☆ 31. Curse·Blood Sacrifice 03
Curse·Blood Sacrifice 03
Heli borrowed a clean towel from Wild Rose, and after using the well water in the temple to wet the towel in her hand, she returned to Kei and wiped his face carefully.
And Wild Rose was sitting on the side taking care of her weapons.
There was only one lamp in the temple, and the light was dim, making the atmosphere too quiet. Heli still has some questions he wants to ask Wild Rose.
"Wild Rose, can you tell me more about what's going on outside?"
Wild Rose stopped what she was doing, and looked at Heli. He was really confused, but not afraid, and seemed to accept it well.
The psychological quality is good.
After all, it was not easy for this "sister" who was often mentioned by Hui to find this place alone.
"What's happening now is that ordinary people who can't see the cursed spirit also know the existence of the cursed spirit. Most of the ordinary people who survived have gone to seek refuge with a monk."
Speaking of this, Wild Rose mocked casually, "It is said that He was praised as a 'true Buddha', which is quite an exaggeration."
"Monk?" A figure appeared in Heli's mind, and she continued to ask tentatively: "What kind of person is that monk? He is willing to accept ordinary people. "
That person is very strange," Wild Rose thought for a moment and began to describe with her own impressions, "At least the hair style is really bad, but who can tolerate so many burdens without objection? No. If your brain is broken, there is something wrong."
Speaking of this, Wild Rose teased with a nonchalant expression, "Anyway, this world is rotten, let's just fight with those two waves of people."
Some inquiries during the period made Heli roughly Understand the current situation.
After the ancestor of the curse spirit mentioned by Wild Rose revived, he took the curse spirit with him to occupy most of the human settlements. Even the elite spell masters were unable to fight against the ancestor. The three imperial families were all wiped out. The hope of mankind reappeared in the form of a powerful man. On the monk who was born in the sky.
The surviving ordinary people and some potential spellcasters all followed the monk. However, not all of the high-level special spell spirits were loyal to the ancestor. Some of the second and fifth boys even wandered on both sides in an attempt to overthrow the ancestor.
Wild Rose claimed that she, Hui and some other people had nothing to do with either side and lived only for profit and living supplies. They could help the cursed spirit or the monk, and they got a lot of benefits during the process.
Therefore, Huite meant that the area under the "tent" set up by Heli would not be disturbed and was a relatively safe place.
But that monk, could he be the NPC Xia Youjie in the game...? Or is it the 羂素 that occupies Xia Youjie's body?
Just when Heli was deep in thought, Hui, who was originally quiet, suddenly coughed a few times. He seemed to wake up from his sleep, sat up suddenly, and gasped uncontrollably.
"Hui?"
Heli noticed and quickly came closer to ask. She continued to pick up a towel and wipe the other person's cheek. "Are you okay?"
Hui's vision lost focus for a while. He slowly looked at Heli. As if she had lost her soul, now she was like a drowning person grasping the driftwood, and hugged her tightly, even her breathing was trembling.
"I'm here."
Heli listened to the young man murmuring "sister" in a low voice. She patted the other person's back with some distress until the other person calmed down.
"Why is sister here?"
After the nightmare receded and Hui returned to her senses, she pulled Heli up and down repeatedly until she saw a slender wound on the side of her leg. Although it had healed, Hui's expression suddenly changed, " What's going on?"
The young man's frequently tempered palms had rough calluses, and when he gently pressed the skin of Heli's legs, she felt a strange feeling.
Heli quickly pulled down his trouser legs to cover it, "I accidentally scratched it."
In order to avoid the topic, Heli held up the sleeping little black cat on the bed. She had long put aside her original dislike for Hui. She opened her mouth and showed a soft smile, "Hui, thank you...but how could it be so seriously injured?"
The kitten in her hand was too thin, and Heli, who was holding the cat, was covered by Hui's eyes. The same hooks are connected together.
It was an existence that he wanted to protect.
Emoto wanted to find the cat, so he quietly surprised Heli.
He silently raised his hand and pressed it on his still injured chest.
Cats are almost impossible to find outside. Hui went to the area where the monk was to find them, but he never expected to be attacked.
——"It's better not to come in casually in a place that doesn't belong to you." The man in monk's robes looked compassionate and bent down to pick up the little black cat that Hui had found on the ground. The man's unexplained gaze looked at Xiao Hei Nekogami paused for a moment, as if apologizing, and handed the little black cat, which was particularly well-behaved in his hands, to Hui's hand. "My subordinates have been offended so many times before." At that time,
Hui picked up the cat and covered the wound. Stumbled away.
"Sister, I'm fine."
Hui lowered his eyes as his thoughts returned, with a pale and fragile look on his face. Occasionally, he glanced at Heli from the corner of his eye, and pursed the corners of his lips just right, raising a well-behaved and seemingly willing arc. .
"For my sister, I am willing to do anything."
Heli heard the directness in the young man's words and his wholehearted gaze. She looked away at a loss until Wild Rose, who had been watching for a long time, met her gaze. After the collision, Wild Rose let out a knowing "tsk".
"I am air, right?"
Thanks to Wild Rose's complaint, Heli smiled. She continued to press Hui to let him lie back, "Have a good rest."
The night in the temple was extremely quiet, and as time passed, the sky turned Although the fish belly is white, there is still a lingering hazy feeling outside the temple.
