In Yuanshen, no one understands holy relics better than me

The story of He Guan will not make people happy... These words made Xia Tian's heart tremble, interrupted Hu Tao who was pulling away from the topic, and asked straightforwardly: "Can you tell me about the things you know about He Guan first?"

"Hmm..." Akama needed to think about it and sum up the words well.

Because he is usually taciturn, and the only chat partner is Mr. Sumida, who speaks out of words, has a big brain hole, and doesn't know what to say, so it is difficult to tell stories, and he doesn't know where to start.

"The ancestors of the family couldn't stand what happened to Heguan, so they escaped, built a small boat, and headed in the direction where the so-called "thunderbirds" traveled...that is, Qinglai Island. "

"The ancestors lived on Qinglai Island for a long time. Later, Thunderbird destroyed Heguan, and later, they died on Qinglai Island, making the environment there uninhabitable..."

"Our family was lucky enough to survive the disasters of the past, so we moved to "Kannazuka" and worked at "Tatara Sand". Later, because of the actions of "Muzuke" at that time, we resigned and came to Narugami Island..."

"In the past, I made a lot of money doing business on outlying islands, but in my father's generation, there is nothing left but debts..."

"..."

It's very smooth, which is very rare for A Ke, but the problem is... These are all his family's affairs, and have nothing to do with the history of Heguan that Xia Tian and others want to know.

Hu Tao likes to listen to books, and A Fu's stuttering, just like storytelling, makes her listen quietly and interestingly: "You remember the history of the family very clearly! Are you using books to record it?"

Being praised, Akama was still a little embarrassed, and stroked his hair a little shyly, and because of the support of Walnut, his subsequent sentences became smoother. "

"Each generation we tell the next generation what we've experienced...by word of mouth."

"It seems that the ancestor who left Heguan the first time said that he abandoned everything when he left, and the only reason why he left must never be forgotten..."

"Father, too, clung to the story of Heguan until his death. Since I was a child, he always took me to Heguan...it is a very gloomy place, and there is nothing but bad memories."

"Before my father died, he also said that we are the last bloodline of the Crane Viewers. Although after so many years, the bloodline doesn't matter anymore... It's not the prominent families like the Hiiragi family and the Shenli family, which were left to me. Just one boat."

"..."

This passage is consistent with the words heard in the festival square. The young man named "Agama" also said, "someone should write down the things in our village."

Even if he chose to leave Heguan in the end, he still kept his promise to let future generations pass on the history of Heguan, although there will still be forgetting in the inheritance.

After listening to the family story, it is time to ask the key point: "Why did your ancestor leave Heguan? Did he know about the disaster in Heguan?"

A Ke shook his head and denied: "No, that disaster was unpredictable, and my ancestors didn't know why Thunderbird went crazy... The reason why my ancestors chose to leave Heguan was because Thunderbird fell in love with a child at that time. The priest decided to sacrifice the child to the Thunderbird."

Hu Tao frowned and thought: "The child that Thunderbird likes must be "Aru", but what does it mean to dedicate it to Thunderbird? "

"It means to sacrifice to the Thunderbird... Father didn't make it too obvious, but I think it means to perform a "blood sacrifice". "

Speaking of this, Akama's eyes rarely showed a hint of pride. Perhaps it was because of this pride that he, who didn't care about history, was willing to pass on this memory: "Then, the ancestors really couldn't accept this kind of thing. I just left, I originally wanted to leave with the child, but in the end the other party seemed to voluntarily stay."

"..."

A Kama said everything he knew, but got no response.

The air fell into dead silence, only the sound of the confluence of the sea wind and the mountain wind in the distance, like the cry of a child, helpless and miserable.

In this way, everything makes sense, why Ah Ru said that he is the protagonist of the festival, why he is so eager to run the festival well, why he often says that he needs to prepare for the festival, why he did not start the festival after memory...

Everything comes to mind, including the paleness of Ah Ru lying on the altar in the middle of the square and the blood flowing from the golden cup.

"Blood Sacrifice" is also known to Xia Tian, ​​and it is written in many books. In the ancient times when the people were not enlightened enough, many tribes had such a tradition in order to beg for the protection of a certain belief... Xia Tian was educated Modern people cannot understand, let alone accept.

Tivat does not have advanced science, but it is already relatively modern in thinking, and it is almost impossible to see the bad deeds that those primitive people would carry out, and some of them only exist in history.

