Chapter 629 (1/2)
At the moment, in a large forest about dozens of miles east of Bian City, there is a legend among the local population. That is, in this forest, it used to be used by the Nanman people to sacrifice to their ancestors, and there was a fixed item every year, that is, the living sacrifice.
According to legend, the living sacrifice of the southern barbarians is to prepare a pair of boy and girl and a pair of adult men and women. First, they put that pair of adult men and women on the sacrificial platform, and cut their skin with a knife to make their blood flow out continuously. According to the southern barbarians, this is to attract the souls of their ancestors with their blood. And this process takes seven days and seven nights. As long as the wounds on the adult men and women are healed, the guards will cut a new wound with a knife. Of course, the scale of the wound should be well controlled. It should not flow too fast or too much, so that the adult male and female can persist until seven days and seven nights.
On the eighth day, the sacrifice would cut their throats directly with a knife and release their souls for their ancestors to enjoy. Then the boy and girl will be ready to put on the altar in a big pot, set up a bonfire, directly cook the two boys and girls. After the sacrifice, the boy and girl were naturally roasted to death, and then the sacrificial staff and the leader of the southern barbarian tribe would share the meat of the two boys and girls, which is said to share the power of their ancestors in the body.
Of course, this is only a legend. As for whether it is true, it is impossible to verify. There was indeed a tribe of Southern barbarians living near the outskirts of Biancheng. However, when Ying Yan and Luo Tianhan occupied Bian city with their troops, they had already killed the tribe of the southern barbarians, and none of them survived.
However, this legend is widely spread among the villages around this forest, and the more it spreads, the more evil it becomes. Some people even say that when passing through this forest, you can hear the howling sound in the forest. And these wails are the painful cries of those adult men and women who were used for sacrifice when they were cut again and again with a knife, which has been handed down to this day. Some people, however, heard the cries of children from the woods, but it was the cry of the boys and girls who were sacrificed when they were cooked.
In short, these rumors can be said to be spread in this forest, and it is becoming more and more intense. As a result, the people around me dare not enter the forest, or even dare to pass by it. Of course, it's not that the bold and curious people want to sneak in to find out, but after they enter, no one has seen them come out again. In this way, the legend about this forest is even more terrifying. People are telling that the ghosts of the adult men and women, boys and girls who were killed by sacrifice were all left in the forest. They were sold out and killed by their own people. Therefore, they have resentment and hatred, and they have no mercy on strangers.
However, this legend is convenient for some people with ulterior motives. It is said that there is a courtyard in the middle of the forest that they don't need to protect. Even if some passers-by get lost and break into this place by chance, the open hillock and secret sentry around the house will take the first step to eliminate them.
Today, however, in this house, there is a continuous sound of shrill screams. These screams are faintly transmitted to the villages outside the woods through the woods, but they are scared to death. They all retreated into their own homes, worshipped their Bodhisattvas and gods, and begged those evil spirits not to seek revenge on them.
However, in the courtyard, it is really like a hell of a scene, everywhere are extremely miserable corpses, everyone is open eyes, full of fear, pain, we can imagine what kind of torture they suffered before they died. In addition to these dead people, there are also some people in black walking back and forth in the courtyard. They have big knives that have been dyed red by blood. Not only are the knives, but their faces, clothes and hands are all covered with blood. Even their eyes are dyed red by blood.
In addition to these people in black, there are also a number of people, they are all kneeling on the ground, everyone's hands, feet and neck are heavily shackled. And on their faces, they were all covered with bruises of whips, cuts by sharp weapons, and even pieces of marks that had been burned with iron. They are also suffering from all kinds of torture at the moment. Those people in black sometimes ask questions, then cut them with their knives, and finally cut their heads off with one knife.
In the innermost part of the house, in a room that looks like a study, a young man in black armour is sitting on a chair with a book in his hand and reading it carefully. At the moment, the screams from the door and the window did not affect the young man's interest in the books in his hand. What made the young man interested in such books was a very ordinary history book.