Chapter 207 Ah! What is that?
usu town.
Before the sun rises, the whole town is already busy.
At the top of the newly built altar, there were offerings such as wine, tea, rice, meat, etc., and a stick of incense was inserted on the altar.
Below the altar is a large platform, which is prepared for the rain-making dance before the rain-making ceremony begins. Both sides of the platform are already filled with witches kneeling, each of them muttering something.
In the open space below the platform, the livestock were led out one by one.
The altar was surrounded by spectators, three layers inside and three layers outside, and it was very lively.
In a cool spot next to the altar.
In the middle of a row of armchairs sat a middle-aged man with a stern face.
Sitting around the man were Mr. Jia, Landlord Zhou and others.
A group of skinny boys were squatting or sitting not far away, sometimes looking at the altar, sometimes looking at the fruits in the hands of the gentry.
The crowd was bustling.
Suddenly, there was a sound of a gong, followed by a powerful voice.
"The auspicious time has arrived, and the sacrifice begins."
Boom, boom, boom. A drum beat sounded.
On the platform above the altar, dozens of people dressed in strange costumes emerged one after another. Upon closer inspection, they were half male and half female, and each of them had patterns on their face.
Men and women were interspersed among them, imitating the steps of some kind of animal.
The footsteps follow the rhythm of the drums, sometimes brisk, sometimes slow.
The witches on both sides of the altar were also busy. They moved in unison and kowtowed in the direction of the altar above.
He also recited the sacrificial text devoutly.
In the open space below the platform, the butchers knocked down the livestock one by one with screams.
The bloody heads of various livestock were carried to the top of the altar.
About two quarters of an hour.
The fortune-tellers on the stage were still praying devoutly, and the rain-making dance was still going on to the beat of drums.
The sun wasn't too scorching at this time, but the crowd watching did feel it getting hotter and hotter.
It was so hot that it seemed as if all the water in my body was slowly evaporating.
The country gentlemen were also feeling extremely hot in the shade, and they all picked up their cups of tea to drink.
"How strange! How come the tea in my cup disappeared?" Landlord Zhou picked up the tea and found the cup was empty.
"You idiots! Are you servants all blind? You don't even know to add more tea when it's gone?" Mr. Jia cursed angrily.
"Sir...Sir, please calm down. The tea I just filled up disappeared as soon as it was filled. And the water in the teapot in my hand is gone too." The maidservant standing by stood at a loss, having never seen such a situation before.
"Indeed, the tea was just added. I was about to drink it, but it disappeared." The chief clerk sitting in the middle was shocked.
"Really?"
As he was talking, someone suddenly shouted in the distance, "Ahh! What is that???"
“It’s a monster!!!”
"Oh my god! The monster is coming!!"
After hearing the scream, the chief clerk quickly stood up and looked into the distance.
I saw an animal slightly smaller than a cow running rapidly towards the center of the town.
Only after running closer and taking a closer look could I see clearly that the monster had a human face and a beast body, not too big, with a single horn on its head, and below the horn was a face that looked very much like a human. On its limbs, the front hooves were like cow hooves, and the hind legs were like lion claws, with sharp claws. Behind its limbs was a thin, long tail with spikes. The strange thing was that there were two short arms in front of its limbs.
The monster ran very fast and reached the edge of the open space in the blink of an eye.
The moment the crowd saw the monster, they suddenly let out a scream.
The crowded crowd dispersed and ran away in all directions.
"Ah...ah...monster, oh my god."
"Run, run quickly."
"Child...my child, don't step on my child." A mother shouted heartbreakingly.
"Mother...wuwuwu, mother...it hurts so much." A little girl sat on the ground, crying.
The mother was not paying attention and the child was pushed aside by the crowd and fell to the ground. At this time, the crowd did not care about anything else and trampled on the little girl.
There were many people lying on the ground, being trampled and screaming.
Swearing, crying, begging for mercy, screaming.
Panic continues to spread among people.
The witch and the dancers who were praying for rain on the altar stood up and ran downwards as soon as they saw the monster.
When the chief official saw the monster, his pupils shrank slightly, and he was horrified and shouted, "Drought demon, it's over, it's over, I'm afraid the town of Wusu is no longer safe."
When the country gentlemen around him heard the word "Hanba", they were so frightened that they didn't even dare to look back, and used their hands and feet to run towards the distance.
It is said that when the drought demon appears, the land will be barren for thousands of miles. Not only the fields will dry up, but all the water in the human body will be lost by the drought demon.
The closer you are to the drought demon, the faster you lose water.
At this time, a group of officers and soldiers arrived and surrounded Hanba.
A man who looked like a leader took out a bow and arrow, bent the bow and drew the arrow in one go. A sharp arrow flew towards Hanba like lightning.
When Hanba saw the sharp arrow coming at him, he did not dodge or evade.
There was a crisp "ding" sound, and the arrow was bounced away the moment it hit the drought demon.
Hanba looked at the archer leader with his scarlet eyes and rushed towards him.
With one charge, Hanba knocked several officers and soldiers around him away. The force was so great that the officers and soldiers fell directly to the ground after landing, and their life or death was unknown.
Then it used its hind paws to exert force, leaped forward, and headed straight for the leader.
The weapons of the surrounding officers and soldiers hit the drought demon as if it were hitting steel.
There was a recoil force, and he staggered suddenly.
The drought demon kept moving forward, with blood dripping from its sharp claws. Wherever it went, corpses were left everywhere.
In the leader's desperate eyes, he was torn to pieces by the sharp claws of the drought demon, and his death was horrible to watch.
In less than a quarter of an hour, most of the dozens of officers and soldiers who arrived were killed or wounded. The remaining officers and soldiers knew they were no match for the enemy and fled in panic into the distance.
Only broken limbs and arms were left on the ground, making it look like a purgatory on earth.
The Hanba man let out a roar similar to that of a bear, and the people in the distance suddenly felt their body water loss faster, and some weak people even fainted.
The drought demon walked towards the corpses of livestock that had just been slaughtered, and slashed at the corpses with its hind claws. The drought demon's hind claws penetrated the bodies of the livestock unhindered, tearing out a large piece of bloody meat, and began to eat it with both hands.
The people in the crowd who saw this scene were so frightened that they pissed their pants.
Hanba looked at the people on the altar who had not yet completely come down, and then he used all his limbs to crash into the pillars supporting the altar.
It seems that this drought demon doesn't want people to pray for rain, and deliberately sabotages it.
The witch Liu and the others who were still on the stage and had not had time to react were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they huddled together, trembling.
The power of a strange beast like Hanba is far beyond the ability of witches like them to deal with!
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