Tomb Raider: Evolution of the Red Dragon, Starting from the Ancient City of Jingjue

Chapter 117 Human Sacrifice, the Devil on Earth

Jiang Hua came out and said politely: "Since Zhalong Village is going to hold a ceremony to worship their ancestors, we will not disturb them."

"We'll be out of here tomorrow."

Ada breathed a sigh of relief and nodded slightly.

Then he turned and left.

The peacock also followed.

The fat man said angrily, "Hey, what's his attitude?"

"We saved his sister's life, and he wants to chase us away?"

"He is really an ungrateful person."

"Humph, if Brother Jiang hadn't stopped me just now, I would have beaten him to tears."

Hu Bayi also frowned and said, "This village is really weird and eerie. It seems like there's something wrong with Ada."

"How can a normal person chase a guest away?"

"And he's his sister's savior?"

Shirley Yang looked at Jiang Hua:
"Jiang Hua, do you have anything to say?"

Jiang Hua seemed to be thinking about something, and he stroked his chin and said, "There must be something strange about this village. After we leave tomorrow, we will quietly return to see what is going on in this village..."

After everyone agreed, they acted as if nothing had happened.

Peacock prepared the meal quickly.

It’s true, she is a very good cook.

The fried dishes are very fragrant.

The fat man praised while eating: "Sister Peacock, your cooking skills are amazing!"

Peacock smiled shyly and said, "Brother Wang likes to eat it, so eat more."

At the dinner table, Peacock's brother Ada was also very taciturn.

After finishing the meal.

Peacock took everyone into a house.

"Brother Jiang, we don't have that much room at home, so we can only ask you to sleep on the floor."

Jiang Hua smiled and said, "It's okay. It's good enough to have a place to live."

"On the contrary, we should thank you for taking us in."

"Otherwise, we'll have to sleep in the wilderness."

Silent all night.

The night in Zhalongzhai is also very quiet.

Basically no one spoke.

There were only the sounds of cicadas and frogs.

The next day, after everyone finished breakfast.

So he said goodbye to the peacock and left.

After seeing Jiang Hua and his group leave, Ada breathed a sigh of relief.

He turned and looked at Peacock.

"Peacock, you shouldn't have brought them back."

"If the village chief knew that you brought outsiders into the village during the sacrificial ceremony, we would all be in trouble."

"And your friends will be in danger too."

Peacock trembled all over and whispered, "Brother, I am grateful to them for saving my life, and isn't it time for sacrifice yet?"

Ada shook his head. "There are still two days before the sacrificial ceremony. If they are discovered, they will definitely be caught by the village chief and sacrificed."

Peacock trembled all over and dared not speak anymore.

"Hey, let's go, this is our life!"

Ada sighed and returned to the village.

……

And the other side.

After Jiang Hua and his group left Zhalong Village.

Then he quietly returned and hid in the jungle.

They are all warriors with a very strong sixth sense.

Nor are they afraid of poisonous snakes and insects in the jungle.

"How long do we have to wait?" The fat man was getting a little impatient and couldn't help asking.

Jiang Hua hesitated for a while, "I think something will happen tonight."

"Let's wait and see."

Shirley Yang also frowned and said, "I remember Peacock's brother Ada said that this Zhalong Village will soon offer sacrifices to its ancestors. I wonder what it is for."

"I guess the abnormality in Zhalong Village is most likely related to this sacrifice."

Jiang Hua fell into deep thought, "Then the ceremony of worshipping the ancestors should be approaching soon."

"Otherwise, there would be no need for Ada to kick us out the next day."

It turned out to be just as Jiang Hua expected.

When night falls.

In the middle of the Zhalong race, a bonfire suddenly lit up, illuminating the entire night sky red.

One by one, the villagers came out of their houses, like zombies, muttering strange notes.

And they also performed a weird dance.

But no one spoke.

The entire Zhalong Village fell into silence.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Hua and others couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.

The fat man couldn't help but say, "Why do I feel so creepy?"

"What are they doing?"

"Since it's a sacrifice to the ancestors, why don't you say a word?"

"Just dancing there?"

After hearing what the fat man said, Jiang Hua was also confused.

This is really weird.

Shirley Yang said calmly: "Let's continue watching. We can't see anything yet."

"This should just be the prelude to the sacrificial ceremony."

Jiang Hua also found Peacock and Ada among the crowd.

The two of them were dancing with the villagers.

In front of the crowd, there was an old man.

He held a skull-shaped cane in his hand and wore a hat made of animal skin that seemed to be inlaid with gems.

It is obvious that this old man is a person of relatively high status in Zhalong Village.

