Chapter 151
Chapter 150 – Sakunlin
As the master said, Yan Yu and the others walked out in the direction of the red lanterns to go to the dance venue.
Compared with their slow pace, the villagers seemed to be in a lot of hurry. Three or four women carried a big red drum, and flashed past them quickly. The girl following behind carried two drums thicker than her arms. Drumstick followed unhurriedly.
“Hey, you are the adults from the main city they said?” She was not in a hurry to keep up with the team, but instead talked to Yan Yu and the others enthusiastically, “Are you two going to the pre-sacrifice dance too?”
“En.” Yan Yu responded.
“My lord, you look so good-looking.” The girl approached her, her eyes widened curiously, “It’s the first time I’ve seen a person with two golden eyes.”
Yin Beiqing, who was not willing to talk to her just now, gave her a sideways glance, took two steps to the left, and inserted himself between her and Yan Yu.
“Ah!” The girl didn’t notice the hidden meaning of Yin Beiqing’s action at all, but pointed at her face excitedly, “This lord’s eyes are silver, so pure color, so beautiful!”
She was excited talking to herself, Yan Yu would only respond politely when he met her eyes occasionally, and the other one completely treated her as a transparent person.
“By the way, my lord, let me paint you. Everyone who participates in the pre-sacrifice dance must paint this paint.” The girl wiped the red paint on Yin Beiqing’s face.
“Sorry, she doesn’t like red very much.”
“Don’t like red?” This reason is far-fetched.
The girl was slightly stunned, but after seeing Yan Yu’s eyes that were not open to negotiation, she didn’t insist anymore, and laughed, “It’s okay, sincerity is fine for this kind of thing.”
“Thank you for understanding.” Yan Yu let go of her hand and handed over the handkerchief, “Wipe it off.”
“No, no, it’s too wasteful to wipe my hands with such a good handkerchief.” The girl waved her hand, “It looks expensive.”
Yan Yu didn’t speak, and directly put the handkerchief into the girl’s hand.
“Then I’ll return it to you after I wash it?” the girl said cautiously while pinching the handkerchief.
“No, give it to me.”
“Ah…ah?”
The girl looked suspiciously at Yan Yu taking back the handkerchief she had wiped, as if she didn’t care about the red stains on it at all.
Not sure about Yan Yu’s mood, she shrugged her shoulders and didn’t intend to guess, then led the two of them across a small path and continued towards the ball.
“Be careful where you step.” The girl reminded the two people behind her.
As soon as the words fell, Yan Yu felt that her shoes had stepped on something soft and elastic, so she took a step back and looked down.
It was a gray-brown snake, maybe because she stepped on it a little too hard just now, twisted her body and darted into the grass and disappeared.
“Don’t be afraid, it’s not poisonous.” The girl thought that Yan Yu was afraid, so she turned her head to comfort her, “This kind of snake is very common around, I was bitten when I was a child, and it doesn’t take medicine to incubate the wound for a few days. We all call it snakes. Xiaowu.”
“They are different from other snakes. They are not afraid of fire but they like it very much. So every time we have a pre-festival dance, we will light a bonfire to attract them.”
“Why did you bring the snake here?”
“Ah, you may not be able to understand this.” The girl scratched her head, “We believe this.”
“What do you believe?”
“The little black snake is the messenger of God.” The girl looked at her feet, and walked slowly for fear of stepping on the snake like Yan Yu. According to God’s will, bestow blessings on us.”
Yan Yu didn’t agree with this statement, but suddenly remembered that the Polai tribe also had similar legends.
They believe that people’s destiny is already doomed from birth, and they regard obedience to inner desires as obedience to God’s will, so they often paint snakes symbolizing desires next to the statues to express this meaning.
Perhaps later generations derived the statement from the girl’s mouth only after seeing those portraits.
After walking for a while, a bonfire piled up half a person’s height appeared in front of it. Villagers who had arrived earlier were already singing and dancing around it, but because the dance hadn’t started, some people didn’t participate in the past. Sitting on a nearby tree stump and chatting.
The firing squad that I saw during the day had changed their clothes and was playing with the big drum. When they saw the girl coming, they immediately beckoned her to hurry up.
“I’ll go there first! The two adults will talk to someone else later.”
After she left, Yin Beiqing said, “What are you doing with her used handkerchief?”
“This?” Yan Yu took out a handkerchief and put it directly under her nose, “You smell it.”
Yin Beiqing frowned and hid back, but Yan Yu couldn’t help smelling the residual smell on the handkerchief because he stretched his hand close.
