How to survive in a world full of weird talk [Comprehensive fear]

In fact, Seventeen has not changed much.

It's just that the white kimono coat is the same as before, still a few inches shorter.

He himself felt nothing.

The two maidservants looked terrified for a while, until the patriarch led a group of people, and the light of the torch illuminated the dark corridor.

"Master Son of God."

The man with a serious face and gray hair bowed deeply to Seventeen, with a solemn attitude, and his words were eager and grateful: "Because of the sudden incident, the sacrifice must be advanced. Please leave immediately and go to the place of worship with us."

"But, Lord Patriarch, the priestess costume still doesn't fit..."

A servant girl timidly stepped forward, however, the current patriarch seems not to care about these trivial matters anymore.

Seventeen looked at the patriarch and the others, maintained the elegance and indifference of a witch, and said lightly: "Don't panic. The sacrifice is very important. If it is not necessary, don't..."

He turned his mind around, anticipating that something was going on with Sidelle, and he didn't know where the place of worship was, so Shi Qi planned to procrastinate for a while.

"No, we can't wait any longer!" However, the patriarch's attitude was extremely firm, completely contrary to his respect for the witch, and he said decisively: "Please ask the witch to go to the place of worship immediately."

Behind him, several priest-like people in weird clothes also stood up and shouted together: "Please go to the place where the priestess worships the gods and start the sacrifice!"

A biting cold wind blows from the dark hole.

Shi Qi glanced at the entrance of the cave, the light was dim, and there were groups of people crowded in the pitch-black, gloomy stone path, with sad and ridiculous expressions on their faces, looking forward to him, as if they were waiting for his answer.

If he refuses, what he gets in exchange may no longer be superficial respect, but... violent means.

... Is Sydel still in the village?

Let's wait a little longer.

It is impossible to refuse.

Shi Qishun lowered his eyelashes and nodded slightly.

With a calm face and heavy shackles, he was frantically surrounded by a heartfelt and sad crowd. Surrounded by these villagers, he walked towards the unknown priest.

Miko welcomes this mortal ending to her own place of death.

Sidelle was still walking in the village.

The crowd was huge, all moving in one direction; the village was empty, with no people at all, and there was a scary and gloomy atmosphere in the dark night.

Sidelle flipped through the notebook, she just quickly scanned the plot of the new note in the notebook, and she didn't know what decision the outsider made in the end...

But it doesn't matter.

The new notes detail the village's historical background and horrific sacrificial rituals.

The Meiji era continued for hundreds of years, and Japan was still in an era of war and poverty. In order to seek protection, the ancestors of the Tuju family prayed to a certain "god" in Japan, and obtained the "god" by means of "human sacrifice". Blessed, I found a secluded place with mountains, water and fertile land.

However, it was also the beginning of the family's horrific history.

After sacrificing living people, the Tuju family thought that the price paid to the "god" was enough, and they began to live in the house they built with peace of mind.

Until one day, someone disappeared.

Later, more and more people disappeared, and they discovered that the "god" had been asking them for rewards, and one living sacrifice was far from enough.They don't take the initiative to sacrifice, "God"

So they lived in the land where they lived, causing the houses and villages built by the Tuju family to have their own consciousness, this land and the buildings on the land—

come alive.

It has been devouring members of the Tudou family for centuries.

Never stopped.

The grievances of the Tuju family members who were killed did not dissipate. From the very beginning, they stayed in the walls of the ancient house. The accumulated grievances led to the disorder of time and space.

In the room behind the red door, the timeline is disordered, and time and space are distorted. Those who enter will be swept into the gathering places of wraiths in other regions.

After being severely eroded by the red doors, the Tuju family finally gave up the old house, opened up a piece of land behind the old house, built it into a village, and continued to live.

...Even at this point, they are still unwilling to leave this place that has been eroded and controlled by "God".

It seems that these people firmly believe that they cannot escape the fate of being entangled by "God".

In a word, it is easier to invite God than to send God away.

It doesn't seem appropriate to call it a "god". In short, this thing has been devouring the members of the Tuju family. Therefore, even though the terrain conditions here are favorable, the Tuju family has developed for hundreds of years, but not many people have developed.

Fortunately, there are "witches" in the Tuju family. Among the lineage of witches, women are born with the ability to perceive and purify resentful spirits, so every few decades, they will choose a spirit from the family. The most powerful little girl, and raised her to be a witch.

The witch needs to appease the angry ghost.

