing texts, it can be seen that one of the symptoms is facial inflammation or even pus discharge, and this should be a common symptom of this ritual.
A necessary step for a sacrificial offering.
With this conjecture in mind, I turned to the next page without hesitation. This time, the text layout was a bit strange. At the beginning, there were a small number of daily poison breeding records, but not only was the writing messy, even the table options were distorted.
, and then after not much content, I inserted a diary:
"My whole body was feeling hot, and it was difficult to even do the basic daily tasks of taking care of the Gu creatures. Lady Boilo was very gentle. She canceled most of the tiring work for me and allowed me to have a good rest in the room.
She let my body get used to it, and comforted me by saying that the pain would soon pass, but I must not go to the infirmary on the third floor, otherwise something terrible would happen. She said that I would soon get used to it and enjoy this feeling until I finally return.
In the arms of the Silkworm God. I felt very ashamed of my lack of firmness. After lying down all morning, I had to straighten up and finish my work."
"Today's moon phase is still half full."
After that, there were a lot of data records about the breeding of poisonous animals, but the amount was smaller than in the past. Until the end of the day, it can be seen that although the author tried his best to keep the writing straight, it was still a little erratic.
I noticed an extremely strange phenomenon, that is, at the end of each diary entry, the moon phase of the day seemed to be deliberately recorded, from the initial full moon, to a gibbous moon, a waning moon, a half moon, and even "a few minutes"
Such a detailed description.
Is there any special significance in recording the moon phase on that day?
This is obviously not a common journaling habit. Is it because each step of this ritual must correspond to a special moon phase?
No, that's not right. If you calculate it carefully, this moon phase change is very abnormal and not like a natural phenomenon at all.
First, he recorded the phase change time. Although the cycle seemed to be consistent with the moon in nature, sometimes the moon phase did not change for several days, and sometimes the moon phase span was very large at once, which was completely different from the normal transition of cloudy and sunny phases every night.
What's even more strange is that the moon phases he recorded seemed to be the opposite, starting from the full moon and going back to the new moon. I quickly flipped through the pages without reading the text carefully. I only paid attention to the daily moon phase.
Mutually.
Sure enough, when I wrote the last entry in my diary, the moon phase was exactly the new moon, and I scrolled through it for a few days, and all of them were new moons. On weekdays, there is almost only one new moon per month, but in this record
Actually, it actually lasted for a full two weeks.
No matter what the climate is or where you are on the earth, it is impossible for the new moon phase to last for more than ten days. The only explanation is that either the person writing the diary is crazy or hallucinating, or it is what he records
"Moon phase" is actually a metaphor for something else, not the real moon.
I read the text on the last page carefully, and the handwriting on it was very straight. It seemed that the author's mental and physical conditions were much better than when the moon phase was half-moon, and his mentality was much more stable.
"The last step has been going on for two weeks. I am very worried about why I still can't return to the arms of the Silkworm God. Is it because my faith is not pious enough? Lord Yuyiluo said that this is a normal phenomenon that may happen. I am in good condition.
Maybe it won’t take long to be done, so let me relax my mind, don’t think too much, and it’s best not to take any more actions, so today is my last diary, and I hope the Silkworm God will beg for mercy. Today’s moon phase: New Moon.”
After that, there were all blank pages without any text or images. It looked like it had never been used by anyone else, and almost no one had read it.
It seems that these notebooks are really one for each person. Rather than being a duty record, they are more like a diary for each sacrifice to record his or her daily thoughts during the ceremony.
So what was their final fate? As far as I know about the rituals of evil witch cults, the only one who knows the details in detail is the sacrifice to the silkworm god that I saw in the hallucination of the female ghost. Almost none of the girls who were sacrificed could survive it.
Four poisons were passed through, and all of them fell to the ground before the ceremony was even halfway through.
According to Granny Ghost, in the entire history of the evil witch sect, there are only a handful of people who can pass or pass the eight trials, except for the blood of the leader of each generation. They have undoubtedly become saints above ten thousand people at that time.
female.
So what is recorded in the diary now is a similar ritual? From the blanks in the diary, I speculated that there are only two possibilities. One is that the sacrifice lost consciousness forever, that is, died or turned into a walking corpse.
He could no longer continue writing a diary, otherwise according to his previous devotion to the Silkworm God and his deep faith in Yuiluo, he should continue to work hard to complete his daily work after his physical condition recovered.
Secondly, the sacrifices were moved to other places within a short period of time after the ceremony was successful, leaving this place completely. Naturally, there was no time to write a diary.
I opened a few other diaries at random. Although the tone of each diary was different, the content seemed to be similar. At the end of each day, I also wrote a record of the moon phases, proving that this was not the first person.
’s unique quirks.
I found that some of them did not seem to be as pious as the previous one, so there was fear between the lines, and there were also many people who complained and even hoped that the ceremony would be postponed. However, their words were very vague, and they seemed to want to hide the dissatisfaction in their hearts.
, pretending to be pious and loyal, I guess their daily diaries may also be checked by someone specifically to determine the mental state of these sacrifices.
What is worth pondering is that no one recorded the moon phase after reaching the "new moon", and then there will be another moon phase. It seems that the new moon is the end of their ritual, and there will be no new Emei Moon.