Zhou Ze was shocked when he saw this. This extravagance was too big.
Even the Taoist priests in TV dramas did not have such a big card when they set up an offering table. In an ordinary temple, it was already considered good for the priests to get some fruits and a pig's head.
And here..,
It was a human sacrifice!
More than twenty living people..,
That family..,
It was artificially placed here as a tribute to the Sea God!
Zhou Ze's experience was special. He had been to Hell before. In his two lives, he had seen many people and ghosts. Logically speaking, there were not many things that could shock his heart.
However, the scene in front of him made Zhou Ze lose his mind in an instant.
One had to know that not only were there old women with white hair and wrinkled skin, there were also very young children. These people should have had their own lives, should have their own laughter, but now they were all trapped here. They could not even drift freely like fish. They could only follow the waves and crash from one side of the cage to the other.
Even after death, they were still kept in captivity!
The priest and the person who set up all of this seemed to be afraid that the tributes they had carefully prepared would spill out and cause the Sea God to not be able to eat all of them. They were so considerate.
"Gulp..."
His body was a little weak now, which caused him to hold his breath for a long time. Zhou Ze reached out and lifted Bai Yingying's wrist that was hugging his waist, indicating for her to bring him up to breathe.
However..,
Bai Yingying was indifferent, as if she did not feel anything.
Zhou Ze pinched her hand,
She was still indifferent and motionless.
Zhou Ze grabbed her arm,
She still looked like she did not know.
Zhou Ze turned his head and glared at her.
In the end, he realized that Bai Yingying's eyes were closed!
I can't see,
She can't see, she can't see.
The fingernail on Zhou Ze's right index finger grew out,
Bai Yingying's body suddenly trembled,
She immediately carried Zhou Ze and floated up,
"Huhu... Huhu... Huhu..."
After breathing, Zhou Ze felt much more comfortable. He did not care about Bai Yingying's thoughts and said directly,
"Go up."
"Okay, Boss!"
Bai Yingying did not mention what had happened just now. Then, like a small Vajra, she wrapped her right arm around Zhou Ze's waist and picked him up like a rag doll. Her other hand grabbed the hull of the ship and climbed up.
Clean, efficient, and relaxed.
Zhou Ze first sat on a chair. As he breathed, he waited for some water to fall off his clothes. Otherwise, his clothes would be too heavy and it would be a little difficult for him to wear them.
"Boss, what happened down there?"
"You don't know?"
"How would I know?"
"Didn't your madam get drowned in a pig cage after being discovered having an affair with a scholar?"
"Eh …"
"Someone used a living person as a sacrifice to the Sea God," Zhou Ze said.
"Sacrifice?
Offering? "
Bai Yingying was very shocked. Even a zombie felt that this kind of thing was too cruel and tragic.
"Then what's going on now?
We're here, and there's an iron cage down there filled with corpses. What are they doing? "
"I don't know either. Moreover, I have a feeling that this matter might be related to that old man or that woman. At the very least, that old man is definitely involved."
Why was the old man definitely involved?
Could that vixen be an exception?
Bai Yingying thought to herself.
At this moment, the wind started blowing. The wind was still very strong. The originally calm sea suddenly surged with waves, causing the cruise ship to sway back and forth as if it could capsize at any time.
Zhou Ze continued to sit on the chair. To be honest, he was a little helpless now. If he was a judge now, he might have the right to communicate with the other party on equal terms. However, the current him was obviously not taken seriously by the other party.
Of course, the most important question right now was whether this Sea God was considered good or bad in the traditional view?
Did he accept the sacrifice and give the sacrifice the corresponding reward, or did the sacrifice's actions make him feel angry and blasphemous, so he specially came to punish him?
At his level, the traditional concept of right and wrong should not be able to restrict his actions, right?
"Clang …"
Waves of seawater crashed over, and the cruise ship swayed more and more. Bai Yingying stood still and grabbed Zhou Ze's shoulder with one hand, helping Zhou Ze stabilize on the deck.
"Boss, this ship is going to capsize."
"I know."
Zhou Ze held onto Bai Yingying's arm and forced himself to stand up. When he looked ahead, he realized that there seemed to be land in front of him. No, to be precise, it should be an island, a large island.
"Crash!"
An ear-piercing sound of machinery rubbing could be heard. The cruise ship finally could not take it anymore and flipped over. Bai Yingying was quick to react. She grabbed Zhou Ze and jumped into the sea before the cruise ship capsized.
Therefore, Zhou Ze was lucky. Many drowning people wished that they had a Bai Yingying by their side before they drowned.
As Bai Yingying swam, she kept Zhou Ze's head above the water surface so that he could breathe fresh air. Zhou Ze was like a little kangaroo in a kangaroo mother's chest pocket, being cared for delicately.
He could only raise his head and breathe while spitting out the water that splashed into his mouth and nose.
On one side … he looked at the sky.
Finally, Bai Yingying went ashore.
Zhou Ze lay on the beach, panting heavily.
