Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 302 Altar Construction
"Building materials?"

"It looks like a wooden frame or something." The young man continued with a gloomy face, "Brother Xia and I saw that they built a wooden platform."

Gao Tianyi gave a brief description of the platform, while Xia Chengyin gave a more vivid summary of the shape - like the altar behind the wall of the underground parking lot of Minghui Shopping Mall.

They were connected by a wonderful mortise and tenon structure, and they didn't even see the metal objects used for fixation.

The advantage of building it with only wood is that when it is set on fire, it will be completely burned and only a layer of charcoal and wood ash will remain.

Qi Zhuyue: "...Why did you jump directly to burning?"

Bai Su: "Huh? Isn't it written like this in many fictional works? For sacrifices or something, bring the sacrifices to the altar." Whether it is placed on a wooden platform or placed on a cross, it can be burned with a fire.

Gao Tianyi: "It seems to make sense..."

Qi Zhuyue: "What makes sense! Wake up, the clues now are the lake and the fish...oh, and the doppelganger of the black mud."

Bai Su asked without understanding: "Can't fire burn on water?"

Qi Zhuyue was asked rhetorically, she was stunned for a moment and replied: "It is possible... as long as the conditions are met."

If the three of combustibles, combustion-supporting materials and ignition points come together, a flame can be ignited even in water.

"So..." The black-haired young man squinted his eyes and waved his fingers in the air, "The water was rising with ardent and dazzling fire. What a gorgeous scene."

Weird...what a strange feeling.

Qi Zhuyue slowly turned her head and met the eyes of the black-haired young man waving his fingers.

The half-lidded black eyes were so dark that there was no light in them, but they were not dull and dull. It was just that the dark look gave people a sense of pressure and made their hearts beat faster.

It's not a feeling of heartbeat, but a sign of heart palpitations.

The black-haired young man described the scene of fireworks on the sea very seriously, as if he had seen it before.

He has indeed seen it, in documentaries, war-oriented documentaries.

"The hull tilted, and what was flowing out of the hole in the hull? ... It must have been oil, and then an explosion occurred. People's screams and calls for help were intertwined, accompanied by crackling fireworks."

"The music composed by death... is so beautiful."

The black eyes are dyed with an illusory color, and humans seem to see the scene reappearing in Bai Su's narration. The lifelike phantoms keep getting closer, so close that humans seem to have become a member of the scene.

What should she do?Struggling in the water?Should we shout together?

Above the head is the hull of the ship that is constantly tilting and is about to fall into the sea. The surrounding area is surrounded by billowing smoke and fire, and there is nowhere to go.

Sight, smell, hearing... and finally touch. No matter how beautiful the scenery of fireworks on the sea is from a distance, when people are in it, they will just feel like it is hell.

"Miss Qi."

An ordinary shout woke Qi Zhuyue out of her own world.

They sat together around the stone table in the yard. The black-haired young man in front of them still squinted his eyes, held his head in a fist with his right hand, and looked at people.

"Did you see anything?" Bai Su asked.

He watched helplessly as the human woman looked a little dazed after he finished talking about the fireworks at sea.

The two people on the table, who were in their own way, were redrawing the shape of the wooden table one by one on the paper. The only one listening to him now was Qi Zhuyue.

As for Tang Nuo, he was sitting in the house reading a book, with the open window allowing others to see him from outside.

In this case... Bai Su moved his fingers, chose a suitable route, and sent Bai Xu to the human female's ear.

Bai Xu opened and closed like a mouth behind the person's ear, softly and slowly opening and closing, murmuring some words that ordinary people could not hear.

It doesn't matter if you hear it, syllables that are not within the scope of human understanding will only be mistaken for a problem in this village.

As Bai Su expected, the human female understood.

She understood the other meaning, and then she fell into her own world and clenched her fists in panic, her knuckles clenched until they turned white, and she almost choked out the bloody breath, and then she was woken up by Bai Su.

The human woman woke up slowly, and Bai Su put away his little moves before she was fully awake.

Monsters know that their voices will affect humans, especially sentences that do not belong to humans.

"No... nothing."

When Qi Zhuyue woke up, she first glanced at the other two people, and then she shook her head to get rid of all the images that had just been filled in her mind.

Then, she repeated: "Nothing, what did you just say?"

Bai Su replied: "It is said that fire can burn on water."

Qi Zhuyue murmured: "Oh...yes, as long as the conditions are met."