“Is the smell of this paint very familiar?” Yan Yu noticed it when he grabbed the girl’s hand.
This smell is very similar to the smell they smelled after they found the red handprint in the room just now.
Yin Beiqing’s sense of smell was sharper than hers, so Yan Yu wanted to get a more definite answer from her.
“It’s the same.” Yin Beiqing grabbed the handkerchief and threw it away, “What does it matter?”
“It means that the red handprint is probably man-made.” Yan Yu tilted his head, “Miao Tan and I have both seen creatures that are suspected to be spirit bodies, but it is like an illusion. Except for the visual memory we saw at the moment, everything None left.”
“But this time’s handprints…” She remembered that when she left, the row of handprints was still there.
“You think someone is using the nearby paint to play tricks.” Yin Beiqing is not stupid.
“No matter what the method is, it seems that the purpose is to bring us into that room.” It’s just a pity that the host came back before they had time to break the barrier.
“Let Lujia try it next time, it is good at deciphering world art.” Yan Yu’s thoughts were not on the ball at all.
She was so curious about what was in that closet.
Just when her thoughts were wandering, Yan Yu felt her eyes were covered by someone, because she knew who it was, she didn’t show any panic.
“What’s wrong?” Yan Yu grabbed her hand.
Yin Beiqing was unwilling to let go, “Don’t look.”
“You can’t cover my eyes all night, can you?”
“I can.”
“…” She has nothing to do with this stubborn temper.
“Let go.” Yan Yu lowered her voice slightly, and it turned out that Yin Beiqing liked this trick very much. She was worried that Yan Yu would be angry, so she reluctantly let go.
Only then did Yan Yu see the changes on the field clearly when the palms blocking his sight were moved away. A man was lifted onto the big drum by two people. He was wearing a mask and couldn’t see his face, but his body was only covered with a tulle. The degree of perspective was infinite. Almost like the one with no clothes on.
It is also because of this attire that Yan Yu can know that the chastity line does not only end from the neck to the waist, but extends all the way to the end of the abdomen.
Rao Yan Yu, as a well-informed doctor, also became uncontrollably stiff for a moment after seeing this scene.
Now she could understand why Yin Beiqing insisted on covering her eyes.
Indeed, not very elegant.
“My lord!” The girl who finished her busy work ran back to the two of them again excitedly, “Did you see that, that’s the dance festival, today’s beauty is one of the best, look at that thin waist, you can twist it twice !”
Yan Yu opened her mouth, but didn’t know what to say, so she could only turn her head away as much as possible, not to look at the man twisting on the drum.
“Come on, my lord, don’t be bored, let’s chat together.” She hooked her hands at Yan Yu, “My mother and her friends are over there, I’ll introduce them to you.”
“Everyone is still talking about you during the day, worrying that the adults from the main city will not be easy to serve, but I feel that you are very enthusiastic, obviously they think too much! When I bring you to prove it, I have to let them take what they said before. You can’t swallow it.”
enthusiasm?
where?
Yan Yu suddenly felt that the resistance all over her face was for nothing, so people couldn’t see it at all, and thought the two of them were enjoying it?
Seeing that Yan Yu and Yin Beiqing were motionless as if their feet had taken root, the girl simply ran over and called them over.
“Come on, come on, these two adults are not fierce at all, they have a good temper! They have no airs at all!”
This little girl has a big heart, and even the system couldn’t help but complain, “I can understand that the host is short-tempered, but how did she ignore the person next to you? She has such a big face like ‘get away’?” Can’t you see it?”
“Maybe she…is more optimistic.”
Now that it’s all like this, Yan Yu can only join their conversation, and the girl pushes her to sit in the middle seat, “This perspective is good, and I can see the dance festival dancing.”
Yan Yuxin said, but I don’t really want to see it, if she is not afraid of refusing too deliberately, she would rather turn her back.
“My lord, I heard that you are here this time to get rid of spirits?”
Before Yan Yu could answer, someone rushed to say, “It’s the one who came to exorcise the spirit, I heard it with my own ears.”
“We really have evil spirits here? Isn’t that very powerful, let you send so many people here?”
Yan Yu could only nod his head.
“Then can you elaborate on what that evil spirit looks like?”
“It’s…incorporeal.”
Yan Yu thought they were just looking for topics, or they were curious about the evil spirits, but she heard a person lower his voice and say to the girl, “Let me tell you, there are dirty things.”
