The weird game of the ancient gods

The more Xia Yu thought about it, the more excited he became, and he couldn't wait to take action immediately.

Find the statue first and then get the sacrifice. This was done this morning.

Unexpectedly, just as he was about to leave, he heard the village chief's voice.

"Hey, that gravedigger, where have you been? Those corpses are almost stinking, why don't you get rid of them quickly!"

As he spoke, he threw a few copper coins to Xia Yu.

Xia Yu reluctantly took the copper coin and started doing it, forgetting that there was still work to do.

Xia Yu was a little depressed. Although the gravedigger had various conveniences, he still couldn't escape his daily work.

I had no choice but to agree, pick up the copper coins, go to work, go back to the cemetery, roll out my wheelbarrow, and start transporting the corpses for burial.

As usual, I used the corpse-picking skill on the corpse first. The two villagers were not very useful, but they picked up an interesting thing from the black bird.

[Nightwatch lantern (off-hand item)

Use: Illuminate the surrounding area, increase the morale of villagers within the lighting range by +1, and reduce the morale of dark creatures by -1.

Item introduction: A lantern using kerosene as fuel can illuminate the surroundings in the dark night. Human beings have an instinctive fear of darkness. This lantern can bring light and awaken the courage in people's hearts. In the long night, the night watchman Only by relying on this thing can we have the courage to keep watching. 】

Xia Yuxin said that the skill of picking up corpses is really amazing. The black bird was burned like this and he could still find things out of the corpse. However, this thing is really useless to him. If he was a civilian, it would be okay. As a dark Creature, this piece of shit has no use.

He threw the lantern into the stone house and started digging holes to bury people.

He was in a hurry to get things done and didn't bother to dig a deep hole. He just dug a shallow hole one meter deep, hoping that he could stuff the body into it. He didn't even bother to use the coffin and just put the body into the pit. Throw it away, bury it in the soil and it will be all alive.

After burying three corpses, it was just noon, and he could start his own mission.

On the way to the village, Xia Yu was still thinking about it. Thinking about the seven or eight people lying there in the mine, if they were discovered later by people in the village and asked to bury them all, it would be troublesome. Even if It's not easy to deal with being a vampire yourself.

It's best to find all the statue sacrifices in the afternoon, sacrifice a wave of them, strengthen them, and then discuss the tactics with the dragon knights, and deal with those civilians tonight.

Xia Yu opened the human skin map while thinking, and secretly remembered the location of the demon statue. Then he walked into the village, walked to the location where the statue was marked, and looked around. What made Xia Yu speechless was Seeing nothing, he reluctantly took out the map again.

It is indeed here, how come there is nothing?

He checked the map again. The location of the demon statue was marked on the map. In reality, it was located in the center of the village. Two roads intersected leading to all parts of the village. The place where Xia Yu stood was the intersection of a crossroads. , let alone the statue of the devil, there is not even a building.

Wait, crossroads? Devil statue? He suddenly remembered that in Western myths and legends, the crossroads were the place where people met the devil. People could make deals with the devil at the crossroads through certain rituals, usually by exchanging their souls for a wish.

He has seen similar plots in movies and TV series.

Why don't you wait until midnight and try again?

But if we want to do it tonight, even if it's too late, if it doesn't work, we can only find the shadow in the stone to sacrifice.

Xia Yu thought helplessly that he should look for sacrifices first. Following the advice provided by Black Cat, Xia Yu began to look for his 'insider'.

Blackstone Village is not very big. There are less than a hundred villagers in the village including the elderly and children. After wandering around the village twice, he actually found a suspicious target, which was under a big tree. Lying there was a sloppy and dirty old man, with messy gray hair and a ragged leather jacket. He was sleeping there at noon, with an empty wine bottle in his arms.

Because Xia Yu was also a resident of the village, after careful observation for a while, the identity of the old man naturally emerged in Xia Yu's mind.

This old man should be one of the earliest residents of Black Rock Village. No one knows how long he has lived. He is usually silly and silly. Apart from drinking, he lies under the tree and sleeps. Occasionally he will say crazy things. Some people Seeing how pitiful he was, he gave him some food. The village chief even took care not to starve him to death.

His name has long been forgotten, and everyone in the village calls him the old fool.

An old man, a drunkard, a lunatic, a beggar - this person has almost all the elements mentioned by Black Cat. It's because the insider didn't run away.

Xia Yu thought for a while, and he still needed some skills to talk to this old man. He turned around and entered the tavern, bought a bottle of ale from the tavern owner, and then went back to the hut to take out his own bottle of wine, which he had only taken a sip of.

Walking to the old man, Xia Yu unscrewed the wine bottle, sprinkled some on the old man, and then took a sip himself. When he smelled the wine, the old man suddenly woke up with his nose twitching, and looked at Xia Yu's hand eagerly. wine bottle.

Xia Yu raised the wine bottle towards the old man, "Hey old man, do you want something to drink?"

After hearing Xia Yu's words, the old man immediately showed greedy eyes.

"Give me some, give me some."

Xia Yu didn't waste any time and handed the bottle over.

The old fool drank greedily from the bottle of ale, and drank it all in the blink of an eye. After drinking, he looked at the wine in Xia Yu's hand.

Xia Yu didn't give it to him this time. "Before you drink, answer me a question first, old man, do you know about the sacrifices?"

"Sacrifice? What sacrifice?"

“It is a sacrifice offered to God.”

The old man looked disdainful, "Of course I know. People use pure white lamb's blood to sacrifice to God. What's the problem? Even fools know this. Give me the wine."

"Then besides the pure white lamb's blood, do you need anything else as a sacrifice?"

The old man was stunned for a moment, "Although it's not common, it does exist."

"what is that?"

There was a look of recollection on the old man's face.

"Do you know the origin of the name Scarlet Valley?"

After finishing speaking, Xia Yu started talking to himself without waiting for a reply.

"Back then, there was a group of pagans living in this valley. A noble nobleman took a fancy to the land here. He came here with twelve knights and hundreds of mercenaries, and killed everyone. Those pagans The blood stained the ground, and the entire valley turned red, hence the name Scarlet Valley.

It is said that the leader of the pagan group cursed before his death. The evil god they believed in would one day come and kill all the enemies in the valley.

Of course no one believed him, there was only one God in the world.

In the second year, the valley was full of roses, and red fruits like grapes grew on the roses. The noble used these fruits to brew a batch of wine, which was a gift to God.

Most of these wines have been used up, but it is said that the tavern owner still has a bottle in his house. Alas, let’s try the truth again. "

Xia Yuxin said that this would be easy to handle.

But how to get the wine?

Spend money on it? Not to mention whether the other party is willing to sell it, I can't afford it with so little money.