Wild Rose went to sleep somewhere, Hui's wound has not healed yet, it was very difficult to wake up and talk to her last night, and she is still resting.
Heli's sleep was not peaceful.
Probably because she forced herself to go out against her body's own wishes, her heart beat rapidly from time to time and she felt palpitations.
So the sky was slightly bright and she got up.
When she got up, the little black cat who had been sleeping also woke up. It touched Heli's hand with its flesh pad, and its eyes that had not faded from the blue film were extremely clear.
Heli felt soft in his heart and quickly picked up the little black cat.
The steps were on the stone pavement of the temple, which was still wet with the morning dew and became slippery.
Heli sat aimlessly at the entrance of the temple. Her body was not often hungry, and it seemed that just replenishing blood was enough.
At some point, the fog became thicker.
Originally there was just a thin layer of fog, and you could still see the surrounding streets clearly. The temple area protected by the charm was at least free from the ravages of the curse spirit. But after this thick layer of fog hit, there seemed to be a wave of ghosts floating in the air. Ruo Wu's bloody smell.
The color of the fog seemed to have turned into a thin red, which was strange and unusual.
The little black cat in Heli's arms suddenly burst into fur and made a rustling sound toward the side of the thick fog.
She quickly looked up.
The thick fog seemed to be pushed away by someone, and a dark shadow emerged layer by layer. The person who came was tall, but because he was hidden in the fog, he could not see clearly.
Heli felt that his heart was beating faster for no reason, as if it would jump out of his throat anytime and anywhere.
She moved her fingers with difficulty, and her body instinctively felt a sense of crisis.
Run away, hurry up...!
Don't stay here—! !
Heli only felt an extremely hard-to-ignore gaze lingering on her face. She quickly stood up, and the little black cat in her arms jumped down. It seemed that she sensed the crisis, and disappeared after a while.
And when she wanted to leave, an extremely terrifying and invisible force was like invisible shackles, and Heli was horrified to find that she couldn't move.
Until the thick fog enveloped the figure and slowly came to her.
She still stood where she was.
An adult male's hand penetrated through the thick fog. The other person grasped her chin and slowly raised her face.
Finally, the fingertips gradually lingered on a small black mole at the corner of her mouth.
Massage carefully.
Heli didn't dare to move her eyes or take a breath. She opened her eyes and tried to make out the appearance of the person in the thick fog.
Until the other party let out a deep laugh.
What was then completely exposed in front of her was a face that was extremely similar to Hui's, but more mature.
Occasionally, red mist drifted on his face. The visitor had deep brows and his gaze seemed to be condescending, with a lazy and dangerous tone. The black messy hair occasionally blocked the dark gaze like a lion.
He seemed to be smiling, being particularly indulgent, causing the scar at the corner of his mouth to appear, but he could not resist the terrifying aura of the visitor.
The first sentence he said was: "You survived."
The second sentence was: "Have you forgotten me after all these years?"
It seemed that as long as Heli said something he didn't recognize, something bad would happen. .
But, she really doesn’t know him! Her memory has not been completely unlocked!
The opponent should be the NPC Fushihe Shier, right...? But it doesn't feel like it.
Heli's heart continued to overflow with waves of nausea and revulsion following the other person's words, and her body instinctively told her to push him away.
Until the game system found the right time and jumped out of the selection box.
[Would you like to enter the memory chapter to unlock the memory? 】
Yes, yes, of course!
Suddenly, Heli's vision went dark, and his consciousness seemed to flow into an unknown time and space.
What Heli didn't know was that the system took a few seconds to pop up the reminder.
[In order to allow players to better immerse themselves in it, the memory chapter will temporarily block the player's own memory. ]
[Transmitting...]
[Successfully teleported to 695 AD. ]
Heli was woken up by the cold.
Her consciousness was a little hazy at first.
It wasn't until she opened her eyes, focused her vision, shivered in the cold and hugged herself tightly that she realized that she was curled up on a bed made of woven hay, surrounded by a particularly dilapidated thatched hut.
Heli sat up with a shiver. Occasionally, a cool breeze passed through the cracks in the room, causing goosebumps all over her body.
After waking up, Heli thought that her mother and brother had not returned home yet, so she was the only one left at home.
She wrapped herself in thin clothes and felt her stomach was empty, so she struggled to get up, using her too thin legs to find something to eat.
Finally she found the dried cake, and she ate half of it first with the half-melted snow water.
Until the door was suddenly knocked by someone from outside.
"Erzi, are you here?"
Erzi was Heli's local name as he was called by the villagers. She ran to the door cautiously, opened a crack, and looked out with her eyes.
There were three big men standing outside, led by Xiongchuan, who often helped their family in the village.
Xiongchuan had a smile on his face and shook the things in his hands, "I'm here to bring you some food."
Heli didn't doubt that he was there and slowly opened the door. After Xiongchuan put the food into the room, he said to her: "Er Zi, raise your face."
She raised her head in confusion and looked at Xiongchuan.
Xiongchuan's smile deepened, wrinkles piled up at the corners of his eyes, and he and the two people behind him nodded.
The next second, the two big men couldn't help but hold up the dazed Heli. When Heli reacted and tried to struggle, Xiongchuan pulled her hair on the spot, exposed her face, and used his free hand to Patted her cheek.
