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Gong Ziyu heard the sound of "reciting" coming from far away.
I couldn't hear it clearly at first, but slowly, I remembered that this was something I had heard since I was a child.
Gong Ziyu slowly opened her eyes.
He was tied to a chair and sat in front of the Gong family ancestral tablets that filled the wall.
All the members of the Gong family were here. They stood in front of him, all wearing black clothes with red edges, holding white candles in their hands, and wearing smooth and delicate masks on their faces.
It was exactly the same as what he saw in the illusion.
Besides them, there was also a woman in red.
Her body had already rotted away, and her pupils were covered with white film and drooped slightly.
The head had been severed and strung together with a thick hemp rope.
It is barely connected and seems like it will disconnect at any time.
The red teardrop mole at the corner of her eye proves her identity.
"Sister..." Gong Ziyu murmured.
He was still afraid, the fear crawling up from his toes.
A man stood up and raised the white candle in his hand.
The black cloth on the top of the ancestral hall was torn off, and in the endless darkness, an astonishingly bright full moon hung quietly in the sky.
The moonlight fell and everyone looked up with hope.
"Sing—bless—wen—"
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"First, we sing the prayer. This is what the Gong family calls it. In fact, they are singing the contents of the 'book' that they think they have understood." Xiaoyang said.
Yu Xiaoye: "Xiaoyang, didn't you say you couldn't understand the 'book'? How do you know they didn't understand it correctly?"
"After every sacrifice, the Gong family would ask me if the 'God' had any instructions. I could hear Him talking to me in my dreams. If He said something was wrong, it was wrong, and I had no idea how it was wrong."
At this time, shouts were heard from the room outside.
When Ruan Zhaozhao walked out, he saw the children pointing upwards and shouting.
The roof of this room collapsed at some point, leaving an arc-shaped gap.
Moonlight poured in from the gap, and the black water in the pit slowly began to boil.
Ruan Zhaozhao looked at the lamb. "Anyway, the 'God' you're talking about is from another world. If He wants to come here, He needs people from this world to perform the ritual, right?"
The lamb didn't understand and said guiltily, "That should be the correct way to say it..."
There are many villains in the city that never sleeps. This group of shamans want to summon villains from other worlds all day long and often gather together for sacrifices.
Dad said he didn't object to summoning this kind of character, but the things they wanted to summon were too low-class. They didn't make any sense at all. They just came and did whatever they wanted, like ants chasing cannons, which made him very annoyed.
Later, he simply let the Black Guards patrol the city, interrupt the summons, and throw these people into the protagonist's kingdom in the underworld to cause trouble for the protagonist.
Ruan Zhaozhao suddenly thought of something. "System, if the 'Goat's Stomach' can cause stomach bleeding, then the 'Goat's Body' will also be injured if it gets hit, right?"
System: "Theoretically, it's not a prop, but belongs to an unknown creature. Since it has a physical form, its state can be changed."
After saying this, it suddenly realized what the host was going to do.
...No way?
The answer is "yes".
Ruan Zhaozhao jumped into the pit and stepped on the black water.
This time she didn't jump or dance, she just punched him!
Punch after punch, without bias, just do it!
The children watching on the side were stunned.
Yu Xiaoye quickly called everyone to hide in the second room.
In this way, everyone saw the lamb.
The lamb shrank back, thinking that these kids would want to make it into a "whole roasted lamb" like Ruan Zhaozhao did.
"It's the lamb!"
“Wow, so cute!”
"Can we touch it, brother?"
The children chattered around the lamb.
The lamb was frightened at first, but gradually relaxed, and finally lay on the ground enjoying the "massage" from its children.
If it had known that the world outside was so wonderful, with delicious food and comfortable touches, it would have run away long ago!
In the ancestral hall, everyone was reciting prayers, shaking their heads and staring blankly at the full moon.
9527 sat in the corner, thinking that since no one would come to stop him this time, nothing would go wrong.
"Elder Xue, where are we?"
Xiao Yichen beside him woke up.
