Paintings of Terror

Suddenly a scream came from the direction of the big tent, and the huge strange face above his head suddenly lifted up, and then he took the eight arms that were dancing wildly with excitement, and walked towards the direction of the scream.

The scream turned into a scream in an instant, because it was so shrill and distorted that Ke Xun couldn't tell who made it for a while.

The arms of the giant shadow gathered in front of him, and his body blocked Ke Xun's sight. The screams twisted and tore in front of it, and soon there was no sound. Just when Ke Xun was ready to wait for it to turn back, But it walked to Zhou Bin Qinci's tent step by step, leaned down, stretched out its arms, and in the next moment, it picked up a person from the tent.

The man yelled something, and then he was grabbed by the giant hand, and the sharp and shrill scream sounded again, piercing through the bones and sending chills down his spine.

Ke Xun was stunned when he suddenly saw a figure flashing outside the tent. Before he could react, the curtain of his tent was already lifted, and someone quickly squeezed in.

To be exact, it was two people, Qin Ci, carrying Zhao Dan who was in a coma on his back.

"Why—" Ke Xun just opened his mouth, but Qin Ci stopped him by covering his mouth, and quickly placed Zhao Dan beside him, and lay down himself.

Ke Xun was completely confused this time, lying in a daze, hearing Zhou Bin's screams quickly disappearing into the air, and the giant shadow turned around again, walking towards the tent step by step.

Ke Xun raised his eyes, and saw its huge figure standing above, with six arms dancing in the air, and the other two arms were holding something that was still dripping with sticky blood.

The giant shadow bent down, and the arms carrying the things rested on the roof of the tent. The two things fell on it, reflecting the pale snow light, with clear outlines.

It's two complete, fresh, skeletons.

Uncoagulated blood was still stuck to the skeleton, and things that were not known to be internal organs or minced meat were slowly sliding down the arc of the top of the tent.

Ke Xun stared at it, clenched the stone in his hand, thinking that later, he would hit its eyes hard before he died.

Before the sky brightened, the giant shadow left the ground with its sacrifice for tonight.

Ke Xun sat up and looked at Qin Ci.

Qin Ci's face was a little haggard, he squeezed the center of his brows, and said in a low voice, "I don't know what's going on, it stands to reason that Zhou Bin was the one who prepared the most sacrifices, but last night, that thing still chose us That tent...Zhou Bin saw that thing was going to arrest him, so he asked me to bring Zhao Dan to you... Maybe, he also had the last hope for Zhao Dan. Seeing that the sacrifice he prepared didn't work, let me Let's form a group of three, hoping to avoid the killing of that thing."

Ke Xun looked at Zhao Dan, who was still in a coma, and looked up at the bright red skull blood mark left on the top of the tent. On the head of the blood mark of the skull, two empty eye holes seemed to be staring at Zhao Dan in his eyes.

"At least he treats his girlfriend very well." Ke Xun looked away, stood up and was about to go out, but saw the tent curtain was lifted from the outside, Mu Yi ran in with a sullen face, Ke Xun's lips twitched He wanted to say hello, but he was punched in the face, staggered two steps back, and lay down on the felt blanket, with two lines of nosebleeds hanging on his face, looking up at Mu Yi and smiling.

"No next time." Mu Yi stared at him coldly, turned and walked out of the tent.

Ke Xun wiped his nose with the back of his hand, slumped on the blanket and gasped for a few breaths, then turned his face to look at Qin Ci and smiled: "Guess why he beat me."

Qin Ci sat beside him and rubbed his temples: "I think it's because you hacked him unconscious yesterday without his permission."

Ke Xun shook his chest and laughed twice: "I see, I thought it was a violent manifestation of the word 'worry'."

Coming out of the tent, Ke Xun saw Mu Yiran covering two corpses curled up on the ground not far away with two felt blankets.

It is not accurate to say that it is curled up.The two corpses were more like rubber figures that had been emptied of gas, piled up limply and wrinkled into a lump.

In the tent where Mu Yiran and Weidong were, the curtain was half open, revealing half of the pale face of the person sitting huddled inside, it was Shaliu.

When Wei Dong woke up, Zhao Dan also woke up from the coma, and the heart-piercing cry resounded between the tents.Zhao Dan, who was originally very timid, threw himself on Zhou Bin's skeletonless body, and refused to leave no matter who tried to pull him.

"Why?!" Wei Dong asked Ke Xun and Mu Yiran with red eyes and clenched fists.

"Didn't you collect all the sacrifices? Why are you still killed?" Father Geng also asked tremblingly.

Qin Ci frowned tightly: "There must be something wrong, we may have made a mistake, or missed something."

"Wuhuilu, Wugong Meat, Duom, Liaojiu, Offering Bowls, Lamps, Gala, Dangka," Sha Liu held on to his glasses, his lips were bloodless, "We have prepared all of them, and even prepared more types. Many, why...why..."

No one answered her, and everyone fell into unprecedented confusion, helplessness and fear.

"I remembered," Sha Liu's bloodshot eyes suddenly widened, "it is said in the book that these offerings should be dedicated to the angry and fierce gods, and they should be placed on the little boy's skin! Because the little boy's skin can Suppressing the impedimental demons who tried to sabotage the offering ceremony—is it because of this reason that we fell short of success?"

