Volume 1 Faith Chapter 12 Plastic Sisters
Sha Liu was a little out of breath. Hearing this, he quickly swallowed his saliva and said, "I've heard of Black Corpse Heaven. My mother's friend who took the Huilu Pill and cured cancer has since believed in the Suota religion and bought a lot of related books. I once saw a description of the Eight-Armed Black Corpse Heaven in a book at his house.
"The book says that it is covered in human skin, with a chain of human heads around its neck, and holds a bowl made of skulls, which contains human brains. In addition, there are some descriptions of the offerings to the Black Corpse God, such as...
"For example, there are human hearts, intestines, legs and arms, skinned heads, lamps lit with human oil and hair as wicks, flowers made of human facial features, liquid made of human brains, blood and bile, and large dough made of human gallbladder, brain, blood and internal organs..."
Li Ziling vomited again after hearing this, and Zhao Dan also continued to dry heave in Zhou Bin's arms.
Zhou Bin's eyes lit up: "Could these be the Dom and Gala ? And the skull bowl you mentioned, is it the offering bowl? The libation wine is not ordinary wine, it should be made of human brain, blood and bile. And the lamp, the ordinary lamp we found yesterday is not correct, we have to use a human oil lamp!"
Sha Liu thought about it carefully for a while and nodded: "I think so. I only remember a long list of transliterated nouns in the book, but I just glanced at it casually at the time and didn't remember it carefully... Oh, Dom, I remember it! It means Gonggao - could it be... that big dough..."
"That's it!" Zhou Bin clenched his fist and waved it vigorously, "We just need to find these things!"
Qin Ci was very cautious, and asked Mu Yiran, who had been silent for a long time, in a deep voice: "Xiao Mu, what do you think?"
Mu Yiran glanced at the excited Zhou Bin and said, "I have my doubts about this. I am not sure that the sacrifices that person mentioned are the things that Sha Liu mentioned. I also don't think these things will have any good effect."
Qin Ci looked at him: "What do you mean?"
"Ke Xun said that last night's giant shadow looked taller than the one the night before," Mu said happily, "Why did this change happen? I suspect it has something to do with the sacrifice we found. All gods exist on faith. The stronger the faith, the greater the power of the gods. Sacrifice is the most direct way to reflect the faith of believers. Sacrifices are equivalent to faith and are the source of the power of gods."
"You mean, because we collected the sacrifices, Black Corpse Sky absorbed the power of faith in the sacrifices, so he looks taller and stronger than the night before?" Qin Ci understood.
"That's why I said that looking for these sacrifices may not be a good thing for us." Mu Yiran said.
Zhou Bin frowned: "But if we don't prepare the sacrifices as required , we will still be killed by that thing. Moreover, as you said, if the sacrifices are equivalent to faith, which god would kill its own believers? Maybe it killed us just because the sacrifices are not gathered. Once they are gathered and the sacrificial ceremony is officially held, it will love and care for us like believers."
"There is another saying," Shaliu said, "It is said that before Heishi Tian converted to the Suota religion, he was an extremely cruel and vicious demon in the pagan religion. Even though he later became a god, he was still a demon god with a murderous nature. If practitioners want to drive him to serve the sect, they must pay a certain price, such as offering his favorite sacrifices and magic tools. The more ferocious and vicious the demon is, the more useful it is to the practitioners."
Zhou Binfu slammed his fist into his palm, "It needs sacrifices and magic tools. You just said it was wearing human skin, with a human head chain around its neck and a skull bowl in its hand - think about how Tan Zheng and Ma Zhenhua died! One was dismembered and his head was ripped off, and the other was skinned. Does that mean that thing is using us as its outfit? It's because we didn't get what it wanted, so it did it itself. Does that mean that once we get what we want, we won't be killed by it anymore, and it may even be driven by us? For example, take us to find the seal and leave this painting?"
The others seemed to think that what he said made sense and nodded.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go and get these things!" Zhou Bin looked at everyone impatiently.
Qin Ci still asked Mu Yiran cautiously: "Xiao Mu, are you going north to find these sacrificial vessels?"
"Finding something is secondary. I just want to go over there and take a look first." Mu Yiran said.
"What's over there?" Sha Liu asked.
"Flocks of vultures." Mu Yiran said coldly.
Zhou Bin didn't understand what was going on, so he asked Vulture what was wrong, but he saw Shaliu's face turn pale and he said, "Sky Burial Platform."
The custom of sky burial is not unique to any particular religion. Traces of this custom can be found in churches in many Southeast Asian countries, and even among the Maasai people in Africa.
The Suda religion also practices sky burial rituals, and everyone has heard about it to some extent. When they heard Mu Yiran say this, no one questioned it anymore. Besides, they had been walking for such a long time, and turning back would be counterproductive, so they decided to go to the sky burial platform together to see what was going on.
