Hang up to study, I became a master of esoteric religion

The villagers used stone axes to scrape bark and gnaw grass roots, their faces numb.

Yan Qianqian's palms trembled, grabbing a few pieces of brand-new bark, her face full of desire to eat, but she forcibly restrained her desire to eat with reason.

The younger sister on the side couldn't bear the appetite, and gnawed down the fifth piece of tree.

"Everyone take it home and cook it, don't eat it raw, it will spoil your stomach!" Yuanzi shouted from left to right.

While shouting and drinking, Yuanzi's stomach also croaked, making her want to eat bark and roots too.

Yan Qianqian also yelled for help, telling everyone to go back and cook.

Two people yelled, Mariko's status as a witch apprentice is quite high, no matter how much you don't want to be patient, you have to listen to the opinions of the witch apprentice.

"We listen to you, Ms. Yuan." Several old villagers trembled, they were really hungry.

After a while, everyone brought a dozen pieces of bark and many weeds back to the village.

But here comes the problem. It has dried up so badly in recent days that there is no water source at all.

Mariko looked at the chapped lips of the farmers and the empty dry tanks in the water storage tanks, and knew that today was a difficult day.

How long can humans live without normal food, without water?

Yuanzi called Yan Qianqian, and went to the church to find rice and water tanks.

When I opened it, there was not a single grain of rice in the rice jar.

The water tank is extremely dry, no different from the water tanks in villagers' homes.

"Without water, ordinary people can only survive for three or four days." Yan Qianqian said seriously.

You can live without food for more than a week, but you can't live without water.

At this time, Yuanzi could only pin her hopes on "The Witch's Self-cultivation" which she hadn't read yet.

It is said in the game background of the system that in order to survive the famine, the villagers applied to the town to send a witch to rescue them.

Instead of sending an official witch down, the town sent an apprentice witch, who was Mariko herself.

Yuanzi opened the first page of "The Witch's Self-Cultivation", and saw a line of text that he could read: "What is a witch? A witch is to pass through the astral gate through sleepwalking techniques and obtain random knowledge in the ocean of the astral world. She is a woman who possesses this kind of dangerous knowledge and can fall into madness at any time..."

On the first page of the opening, the system popped up a prompt: "I found a book on occultism!"

Mariko didn't hesitate, he saw that he was not as fast as the system to hang up and learn, so he hung up the book immediately.

In the next moment, the system began to host Mariko's learning module, quickly learning the occult knowledge inside.

["Sleepwalking Star Gate" progress bar: 0/1500]

Yuanzi sat on the chair and put the book on the table, so that even Yan Qianqian could recite along with her.

[Knowledge point +1]

[Knowledge point +1]

During the study period, Yuanzi's stomach made a sound of hunger from time to time.

Two hours later, Yuanzi's stomach felt a tearing pain, but the ruthless system only wanted to learn, and by manipulating the cells of the whole body, it severely suppressed the hungry desire to eat.

Yan Qianqian couldn't resist her appetite, she was so hungry at night that her stomach was about to burst, she especially wanted to eat bark and weeds.

Yan Qianqian's expression changed drastically, and she clutched her stomach.

She thought it was a misconception that the country must be under the influence of some mysterious ritual that was starving her and her villagers out of their minds.

Yan Qianqian pressed her stomach over and over again, but in the end, the terrifying desire overcame Yan Qianqian's will, and she tremblingly took out a grass root covered in mud.

At this time, Yuanzi suddenly quit the study trusteeship and held Yan Qianqian's hand.

"Don't eat it, wait a little while until I figure out a way." Yuanzi said.

"I'm so hungry, Mariko, I know it's the effect of a mysterious ritual, but I can't help it, it's more terrifying than tattoo desire..." Yan Qianqian's stomach shrank from hunger, muscles contracted, and bones protruded.

Also exiting the system hosting state, Yuanzi's body also experienced extreme hunger to the soul, as if she would die if she didn't eat.

The brain trembled, the body trembled, and the stomach muscles contracted in bursts, unfolding a terrible inner twist.

If it wasn't for the systematic suppression of the cells of the whole body, how could Yuanzi sit so securely and study.

At this time, Yuanzi really had no way to stop Yan Qianqian, so he could only let the other party eat grass roots.