“It’s not necessarily because of evil spirits.” Someone retorted.
“What dirty thing.” Yan Yu is very sensitive to this word now.
“Breaking a ghost! Many people have seen it!” The speaker’s tone was mysterious, “Some people were crushed by a ghost, and some saw it with their own eyes. Blood red!”
Yan Yu looked at her, “Then have you seen it too?”
“Me? I didn’t.” The man shook his head, “But the little boy in my neighbor’s house yelled about being haunted every day before he went in, and often couldn’t wake up when he fell asleep. It’s like breathing in.”
“Before you go in? Where do you go in?”
“Of course it’s to serve the God of Fertility. It’s good that he’s at God’s side now, those lonely and wild ghosts will definitely not dare to approach.” She also sought Yan Yu’s approval, “Sir, do you think so?”
“Maybe.” Yan Yu replied perfunctorily, but out of the corner of his eye, he was on the path on the left. The master with two lines of red paint on his cheeks was late, and the firing squad beside him was gathering the crowd around the bonfire.
“Hey! The dance is about to begin, my lord, come quickly!”
Yan Yu and Yin Beiqing were pushed into the queue formed by the villagers and stood around the campfire.
With the dancing posture of the dance festival, the drum under his feet beat rhythmically. The villagers raised their hands and cheered loudly to the sound of the drum, and began to turn around the bonfire.
Every six steps they would get down on their knees and bow their heads facing the fire, then stand up and wait for the next beat of heavy drums to repeat the action.
Just when the drum beat was getting faster and heavier and was about to reach the peak, the flames on the campfire in the middle jumped up with a bang. Looking up from below, the scarlet flames almost licked to the sky.
At the same time, there was a “rustling” sound coming from Yan Yu’s ears. It wasn’t the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves, but it seemed that some dormant creature was approaching the ground quickly.
snake!
The answer immediately popped up in her mind.
Looking down, the ground at this time has been covered with writhing little black snakes. They seem to have been stimulant, sticking to people’s ankles and constantly rubbing their bodies, and some even jump directly to people’s waists. However, the villagers did not seem to be afraid, but seemed very excited. What’s more, seeing that they could not attract the snakes, they even cut their arms with knives, and used the smell of blood to lure the black snakes to climb up their bodies. .
They pressed their cheeks to the snake’s icy scales affectionately, their eyes gleaming, “God, God, please grant me blessings, I am willing to give everything I have to worship you.”
Reflecting the firelight, Yan Yu could clearly see the irrational and self-pious expressions on their faces, and the crazy expressions became distorted with the swaying flames.
Someone waved at her, signaling her to join in quickly, but at this moment, she only had the desire to escape, and a snake with green eyes stood up from the ground inexplicably and swiftly, with a speed that could not cover her ears. The ground jumped into the hem of her clothes, and without knowing how it got through, it wrapped around her neck in an instant.
The snake looked small, but it was quite strong. Yan Yu quickly pulled it with his hands, but because of the force, the snake got angry, turned his head and bit her neck hard, and didn’t let go for a long time.
She turned her head and wanted to ask Yin Beiqing for help, but she felt that something was shaking in her body, and there was a buzzing sound in her head. Before the heat broke through her throat, she hurriedly withdrew from the team and vomited the stomach acid mixed with the night’s food. In the grass by the roadside.
“Qing’er…” Yan Yu felt that something was wrong with her, a sense of dizziness was hitting her senses hard, but the strange thing was that her heart was beating extremely excitedly.
But at this time, the voice behind him suddenly weakened by half, and there was a gasp of surprise in the crowd.
“She’s unconscious!”
“Hurry up and help someone! This is an adult from the main city, we can’t afford to have something happen!”
Yan Yu turned her head stiffly, and saw that the person who was following closely just now had her eyes closed and fell to the ground. Those snakes seemed to be afraid of Yin Beiqing, and they didn’t take the opportunity to rush up, but made a clear boundary around her. Make an open space.
“Qing’er!” Yan Yu quickly pushed aside the crowd, walked to her side and helped her up.
She pressed Yin Beiqing’s pulse to confirm that her vital signs were still good.
His pulse was fine, and his soul power didn’t fluctuate, as if he just fell asleep suddenly.
“Make way.” Yan Yu took Yin Beiqing’s hand, put her on his shoulder, and signaled the crowd to make way for her, “Sorry, my friend is feeling a little sick, I want to help her back.”
“Let me help you, sir.” The girl just now stretched out her hand.