Seriously speaking, Heguan is a remote civilization that has been extinct for more than 2000 years. Putting it on the earth, there must have been such "blood sacrifices" in Africa more than 2000 years ago. This is not something that needs to be greatly surprised.

It is not the history that makes Xia Tian tremble with fists. No matter how many people He Guan destroyed and died, no matter why the Thunderbird is crazy, it is just the history that has passed. , can't touch Xia Tian's heart at all.

but.

that kid.

Ah Ru is not a pure and emotionless projection. In the past few days of contact, I can clearly feel his joy and sincerity. If he is also a part of the phantom, he is also emotional, understands sadness, and is as innocent as ordinary children. phantom.

It is a phantom with a human nature that exists!

Because the ignorant clan wanted to beg for asylum and let a child become a victim, and Ah Ru, who knew about this, willingly chose to accept...

Perhaps, he woke up one day and found that his homeland was gone, and he found that all the clansmen could no longer talk to him. He thought it was his own fault that caused the ceremony to fail... So, he repeated the process of the ceremony over and over again, Over and over again preparing for his own funeral, over and over again feeling the sharp pain of the blade cutting the skin and blood flowing from the body.

Death, awakening, endless reincarnation.

A child who is not as tall as an adult's arm is just the age of a flower, but what kind of hell has he experienced?

Chapter 778 Let's end reincarnation!

Walnut often talks about death, and it seems to others that she despises life and death, but in fact, she, who is sent to the soul, respects life more than anyone else.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are part of the cycle of nature. Naturally, people should not be manipulated maliciously, or even perform so-called sacrifices with their lives. What's more, the ceremonies of Heguan are repeated repeatedly, causing Ah Ru to be killed again and again. , as if someone was taking pleasure in his death.

Those who are about to die cannot rest in peace, and those who have died are prevented from reincarnation.

Unable to smile again, Hu Tao clenched her small fists tightly, and her red plum blossom-shaped pupils seemed to be smoldering with flames: "We must stop this ceremony! The people of Crane View cannot dedicate Ah Ru to Thunder Bird, such ignorance Killing is a blasphemy against life and death!"

So excited that he forgot the fact that everything he saw was just a phantom, Ying clapped his hands to comfort: "Hu Tao, that is just a reappeared image, thousands of years have passed since the disaster that happened in Crane View."

As an ancient god, Ying is much calmer. She is not just imagining, but she has actually seen such sacrificial rituals on some small islands with her sister when they were subduing Daoqiu, and there were even more cruel killings.

However, because of the death of her sister and friends, she cherishes life far more strongly than other emotions, and can understand Xia Tian and Hu Tao's anger at the meaningless deprivation of life.

"I know that's in the past, it's just..."

Hu Tao grabbed the corner of Ying's clothes. This was the first time she touched Ying's body. There was an electric current piercing through her body. If Hu Tao had a driving flame at this time, it would probably directly trigger the "overload" explosion.

"Sister Ying also saw it? Ah Ru is not a pure phantom, he is different from other projections that appear..."

Walnut also has no way of determining what kind of existence "Ru" is, so he can only affirm it blindly: "Even if Ru is a phantom, she still has feelings. She is an existence that understands happiness and sadness. Every reenactment of the festival represents He must bear the pain of death, we cannot let this meaningless cycle continue!"

"Yeah." Shadow had a serious face, she didn't answer politely, and she really wanted to help the boy named "Aru".

Just, how to do it?All of these are just phantoms, even if they have thoughts and can communicate, they are still just phantoms... Even if Ying has unparalleled martial arts, there is nowhere to use it.

……

Another period of silence.

Hu Tao looked at Xia Tian without saying a word, so he could only think of a way by himself.

"Although the "images of characters" are all memories of the past, the terrain does exist, right?Those perches also exist, don't they? "

The Qiuqiu people and the relic guards only appeared in the last few hundred years, but when Hu Tao and Xia went to enshrine the habitat, they clearly saw the Qiuqiu people and the relic guards making trouble, which shows that from the world inside the stone door , not all of the past world, but a projection built on the current world.

The walnut ghost has many ideas, no matter it is useful or not, and it is not far off the mark, so let’s put it up first and then say: “Let’s destroy the perch and stop the worship ceremony, the Thunderbird will not come back, and the ceremony will naturally not continue, Aru You don’t need to be treated as a sacrifice!”