The human woman calmed down for a while. She watched the other two drawing more and more detailed drawings on the paper and realized something.

"Why is it on the water?" Qi Zhuyue was a little confused, "Didn't Taoist Xiao Gao say that the lake no longer exists?"

Gao Tianyi, who had his head lowered, answered vaguely when he heard his name.

If you think about it this way, if what the villagers built there was really a sacrificial venue, even if it burned, it would still be on the ground.

As for the hollow structure below... Come on, this is not playing games. From a scientific point of view, how can there be a thin layer of soil covering the water without any support?

In that case, Gao Tianyi would definitely collapse if he stood on it, not to mention Xia Chengyin, and not to mention so many villagers.

"But -" the young man looked up from the paper faintly, "How can the supernatural tell you about science? Maybe he won't even tell you about metaphysics."

The drawings of one large and one small came to an end, and they pushed the paper towards the center of the stone table. It was a look that was familiar to Bai Su.

Isn't this... isn't this the one under that shopping mall?

As a person involved in the incident, Bai Su naturally has the right to speak.

In the not-too-distant past, he used the most primitive method to hammer a carrion body to death in the underground garage of the shopping mall.

He hammered for so long that he was deeply impressed by the layout around him.

It's not safe to dispose of the carrion directly because its smell is disgusting.

Now, wooden altars with similar structures appear.

Bai Su looked at the paper and tapped it twice on the desktop with his knuckles.

He shouldn't remember what happened in the mall, so... the black-haired young man with his head lowered glanced at the paper several times, as if to remember the appearance of the wooden platform.

Afterwards, Bai Su raised his head and asked, "Are you just watching them set up the stage?"

Xia Chengyin touched his chin: "Not only that, they finished setting up the stage and started setting up pillars. Because it was too close to the woods, this kid and I left first."

Qi Zhuyue also looked away from the paper. She calculated the time: "It took the villagers... two hours to set up the stage? You also squatted there for so long?"

It feels like something is wrong with the timing.

The group stayed at the home of an old man who passed his birthday for such a long time and even witnessed a quarrel. Finally, they chased the young man with a shadow on his face and met a little girl on the road. After teasing him, they followed him to the target's home on the edge of the village. .

Then the group stayed at the young man's house for a long time. After being kicked out of the house, they squatted in the bushes and witnessed the resurrection of the "big yellow dog".

That scene was a bit nauseating. Except for Bai Su, the other two people had a bad appetite for lunch today.This experience lasted them from morning to afternoon.

And what about the other group?It didn't take long to circle the village and find the way up the mountain. After finding the edge of the "lake", we went to the center and explored it briefly for more than ten minutes before being forced to leave by the villagers who arrived later.

With so many villagers, it still takes four or five hours to set up a stage?
"That's another story." Gao Tianyi took a sip of water for himself, "I also took Brother Xia to other places." A place that he cared a little about.

The villagers were close to the "lake", so Gao Tianyi and the others changed places.

Young people are talented and bold, leading the adults who are also outstanding in their behavior to continue walking deep into the mountain.

When Gao Tianyi and Xia Chengyin collide, the effect is that one plus one is greater than two.

The young man said that the place he cared about was the entire "lake" close to the rising cliff. In his dream, he vaguely caught a glimpse of a "hole"-like shadow behind the stream.

At that time, the line of sight was obscured by the shadows of trees. For a moment, it was impossible to tell whether it was caused by the overlapping shadows of the trees, or whether there was really a road extending backwards behind.

So now Gao Tianyi came to seek confirmation.

The "lake" is very big, if the lake still exists, it will be almost impossible to see at a glance.

After leaving the center of the "lake", the villagers gradually disappeared from sight.

The duo arrived at the mountain face, where they found nothing.

"No." Gao Tianyi sat at the table and shook his head, "Brother Xia and I carefully looked at the mountain wall over there three times, but found nothing."

It can even be said that the overall structure of the mountain wall is consistent, there are no broken parts that can be moved.

In other words, there are no traces of acquisition, and there is no cave entrance here.

"Did you read it wrong?" This is an adult who is not out of breath after turning three times.

"Uh...huhu...maybe?" This was a minor who could no longer walk.

Dreams don't need to follow logic.

The young man thought about this silently in his heart.

Gao Tianyi didn't think the cave entrance didn't exist, maybe because of the dream, he had to splice a lot of content into a limited scene, which led to the grafting of things from other places.