She really felt that Yan Yu’s small body was a bit difficult to move.
Yan Yu turned her body sideways, and the movement of picking him up was effortless, “I’ll do it myself.”
…
I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, but after returning to the room, the uncomfortable dizziness has disappeared.
Yan Yu fed Yin Beiqing a bowl of water and put his coat on the ground to make people lie down.
“Miao Tan.”
“I’m here.” The “eyes” in the corner reappeared, “Is the boss injured?”
“No.” Yan Yu doesn’t know the reason for Yin Beiqing’s coma for the time being, although she doesn’t seem to be in serious trouble now, she doesn’t feel relieved that she is here alone, “You help me take care of her, if something happens, you can use this to call me. “
She took off the bone whistle around her neck, hung it on Miao Tan, and told her, “Remember, call me as soon as you have something, don’t be brave.”
Miao Tan was not worried about his own safety, “Where are you going?”
“Come back soon.” Yan Yu patted her on the head, “Look at her, she is prone to nightmares.”
“Oh.”
After coming out of the room, Yan Yu went straight down the stairs, returned to the locked room, and cleaned up the stains on the floor.
And the two damaged locks had been repaired by her spiritually and installed on the door before, and it was completely impossible to see that they had been broken into from the outside.
After dealing with this room, she walked out of the window along the line of **** handprints before, and the handprints on the wall were gone.
There is no trace on the outside, but you can still smell the special smell of the paint when you get close, which makes Yan Yu more sure that this matter is man-made.
She locked the window and used spiritual control to secure the latch even from the outside.
After reconfirming that there was no one around, Yan Yu climbed up to the window sill on the third floor. After the beast mark developed to five petals, she could clearly feel the improvement of her soul power and body, and she climbed with bare hands like walking on flat ground.
She opened the window the old way, committed herself to entering, and didn’t turn on the light for fear of attracting attention. Fortunately, the darkness did not affect the visibility of her eyes.
Yin Beiqing couldn’t break the barrier of the closet, and it was even more impossible for Yan Yu, whose soul power was below her, but she still put her hand on it again with the mentality of trying it out.
“Squeak—”
opened?
Yan Yu suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, held her breath and opened the door, looking around expectantly and nervously with her eyes, but found it was empty.
Yan Yu regretted missing an important clue, but then she thought that there might be other clues here, so she carefully searched the room again, from under the table to the bed board, and even the gap behind the wardrobe. touched.
No.
Sure enough, the previous time, the master was more cautious, or he didn’t leave things outside in the first place.
Yan Yu sighed, and had no choice but to return in vain, but when she was about to step onto the window sill, the window slammed shut, and at the same time a strange cool wind came from behind, and something pounced on her in an instant. back.
Backhand touch, empty.
This time she was much calmer, and asked into the air, “There is something here, isn’t it?”
Of course there was no voice to answer, but Yan Yu’s left ear felt numb for a while as if someone had blown against it.
She turned around knowingly, walked to the left, and stood in front of the only bed in the room.
Then there was a flash of blue light around him, and Yan Yu immediately felt as if he had been pulled closer to some parallel time and space. The strong smell of blood lingered around the tip of his nose. Bloodstains appeared on the original snow-white walls. Then he looked down at the bed. The mattress in his palm seemed to be covered with blood. As if soaked, a little squeeze can bring out blood foam.
The amount of bleeding is obvious that the artery was injured, and the spurted blood even splashed on the roof.
Slowly, these bloodstains began to move, piling up in small groups until they formed a palm-sized circle on the wall.
Yan Yu tentatively stuck his palm on it, and immediately felt something was wrong with the sticking, so he quickly turned around and tapped.
The sound couldn’t be heard any different from the one next to it, it didn’t seem to be hollow.
That’s right, if so, the main family should have discovered and transferred the things long ago.
Yan Yu measured the position of the circle on the wall with his eyes, then suddenly stepped out and walked to the next door of this room.
The next door seems to be a purposely vacated utility room, except for the boxes piled up in the corner, there is also no decent furniture. Yan Yu rubbed his hands on the wall next door, roughly found the location in memory, and then pressed hard without hesitation. hit.
The fist smashed a layer of bricks on the surface, and there was a box hidden inside.
The material of this box is very good, except for a little dust, there is no wear and tear, and the position of the chain buckle is not rusted.
Yan Yu didn’t have time to look for the key again, so he put his palm on the lock and directly used spiritual methods to freeze it to pieces, and then successfully opened the box.