Because too many innocent people died, a "sacrifice" was held every few decades. On the surface, it was a prayer to the "God", but in fact, it used the life of the witch to appease the restless and resentful ghosts.

In the sacrifice, after praying, the witch will die in torment and pain with mercy and redemption.

Use the witch's blood to appease the resentment of ghosts.

In this underground, the bloody and innumerable lives of the Tuju family are buried.

Then if...

Is the "priestess" who went to perform the sacrifice just an ordinary person without aura?

Sidelle carried the copper lamp and walked through the dilapidated low rooms in the village.When she thought of this, she had no time to turn back.

Under the light of the white halo, one can clearly see the dead bodies buried one after another on the walls and the ground.

But after the unknown sacrificial ceremony started in the distance, they suddenly opened their eyes one by one, revealing gray pupils, distorted and ferocious faces, pale limbs as soft as snakes, and drilled out from the wall and the ground.

Pale arms stretched out one by one.

The consumption of the blood beads is visible to the naked eye, and it drops rapidly.

They came out one after another, and there was a brief stop after meeting the white halo, but there might be too many of them, the ghosts were still moving towards Sidelle waddlingly.

Sidelle is the real Miko.

She was not in the sacrificial ceremony, but once she left the copper lamp and the blood beads, the fate of the "witch" seemed to be torn apart by these resentful ghosts.

Sidelle: "..."

She sighed, feeling that since she came to Japan, she really... has been having bad luck.

The girl wrapped in gray clothes did not hesitate, the outer clothes were too long, which affected her movements.Sidelle leaned over and cut it from the ankle, tore off a circle of gray cloth and tied it around her waist as a belt.

She walked quickly in the village, her eyes swept across the houses with indistinct "people", and finally saw a little girl about the same size as Qingzi and the others in a corner.

But the little girl wasn't in the wall.

"It's you."

Before Sidelle walked up, she slowly turned her head and looked at Sidelle with a soft smile.The little girl's appearance gave Sidelle a familiar feeling.

Sidelle recalled it in her heart, but everyone took the initiative to say hello, so she simply walked forward while searching for memories: "Are you Qingzi's friend?"

The little girl nodded: "Your name is Sidelle...? What a good name."

"I know the agreement between you and Qingzi." She smiled and nodded towards Sidelle: "I'm here to fulfill the agreement."

"I'll tell you, on the way out of Xushen Village, you'll never see any members of the Tuju family again..."

said the little girl.

She was wearing a kimono, with bright red maple leaves embroidered on a white background, and her sleeves were raised, pointing out a direction for Sidelle.

At the place she pointed out, a dark iron gate suddenly appeared on the wall.

"Behind that door," the little girl said, "is where you are going."

"I appreciate you bringing us five friends together. Now, you can leave."

Sidelle looked at the little girl and suddenly realized that the title she said was singular.

She was stunned for a moment, then looked down at the blood beads on the copper lamp in her hand, only the last traces of blood remained.

"Why haven't you left yet?"

When Sidelle hesitated, the little girl tilted her head strangely, her voice was flat and staid: "If you don't leave, you may not be able to leave. Stay here forever and become something like them—"

She pointed to the ghosts wandering the village.

……

Seeing the girl in a gray coat in front of her, she remained silent.

"Hey."

The little girl opened her eyes wide, her dark eyes looked up and down on Sidelle, she said, "You don't want to save people, do you? Need I remind you—"

Her eyes fell on the copper lamp in Sydel's hand, and she said flatly: "It's almost used up. If you go back now, after it's useless, you can only wait to die."

"Besides." The little girl said coldly: "None of the witches who entered the place of worship can survive. This is also the tradition of Xushen Village. I advise you to escape as soon as possible, before those ghosts realize that the witch is fake." goods……"

She snorted coldly: "If you hadn't helped me reunite with my friends, I wouldn't have said so much to you."

After listening to everything, Sidelle: "..."

She took one last look at the black iron door, knowing it was the way to get out, and it looked so homely.

Push it away, and you can leave the inner world and return to the place where there is sun, food, and fresh life.

Her family and friends are waiting for her outside.

Perhaps the search and rescue team is also anxiously looking for themselves.

If he turned around and went back to look for Shiqi, not only might he not be able to save anyone, but he would also... fold himself in.

No matter how calm, rational, and mentally tough she is, and who has gone through countless——

It's just a girl.

Sidelle is just an ordinary person.