Heli's scalp was pulled so hard that she screamed randomly, "What are you doing?!" She cried out
but was tied up hand and foot by the two men. When she kept calling "brother", she was horrified. Meanwhile, she was knocked unconscious by someone from Xiongchuan who thought she was noisy.
As soon as his vision went dark, Heli lost consciousness.
Heli didn't know how long she slept. She lay unconscious on the cold ground.
The soundproofing effect of the room was not good, so she vaguely seemed to hear her mother's voice.
"Is this money plus this food enough?"
"How can this be enough!"
Amid the noisy voices of the two, Heli's heart seemed to freeze. She trembled, her eyes gradually turned red, and tears fell from the corners of her eyes. It flowed down and seeped into the hair.
…She was sold?
In the past few months, rumors of terrible epidemics have often spread outside the village. People in the village who went out to make money have not come back for a long time.
She often heard her mother chanting to her: "Second son... don't blame me."
In order to make money, her brother would often go to the mountains to dig some medicinal materials, and then go to further villages and towns to sell them.
She was so heartbroken that she just lay there, her hands and feet restrained and unable to struggle at all.
It wasn't until she fell asleep again that she didn't know how long it had passed before she was gently pushed on her arm.
"Second son, second son..."
She slowly opened her eyes.
In the dim room, the first thing she felt was a wave of hot arms, holding her in his arms while she was trembling.
Until his vision became clear, what Heli saw was the young man with black hair that almost covered his face. He seemed to be still breathing, with dust remaining on his face.
She moved and found that the ropes had been untied.
Smelling the familiar smell of grass and trees on the other person's body, the tip of her nose felt sore. She cried and buried herself in the other person's warm arms, sobbing and shouting: "Brother, brother..." The
boy's arms were particularly strong, and he picked him up. He touched the thin Heli and motioned in her ear not to speak.
Until they left the house quietly, it was still dark and it was no longer snowing outside, but the slightly thick snow made it difficult to walk.
The young man carried Heli on his back and walked step by step in the snow. His legs and arms were red from the cold. He pursed his lips and his whole body tensed up. He seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes darkened for a while.
But what he said were comforting words: "Don't be afraid, second son, brother is here."
In Heli's memory, his mother would always cry suddenly at night and throw things as if to vent, while she cowered in fear. In the corner, her brother would hold her in his arms.
They never left each other.
Her brother took her away from the village.
They had a tacit understanding and did not say what the mother should do.
On snowy days, the two of them could not survive outside at all. My brother often went to villages and towns to sell medicinal materials. I heard that there was a group of people in the southeast who were looking for an ideal place to live, which was called a habitat blessed by the gods.
There is no pain or hunger there, and naturally there will be no terrible epidemics.
Only after leaving the village did Heli realize how terrible the epidemic was.
Although her brother urgently covered her eyes and took her away quickly, there were still rotting corpses buried in the snow from time to time, just abandoned on the ground so casually.
It's so scary that it sends chills down your limbs.
In order to find that group of people, they asked around for a lot of information, and in order to survive the difficult and snowy days, they searched for jobs in villages and towns.
But there are still too few things that allow women to work.
Heli put on male clothes for this purpose and tried not to make any noise, lest his gender would be discovered and people would kick him out.
Until early spring comes.
The elder brother took the medicinal herbs he was going to sell that day. After crushing them, he held Heli's wrist and spread the medicinal herbs evenly in the palm of her hand.
The frostbitten hands were full of the smell of herbs. He Li looked up at his brother.
He tightened his brows, and his long black hair had been tied up randomly. Occasionally, there were broken hairs left on the temples. His eyebrows became deeper, his eyes were dark, and his face was handsome.
As if feeling Heli's gaze, her brother raised his eyes inadvertently, "Second son?"
Heli smiled, she raised her hand covered with herbs, and let the herbs smear on her brother's face like a mischief.
The elder brother was obviously stunned, and then shook his head indulgently.
In Heli's memory, his brother never seemed to be angry.
At night, she would be held in his arms by her brother and coaxed to sleep.
After she closed her eyes, her brother covered her with a quilt and left slowly.
But after all, the villages and towns where they stayed were not suitable places for them to live. The two of them carried their bags and walked in the southeast direction. When they were hungry, they would catch fish in the river to eat. When they were tired, they would find some newly built temples and shrines to hide in for shelter from the wind. .
Until they finally found the group.
A place to stay not far from the seaside.
These people have different faces, most of them have evil faces, and some even carry knives on their backs, looking fierce.
There were occasionally women among them, but mostly men.
Faced with their request to go together, the group of people looked at them from beginning to end as if they were inspecting some merchandise.
"What are your names?"
The leader, a male with thick eyebrows and a big nose, simply asked Heli their names.
"Ichiro, Erzi."
The elder brother's expression remained unchanged, and after exchanging names calmly, he continued to ask, "Can you really find it? A place blessed by gods?"
As the elder brother finished asking, everyone was laughing, and the laughter got louder and louder. The sound became louder and louder. Heli felt uncomfortable in his heart and quickly tightened his brother's sleeves.
The elder brother slowly patted the back of Heli's hand.
"You are lucky, we have found that habitat."
Regardless of whether they were men or women, their eyes seemed to be bursting with extremely enthusiastic emotions, and they were mumbling words, as if they were thanking the gods.
The man who was the leader pointed in the direction of the coast.
