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The girl worriedly said: "You are not allowed to tell others. I only told you because I think you are a good person. If others find out, my father will definitely punish me."
Hastur had no choice but to promise her that she would not leak the secret, and praised her for being able to fulfill the position of priest at such a young age.
When the girl was in a happy mood, Hastur took the opportunity to ask her some other secrets.
For example, the origin of the Grain Sacrifice Festival, what kind of sacrifices were offered during the sacrifice, and whether anything out of the ordinary happened in the town.
After asking and answering questions, Hastur wanted to leave the dreamland when he had almost finished asking.
"Will we meet again?"
"If there is a chance."
Faced with the girl's lingering thoughts, Hastur just smiled and gave an uncertain reply.
The girl's eyes lit up, she smiled happily and said, "I have a hunch that we will definitely meet again, very soon."
When Hastur left the dream, the girl in the dream lost her light in her eyes and stood there blankly, not knowing what to do, as if she had lost her soul.
Hastur left Miss Liv's room, returned to the street, and headed towards the mayor's residence with a solemn expression.
According to what Miss Liv just said, the origin of the Grain Sacrifice Festival is indeed to commemorate a girl who once lived in this town, but the girl was not willing to dedicate herself to the harvest of the town's crops.
Because she herself was the first sacrifice chosen, for people at that time, being able to exchange one's life for a good harvest was a deal that no one had to think about.
But for some reason, as time passed, the sacrificed girl gradually replaced the god who gave the blessing and was pursued.
She was named the Goddess of the Valley and the Goddess of the Breath of Spring.
Become a god who now enjoys sacrifices.
The sacrifices offered during the Grain Sacrifice Festival every year are not the priestesses, but the young lovers.
The girl did not disclose the specific situation in depth.
Hastur found it strange that she knew so much. Logically speaking, a little girl like her shouldn't know these secrets.
Arriving at the mayor's house, Hastur once again used his dreaming ability to enter his dream.
This time it went well. The mayor's dream was divided into two halves, one half was a harvest farmland, and the other half was a weird world where spiders made webs.
The mayor in the dream had his feet tangled in spider silk, and his eyes were dull and foolish, which fit the description of the nightmare ability.
Facing Hastur's inquiry, the mayor was like a answering machine, telling everything he knew about the situation.
The mayor also doesn’t know how the girl who was first sacrificed became the Breath of Spring goddess enshrined in the Grain Festival.
He only knows that if he wants the town to have a bumper harvest every year, he must hold a Grain Sacrifice Festival, otherwise disaster will come here.
This is something every mayor is told when he takes office.
In the original Grain Sacrifice Festival, the priestess was indeed the chosen sacrifice.
But later they gradually evolved into a couple, and they had to reproduce in front of the statue of the god.
From one couple in the beginning to five couples today, the gods' appetite is getting bigger and bigger, but in order to have a good harvest, the Grain Sacrifice Festival still needs to be held.
Therefore, in recent years, the town has secretly purchased several couples from other places and made them sacrifices to please the gods, thereby achieving a bumper harvest.
As for the selection of the priestess, it was randomly drawn at first. But as it became easier for girls who had been priests to get married and obtain high betrothal gifts, some anxious parents would secretly bribe the town mayor to buy an annual gift. Priesthood.
This year's priestess's quota was purchased by Old Jeff for 50 gold pounds.
"What will happen to the lovers who become sacrifices at the Grain Sacrifice Festival?"
When Hastur asked this question, a strange smile appeared on the mayor's face, and he said sadly: "Of course he was eaten by the gods!"
"Where is the god you speak of?"
"Haha, right here in this land..."
Before the mayor finished speaking, the spider silk that was originally just wrapped around the mayor's feet suddenly surged wildly. In just a few breaths, the mayor was wrapped into a white spider cocoon and hung in the air.
In the dream world, which was originally half divided, the golden fields were completely swallowed up by the spider web world.
Deep in the white spider web, white spider cocoons hanging in mid-air began to crack, giving birth to adult-sized spiders with white abdomens, red spots on their backs, and black spiders everywhere else.
"Did you sense the danger and exert influence from afar?"
Hastur did not hesitate and immediately left the mayor's dream.
In reality, the mayor was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly. His body was also completely wrapped in spider silk, turning into a white cocoon.
Those white spider silk threads are spreading to the edge of the room with the mayor's body as the center.
The culprit is a spider the size of a thumb.
These spiders are
It came from the mayor's belly button, where a crack appeared, and more and more spiders crawled out and began to weave webs.
Soon the whole house became a white spider cave.
The strange scene made Hastur retreat to the window. When the spider thread spread over, Hastur left from the window.
The strange thing is that after the spider webs covered the entire room, all the spiders followed the navel and burrowed into the mayor's body again.
Hastur stared at the house opposite for a long time, until a suppressed exclamation sounded in that house.
Although the mayor's relatives were panicked when they saw this strange scene, they did not yell as expected. Instead, taking advantage of the fact that it was late at night, they carried the mayor's cocooned body on their shoulders and got off. The building is placed on an oxcart covered with straw and covered with thick straw and other fruits and vegetables.