She has no power to fight the ghost...death is so close.

Only now, facing such a difficult choice, did she realize this more deeply.

The little girl looked at Sidelle quietly.

Seeing the girl lowered her head, as if she was struggling silently, her expression remained unchanged, not surprising that Sidelle hesitated.

Faced with this choice, one is the temptation to live, and the other faces the fear of death...

Sidelle looked up, took one last look at the little girl, and smiled.

"Then I'm leaving, bye."

she says.

The girl walked briskly towards the door.

She stretched out her hand, and her thin white fingertips were about to touch the iron door that represented hope.

……

Dark, depressing, dull.

Old bloodstains were smeared on the mottled walls, and pale candles stood beside the bridge.

Under the bridge, there is an endless pit.

Shi Qi never thought that such a small village could have such a deep underground hole.

The wooden bridge creaked when stepped on.The stale and decaying smell rushed up, Shi Qi lowered his eyelashes, looking at the dark hole under his body, he always felt that there might be pools of blood pooling there.

Except for rotting blood, he rarely smelled such an unpleasant smell.

Yes, bloody water can also be described as rotten.

A corpse that has been dead for a long time will eventually turn into a puddle of pus mixed with blood and water.

He walked across the bridge quietly. On the huge stone altar, there were strange patterns carved on it. It was a blood trough used to bleed the "sacrifice".

...is it a cracked rope?

The patriarch next to him was still rambling about what to pray for, and Shi Qi still stood there quietly, but he was still counting the time in his heart.

Since these people found him and asked the priest to advance, until now...

Almost twenty and ten minutes have passed.

"Master Shenzi, it's time for you to start the sacrifice—"

The patriarch bowed respectfully to Seventeen.

Seventeen: "...um."

What is this asking him to do?

Start the sacrifice... It shouldn't be the time to sacrifice the priestess. It seems that the priestess will perform a prayer or dance before the sacrifice begins.

But Shi Qi had no idea.

He hasn't done any research on it either.

All he could say was, "I sort of forgot about the process."

"Prayers... and so on, I can't remember them all."

The patriarch was shocked: "What, what?!"

He stomped his feet angrily, suppressed his anger, and lowered his voice to repeat the witch's prayer to Seventeen.

repeat.

……

Up to three times.

The patriarch was so anxious that his beard stood straight up, and when his eyes were about to stare, Shi Qi finally raised his eyes and said, "It's ok."

When the patriarch repeated it for the second time, Shi Qi had already begun to pay attention to the series of keys on his waist and the distribution of the crowd behind him.

The whole village seemed to come.

Hundreds of people stood behind him, squeezed into a large mass.

Because he was wearing chains weighing dozens of kilograms, and there were indeed quite a lot of these people...

Without hot weapons, if you fight with them... the physical loss is too fast, Shi Qi began to think about how to get out from below.

half an hour.

Sidelle never showed up.

Seventeen is bland.

There is a high probability that Sidelle did something that triggered a certain point, causing these abnormal villagers to start the plot directly according to the game flow...

This should be a very crucial plot.

The villagers all gathered below for the sacrificial occasion. Sidel, who stayed in the village, must have found a way to escape and left directly.

Of course, it is also possible that she is dead, but the probability is not high.

Because Sidelle dragged on for half an hour, which was already the limit of seventeen.

He wasn't going to wait any longer.

Acting without authorization may change the plot on Sidelle's side, so he has been very quiet, without any omissions about the role of the witch.

But not now.

However, even so, Seventeen was as calm as ever.

There was no surprise, anger or resentment.

The moment he decided to give up Sidelle's line, he had already begun to quickly plan in his mind how to get out of the current predicament.

Even if he entered the prison for Sidel and became a sacrifice.

The exchange of identities is only for greater benefit.

Seventeen has always been very aware of this, he never gave anyone else any expectations, from the very beginning he was ready to be betrayed by Sidelle.

--This is normal.

he thought indifferently.

Kneeling obediently according to the instructions of the patriarch and several priests, and after whispering the series of prayers, Seventeen stood up, bowed his head and walked forward in small steps.

Half a meter, one meter...

After two more steps, when the stone platform is a little closer——

He counted precisely in his mind.

"and many more!"

The girl's clear voice suddenly resounded through the empty basement altar.

"Let him go!!"

Appearing at some unknown time, the girl standing on the high steps looked down at this group of people coldly.

She just stood there, silently letting out a chill.