In the grass behind him, a familiar figure ran up.
Xiaolan rubbed her eyes vigorously.
"Jasmine?!"
"Xiaolan!"
The two girls excitedly grabbed each other's hands, confirmed each other's identities, and hugged each other.
"You are another F!" Jasmine was overjoyed.
Xiaolan nodded bouncingly, "Do you know what's going on in this level?"
"How would I know," Jasmine said with a smile, "Let's go and find another person from Area F first, just in case they are still ours."
The two walked through the knee-high grass while chattering to each other about their experiences.
"By the way," Jasmine seemed to suddenly think of something, "What's going on with this moon?"
Xiaolan looked back at the giant moon following the two of them, and aroused a few more goosebumps, "I don't know, have you ever seen such a big moon?"
"Who has ever seen this?"
The joy of meeting their companions was quickly diluted by the unknown in front of them. The two gradually slowed down their steps, holding each other's hands and pulling at the taller grass with tired expressions.
"Did we go in the wrong direction?" Xiaolan looked at the grass poles around her that were already taller than her.
Jasmine stretched out her hand to wipe her face, "But isn't the other direction blocked by the river...Should we go along the river?"
This is not unreasonable.
Xiaolan was about to give up exploring the mystery of the strong weeds, when suddenly, a shout seemed to come from the distance.
"Hey! Jasmine, did you hear that?" Xiaolan's head suddenly stiffened.
"What did you hear?" Jasmine looked around keenly.
Xiaolan's ears twitched, she closed her eyes, turned around in a circle, and finally pointed to the front higher in the grass, "There seems to be a voice in front."
"Really?" Jasmine asked, taking Xiaolan's hand and running, "What kind of human voice is it?"
Xiaolan frowned, "I can't hear it anymore now. Just now, it seemed like there were a lot of people shouting."
Jasmine didn't talk nonsense and chose to trust Xiaolan unconditionally. The two of them ran and ran in the middle of the tall grass bathed in the bright moonlight. Finally, right in front, there was another burst of human voices.
This time Jasmine heard it too.
Like a group of people cheering.
"Right ahead!"
"Wait a minute," Jasmine suddenly took Xiaolan's hand, "Let's confirm first. Come on, I'll hold you while you take a look at who's in front of you."
Jasmine's strength was also much greater than expected. Xiaolan's head poked out of the grass and quietly looked in the direction of the sound.
"We are not far from them," Xiaolan said live in real time. "There is no grass in front of us. It looks like a small village. There are many people gathered in the open space in front of the village. Among them... there seems to be a big stage. They are surrounding it.
It's next to the stage, and there seem to be people on top of the stage, but I can't see a few clearly."
The two got closer again.
You can hear people shouting something.
"What are they shouting about?" Jasmine patted her ears.
"What... wheat market? Buried corpse? Gangue stone? What is this?" Xiaolan scratched her head, "Anyway, it's just two words, I kept shouting."
"Move forward."
The two's footsteps became lighter and they took a few steps closer. The grass gradually became sparse, and through the forest of grass stems, they could see the scene not far away.
There were two black figures standing on the high platform. People in the audience were shouting and the atmosphere was very lively.
"Their attention is all on the stage. If we sneak over there, no one will notice." Xiaolan suggested.
King Jasmine agreed to Xiaolan's proposal. The two of them walked through the last few tall grasses, lowered their bodies and sneaked to the edge of the crowd. They pretended to be familiar and shouted this with the others who didn't know what it meant.
slogan.
A girl in a linen skirt standing in front of the two of them turned her head to look at the two of them in confusion, and they were so frightened that they quickly stopped talking.
"You're just here. Come and stand forward. We, the Mai clan, are about to win!" Unexpectedly, the girl leaned aside enthusiastically and made room for the two of them. "Whose family are you?
Why haven’t you seen it?”
"Uh... we just came back." Jasmine said vaguely and perfunctorily.
"I know, you must be the two daughters of Uncle Mai Dayong's family. Only his two daughters are studying outside." The girl grabbed Xiaolan's arm, "This is your first time watching Jin Xian Lei.
, let’s go, I’ll take you to the front to have a look, don’t be afraid, our Mai clan is going to win again this year. I heard that the Lang clan over there didn’t even get three gold gifts. In today’s first game, we are watching.
The Mai family is about to win the gold gift, and it seems that this year’s Moon God gift will have to be provided by the Lang family again!"
I didn't understand a few of these words, but the girl led Xiaolan and Jasmine through the excited crowd and arrived at the high platform in a short while.
"Look, this is our Mai clan's first golden offering this year."
There are four round drums standing on the four corners of the high platform. The entire wooden platform is painted golden yellow. There are two people on the platform. Near them, there is a burly man standing upright. The man is holding a sharp fork.
The fork pointed at... a woman kneeling opposite him.
"Why is there a boy and a girl?" Jasmine asked, pointing to the two people on the ring.
"Jin Xian is Jin Xian, regardless of gender," the girl said matter-of-factly, "This year our Mai family's Jin Xian also has a woman. We have one woman and two men, and I heard that the Lang family over there
Of the three golden offerings, only one has arrived, and here is the one on the stage, who is about to lose..."
Three golden offerings?
This time they grasped the key point of the girl's words. Xiaolan and Jasmine looked at each other in horror.
Could it be that they are the two remaining Jin Xian?
"Um, girl, I saw my dad, let's go first." Jasmine quickly excused the girl, then pulled Xiaolan and hurriedly ran to the back of the crowd and went around to the other end of the ring.
The crowd at this end was strangely silent, with expressions of despair and resentment on everyone's face.
From here, you can see the other person in the ring more clearly.
The girl's right hand also held a fork, but the girl's fork was standing on the ground. She used the handle of the fork as a support, kneeling on one knee, her shoulders rising and falling, as if she was breathing heavily.
The two squeezed to the front.
See clearly.
The girl's body was dripping with blood and covered with scars.
The man opposite him showed a proud expression, raised his fork high, and was about to pierce the girl's body.
"Lord Jin Xian, surrender!" Someone suddenly shouted from the silent crowd.
With these words, it spread.
"Lord Jinxian!"
"My lord, surrender!"
"Lord Jin Xian! Your life is at stake!"
"Lord Jinxian!"
As the villagers' pleas echoed in the area, the girl on the ring trembled, flopped, and fell down.