"What sound?" A chill broke out in Erxi's spine.

"The pig screamed." Xiao Li looked at him and smiled. His eyes changed. He no longer looked like a five or six-year-old child. He maliciously filled his clear big eyes without any concealment.

The wind and rain were swaying, and the whole house was hazy and vague under the wind and rain, and it seemed less real. There were also the figures in the courtyard, each of them expressionless. They did not look like living people, but like a few puppets holding strings.

Erxi looked around and found that the three of them were not moving. His eyes were staring at him like a dead fish, motionless, and he wished he could poke a hole in his body.

Now, he finally realized something was wrong, and cold sweat was pouring down. He gasped quickly and retreated towards the door little by little.

"Dad, he is going to run away." Xiao Li suddenly raised his hand, his delicate fingertips facing Erxi, which shocked him. At the same time, he heard a "clang" behind him, turned his head, and found that the woman had locked the door, and showed him a warm smile.

"Brother Hu, let me go back. I will never reveal a word about what happened today. I didn't see anything or hear anything..."

Just as he was trembling and begging for mercy, there was another scream in the backyard, shrill and painful, penetrated the rain and mist all over the sky and penetrated straight into the ink sky.

"Did you hear nothing? Then what's the sound?" Hu Jing grinned, revealing the yellow and black front teeth inside.

"The pig is called, it is... it is the pig is called." Erxi continued his words, and he cried, tears gushing down his cheeks.

With tears in his eyes, he saw Hu Jing lifting an axe at his feet and walking towards him with heavy steps. When he arrived, he pressed the axe against his neck, "Let's go, I'll show you how we slaughter pigs."

***

Erxi was tied to a blood-stained chair. Of course, the dried blood was not his own. As for whether it was the man who was dragged out of the pigpen, he didn't know. After all, two people were dead, and this man should be the third one, and he would be the fourth one...

Human sacrifice.

Erxi recognized the man who was moaning. He was a tea stall in the street market. He had been missing for several days. It turned out that he had been brought here.

Now, Wang Cheng was carried by Hu Jing to a stone table, his hands and feet tied to four wooden stakes standing at the four corners of the stone table, and he could not move at all. But Erxi felt that they were useless, because there was almost no intact on Wang Cheng's body, and his forehead was smashed by a sharp weapon, and his wound had become suppurated, and black and red pus and blood were oozed out. The other parts of his body intersected, and they had obviously been beaten.

A few pauses. The royal city is now dying, with only a few broken breaths left in his chest, barely enough to make him moan before he dies.

Erxi was very surprised. Why did they keep the royal city until this time? If they don’t want to be discovered, they should kill him when they catch the royal city. Why did they wait so long to attack him? Is it just to torture him for a few more days and let him taste all the pain before giving him a pleasure?

Thinking of this, he seemed to have predicted his future fate, and he shivered heavily and his body trembled even harder.

After the Hu family tied up the royal city, they all went to the outer courtyard. Now, there were only two of them left in the inner courtyard. Erxi stared at the royal city's eyes and found that there was another thing inside besides despair.

relief.

That's right, this man felt relieved before his death, which shows how inhuman torture he had suffered.

Erxi cried again. Although his mouth was filled with a smelly rag, he still let out a silent wail. He finally figured it out that he and the Hu family did not meet by chance. They had been waiting at the entrance of the gambling house, waiting for him, the stupid rabbit to fall into the trap.

The door of the inner courtyard was pushed open. Erxi saw Hu Jing and his father walking in front. The two of them were carrying a large bronze cauldron together. Xiaoli and Aunt Hu followed closely behind. The four of them all looked solemn, and even with a little awe, which was completely different from their sinister appearance just now.

What are they going to do? What is in this tripod?

Erxi stared at the bronze tripod intently. He found that the tripod was shaking slightly. The cover of the tripod was shaking so loudly that it was shaking, revealing a black gap.

Is there a living thing in the cauldron?

A huge fear caught Erxi from head to toe. He stared at the crack and vaguely saw something swimming across the crack and disappeared into the depths of the bronze cauldron. He gasped heavily, his whole back tightly against the back of the chair, trying to stay away from the huge bronze cauldron and a little further away.

It turns out that the royal city is still wrong. Death is not liberation. Death is an unbearable pain than taking off the gallbladder and heart.

The bronze tripod was placed directly in front of the stone table, and the things inside seemed to smell the smell of blood. It became excited because of it, and its body made a "bang" sound on the wall of the tripod.

Wangcheng was completely collapsed. He must regret that he was awake at this moment, so he suddenly opened his mouth and squeezed his two rows of teeth...

"Dad, he bit his tongue and committed suicide."

Xiao Li exclaimed, and Hu Jing quickly walked to Wangcheng and tried his best to open his mouth. However, it was too late. Half of the bitten tongue rolled from his lips to the ground, bounced on the ground twice, and stopped moving.

Seeing this scene, the four members of the Hu family were shocked and trembled. The woman's legs became weak and she knelt down, kowtowing to the bronze cauldron, muttering some things Erxi couldn't understand.

"It's a big taboo to die on the altar." Old Man Hu shook his son's arm and murmured to himself.

Hu Jing was also panicked. He slapped Wang Cheng's face desperately, pinching and pouring water on the human face. However, after a while, the fat figure on the stone table still did not wake up.

"Switch people." Aunt Hu trembled and pulled her husband's arm, and glanced at Erxi.

"I have already been on the altar, and now I'm afraid I won't be able to replace people." Hu Jing clenched his fist and stared at the bronze tripod with his eyes tightly. "If it breaks, everything we have done will be in vain."

Failed to lose?

Hearing him say these four words, a light suddenly burst into Erxi's heart. Could it be that because of the death of the royal city, all this ended here? He would not become a victim?

Remaining the disaster.

He tried hard to appreciate the beauty of these four words, and a burst of joyful laughter burst out from the bottom of his heart.

"Pick".

The cauldron suddenly fell to the ground, and something slowly poked out in the darkness. It slowly swam towards the ground and winded towards the half of its tongue.

Erxi stared at the strange scene in front of her and screamed without sound.
Chapter completed!