Cannibalism

"By the way, did you sneak a jab at me before when I wasn't prepared?" Xie Sheng touched his still-paining head, "This feeling is very familiar."

Yuan Shiren took a rope to string the Tianshan Shenyu, and was about to tie it around his neck when he suddenly heard Xie Sheng's "irresponsible" accusation.

He looked up.

"I haven't poked you before, this is the first time." Yuan Shiren flicked the divine jade onto the back of Xie Sheng's head and cast a small spell, and the pain in Xie Sheng's head disappeared instantly.

"Change it to a red string. A white string looks unlucky." Xie Sheng picked up the divine jade, turned the tiger's hair around, and instantly turned into a pair of jade pendants with red strings on them.He wrapped his arms around the boy's neck and tied a knot behind him: "It's so nice, festive."

After finishing speaking, he lowered his head and glanced a few more times, and found that there was a layer of phantom like a red candle on the collarbone of Yuanshiren's side neck, which looked even fairer and more attractive.

The crack on the back of the boy's neck has subsided, and it seems that the divine power from Tianshan Lake is really effective.

Yuan Shiren put the jade pendant into his clothes, and patched the holed coat: "That's fine. Your tenth brother Xie Nan once told me that as long as you carry your hair, you can quickly find it by following your own smell. I."

It was only then that Xie Sheng realized that his trick had been exposed by his tenth brother.

"Brother, come out." Xie Nan shouted outside, "Yong Chuan found a stone house with an altar inside, let's go and check it out."

In the middle of the night, the bamboo forest was filled with white mist, and the half moon above the head was shining faintly.Xie Sheng raised his head and glanced, feeling more and more that the dream just now was illusory and unreal.

"Brother Ten, what is the altar?" Xie Sheng glanced at the iron-eating beast with its mouth open and chewing, "Is it the altar dedicated to that Brother Tiger?"

Seeing that Yuanshiren also followed, Xie Nan hurriedly asked, "Does the Flower God not need to rest here?"

Yuan Shiren shook his head: "Thank you for your jade pendant, I am much better, but now I still need it to protect me, I hope Brother Xie Shi can lend it to me for a few more days."

As he got closer to the flower god, Xie Nan smelled the smell of his younger brother. He took a quick glance at Yuanshiren Bainen's neck, and smiled: "That's natural. The safety of the flower god is the most important thing."

The three of them followed the iron-eating beast to a bamboo path, passed through a purple bamboo forest, and then passed through two green bamboo forests. The path ahead became smoky.After half an hour, I finally found the stone house that Yong Chuan had mentioned.

"If it wasn't for the delicious bamboo shoots here, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to find them here." Yong Chuan pulled up a fresh and tender bamboo shoot and took a bite. "There is incense in the stone house, I haven't had time to take a closer look. After setting up the table neatly, I will go to find you."

There was a faint fire in the stone house, Xie Nan opened the door and entered the house, and saw a desk inside, and a copper incense burner in front of the desk, and dozens of densely packed incense feet of different shades stuck on the incense burner. A lot of white ash fell on the ground.

Xie Sheng stepped forward, bent down and smelled the smell in the incense burner: "These are the incenses that have been lit in the past few days."

He looked up at the shrine. The words engraved on the shrine were as ugly as caterpillars crawling, but it didn't hinder the recognition.

The god enshrined is the God of Baiwo Mountain.

There is also a portrait of Baiwo Mountain God hanging on the wall. It is a tiger head with a thick mane. It is a pity that the painter's drawing skills are really bad. They can't be drawn.

It's kind of funny to watch.

I really don't know if the people who come here to worship will show a pious heart when they see this statue.

Yong Chuan wondered, "This is Baiwo Mountain?"

"I've never heard of the name of this mountain. I only know that there is a Lujia Village." Xie Sheng looked around, and his eyes fell on the square table at the foot of the wall. "Look, here is a porcelain plate with There are some food residues in it."

The porcelain plate was cracked, exposing the carcass inside.

"This cube is a little shorter than usual, like it's for children." Xie Nan smashed the residue inside with a folding fan, "I didn't eat all the food, so much was leaked out."

Xie Sheng said: "Look at these dregs, they are still fresh, probably only eaten during the day."

Hearing the sound of "kuangji", Xie Nan, Xie Sheng and Yong Chuan hurriedly looked back.

A courtyard wooden box for fruit offerings was opened by Toshiro Jin.

Kiteshijin held the lid of the box in his hand, and said with some surprise: "There are dead bones inside."

"What?!" Xie Sheng frowned.

This round fruit box seems to have the effect of blocking odor.At first, the others didn't smell that there was still something inside, but after opening it, a rotten stench came out faintly.

It smells really bad.Yong Chuan's food for snacks is bamboo, but the two brothers Xie Sheng and Xie Nan never voluntarily eat raw food, this kind of human|meat that exudes the smell of rotting blood makes their stomachs churn with acid.

What is enshrined is a human leg.The meat was half rotten, but there was still a trace of fresh blood on the flesh attached to the leg bone, and there was coagulated purple blood in the box.

But there were no maggots, Toshiro thought, maybe this incense box has a special ability to preserve raw meat.

