God's offering

Lu Yinbai didn't want to fall out with his father, even though he was disgusted with the silver knife covered with weird patterns, he still took it back to the room, thinking about going to the kitchen to borrow a whetstone.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw Tang Ao standing in the corner of the room, just looking at him from a distance, instead of rushing up like usual, he closed the door and walked towards Tang Ao suspiciously. "What are you doing standing there?"

Tang Ao's face was pale, and he stammered and gestured to him, "Don't come here!"

Lu Yinbai stopped in his tracks, and taunted him very unhappily: "What's wrong with you, did you take the wrong medicine?"

Tang Ao's eyes stopped on the small box in Lu Yinbai's hand, "What is that?"

Lu Yinbai frowned, opened the box and showed it to Tang Ao, "It's just a knife, my dad said it was a sacrifice..." His words stopped abruptly when he saw Tang Ao's appearance.

"Tang Ao, what's wrong with you?" Lu Yinbai took two steps towards Tang Ao in surprise, but had to stop immediately, because as he approached, Tang Ao's appearance became more and more miserable.

Tang Ao stood against the corner of the wall with his eyes closed tightly. For some reason, several wounds appeared on his body, deep to the bone, and bright blood was continuously gushing out, dyeing the white shirt on his body crimson.

Every time Lu Yinbai took a step closer, more wounds appeared on Tang Ao's body. Lu Yinbai didn't dare to move any more, and watched helplessly as the blood flowed down from Tang Ao's body as if he didn't want money, and pooled in a pool at the corner of the wall.

In a trance, he seemed to smell the terrible smell of blood again, filling the whole room. He took a few steps back, but Tang Ao's condition did not improve at all. It was just a dream.

Tang Ao frowned tightly, and suddenly gritted his teeth and growled, "Yinbai, take that knife away!"

Lu Yinbai came back to his senses after being yelled at by him, glanced at the knife in his hand, didn't care much, opened the door, and threw the knife and the box into the pool in the yard.

As soon as the knife left the room, Tang Ao's wounds immediately began to heal, and within a short time, not even one of the wounds on his body could be seen.Only the blood-stained shirt and the pool of blood under his feet proved that it was not an illusion.

Lu Yinbai was at a loss, he wanted to get closer to Tang Ao, but he didn't dare, he just stood at the door in a daze, not daring to take his eyes off Tang Ao for a moment.

Tang Ao was panting, and after a while rubbed his temples tiredly, he walked out of the pool of blood, one step at a time, walked to Lu Yinbai's side, hugged him, patted his shoulder, and said: " scared you?"

Lu Yinbai paused for a long time before wiping Tang Ao's shirt. The blood on the shirt hadn't completely dried up, and it felt sticky to the touch. It wasn't fake. Lu Yinbai realized that he couldn't understand what happened just now. He opened his mouth to ask something, but nothing came out.

Tang Ao didn't care about the blood on his body, and stood with his arms around Lu Yinbai for a while before letting him go. He walked to the closet as if nothing happened, and tried to find a piece of clothing for himself.

Lu Yinbai stared at every movement of Tang Ao. Tang Ao took off his shirt. The skeletal muscles on his back rose and fell with his movements. There was no wound on the skin, not even blood. Said it was a bit small, showing a part of the waist, and the sleeves were even shorter. Tang Ao simply rolled them up as short sleeves, and the shoulders didn't fit well. Tang Ao moved his arms uncomfortably, and then started looking for pants again.

Lu Yinbai suddenly said: "Tang Ao?"

Tang Ao said "Huh?" without looking back.

Lu Yin asked blankly: "What happened just now?"

Tang Ao said vaguely: "I don't know either, anyway, as soon as the knife came over, I would be like that."

Lu Yinbai gritted his teeth. After panic and worry, Tang Ao's vague answer made him lose control of his emotions. Lu Yinbai kicked the stool angrily, "Tang Ao!"

He was trembling with anger, pointed at Tang Ao but couldn't say a word, he just felt a breath stuck in his chest, which made him almost unable to breathe.

Tang Ao stopped his movements. He was only halfway through his trousers, which were stretched loosely on his calves. With his small top, he looked very funny. He paused for a moment, turned around slowly, and was about to say something when suddenly The closed door was pushed open, Su Yinxiu lay down beside the door, and asked cautiously: "Senior, who are you arguing with?"

Lu Yinbai was standing at the door, just blocking Su Yinxiu's sight. Lu Yinbai turned his head to look at Su Yinxiu, and heard the closet door slamming behind him, probably Tang Ao entered the closet.

"It's nothing." Lu Yinbai couldn't get angry at the innocent Su Yinxiu, so he suppressed his anger and let Su Yinxiu go, "I can't hold back my dad, I just lost my temper."

Su Yinxiu has known him for so long, so she can see that what he said is not true, she didn't dare to ask, and pointed to the pool outside, "I just came here just now, and I saw you throw something out, what is that? "

Lu Yinbai glanced out, his phoenix eyes were cold, "It's nothing."

Su Yinxiu hit a nail again, touched her nose embarrassingly, "Well, then I'll go first."

