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Paimon's exclamation turned into a complaint, "No way, again?!"

The group of people groped their way back to the stone gate and passed through it again. When the fog in the field of vision faded, Su pulled the hemp rope and ran straight to the nearest perch, pulled out the sword for chopping wood, and directly turned the perch into a pile of firewood.

As the tree disappeared, the mist in Heguan turned blood red, and red thunder descended from the sky.

Su held Paimeng in his arms with a comfortable look on his face, enjoying the strange sight of heaven and earth.

Cool!

She should have done this a long time ago.

There are headdresses blessed by thunder and lightning, so can the thunder kill them?

Aru appeared in the blood-red mist, with disappointment and confusion on her face, "Why...why did you do this?"

"We should have done this a long time ago." Su said coldly.

Hopes were dashed once again. Aru was so anxious that she wanted to cry, "You guys are such nice and capable people! I thought this festival could finally go smoothly... but now... why...?"

Paimon couldn't understand Aru, "Why must the festival be completed? This festival is..." But Aru must be used as a sacrifice!

In other words, this ceremony using living people as sacrifices has already been held!

Why is Aru, the victim, so determined to recreate that cruel festival?

Aru said that something went wrong with the festival - he, who died as a sacrifice, woke up. Everyone on the island became very strange, and they could neither see him nor talk to him. Every day was busy preparing for the festival.

When the festival begins, there will be thunder, and when the thunder stops, things will start a new cycle. Aru will wake up again, and everyone will continue to prepare for the festival.

What kind of death loop is infinitely replayed...

Although he was mentally prepared, Su couldn't help but hug Paimeng tightly after hearing this.

Aru didn't understand why things turned out like this, and she thought that it was because something went wrong in the festival that made Thunderbird angry.

"Kapachiri is gone too, and I can't find her in her lair on Mount Sugana." Aru was disappointed. "I prepared for the festival again and again, but the result was the same. So, I wanted to borrow your help. I thought you would help me..."

Sora had almost figured it all out. "So Kapachiri is...Thunderbird."

Aru nodded, "Yeah! I named her that."

"In the past, during every festival, Kapachiri looked down on everyone who offered sacrifices to her. But I'm different from others. I'm a friend she likes!"

"If the festival goes smoothly, Kapaqili will definitely be satisfied with me as a sacrifice. Then everyone will be happy. Sister Paimon, why did you ruin the festival?"

"Because this is wrong!" Paimon said sadly, "Tsurukan's tradition of using living people as sacrifices, and Aru's willingness to become a sacrifice are all wrong!"

I wishfully thought that Thunderbird and my friends would be happy about this...how could they be happy!

"Nothing wrong! This is the right thing to do! Don't come back! It's going to thunder here again, and it'll be even louder than before." Aru retorted and urged the group of travelers to leave, "Go away! I don't want to see you again! Woo..."

The children in Heguan instinctively doubted the priest's words. Some young people in Heguan wanted to escape from Heguan, while others firmly supported the priest. The elderly in Heguan were afraid of the outside of the sea of ​​fog and were grateful to the priest.

Innocence and bravery are immersed in ignorance and cruelty, and finally become numb and continue this ignorance...

"Stop right there, little brat! Don't you want to know where the Thunderbird went?" Su took a quick step and blocked Aru's way.

"Look!" Su pointed to Tianyun Pass on Qinglai Island.

Aru looked blankly in the direction her sister pointed. Even though there was thick fog, the tall purple thunderclouds were still visible.

“See that thundercloud over there? She…”Dead! Died right there! “…right there.”

These children who were brought up brainwashed by cults and human sacrifices do not need to know any more cruel truths.

Aru stared blankly over there, "Kapachiri?"

As if in response to this call, thunder elements gathered and made the phantoms of the past reappear.

Aru's translucent phantom looked up at the top of the stone, as if she was talking to some existence.

The voice of an unknown being sounded: "What an interesting tune. You, little man, are you not afraid of thunder and rain?"

"This is... the scene where I first met Kapachiri." A nostalgic smile appeared on Aru's face.

Aru's phantom said: "The adults in the tribe said that a child like me can calm thunder and turn heavy rain into sweet rain. I am embarrassed to sing in the village, so I ran here to practice. Do you like it, hehe..."

The unknown existence - Thunderbird said: "I have heard the songs of trees, the songs of dark clouds and rain, the distant chants of the blue flying dragon in the far north, and the trembling concerto of foxes, rabbits, and insects in the ground when I landed on the ground. But your song is very special."

Aru's phantom scratched his head. "It's so complicated, I don't understand. But, it seems like you like my songs? Then, when you come with the thunderstorm again, I'll sing another song for you!"

"Your life is ridiculously fragile. Perhaps when I think of this, you will have died of old age." Thunderbird paused for a moment, and then added proudly: "But if not, I allow you to sing for me."

A human child named Aru becomes strange friends with a thunderbird he names Sugana Kapakiri (Thunder Vulture), and they agree to sing for her.

The scene here melted into the increasingly red mist. Aru closed her eyes sleepily, and the next second her body turned into a purple feather.

Su took out the feather that Lei Yin Quanxian had dropped from his backpack and compared it with the feather. "It's the same thing."

Aru exists by relying on the power of Thunderbird.

After Aru fell asleep, the afterimage of the past appeared in the mist——

The priest heard about the friendship between Aru and Thunderbird, and thought that using Aru as a sacrifice would surely satisfy Lord Thunderbird, who would then grant Tsurugan abundance and safety.

As the grandson of a priest, Aru has always been a simple and pious child under such education.

Aru agreed with her grandfather's decision and decided to serve as a sacrifice to make her friends happy and bring happiness to everyone in Tsurugan.

Aru was dismembered, her blood was poured into a full golden cup, and her bones and flesh were hidden in pottery jars, which were then offered by the priest to the thunderbird that was looking for Aru at the festival.

The fog turned completely blood-red, and from it came the sound of the Thunderbird, which became unusually eerie.

"You actually took Aru..."

"Aru's song..."

"Why······"

The thunder of destruction descended, bringing angry purge to this sinful land.

"Since you have let your one and only song turn into blood and flow into this land in vain. Then, until I, Sugana Kapachiri, hear Alune's song again, this land will suffer eternal disaster!"

Sora showed a look of compassion: "So this is the truth behind the destruction of Heguan by the Thunderbird..."

The thunder from the thunderbird destroyed Heguan's civilization, and the curse it imposed prevented Heguan's soul from being freed.

After thousands of years of ignorance, how much innocent and guilty blood has Heguan been soaked in?

Sora's expression became firm, and he gently grasped the feather that carried Ru's consciousness, "Let's go, let's end this."