9527 saw a trace of kindness in his eyes, "This is the Gong family's celebration."
Xiao Yichen murmured, "Gong family...what about the others? Why are there only two of us?"
Of course, they were put into a temporary coma until the sacrifice was over.
Because the others are not the protagonists, they will go crazy if they hear the whispers from this other world.
9527 said vaguely: "This is Gong Zixue's intention. We are guests, so we just obey."
Xiao Yichen remembered what Lu Zhi said.
He couldn't help but ask, "Elder Xue, are we really here to watch the ceremony this time?"
9527 glanced at him.
"I'm sure your master has already told you." 9527 whispered, "They practice demonic arts."
Xiao Yichen took a breath of cold air, "Then..."
"Gong Shouzhuo fears his branch's actions will be exposed, bringing disaster upon the entire Gong family. Furthermore, he's long coveted the 'gong method,' hoping for a lucky break, and intends to cultivate demonic skills and seize the position of Canghai Sect leader." 9527 spoke earnestly. "I finally gained Gong Zixue's trust and was invited to the Gong family to see exactly what they're up to and what this 'magic skill' is all about. Junior-Martial Nephew Xiao, your master told me that you're extraordinary and the key to saving the world. If anything goes wrong, all hope rests on you."
Xiao Yichen lowered his head and said, "I don't deserve it."
"You mean Lu Zhi made a mistake?" 9527 raised his eyebrows. "It's impossible for us to make a mistake."
The bonus for helping the villain turn evil is too little.
What really made her rich overnight was "helping the protagonist reach the peak of his life."
But this is too difficult. The villain must first be completely evil and the protagonist must defeat him.
During this process, whether 9527 assisted the protagonist is recorded in the system.
Last time in Xiaocang Realm, although 9527 brought Wenren Yi to the protagonist, firstly, Wenren Yi had not completely turned evil, and secondly, Xiao Yichen did not injure Wenren Yi. In the end, she neither completed the mission nor made any progress.
This time, 9527 learned his lesson and brought the protagonist along. As long as the villain turns evil, the protagonist will not sit idly by. She plays a supporting role and gets the honor of being ranked excellent.
At critical moments, she can also "die" to increase the protagonist's explosive power.
Thinking of this, 9527 felt regretful.
"Jiang Ruoshui" was the cover she had been preparing to use for the female lead from the start, playing the role of a cool and gentle senior sister. This type of female lead setting is very common in Long Aotian's novels. As Long Aotian's white moonlight, she often appears in the revolving lantern when Long Aotian falls into traps, inspiring him to burst out and upgrade to defeat the enemy.
After Jiang Ruoshui's "death," the Heavenly Dao would arrange for a new heroine after a while. But 9527 couldn't wait. Her mission was to assist the villains in their evil transformation, and "issuing a new heroine" was not within the jurisdiction of the "Evil Assistance Bureau."
Fortunately, the protagonist has a "loyalty and righteousness" setting. As long as he regards Canghai Sect as his own home, even if the person who dies is an elder of the sect, it can arouse his bloodiness.
At this time, Xiao Yichen exclaimed, "Elder Xue, look."
The full moon turned red at some point.
Red silk threads "stretched" out from the moon, swam in front of Gong Ziyu, and suddenly exerted force to tie up his limbs.
Other threads extend outward, leading to no one.
Under Ruan Zhaozhao's "iron fist", the "goat body" was oozing black water everywhere, and the originally full black water had wilted a little.
Ruan Zhaozhao stopped and looked at its status again, which was followed by a "minor injury" status.
She crossed her arms, very dissatisfied, "Only a minor injury?"
Being so tough, isn't that just a provocation to her?
system:"……"
The "lightly injured" "Goat Body" received another beating.
Soon, its condition changed to "seriously injured", and it was so bad that it almost made me want to write the word "miserable" on it.
At this moment, Ruan Zhaozhao felt a gaze, she turned around and saw a red moon hanging in the sky.
Many red threads stretched out from the moon and flew towards him.