Yuanzi herself is still unwilling to eat. She can survive for a few days without food. The most important thing right now is lack of water.

Mariko asked the system to fight instead, on the grounds that his body was about to suffer damage.

【Ding! 】

[Detected that the host is experiencing physical damage! 】

[The system code has been activated. 】

The pain in Mariko's body disappeared instantly, and all the cells were entrusted by the will of the system, and were no longer affected by the mysterious.

[Currently insufficient effective information, unable to know the enemy, the system is missing targets, please ask the host to find the enemy. 】

After all, the system is still in charge of the body, otherwise the body will still be damaged.

Yuanzi is much better, but Yan Qianqian is not.

Seeing Yan Qianqian frantically gnawing grass roots, with a look of madness, made Yuanzi very heartbroken.

Yuanzi's mind flashed, and he began to think about the immediate method of saving his life.

It is not necessary to immediately break the current national famine situation. After all, the name of the game is called Black Famine. This is a national impact and cannot be resolved in a day.

Mariko thought of dark cooking, which she used to make crow tattoo soup.

However, there are many problems here that hinder Mariko.

You can't make broth without water, without meat, and you can't make dark cuisine without broth.

Furthermore, the things to be put into the dark cuisine must be special problems, and it is invalid to put in ordinary items.

There is also a mysterious atmosphere. There is no knowledge of modern rituals in dark cooking rituals, so you need to find a place with a mysterious atmosphere, which is also a problem.

After the way of dark cooking failed, Mariko had to find another way.

The "Sleepwalking Astral Gate" she has in hand can't solve the problem quickly. It is essentially an extremely advanced sleepwalking method. During sleepwalking, she can enter an unstable dream world where the multiverse materials are interconnected, where Mariko has a chance. Learn something dangerous, useful, and possibly maddening.

This is both a good thing and a dangerous knowledge, and it cannot solve the water problem at present.

Mariko looked at the other books on the bookcase, namely the diary and the village notebook.

Yuanzi looked through the diary written by the original owner, and found that the diary was not written by herself, and the first page was signed by a stranger's artistic name, named "Takehara Witch".

According to the identity arranged by the system, Mariko is a witch apprentice, so the Takehara witch in the diary may be the official witch of the town.

"You found a book on the occult."

A system prompt popped up, and Yuanzi's eyes lit up. A dead horse is a living horse doctor. I hope this book has a solution, otherwise she can only take the whole village out to find a water source.

Chapter 251 The God of Harvest

As time went by, Mariko dozed off and nodded all night, and learned a third of this Takehara Witch's diary.

The content here is not simple, it is an evil summoning ceremony, the total learning progress bar is 640, and Yuanzi hangs up the phone before 12 o'clock and learns a few dozen points of progress, and after 12 o'clock, he learns a hundred points of progress, a total of two Baidu The progress is directly full.

After one-third of the study, Yuanzi has read the entire diary, and the next thing is to do two brushes, three brushes, four brushes, and five brushes, and learn the knowledge thoroughly through continuous review.

In other words, Mariko already has an entry-level understanding of the sacrificial ritual written in Takehara Witch's Diary.

The name of the sacrificial ceremony is "Ceremony of Summoning the God of Plenty". Before the summoning, live animals need to be prepared for blood sacrifice.

It is best to use white goats as living sacrifices for animals. If there are no live goats, other large live animals are also acceptable.

If you don’t look at the knowledge summarized by the system, but only look at the diary in the Takehara Witch’s Diary, Mariko discovers that this is a five-year experimental diary, from human sacrifices to various animals, to the best experiments. It took five full years to sacrifice the white goat.

The summoning knowledge of the Takehara Witch was learned during a sleepwalking, and a lot of human blood was stained on her hands for this. This is a taboo area that Mariko has never touched.

Mariko felt the bloody anti-human thinking from this evil diary, which was cold, disgusting and disgusting.

But from the perspective of saving lives, the "Summoning the God of Plenty Ceremony" is the most likely to succeed at the moment. First of all, its summoning conditions are much simpler than other mysterious ceremonies. The venue only needs a forest.

In terms of mysterious atmosphere, the ceremony needs moonlight to shine on the mountains and forests, as well as some decorations with goat elements, etc., to meet the atmosphere conditions.

Yuanzi found a goat horn mask at the bottom of the closet, and all the conditions were almost complete, except for the animal sacrifices.

