Chapter 145 Sacrifice
"That's about it." Bai Su briefly summarized, "Why don't you talk?"
"..." Qi Zhuyue closed her eyes tightly, not wanting to say a word.
All her strength was used to cover her mouth to prevent herself from spitting out.
She knew she was carsick, so she had never taken a ride in the car of a teammate named Xia.
But she didn't expect that she would experience something more exciting than motion sickness today.
An Xiangwen next to him adapted well. After being lifted for the second time, he quickly found the position of his baggage. He also closed his eyes and let the feeling of weightlessness rise and fall.
"So the statues in front attacked us because we had red ropes tied to our hands?" An Xiangwen thought hard, "The people without red ropes...should they be the people who were not in the dream last night?"
The curly-haired young man murmured with his eyes closed. He said that he suspected that the red rope that bound him in the last scene in the square in his dream last night was the one on his wrist.
And the murderer who strangled people to death should be the new visitor to the temple today.
Bai Su agrees with this. That face was indeed not among the tourists who stayed last night.
"And Brother Bai, what do you mean by the mark?" An Xiangwen asked.
"You are being targeted." Baisu stopped at a high place and replied, "You have been selected and may become sacrifices."
"Sacrifice?" Qi Zhuyue's voice was muffled, and it was a little blurry to hear through the palm of her hand.
"Yes." Bai Su lowered his eyes, watching the statue below gain another life, "Sacrifice, a sacrifice to that Buddha?"
The screams of human beings resounded below. Bai Su and other statues finished their work, and Cai Shi Shiran fell down. Bai Su wrapped the statue that had been deprived of mobility, and he continued to jump while digesting it.
"Buddha?"
"Ah, yes, I remember it was called -" Bai Su recalled, "Hum Zhu Tama Li Na Ming Mantra Rat Tuo, I should remember it correctly."
The name was so awkward that neither An Xiangwen nor Qi Zhuyue could repeat it immediately. An Xiangwen was stunned for a moment and asked: "Brother Bai, how did you know..."
"Because I was awake, and the abbot recited it at least six or seven times." Bai Su finished chewing on the statue and stopped, "Here we are."
He threw the human forward, but fortunately the height was not too high. Regardless of whether the two of them were affected or not, the most they could do was hit their heads.
Bai Su took the human off his hands and frowned as he looked at the plaque hanging in the hall in front of him - the Palace of Heavenly Kings.
Did you find the Temple of the Heavenly King after walking all this way?
The structure of the temple in the dream has completely changed, and the map I mentioned last night is useless.
But come here, there is food here anyway. Bai Su thought about it and walked into the palace door in front of him.
The two humans behind him immediately followed after alleviating their dizziness. They also saw the words "Tianwang Palace" hanging above their heads.
An Xiangwen was confused: "Brother Bai, didn't you say we were going to the square at the Main Hall?"
Bai Su's voice came from the front: "Should I send you directly as a sacrifice? I have no objection, but I think it's better to go later."
"...What do you mean?" An Xiangwen asked.
Bai Su's black head looked back from inside the palace door. His eyes flickered back and forth between the two humans, and then he said: "There are not too many sacrifices, but there are still a lot of 'living' human consciousnesses now."
"Compared to those unknown humans, what I say -" Bai Su tilted his head, "I am more inclined to you two as sacrifices."
He said the cruelest words with a calm expression.
"Haha...Brother Bai, are you kidding me?"
"No, I'm serious."
The black eyes looked at the human being solemnly, without the slightest trace of joking.
The human laughed dryly twice, then wrapped his arms around himself aggrievedly and hugged himself.
Oops, Brother Bai seems to be serious.
……
Baisu just made a circle around the Temple of the Heavenly King.
The Heavenly King's Palace in the dream is probably the same as the one in reality. The only difference is that all the strange statues have disappeared. They probably went out to pursue them.
Bai Su opened the donation box and took a look. All the coins inside were stained with blood.
He thought it was some kind of ghost coin, but it turned out to be just a living person's money stained with blood?
The human behind him also saw this scene, and he trembled and whispered that he was lucky that he didn't invest money yesterday.
Bai Su glanced at An Xiangwen and said casually, "It's okay to invest money. What did more harm yesterday was the red cloth strip."
The human was stunned: "Huh?"
Bai Su continued: "If there was no Dharma gathering today, you might be a little unlucky when you go back. The specific degree of unlucky... please refer to the prayer you made."
A small wish brings bad luck, a big wish costs life.
After saying that, Bai Su glanced outside and said, "You can ask Miss Qi."
An Xiangwen looked at the black-haired girl who was standing outside the palace door and refused to come in. She was shocked by Bai Su's previous remarks about sacrifices, and kept a considerable distance from Bai Su.
An Xiangwen asked in a low voice: "Why do you want to ask Miss Qi?"
Bai Su replied: "She didn't pray."
An Xiangwen seemed to have remembered that Qi Zhuyue, who was wearing Wei Wenxue's appearance yesterday, didn't look so good after coming out of the banyan tree.
Do you want to ask? Just as he was thinking about it, An Xiangwen heard a word floating in front of him.
"The bones of devout believers, the vitality and blood of foreign sacrifices."
"Brother Bai, what are you reading?"
Bones, blood, vitality... What is Brother Bai talking about?
"It's a ceremony to summon the Buddha to appear." Bai Su's voice was drowned out from the back of the hall, "I saw it last night. The abbot was really interesting. The paper documents were placed... ah, right behind the covered statue.
, I’m afraid that outsiders won’t be able to see the same thing.”
An Xiangwen: ...No, I don’t think normal people can be found.
An Xiangwen also wanted to ask where the masked statue was and why he had no memory, but before he could ask, a force came from behind him and dragged him out.
The black-haired girl stood at the door with her brows furrowed and her face turned a few shades paler.
She grabbed An Xiangwen's sleeve and asked, "What do you think about the current situation?"
Qi Zhuyue knew that it was useless to ask An Xiangwen for help. He was just an ordinary person. If anything, he had a closer relationship with Bai Su.
While she was asking questions, the sound of dismantling came from the Palace of Heavenly Kings, and the lotus seat could be vaguely seen being lifted up by a white mass that was not human hands, and then the whole thing was wrapped and disappeared into the air.
Qi Zhuyue has seen this scene several times. During the short time they stayed in the Temple of Heavenly Kings, several more statues came to them, and without exception they were all solved in this way.
Sacrifice, these two words still echoed in her ears.
She felt that Bai Su knew a lot of things.
An Xiangwen was pulled dwarfed. He scratched his head and replied: "Just use it as a sacrifice...what else can I do?"
"There's nothing we can do to save ourselves." An Xiangwen thought broadly, "If in reality, Miss Qi, you could still pull out a gun, but in a dream..."
An Xiangwen lamented and asked, "Miss Qi, do you think someone can save us from the outside?"
Qi Zhuyue quickly glanced at the back of the Tianwang Hall and replied: "It's possible that I called my colleague before entering the mountain gate of Fuzhao Temple, and he might come to check."
It's hard to say whether the abnormality can be detected, but Brother Xia should...should be quite keen, right?
Thinking that Xia Chengyin's persistence was correct, Qi Zhuyue couldn't help but sigh.
I hope someone from their department can come over.
Chapter completed!