After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 371
"It's cheap for him to avoid God's favor." The beheader snorted, climbed out of the pit, and said to the two tigers, "Please execute!"

Bihu got impatient for a long time, and rushed up to the unconscious prisoner with a big mouthful.

With a chirping sound, blood spattered three feet.

The man woke up in severe pain, and when he screamed out, a large piece of flesh had been bitten off from his belly, and his abdominal cavity was ripped open.

Of course he struggled desperately, but human strength is like a fly shaking a tree.The imitation tiger held him down with one paw, and devoured the internal organs.

The offal is the most delicious and nutritious, and ligers and tigers eat in this order.

Not to be outdone, the other tiger joined the fight, but failed to grab a few bites, and broke the prisoner's thigh in a rage.

For a while, tigers roared and people howled, making the noise extraordinary.The foreign merchants who saw this scene for the first time turned pale.

He Lingchuan finally knew how the stains in the sunken platform came from.

The local townspeople were staring intently, and the little girl craned her head down to try to get a better view.But soon she complained: "A Dong is lying, the pit is so deep, blood can't splash out at all!"

After only a dozen or so breaths, the prisoner was silent in the fight between two imitation tigers.

One end was still eating delicious food, and the other end simply turned to look for the dead criminal who hit the post.

The delicacy cannot be wasted, this is their hard-won reward.

The "click" sound of the sharp teeth gnawing on the bones frightened many foreigners.

At this time, the guard brought a huge black cloth, covered the entire execution platform, and said to everyone: "The execution is over, let's go." The villagers dispersed reluctantly.

Shi Congshui could also see the cold sweat on his forehead, and asked He Lingchuan, "What's the matter, can you still drink the wine?"

He Lingchuan has seen all sorts of strange monster cannibalism scenes, far more bleak than this, but he saw that Shi Congshui swallowed his saliva, obviously feeling uncomfortable in his stomach and forced himself to calm down, so he stretched himself: "No, I'm a little tired , I want to go back to the station to rest."

Shi Congshui secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, okay, it's better to go to bed early today."

Passing by an alley, the smell of oil came from the roadside stalls.He Lingchuan's stomach growled, and he went to buy some sesame seed cakes.

He had just gnawed on the second cake when he saw a guard also turn around the small alley, followed by another person, his eyes were red as if he had just cried, and he was sniffing as he walked.

He Lingchuan walked over while gnawing pancakes, and stood at the base of the wall.

With his ears, eavesdropping on conversations in the alley was a piece of cake.

But first he heard the tinkling sound of the copper plates colliding, as if the guards weighed them, and then said: "Okay, wait for the two Mr. Tigers to finish eating, and then you go to collect the corpses, at most half an hour later."

The man thanked him repeatedly for saving his son from suffering.

The guard hurriedly booed him: "Let's go, let's go, stop talking nonsense."

He Lingchuan also understood when he heard this. It turned out that the condemned prisoner suddenly hit the post just now, not because of the negligence of the guards, but because he accepted a bribe.

The other prisoner on death row was ignorant of the world, or maybe he had no money, so he could only suffer "devouring punishment" and die.

The two lives were lost, and the townspeople didn't care, and continued to live their lives.

He Lingchuan didn't go back for a while, just wandered around in the small town.

It was getting dark, and the lights of each house were lit up, full of fireworks.

In this town, monsters and humans live together, and they get along without incident. He Lingchuan also saw a cat demon waving his paws to help count the money.

The townspeople were also very friendly to the outlanders, and when they learned that He Lingchuan was a guest from the south, they enthusiastically showed him the way.

It seems that these people just have a special hobby of watching the excitement.

A woman selling handicrafts smiled at him and said, "Lao Cai wonton, the tenth store on the left in the market, is the best wonton here. You go now, his house should not be closed yet." At this time , the bazaar has also dispersed.

He Lingchuan thanked her. Seeing that she was selling masks at the stall, there was a row of colorful masks, so he picked up one and looked at it: "This is it?"

"This is the mask of the Nuo Opera. The Nuo Dance Festival will be held in ten days. Everyone here, whether adults or children, must wear this mask to drive away evil spirits."

"Is this a ghost head mask?" The pattern on the mask is a ferocious cyan ghost head, um, maybe it's a beast head?

Do you use ghosts to ward off ghosts?

"No, no." The woman laughed, "This is Qingyao, the mount of God of Heaven Tuna. It specializes in eating ghosts."

He Lingchuan thought of the mask of the Red General, and suddenly became playful, and gave her two copper coins: "Then I want this."

It's very light in the hand, I don't know what kind of wood it is, and it's good to play as a handicraft.

At this time a little girl ran over, and he remembered that the mother and daughter were also at the execution platform.

This little girl is called Ah Yan.

He asked Ah Yan: "Aren't you afraid when you see the prisoner being tortured?"

"Why are you afraid?" Ah Yan's eyes were big and clear, "Bad people are not considered human beings, they are judged by God's grace. Only by being punished in this way can their sins be washed away."

"Then you know, what crime did they commit?"

"They set fire to the army barn. There will be a lot of people hungry this summer because of them."

At this moment, two virtual tigers walked across the street and headed out of the town.

