Let me live [Quick Transmigration]

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At this moment, the dim light around him was completely extinguished and sank into darkness, the noise outside the temple disappeared, and the feeling of Qi Zhengyun's tentacles wrapped around his waist also disappeared.Lu You seemed to be thrown into the cold and dark water suddenly. He could even feel the stale smell in the water... He couldn't move, couldn't see anything in front of his eyes, and couldn't make a sound with his lips. He could only feel it alone in the silence. The water gradually rose, covered his nose and mouth, and finally engulfed him completely underwater.

This was an extremely torturous process, but for some reason, Lu You felt a little familiar from it.Just as this thought emerged with doubts, the surrounding darkness and water pressure disappeared in an instant.The noisy voice exploded in Lu You's ears, and he was roughly pressed to the ground with his arms and head pressed down.The dirt was scorching hot in the sun, and the air moving as he fell kicked up fine-grained dust.

The suffocation has not completely dissipated, Lu You panted heavily, and the dust that rushed into his nasal cavity made him cough.The person who suppressed him moved very roughly, his arms and knees that were exposed outside his clothes were scratched on the rough ground, and it was hot and painful.A momentary confusion emerged in the back of his mind: what happened...?

Shouldn't he be with Qi Zhengyun in that dark temple?He remembered that Qi Zhengyun dug up the ground, and below it was a cellar that had been filled with rainwater.Looking at the pitch-black water surface, strange emotions erupted in his heart, followed by a piercing chill.Then……

A shrill howl interrupted Lu You's train of thought.He rubbed his face sideways to the ground, scorched with pain, and turned his head with difficulty to look at the source of the confusion.He saw a girl in her teens dragged out of a dilapidated shed by two men. The girl was wearing short-sleeved shorts that had been washed to tatters and turned white, and her hands and feet were as thin as sticks, struggling with punches and kicks.The expression on her face was full of horror, but she tried her best when twisting and struggling, like a desperate little animal. The fish-shaped birthmark that almost covered the entire side of her cheek was twisted ugly on her face.

Xiaoqiu.The name appeared in Lu You's mind...to be precise, it was an image referring to this girl, which was difficult to describe simply in normal language.At some point, the language that has long been instinctive became blurred in Lu You's mind. It seemed that there was no longer a definition of words and pronunciation in his mind, and only pictures and clusters of vague feelings remained to compose his thinking.

This is the real state of mind of a person who has difficulty understanding language, instead of being able to conceive a complete sentence in his mind like Lu You before, and it will only be distorted when he speaks it.At this moment, it seemed that the "setting" further devoured him, or that he was covered by the original personality of the projected target; but Lu You's confusion about the scene transition and the change of thought only lasted for a short time, and then he was also overwhelmed. Submerged in this chaotic state of mind.

The girl looked towards him begging for help from the gap in the crowd, tears glistened in her wide-open eyes.At this moment, Lu You suddenly forgot that he was just a voter who came to this world temporarily for a mission, and completely devoted himself to his current role.The rainstorm, the temple, and the black monster that had pursued him all disappeared from his mind, and he was fully the young man being brutally pinned to the ground, seething with fury like a primordial ocean.

Realizing that he was also unable to save himself, the light of hope in the girl's eyes was instantly extinguished.Lu You couldn't understand what those people were yelling about. He only saw some people frowning tightly, and some people had a smile that was almost gloating.A grey-haired old man with a straight face, pointed a thick and long hemp rope towards the man who was twisting the girl's arm behind him to stop her struggling. Lu You uttered a few vague and short syllables, desperately trying to get out He got up on the ground, which seemed to annoy the person who was holding him down—his ankle was stepped on hard from the back, and he was hit hard on the side of the waist.

The strange thing is that the beaten body doesn't seem to belong to me, and I don't feel any pain at all.A trace of doubt flashed in Lu You's heart again, and he almost felt that something was wrong with this situation, but after all, when he was a little away from waking up, all his previous efforts were wasted and he sank into chaos again.Seeing this scene, the girl's eyes turned red, and she let out a more miserable cry. She lowered her head suddenly, and bit the wrist of the man who was going around to tie her up.

