What?
Everyone was overjoyed and immediately gathered around the net.
"Brother Jiang, what method?"
"Wow, Brother Jiang! I knew we'd get out of here with Brother Jiang! Hahaha!"
Jiang Fu looked calmly at the crowd and softly uttered two words: "Sacrifice!"
Sacrifice?
Mingxiao's heart trembled.
Images of sacrificial rituals depicted in murals, and brides drawn as dotted lines, flashed through her mind.
Jiang Fu glanced at her and slowly said, "This is a closed space. The door is under the bronze coffin. Once the sacrificial ceremony is completed, the door will open, and we will be able to escape."
"How can you be so sure?" Because of that note, Mingxiao inexplicably felt a little more confident.
Jiang Fu pointed to the bronze coffin and said, "This coffin tells me what happened. I thought I could pry it open, but after looking closely, I realized that it is integrated with the entire altar. We can't pry open the whole altar, so we can only try to trigger the mechanism. Later, I saw that in addition to the dragon carving on the front, the other four sides of the coffin are also carved. These carvings together form a complete sacrificial ceremony. Now, this ceremony is only missing the last step."
Mingxiao's throat was dry and hoarse. Although he had already guessed the truth, he still couldn't help but ask.
"What do you mean?"
“There are twelve corpses here, there should have been thirteen. I guess that a sacrificial ceremony was being held when the war suddenly broke out. Some of the dragon brides took advantage of the chaos to escape. When the Ghost Mother returned, there were no more offerings, so she had to find some substitutes to carry out the ceremony. However, the ceremony was unsuccessful and instead triggered an avalanche that buried the entire city. Now, only by completing the sacrificial ceremony can we get out alive.”
"Alternatives?"
“That’s right. There are many dragon brides in that mural, but there are only thirteen circles here. This means that the Ghost Mother will choose many brides each time, but only a portion of them will become dragon brides in the end.”
"Why do we have to perform sacrifices?" Mingxiao was getting frustrated. "Can't we live without sacrifices?"
“I suspect that the Ghost Mother’s abilities may be time-limited, and can only be continuously obtained through sacrifices. This war was not an accident, but premeditated,” Jiang Fu explained calmly.
"What premeditated plot?" Before the words were even out of his mouth, Ming Xiao's face changed, and he felt weak all over. So that's how it is, so that's how it is.
"You've already figured it out?" Jiang Fu sighed. "Back then, the Ghost Mother Kingdom was a matriarchal society, while most of the surrounding countries had evolved into patriarchal societies. They already regarded the Ghost Mother Kingdom as an anomaly. In order to continuously gain power, the Ghost Mother had to sacrifice the lives of some women through sacrifices every few years. Not everyone chosen as a bride was willing to be sacrificed. So, one or more of them became traitors, colluded with foreign countries, and attacked the Ghost Mother Kingdom when her power was at its weakest, while they themselves successfully escaped."
Ming Xiao collapsed to the ground, powerless to refute; the strange fate had still befallen her.
Jiang Fu squatted down in front of her and delivered the final blow. "The reason I deduced all this is because there was a curse carved with a knife on the ground next to the coffin. It cursed the bride of the dragon to complete the ritual, otherwise her descendants would be punished for generations to come. Mingxiao, you said you were an orphan?"
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