"Boss, there's another person lying there."
Bai Yingying suddenly pointed at the beach and said.
Zhou Ze turned to the side and looked. Indeed, there was a young man lying there. He was wearing very shabby clothes. If he was a salted fish before, then that person was a salted fish that was about to be roasted dry.
"I'll go kill him."
Bai Yingying said with the intention of strangling all signs of danger.
Zhou Ze reached out and pressed Bai Yingying down. He shook his head and said, "Don't you feel that guy looks a little familiar?"
"Familiar?"
Bai Yingying looked hard. Finally, she seemed to have thought of something and said, "He looks like that old man. Is he that old man's son?
Oh no, or grandson. "
"No, and he shouldn't be," Zhou Ze denied.
At this moment, a python crawled out from the sea.
This python looked a little familiar to Zhou Ze. It really looked like the one he had fought with before. However, the snake looked a little smaller now, and the scales on its body were not as thick as before.
The snake slowly climbed onto the young man's body. There was no killing intent or ferocity on its body. Moreover, it did not seem to notice that Zhou Ze and Bai Yingying were beside it at all. It only stared at the person below it.
"Boss, this snake is about to become a spirit," Bai Yingying suddenly said.
"I can tell."
This python gave off a feeling that it was filled with intelligence and human-like emotions. It was a little like the monkey that Zhou Ze had seen for the first time.
The python opened its mouth, but it did not bite the young man in front of it. Instead, it bit its own torso, creating a wound on its body. Then, the snake's body climbed on the young man's body and brought the wound to the man's mouth.
At first, the python's blood only slowly dripped into the man's mouth. Soon, the man seemed to have regained some consciousness and started to suck the python's blood. The color on his face also slowly recovered.
Finally, the man let go of his hand and let out a long sigh. Then, he opened his eyes. When he first saw the python, the man was so scared that his entire body trembled.
The python did not stop. It swam from the beach back into the sea. There was still a pool of blood on the ground.
After the python entered the sea, the man immediately got up and kowtowed several times in the direction of the python. He muttered something and reached out to pick up a piece of snake scale left on the ground.
"What is he shouting?" Bai Yingying asked. Because the man's dialect was a little heavy, Bai Yingying could not hear it very clearly.
"He is thanking Sea God for saving him," Zhou Ze replied.
The man walked into the forest on the island and disappeared.
"Then the question is, Boss, how do we leave?"
Bai Yingying tilted her head and asked. Then, she seemed to have thought of something and asked,
"I think it's not bad for us to be Robinson Crusoe here."
There was Robinson Crusoe in the bookstore. Bai Yingying took the time to read it.
Zhou Ze felt that his maid had been a little abnormal recently. She felt like she had gone silly from watching Korean dramas.
At that moment, the cruise ship that had just capsized appeared again.
"Wow, Boss, the ship is back again."
"I can see it."
The cruise ship returned again. However, this time, there were people on the cruise ship, and there were a lot of them.
An old man in a wheelchair was pushed down from the ship by a waiter. The waiter was a woman with a white veil over her face. However, from her figure and temperament, the woman looked a little familiar.
"Her chest is a little saggy, her butt is a little fat, and her waist is a little thick. Boss, if you reduce it a little, don't you look like someone?"
It was that woman, the old man's wife.
Many people got off the ship. The old man was sitting in a wheelchair with a bottle hanging from it. Obviously, the old man did not have much time left.
At that moment, Zhou Ze's eyes narrowed. He saw another priest walk down from the cruise ship, an Asian priest.
Yes, that's right.
It was this guy who had stolen his ashes!
However, this priest looked a little young now. His skin was fairer, and his face was round. He looked harmless.
He walked to the old man's side. The old man reached out and dismissed the woman. The woman walked away and walked far away. It was not convenient for her to know some words. She was also very conscious and tactful.
The old man seemed to be saying something to the priest, and the priest nodded in agreement.
Then …
The old man took out a black scale from his bosom.
The priest looked at the scale, then lowered his head and whispered something into the old man's ear.
When the old man heard this, his face first revealed a shocked expression, then a struggling expression. He seemed to be hesitating and conflicted. In the end, the old man looked at the infusion bottle that was still hanging on him, then at the charming woman standing in the distance.
His fingers clenched the scale tightly, and his veins popped out.
Then, he gritted his teeth with a violent expression.
At the same time, he nodded.
The priest bowed slightly.
"Boss, they're talking too softly. I can't hear them," Bai Yingying said helplessly.
Bai Yingying said helplessly. She tried to walk forward to get closer to the old man and the priest, but the further she walked, the longer the distance between her and the two of them increased.
Zhou Ze waved his hand.
"There's no need to listen."
"Then how do we get out of here?" Bai Yingying was a little uneasy.
"We can leave." Zhou Ze smiled. "In fact, there's no Sea God."
Bai Yingying didn't understand, but Zhou Ze couldn't. Yes, there was no Sea God.
"Huh?"