With a scream, the man shook her off vigorously, and angrily raised his hand to hit her, but was stopped by the gray-haired old man.The old man frowned and looked at the two people on the ground who refused to submit obediently, and said something calmly. Although the man's face was still stinky, he really didn't hit anyone again.Several people worked together, easily tied up the girl with hemp rope, stuffed a cloth ball in her mouth, and threw it on the ground, writhing and making a "woo-woo" sound, unable to break free.Tears streamed down her face, leaving little grooves on her dusty face.

Can't go... Lu You reached out to her.His hands were trampled, and the people behind him scolded loudly.The bright sunlight fell relentlessly from above, making people's heads dizzy and eyes blurred.In such a hot weather, it has not rained for almost a month. In a place with dense water networks, rivers and wells may be able to barely support it. It is said that the crops that are about to be harvested will die, and if this continues, even people will not be able to drink water.

——How could it be a drought?A small voice asked strangely in Lu You's heart, shouldn't it be a heavy rain?

This question sank without getting a response, because at this moment Lu You couldn't understand the voice in his own heart.He was preoccupied with the memories and thoughts of "the other man."

He knew why those people caught Xiao Qiu.They are preparing to sacrifice again...

Every few years there will be such a drought, so the sacrifice will be held every few years.Sometimes the ones chosen as sacrifices have too many children that the family does not want to raise, and sometimes the village recognizes sinners who have committed unforgivable mistakes; victim of.

Usually, when encountering such a situation, the village would be full of quarrels, cursing and crying for several days, but this time it was rarely very calm, and everyone quickly reached a consensus.There is no doubt that Xiaoqiu is the most suitable candidate.

Xiaoqiu, whose parents are both dead and has an unlucky birthmark on his face, has a gloomy personality, and knows to hang out with that bad-minded "brother" she knows all day long, and treats the kind-hearted guy who gives her food and a place to live. Others showed no gratitude.No one likes Xiaoqiu, it will be her last contribution and glory to exchange precious rainwater for the village.Lu You had watched the sacrificial process from the sidelines, and he knew that they would add some strange white powder to the blood of the livestock, pour the blood on Xiaoqiu, take her to the open space on the mountainside, and push her into the well... When the water god gets a new sacrifice, he will rain on time and in the right amount, and bless the next few years with good weather and good weather.

The water god is a beautiful big fish.When he and Xiaoqiu hid in the temple to avoid those annoying children in the village, they saw its appearance from the light and shadow reflected on the wall.Long ago, it fell from the sky with the first rains after a long drought, saving the village.In order not to be troubled by drought in the future, the villagers plucked its scales and bones, stored them in temples, dug out its eyes and put them in stone carvings, and put its blood into wells, making it a kind of food that can be enjoyed. The "god" that everyone worships.

Xiaoqiu drew a lot of graffiti on the walls of the temple. She also wanted to dig out the scales between the bricks and stones, but was caught and beaten by the villagers after she was discovered.The big fish was never seen again and he thought it was too weak.He can't understand people's words, can't make a normal voice, but miraculously seems to be able to understand the mood of the big fish.Several times he dreamed that he was inside the stone sculpture, in the dark water, feeling the anger and melancholy of being trapped and unable to get out.

Now, Xiaoqiu is also going to the water.

——In addition to fear and anger, his heart was full of panic about losing.He asked Xiao Qiu to hide, but Xiao Qiu was still found by them.He struggled violently, trying to stop him but to no avail, he watched those people take Xiaoqiu away.In order to prevent him from disturbing the major event that hindered the village priests from praying for rain, he was tied up and locked in an empty house where no one lived.The sacrificial ceremony will begin when night falls, and Xiao Qiu won't survive tonight.

When the person left, he immediately rubbed the knot against the rough ground, grinding his wrist until it was bloody, and finally broke free, trying to open the door and escape.But his ankle was trampled during the day, and he walked with a limp, and the girl was closely guarded by many people. Even if he was not injured, it was impossible to rescue her alone.In desperation, he thought of a way: avoid the guards and sneak into the temple, dig out the scales in the wall, just like Xiaoqiu once wanted to do.If you can destroy the ceremony, maybe you can make Xiaoqiu survive...

But after entering the temple, he found the entrance to the cellar was open.The key is kept in the hands of the person presiding over the ceremony. Before the sacrifice, the old man will go to the cellar to take out the powder to be added to the blood.Xiaoqiu had told him a guess before, that it was ground into powder from fish bones, and the fish bones were stored in the cellar.

