I Persuade People With Reason

"No……"

"do not want!"

The two exclamations were almost indistinguishable. They sounded one after another. At this moment, the old couple standing not far behind the girl blocked in front of the girl with agility beyond their age, their voices hoarse with anxiety.

The dagger in the priest's hand stopped in mid-air.

The old couple was already begging in a low voice: "...Father Jin, can you give our daughter a little more time? Even if she is allowed to live a few more days? Good."

At this point, the voices of both of them were choked up.

Under the hesitant gaze of the priest, the two of them had already bent down deeply. They looked at the priest and at the crowd around them, their red and swollen eyes full of hope and prayer: "Please everyone! Please! Please... let my daughter go... even if it's only one more day, we are willing!"

In terms of the girl's age, this should have been a young couple, but from their old faces, haggard expressions, and white hair, they couldn't tell that. Even if they say they are the grandparents of the girl, they don't seem to violate the harmony at all.

There was silence in the square, looking at the old couple who were begging so hard, everyone withdrew their expressions, and their eyes couldn't help showing a little pity.

The priest let out a long sigh.

"...Why?" His eyes swept across the desperate and sad old couple, then over the young girl who stood motionless like a puppet, as if she was at the mercy of others, swept over her body The spreading "black worms", I don't know if they are talking to the surrounding residents, or they are muttering to themselves, "... Blasphemers, being sent by God, life is better than death, even if it is delayed for a few days, it will not be enough. Just a few more days of torture?"

"Enough! You just want her to live a few more days, have you ever thought about herself? Are you willing to be tortured?" In the crowd, a pale woman suddenly stood up and shouted hysterically, " No, she doesn't want to! It's just your own selfishness!"

"...As early as the beginning of the distortion, you should have handed her over. Do you think that she is really living comfortably by hiding her at home for a few days?"

"...Let her go! Let her go!!"

In the crowd, Yu Shezuo, a competent NPC tool man, was doing his best to act as a narrator, and introduced to Yuan Buwei: "The girl in the square is called Rose, those are her parents, a tailor in the town. The owner of the shop...Sometimes there are blasphemers in the town, and the relatives in the family don't want them to be exposed and executed, so they secretly hide them. But even so, it's just a few days later to die? There is no way to lift the curse on the blasphemer."

As for the woman who suddenly stood up and looked a little crazy, Yu She gave a wry smile, with a complicated expression: "That's Teacher Li, she used to be a very good piano teacher, and then her only son became a blasphemer, she couldn't bear it. , secretly hiding people at home..."

Having said that, Yu She paused.

"It is said that she watched her son's curse attack, suffered pain day by day, and finally begged her to kill herself... Since then, she..." Yu She raised his finger and pointed to his temple , indicating that the other party seems to have a mental problem, and whispered, "...Her son? Once was my best friend."

At this moment, everyone else on the square was silent, as if they could understand each other's feelings.

The old couple who had been crying desperately before had already stood up and stepped back to the side to stop blocking them.

Everyone bowed their heads under the leadership of the priest, and it seemed that they all began to silently bless the girl in the center of the square in their hearts. The surrounding atmosphere became solemn and peaceful again.

When everyone's prayers were at their most attentive, the girl stood there dumbfounded, motionless, just quietly watching the priest put the dagger into her heart.

Dark black blood dripped from the girl's heart.

At the moment when the dagger pierced, a faint white light began to spread from her heart to her whole body, and the speed was extremely slow, but the twisted "black worms" on the girl seemed to be restrained in some way, and the spread gradually slowed down. Slowly, and even began to shrink back little by little.

This whole process is very slow, but it is foreseeable that when the girl's heart is dry, the "black bugs" that spread will almost all retract to her face.

This process, according to Yu She's explanation, is to expel the curse at the cost of life, so that the other party can finally be buried in human form, instead of becoming a deformed monster.

At the moment of complete death, her appearance will return to normal. This is the last bit of relief in life.

In addition, it is said that if they fail to exorcise the curse before they die and are buried in the form of deformed monsters, their dead bodies will undergo terrifying changes one day, bringing despair and ominousness to the entire Yongning Town. In that case, the only way is to completely burn the body of the deformed monster into ashes and sprinkle it on the wilderness far away from Yongning Town.

The sound of prayers around them grew louder and louder, from meditating in the heart at first to tidy chants at last.

It was not in his sight that he faintly saw a faint white light rising from everyone and converging towards the girl in the center of the square. The white light was blessed on the dagger and restrained the twisted black worm.

This brilliance can only be seen by no one else.

