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Witnessing the embers suppressing the disaster that had been repeated thousands of times, hope rekindled in Aru's eyes.
Seeing this, Yu Jin waved his hand.
"If you want my help, you should at least tell me the situation, right?"
"For example, why are you so special, what is the festival, and who are the 'Thunderbird-sama' and Capacciri that you can't forget?"
Facing the dark peephole of the ember, Aru couldn't help shrinking her head.
"Festivals..., festivals always require sacrifices. And the protagonist of this sacrifice is me."
Aru told the fact that she was a sacrifice very frankly. There is no unwillingness or resentment.
He then scratched his head and said with doubt and confusion: "But I clearly remember that I was offered on the altar? Why did I still wake up? And after waking up, everyone ignored me."
"There must be something wrong with the festival, which made Lord Thunderbird angry. As long as the festival can be completed, everything will be fine."
Looking at Aru who nodded repeatedly in front of them, the three of them fell into silence.
"You... make it hard for me to criticize you." Yu Yan was also confused by Aru. I have never seen someone who is so active in being a sacrifice?
"What's this? Normally every year, everyone has to offer a sacrifice to the adults inside. After all, it's Master Thunderbird who releases the mist to protect Heguan from the external darkness."
Aru took it as a matter of course. There were sacrifices every year, but this year it was his turn. What's more, Lord Thunderbird still favors him.
"Ignorance." The skirmisher sneered.
"It's really difficult to comment." The young master shook his head, not knowing what to say.
"It can't be said that if you are thrown into those conditions, you may not perform better than He Guanren."
Ember turned his head and looked at Skirmisher and Young Master. These two guys thought highly of him. Throwing them into the same conditions as the Heguan people, they might be worse than the Heguan people.
On a closed island, an extremely powerful individual suddenly appears, and it is almost certain that primitive worship will occur.
Under primitive worship, blood sacrifices are inevitable.
"What's the Thunderbird's attitude toward your blood sacrifice?" Yi Yan looked at the mist around him. This thing was not released by the Thunderbird to protect the Heguan people.
To be honest, this fog should come from debris falling from the sky. The thunderbirds simply stumbled across this place.
"Um..., I don't know."
"do not know?"
Ember expressed shock that he continued to perform the sacrifice without any feedback, which was really okay.
"Lord Thunderbird just looked at the sacrifice, did nothing, said nothing, and flew away."
"Anyway, according to the priest, the results of every sacrifice are very good!"
Aru couldn't figure out what the Thunderbird thought of their sacrifice. Every time the Thunderbird saw it, he flew away.
"I understand, he is a guy with eyes higher than his head." Ember turned his head and glanced at the skirmisher, which made the latter wave his hand quickly.
"I will not watch a living person being sacrificed and remain indifferent. I want to kill someone, and the only one who can do it is myself. I don't need anyone's help!"
"Oh, I hope that's the case. You should be glad that I'm not such a guy, otherwise the grass on your graves would be three feet tall."
Ember crossed his arms and said to the skirmishers and Young Master. The period when the eyes were higher than the top, the embers have long passed.
Because when his eyes are higher than his head, something unexpected will always hit him in the head.
What about the cursed frog in the sewer, the three dogs in the elevator, the big iron ball created from the void, and so on.
After experiencing several deaths due to his own complacency, Ember's eyes on the top of his head grew back.
Now he sees everything with a normal mind.
"I know, I know." The young master nodded quickly, not daring to disobey.
"Well..., although I don't want to admit it, this is the first time I've seen such a strong person like you." Skirmisher struggled for a while and finally admitted what Yu Yan said.
Chapter 487 Tragedy caused by arrogance
2024-02-14
"Are you strong?" Hearing the conversation between Yi Jin, Young Master and the skirmishers, and seeing the latter two nodding like little followers, Aru couldn't help but curiously asked.
"Huh?" Yu Yan touched his chin, turned his head and looked at the young master and the soldiers meaningfully, without saying anything.
"Very strong, the kind of strong man who can't even arouse the desire to fight in me." The young master responded helplessly with his old face drooping.
If Ember hadn't been strong, he would have gone out to cause trouble long ago. How could there be any Poheguan?
Although Heguan's experience did leave a deep impression on him.
"It's very strong. It should be stronger than your Lord Thunderbird." Considering Aru's admiration for Thunderbird, the skirmisher still said it.
If this were not the case, he would simply remove the "should".
"Really?" Aru's eyes began to shine.
"Absolutely." Ember waved his hands and said modestly.
"Then can you help organize the festival?"
"I wonder what happened to your ruined festival?"
Ember saw Aru starting to talk about his festival again, and immediately stopped it.
