novelcrest Chapter 218 Temptation
Chapter 218 Temptation
Chapter 218 Temptation
Combining elements such as late night, deep forest, prostration, stone plate, pouring blood, etc., it is not difficult to guess that these former townspeople of Blackstone Town are conducting some kind of ceremony at this moment.
Or sacrifice.
Women play an obviously priestly role.
In the next painting that follows, the style of the painting changes suddenly, and a huge and ferocious monster appears from the stone plate.
Sharp and twisted horns, a thick body, fins that are far stronger than fish, and behind the fine scales are actually two pairs of bat-like wings.
What's even more frightening is the terrifying huge mouth that can almost cut a person in half.
Facing such a guy, Chen Ran and Jiang Cheng were rarely silent.
They are no strangers to it, they have seen it once, on the first stone gate, the same dark pattern carving.
"Brother Hao," Chen Ran looked at Jiang Cheng, as if he could see through what he was thinking at the moment, and reminded him lightly, "There are 35 people in the team entering the forest."
Jiang Cheng stared at the old woman, and after a while, returned: "It's 36 people, you didn't count the dead one."
"Yes," Chen Ran squinted and smiled.
When entering the forest, there were 35 living people carrying a dead person. After leaving the forest, the carried dead person disappeared and the board was empty, but there were 36 people in the team.
Combined with the scenes they witnessed near the stone plate, the stone plate. No, more precisely, the ability of this sacrifice is obvious.
resurrection
It can bring the dead back to life.
Raising the dead human flesh and bones, such a weird thing actually happened.
Jiang Cheng could imagine the shock in his heart when those outsiders who already had a certain amount of modern basic medical knowledge accidentally discovered this scene.
No, it should be said to be shocking!
This completely subverted their cognition.
Immediately afterwards, the seed of greed in their hearts also began to take root.
Few people can refuse the temptation of longevity, and they are no exception.
The following pictures also confirm this.
They began to contact the townspeople more and more frequently, prying around the townspeople's tone, hoping to get a glimpse of some secrets about the sacrifice.
And they no longer have the heart to repair the ship, but put all their energy into how to uncover the secrets of the sacrifice, so as to use it, and the local people, to serve themselves.
As time passed, the townspeople gradually realized that these outsiders were less and less interested in leaving here, and their interest in the forest increased greatly.
then--
Conflict inevitably occurred.
The fuse was a child.
Children of outsiders.
He seemed to have suffered from a very rare and strange disease, and was dying in his mother's arms.
A group of outsiders surrounded women and children to the largest and most luxurious building in the town. After that, an old man walked out of the building.
The old man's clothes were obviously better than those of other townspeople. Jiang Cheng thought he should be the mayor of the town, or some sort of tribal leader.
In the previous painting of sneaking into the forest to sacrifice late at night, it was the old man who led the team.
At first, the attitudes of the two sides were quite gentle, but then the situation took a turn for the worse, and the faces of the two sides became more and more wrong, and finally even a fierce quarrel broke out.
Townspeople kept coming from all directions, and more and more helpers from outsiders gathered. They took weapons from the boat and distributed them to everyone. The spear-like weapons faintly reflected cold light.
What is colder than the cold light are the eyes of these people.
It is not difficult to guess that they hope that the old man will use the ability of the altar to help the child tide over the difficulties.
Perhaps in their minds, since priests can resurrect the dead, it is even easier to save a dying person. Of course, the premise is that the townspeople think so.
But the reality is that the old man sternly rejected their request.
Moreover, in the following painting, the old man seemed very angry. He waved his hand and pointed at the repaired ship docked on the shore. The meaning was very clear, asking them to leave as soon as possible.
In the end, the two parties broke up unhappy.
But on this night, the accumulated desire and greed finally broke out.
Although the number of outsiders was slightly smaller than that of the townspeople in Blackstone Town, their weapons were more sophisticated. They formed a small team of about 10 people and held weapons. The family caught them and drove them to the square in the center of the town.
That's right, it was the square where Jiang Cheng and the others ate.
Soon, the old man was escorted to the leading man with his hands tied behind his back.
The unarmed townspeople were asked to kneel down, and outsiders armed with weapons stood beside them to watch. The identities of the rescuer and the rescued were instantly shattered.
There are no more victims to be rescued here, but only a group of robbers who take the opportunity to attack.
Everyone knew in their hearts that asking the townspeople to rescue the child was just a cover, and whether the child died or not had nothing to do with their money, and at best it was just an experiment.
The important thing is that for them who call themselves civilized people, they need a high-sounding excuse.
The details of the conversation between them are unknown, but according to the information revealed in the painting, after more than a dozen townspeople were decapitated, the old man finally compromised.
Under his leadership, a group of people escorted the townspeople and marched towards the forest.
The outsiders cruelly used ropes to pass through the townspeople's collarbone, and strung them into a long line, while holding weapons and torches, they walked beside the line in groups to escort them.
Unlike the townspeople who are full of fear, the faces of outsiders are full of fanaticism and longing. Since ancient times, people's thirst for life has reached a morbid state.
No one can escape death, but countless people try their best.
And now. The opportunity is in front of them.
How could they be calm.
Worship enlightened by science fell under the shock of miracles one after another, just like the darkest period when theology and science fought alternately.
The eyes of the women who were slandered as heretics and tied to the stone pillars looked at the Catholic Church in the raging fire.
Those guys with emerald rings on their little fingers direct the ignorant believers to build piles of firewood under their feet.
They don't fear hell, because this is hell.
Soon, under the leadership of the old man, they found the strange white stone plate, and the crowd became restless. What countless people had been looking for all their lives was now touched by them.
Before the ceremony started, the old man advised them more than once.
But at this moment, there was no one who could listen to the advice. When a ferocious strong man put a weapon on the neck of a shivering little girl, the old man had no choice but to shut up.
Later, the old man personally took the dying child from the woman's arms, then walked to the stone plate, put it down respectfully, and placed the child's hand on his chest steadily.
first change
(End of this chapter)