On the pillar, the girl in white clothes and skirt shivered in the cold wind, but compared to the coldness of her body, the fear in her heart was really approaching the limit.
"Crazy...all crazy."
She bit her lower lip tightly, and the fear that was spreading in her heart made her legs and feet feel weak.
In her sight, the elderly prophetess kept mumbling words, and the faces of the many North warriors who followed the prophetess were also full of excitement.
Thorbjorn, the old man in her eyes who was the most rigid, the bearded old man who she remembered took great care of her, and one of several clan leaders, was now blind in one eye and had a broken leg.
I had to stand in the crowd with a cane.
The calmness and composure that once shone in his eyes were gone now. Instead, he was looking at the girl in front of him with enthusiasm, as if he was looking forward to the next sacrificial scene.
Paul, this young man who has just replaced the deceased former clan leader and became the new leader, has scars all over his body and face. It is completely impossible to tell that just a few months ago, he was still a tough guy who was often bullied by his fellow clan members.
.
And he was looking at the girl coldly at this moment, without a trace of pity on his face...
Looking from left to right, from right to left, no one in front of the girl had even the slightest sympathy or compassion for her. Instead, they seemed to be impatiently waiting for the sacrifice to begin.
There is no doubt that the girl who was dissatisfied by her fellow tribesmen and ended up as a sacrifice obviously had reason to be afraid, but this was far from the reason why the girl was so frightened.
"Why...why can't you see it!"
The girl's glass-like pupils stared at the expressionless people in front of her, and her lips were constantly trembling due to excessive fear.
In her sight...
Above the heads of the people who were looking at her indifferently, there was something like a slender gray cloud, which kept flying upward and spreading. Finally, thousands of strands of mist gathered together to form a huge, seemingly non-existent thing that covered the entire wilderness.
Mist.
This huge and unpredictable fog is entrenched in the sky, and something seems to be brewing inside. Just looking at the huge fog, the girl will feel a deep sense of despair that goes deep into her bones.
And the sense of fear, just like a toad being stared at by a snake, the deep fear of being stared at by the cold eyes of a natural enemy made the girl feel extremely trembling.
However, unlike the deep fear in her heart, everyone seemed to be unable to see anything and turned a blind eye to this strange scene.
No, I should say...
They really just can't see it.
A few months ago, not long after starting the sacrifice, the girl discovered something was wrong. From then on, she realized that the fog was not a good thing.
And all of this...it seems that only she can see it.
She was very scared and wanted to tell her fellow humans, but...she was a mute girl.
The defect of being unable to speak makes it difficult for her to explain what she sees to her fellow racers. Her daily life is fine, but when faced with such a scene that is so complicated that she can hardly explain it, even if she desperately tries to dance, she still has difficulty describing it to her fellow racemates.
What is that.
And as the sacrifice progressed, under the girl's fearful eyes...
Everyone seems to be starting to change.
Gentle people become violent, kind people become evil, tolerant people become rude, friendly people become aggressive...
In the eyes of the girl, the whole world seems to have gone crazy. Everyone is changing subtly. Whether it is personality or other things, they are constantly changing. But it seems that everyone except her is changing.
He was unaware of it and took all these changes as a matter of course.
But she, the only one who understood all of this, could only watch in endless fear as her familiar and warm hometown turned into a strange place like a devil's cave.
She didn't dare to tell all this to her fellow tribesmen, because she began to be afraid of those fellow tribesmen who were becoming increasingly crazy and twisted.
She was so timid that after realizing that she was powerless to change everything, she could only hide in her bed and tremble in vain, not daring to say anything about what she had seen.
With her humble status, she was not conspicuous among her peers, and no one cared about her, so she saw many, many things.
Clan leaders said that people began to die on a large scale due to the heavy snow and diseases brought by the darkness and the invasion of wild beasts.
but……
Passing by a room by chance, she was clearly frightened and saw the clan leaders gathered together through the crack in the door, surrounding a corpse of their own clan that they claimed had been "dragged into the darkness by wild beasts", and clawing open his belly, as if
They are like a pack of wolves feasting on food, the greedy attitude of devouring each other, the fighting scenes when fighting each other for intestines and lungs, the ferocious eyes with blood on the corners of the mouth when biting off the corpse, the bloody scenes with corpse fragments everywhere and blood flowing everywhere...
It was impossible for the girl to be associated with those once generous clan leaders.
Under the seemingly normal appearance, there are those bloodstains that suddenly appear in remote corners and are quickly wiped away, those things that look like human nails that occasionally appear in meals, those that are getting more and more irritable, often because of trivial things
A member of the same race who can get into a big fight over trivial matters...
Everything is making the girl feel more and more unfamiliar with the place where she was born.
The methods of sacrifice are becoming more and more bloody and cruel, and along with the sacrifice, the fog continues to expand and grow every day.
At first, it was just wisps of smoke-like things, but as the smoke gradually grew larger, eventually, all the smoke gradually gathered together, forming a huge fog floating above the head, covering the girl's head.
Everything in the sky was covered.
And finally, even though she was shivering, she was still pulled out by her fellow tribesmen and used as a living sacrifice for sacrifice.
…
Looking at the prophetess who was muttering a prayer in front of her, the girl's body could not help but tremble.
It's not because of the cold wind at night, but because of the extreme fear that fills my heart, the kind of fear that feels like falling into an ice cave.
She couldn't understand why, but she knew it was definitely not normal.
"Who can help me……"
She wanted to ask for help, but as a mute woman, she couldn't say anything and could only open her mouth silently.
She wanted to struggle, but with her strength, she was unable to break free from the ropes. She could only wait for the end of the sacrificial ceremony in fear.
No matter how long the prayer is, there is a time to finish it, and when the prophetess finished reciting it, she raised her head and looked at the top of her head, as if she was expecting something.
In the night sky, a gust of cold wind blew through the night sky, and then there was no movement, as if the sacrifice had failed.
However, looking at the cold wind, the prophetess murmured as if she was dreaming.
"It's coming..."
Following the words of the prophetess, the cold wind suddenly became fierce.
"call!!!"
The howling cold wind kept blowing in the wilderness, becoming more intense each time, blowing up countless dust and debris on the ground. In the nearby darkness, the panicked wails and whimpering sounds of animals were also heard running away.
Voice.
"It's coming!"
The prophetess shouted excitedly again, her voice trembling with a bit of inexplicable excitement.
When the girl heard this, she subconsciously turned her head to look, and suddenly a bolt of lightning pierced the night sky...
"Boom!!!"
Deafening thunder roared in the sky, just like an angry dragon swimming in the sky,
In an instant, the sky and the earth were filled with daylight, illuminating everything in front of the girl. However, looking at the "figure" standing in front of her, the girl suddenly felt creepy, her pupils suddenly shrunk to a point, and she felt a sense of fear in her heart.
It reached its peak in an instant.
Her body involuntarily clung to the cold wooden pillar behind her, and she gritted her teeth, as if the cold wooden pillar gave her a little more security than this crazy world.
In front of her...a humanoid monster was staring at her with its cold snake eyes.
Unexpectedly, her eyes had become like those of a snake, her face was covered with fine snake scales, and even her tongue had become like a long, narrow and forked snake letter, but she seemed to be unaware of the prophetess staring at her.
, the expression on his face seemed to be caught in an inexplicable excitement and fanaticism that he could not extricate himself from.