"Let me ask you, what is the relationship between Kapacili and Thunderbird? What is the relationship between Kapacili and you?"
Ember cast his gaze into the distance, and in his sight, a shoal appeared.
On the shoal, there is a shadow that is exactly the same as Aru, and opposite the shadow is a huge purple falcon with lightning jumping all over its body.
[What a fun tune. You, little person, are not afraid of thunder and heavy rain? 】
[The adults in the clan say that children like me can calm thunder and lightning and turn heavy rain into sweet rain. 】
After a brief conversation, Aru's phantom in the field of vision began to sing, and the thunder that jumped on the falcon's phantom also began to subside.
"Come on, you're right." Seeing this scene, Yi Yan slapped his cheek, feeling that he had realized the truth.
"Kapachili..., it is Lord Thunderbird! This is the name I gave it."
"As for my relationship with Capaccili, I consider myself a good friend of Capaccili."
At the end of the sentence, Aru touched the back of her head sheepishly.
"Good friend? Then you are still willing to sacrifice?" Yi Yan touched his chin. It seemed that this good friend was not just Aru's unilateral view. The big thunderbird probably also regarded Aru as a friend.
However, due to Thunderbird's proud character, it did not say it directly.
"Of course I do. Kapaqili pays more attention to me. If I am a sacrifice, it should like it more."
Aru nodded. Being a sacrifice was not only a decision made by his father as a sacrifice, but also his own choice.
As long as he can make the tribe prosperous, he will pay any price, including his own life.
"It's good, but what's the result? Look, there are still people alive in this place? And you've become like this."
"Did you know before you were sacrificed that you might be considered a friend by Thunderbird?"
Ember clapped his hands, this time the sacrifice went well and it became the last time. He Guan will never have to hold a sacrifice ceremony again.
Aru heard this and shook his head.
“I’m not sure because Capaccili doesn’t come every time I sing and it doesn’t change much after listening to it.”
"You should understand now, right? And you have seen the consequences of treating you as a sacrifice."
Aru was silent, although his mind stayed at the moment when he lost consciousness, as a child.
But even a child can know what happened here over thousands of years of reincarnation.
Aru nodded silently and answered Ember's question with silence.
"Then you are still determined to complete the ceremony?" Yi Jin reached out and nodded A's forehead. His fingers broke through illusion and reality, and actually touched A's forehead.
The long-lost touch made Aru stunned. Ever since Heguan fell into reincarnation, he seemed to have become an outsider.
When the familiar tribesmen reappeared before his eyes, he could do nothing. He could not touch them, nor talk to them.
The tribesmen just repeated the actions of the last three days of Heguan day after day. Preparing the ceremony with joy, hastily consecrating the perch, offering yourself with reverence.
Aru didn't know how many times he had seen this scene.
From the initial fear when he saw himself covered in blood to the expressionless numbness now, only he knows the journey in Aru's heart.
All he wanted now was to complete the ceremony and finish singing the songs that he had not finished singing to Capaccili.
Ember retracted his arm, and the loss of touch brought Aru back to reality.
"Are you holding a festival...? I just want to restore this land. Maybe... Kapachili will give up punishing the tribesmen when it sees that I am so troubled?"
Aru's face was dark, and his mind was still in the stage of a child. With his little mind, he could only think of this solution.
"Have you ever succeeded?" Ember asked.
"No, many people have come to Heguan before, but they either ran away or nothing changed after completing the festival."
"You guys... I originally thought it was the closest to success. I didn't expect it to be like this."
Aru looked up at the black hole swallowing thunder in the sky, feeling shocked and disappointed in her heart.
"Do you think I did something wrong? Kapachili is unwilling to forgive me?" Aru wanted to cry, but no matter what, he couldn't shed a single tear.
"Did you do something wrong? That's not true. The one who was really wrong was probably the chicken with eyes that reached the top of his head."
"The reason for everything is just the arrogance of that thunderbird. Because of the arrogance, your blood sacrifice can continue."
"The key is that it is not completely arrogant. It will be attracted by your singing, and then it will act like a mute and say nothing."
"Arrogant, but unable to afford it. At the end of the day, my friend was sacrificed, and I swallowed the bitter pill of my arrogance, so I started to be incompetent and furious."
"It's like a chicken with fried feathers, it just flutters and puffs up a cloud of dust."
Ember saw cooling lava flows on the ground. Although it was a "dust mist" to him, it was a complete disaster to the people of Heguan.
"By the way, the same goes for those who forcibly throw people up to sacrifice."
Thinking of He Guanren, Yi Yan added another sentence. If the blood sacrifice is voluntary, Ember can still accept it reluctantly, but if it is forced...
So now this scene can only be said to be awesome!