Logically speaking, a wedding should be full of celebration, auspiciousness and joy.
However, the wedding at the Hai family mansion seemed quite weird.
The faces of those who played the joyful music were unnaturally white, with only two cheeks painted with funny blush, and the same red lips. Matched with the excessively red paper clothes on their bodies, the lively melody almost became
of sorrow.
The crowd of onlookers were indifferent, they only repeated the waving movements mechanically, and even the smiles on their faces looked as fake as if they were painted on.
The wedding scene was obviously noisy, noisy and lively, but there was a certain cold, silent and solemn atmosphere.
Lu Jian saw that in the lobby, the master and Mrs. Hai family were sitting on chairs, waiting for the newlyweds.
Next to them, stood a man wearing black clothes and a mask.
That must be the groom of the Hai family.
Even if no one explained it, Lu Jian knew about it.
Because the mask is too conspicuous.
It was a fish mask, with the mediocre shape of a fish head that can be seen everywhere. The whole body was blue and black. When paired with the black clothes on the man, it looked like a walking fish.
The sedan came to the front yard, and the men carrying it slowly put it down and backed away numbly to make way for the sedan.
"It's a bit strange. In a normal wedding, the bride should be sent directly to the chapel, but this place is still far away from the lobby..."
Drizzt glimpsed the black tower.
Yes, the bride's sedan chair landed right in front of the lakeside tower of the mansion.
A road is connecting the tower from the shore.
The curtain of the sedan chair was opened, and a woman wearing a red wedding dress and a red hijab slowly walked out.
Her movements were very stiff, and every step was full of trembling, as if she was struggling hard to resist "some" existence controlling her body.
This caused the bride to stumble and move extremely slowly.
But no one cared.
The music is still playing, passers-by are still showing off, and the Hai family's groom is waiting in place, staring at the tower.
Drizzt had some idea in his mind. He knew that the bride still retained some rationality, and the so-called process of union between the groom and the bride was probably the process of erasing the last remaining rationality.
It must be some kind of nightmare-like scene that would wipe out rationality just by looking at it.
He and Lu Kan stood at the entrance of the lobby, watching the bride walking towards the black tower wrapped in chains.
It wasn't until the bride stood in front of the tower that she finally stopped, standing in an unnatural posture, like a puppet on strings.
All the music came to an abrupt end, and then, a certain melody from eternity sounded.
Surrounding the bride are people wearing the same masks as the groom. These people are wearing black robes and fish head masks, and they are dancing next to the bride.
It was a dance that Lu Jian had never seen before.
In folklore, singing and dancing are closely related to sacrifices. The prototypes of many dances come from imitation, imitating the animals and natural landscapes that humans see.
But what kind of prototype can give birth to such a dance?
Those people's bodies were twisted into shapes that were completely contrary to their physiological structure. Just looking at them, it was as if they could hear the sound of bones breaking.
The body of one of them was twisted more than 360 degrees, with his hands clasped together and extending upward, as if praying to an unknown god;
One of them fell backwards, his back directly touching his buttocks, and his hands and feet overlapped, forming a strange symbol.
One of them held his hands backwards and met behind his back, and his body was bent as hard as possible, like a huge meat ball.
The bones and internal organs seemed to have been temporarily withdrawn from these people's bodies, leaving them like mud, shaped at will.
The accompaniment of the music has no sense of melody, just like the noise of fingernails scratching a smooth blackboard, like the wail of some kind of monster that has emitted hundreds of millions of years ago.
It is impossible to imagine what kind of scenes the creator of this dance must have witnessed to be so inspired to weave a dance that is frightening, awe-inspiring, and frightening.
"This praying wave dance doesn't look like anything serious."
Lu Tiao sighed, even if there was no pollution from the Black Queen Mother, the people of the Hai family would probably have been destined to be alienated.
No matter how they struggle, no matter how they resist, the fate of their entire family was decided millions of years ago.
Perhaps it came from an accidental worship, perhaps from a dangerous exploration, perhaps from some ancient books. The ancestors of the Hai family mastered the extraordinary power brought by this dance. They walked the earth and came to Dry Water Town.
, living here for decades, perhaps, this is the starting point for their ancestors to gain strength.
Just as those dancers were torturing the minds of the viewers, an even more incredible situation occurred.
The solid, dark, and cold tower actually began to squirm.
Those bricks, stone pillars, and pavilions seemed to have been given life and became soft. The tower was like a huge giant that had just awakened and was returning to life.
Lu Tiao finally knew why the tower was chained.
Because it is a living thing in itself.
Like a cocoon formed by a giant worm, the tower bound by chains was constantly vibrating, causing the chains to make a jingling sound that echoed in the ears.
The bride, motionless, stood in front of the tower that was gradually coming to life. She raised her hand in a sacrificial posture.
Drizzt could tell at a glance that this was exactly the movement of the gray fish-headed stone statue he had seen in the fog the night before.
Is this the tower that those fish-headed men worship?
The revolver in Drizzt's hand was ready to go.
Because the current situation made him feel that even if he and Lu Kan could successfully witness the union of the groom and the bride, it would be difficult for him to live through the wedding.
Quack, quack, quack——
The top of the tower slowly cracked.
From the tip of the tower that split into four petals, countless black tentacles can be seen slowly spreading out.
Just like the stamens of a flower, countless thick tentacles are constantly trembling, reaching towards the bride.
In the center of the flower stamen is filthy mud.
In an instant, the entire Hai family mansion was filled with a metallic stench, but no one expressed dissatisfaction. Everyone's eyes were full of fanaticism. They raised their hands high to welcome this scene.
Lu Tiao recognized that the sludge was the liquid in the terrible fish-man's lungs.
"This means..."
He has guessed the last secret of the Hai family and the Black Queen Mother.
Lu Trip glanced around him, and Drizzt actually narrowed his eyes, trying to delay the decline in his sanity caused by seeing this ugly and blasphemous creature devouring the bride.
The mud poured over New Year's body, smearing dirt on the pure bright red wedding dress, and the red hijab had long been swept away by the mud.
The bride's face was revealed, bloodless, her eyes were dark, and countless sludge that seemed to be alive penetrated from her mouth, nose, ears, and every inch of her body in an instant.
The entire pond turned into a sea of pitch-black mud. The mud that exuded a metallic stench was like flowers of evil, blooming in the pale midday sun.
At this moment, the Hai family's groom also took off his mask.
Lu Jian saw that it was a fish.
The groom has no human head, only the head of a fish. The eyes with strange light, the body covered with scales, and the webs between the fingers are exactly the same as the corpse in the cave.