"There is an isolated village there. Yesterday we went in to take a look..."
As the man slowly spoke, it turned out that the village had never had contact with outsiders, and it was unknown who the emperor was, but everyone Live and work in peace and contentment, and live smoothly.
The terrible disease did not reach that village.
"But, now that you have found it, why are you still staying here?"
My brother asked a sharp question.
The man laughed inexplicably, and as he smiled, the people behind him all laughed again.
"Little devil, of course the number of people blessed by the gods can only be fixed."
There are many people in the village, and it doesn't matter if outsiders come in.
"Unless...we will kill as many people as there are inside."
Replace these people, and they will naturally be able to blend in.
When Heli heard this, she froze inexplicably. Similarly, she seemed to feel her brother's movement of holding her hand also paused.
After the leading man finished speaking, the people on both sides quietly surrounded them, as if they were not allowed to leave.
The man grinned and said, "You guys, since you're here, go in and help us."
They seemed to have no way out.
The memory chapter opens, the original story
is the story of Heli and Ma Jia No. 2~
☆ 32. Curse·Blood Sacrifice 04
Curse·Blood Sacrifice 04
"Brother..."
Behind him was a group of eyes that were as penetrating as tigers and leopards, firmly locked on the helpless brothers and sisters.
Heli's voice trembled slightly, so thin that they could only be heard by each other. She was at a loss and squeezed her brother's hand.
At this moment, the sky is covered with a layer of light rising from the shore, and dawn is approaching.
The light gradually illuminates the villages hidden on the coast. The undulating low buildings are the most primitive house structures.
"What? You don't want to?"
the voices of the man and woman behind him sounded. Occasionally, a hand suddenly grabbed Heli's wrist and pulled her up. The cuffs of her kimono slipped off, revealing her slender white arms.
The man looked at Heli's panic-stricken face with a serious gaze, and then laughed at his brother's eyes that turned cold for a moment, "She looks like a woman..." Heli, who was still wearing
ordinary men's rough clothes, closed his eyes tightly. Mouth.
"Give me a moment."
My brother said.
Faced with the threat of everyone, they really couldn't fight against this group of guys who looked untouchable. Some of them even had the lingering smell of blood on their bodies, and they were obviously bandits.
The elder brother found some herbs from his luggage, and based on his memory of traveling among the people in medical clinics, he knew which ones would cause diarrhea.
"Just put these in the water they drink."
His expression remained unchanged, as if he was just talking about ordinary things, not an act of murdering others.
Those people looked at each other, and the leading man grabbed the herb and showed a serious smile, "I just trust you, kid."
In order to prevent them from escaping, some people in the group were left to guard them.
Heli buried himself in his brother's arms, resting his cheek on his chest. His brother lowered his head, stroking her soft long hair from time to time, comforting her silently.
She could feel her brother's arms tightening because of the people walking around. Heli also tried to squeeze her brother's palm, just like he did when they were children.
Heli was picked up and brought home by his brother.
Her brother said that her baby was left by the river. When he carried her back, he was scolded by her mother.
For so many years, her mother would always cry at night, and she would quietly huddle in the corner, listening to her mother's cries outside the first floor of the board.
The mother would often complain and cry to her brother, saying that she should not have given birth to him if she had known he would die.
Heli was so scared that he didn't dare to sleep all night. He didn't know when he fell asleep, and when he woke up, he saw himself being held in his brother's arms.
My brother was beaten by his mother again.
There were bright red and swollen fingerprints on his cheeks, and Heli squeezed his brother's palm distressedly.
Her brother would open his eyes, look at her with eyes that she couldn't understand at first, and then continue to hold her tightly and read her name.
"Second son, second son..."
Heli understood now.
They only have each other left.
It wasn't until sunset that the group of people came back.
The leader, a man with thick eyebrows and a big nose, was carrying a knife stained with blood, and his smile was unusually cheerful, "Thanks to you." The
brother who was praised protected Heli behind him, and he responded without changing his face, "If it weren't for nothing, It's over, can you please let us leave?"
However, these men and women looked at each other, especially the leading man, as if he had heard some joke, and laughed exaggeratedly again.
"Innocent! If I let you go, wouldn't it make you leak this place?"
The expressions of the brother and sister changed slightly.
"After all, we don't want to be replaced..."
Brother, who sensed the danger invisibly, hurriedly said, "I can help you! No matter what you do!"
These people seemed to be admiring some trembling little beasts. , joking and impermanent, with one after another of ridicule and vulgar language, which was particularly harsh.
Until the leading man looked at the young man with interest for a while, and then his eyes slowly moved to Heli who was silent behind him.
The man grinned, "In that case, prove it to us."
After saying that, they dragged the brother and sister into the entrance of the village.
It was getting late now, and the village was extremely quiet. There were blood marks on the road, which stretched all the way, like thin red snakes. These people led them into a random home, where a couple was tied up.
It seemed that they were weak due to diarrhea. Their faces were pale and trembling. However, because their mouths were stuffed with cloth, they could not speak and could only make muffled sounds.
The couple looked at them with simple eyes and fear.
"I specially saved it for you."
The man thought he was kind and smiled, but it made everyone feel cold.
After saying that, the other party handed the knife to them.
Heli didn't dare to utter a word. Her heart beat faster and she looked at her brother in panic.
