"It sounds like a ghost town." Meng Yuan held his chin with his hand while Rainbow Dash wolfed down his food in his arms. "I heard that a ghost town is like this, full of ghosts and countless monsters."
Xiao Qi rested her chin on her hand and said, "I think it's more like the weird world described in novels."
"What novel?" Gu Zhou immediately became alert. He was so busy reading romance novels that he had completely forgotten about this.
Xiao Qi looked up and explained, "It's a setting. The weirdness descends, and weirdness is everywhere. The human living environment shrinks, and then the ability to manipulate weirdness is stimulated."
Xiao Qi finished explaining and glanced at the others, "Don't you guys read novels? They're quite popular."
It's not that they don't read. Gu Zhou reads romance novels, and Qi Mo reads romance novels because the content and summary are also romance novels. After all, that's what they encounter.
But since it is a fictional world, this special setting cannot occur in one world.
Gu Zhou and Qi Mo looked at each other and immediately understood. Gu Zhou asked Xiao Qi, "Please tell me in detail what this kind of setting is generally like."
Xiao Qi explained, "It's probably the type of pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger and getting slapped in the face."
"The male protagonist?"
Xiao Qi nodded. "I haven't read much. I've only read a few books, including the infinite flow type."
"What is Infinite Stream?"
Xiao Qi organized his words and said, "It's probably a death game. If you follow the rules, you can survive and get rewards. If you fail, you will be eaten by the weirdness in the game level."
Xiao Qi thought for a moment and continued, "I think the weird world is similar to apocalyptic literature, but with zombies."
Xiao Qi's words undoubtedly opened up a new world of thought for Gu Zhou. He looked at Qi Jing, who was lying on the table, and asked, "Do you know about zombies and the weird world?"
"I don't know." Qi Jing answered in a low voice. He only had memories of the past eight hundred years. Although he recognized Zero, he had no idea about the rest.
Gu Zhou did not ask any further questions, but asked Xiao Qi about the content of the novel about the strange world, wanting to know more.
Qi Mo was also listening carefully. Although he really couldn't help with this matter, it wouldn't be a bad thing to find out more.
As Qi Mo listened, he looked at Huo Yuanqi who was sitting silently beside him. Although his emotions had stabilized, he was still too silent. Moreover, Huo Yuanqi seemed to be thinking about something and didn't listen to them at all.
Are you thinking about sacrifice?
Qi Mo couldn't help but frown. The child was too sensitive. He was a little timid when living at home and was always cautious and had wild thoughts.
Looking at Huo Yuanqi's eyes that were sometimes sad and sometimes suspicious, Qi Mo couldn't help but say, "Come with me."
Huo Yuanqi came back to his senses when someone patted his shoulder. He nodded stiffly in agreement and followed Qi Mo away.
As soon as they left, everyone at the table shut up and pricked up their ears to listen to gossip.
Xiao Qi tugged at Qi Jing's sleeve, "Uncle, is it true that Yuan Qi and Second Brother are together?"
Qi Jing looked puzzled, "How do you know?"
"It's quite obvious. Second brother just greets me and always calls me Yuanqi. And my brother said they have a red line, and it's getting thicker and thicker." Xiao Qi looked serious. He was not a gossipy person, but he cared more about Huo Yuanqi.
Zhao Yin told him that although he was unsuccessful, Huo Yuanqi did suffer because of him.
Qi Jing looked at Zhao Yin in even greater surprise, "Can you see it?"
"I can tell fortunes." Zhao Yin answered in the affirmative. After all, he had been Qi Jing's adopted son for more than ten years. Even if he was not as smart as Xiao Qi, he knew a little bit about it.
Qi Jing smacked his lips, "You didn't tell anyone, did you?"
"I'm not that nosy."
As Zhao Yin spoke, he floated in the direction Qi Mo and the others had left. The others rolled their eyes tacitly. Isn't this gossiping?
Qi Mo didn't take Huo Yuanqi too far, mainly because he was afraid of something unexpected happening, but he really didn't want to be included in the fun, especially in this state.
He took a piece of talisman paper and stuck it on the tree trunk. He had asked Qi Jun for this, mainly to prevent Qi Jing from eavesdropping.
Gu Zhou must have known that Qi Jing was eavesdropping, so he had to be on guard.
After the sticker was applied, Qi Mo looked at Huo Yuanqi, who was a little stunned. He asked, "What did you see?"
Huo Yuanqi was silent for a long time before he spoke and told Qi Mo what he had seen and his guess.
Seeing Huo Yuanqi's eyes getting redder and redder, Qi Mo fell silent for a rare moment. It was not the first time he heard about the greatness of maternal love, but this time he really felt the heavy emotion more intuitively.
There were also some additional emotions from Huo Yuanqi's perspective, so Qi Mo had to look at the matter from Huo Yuanqi's perspective.
Considering Huo Yuanqi's personality, Qi Mo asked him, "Do you think that if you were sacrificed, your mother wouldn't die, and neither would these people?"
Huo Yuanqi's pupils trembled when his thoughts were spoken, and he turned his face away to avoid Qi Mo's sight.
He really didn't know. He was alive now, but what about his mother and those villagers?
This is a very simple math problem. If we abandon him, everyone else can survive. This is the best outcome.
Seeing Huo Yuanqi's reaction, Qi Mo knew that he had guessed correctly. He couldn't help but frown and asked Huo Yuanqi, "Do you think you alone can satisfy that thing's appetite?"
Huo Yuanqi stopped talking and just bit his lips. He knew that it wouldn't happen, otherwise there wouldn't be so many sacrificial murals carved here.
Qi Mo added, "People are greedy, let alone a monster with that kind of power. He will only demand more. From livestock to human lives, you just happened to have an extremely yin fate and were chosen as a sacrifice."
This is a minority. Beyond you, there will only be more people being pushed out as sacrifices, with almost no choice. So what did they do wrong? Why must these innocent lives be sacrificed for the chance for others to survive?
Are those who survived inherently noble? No, they simply seized power and forced the powerless to be sacrificed. This is inherently an unequal exchange."
Qi Mo raised his hand and placed it on Huo Yuanqi's shoulder. "Do you know why the two parallel worlds have different results?"
Huo Yuanqi looked up in confusion, looking at Qi Mo with eyes full of puzzlement.
Qi Mo explained solemnly word by word, "Because the world you grew up in knows about resistance, you should have studied history. The replacement of many dynasties was the result of resistance, and the recent war also ended in this way.
Countless people will bleed and die, not at the hands of their companions, but because everyone works towards the same goal. That is sacrifice.
There are many legends of such sacrifices in our history, but there are always people who stand up to resist. Therefore, thousands of years ago, there was a way to cultivate immortality, and people could become gods and possess boundless magical powers.
Moreover, the Xuanmen sect still exists, exorcising ghosts and slaying demons, and even if their own cultivation is not good enough, they do not retreat. This is self-sacrifice."
Qi Mo raised his hand to wipe away Huo Yuanqi's falling tears. "The fault in tracing back to the past is not yours. The fault lies with the evil monsters who have been retreating and sacrificing human lives for generations in exchange for temporary peace."
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