It seemed to be a solution, and Ying, who was born as a martial artist, didn't think too much, and acted decisively: "I'll destroy the perch."

"Hey, wait—" Hu Tao pulled her back again, very worried: "But in this case, will it violate the meaning of reappearing images? It is because the festival is not done well, so Thunderbird will be angry... If We destroyed the perch, wouldn't the Thunderbird be even more angry? That still can't solve the Thunderbird's resentment! Maybe it will bring even bigger disasters to Daozao."

Regarding this point, Ying is quite sure: "It's okay, I'll just chop it off again."

Indeed, assuming that changing the result of the projection will also change history, no matter how violent the Thunderbird is, isn't it just a matter of one shadow?You can't destroy the perch, let Thunderbird strengthen and awaken, right?

"If the perch is destroyed, the festival cannot go on. Ah Ru doesn't have to repeat the fate of death... Then the projections will all disappear, right? In this case, the thunder disaster on Qinglai Island and the black fog on Crane Temple may never be resolved !"

Hu Tao covered her head, really in a dilemma, she turned her gaze to the silent Xia Tian, ​​just about to complain.

But Xia Tian, ​​who was squatting on the ground, suddenly looked up: "What are you talking about?"

The question is very strange. Is it too thoughtful to hear the content of the discussion, or is it intentional to listen to it again?

Hu Tao blinked puzzled eyes, and repeated obediently: "We are thinking whether to destroy the ceremony, so that Ah Ru will not have to continue to suffer..."

Xia Tian suddenly realized, slapped his thigh, and stood up happily: "That's right! Destroy the festival!"

Hu Tao was frightened like a rabbit, rubbing her fleshy legs: "Oh! What are you doing!"

"Sorry, wrong shot, wrong shot." Xia Tian was also too excited, accidentally shot the wrong leg, and said why the hand feels different, then the Q bomb came.

He took Hu Tao into his arms again, and praised him like coaxing a child: "You are so smart!"

Being hugged so tightly that she couldn't breathe, Hu Tao blushed, but she was not in a hurry to push away: "Wouldn't Thunderbird be angrier then? Maybe its resentment will never be resolved."

"I want to understand!" Xia Tian restrained his emotions, faced the two girls, and asked, "Why do you think Thunderbird is angry?"

Hu Tao thought for a while, recalling the previous words: "Didn't you say that since the leylines have been repeating the process of the festival, it must be that the festival was not done well, so Thunderbird was angry?"

"Not bad!"

Xia Tian snapped his fingers for sure, but Hu Tao was even more confused: "It's not bad! You ruined the festival, so can the festival still be run? What can it solve?"

"Is it possible that the people of Heguan feel that a successful festival is a bad festival for Thunderbird?"

"Ok?"

The words were a bit convoluted, which made Hu Tao and Ying unable to react immediately.

Although it's just a guess, Xia Tian is already [-]% sure, because it's so reasonable: "Generally speaking, even if the festival fails, Thunderbird won't have such a big resentment, right? Even if Thunderbird has a bad temper, At most, the penalty was to destroy the Crane Temple, but she suddenly went crazy and went to attack Qinglai Island, right? She can communicate with Ah Ru, which means she has a certain amount of wisdom. It is impossible not to know that there are more A powerful enemy... Isn't that going to seek death? Do you think it is possible for Thunderbird to go crazy and seek death because of the imperfect rituals that humans prepared for her?"

There are too many things to say at one time, so that the two listeners can't grasp the main point: "Can you make it simpler?"

Xia Tian paused for a moment, and used himself as an example: "Suppose one day, I was brutally killed by a group of people for no reason, and then the bloody body appeared at your birthday party as a gift, what would you do?"

This assumption was asked to Hu Tao, but before Hu Tao showed his anger, Ying spoke first without thinking: "I will definitely kill all those people!"

The murderous aura suddenly rose, and thunder shook all around, scaring Hu Tao, who was originally angry after being replaced, soberly: "Xiamen is just a metaphor..."

"Sorry, I didn't control my emotions." Yingmei swept her eyes, looked at Xia Tian apologetically, and then withdrew the killing intent she had inadvertently released.

Xia Tian laughed, how strong the killing intent just now meant how much Ying valued himself as a friend, of course it was a happy thing.

Let's get back on topic.

