Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"...If the stone turtle at the east gate has red eyes, the city will fall." Grandma went to look at it one day. Some young people were surprised, and she told the truth.If a child bullies him, he will treat Zhu Fu as a turtle.Grandma saw this and rushed out of the city... but the city collapsed into a lake.

—— "Sou Shen Ji"

"If I invite that person to drink again, he won't come. He says his butt hurts when he drinks."

That's it.

"That's it?" Maria couldn't help but ask, Dedamia and Troyas also looked confused.

There is even a feeling of being cheated.

"You're not...a joke!" My sister expressed dissatisfaction.

"This is just a joke." Pyrrhus felt so innocent. I had told him what he wanted to do.

"You're not...forget it..." Dedamia gave up the argument.

Pyrrhus spread his hands and urged several people to get on the road quickly.

They had fallen behind the parade, and even the torches were too late to catch up.

After walking a few steps, Dedamia's shoulders suddenly began to shake in front of her, and then she stopped and squatted on the ground.

Just when she thought she was feeling uncomfortable, she suddenly heard her sister's suppressed laughter.

My whole body was squatting there, shaking like chaff, and I couldn't stop.

Then Kadmiya also started laughing, covering her mouth and laughing non-stop.

Only Maria and the three little ghosts were left with blank faces.

"..."

You guys are so boring.

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The procession arrived at Eleusis, and then entered the Temple of Tellestellion one by one. After a while, they came out and were led by the priests to the nearby fields.

Pyrrhus and the others were at the back, and there were not many people left when they entered the temple.

The temple is not the usual long structure with front and back halls, but a square shape. It is estimated that the history here is older than those of the temples on the Acropolis.

Once inside, there are three rows of chairs on three sides, and a small indoor shrine in the middle.

Then people took turns entering the small temple in groups.

As Pyrrhus approached the door, he smelled a smell...

Aroma of malt.

It's also mixed with a sour taste.

Looking inside, I saw a large vat in the middle with liquid sloshing in it.

When I walked in and took a closer look, there was a shallow layer of foam on top, as well as floating grains of wheat.

This is a bar?

Drink this after being hungry all day?

In order of age, Kadmiya drank first.

After drinking, he had a blank expression on his face.

After Maria and Deidamia chatted, Maria drank first.

For some reason she glanced at Pyrrhus.

I didn’t seem to taste anything after drinking it.

Next came Deidamia, and then Pyrrhus.

After the priest scooped it out, he handed him the wooden cup.

"..."

Pyrrhus looked at the mouth of the cup, which was as thick as a child's arm, with a lot of water stains on it, and fell into deep thought for a moment...

Suppose Cadmea gets the heads, the priests get the tails, Mary gets the heads, the priests get the tails, Deidamia gets the heads, the priests get the tails...

and many more!

If they pick it up with different hands, there will be displacement, so...

"Oh, hurry up~!" Troyas pushed his butt angrily.

"..."

Drink it.

Pyrrhus drank the impure drink in one gulp.

Ok……

like……

It's wine indeed.

The alcohol smell is very weak, the wheat grains have been soaked, and it's a bit disgusting.

Can this kind of thing really create a sense of religious mystery?

Why don't you make some lamia?

Then it was the turn of the three children.

Pyrrhus frowned slightly, this was wine after all.

"Kids drink less."

"——I want you to take care of it!" Troyas exhaled fiercely through her nose, then raised the wooden cup and said, "ton, ton, ton."

well!I didn't pay attention to the method.

When it was Nicesi's turn, Troy held the bottom of the cup and said, "Don't listen to him, drink!"

"..."

Finally, there was little Cleopatra. After taking a sip, she muttered, "It's like beer mixed with water!" and then drank it all in one gulp.

Pyrrhus had never drunk Egyptian beer. Anyway, this beer was definitely different from the beer in his previous life.

After drinking the "ale wine", I was asked to drink peppermint oil.

Isn’t that the essence of peppermint?

Although the amount is small, Pyrrhus feels chilled just by smelling it.

Is this thing drinkable?

But he held his nose and drank it.

So slippery!So boring!

So cool!

Apart from being a little nauseous, I didn’t feel any better!