"Do you want to employ people? No, I can't do this." Yuanzi shook her head, not thinking about the anti-human ritual usage.

She knew that the anti-human usage in the diary could quickly solve the water shortage problem tonight, but she didn't want to use it, she was not the leader of an anti-human cult.

At this time, Yan Qianqian clutched her stomach and died of starvation. When she woke up, she was so hungry that she ate tree roots like a demon.

After eating a tree root, Yan Qianqian's sanity returned to normal. Seeing Yuanzi's uncomfortable expression made her feel uncomfortable, because she knew that she was not in a normal state.

"Have you found a solution?" Yan Qianqian tried to change the subject.

"Yes, I found it." Looking at Yan Qianqian's dark and thin face, Yuanzi made up his mind.

So what about the evil summoning technique, as long as it can save her, you can use it, use it boldly.

Besides, based on the current situation of everyone, they must have been affected by the mysterious ritual of the ultra-wide area, and the collective hunger became obsessed.

If there is no water supply for a long time, it will only take four or five days to clear the population of the whole country!

What a vicious and mysterious ritual this is, Yuanzi feels chilled and angry when he thinks about it, who is targeting this country so much.

It's okay to target the country, but what kind of ability is it to affect ordinary people who are defenseless on a large scale? Does it have to be the end of the world?

"What way?" Yan Qianqian had a little hope after hearing this.

"Summon the God of Plenty." Yuanzi said as he put on a pointed hat and black robe, a black goat horn mask, a rusty dagger, and a goat horn pendant.

Yan Qianqian took the bark and grass roots and went out, "The God of Harvest? What is the relationship between it and the God of Harvest during the 460 shelter period?"

In Yan Qianqian and Yuanzi's second round of dreams, someone once gathered a group of people in the name of "God of Harvest Harvest".

But that time, the evil host was killed by Yuanzi's phishing law enforcement.

"It's a name given by people from different eras, but they are all the same god in essence." Mariko explained.

Yuanzi has studied the history of the development of sacrificial rituals, and knows that the names of this type of gods are not fixed, and the names will change due to different dialects.

This is the 449th year of the witch calendar, an era Mariko has never understood.

In the copy of the science fiction department, in the history of the new world calendar, there is no word for the witch calendar.

This is not the history of the original planet. There is no history to refer to, and we can only rely on knowledge.

Walking out of the church, there was no one in the village. Everyone got up early to look for food and water.

Yuanzi walked outside the village and walked more than 1000 meters before finding a few villagers.

"Do you know where there are large and ferocious animals?" Mariko asked.

Yuanzi didn't ask about hares, wild snakes and other animals. If there were such animals, the hungry people would have rushed to finish their work, and there would be no leftovers.

In the same way, the large and gentle animals are probably also caught by the slaughter, so don't even think about catching them.

Ferocious large animals are different. They have strong fighting power and are prone to casualties during the capture process.

Every time a ferocious large animal is caught, the whole village must be mobilized to charge it, otherwise a few villagers will die and the loss will explode.

"Ms. Yuan, do you want to catch a large beast? It's not easy to catch, at least it will take half a day's journey." An old man who gnawed on the bark put down the bark, a little moved by Yuanzi's proposal.

Always eating bark is not an option. Everyone is short of water, meat and salt. We can’t wait for the rain. Recently, there has been a severe drought every day, and there is no rain at all. The nearby riverbed has long been dry and cracked, and the fish are also coming. A few days were divided by everyone.

"We must catch it, we must dedicate it to the God of Plenty, and let him give us enough food to survive the famine!" Yuanzi said.

Yan Qianqian noticed Yuanzi's words, and pointed to the period of famine.

How long the famine will last, no one knows.

The food is locked until the famine period, and the sacrifice requirements are not too excessive and reasonable.

Everyone heard the ceremony of the God of Plenty, and their numb faces immediately glowed with the color of hope.

"God of abundance!"

"Can you summon the god of abundance?"

"The great Ms. Yuan, oh no, the great witch! Please be respected by our family!"

A group of villagers knelt down in unison to thank, and when they heard the God of Plenty, their faces were full of fanatic expressions.

Yuanzi didn't expect everyone to be so optimistic about the God of Abundance, but Yuanzi was not optimistic about the God of Abundance.