"Because I am your friend, if I was killed inexplicably, and my bloody corpse was displayed maliciously in front of you, normal people would be angry, right? Naturally, I want to vent my anger if I have the ability... "

"Well, think about it, Ah Ru said that she and Thunderbird are friends, and Thunderbird is even willing to ask Ah Ru to name her. I think it can be understood that Thunderbird values ​​Ah Ru very much."

"However, the Heguan tribe used Aru's blood as a sacrifice. Imagine that when Thunderbird returned to Heguan full of joy and wanted to listen to Aru's singing again, what he saw was a cold bloody corpse... ..."

At this point, you can almost feel the anger.

Thinking human beings will be angry because of this, let alone elemental creatures who are less intelligent and express emotions more directly.

"Ah Ru died, so Thunderbird went crazy and destroyed the Crane Temple, and then went to destroy the adjacent islands... Her resentment is not because she is unwilling to be killed by the shadow, but because she cannot let go of Ah Ru's death."

"If we want to change this complete tragedy, and change the bitter fruit of the lack of communication between people and beliefs, we must destroy the festival!"

"..."

Xia Tian's analysis was agreed by Hu Tao and Ying, and the topic was not further developed because it was too embarrassing.

The next thing to do is to wait for tomorrow to come.

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This was the third time he had broken into the stone door, and everything was back to the beginning. The perches had not yet been consecrated, and the ceremony was still being prepared. The only difference was that Xia Tian would feel sick when he saw the utensils in the center of the altar again.

Also, Ah Ru did not appear on the stone at the door, this time he was standing next to "Grandpa You" in the square, with doubts on his face.

He originally thought that the reason why he kept failing was because he intervened in the ceremony, so he hoped to get help from outsiders, but he didn't expect that his well-meaning brothers and sisters couldn't make the ceremony go smoothly... What is the reason?

Is it because I was too careless and forgot some important process?It would be great if Dad...Grandpa You can communicate, Grandpa You must know what's wrong.

Ah Ru stood beside Grandpa You, trying to find the reason for the failure of the festival from those words that had been repeated thousands of times. When she saw Xia Tian and Hu Tao appearing at the door, she wanted to say hello happily, but she saw the two of them going to live with serious expressions. wood go...

What are the brothers and sisters going to do?

Still wondering, I heard the sound of trees "clicking"... Then, the fog swept the square, so thick that I couldn't see clearly, it was like the night.

The projections of the Heguan clansmen were also affected. Although they did not dissipate completely, they were much blurred, and some of them could not even see clearly, turning into a transparent blue soul state.

Ah Ru was startled and frightened, with anger mixed in her puzzlement.

He is very familiar with Crane View, even with his eyes closed, he can find the location of the perch, thus finding Xia Tian and Walnut.

Crying accusation: "Why... why did you do this? I thought that you are so nice and powerful... and you are different from the people before! You will come back to me and listen to me all the time, I thought that the "this time" festival would finally go smoothly...but...why are you doing this! "

Hu Tao grabbed Ah Ru's shoulders, squatted down and looked at her at the same level: "We want to stop the ceremony! Then you will be fine, we want to help Ah Ru!"

"This can't help me!" Ah Ru couldn't understand the behavior of destroying the perch: "During the "that" festival, I don't know what went wrong. At first, everything seemed to be going well...but, I woke up , and then found that Crane View has become what it is now, everyone has become very strange, can't see me, can't hear me..."

Ah Ru has been alone for thousands of years, never confided his inner panic to others, and always showed others with a smile, but now, his emotional fluctuations are hard for him to contain.

"Ah Ru—" Hu Tao wanted to interrupt and explain the reason clearly, but was stopped by Xia Tian, ​​motioning to wait for Ah Ru to vent all the depression in her heart: "Why does Ah Ru insist on repeating the ceremony?"

A Ru wiped her tears, sometimes she really couldn't understand that such a clear existence was actually just a phantom created by the leylines: "Then, after a while, there will be thunder on the island, which becomes very scary. At this time, there are only confusion, Jiming and Fengyue don't know how to thunder, so I'll hide in those places until the thunder is over..."

"However, after the thunder is over, things will go back to the way they were before, and I will wake up again, and then everyone will do the same thing again... And, Kapaqili is gone, and I can't even find it in Kananayama. to her."

"So I think it must be because something went wrong with the festival that made Kapaqili angry."