The elder brother now focused his gaze on the blood-stained blade, his expression unchanged. If Heli hadn't been squeezing his palm and feeling the sweat on his palm, she would have thought that her brother was very calm.
He eventually took the knife.
The handle of the knife was very hot at the moment, and the weight of the whole knife was not light.
He faced these people like evil spirits, trying to drag him down into hell.
He slowly glanced at Heli.
Her eyes trembled and looked particularly clear under the oil lamp in the room, reflecting his every move.
He suppressed this fear, the fear of what he was about to do, the fear of whether Heli would be afraid of him in the future.
Finally, he stood in front of the tearful, begging couple who were struggling to no avail.
Erzi, don't look at him... don't look at him...
The knife rises and falls, and blood splashes out in an instant.
Heli's whole body was tense. She seemed speechless and took a few steps back. All she could see in her sight was the red color saturating the surrounding area, and the tip of her nose was full of the terrible smell of rust.
The elder brother held the handle of the knife and stood in front of the couple, motionless.
Until these people laughed, applauded, and even enthusiastically held their brother's arms to invite him to drink.
It was as if they had been regarded as companions.
Heli didn't know when he lay down.
She slept in the house of the dead couple, whose bodies had long been dragged away by those people.
Even though he didn't dare to look at it and didn't see it clearly at the time, Heli was still heartbeating and clutching his clothes tightly, the smell of blood lingering on the tip of his nose.
At some point, the door opened and made a creaking sound.
Heli looked up in fright, but the young man walking slowly did not approach her rashly.
"Second son..."
the other party called her cautiously.
Heli didn't know what to do when facing her brother. She naturally knew that everything he did was for each other to survive.
But her eyes became increasingly sour and her vision blurred, as if too many things had happened in these days, including being sold, wandering, and surviving...
Unknowingly, she felt a warm hand caressing her head gently and carefully.
"Brother is here."
He called her in a low voice, and then put her hand in his as he did when he was a child.
Then he held her hand firmly.
Heli finally threw herself into his arms and broke down crying.
Faced with the sudden appearance of new faces in the village, no one in the village seemed to find it strange, and even the dead people were not noticed yet.
Heli and his brother lived here in fear. The brother once wanted to take her away quietly, but he never thought that there would always be villagers who noticed. The villagers had a kind face and asked with a smile: "Where are you going? ?"
The smile seemed more like a mask invisibly, and Heli was horrified to find that every time the villagers appeared, they maintained such a smile.
It's exactly like wearing a mask.
"Brother, what should I do?... What should I do?"
She bit her nails helplessly at night, and when her eyes were slightly broken, her brother always hugged her shoulders tightly, "Er Zi, believe me in brother." She
cannot be found for the time being . In order to leave, my brother took the initiative to pull Heli and slowly adapted to the life here.
Except for the strange things that cannot be described in detail, the men and women who blended in at the beginning are almost the same as the people in the village. They all wear suitable kimonos. When they occasionally meet the brother and sister, they seem to have forgotten what happened and talk to them kindly. they greeted.
The village worships the gods of the sea. A shrine is built with simple piles of stones on the coast. There are rows of white stripes of divine patterns inserted into the ground on both sides of the shrine. The divine patterns sway when the sea breeze blows.
Unknowingly, Heli has been living here for many days.
She seemed to have let go of her fear of this place, and occasionally she and her brother would go to the shrine to pay homage.
A village that lives by the sea naturally relies on the sea for food. On this day, after the villagers came back from fishing for sea fish, the village was extremely lively.
"Giving birth, giving birth!"
A villager shouted everywhere. It turned out that a couple in the same family gave birth to a new life.
All the villagers who knew the good news rushed to that house.
Heli was pulled by his brother. In order to "fit in", Heli also stood behind the crowd and watched those people with consistent joyful smiles on their faces.
Some young children were laughing around the adults, clapping their hands, and laughing one after another. There was also a little girl who ran to Heli's side, singing a clapping song, her kimono sleeves swinging back and forth, her black eyes Look at Heli.
At first, Heli clapped his hands and sang along with them because of the atmosphere.
Until the shoji door was opened, the husband of the couple put a white turban on his head and walked out slowly.
It was worn only when someone died and was attending a funeral.
A strange feeling spread in her heart.
Inexplicably, she felt that this did not look like the birth of a new life.
The elder brother obviously saw it too. He squeezed Heli's hand tightly and tried to retreat and leave, when the voices of the villagers rang out faintly.
"Since a new life has been born... it is necessary to provide fresh offerings to the gods."
The husband wearing a hijab was holding a blood-stained cloth in his hand, symbolizing the dirty blood of the new life. , he handed it over to the old woman who slowly walked out of the villagers.
The old woman was wearing gray clothes, her face was wrinkled, and a pair of eyes poked out from the slit, hiding their black eyes. She held a wooden crutch in one hand and a bloody cloth in the other, shaking the Kagura bell and muttering something.
Finally, she held up the Kagura bell and pointed to
the left hand side with great energy.
Heli was standing behind the crowd, and happened to be pointed at by the old woman from a distance.
Everyone squeezed their heads and turned in this direction. The elder brother's face suddenly changed. He pulled Heli behind him. He originally thought that there were many people in front of them and could successfully cover it up. Who would have thought that everyone here started to say in unison? Congratulations came out: "Congratulations, congratulations to you..."
