Immortal Journey

The drums started to sound.

The men are shirtless, and all the exposed skin is painted with abstract patterns in oil paint, flowers, birds, fish and insects, birds and animals.They held drumsticks and beat the drums heavily while dancing.

As the sweat dripped, the muscles on the men's bodies rose and fell. The patterns drawn on their bodies seemed to flow like water, and they became more lifelike after being wet with sweat.

The sound of the drums gradually increased, and the onlookers looked solemn and solemn, as if there was an invisible god's majesty pressing on them. The solemnity created in the atmosphere made everyone present feel awed.

The overlapping drums are loud, and every beat hits people's hearts and penetrates into their souls.

The faces of the devout people are full of longing and fanaticism.

The big witch appeared in the spotlight, with a beast's skull on his face, colorful feathers on his clothes, several loops of rope wrapped around his neck, and animal bones and teeth hanging from it.

Accompanied by the sound of the drum, the big witch began to dance. He swayed his body in accordance with the rhythm, and the animal bones on his neck collided with each other, making a crisp sound, and the colorful feathers fluttered in the air.

This is the dance of sacrifice.

In Samir, such a grand sacrifice is held every year.

Before the sacrifice, the Great Witch will summon people from the five islands, select strong young people, train them to beat the drum, and paint on them with special paints.These selected youths are not only performers of the sacrificial ceremony, but also serve as guards to protect the great witch during the sacrificial ceremony.

Then arrange the various matters of the sacrifice, and let the people carry out one by one.

Including Samir, there are a total of five islands nearby. Each island will go through a grand election every year to carefully select its own offerings, and then transport the offerings to Samir by boat.

A total of five sacrifices were placed on the sacrificial platform. The sacrifices were all placed in identical huge boxes, and covered with black cloth, waiting for the great witch to choose.

After the sacrificial ceremony begins, the great witch will communicate with God Chiara through the sacrificial dance to decide the order of the sacrifices. Each time the sacrifice is prioritized, the island it represents will receive preferential treatment from the gods in the next year.

This is what Undead and Lei Li found out from the proprietress.It's just that when the proprietress mentioned the sacrifice, extremely complicated emotions flashed across her face.

Immortal originally thought that the sacrifices in this ceremony were at most common sacrifices such as cattle, sheep and pigs, until the big witch picked up the black cloth with the scepter in his hand.

It's completely different from Undead's imagination, it's not a common sacrificial offering... The box, no, it should be said to be a cage, and it contains living human beings.

In each cage is a girl.

Their faces are immature, the oldest one seems to be no more than 14 years old, and the youngest one is even still in the swaddling baby, sleeping peacefully.

Without exception, their faces were also painted with various colors of oil paint, and their faces could not be seen.The older one should know what he was about to face, and the oil paint on his face had already been partially dissolved by tears.The younger ones are still in a state of ignorance, thinking that the adults are playing games with themselves, and seeing people smiling at her under the high stage, they will wave to them and return sweet smiles.

They are the sacrifices sent by the islands.

It turned out to be the case.

fire sacrifice = living sacrifice

No wonder the proprietress of the hotel has such a complicated expression.

The big witch grabbed the first sacrifice, that is, the child who looked about the same age as Maggie, out of the cage. His skinny paws obviously used a lot of strength, and the child's mouth shrank and wept loudly stand up.

They have no right to choose, and their lives are determined by others.

They will stop there and die before they grow up.

Same as Maggie.

All this seemed familiar, as if Immortal had experienced this kind of thing before.

The fragments of memory flashed back, and what appeared in front of Undead was Maggie lying peacefully on the platform, which should be an altar.

The face of the girl tied to the altar overlapped with Maggie's, and the stimulation was transmitted to the cerebral cortex, causing the undead soul to vibrate.

Maggie didn't grow up.

And those girls tied to the altar will be the same as Maggie.

