Paintings of Terror

The tributes that the middle-aged man asked everyone to prepare were five huilu, five tribute meat, libation wine, duom, offering bowls, lamps, gala, and dangka.

What Mu Yiran brought back from the Satuo Temple was Wugong meat and Wuhuilu processed by practitioners using various plants collected by him and Ke Xun.

The five tribute meats are the five plants that Mu Yiran just mentioned, and the five huilu are the nutmeg representing the excrement, the woody juice representing the urine, the white cardamom representing the brain, the bamboo yellow and the male essence. Red sandalwood represents female blood.

The libation consisted of five kinds of wine, Qingsha wine, wine, rice-brewed white wine, rice wine, and horse milk wine, which Qin Ci had recovered, to replace the wine made from human brain, blood, and bile prepared by everyone before.

Dom is the offering cake, which is made of five kinds of rice noodles, millet, rice, barley, wheat, and peas, which the Geng family found, instead of the dough made of human gall, brain, blood and viscera prepared by everyone before.

The lamp is the ordinary oil lamp that Mu Yiran brought back at first, and the lamp oil is ghee found by Weidong, replacing the lamp oil and lamp core made from human oil and hair.

As for Gala and Dangka, people still don't know what they mean, but Mu Yiran used the sacrificial rites of other sects as a reference, and speculated that believers would often offer clothes and clothing to the gods in addition to offering wine and meat to the gods. Gala and Dangka must refer to these two things.

The so-called clothing here refers to clothes and equipment, and equipment refers to the iconic utensils held by each god.

Many gods of good fortune often hold flowers, spices or jewelry in their hands. Mu Yiran believes that judging from the current living conditions in the area, it is impossible to have jewelry, so he uses camphor and sandalwood found from flowers and willows. Spices such as wood and rosin replaced the flowers made of human facial features and the human bones used as magic tools.

As for the clothes of the gods, the gods who look angry wear human skin, and the gods who look good wear eagle feathers or silk. Mu Yiran believes that when the man pointed to the north, it did not mean the corpse on the celestial burial platform, but the vulture and the mountain. Sunken flowers and plants.

The answer is always in front of everyone's eyes, but good and evil are only in one thought.Yongxi Vision Buddha said: What is in your heart is what you see.

Therefore, it is also a sacrifice, some people see the blood and evil, and some people see the fragrance of flowers and plants.

"No wonder this painting is called "Faith." When everything was ready and waiting for the night to fall, Ke Xun and Mu Yiran stood side by side next to the small tents. Ke Xun said enlightenedly, "It seems that The artist of the painting is testing whether the thoughts in our hearts are evil or good. If we have found the right thing from the beginning, maybe so many people will not die. It feels like some people are constantly killing themselves from the beginning to the end."

"In fact, I also once thought that the intention of the painter was to force us to follow the evil side of our hearts, gradually annihilate humanity and kindness, and believe in the cult that only the devil can make you live forever." Pastor He said in a calm voice, "The reason why cults have so many believers is nothing more than two ways: either catch people's desires and brainwash them, or tap people's evil thoughts to encourage and connive. This painting is a trap about human nature, and I also almost fell, so that I didn’t find it until today.”

"Don't be too harsh on yourself," Ke Xun reached out and patted his shoulder, "Even if you are evil in your heart, I still like you."

Mu Yiran squeezed his wrist expressionlessly, and threw his arm aside.

Night finally fell, and the snow light reflected from the distant mountains, sandwiched with a cool chill.

Everyone stood outside the small tent that had been turned upside down, looking for a suitable angle on the top of the tent under the light of the snow.

The strange thing is that no matter whether you turn it over or look for it, you still can't use the angle of light to illuminate the obvious patterns like Mu Yiran did last night.

Everyone looked at each other, and Mama Geng couldn't help being anxious: "Is it not working? What can I do? Does that mean that someone still has to die tonight?"

With a pale face, Sha Liu said in a low voice: "Could it be that these sacrifices... make the pattern no longer appear?"

"Tsk," Ke Xun heard from the side, and looked at her with a half-smile, "I seem to smell a bit of blame and blame. Miss Shaliu, if you don't want to part with those bloody sacrifices, you can do it yourself. Find a tent and get in, we won't stop you."

"You misunderstood..." Sha Liu said hastily, "I didn't mean that, I just provided one more idea, everyone can brainstorm, after all, time is running out, and the Black Corpse Heaven will appear soon..."

Ke Xun didn't bother to talk to her anymore, he walked up to Mu Yiran, and said in a low voice, "I suspect that this light won't shine at the right angle until the Black Corpse Sky appears."

Mu Yiran looked at Xueguang in the distance, and let out a "hmm".

Geng Ma cried out in despair: "Doesn't this mean that some of us will still die? When that thing appears, it will kill people. We don't have time to find any patterns, and we have to piece together the whole picture according to the patterns. Isn't that right?" Idiots talking about dreams!"

Geng's father looked at Mu Yiran with bloodshot eyes: "Didn't you say that these sacrifices are enshrined to the god of goodness? Then will it be the side of goodness that appears tonight? The goodness should not Killer, right?"