Seeing such strange behavior, Hasta naturally followed it. The speed of the ox cart was not very fast, and Hasta could barely follow behind it.
Occasionally, when he lost the direction of the ox cart, he would be able to rely on the guidance of fate to find the right direction and continue chasing.
The ox cart drove out of the town gate and along the main road for a while, then turned into a small road and headed into the growing farmland.
At the end of this flat farmland, there is a two-hundred-meter-high hill, and the ox cart is parked at the foot of the hill.
Without the oxcart to speed them up, Hastur soon caught up with them. There were four people in the group. The one in front was responsible for holding a lantern to lead the way, the two in the middle were responsible for carrying the cocooned mayor, and the last one was carefully on guard to prevent anyone from catching up.
Look at their skilled division of labor. It's obvious that this is not the first time they have done this kind of thing.
Hastur thought of the five young couples who had participated in the sacrifice last night. After the sacrifice, they disappeared accordingly.
It seems that they were also wrapped into cocoons by spider silk like the mayor, and then secretly sent here.
Feeding the gods?
Hastur followed them slowly to the top of the hill.
Tonight, the light of the Crimson Moon was temporarily covered by black clouds. The sky was dim and a cold wind blew from the mountains. Although it was much warmer here than Backlund, in the middle of the night, one could still feel the icy air soaking the clothes and seeping into the skin.
They reached the top of the mountain, passed through the dense forest path, and came to a deep cave. The two men carrying the mayor's cocoon approached carefully, and then threw the heavy objects on their shoulders directly into the cave.
After doing all this, the four people knelt on the ground and kowtowed, muttering words such as asking the gods to forgive their sins.
It was not until a slight dragging sound was heard from inside the cave that the four people hurriedly got up and left without looking back.
After they left, Hastur emerged from the darkness and came near the cave.
This deep cave faced vertically downwards, and the dim moonlight made it impossible to see what was inside the cave.
Moreover, there were spider webs everywhere in there, blocking any prying eyes.
Hastur carefully observed the edge of the cave for a long time and did not choose to risk entering.
He has no hobby of feeding the tiger with his own body. He will not take risks easily under unclear circumstances.
But he did not leave immediately. Instead, he waited here to see if any other changes would occur.
After waiting for about an hour, Hastur brought a large rock from nearby and smashed it directly into the bottom of the cave.
Judging from the time it took for the stone to hit the ground, it was estimated that the cave was about 130 meters high.
According to the height of this mountain, the spider's nest should be located at the belly button of the mountain.
Soon, the sound of dragging heavy objects was faintly heard from below the cave.
Hastur listened for a while, then brought two large stones from nearby, each weighing about 100 kilograms.
He threw down a big stone first, and when the dragging sound was heard again from below, Hastur threw down another big stone.
Soon, a harsh sound was heard from below, as if a lot of spiders were pouring out of the cave below.
"Tsk, I can't afford to play with it."
Hastur left the vicinity of the cave, climbed up a three-meter-high tree, stood on the trunk, and overlooked the location of the cave.
Under the faint light of the crimson moon, pairs of dark red blood-like eyes lit up in the dark cave.
Chapter 285 The Assassin Boy in the Moonlight
Counting each spider with a pair of eyes, there are hundreds of them densely packed in front of you.
After searching to no avail, these spiders crawled back into the cave, and the cave returned to calm.
In the early morning, the scorching sun brought the golden light of flowing fire. The cave with a radius of nearly ten meters last night had disappeared.
Gone, replaced by thick earth.
The foot on it was no different from ordinary land. Hastur jumped twice, but there was still no change.
He found a piece of gravel and dug a few times until he dug a small pit of half a meter. There was still soil underneath, with no trace of a cave.
Hastur was very glad that he did not leave immediately last night but stayed here instead. Sure enough, he saw something different.
He wondered how it was possible that no one had discovered such a large cave on the top of the mountain.
It turns out that this cave is like an owl, hiding day and night.
"It's a bit difficult to solve."
Hastur chose to leave, and he would switch to the star container at night to see what was going on. It was better for him to stay away now, so as not to be visited by this human-faced spider.
Small town, old Jeff's house.
Early in the morning, the mayor's family came to return the 50 gold pounds he had paid for the quota, and vaguely reminded him that there might be changes to the sacrifices during this year's Grain Festival.
This made him frown all of a sudden, secretly regretting that he was too greedy. If he had known better, he would not have let his daughter get into this muddy water. Now that she is fine, she can't be washed out if she falls into the dye vat.
This morning, before the mayor's family came to refund the money, his daughter secretly told him that she had a strange dream last night.
In the dream, she was like a transparent, lonely soul, her whole body stiff and unable to move. She could only watch the body that originally belonged to her move on its own, and speak words that were not her own.
During this period, a young man with a vague appearance appeared and talked to her about the Breath of Spring Goddess. She could not remember exactly what he said.