Afterwards, a large and a small group went back home, and agreed to meet another wave of people at around noon, and if they dragged on, they would be hungry, but they didn't bring food out.

Gao Tianyi: "That's about it."

The young man finished his story while eating instant food.

Now, the speaker for the exchange of information has changed.

Finding that no one was talking, Bai Su sat up straight and cleared his throat. He was about to go over their findings quickly, but was stopped by Qi Zhuyue.

The human woman hesitated to speak, opened and closed her mouth and felt nauseated, and said: "Let people eat a good meal."

Gao Tianyi: "Huh?"

Bai Su: "Okay."

The black-haired young man was considerate of human beings' poor ability to accept food. He waited until the two people who returned late had swallowed their food before he spoke and recounted what he saw from his perspective.

Bai Su is a good narrator. Except for his own subjective perspective, his words have no ups and downs, just like the narration of the background in the story.

Bai Su looked at the human boy, his eyes getting brighter and brighter as he told his story, and his curiosity about the unknown and strangeness ignited.

After he almost finished speaking in a straightforward manner, the young man couldn't help but hammer the table with his hand on the table.

"Damn it." Gao Tianyi muttered in a low voice, "Judging from the amount of intelligence obtained, isn't it a complete defeat?"

The duo just watched the villagers building what looked like an altar, but the trio on the other side seemed to have taken a shortcut and were about to break into the truth about the doppelgangers.

Did you cheat?Or did someone get the script?
The black-haired young man who didn't take the script and was just relying on his racial advantage to cheat looked around in a circle, bypassing the people in the yard, and finally stopped at the young man with glasses in the room.

He asked: "Are we going to sit here next?"

The morning exploration is over, isn't there still an afternoon?
……

Human beings have their limits, so I don’t want to be a human anymore—ahem, the channel is wrong.

Human physical strength and energy are really limited. After what happened in the morning, they speculated that someone might come looking for books in the afternoon and the group felt that they had to stay and watch over Tang Nuo.

The sooner the book was brought back, the better to decipher it, so as not to prolong the process and cause trouble, especially to the person who came looking for the book.

The young man named Wen Rongxuan has such a special skill as transforming into a living dog. It is not impossible to find other ways to find objects.

However, Gao Tianyi still wanted to run out.

Teenagers are always more energetic than adults.

Although he had exhausted all his energy by climbing the mountain in the morning, after taking a rest after eating, Gao Tianyi felt that he could do it again.

He wanted to go to the temple.

The young man waved his arms and said, "Didn't the little girl say yesterday that there was a path leading to the temple? I want to see it."

"Should we divide into two teams like in the morning?" he tried to ask.

So, Baisu took the human youth and stood at the fork in the village.

What should I say?Fortunately, everyone in the village went to the "lake" to build an altar?

Baisu sensed all the way along the way, and the young and middle-aged people in the village were almost gone, even the middle-aged and elderly men with better legs and feet were gone.

Just like Wen Jianyuan, after saying goodbye at the old man's home in the morning, he said he had something to do, but now he thinks he is preparing for the sacrifice.

There are only a few women left in the village. Their activities are the same as yesterday, basking in the sun that is gradually covered by clouds, and lazing like fish with their belly turned over.

Live, mostly alive.

With the surrounding sight lines reduced, it is still a bit difficult to take the path to the temple.

But that's for humans. For Bai Su, there are several paths in front of him that can avoid human sight.

The young man was still fumbling in his pockets to figure out what props to use and what route to take. Bai Su turned his wrist, grabbed the man's collar and lifted him up.

The feeling of being pinched at the collar was not pleasant, and the weight pressed downwards even caused a slight suffocation feeling.

Gao Tianyi only felt a blur in front of his eyes, and the ensuing sense of weightlessness reminded him of some experiences during the school spring and autumn outing.

To put it bluntly, a roller coaster is not as exciting as what he is experiencing now.

The young man, who was about to close his eyes, felt as if he was being carried along the wall of a house, and then onto the roof. The bricks and tiles seemed to have turned into soft cotton wool under Bai Su's feet, making no sound at all.

After climbing over a house without attracting anyone's attention, they walked through the woods on the roadside and then out. When their feet landed on the ground, they had already left the village.

"Okay." Baisu let go of his hands and clapped his hands together, "You can continue walking."

The boy responded with a retching sound.

(End of this chapter)