God's Gift

Chen Qingqiu walked up to the clan leader's granddaughter, took her hand, and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, come with me, we will go find mom."

Achou walked up to Chen Qingqiu and supported him.

Chen Qingqiu led everyone down the mountain road.

The clan leader's granddaughter was being led by him. After passing by the clan leader, she timidly looked back at the clan leader who was bleeding, but she still turned her head firmly and followed Chen Qingqiu away.

After they left, Lu Keming walked up to the old patriarch who was sitting on the ground, with a fierce expression on his face, and raised his hand to get rid of him.

But after raising his hand, he was unable to perform any movement.

"It's not your time to die yet." Shen Minghua naturally saw Lu Keming's immobile hand, and he looked at the old patriarch coldly, with no more compassion and kindness in his eyes.

Fang Ziang stared at the old patriarch with a bald spot on his head for a long time. He felt that the person in front of him looked more and more familiar. His expression became more and more strange. A light bulb suddenly lit up in his mind, and he remembered the old ghost who stuck to him in the cemetery.

"So it's you." Fang Ziang looked at the old patriarch with disdain and spat, "Why aren't you dead yet?"

The old patriarch was also at a loss at this time. He took a few steps back in fear. He looked up and saw Yu Youyou in Lu Keming's hand. He opened his eyes wide and shouted, "Use the dog..."

Yu Youyou lay in Lu Keming's arms, looking at the old patriarch with no warmth in her eyes, and there was no ripple in her eyes.

She glanced calmly at the excited old patriarch and then looked away.

Lu Keming raised his foot and stepped on the old patriarch's hand, which was about to be raised. With a sinister smile on his face, he stepped on the old patriarch's hand and crushed it several times on the ground.

The sound of breaking bones was heard, and the old patriarch let out another cry of pain from his throat.

Only then did Lu Keming retract his foot and left with Yu Youyou in his arms with an expressionless face.

Shen Minghua and Ye Li also walked past the old patriarch without giving him any expression.

After they left, the old patriarch stood up from the ground tremblingly, looked at the girls who had died in the rune, covered his bleeding head and ran to the front mountain, shouting to the villagers and students guarding the front mountain:

"The sacrifices have escaped! Go and catch them! And the dogs too!"

Hearing the chief's words, the villagers guarding the top of the mountain were in uproar. They picked up their hoes and ran down the mountain.

Qi Yun, the white dove, looked at Song Wenshan who was standing still and said anxiously, "Go and catch them back quickly. If they run away, we won't be able to complete our mission."

Song Wenshan shook his head, still thinking about what Fang Ziang had said to him not long ago. Although there was no more gray stain on his clothes, he was still worried and refused, "No, you go, I won't go."

Qi Yun didn't know what was wrong with Song Wenshan, "Then I'll go by myself, don't regret it."

Song Wenshan shook his head and said, "No regrets."

This time, Qi Yun and other students chased after him. Song Wen watched Qi Yun running away, but also saw the gray stains on his clothes.

He turned his head and found that all the other students' clothes were stained with dust without exception.

Song Wenshan was startled and quickly grabbed the White Pigeon member who was running by and said, "Fang Cheng, why don't you not go? It's not good to do this kind of thing. What if you get retribution?"

Fang Cheng rolled his eyes at Song Wenshan and said, "This is just a virtual trial, not a real person. How can there be retribution?"

After saying that, he ignored Song Wenshan and ran away with the others.

Within a few minutes, the news that the sacrificial girl had escaped spread throughout the village. The villagers of Lijia Village were all looking forward to the day of the sacrifice, but when they suddenly found out that the girl had run away, they immediately went crazy and started looking for her everywhere.

Chen Qingqiu took the 19 surviving girls and Achou and followed the mountain road around the village and went directly to the only road out of the village.

Chen Qingqiu was supposed to leave Lijia Village today. The car from the city would arrive around this time, so he should encounter a car if he escaped along the road.

But before they had gone far, the clan leader's daughter-in-law caught up with them along the road. She was carrying a small piece of luggage, which was something for her daughter.

"Mom!" The clan leader's granddaughter, who was being held by Chen Qingqiu, saw her mother and shouted happily.

The clan leader's daughter-in-law ran up to them, touched her daughter's head, and said to Chen Qingqiu breathlessly:

"The village already knows that you took these girls away, and they are already looking for you everywhere."