"Undead? What's wrong with you?" Roger also felt that this kind of sacrifice was too cruel, and he couldn't bear to watch it.When I turned my head, I found that the state of immortality was not right.

His body has been trembling since the announcement of the sacrifice.

The girl who looked like Maggie had already been tied to the rack, and the firewood that had been prepared earlier was piled up into a hill, and the firewood was doused with gasoline, so as long as it was ignited, it would burn quickly.

The big witch seemed to be performing, the torch was burning without any fire source, the big witch danced with the torch, and drew a circle, the firelight printed the girl's frightened face, and the crying sounded one after another.

They should grow up normally and let nature take its course, but backward customs and ignorant beliefs require them to sacrifice their lives for non-existent gods.

This is wrong, Immortal told himself.

So the girl tied up in the firewood completely coincided with Maggie's figure.

There seemed to be one voice, no, many voices whispering in the ear of the undead.

Save her, save her, save them!

The sound reached a peak, and the tight string in Undead's head broke.

Immortal responded to those voices, he turned into Maggie, quickly and flexibly shuttled between people's legs, like a fish against the pack, struggling to swim forward against countless pressures.

He has to move on.

In order to jump up more lightly, he changed his body when he was separated from the crowd. The body belonging to a certain woman leaped high, the purple ponytail outlined a beautiful arc, and landed like a light cat. bounced again.

When he jumped onto the altar, the torch was spinning and falling from the hand of the great witch, and everything seemed to be slowed down in the eyes of the immortal.

Finally, she rushed to the front at the moment when the torch fell, and she rushed forward, catching the torch that was about to fall with her bare hands.

The flame scalded her palm, and the smell of burning meat overflowed, but she still used her hands without hesitation to squeeze out the blazing flame.

Also on stage with her were Roger and Reilly.

"You guys are really messing around." Lei Li pressed the long knife pinned to his waist. He followed Roger's pace closely, then ran up inexplicably, and finally reached the altar.

Immortal conjured up a small knife and threw it to Roger, and then conjured up another one, cut the rope that bound the girl, and then hugged the girl tightly in his arms.

Just like Palona saved Maggie, the immortal who became her also saved the girl.

Roger had already understood Undead's intentions when Immortal was rushing towards the altar, and Immortal wanted to save the girls who were sacrificed, so he shouted loudly while running: "Rayleigh, the other two give it to you!"

"What sin did I do to get on your boat!" Although Lei Li said so, he still followed without hesitation.

The two each picked up the girls.In fact, when Raleigh was implementing it, he was still wondering: why, as a pirate, he still plays the role of saving people?

But seeing the tears in the corners of the eyes of the immortal girl, he paused.

Well, this can be regarded as acting according to the heart, isn't it?

The big witch was frightened by the three people who came up to the altar one after another, so he backed up several steps, staggered, and fell to the ground, the animal bones on his body clanging and clanging.

"You... who are you?! Guard guard!!!"

Men with painted bodies swarmed up, and they pulled the drumstick out of it. It turned out that there was a sharp knife hidden in the drumstick.

"Let's meet at the old place!" Roger shouted loudly, and then the three of them ran in three different directions.

Roger even ran and laughed loudly, as if he was afraid that the pursuers would not know where he was.

Immortal hugged the girl tightly in his arms, and the light body of the woman allowed him to run very fast while holding the girl.The girl in the arms seemed to know that she was saved, and she lay obediently on Undead's chest, very quiet.

Thanks for the crooked streets of this town.

Taking advantage of the complex terrain of the streets here, Immortal pushed away the pursuers by a large margin. She leaned against the wall and gasped for breath. Before she could catch her breath, she heard the voices of the pursuers again.

Just as she was passing by an alley, a hand grabbed her arm and dragged her into the alley. Her mouth was covered with both hands, and the footsteps of pursuers sounded outside the alley.

On the other hand, Roger and Rayleigh encountered similar obstacles.