"Second son, congratulations to you..."
There were not many people in the village, and everyone knew their names.
The congratulations one after another made Heli's face turn pale. His brother gritted his teeth. Facing the crowd that was gradually approaching, he took out the hidden knife from his clothes and stabbed anyone who dared to get close like crazy.
Some villagers were so frightened that they backed away.
The elder brother immediately grabbed Heli's wrist, and the two of them ran out.
However, when they ran towards the outside of the village and passed through rows of closed thorn-like trees, they were exhausted and panting and wanted to take a rest. Heli rubbed his eyes and looked around, but his vision suddenly stopped. Stunned.
The irregular stones stained with moss on the ground had been seen before.
"Brother," Heli said incoherently, his heartbeat rising and falling, "These, these..."
Brother looked back, cold sweat dripping from his forehead.
The Wuyangyang village is like a lingering mist, lingering not far away.
No matter how they run, they can't leave here.
In the end, the elder brother clenched his fists and unclenched them, and hid Heli in a hole. He lowered his head and rubbed Heli's head, comforting him, "Brother will find a way." The elder
brother returned to the village again.
Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, he quietly came to a house where there lived only a man who was lazy and didn't go out all year round.
This time, the elder brother held the handle of the knife without any hesitation. He stabbed deeply into the sleeping man's chest, facing the sound of "ho ho" coming out of his mouth after the man woke up from pain. He turned the handle of the knife involuntarily, until The other party is lifeless.
His palms were covered with blood, and then he washed his hands on the beach with a blank expression and waited patiently until dawn.
There is one less person in the village.
The elder brother quietly waited for the changes in the village.
He originally thought that if there were fewer people, there would be no need for offerings. Who would have thought that when daytime came, the villagers would go out one by one and start looking for Heli.
This made the brother's eyes turn scarlet, and he suddenly inserted the knife into the wooden stake on the side.
After taking several deep breaths, my brother calmed down, packed some food in his clothes, huddled up and ran carefully outside the village.
The branches and leaves covering the entrance of the cave were slowly pushed aside by his brother. Heli, who was lying inside, was sleeping uneasily. After he got in, he hugged her and closed his tired eyes.
The days of hiding in Tibet lasted for several days. My brother's chin began to grow stubble, and Heli carefully shaved it for him with a knife.
There were bruises under his eyes. Although he was tired, he looked at Heli with gentle eyes.
After shaving, my brother held Heli's hand, lowered his head and kissed it.
"Two sons."
The remaining warm touch on the back of his hand made Heli look at him with eyes open without blinking.
However, she was suddenly covered by the other party's hands, and her vision was completely dark.
When Heli was at a loss, she seemed to feel a warm breath approaching slowly.
Finally, his brother's hand loosened and his vision returned. Heli was confused, "Brother?"
He just pinched Heli's cheek with restraint.
"Go to sleep."
This night Heli fell into a deep sleep. When she sat up, the simple hay mat under her body caused pain in her legs and feet. After she stood up, she felt top-heavy.
She looked around. In the simple cave, there were only some burned black firewood on the ground. Her brother didn't know where he had gone.
Heli touched his head. It was a little hot and he felt dizzy.
Just as she was about to curl up and continue lying down, there were bursts of rustling sounds coming from outside the cave.
"...Brother?"
Because of his physical discomfort, Heli made a nasal voice and slowly approached.
Until a hand suddenly reached out from the hole covered by the branches.
Heli didn't respond, and was suddenly grabbed by the collar, and then a burst of force pulled her whole body out in an instant. Before she could struggle in fear, she was knocked unconscious.
The old woman holding a cane looked at the fainted girl on the ground. She said in a hoarse voice: "The god is angry..."
Among the frightened villagers on both sides, one quickly picked up the girl and asked: " Master Wizard, how should we resolve this?"
"First use one person to sacrifice."
As the old woman known as the Wizard finished speaking, the villagers looked at each other. After several people returned to the village, one of them pulled out the beaten victim. The boy was covered in scars, blood beads on his forehead flowed into his eyes, and he was unconscious.
The girl who fainted was wrapped in white cloth with all kinds of flowers on it. Then the villagers put her on the raft. As the wizard shook the Kagura bell, she danced strangely, and in front of everyone Witnessed by the fanatical gaze, the wizard raised the Kagura bell in his hand, and waves suddenly arose on the coast.
"Please bless us...!"
Almost everyone was saying this, louder than the last.
When the waves hit the shore, several neatly dressed men pushed the raft towards the depths of the sea. The man wrapped in white cloth seemed to have woken up, struggling constantly, occasionally feeling depressed but frightened. The sound penetrated from inside, but was completely pushed into the depths, and was drowned out by the waves.
On the other side, they held the comatose young man in unison.
The young man was dragged along like this, and did not stop until he reached the shore. Various sounds were mixed in his ears, until his blood-soaked vision saw the shadow submerged in the sea water, as well as the vague and absent figures. sound.
He suddenly exerted strength, lowered his head like crazy and bit the hand that was holding him fiercely. Following the sound of the man's pain and curse, he threw away the people on both sides, dragging the pain all over his body, and rushed towards the sea without hesitation. Jump inside.
The sea gradually calmed down.
"Master Wizard, this..."
Everyone looked at the scene in front of them and looked at each other, but the wizard shook his head and then stopped.