Because of being frightened, Yong Chuan froze in the distance with his bear's mouth half open, and the half-chewed bamboo shoot fell from his mouth to the ground.

"The thing enshrined by Baiwo Mountain God is human sacrifice." Yuan Shiren didn't feel sick at all, he nodded and said, "It's the same as mine."

Xie Sheng hurriedly said: "Don't talk nonsense. No one used such a cruel way of worship as early as 800 years ago. The sacrifices in your village are thrown into the lake. It is impossible for the villagers to chop them into bloody pieces and feed them to you. eat."

Tobishijin had never heard of this saying: "That's because of my flower mouth——"

Xie Sheng was afraid that Toshiro Jin would say something and cause panic and suspicion to the other two, so he directly pressed Toshiro Jin's forehead and pushed him behind him.

"In short, the Baiwo Mountain God is much crueler than you." Xie Sheng stopped Yuan Shiren's words, "Using human|flesh to worship the gods is an extremely cruel thing, and it violates the laws of the spiritual world. Of course it's also against the law of heaven."

Xie Nan used the fan to cover up the rotten smell, and said, "In my opinion, it must not be a human sacrifice worshiped by the villagers."

Yong Chuan agreed: "I didn't see any family living in the mountains on the way here."

Xie Sheng glanced at the food scraps on the porcelain plate, and then at the human bones in the offering box: "It seems that humans are not making offerings. It must be those birds and beasts that have obtained consciousness through the Tiger God."

"No wonder this portrait looks so ugly." Xie Nan raised his eyes to look at the statue like a villain painting, "Even if the forbidden technique is used to endow the gods, these beasts can only have four or five-year-old children at most. Whether it is reading, writing, or painting, they are all inferior to ordinary people."

Yuan Shiren picked up the shrine on the incense table, and the engraved words were twisted and twisted: "But we only know where he is from here. Not only does the earth temple in Lujia Village not have a decent god, there is no name. Even the statues of gods are painted wrong."

Rather than a statue of a god, it is better to say that it is a mixture of bears, tigers, deer and cattle.

"In the portraits in the Earth Temple, the tiger has antlers. It's really funny to look at." Yong Chuan shrugged his shoulders, "No wonder the Baiwo Mountain God didn't want to bless them."

Yuan Shiren held the Tianchi Divine Jade tied with a red string, and rubbed it between his lips: "Since he has enshrined, why do you still say that he has been revoked?"

"Spiritual consciousness must be innate, and what you force to get can't compare with talent." Xie Sheng looked down at the shrine in Yuanshiren's arms, "Their offerings are of no use to Baiwo Mountain God."

Yuan Shijin sat on the square table with the porcelain plate, and said sullenly: "In the place where the resentment is soaring, I saw some intermittent memories, and this stone house was among them, but...in their memories, This stone house is not a place for offering incense burners and incense cases."

Yong Chuan asked: "Where is that place?"

"I will reproduce the scene at that time for you."

As soon as the words fell, a white light appeared in front of the eyes of the four of them, and they couldn't see anything for a while.

Xie Shengzhi felt that his body was flying upwards, and he flew several feet high before stopping.

"This is……"

Xie Sheng wanted to look around, and found that it was noon, and it was still a sunny day with grass growing and warblers flying.The few of them were hanging in the low sky of Baiwo Mountain, and the scene with a radius of tens of feet below their feet was clearly visible.

"This is the old memory that the flower god reproduced for us." Xie Nan pointed to the crowded place over there, "there is a way to invite the gods."

The old man in the village rang the bell and shook his head in a dazed manner, muttering indifferently: "God of Baiwoshan Tiger, locust plagues are rampant this year, and our villagers have not harvested anything! I beg you to be merciful and give us a chance to live. I beg you!"

A group of mountain people knelt down and kowtowed to the east.

"Please give us a way to survive..."

"Be merciful..."

"Please..."

But within half a stick of incense, a nearly eight-foot-long black bear suddenly popped out from the mountain in the east. The villagers thought it was food given to them by the apparition of the gods, so they gathered together and surrounded the black bear. Then he captured it alive.

Dozens of families have only one bear, so how to distribute it has become a problem.Bear bile is naturally good, but it cannot be eaten as food; bear paws are the most chewy, but they are not very filling.No matter what the plan is, there will always be people who disagree.After discussing and discussing, at sunset, everyone decided to lock the black bear in the stone house here, and discuss all trivial matters until tomorrow.

On the second day, a high-ranking official came to Lujia Village. The nobleman said: "I have a lot of money, but my old father is seriously ill and blind. No amount of medical treatment can cure him. I finally hired a genius doctor, but the genius doctor said it was necessary." Solar eclipse three bear galls.Bear bile is a medicinal material with a price but no market. He has bought all the few remaining in the pharmacy, but the quantity is far from enough.So he boarded this Baiwo Mountain, which is full of beasts and wild animals, and wanted to try his luck.

When the villagers asked for bear bile, they naturally thought of the black bear they captured yesterday.The village head sent someone to take out the bear bile, sold it to the distinguished customer for a large sum of money, and then distributed the money equally among the families.

Everyone was naturally happy to get the money, so happy that they forgot to dispose of the black bear's body.On the second day, a miracle happened, and the black bear came back to life.

Most importantly, it grew a new bear gall.