Jiang Hua guessed: "This may be the village chief of Zhalong Village."

"In such backward villages, the village chief often has very great power and can even decide a person's life or death."

After dancing for more than an hour, the villagers stopped one after another.

They knelt on the ground with sad eyes, as if waiting for something.

After a while, an old man in a shroud robe came out.

He walked into the crowd.

Sit down quietly.

The people around them knelt on the ground and began to chant strange songs.

"What are you doing?"

Hu Bayi frowned.

Jiang Hua also wondered, "Didn't they say we were offering sacrifices to our ancestors?"

"How can an old man be asked to accept the kneeling ceremony of the crowd?"

Shirley Yang guessed: "Is this old man a priest who is in charge of the sacrificial ceremony?"

However, a night passed.

Nothing happened in Zhalongzhai.

It was just that the old man in the shroud robe had been accepting the chanting ceremony from the crowd, and no one knew what he was doing.

The fat man yawned.

"Ha~ I'm so sleepy, what on earth are these people doing?"

Jiang Hua shook his head and said, "It seems that this sacrificial ceremony cannot be completed in one day. Let's come back in the evening."

"If you want to rest, you can go into my storage space and rest."

The fat man's eyes lit up.

"That's a good idea."

Jiang Hua smiled, waved his right hand, and brought everyone into the storage space.

There are a lot of daily necessities in it.

They pitched a few tents and fell into a deep sleep.

The next night.

The sacrificial ceremony of Zhalong Village began again.

The light from the bonfire illuminated the entire village.

Jiang Hua and three others hid in the bushes and watched the scene quietly.

Today's sacrificial rituals seem to have changed.

After the villagers performed the dance.

The old man in shroud robe came out again.

But this time, the old man in the shroud sat among a pile of spirit tablets.

The villagers below began to line up to burn incense.

There was a hint of sadness in their eyes.

Peacock couldn't help but shed tears.

The old man holding the skull-shaped cane came forward personally, knelt on the ground to pray, and then lit the first incense stick.

The people behind him also followed the old man and burned incense to the old man in the shroud.

Seeing this scene, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.

The fat man couldn't help but say, "Why do I feel so creepy?"

Hu Bayi frowned and asked, "What on earth do they want to do?"

Jiang Hua and Shirley Yang looked at each other.

"They... don't want to use that old man in shrouds as a sacrifice, do they?"

When Jiang Hua said this.

Hu Bayi and Fatty were like being possessed by ghosts and couldn't speak for a long time.

I felt even more terrified.

Sacrificing people?

How can this be?

It is modern times now and the slave society has long passed. How could there still be sacrificial ceremonies that use humans as sacrifices?

Even in the oldest villages in the world, Shirley Yang had never heard of anyone using humans as sacrifices to worship their ancestors.

"Let's continue watching."

"If humans are really used as sacrifices, we must not let this happen."

Jiang Hua said in a deep voice.

Everyone nodded.

As a human being, this is the most basic conscience.

Using humans as sacrifices, what’s the difference between that and livestock?
The sacrificial ceremony was still going on, and the old man in the shroud robe quietly accepted the incense from all the villagers.

Someone took out a wooden sign.

The old man in the shroud cut his finger with a knife and dripped blood onto the wooden sign.

Then the carpenter would carve something with a knife.

"Isn't this making a spirit tablet for that old man?"

Jiang Hua said in a deep voice: "It is very likely, otherwise there would be no need for the old man in the shroud to drip blood on it."

Seeing this scene, everyone could feel that their guesses had gradually become a reality.

They could not think of any other explanation for the events happening before their eyes other than that people were being sacrificed.

"Let's see what they do."

At this time, a sacrificial ceremony was taking place in Zhalong Village.

Someone pulled a cow over.

The blue bull seemed to have foreseen its own fate. It couldn't help but shed tears from its huge eyes and started mooing.

The next moment, Jiang Hua and others' pupils shrank.

All the villagers gathered around the green cow.

Then he inserted the knife into Qingniu's neck, and several strong men held Qingniu's body tightly to prevent him from moving.

puff!
The blue ox's blood spurted out suddenly.

All the villagers opened their mouths and accepted the baptism of cow's blood.

Then a few villagers neatly cut the beef into pieces and put them in everyone's bowls.

The people of Zhalongzhai eat beef raw like this.

Jiang Hua and others were horrified by what they saw.

They could clearly see that the villagers all had blood in their mouths, like a group of devils.

The fat man's face turned pale.

The impact this scene had on him was truly shocking.

"These people are disgusting."

"Ugh, I feel like I'm about to vomit the meal I just ate."

(End of this chapter)