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The priests led the people into a wheat field.

The decaying wheat straw stands limply and falls over when touched. When walking inside, the things under your feet are straw that has been accumulated for an unknown period of time and wheat ears that have fallen off naturally.

This wheat field must not have been harvested last summer, or it may have never been harvested. This is a field of wild wheat.

The priest then left with the torch.

The moon hasn't risen in the sky yet, and the bright starlight only makes the ground look darker.

It is said that this is carnival night, and it is a bit different than imagined.

The children clung to Pyrrhus.

"The moon will come out soon, and it will be brighter then." Maria's voice sounded, "This is called the Larian Fields, and it is said to be the first place where crops were grown in the world. But most of them are just bragging. Greece is The entire known world has one of the shortest histories."

He chuckled as he spoke.

You said bad things about people right after the priest left?

"However, it is possible that this is the first place where wheat was grown in Greece. If you look at it this way, Demeter may be a real person."

Gradually mystifying real people or real historical events in the narration, and finally turning them into complete myths, this indeed seems to be what the ancients might have done.

Maria also thinks about this kind of thing while studying alchemy?

However, Pyrrhus had heard of a "motif theory" in his previous life. On the contrary, he believed that the myths of various nations were spread from some small stories from the very early days of mankind.In other words, the large number of articles in the world probably began in ancient times when humans were still undergoing the Great Migration.

For example, Hercules performed twelve tasks, and Yi from the far east was ordered by Emperor Yao to kill big snakes, catch wild boars, shoot the sun, and kill all kinds of wild monsters. If these two heroes use the same motif, , then this story probably existed when humans first came out of Africa.

But there is no need to argue with Maria at this time. She probably wanted to ease everyone's tension.

Pyrrhus held hands with Deidamia and Troyas, with two children in the middle, and Maria and Cadmia at the end, and walked all the way to the deep place where there was noisy people.

Although no life can be seen, as the distance approaches, the lively atmosphere is also passed on.

Those who came first had already started to revel, some still shouted "Iacos!", some just made all kinds of meaningless ghost screams, and some were full of rhythm...

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

After just a few dishes, I drank like this!

Fortunately, Pyrrhus was nowhere to be seen and he didn't feel embarrassed.

It's just that Dedamia held his hand and felt like she wanted to let go but didn't dare.

"..."

Who do you take me for?

As the ghost screams got closer and closer, Maria's voice sounded in the night:

"Actually, before I came here, I read some records in ancient books. Hundreds and thousands of years ago, only women participated in this ceremony. They would eat live deer, live cattle, and even children on Panicis Night. .”

As soon as the ghost story was told, Pyrrhus could not see the expressions of the others, but the hands held by Deidamia and Troas suddenly became stronger.

Sorry, I take back what I just said

——Maria, you are so boring!

Pyrrhus felt that the movement of the dancing demons was getting closer and closer, and he said:

"Let's go somewhere a little further away!"

Several voices of relief were heard in the darkness.

The few people continued to hold hands and walked aside.

Today is already the 19th, and it is almost midnight when the silver half-moon rises from the east, its slightly convex face facing the zenith.

There was finally some light all around.

"This is it! I'm going to try meditation and see if I can get some enlightenment."

Do you still meditate?

Maria stepped on a rice field without caring about herself, then sat down cross-legged and closed her eyes.

Everyone also followed her example and sat in a circle.

It seems that women are quite keen on this kind of mystery.

At this time, the girl opened her eyes again and saw Pyrrhus sitting opposite her, with a complaining expression on his face.

What's the matter?

Pyrrhus felt so wronged.

She puffed up her face, put one hand on the ground, changed her legs to kneel to one side, and then kept this position and closed her eyes.

"..."

With so many distracting thoughts, do you still want to enter samadhi?

Pyrrhus also closed his eyes and tried to meditate.

Well, try.

After a while, he heard the sound of "Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!" in the silence. Pyrrhus couldn't help but become nervous and quickly opened his eyes to take a look.

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Maria lowered her head and covered her face, shaking her shoulders and saying "hehe, hehe," while Kadmiya looked at her speechlessly.

"..."