"There's no Sea God. There's only a snake that was mistaken for the Sea God."
Zhou Ze raised his head and looked into the sky.
"You can't beat me, and you've been seriously injured by me. This illusion won't last long, right?
"Especially after I found out that you're not the Sea God, the deterrence of your illusion is 99% gone. Do you think you still have a chance to kill me here?"
"Zizizi …"
A snake head slowly appeared in the sand beside Zhou Ze.
All the illusions around him began to shatter.
Zhou Ze was sitting on the floor of the living room, while Bai Yingying was standing beside him. Everything around him had returned to normal.
"I didn't want to kill you with this …"
The python that was riddled with scars from Zhou Ze's fingernails was actually speaking in human language, but his voice was a little sharp.
"Tsk tsk."
Zhou Ze reached out and patted the snake's head. Then, he raised his head and said helplessly, "You actually wanted to kill me at the beginning, but you didn't expect me to do this to you, so you changed your method and took a roundabout way."
If the hard method didn't work, it would use the soft method.
"He deserves to die …" the python said.
"I have a monkey at home. You two should have a common language. However, it's obvious that you won't be able to live for long. It's a pity."
"He deserves to die …" the python seemed to only know how to say this.
Zhou Ze did think of the monkey. He thought of the process of fighting the monkey in the hospital and the final outcome. Even his conscience had been "eaten" because of that incident.
It was the same choice, but this time, Zhou Ze's choice was different. He raised his hand and said seriously,
"That woman doesn't deserve to die."
The python hesitated for a moment before nodding slightly in agreement.
Then, Zhou Ze put his hand down and looked elsewhere.
The python nodded at Zhou Ze and rubbed its tongue against Zhou Ze's arm. Then, it wriggled its remaining body and crawled toward the stairs.
Bai Yingying was a little confused. She looked at Zhou Ze and asked, "Boss, didn't that snake save him? It saved him back then. Why is it killing him now?"
"It's very simple. Sixty years ago, this python had just been enlightened and was cultivating to accumulate merit. Therefore, it took the initiative to save a young man who was about to die because of a ship accident.
The young man survived and became rich. He earned a lot of money and became very rich and had a high status. Then, the young man became an old man who was about to die from illness.
The old man didn't want to die. He still had a lot of money. He wanted to continue enjoying his life.
For others, other than medical methods, it was basically impossible to extend their lives. However, the old man was different. He had seen the Sea God when he was young. He treated the snake that saved him as the Sea God.
Therefore, the old man planned to use this to extend his life. He felt that the Sea God had saved him once sixty years ago, so sixty years later, the Sea God should be able to save him again.
He even found a charlatan … "
Zhou Ze's eyes flashed with killing intent when he mentioned the Japanese priest.
That b * stard. This time, once he recovered from his injuries, he had to kill him. No matter what else happened, he had to kill him!
"That priest gave him a method to sacrifice the evil god. It was to use the lives of his family to extend his life."
"Ah …" Bai Yingying exclaimed, "So the family that drowned on the cruise five years ago?"
"Didn't you see it? The old man specially arranged for them to be sacrificed. He used his wife, son, daughter, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on as sacrifices to extend his life."
"Then what?"
"He succeeded because he had that scale in his hand. Moreover, the method that the priest gave him was not groundless, so he succeeded.
"Didn't you see? Five years ago, the old man was in a wheelchair and could fart at any time, but five years later, he could still walk on his own and even live with his wife from time to time.
"He succeeded, he really succeeded."
"Does that mean that this python and that old man reached an agreement?" Bai Yingying asked, "Then why did this python come to kill him five years later?"
Zhou Ze shook his head,
"There was no agreement. The python was tricked, it was tricked by that old man very badly. It had cultivated for a certain period of time and walked a very orthodox path, but because the old man used its own scale as a sacrifice, it was directly sent to the evil god sequence that heaven and earth could not tolerate. The previous hundred years of hard work were basically all for naught.
It was like a mouthful of poisonous milk, and the python was castrated by it in a daze.
"Even that python might have had some problems because of this, and it took five years to solve a part of it. Then, at all costs, it risked its own life and death to come to the land to find this old man for revenge!
It was the one who saved him back then, but he tricked it in the end. "
Bai Yingying nodded thoughtfully. "So, there's no Sea God at all?"
"I'm not sure."
"Then, Boss, did you let it go for revenge this time?" Bai Yingying asked.
The underlying meaning was, you didn't do this last time, Monkey.
"I'm seriously injured. I can't beat it. I don't want to risk my life," Zhou Ze explained.
Bai Yingying pouted and pointed at herself.
She meant, I can deal with a snake that was almost destroyed by you.
"You're a little girl. You're even afraid of rats and cockroaches. How can you stop it, right?"
Bai Yingying understood when she heard this,
She immediately clenched her fists and clasped them on her chest,
"Sob sob sob,
Yes,
I'm really scared. "
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PS: This chapter has more than 5,000 words. I'll post it after I finish writing the story.