There was no one around, probably because he had something to do and left for a while while picking up the things.He crawled down to the cellar and found white bones stored in sections in a row of clay pots in the corner.Although he didn't know what use it would be, he picked up a jar and wanted to take the bones out.Just as he turned around, he heard some voices coming from the entrance, and because he was afraid of being discovered, he hurriedly extinguished the candles he brought down for lighting.

The entrance to the cellar was then locked from the outside.Unable to call out for help, he was left alone in the darkness.

Lu You leaned his back against the wall, in the dark and narrow cellar, that familiar feeling reappeared.He always felt a strange feeling, as if his body and soul were not in harmony, as if he should be someone else, and the struggles he was going through personally seemed to be someone else's business.This day, he subconsciously wanted to ask someone for help several times, but it took a while to realize that there was no one for him to ask for help.He is like a person who is vaguely aware that he is dreaming, but no matter how hard he tries, he cannot wake up.

On the night when the sacrifice was completed, there was a heavy rain in the mountains.The rain washed away the earth and rocks, and in the middle of the night, the water flooded into the village.Lu You, who was exhausted from finding a way to survive before, fell asleep in a dark cellar corner holding a jar containing fish bones.When he woke up, he found that rainwater was continuously pouring into the cellar...

dark.asphyxia.Water squeezed from all sides.The scene has a certain sense of deja vu.For a few moments, Lu You seemed to feel that someone was grabbing him, and someone was repeating two syllables as if calling his name.But he has sunk into the water.The feeling of suffocation became stronger and stronger, and when it reached a certain critical point, it dissipated quickly like an ebb tide, leaving Lu You, who was drenched and coughing, alone on the shore.

It was dark and there was a steady light rain all around.The sticky liquid on his body reeked of blood. He was pushed on the muddy mountain road, surrounded by pale-faced people silently.The wrist rope pulled, and Lu You stood up in a daze.He remembered: he was the sacrifice of this ceremony, in order to appease the water god and stop the torrential rain that caused the flood... No, it was Xiaoqiu who became the sacrifice, in order to please the water god, he sent rain to alleviate the drought, and he should In that cellar...not right, he should...he should...

Lu You's mind has become extremely confused.There was that noisy sound in his ears again, many people were talking non-stop at the same time, they made such a noise when they took Xiaoqiu away, and they also made such a noise before pouring blood on him.Lu You began to be unable to distinguish which one was his real experience.There was only a bird-like voice, which relentlessly pierced through these noises, and became louder and louder in his ears——

There was a sudden chill in Lu You's waist, and then there was a stabbing pain, as if someone had put a cold hand into his clothes and pinched his waist hard.With a cry of pain coming out of his lips involuntarily, Lu You suddenly woke up.

When...how did he really treat himself as a target?

He was just playing this role, and he was investigating with Qi Zhengyun in that dilapidated temple during the mission!

This thought flashed out, and Lu You broke out in a cold sweat instantly.The scene of the mountain road and the crowd disappeared around him, replaced by the environment inside the dilapidated temple re-emerging.Qi Zhengyun's tentacles were wrapped around his waist, and it was the ones that tightened their grip just now, forcibly waking him up from the hallucination.The damaged cellar entrance on the ground is still open, and more and more violent ripples are surging on the black water surface.

Lu You understood—if what he experienced just now was the real situation that happened before, then the order of the screens in the data transmission is chaotic!The childhood experience of the target and the girl was interrupted in the middle of the broadcast, but because he experienced that it was raining during the sacrifice, he took it for granted that according to the order of the materials, he understood that the sacrifice was to stop the heavy rain.In fact, the girl died first, and the rainstorm flooded the farmland later...

There is evidence for this guess.Thinking about it now, in the scene of praying, the ground of the temple was dry, and it wasn't raining during the sacrifice, but he hadn't noticed these details before.

And the figure of the projected target did not appear in those pictures, because at that time he was...

Before Lu You had time to think carefully about the perspective, the door of the temple was knocked open from the outside.The angry faces of the villagers appeared in the flickering flashlight.Qi Zhengyun was about to take Lu You back to another place immediately, but Lu You's thinking was unprecedentedly sharp at this moment, and he grabbed Qi Zhengyun's tentacles. "In the cellar! Under the water!" He yelled hastily, forgetting for a moment that he was speaking in gibberish and Qi Zhengyun couldn't understand at all, "Bones! Take out the bones!"

