In the upper reaches of the Luo River, there is a hill. The hill is paved with neat stones, and there are four pillars made of stones on the platform.
The dome above is flat, and the dome depicts the sun and some priests.
It is the Temple of the Sun, simple and old.
It took Luohe Village five years of harvest to build it.
In those five years, many people in Luohe Village starved to death.
Ming Nanchu sat under the temple, frowning.
Some news was told to him by Xiao An along the way.
The existence of the Sun God, a belief in a village, caused a large number of people in the village to starve to death, and in the end he was punished.
They don't know their guilt either.
Ming Nanchu couldn't understand these things and rarely thought about them. What really made him think about it for two days was the altar under the temple.
There is a stone marked with the sun at the top of the temple, and an altar is placed under the stone.
There are two large characters written on the edge of the altar.
The font was the same as the ones outside Luohe Village. Ming Nanchu shouldn’t have recognized it, but the moment he saw it, his mind instantly understood the meaning of these two words.
Living sacrifice.
A living creature must be used as a sacrifice, and it must be a human being.
In Ming Nanchu's mind, the first thing that came to mind was the girl Xiao An behind him.
As long as you sacrifice the other party, you may be able to leave here.
Because Ming Nanchu thought about this for two days.
He looked up at the altar and began to make a judgment.
"First, let's assume this is a game, Xiao An is an NPC, and my task is to sacrifice Xiao An and then open the entrance to the next level.
Second, there is no one in Luohe Village, not even the body, but Xiao An is safe and sound, as if he exists just for this moment.
Third, I clearly couldn’t understand the words here, but when I saw the living sacrifice, I instantly understood it, which means that I suddenly came here to do something, or the people behind the scenes wanted me to do something.”
"Then what should I do? Send Xiao An up? Or find another way?"
Ming Nanchu hesitated and walked out of the temple. He asked Xiao An to wait for him here.
Xiao An seemed at a loss. She had been looking here for a long time, but she couldn't find anyone else. No one was around, which made her uneasy.
Kick!
Within a moment, Ming Nanchu came in carrying a ferocious beast.
It's a gray wolf.
Xiao An was inexplicably relieved, but he was also afraid that the vicious beast would suddenly bite him.
Ming Nanchu strode to the altar, placed the beast on it, and waited for the change.
Three minutes later, nothing has changed.
"Are you rejecting it, or are the words on it a joke?" Ming Nanchu said to himself silently.
He fell silent again.
Gulu!
A sudden sound interrupted Ming Nanchu's thoughts. The sound came from Xiao An's stomach.
"I, I" Xiao An lowered his head and said embarrassedly.
Ming Nanchu then remembered that they had not eaten for almost three days.
After using his accumulated spiritual energy to bring out some snacks for Xiao An to eat, he continued to think.
"A game is a game after all, and reality cannot be completely based on the game. Even if Xiao An has problems, he behaves like a complete person. Sending her up means that I am killing ordinary people to survive. If this is just for this, then there are
Why is it necessary to drag me in?
So it was probably me who sent her up to die."
"Then who is going up? Me? Maybe this is the correct answer. The altar is the only way to the outside, and there is only one chance. You can survive by sacrificing yourself for others, but the risk is too great, and if an ordinary person is left here, the other party will also have to
die."
After being silent for a long time, Ming Nanchu finally figured it out.
He turned to look at Xiao An, who was eating potato chips, and found that the other person was eating very slowly, bit by bit, and after eating a small amount, he held it in his hand and stopped eating more.
"Aren't you hungry?" Ming Nanchu asked.
"I, I want to leave some for my sister, grandma and daddy to eat." Xiao An looked at the potato chips with bright eyes and said: "This must be eaten by rich people. Dad, mommy and my sister have never eaten it.
.
It’s delicious, so can I keep it?”
She looked at Ming Nanchu with pleading eyes.
"Whatever you want, but there's something I want to tell you." After the other party nodded, Ming Nanchu pointed to the words on the altar and asked:
"Do you know what those two words mean?"
Xiao An quickly shook his head: "I, I can't read."
"It means living sacrifice." Ming Nanchu explained in detail without mincing words:
"It means that a living person is needed as a sacrifice to the gods. It's just you and me here."
Snapped!
The potato chip bag quietly fell from Xiao An's hand, and the potato chips were scattered all over the floor. Only then did she wake up and hurriedly said:
"I didn't mean to throw it on the ground, I'll just pick it up."
clatter!
When Xiao An lowered her head to pick up potato chips, big tears fell to the ground. She was crying, but she didn't cry out.
Ming Nanchu came over to help pick up the potato chips and said:
"I didn't say I'd send you up, I just told you that the altar might kill you, so you'd better not go up there."
For a moment, Xiao An raised his head and looked at Ming Nanchu with crying eyes in disbelief.
"Clean up, let's leave here first." Ming Nanchu said, he was deliberately testing to see how Xiao An would react.
Some of it was unexpected. I thought the other party would run away, be resentful, or beg, but it was not the case.
It's an attitude that makes people unable to be cruel.
The kind of person who knows he is going to die but accepts the outcome.
delicate and charming?
K.
Ming Nanchu looked up and looked outside the temple. He saw a deserted place in the distance, and he planned to take a look.
At this time, Xiao An packed up his things and stood beside him.
"I, I've packed it up." Xiao An whispered.