"This is the only main road in the village that leads to the outside. I can imagine you would take this road, and they can certainly imagine it too."

"You can't take the highway. There is a small road in the village that leads to the road ahead. There are many people coming to the village, so you will definitely be stopped."

When Chen Qingqiu heard the words of the patriarch's daughter-in-law, his expression immediately changed. The villagers' noises were heard not far away, and he immediately asked, "Then where should we go?"

"This road goes around that mountain." The clan leader's daughter-in-law pointed to the hill opposite, which was facing the mountain where the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha was located.

"After you cross that mountain, you will be outside the village. You can go from there."

"Mom, I don't want to leave!" Her daughter burst into tears and held the hand of the clan leader's daughter-in-law tightly, "Please don't leave me!"

The clan leader's daughter-in-law's eyes were red, "How could mom not want you? You are mom's life, but you have to leave now. I will come back to find you later!"

Before she finished her words, several villagers with weapons came running down the mountain road nearby, rushed straight onto the road, and shouted loudly: "Found them! They are here!"

The clan leader's daughter-in-law's expression suddenly changed. She stood in front of them and shouted at Chen Qingqiu, "Take them away!"

Chen Qingqiu nodded, picked up the clan leader's granddaughter, dragged his lame leg down the road into the river, waded across the river with a group of girls, and ran towards the other side of the mountain.

"You bitch, what are you doing!" The villagers who were stopped by the clan leader's daughter-in-law had lost their minds. They were only thinking about the unfinished sacrifice and the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha, and showed no mercy to the clan leader's daughter-in-law who blocked their way.

Their fists landed directly on the clan leader's daughter-in-law, but she continued to be beaten silently, her hands still holding them tightly, with no intention of letting go.

Seeing Chen Qingqiu and the others running farther and farther away, the trapped villagers raised their knives and slashed at the clan leader's daughter-in-law.

The granddaughter of the clan leader who was carried away by Chen Qingqiu looked in the direction of the clan leader's daughter-in-law in Chen Qingqiu's arms. Seeing the bright red blood flowing from her mother's body, she screamed, "Mom!"

Chen Qingqiu's body shook, and when he turned around he saw the bloody body of the clan leader's daughter-in-law on the road, and his pupils dilated instantly.

At this time, the clan leader's daughter-in-law was still holding on to the villagers tightly, and she used her last bit of strength to shout to Chen Qingqiu who had stopped, "Go!"

"Teacher, let's go!" Achou grabbed Chen Qingqiu and pulled him to the foot of the mountain.

Chen Qingqiu's eyes turned red. He covered the eyes of the clan leader's granddaughter in his arms, and quickened his pace while holding her.

But the villagers were very fast. Even though the clan leader's daughter-in-law used her body to stop a few villagers, more villagers caught up after a while.

The snow fell heavier and heavier, but it left their footprints in the snow.

Blood was oozing from the wounds on Chen Qingqiu's body that had not yet healed. Even if he ran harder, his lame leg could not support him to catch up with the girls.

He glanced at the girl beside him who was obviously slowing down her pace to wait for him. The noise behind him was getting closer and closer, but Chen Qingqiu stopped at the foot of the mountain. He handed the clan leader's daughter to the oldest girl.

"Teacher, what are you doing?" Ah Chou looked at Chen Qingqiu's actions and immediately understood what he was going to do, "You can't..."

But before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Chen Qingqiu.

"Let's stop here." Chen Qingqiu took out a plastic bag from his trouser pocket, which contained some money and a piece of paper.

"I don't have much money, but this should be enough for you to take a bus to the city." He opened the paper again and said to the girls, "This is the address of my parents' home. You can find them here when you get out."

"They will help you."

"Teacher, I don't want it!" Ah Chou looked at the things in Chen Qingqiu's hand, knowing that he had probably considered that he could not escape, so he prepared these things.

Achou wanted to walk up to Chen Qingqiu, but was held tightly by the two girls beside him.

"The teacher can only take you so far, the rest of the way you have to walk on your own."

Chen Qingqiu was panting. The pain from his wound and the coldness of the snowy day mixed together, making his blood almost coagulate. He glanced at Ah Chou, with a smile in his eyes, and said to the girls who had begun to cry, "Fly away."

He took a few steps back, and amid the rustling sound of the snow, he looked at the group of girls in front of him with a smile.

"Grow wings, fly high, fly over this mountain, and never come back!"