Qi Zhengyun actually comprehended Lu You's meaning with great powers. Maybe he opened the cellar for Lu You to see. He originally had this idea. While avoiding the stones thrown at him from the door, he quickly put his tentacles into the cellar. When the water was stirred, something was picked up.

Lu You fully thought that it would be a jar, in which was the big fish bone that was forcibly made into a "water god" by the villagers, and when he saw what the white thing Qi Zhengyun fished up with his tentacles entwined, he was almost on the spot. Passed out: It was a human skull with melted flesh and mottled dark moss!

While unceremoniously pulling away a rushing villager with his tentacles, Qi Zhengyun unceremoniously lifted the dripping skull and stuffed it into Lu You's hand!Lu You trembled all over, holding the skull and throwing it, either holding it or not, just felt that he was going crazy: How could it be a human skull?When the target went down to the cellar, he didn't see anything other than the jar!Instead, he himself was locked in the cellar, and when it rained heavily later...

No, no—Lu You realized the time contradiction in the speculation.If he returned to the time when the target was not dead, the village should still be plagued by drought, and the girl named Xiaoqiu had not been selected as a sacrifice; then why is it raining outside and Xiaoqiu is already in the The well turned into a ghost, and he was brought up the mountain as a sacrifice?

Lu You lowered his head, and looked at him with the empty eye sockets of his skull, and there were still two puddles of dark water in them that hadn't flowed out.

...If the target who died in the cellar has become like this, what is the situation with him now?

How long does it take for a corpse to completely turn into bones?Why are the faces of those villagers no signs of aging compared to those in the data?

Because Qi Zhengyun was by his side, Lu You never considered the possibility that he was hallucinating now.And in retrospect, the hallucination that I thought I was experiencing in person was actually too hasty in pace, and the whole process was played in a hurry like pressing the fast forward button, and there were a few time jumps.He didn't notice it because he was in it at the time, just like he couldn't feel the absurdity of the dream in a dream, and his perception was much clearer after waking up.

The purpose and selection of the sacrificial process were confused, the head turned into bones, and the villagers who did not grow old. These factors allowed Lu You to come up with a guess that was more credible than hallucinations.After all, this is a spiritual world where "spirits" exist...

— on the night when the cellar was filled with rain, the rain also flooded the village.It was a downpour carrying the grievances of the ghosts and pouring into the world, for revenge rather than "smooth weather".The drop target died in the cellar, what about the other villagers outside?

At the same time that this guess was organized into a thought and emerged clearly, Qi Zhengyun's tentacles emptied out: he was about to push out a man who was trying to force his way through the door, but the man's body suddenly became nothingness at this moment.The tentacles passed through the translucent figure, hit the door frame, and knocked off a piece of the aging wooden door frame.

The changes continued: the man's body swelled up, his clothes were torn into flying strips, and his whole body quickly turned into a swollen and pale appearance like a drowned corpse.He... No, it raised its hands, and the sound that came out of its throat that was shouting just now turned into a gurgling sound—although it sounded the same to Lu You’s ears—it was more important to its size and combat power. Obviously, Qi Zhengyun turned a blind eye, staring at Lu You who was protected by him, and then rushed towards the temple at a speed that did not look like a dead person.

Even with some guesses, Lu You was still taken aback by such a rapid transformation process of "corpse transformation". On the contrary, Qi Zhengyun seemed to be indifferent as he had expected. The only change was reflected in the offensive - the viciousness of the tentacle attack instantly increased Obviously, the enemy's strategy was decisively upgraded from "get out of the way" to "kill me" when the drowned ghost showed its original appearance.

The swiftly swung tentacles brought an afterimage in the air, followed by two sounds that were so close that they almost overlapped: one was the crackling sound of breaking through the air, and the other was the crisp sound of the door frame on the other side. The bang of a blow.

The tentacles passed through the ghost's body again, without causing any damage to it.On the contrary, on the scales of Qi Zhengyun's tentacles, small water droplets condensed through the ghost's body, and then condensed into white frost.Lu You saw that the edges of some scales were also white. He didn't know if they were frozen or suffered more serious trauma.

After the door frame was destroyed, sawdust flew around, hitting the ghost, but embedded in it as if touching a solid body, and the deformed facial features of the ghost were further distorted, as if feeling pain.But it had already squeezed its way through the door—behind him, the ghosts of the many villagers who had bloated and deformed or twisted, maintaining their post-death forms.

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