"It's best not to have too many expectations," Mu Yiran replied calmly, "After all, the fact that everyone has prepared sacrifices to enshrine the fierce god of anger can no longer be erased. , has been summoned, I think it will not be willing to be replaced by the other side, the things in this world, this is the ebb and flow, good and evil fight each other, never stop."

"Then what should we do? Are we just waiting to die outside the tent like this? When Hei Shitian appears, he must first arrest those who are not in the tent..." Sha Liu also looked at Mu Yiran eagerly.

Mu Yiran lowered his eyes and pondered for a while, then raised his eyes to the people who were looking at him and waiting for him to make a decision: "There is only one stupid way to try. Tonight's request is two people and one tent, eight of us Individuals are divided into four groups, and there are seven tents here, which requires one person to see the pattern of all seven tents, move them and stitch them into a whole pattern according to the correct position as soon as possible."

"This person, I'm afraid it must be you, Brother Mu." Father Geng said hastily.

Mu Yiran nodded slightly: "I will try my best. Then let's number the seven tents now, and I hope everyone can remember them. Next, we will allocate tents. Mrs. Geng and her children are in tent No. [-]. This tent was opened yesterday. I have seen the patterned one before, but I don’t need to look at it again tonight, you two don’t have to do anything in it, just listen to my only command, which is when all the tents are in place, I will shout 'Turn over the tent', Mrs. Geng, please turn this tent over, the tent is not too heavy, Mrs. Geng should be able to do it by herself."

Hearing the words, Geng Ma stepped forward and tried to turn it over, and it was really easy, so she nodded at Mu Yi.

Mu Yiran continued: "Shaliu is in the No. [-] tent. I have seen the pattern of this tent last night, but it cannot be connected with the pattern of the No. [-] tent. I believe there are other tents between the two tents." Pattern connection. You are alone in this tent, don’t worry, if Hei Shitian comes to you, someone will enter the tent in time to gather enough people. Although this trick failed in the middle of the night yesterday, I think it should be with you tonight It was the same as the first half of the night yesterday, at least in the initial stage, it can still be effective for a while."

Sha Liu bit her lip, her face was troubled: "What if it doesn't work? Hei Shitian already knew about our trick yesterday, so how could he be fooled today?"

"Even so," Mu Yiran said indifferently, "Heishitian's first choice is always a tent with a number of people that does not meet the requirements, and you will not be the only tent that does not meet the number of people tonight."

Before Sha Liu could speak again, Mu Yiran turned to the remaining men: "We each occupy one of the remaining five tents. Doctor Qin corresponds to Mr. Geng, Wei Dong corresponds to Ke Xun, I corresponded with Sha Liu, and once I found that Heishitian was walking towards someone's tent, the corresponding person immediately left his tent and entered that person's tent."

Everyone suddenly realized when they heard the words, Mu Yiran used a mutual rescue method, whichever tent Hei Zhetian walked towards, the tent would immediately become two people. Finding another tent with only one person delayed the time for someone to be picked to a certain extent.

"In the meantime," Mu Yiran continued, seeing that everyone had caught up with the train of thought, "I will be the one who maneuvers, and enter these five tents one by one to observe the pattern on the top of the tents. Before, I tried to rely on the light of the snow, and adjusted the tent to an angle where I could see the patterns clearly, so that I could see them directly after entering the tent, so that I could memorize the patterns faster.”

"Okay." Everyone responded one after another.

"Finally," Mu Yiran said, "be sure to remember the number of the tent you are in, and listen to my password clearly. Once I figure out the splicing positions of these patterns, I will immediately tell everyone to move your tent." Wherever you go, tent No. [-] will be used as the benchmark and will not be moved, and the other tents will be moved based on tent No. [-]. After moving, I will ask everyone to turn over the tent, and then everyone will turn over the tent together. understand?"

"Understood." Everyone replied.

"There is one thing to remind everyone," Mu Yiran looked at everyone with deep eyes, "We don't know how many people meet the screening criteria for the Black Corpse Day tonight, but if one person is caught outside the tent, it is very likely that At least one person in the tent will die.

"And what I want to say is that tonight we are a whole, all actions are completed by the eight of us together, none of which is indispensable. Once someone loses the chain and affects the whole body, it is likely to lead to the collapse of the whole.

"So, I hope that everyone muster up their courage to withstand the huge pressure of death, don't escape, don't panic, and don't collapse and give up.

"Every one of us is tied to the lives of seven other people. I hope everyone can last until the last second, do our best, keep calm, and keep hope."

Everyone nodded.

"The time is coming soon," Mu Yiran looked up at the sky, seeing the thick blackness about to fall, "Everyone, go into your own tents. The entrances of the tents are all facing the circle, so that it is convenient for each other to run."

Everyone's faces were still inevitably tense, and they entered their respective tents with some shivering and fear.

But Ke Xun was as calm as Mu Yiran, before entering the tent, he turned his head and said to him with a smile: "Do you know how sexy you were when you lined up just now?"

Mu Yiran looked at him expressionlessly, and finally said: "Yes."