Ming Nanchu nodded imperceptibly and walked outside, looking for a new exit.
Not far after walking out, Xiao An couldn't help but ask:
"Why don't you put me up there? If you offer sacrifices, you will be favored by the gods."
"Maybe you are more good-looking." Ming Nanchu replied subconsciously.
Every time Su Shi asked him a question, he would respond like this.
After I finished speaking, I remembered that there was a fifteen or sixteen year old kid following behind me.
When he was about to turn around and apologize, he suddenly felt dizzy.
Phew~
The breeze howled, and Ming Nanchu recovered. He looked around blankly, and now he appeared inexplicably in the dry forest.
It is somewhat similar to the woods we saw at the beginning.
How did you get here?
"Help~"
Xiao An's voice.
Ming Nanchu didn't hesitate and went straight to the direction of the sound. But when he saw Xiao An's figure, he froze in place.
Xiao An stood on the tree and used branches to drive away the ferocious beasts below.
Those ferocious beasts are trying to climb up the branches.
The same woods, the same people, the same scene.
The only difference was that this time Xiao An's face was bleeding, and he was panicked and helpless.
"What's going on? Reset?"
Elsewhere, everyone made a choice.
Tianyun Yiyi came to the altar alone. She looked at a short-haired girl below and said:
"I don't want to pin my fate on others. No matter what the consequences are, I will bear them myself."
Tianxia Sword Sect Xia Yuzhu and her junior sister Guyan also stood at the altar. They looked at the little girl leading the way and stretched out her hands and said:
"Do you want to be together? No outcome can be predicted. If you are afraid, you can stay."
Long Yinhong stared at the altar and smiled coldly. The dragon shadow appeared and bombarded the altar with its only power:
"Even if I am trapped here, I will continue to get stronger. How can I let you manipulate me?"
boom!
The altar was broken, and the little boy was so frightened that he did not dare to speak.
The Night Moon Goddess did not pay attention to the altar, but looked up at the sky. She left the girl who was leading the way and gave her some food.
Then walked alone into the darkness.
The night is her home, and she wants to go further and see more scenery.
And more people put the villagers who led the way on the altar.
But no matter what choice they made, everyone felt dizzy after making the choice, and then returned to where they started.
No one understands why.
Maybe I made the wrong choice
Zhou Xu is still on his way to find the temple.
It took another five days, but still couldn't find the temple, so we had to continue moving forward.
Fortunately, he didn't have to worry about food and accommodation. Even if the place was deserted and the sky fire couldn't burn and bring flames, he could still pick up firewood and light the fire.
It can be used for heating and cooking.
Qiu Qian had already taken out the pot, and when he was on his way, it was Zhou Xu who took the blame.
Chunsheng helped pick up some scattered items.
Qiu Qian brought books, and Xiao Jing kept reading.
"Watch the road." Zhou Xu reminded him.
"I know, brother Zhou Xu is very verbose." Xiao Jing pouted.
Zhou Xu didn't care. After finding a place to rest, Chun Sheng began to clean up the surroundings. They were going to spend the night here tonight, and there wasn't much she could do. She only did the trivial things she could.
After dinner, Zhou Xu and Xiao Jing began to study. The teacher was Qiu Qian.
"You need to learn the word "marriage"? Qiu Qian was a little surprised, but she still taught Xiao Jing.
"Brother Zhou Xu, will I get married when I grow up?" Xiaojing learned the word and turned to ask Zhou Xu.
"Yeah." Zhou Xu continued to copy the Golden Light Divine Mantra without raising his head.
"Then brother Zhou Xu also wants to get a wife, right?"
"yes."
"Then when I grow up, can I marry brother Zhou Xu?"
"This" Zhou Xu looked up at Xiao Jing and said seriously:
"You have to ask Sister Qiu."
Confused, Xiaojing secretly looked at Teacher Qiu Qian, but what she just turned around to receive was a blow from the chestnut.
Boom!
"Of course not." Qiu Qian said coldly:
"Zhou Xu is my future husband."
"But, but all the young masters in the city have three wives and four concubines. Teacher Qiu Qian can be the elder and I can be the younger, and I can have one wife and one concubine," Xiao Jing whispered.
Boom!
Two more blows made Xiao Jing cry.
"Times have changed, we are monogamous." Qiu Qian looked at Xiao Jing with a smile on her face.
Xiaojing, who didn't cry after being beaten, was so frightened that she burst into tears after seeing Qiu Qian's smile.
Holding grandma in her arms and refusing to let go.
Is Sister Qiu's smile so terrifying? Zhou Xu disagrees.
But when he thought about concubinage, he couldn't help but laugh. Ancient people were really vulgar. He really wanted to be reborn as an ancient young master and criticize them.
"Do you want to take a concubine?" Qiu Qian sat next to Zhou Xu and asked with a smile.
"No, no, Qiu Qian understands me." Zhou Xu restrained his smile and said seriously.
"Haha~" Qiu Qian closed her eyes slightly and smiled evilly:
"I know."
Week sequence: ""
It's obvious at first glance.
The next day.
Zhou Xu and the others finally saw the temple before taking a break:
"It's still quite far away. Should we rush there now or take some rest?"
"Can you go there now? My eldest daughter may be in the temple if she is fine." Chunsheng said quickly.
"I'm not tired." Xiaojing raised her hands and said.
Zhou Xu and Qiu Qian looked at each other and led the way to the temple.