Paintings of Terror

Sha Liu was a little out of breath when she walked, and swallowed quickly when she heard the words, and said: "I've heard of Hei Shi Tian, ​​my mother's friend who cured cancer after taking Huiludan, has believed in Sata since then. He taught and bought a lot of related books. I once read the description of the eight-armed black corpse in his book.

"It is said in the book that it is wearing human skin, has a human head chain around its neck, and holds a bowl made of skulls, which contains human brains. In addition, there are also some descriptions of the offerings made to the Heishitian, such as...

"Such as a human heart, intestines, legs and arms, a head with its skin peeled off, a lamp lit with human oil and hair as a wick, a flower made of human five sense organs, a liquid made of human brain, blood and bile, a liquid made of human brain, blood and bile, A large dough made of gallbladder, brain, blood, and viscera..."

Li Ziling vomited again, and Zhao Dan also retched in Zhou Bin's arms.

Zhou Bin's eyes lit up: "Could these be the Dom, Gala, etc. that person said? And the skull bowl you mentioned, is it the offering bowl? The libation is not ordinary wine, it should be served by the servants. It is made of brains, blood and bile, and there are lamps, the ordinary lamps found yesterday should not be correct, you have to use human oil lamps!"

Sha Liu thought about it for a while, then nodded: "I think it should be. I only remember a large number of transliterated nouns in the book, but I just glanced at them casually and didn't remember them carefully... By the way, Dom, I remembered. ! It means offering cakes—could it be... that big dough..."

"That's it!" Zhou Bin clenched his fist and waved vigorously, "We just need to find these things!"

Qin Ci was very cautious, and asked Mu Yiran who hadn't spoken for a long time in a deep voice: "Xiao Mu, what do you think?"

Mu Yiran glanced at the excited Zhou Bin: "I have doubts about this, and I'm not sure that the sacrificial offerings that the man mentioned refer to the things Sha Liu mentioned, and I don't think so. What good will these things do."

Qin Ci looked at him: "How do you say it?"

"Ke Xun said that last night's giant shadow looked taller than the previous night," Mu Yiran said, "Why such a change occurred, I suspect it has something to do with the sacrifice we found. All gods exist by faith The stronger the faith, the greater the power of the gods. Sacrifice is the most direct way to reflect the belief of believers, and the sacrifice is also equivalent to the power of faith, which is the source of the power of the gods."

"You mean, because we collected the sacrifices, Heishitian absorbed the power of faith contained in the sacrifices, so he looked taller and stronger than the night before?" Qin Ci understood.

"That's why I said that it might not be a good thing for us to look for these sacrifices." Mu Yiran said.

Zhou Bin frowned: "But if we don't prepare sacrifices as required, we will still be killed by that thing, not to mention, as you said, if sacrifices are equivalent to faith, which god would kill his believers? Said Maybe the reason why it kills us is because the sacrifices have not been assembled yet, once they are assembled and the sacrificial ceremony is officially held, it will love us like believers."

"And there is another saying," Sha Liu said, "It is said that Heishitian was an extremely cruel and ferocious demon in paganism before he converted to Sataism. Those who want to drive it to work for the sect must pay a certain price, such as offering its favorite sacrifices and magic weapons, the more vicious and vicious the devil is, the more useful it is to the practitioner."

Zhou Binfu punched his fist in the palm of his heart: "It needs sacrifices and magic tools. You just said that it is wearing human skin, with a human head chain around its neck, and a skull bowl in its hand—think about how Tan Zheng and Ma Zhenhua died. One was dismembered, the head was ripped off, and the other was skinned. Does that mean that that thing is using us as its outfit? It’s because we didn’t get what it wanted, so it did it by itself. Does it also mean that once we gather the things together, we will not be killed by it again, and it may even be driven by us? For example, take us to find the seal and leave this painting?"

The rest of the people seemed to think that what he said made sense, and nodded accordingly.

"Then what are we waiting for? Hurry up and find these things!" Zhou Bin looked at everyone impatiently.

Qin Ci still asked Mu Yiran cautiously: "Is Xiao Mu also going north to find these sacrificial vessels?"

"Finding things comes second, I just want to go over there first." Mu Yiran said.

"What's there?" Sha Liu asked.

"Flocks of vultures." Mu Yiran said coldly.

Zhou Bin didn't know why, so he asked the vulture what was wrong, but seeing Sha Liu's face turned pale, he said, "The celestial burial platform."

The custom of celestial burial is not unique to certain religions. There are traces of this custom in churches in many countries in Southeast Asia, and even among the Maasai people in Africa.

The Sata Sect also practiced the celestial burial ceremony, and everyone had heard of it. Seeing that Mu Yiran said so, they didn't question it anymore, and after walking for so long, it was not worth the loss to turn around and go back, so they decided to go to the celestial burial platform together to see what happened. .

Around a huge peak, dozens of circling vultures suddenly appeared in front of them.

On the celestial burial platform ahead, it seemed that a celestial burial ceremony was being held.

Three or five people gathered there, some were lighting incense, some were sitting cross-legged on sheepskins and chanting sutras, some were picking tools from the ground, including knives, hammers, and shovels.