Lu Yinbai frowned, and without looking at the closet, he pulled Su Yinxiu out the door, closed the door, and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to my fifth uncle, he should know something about Sea God."

Su Yinxiu was dragged away by him. Before leaving, she looked back at the room. She had actually been listening outside the door for a long time in fear, and heard the senior's "Tang Ao", but she didn't understand why senior Tang Ao treated her Just now, she also glanced at the room, but she saw no one, and even Lu Yinbai didn't intend to let Tang Ao see her, Su Yinxiu was full of doubts, but when she saw Lu Yinbai's frosty face, it almost reached her throat The doubts in his mouth were silently swallowed back.Her senior usually just looks at people with phoenix eyes and makes fun of them at most. If she is really angry, it's not at the level of taunting.

Lu Yinbai dragged Su Yinxiu away for a while before he calmed down. He knew that Tang Ao was involved, and he couldn't control his temper, not to mention that it was that guy who perfunctory him.

"Senior?" Su Yinxiu beside him looked at him cautiously, Lu Yinbai took a deep breath, rubbed his hair and said, "I'm sorry, I'm a little... Let me tell you first, Fifth Uncle is our The chief priest of the family, the main host of the sacrifice, also accepts the help of the villagers on weekdays. Even in the Lu family, his status is very high, almost on the same level as my father, and may even be higher than my father. He has a more easy-going temper , you don't need to be nervous."

Su Yinxiu agreed, and the two of them walked through the courtyard and arrived in front of Lu Ming's gate, approaching the priest, Lu Ming spent most of his time in the prayer room, so Lu Yinbai took Su Yinxiu here directly to find Lu Ming .

He knocked on the door, but the door was quiet, and there was no one there. Lu Yinbai was a little surprised, and was about to leave when he suddenly stopped. To be honest, he was also very concerned about the prayer room, but this Lu Ming stayed in the prayer room most of the time, and it was absolutely impossible to let him in. Now is a good opportunity.

The prayer room is never locked, Lu Yinbai knows this rule, but even so, no one in the Lu family dares to go in, because everyone on Morning Star Island knows that the prayer room is a place to communicate with Sea God, and only The people chosen by the Sea God, that is, only the Chief Priest can stay inside, and even those who have requests from the Sea God can only express their requests outside the door.

Lu Yinbai hesitated for a moment, then said to Su Yinxiu: "I'll go in and have a look, you stay at the door, if anyone comes, just call me."

Su Yinxiu quickly agreed, and nervously watched Lu Yinbai push the door lightly and go in.

The room was the same as the one he had glimpsed last time, the faint light penetrated through the window paper, and the room was soft and soft. At first glance, it looked peaceful and peaceful, and it couldn't be more normal.

But Lu Yinbai always vaguely sensed a kind of malice that made people restless, as if there was something lurking in this room, watching everyone who entered the room.

He cautiously stood in the center of the room and looked around. The smell of incense candles lingered in the air. The shrine in front of him should be enshrining the Sea God. The shrine was made in a simple and simple way. At this time, the door leaf is tightly closed, and the statues enshrined inside cannot be seen. In front of the shrine is an ordinary futon, and there are tall nanmu cabinets against the walls on the left and right sides, and some incense candles for sacrificial offerings are placed inside. There are also unknown yellowed books.

The room was not big, and apart from the things in front of him, there were some things scattered around the corner that had no apparent use. Lu Yinbai speculated that they might also be used to communicate with that "god".

After scanning the whole room, Lu Yinbai walked to the nanmu cabinet on the left, and just about to take out the books inside, he heard Su Yinxiu yelling softly from outside: "Senior, it seems that someone is here!"

Lu Yinbai hurriedly stuffed back the half-drawn book. Just as he was about to walk back, he caught a glimpse of the closed shrine out of the corner of his eye. He paused, and went to open the door of the shrine. He didn't have time to read it carefully, he hurriedly closed the door and left the room.

As soon as the door was closed, Lu Ming came slowly from the corner, and saw the two of them standing at the door, frowning slightly: "What are you doing here?"

Su Yinxiu's nervous palms were covered with cold sweat, but Lu Yinbai was very calm, he blocked the trembling Su Yinxiu calmly, and said with a smile, "We'll wait for you here, Fifth Uncle."

Lu Ming didn't take it to heart either, "What are you waiting for me to do? Didn't your father ask you to learn about sacrifices? You'll be fooling around all day long, so be careful when your father beats you."

Lu Yinbai said: "That's why I came here, and my school girl wants to collect some materials here for her graduation thesis. The people in the village treat her as an outsider and refuse to say anything. I think about these things. Uncle, you have a sense of proportion, choose what you can say and talk to her."

Uncle Wu smiled, and looked at Su Yinxiu who was obviously very nervous hiding behind Lu Yinbai, "Okay, but not now, you can come to my room to find me after lunch, I have about an hour."

Lu Yinbai agreed, and was about to leave when he remembered the silver knife and asked, "Today my dad gave me a silver knife. It's pretty, so what's the use?"

Uncle Wu's face immediately changed when he heard that, "He actually gave you that thing?!"