There is no gold, silver or jewelry hidden inside, but a yellowed handwritten book.
The book is not thick, Yan Yu directly opened the first page in place, and what he saw was distorted handwriting, some were big and some were small, and there were serious smears and typos.
To be honest, if it weren’t for the clues that this spirit body guides every time, she would suspect that the words on it were left by a mentally ill patient.
These characters are Polai characters, and ordinary people may not be able to understand them, but Yan Yu has a Polai dictionary in his mind, and apart from some difficulties in identifying handwriting, he can still understand them.
The two words that appear the most in it are “children”. They are like random scattered symbols, and occasionally appear abruptly in the original complete sentence.
The rest of the information is extracted a little bit, and it is roughly like this: 768 adult bones, 533 baby bones, knife marks, and broken necks.
There is also a picture drawn with distorted lines at the bottom. A corpse was stabbed from the chest with a knife, and a baby was pinched by the neck and its head was tilted to one side.
There is also a token drawn at the bottom of the picture, but unfortunately the pattern used for identification is too scattered and difficult to distinguish. There is an arrow next to it, pointing to the three words “Patrol”.
Yan Yu kept absorbing information points, and soon turned to the last page. The portrait of the God of Fertility that took up the entire page was crossed with a big red cross, and the pen was so hard that it even scratched the paper.
“Is this what you want me to see?”
“Hoo… woo…”
There was still no voice answering, only the low sound of the wind, the book in Yan Yu’s hand flipped by itself, and the pages of the book hurriedly swept across her eyes, only then did she realize that the words on a few pages were circled in red.
With excellent dynamic vision, Yan Yu accurately captured the circled words.
“No, want, enter, go.” She read out every single word, and instantly understood, “There are very dangerous things in the maze, you don’t want us to go in?”
In other words, the shocking number of corpses recorded in this book probably came from the sealed labyrinth.
In fact, Yan Yu knew what happened to the sacrifices after entering the maze, but she couldn’t figure out where the extra baby bones came from besides the 768 adult bones.
Wait, baby bones?
Suddenly, a thought flashed in Yan Yu’s mind, because this guess was too absurd, she couldn’t help but stare at the **** statue with unbelievable eyes.
Labyrinth, living sacrifices, inexplicably many bones, unidentified patrols…
“Who the **** is doing such a terrible thing here.”
When he walked out of the room, the cold feeling on his shoulders had disappeared, but Yan Yu didn’t seem to notice it, and his vain footsteps seemed a little lost.
Who, who is it? If she doesn’t know where this black hand protruded from, how can she fight back.
Back in front of her own room door, Yan Yu suddenly stopped her hand that was about to open the door, and slowly looked towards the other side of the corridor, and she walked there in a strange way.
She wanted an answer so badly, even if she knew in her heart that the possibility was very low, it was better than not being sure about anything.
She stood in front of the referee’s room and raised her hand to knock.
After knocking on the door twice, but got no response, Yan Yu couldn’t confirm if there was no one inside, or if they were too deep asleep to hear, so she gently pushed the door open and looked in through the crack of the door.
There was nothing on the ground, maybe they couldn’t bear the environment here, and went out to find a place to live by themselves like Lin Luo.
Since the person he was looking for was not there, Yan Yu didn’t intend to go in, it was someone else’s room after all.
But just as she was closing the door and preparing to leave, someone pushed her **** the back.
Relying on the improved quick response after training, Yan Yu blocked it with his hand back and grabbed the man’s arm that swung down again, but he didn’t want to be slammed behind him with the other hand in the short time when he turned his head. A pat on the neck.
The huge pain engulfed her accompanied by dizziness, and after she fell to the ground, she faced up, and only then did she see Yu Fusang’s face without the mask of the good teacher.
Her eyes without a trace of emotion made her feel cold from head to toe.
Sensing Yan Yu’s suppressed fear and forced composure, Yu Fusang slowly squatted down beside her, his cold fingers gliding over the wound bitten by Xiao Wu on the side of her neck like snake letters.
“Sleep, my dear Goddess.” She leaned closer, Yan Yu couldn’t look away from her golden eyes that were enchanted, and she gradually lost her consciousness in the gentle and gentle tone like a lullaby.
As if not wanting to accept Yan Yu’s accusing gaze, Yu Fusang stretched out his palm to cover her eyelids, “Good boy, everything will be over when you wake up.”
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ps: Goddess Physique Immunity Ecstasy only targets those whose soul power is lower than Yan Yu’s. This is not a bug.