In the very center of the celestial burial platform, there is a corpse lying on its back.On the stones around the corpse, a dozen or so vultures waited greedily.

Everyone didn't get too close, hiding behind a big rock, carefully looking in the direction of the platform.

After a while, the chanter stood up and said a few words, and the man with the knife went to the corpse, turned the corpse over, swung the knife, inserted it directly into the buttocks, and then slashed downwards, from the buttocks Up to the ankle, a long strip of red and white meat was cut off.

Li Ziling let out a sharp scream, and the people on the celestial burial platform heard the sound and looked over, their faces immediately turned ferocious, and they rushed towards this side wielding knives, hammers and shovels!

"Run!" Qin Ci yelled, turned his head and ran, and the rest of them hurriedly followed in fright. There were rugged rocks under their feet. After running a few steps, Li Ziling and Zhao Dan sprained their feet and fell. He bumped and fell to the ground.

Zhou Bin dragged Zhao Dan up and carried him on his back, and continued to scramble to escape. Li Ziling fell to the ground and was ignored, crying in panic, "Don't leave me—please— —Help me—I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die—Shaliu! Shaliu! Don’t go, save me—”

Sha Liu didn't run very far, just in front of Li Ziling, she was tripped by a stone and fell to the ground. After climbing for a long time, she couldn't get up. Can't get rid of it even if you struggle.

"Zi Ling, let me go—" Sha Liu turned pale.

"I don't—you take me with you—we are good friends, you can't leave me, we want to live together, we want to die together—" Li Ziling's cry turned out to be shrill and vicious afterward.

The two of them were entangled in a ball when they suddenly saw two long legs stepping in. Before they could look up to see who it was, they were pulled up from the ground by the back of the neck with each hand.

"Plastic sisters, hum?" Ke Xun raised his eyebrows and ran forward again.

Sha Liu and Li Ziling didn't dare to delay any longer, obviously Ke Xun would not look back a second time.

At the juncture of life and death, human potential is huge. Li Ziling endured the sprained foot pain, and followed up step by step. Fortunately, the celestial burial platform was still some distance away from the place where everyone took refuge. Did not catch up.

Everyone ran in a hurry for ten minutes, Zhou Bin was exhausted with Zhao Dan on his back, looked back, saw that those people seemed to have been thrown off, so he stopped and let Zhao Dan down.

"Let's go quickly," Zhao Dan cried, "It's too scary, it's just a sky burial, there's nothing to see, let's go, okay?"

Zhou Bin pressed her shoulder: "It's okay, those people will stop chasing you, rest, do your feet still hurt? Let Doctor Qin take a look at it for you."

After waiting for a while, everyone ran to the front one after another, finally Li Ziling and Sha Liu, but Ke Xun, Wei Dong and Mu Yiran were nowhere to be seen.

"Where did they go?" Zhou Bin asked Sha Liu.

Sha Liu panted, and pointed behind her: "I saw them go around to the other side of the peak, not far from the celestial burial platform. I don't know if they want to avoid those people or lure them away."

Zhou Bin looked in the direction of the celestial burial for a while, then turned to ask Qin Ci: "Doctor Qin, tell me, is there any clue about this celestial burial?"

Qin Ci shook his head: "I can't think of anything for now."

Zhou Bin looked at him meaningfully: "I think it is very possible. That Mu Yi is certainly not simple, and he will not do things aimlessly. Since he wants to come here, he must have his intentions. The key point may be the sky burial. On the stage, didn’t you look at him and refused to go far away even if he ran away? Maybe he went around and lured those people away, so he could just take advantage of the gap and take the opportunity to go up to the sky burial platform.”

Qin Ci looked at him: "Then what do you mean?"

There was a flash of light in Zhou Bin's eyes: "Let's think about the sacrificial utensils we just mentioned, such as human oil, human brain, gallbladder and blood, skull, heart, arms, hair and legs, and skull bowl, where do you think these things can be obtained? ?”

Sha Liu was startled: "You mean...the corpses on the celestial burial altar can provide these things?"

"Obviously that's the case, otherwise why would Mu Yiran come here?" Zhou Bin said firmly, "That Weidong also said that they asked the people in the village, and someone pointed them to the north - this is obvious. It’s just a quest prompt, explaining that what we need is here, what do we need? Of course it’s a sacrifice! And what’s here? Only that corpse, a corpse can provide us with all the sacrifices we want, we must find a way to go Get it!"

"But those people are so fierce, what are we going to do?" Zhao Dan was worried, "They have knives and tools in their hands, and we are no match with bare hands."

"But we have a lot of people," Zhou Bin gritted his teeth, "I have an idea."

Ke Xun Weidong followed Mu Yiran around the peak and carefully descended along a steep mountain wall.

After walking around among the jagged rocks for a while, I finally saw a valley.

"Boss, let's take a rest, I'm really tired..." Wei Dong gasped and supported his waist.

"Your bones were gutted when you were eight years old and have never been replaced," Ke Xun said.

"Can I compare with you? When you were in school, you carried the big men who practiced triathlon around the playground every three days. I feel tired when I carry my head on my neck." Wei Dong said.

Mu Yiran ignored the two bastards whose lives were constantly making fun of each other, and just said lightly: "Wait here." He continued walking forward by himself.