——No, it was flying towards the black water.
The silk thread did not fly fast. It slowly circled around Ruan Zhaozhao and was about to dive into the black water.
It suddenly stopped.
Ruan Zhaozhao grabbed the back end of the silk thread.
The front end almost touched the black water. I pushed forward as hard as I could, but I couldn't move.
"It's different from the great masters I've seen." Ruan Zhaozhao pinched the front end of the silk thread with his other hand and picked it up to look at it.
I saw that each silk thread was covered with densely packed eyes, which could not be seen without careful observation.
These eyes first stared at Ruan Zhaozhao angrily.
Ruan Zhaozhao thought he was trying to escape, so he pulled it down hard, pulled off a little more, and tied a knot neatly.
Or a bow tie.
He: “…”
Ruan Zhaozhao let go of her hand and the bow fell to the ground.
But its front end was too short and tilted up, so it could not touch the black water.
Ruan Zhaozhao urged him, "Hurry up and get in, otherwise why are you here?"
He had never been so humiliated!
He was enraged and decided to eat the cub of this low-level creature, but suddenly found that his whole body was soft and rotten and he could not use any strength.
But then, "He" seemed to realize something, and fear appeared in his eyes.
Seeing that he didn't move, Ruan Zhaozhao shook his head and plunged his front end into the black water.
"Hey, don't say I'm bullying you."
He: “…”
Impossible, that is the world closest to Sanchuan Xu.
They tried every possible means to get there. Why would people there come to such a small place?
Ruan Zhaozhao poked Him.
Still not moving.
She raised her head, an expression of sudden realization on her face, and grabbed the thread and pulled it down.
She was so strong that she actually broke the thread!
The thread broke in mid-air, and the lower section fell onto the black water, quickly fading in color.
Ruan Zhaozhao picked it up, pulled it, and found that it was quite elastic.
At the same time, in the ancestral hall, Gong Ziyu felt the silk thread slowly embedding into his skin, and a pain came.
His consciousness seemed to be pulled away and he was unable to move.
Until the silk thread stopped moving, he heard the Gong family cheering.
"The Lord God has accepted the first sacrifice, which means we will soon succeed! Come, bring the second sacrifice!"
When Ruan Zhaozhao climbed out of the pit, he saw that the wall between the first room and the second room had lowered.
The cage above began to move until it stopped above the deep pit in the second room.
Yu Xiaoye stood in front of the children, frowning tightly and looking up.
The next moment, all the iron plates at the bottom of the cage fell off!
Only then did he understand that the Gong family locked them in cages to feed the black water at the bottom of the pit!
Fortunately, Zhao Zhao rescued them all.
Yu Xiaoye looked around and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Ruan Zhaozhao returned safely.
He looked at the silk thread that Ruan Zhaozhao was playing with in his hands, "Zhaozhao, what is this?"
Ruan Zhaozhao shrugged and said, "I don't know."
The lamb recognized at a glance that this was the part of Him that connected Him to the other world, growing on the back of His head.
It was just pulled off like this?
ah?
Yu Xiaoye and Ruan Zhaozhao have already started researching it.
Yu Xiaoye asked for one and looked at it. "It looks like a fan."
Ruan Zhaozhao once burned vermicelli while eating hot pot, and said, "You can eat it then."
Yu Xiaoye noticed the eye at the front end of the thread had turned white, "No, this isn't vermicelli. I've never seen it before. Eating it might give me stomach upset, so I'd better not eat it."
Ruan Zhaozhao was a little disappointed: "Okay."
lamb:"……"
Is this a matter of eating or not?!
So scary!
It was just now worrying about its betrayal of the Lord God. What if the young master couldn't defeat Him? Now it realized -
She is much more terrifying than the Lord God!
Suddenly, the wall between the second and third rooms also dropped down.
Above the deep pit in the third room, a man fell down, his limbs entangled by silk threads, hanging in the air like a puppet.
Yu Xiaoye recognized him: "That's... Second Senior Brother?!"
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