They had washed their fur, but He Lingchuan could still smell the blood on them.Pedestrians on the street should walk, talk and laugh, and no one makes a fuss.

Two imaginary tigers wandering the streets here, seems to be a daily routine in this town.

He Lingchuan pointed at their backs casually: "You're not afraid of them, huh?"

"Not afraid!" Ah Yan took it for granted, "They don't hurt us, and I even rode one."

"so smart?"

He Lingchuan stood up, followed the woman's instructions, and went to the market to eat a bowl of meat and vegetable wontons. It really tasted surprisingly good.

After he returned to the post station, the door of Shi Congshan's guest room was closed and all the lights were turned off.

Early the next morning, he went to find Shi Congshui to solve his doubts.

The second head of the stone family has returned to normal today, pouring hot tea and saying:
"'Eating punishment' is a tradition. The northern demon country stipulates that monsters cannot eat people at will, otherwise they will be arrested. But nature and instinct are indelible, and blocking is worse than sparse, so Bega formulated this law, and criminals are punished. Monster beasts satisfy their hunger, the best of both worlds."

Is this still reasonable?A buddy who was new to the team next to him couldn't help but said: "Second in charge, isn't this too cruel?"

Shi Er was in charge of talking nonsense, it was so creepy.But on the surface, he remained calm and calm: "Punishment and punishment do not make the prisoner suffer. How can the purpose of 'punishment' be achieved? What kind of corporal punishment can you say that does not make people suffer? Isn't Ling Chi cruel? Hanging isn't cruel? Is it cruel?"

"But it's too scary." The man was puzzled, "Aren't the other people in this town afraid after seeing it?"

"On the contrary." Shi Congshui waved his hand, "I also thought about it for a long time before I figured it out. With the punishment of devouring, the monsters will only eat criminals, which will greatly increase the sense of security of the townspeople."

"As long as you are a good person and don't do bad things or break the law, the monsters won't eat you. Do you understand?" He plausibly said, "Conversely, these ferocious monsters are also powerful weapons to deter Xiaoxiao."

He Lingchuan remembered what the little girl said yesterday, that she had ridden a full-grown imitation tiger.

Perhaps what ordinary people need most is "certainty" in their lives.Others come second, anyway, I can live anyway.

He said indifferently: "One piece of laws and regulations, really no monsters dare to eat people casually?"

Human nature can't stand temptation, let alone the nature of monsters?
He no longer believes in things that are as good as ideals.

"We only come here to do business." Shi Congshui smiled, "Why do you know so clearly? But I heard that there are occasional headless cases in various places."

"By the way, I visited the town yesterday and found that there are actually three temples here, and people worshiped in each of them. I also saw that they enshrined raw sheep heads." He Lingchuan sighed a little when talking about the new discovery last night. , "Where I came from, there may not be a temple in a town, and offering blood food is strictly prohibited."

Didn't the He family suffer bad luck because they were falsely accused of rewarding the gods?
"Oh yes, 'rewarding the gods' is strictly prohibited in some countries." Wu Jinsong just came back from the outside, and he heard He Lingchuan's words and continued, "But in Beijia, every household does this. If you go to any townsman's house now, you must There is a shrine. I worship every morning and evening, and I have to find a way to offer blood food on the 15th day of the first day.”

He laughed again and said, "Bega is known all over the world as the country favored by heaven, a country favored and protected by the gods. The weather here is smooth every year, and there are fewer disasters and disasters."

There was a hint of pride in his expression.

He Lingchuan followed the caravan all the way, and heard Shi Congshan say no less than several times that Bega is the country of divine grace and heaven's favor, and even the capital, Lingxu City, is named after the title of the god of heaven, the Holy Lord of Lingxu.

Bega's demon emperors and kings must also be hand-picked by the gods and baptized by the gods before they can take power and succeed to the throne.

It has been like this for five or six hundred years.

On the other hand, Da Yuan is the opposite. He has educated his subjects since the founding of the country that gods cannot be trusted.

I don't know which of these two approaches is more practical.He Lingchuan remembered that Zhu Erniang always sneered in the magic nest swamp and said that credulous people will not end well.

It's also really a cynical ex-fairy.

However, Beijia Guozuo has stretched for nearly 600 years. He smiled at the vicissitudes of other small countries and changed their masters like a lantern.

So what?
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Three days later, the Shimen caravan arrived at Fufeng City, the capital of the Treasure Tree Kingdom.

To be able to walk so fast, on the one hand, the road is straight and wide, which is convenient for horse racing. There are only two toll checkpoints on the road, and the toll is quite low.

The business tax and horse tax collected by the entire Beja Kingdom are not high, but the infrastructure is very complete, and the business order is complete, so the economy and trade are developed.He Lingchuan often found that there were more business travelers than townspeople.

When Bega founded the country, sixteen demon kings were enshrined, and the treasure tree king was one of them.However, with the passage of time, the number of demon kings increased and decreased, and once dropped to twelve, until more than 100 years ago, another king was added, so there is currently one emperor and thirteen demon kings in the Bega Kingdom.

The thirteen demon kings all have vast feudal states, or vassal states. Except for the prime minister and the grand master who are appointed by Lingxu City, the rest of the personnel, laws, and taxes are independent, and they also have their own army. country".

(End of this chapter)