"What you're talking about is a cult!" Mama Geng couldn't bear it any longer, she yelled angrily, and tightly protected her child with her hands. The little boy was mentioned in Sha Liu's words, which made her extremely nervous and alert .

"Which serious sect would use this kind of thing as a sacrifice?!" Father Geng also angrily reprimanded.

Sha Liu silently glanced at the Geng family and his wife, and said softly: "It is an honor for pious believers to dedicate themselves to teaching.

"I have seen such a saying that in Ganxiong, people's devotion to the Satuo religion can be so high that even for a second they treat you as warmly as a friend, and have a good drink with you, but as long as the elders say something , the next second they can follow orders without hesitation and cut off your head.

"The more people who have not been baptized by science, the greater the influence and control of faith on them. For them, death is not terrible. Life and death are part of reincarnation and return to nature, so they will not Think of this cruel and bloody sacrifice method as a terrible and inhuman thing.

"In other words, in their view, death and rebirth are both God's guidance and gifts, life and death are equal, the body is just a stinky skin, not worthy of joy, and it is not worth giving up. Many sects even treat the body as torture. As a way of cultivating the body and mind, the more pain the body suffers, the deeper the cultivation and the purification of the soul.

"So... the sacrifice of the body may be difficult for outsiders to accept and understand, but it may not be surprising at all in places where Satuoism is prevalent. What they practice is the soul, the spirit, not the body."

"Get out!" Geng Ma pointed at Sha Liu's nose and scolded, "I don't care where this is, and I don't care what gods they believe in, our family doesn't believe in this! No one can think of it on our family's head No matter where you heard it, if you dare to mention it again, I will fight you!"

Sha Liu didn't respond, just lowered her head and adjusted her glasses.

"The top priority now," Qin Ci said, "is to find out why Zhou Bin was selected last night, otherwise everyone else will die tonight."

He said while thinking and said: "Last night, Zhou Bin and my tent, as well as the tent of Brother Geng's family of three, put almost all the sacrifices we prepared, and even one of Li Ziling's Wuhuilu, Zhou Bin I also got it yesterday, plus the other four kinds of huilu from Shaliu, as well as the five-tribute meat he got himself, and yesterday from the celestial burial altar... those things, he returned to Shaliu The ones mentioned have been processed, so it can be said that the sacrifices in our tent are the most complete, I don’t understand why we were chosen instead.”

Geng's father also thought about it and said: "Maybe he violated some taboo. He killed the people in this painting just to obtain human flesh. He even snatched the corpses on the celestial burial platform yesterday. This, this is simply desecrating the corpses. This kind of behavior is likely to provoke the anger of heaven and earth, so that thing will pick him!"

"It's not impossible to say that," Qin Ci pondered, and looked at Ke Xun again, "I still have a question, last night that thing first arrived at the tent of Xiao Ke who met the first screening criteria, why didn't he choose the middle and small ones?" Where is Ke? I don't understand this, when he looked into the tent, did Xiao Ke find anything?"

"I can't figure it out either," Ke Xun shrugged. Seeing Mu Yiran's gaze coldly sweeping towards him, humans and animals blinked at him harmlessly. Qin Ci, "But I think it actually wanted to catch me out. It stared at me for a long time, feeling like it was watching me, but I don't know why it took so long to watch."

"It may be picking the quality of this piece of meat." Weidong said.

"Then there's no need to hesitate. I still have to choose my appearance?" Ke Xun said.

"I don't think it will let go of anyone who doesn't meet the conditions," Mu Yiran said, "Li Ziling is an example. She and Zhou Bin are in the opposite situation. Zhou Bin not only meets the number of people in the tent, but also gathers the most Li Ziling did not meet the number of people in the tent, nor did he have any sacrifices around him. Both of them were selected. There is only one explanation for this—the second screening condition that everyone speculated before was wrong, but It cannot be ignored that Ke Xun is the only one who survived without meeting the first condition."

"So that means," Qin Ci looked at Ke Xun in surprise, "Maybe Xiao Ke is someone who meets the conditions for self-protection?"

Everyone's eyes immediately turned to Ke Xun's face.

Ke Xun looked down at himself: "I don't seem to be doing anything, I didn't even take the five wisdom dew, and I was alone in the tent at the beginning of last night, maybe I still have two souls, a man and a woman, in my body. Was it taken away by them without knowing it?"

"What were you doing when that thing was by your tent last night?" Mu Yiran asked him coldly.

"I miss you." Ke Xun said.

Seeing that Mu Yiran was about to raise his hand as soon as his face changed, Ke Xun hurriedly took a step to avoid the sharp edge: "I remember wrongly, let me think about it... well, I seem to be scolding it, and I even pointed my middle finger at it ——Could it be that it didn't dare to do anything to me because this gesture attacked it with magic power?"

"Fuck, if you want to say that, how many monsters have I injured with mana since I was a child?" Wei Dong pointed his middle finger at him.

"If it wasn't for this, I wouldn't know the reason." Ke Xun said.

"I have a guess," Mu Yiran suddenly looked at the crowd, "about the setting of the death conditions."