At the same time, waves surged onto the shore.
"Thank you, Lord God!"
The wizard held the Kagura bell tightly and raised it high, with a look of enthusiasm and joy. When the villagers saw it, they also knelt on the ground, raised their hands high, and chanted.
"Thank you God! Thank you God!"
Only the remaining waves hit the coast. There is no moon tonight, and the sea water is like splashing ink.
Until his brother struggled to drag the man wrapped in white cloth to the shore, his trembling hands kept trying to untie the complicated layers of wet cloth.
"Two sons, two sons..."
He untied layer after layer until the person inside was gradually revealed.
Her wet black hair intertwined with her pale face, her eyes were hollow, her lips and teeth were slightly open, and her expression stayed at that moment of fear and suffocation.
The elder brother seemed to have had all his strength drained out of him at this moment. His eyes were bloodshot and his mouth was open but no sound came out.
He just sat there, unable to take his eyes off the dead man.
After an unknown amount of time, he stood up in a daze, then picked up Heli, whose body was gradually stiffening, and walked slowly towards the cannibal village.
It was late at night, and the wizard was already asleep. She was sleeping in a fixed position, with her hands clasped on her chest.
Until there was an unpleasant smell of burning fire coming from outside the house, the keen wizard opened her eyes. She looked outside the house and froze on the spot.
A raging fire broke out between the houses made of hay and stones. The fire was so intense that it seemed like divine punishment, and the choking black smoke suddenly rose up.
The wizard ran out quickly, so hurriedly that she was still barefoot. She stood in the fire, and the scalding temperature could almost burn her.
Then a sudden pain hit the back of her head, and she fell to the ground before she could scream in pain. What she saw out of the corner of her eye was the young man carrying the light on his back.
The other party looked like an evil ghost, with blood splattered on his face, and his expression was cold to the bone. He raised the machete in his hand high, and slashed at the wizard screaming in terror, one after another.
Until the tip of his nose was filled with the lingering smell of blood and burnt fire, he chuckled a few times, threw away the machete in his hand, and stood up staggeringly.
The fire is getting bigger and bigger, and this village near the sea is easily submerged in the sea of fire.
In the end, he held the dead Heli in his arms, watched the fire ceremony from a distance, and then murmured: "Brother is here to accompany you..."
He lowered his head, touched her cold forehead, and then picked up the The knife stabbed his chest without hesitation.
The blood intertwined with each other until it completely dried up and melted.
In the village that was devoured by tongues of fire, the resentful souls of everyone who died were screaming and cursing miserably, and the overwhelming resentment seemed to have turned into reality.
They followed the breath all the way up until they swept into the dead boy's body like a strong wind.
With a white cloth covering her whole body, Heli, unable to move, was extremely frightened. She felt the air disappear little by little, and the seawater gradually seeped into the cloth, until it blocked her mouth and nose, and the breath in her lungs disappeared.
Until the pain caused by suffocation made her brain continue to overlap everything in the past.
Unknowingly, tears welled up in her eyes and eventually dissolved in the sea water.
After losing consciousness, he seemed to be plunged into darkness.
She didn't know how much time passed until she felt the moist heat flowing around her lips and teeth.
The sweet and fishy smell overflowed into her throat, causing her to cough.
Her voice seemed to have touched someone, and Heli only felt that the taste of blood in his mouth became stronger.
The hearing in his ears gradually recovered, and so did the sense of touch. Heli moved his fingers, and the next second, he felt his hand being held by someone.
Until she weakly opened her eyes, the weak light stung her eyes, and what she saw dimly was the man with his head hanging down.
The other party's long black hair was not tied up, but hung casually. His brows were deep, his eyes were as dark as ink, and his expression had a lazy air, but his eyes were watching him wake up with interest. Heli.
Heli looked at him blankly, but his mind was blank.
I don't know how long it took for her memory to come back. She opened her eyes wide and looked down at herself. She felt that her hands and legs seemed to have become slender, and she was wearing a particularly silky kimono.
Why is she still alive?
Where is this place?
Heli looked at the other party in a daze.
"elder brother……?"
Her voice, which she had not spoken for a long time, was extremely hoarse, and there was still the smell of blood in her throat. Heli frowned in sadness, but the man who heard her stood up in vain.
The opponent's figure was too tall, and he had an aura of danger.
"Finally woke up."
The man ignored her address, but said to himself, "Too weak."
Heli felt the slightly cold gaze of the other party, and she froze on the spot, realizing it later. They looked at each other for a long time.
His facial features still look like his brother's, but his aura is completely different.
A sense of absurdity arose in Heli's heart.
The surrounding area was obviously a strange place, clean and exquisite, but Heli didn't dare to move around. She just felt that this was not a place where she could stay.
When she continued to call him "brother" in a low voice, the man moved, and somehow appeared in front of her instantly. Then he pinched her chin, and his rough fingers forcefully penetrated between her mouth and pinched her. Her tongue made her eyes widen and she was speechless.
"Don't call me that," the man seemed threatening, and his strength seemed to crush her tongue at any time, "your brother is dead." He
said these cruel and casual words until he relaxed. Hands, Heli immediately closed his mouth and backed away.
Heli, who was swept by the opponent's beastly gaze, felt a trembling feeling all over his body.