"This is the power of belief??" He faintly realized.

It seems that such a ceremony has been carried out in Yongning Town for a long time. Perhaps these residents thought that the ceremony was successful because the blasphemers paid the price of their lives and won the forgiveness of the gods, so they got rid of the curse at the end of their lives. to die in human form.

In Yuan Buwei's view, this is not the case.

The key is likely to lie in prayers that everyone does not pay attention to. Maybe the inhabitants just out of sympathy, pity, or sympathy, they give blessings to every blasphemer before they die, they think it's just a formality, like reciting the dead, but in fact, their blessings are likely ? Really has the power to suppress the curse?

It's just that this power seems to be too weak, so it's not a guess. This power of faith born from blessings, I am afraid that only with the help of the vitality that passed away when the girl died, can it play its real role? use?.

His eyes were suddenly full of eagerness to try.

Well, in order to verify this guess, isn't there a best tool person in front of you?

"Wait a minute, I have a solution."

Everyone didn't have time to react, why didn't they do it? They walked out of the crowd, and their figure seemed to appear in front of the girl in an instant, with one hand on the dagger.

At the same time, an invisible force brushed slightly, and the blood in the girl's heart instantly solidified, and the wound no longer bleeds.

"What are you doing?" The ceremony that had not been interrupted for so many years suddenly ended, and the residents who were praying silently and wishing the girl raised their heads angrily.

Appearing in their sight was a strange young man they had never seen before, with black hair and black eyes, a cold and sloppy expression, and an extremely handsome appearance, but he had an indescribable temperament that made people not dare to offend.

Although inexplicably felt a little in awe of this young man, what the other party did was really outrageous, so everyone just overcame the discomfort in their hearts and looked at him angrily.

The crowd moved towards him, and it looked like a siege.

Yuan Buwei seemed to be unaware and quietly looked at the crowd.

"—I said?, I have a way to save her."

The crowd was silent for a moment, and then there was an uproar.

How long has Yongning Town existed, how long have they worked hard to lift the curse, and now this ceremony has been explored from generation to generation, the best way. Even if they can't save the lives of the blasphemers, at least they can keep their last thoughts that belong to human beings.

And they have been groping for so long? There is no way? Suddenly someone stood up and said that there is a solution. Will they believe it so easily?

For a time, the eyes of everyone looking at Yuan Buwei were full of doubts, as if they were looking at a grandstanding guy.

At this time, everyone seemed to realize that this person was very unfamiliar, and they didn't know each other. They couldn't help but look at question marks: Wait, where did you come from? ? ?

Yu She didn't understand why Yuan Buwei did this suddenly, so he hurriedly stepped forward, winked at Yuan Buwei, and said embarrassedly: "Sorry, don't mind, this is the guest I invited, Mr. Yuan Powerful? He even saved my life today. He came from afar and doesn't know the situation in Yongning Town..."

"No, this curse is not unique to Yongning Town, where I am, there was also someone who was distorted by the curse..." He didn't want to interrupt him, his tone was firm, "So I said, I have a way to save her. "

It's not because I can guarantee that every word I say is the truth, and there is absolutely no falsehood.

——There are indeed ordinary people in the world who are distorted because of the monster guild's experiments; and now he does get inspiration from the ritual and think of a way to suppress the distortion.

Although there is no causal relationship between the two, it is automatically understood in the ears of everyone that someone in the stranger's hometown was similarly distorted, but he was rescued by him. Therefore, he confidently said that he had a way to save people.

From his tone, everyone could feel that what he said was the truth.

Everyone's faces changed subtly, with a bit of surprise, a bit of hope, and a bit of hesitation.

If it was said that a resident of Yongning Town said such a thing, they would not believe it, because they knew each other well. But what about foreigners? Will there really be a way?

"...Let this gentleman give it a try." The old woman who was almost crying beside her suddenly said, her red and swollen eyes looked at Yuan Buwan, as if grabbing the last straw, "Please, sir, Save my daughter! Be sure to save my daughter!"

"Can."

Wasn't it always? Very calm, and didn't care whether others questioned or believed it. After all, his initial starting point was not to save people, or to gain gratitude from others, that meant nothing to him.

His original intention was just to find a tool person to verify his guess. Now this girl who is in danger of death is obviously the most suitable, because he is likely to be her last hope.

If the other party does not agree, he will give up decisively and find a suitable new target. What she wants to save is her own life, she herself is indifferent, and she does not have the strong desire to survive at every opportunity.

And now, the other party is willing to cooperate, of course, is the best.

He chuckled: "Give me a day."