Chapter 44
The Fugitive Bridegroom
Alandil obviously underestimated the speed of the Larkana village chief's response to the runaway bride and groom. The other villagers were stunned for a moment.
The head of Larkana Village immediately issued an order: "Those who break the rules of our Larkana Village must accept the punishment of the dragon. Catch them!"
The village chief pressed the horns of the dragon snake statue, and the bluestone door of the cave that was originally open in the distance was instantly closed.
Rows of warriors appeared out of nowhere, armed with weapons, surrounding Nora and the three of them from outside to inside.
This public lynching seemed to be a common thing for them. Other residents who could not fight stayed away as if it had nothing to do with them.
Aunt Li was a little anxious on the side, and she asked cautiously: "Village Chief, my daughter should be considered successful in getting married! She just finished her toast!"
The village chief snorted coldly: "The ceremony has not been officially completed. Li Wenyu will be one of the people who drew lots."
When Aunt Li heard this, she was very anxious: "No, this is the last step. Village chief, can't you be accommodating?"
There are only a few adult unmarried children left. If lots were drawn, the daughter would most likely be chosen as a sacrifice.
What's more, I heard that those few people have already found a suitable marriage partner. How can she find the next man to marry her daughter in such a short period of time?
Then isn't her daughter the next sacrifice?
"What, do you have any objections?" The village chief's cold tone and ruthless eyes seemed like a bucket of cold water pouring on Aunt Li's heart.
"Don't be like this. Aren't there three substitutes?"
"If you sacrifice these three people, there will be no need to sacrifice for the next three years."
Aunt Li's gray eyes lit up: "This"
She was heartbroken and immediately asked the warriors of the Li family to join the melee.
For her daughter, these three young people could only be sacrificed.
The bride Li Wenyu was stunned. For her, everything happened too suddenly.
"Mother, the three of them were innocently implicated. Do you really want to do this?"
These three people did nothing wrong at all.
Since she can remember, no one who worshiped the dragon has ever come back.
Over time, everyone knew that this was a dead end.
Aunt Li poured cold water on her daughter's unnecessary sympathy:
"I can only blame them for their bad fate. Your younger brothers and sisters are also going to be adults. After sacrificing them, they will no longer be threatened!"
"As compensation, I will ask people to find their families and give them a certain amount of monetary compensation!"
No one dares to disobey the rules set by the village chief.
Aunt Li knew that it was not her who had this idea today, but the village chief.
Otherwise, how could these warriors who were lying in wait appear so promptly?
In recent years, once people from other villages who are married to people from Larkana Village want to leave the village, they will disappear inexplicably after meeting the village chief.
The cage created by the village chief ensured the prosperity of Larkana Village, although this prosperity was built on the bones of others.
Since the arrival of this devilish village chief, Larkana Village is no longer the extremely poor village it once was.
In the past twenty years, some people from Larkana Village have resisted, but they have all become victims of the sword.
In order to survive, they can only seek ways to save their lives under these rules, although they have also become executioners unknowingly.
But in order to survive, they have no other options.
The warriors who besieged Nora and the three men cooperated very skillfully.
There were a lot of civilians here, and Nora and the others didn't intend to shoot at first. After all, someone who didn't aim could easily injure innocent people.
But gradually, these warriors who besieged them seemed to know no pain and no need to protect their vital points.
They only focus on attacking, not defending at all, and the attack is very violent, and their eyes look like they are controlled.
It looks a little sluggish and has a sense of disharmony.
There are many people on the other side, and they use the crowd tactics. If they still hesitate, they will become a turtle in the urn.
The quick way to get out of trouble is to use button bombs, but they are still some distance away from the door.
We must attract their attention and blast the passage at the same time!
The grenades they were equipped with had not been used for a long time, destroying their ancestral hall and diverting attention!
Alandil warned loudly: "I have no time to waste with you. Now I give you the last chance to open the door! Let us leave! Otherwise you will regret it!"
Alandil's warning went unanswered, and the village chief of Larkana dismissed the threat from this young boy.
If that's the case, then he doesn't need the Holy Mother's Heart anymore.
Pulling the safety pin, Alandil threw the grenade towards the pavilion and statue.
The loud explosion and the dust brought up by the shock wave blocked the sight of the besiegers.
Nora and the others took the opportunity to run towards the entrance and used button bombs to blow a hole in the bluestone door.
Explode successfully and take the opportunity to escape.
The ancestral hall in Larkana Village was blown up by a grenade, and the falling wooden boards and stones pinned down some villagers.
The village chief of Larkana was also hit in the leg and was rescued in time by the warrior guards around him.
The village chief of Larkana, who had never suffered such a defeat, was very angry.
How dare these lowly people hurt him! They have ruined his years of hard work. These people will never leave alive!
The village chief of Larkana blew the bone flute. After the extremely penetrating bone flute sounded.
The entire cave suddenly started to move. Even Nora and the others who had just left the door thought there was an earthquake.
A huge black shadow suddenly blocked their way, and a piece of silver-white scales was reflecting the sunlight, which was very dazzling.
Taking a closer look, the black shadow was made up of the body of a curled-up giant python. The python's body was covered with a layer of hard scales, with something like ore attached to the surface.
The giant python's body was coiled up in several layers, blocking their retreat. The other half was curled up on the roof of the ancestral temple cave.
The giant python dragged its body, causing dust to fill the sky, and then the dust subsided slightly.
Within the sight of Nora and the other three, a two-meter-wide triangular snake head looked down on them. The half-meter-long vertical pupils stared at the three of them, and the blood-red and long snake letter made a hissing sound.
The white crystal embedded in the center of the forehead of the triangular snake head is very similar to the dragon in the ancestral statue of Larkana Village except that it does not have the horns.
A rough look shows that the body of this giant python is at least 2 meters thick and 40 meters long, exceeding the size of the largest python in the north.
It seems that the giant python has been kept in this cave by the village chief of Larkana. The so-called sacrifice means feeding Yuan Lei as a tribute to the giant python.
Nora noticed that the mineral on the surface of the python's body was obsidian.
Combining all the previous information, she could roughly guess the situation in Larkana Village.
Twenty years ago, the head of Larkana Village used the giant python to intimidate the villagers of Larkana Village, and used the wealth carried by the python to induce and coerce him to become the new village chief.
After that, he maintained his position and consolidated his position through sacrifices.
At the same time, those desperate warriors may also be controlled by some kind of poison and obey the orders of the Larkana village chief.
"What the hell, such a big python has become a spirit!"
Alandil couldn't stand these molluscs. The moment he saw this cold-blooded animal, he felt his breathing pause, his limbs were numb, and goosebumps appeared all over his body.
This thing was specially designed to defeat him. His mind went blank. What evil had he done?
Isn't it just to run away from marriage, divorce your wife, and vent your anger? How can retribution come so quickly?
Chapter completed!