It seemed that she felt that the girl in front of her who was wary and had faintly red eyes was particularly weak. The man who couldn't stand it took the girl into his arms with a palm.
She was caught off guard and leaned her face against the other person's chest, but she didn't dare to struggle. The man let out a low laugh, and the next second, she was taken out of the back room.
In the courtyard that only belongs to noble families, there are two or three strange-looking creatures standing there. Heli only took one look at them and was so frightened that he froze in place.
And those creatures still called the man respectfully in unison.
"Sir."
"Sir, what are your orders?"
The man directly placed Heli in front of these strange creatures like a chicken. "Guide her not to kill her."
Heli didn't know how he persisted. down.
These non-human creatures are called curse spirits, but not all curse spirits have high intelligence. She has received unimaginable guidance from these ignorant curse spirits again and again.
Even when she accidentally went to the outside world, she found that everything had changed drastically. Spellcasters and onmyojis were prevalent, and ghosts and cursed spirits coexisted. When she carefully inquired about the changes of the times, she realized that she had already fallen asleep. For hundreds of years.
Until she realized that she could no longer eat human food and even longed for flesh and blood, the man smiled evilly.
"At least you survived, right?"
Heli lowered his eyebrows, enduring the desire to tear the other person's face apart, and reminded himself repeatedly in his heart.
The other person is not an older brother, not an older brother.
At night, although she no longer needed to sleep, Heli, who retained this habit, lay on the cushioned couch with her eyes closed.
Until the shoji door was opened and she was skillfully brought into the man's arms. His hot breath enveloped Heli's body. She froze suddenly and tried to relax slowly.
The smell of blood still lingered on the man's body, and he talked to himself about what happened with the group of spellcasters.
At the end of the sentence, I added a sentence.
"Human beings should disappear after all."
Heli raised his eyes to look at the other person's chin, closed his eyes, and didn't want to reply.
"Second son," the man played with her hair and called her in a sarcastic tone, "Why don't we just change her name?"
Change her name to something that only belongs to him.
"It's called... Heli."
He paused in his movements, and then slowly rubbed her abdomen.
Heli suddenly froze, opened his eyes to look at him, and then tried to stop his movements, "Brother."
As expected, the man's expression suddenly changed. He lowered his brows, leaned close to Heli's ear, and breathed warmly, "I came from nothingness. Born, born of a curse, not your stupid brother."
Feeling the other party's gradual tightening movements, her joints ached, she responded calmly and calmly, "Then can I call you Xu?"
The man stopped. He made a move and smiled lowly. The next moment, Heli felt like the world was spinning, and he was pushed to the soft couch by the other party.
"It's time to sleep."
Heli felt his hand being held by the other party, and it seemed as if he was squeezing his palm.
Her pupils shrank suddenly, and for a moment she almost continued to shout the word "brother".
However, the man only held it briefly and then let go. He stood up slowly and left from here.
As the shoji door was closed, Heli was still lying there, covering his eyes silently.
A few days ago, Heli was targeted by a difficult conjurer. She didn't want to get too involved with this human being from the Gojo family, but this guy named Gojo was chasing after him like a mad dog. Heli covered his wound and fled into the jungle.
She panted and sat in front of the tree trunk until Wu Tiaotan, wearing hunting clothes, slowly walked out of the darkness.
Heli's beautiful eyebrows furrowed.
The young man with an arrogant face showed ridicule in his clear eyes, and he smiled, "Why are you running?"
Heli calmly prepared to attack, until he caught a glimpse of the figure standing among the tall trees out of the corner of his eye.
Astonishingly, it was the void that had taken over his brother's body.
He seemed to be watching a dog beast struggling, without any intention of helping Heli.
He Li cursed secretly in his heart, stood up and desperately used the technique, weaving a dragnet to control the young man in place.
However, the opponent was faster. As the two moved with each move, the wounds on Heli's body split open, and the smell of blood became stronger. When she gritted her teeth and prepared to fight the opponent to the death, the five fear suddenly threatened her lifeline.
Xu started.
His ghostly figure, with its extremely terrifying power, instantly made Wu Jiaoyan open his eyes wide and freeze in place.
Xu said to Heli, who was still recovering from his wounds: "Kill him."
Heli wanted to take action, but for some reason, she seemed to feel sick about Xu's cold look on her face just now. She pursed her lips and said casually He said: "Don't kill me now."
Xu's gaze paused inexplicably, and he wandered from the young man's face for a while, not knowing what he understood.
"So that's it, it's indeed time to reach this age."
He picked up the five-piece collar that could not move as if it were cargo, and said to Heli: "Whatever you do, don't play to death, this It's quite clean."
Heli choked suddenly, so after returning to his residence, he stared at Gojo Tan, who was bound by a cursed rope and had a beautiful but handsome appearance, with big eyes and small eyes.
The other party obviously misunderstood, and glared at Heli, unable to speak, with a blush still on his face.
Thinking that the scars on his body were left by the other party, the vengeful Heli moved his wrist and slowly approached.
Some curse spirits passing by outside the shoji gate reported expressionlessly to Xu in another room.
"Master Heli is in a good mood."
Xu tapped his fingertips on the coffee table, thinking.
"In that case, go outside and find some like this to give to her."
Today's big fat seal is presented~
My brother is the ancestor of the curse spirit, and he is not Shi'er yet.
Now he is cursing back to the era when those ancestors existed.