After passing a huge peak, dozens of circling vultures suddenly appeared before our eyes.
A sky burial ceremony was apparently being held on the sky burial platform in front.
Three or five people gathered there, some were lighting incense sticks, some were sitting cross-legged on sheepskin chanting scriptures, and some were picking up suitable tools from the ground, including knives, hammers, and shovels.
In the center of the sky burial platform, a corpse was lying on its back. On the rocks around the corpse, a dozen vultures were squatting, waiting greedily.
The crowd didn't get too close, hiding behind a large rock and looking carefully in the direction of the platform.
After a while, the man chanting the sutra stood up and said something. The man with the knife walked to the body, turned it over, swung the knife, and inserted it directly into the buttocks. Then he cut downwards from the buttocks to the ankles, cutting off a long strip of red and white flesh.
Li Ziling let out a sharp scream, and the people on the sky burial platform looked over when they heard . A ferocious look immediately appeared on their faces, and they rushed over here waving knives, hammers and shovels!
"Run!" Qin Ci shouted, turned around and ran. The others were so scared that they hurriedly followed him. The ground under their feet was rugged and rocky. They had not run a few steps when Li Ziling and Zhao Dan both sprained their ankles and fell to the ground.
Zhou Bin pulled Zhao Dan up and carried him on his back, continuing to flee with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Li Ziling fell to the ground with no one paying attention to her. She was so frightened that she cried out, "Don't abandon me - please - save me - I don't want to die! I don't want to die - Shaliu! Shaliu! Don't leave, save me -"
Sha Liu didn't run very far. She was just in front of Li Ziling and was tripped by a rock and fell to the ground. She tried to get up for a long time but couldn't. Li Ziling was tall and had long arms. She reached out and grabbed her trouser leg. No matter how Sha Liu struggled, she couldn't get rid of it.
“Zi Ling, let me go——” Sha Liu’s face turned pale.
"I won't - you take me with you - we are good friends, you can't abandon me, we live together, we die together -" Li Ziling's crying sounded miserable and fierce at the end.
Two people were entangled in a ball when suddenly two long legs came into view. Before they could look up to see who they were, they were pulled up from the ground by the scruff of the neck one by one.
"Plastic sisters, hum?" Ke Xun raised his eyebrows and ran forward again.
Sha Liu and Li Ziling didn't dare to delay any longer, as it was obvious that Ke Xun would not look back a second time.
At the critical moment of life and death, human potential is enormous. Li Ziling endured the pain from her sprained foot and followed them step by step, limping. Fortunately, the sky burial platform was still some distance away from where everyone was taking shelter, and those people did not catch up for a while.
After running for more than ten minutes, Zhou Bin was exhausted from carrying Zhao Dan on his back. He looked back and saw that he seemed to have gotten rid of those people, so he stopped and put Zhao Dan down.
"Let's go," Zhao Dan cried, "It's too scary. It's just a sky burial. There's nothing to see. Let's go, okay?"
Zhou Bin pressed her shoulder and said, "It's okay. Those people are not chasing you anymore. Take a rest. Does your foot still hurt? Let Doctor Qin take a look at it."
After waiting for a while, everyone ran to the front one after another, and the last one to come was Li Ziling and Sha Liu, but Ke Xun, Wei Dong and Mu Yiran were nowhere to be seen.
"Where did they go?" Zhou Bin asked Sha Liu.
Sha Liu panted and pointed behind him: "I saw them go around to the other side of the peak, not far from the sky burial platform. I don't know if they want to avoid those people or lead them away."
Zhou Bin looked in the direction of the sky burial platform for a while, then turned to ask Qin Ci: "Doctor Qin, do you think this sky burial platform could hold any clues?"
Qin Ci shook his head: "I can't think of anything for now."
Zhou Bin looked at him meaningfully, "I think it's very likely. That Mu Yiran is not a simple person, he wouldn't do anything without a purpose. Since he wants to come here, he must have his own intentions. The key point may be on the Sky Burial Platform. Didn't you see that he refused to stay away from there even when he was running away? Maybe he can go around and lead those people away, and he can take advantage of the opportunity to sneak in and go up to the Sky Burial Platform."
Qin Ci looked at him: "So what do you mean?"
Zhou Bin's eyes flashed with something strange: "Think about the sacrificial utensils we just talked about, human oil, human brain, human gallbladder, human blood, skull, heart, arms, hair, legs, and skull bowls. Where do you think we can get these things?"
Sha Liu was shocked: "You mean... the corpse on the sky burial platform can provide these things?"
"Obviously, that's the case. Otherwise, why would Mu Yiran come here?" Zhou Bin said confidently. "That Weidong also said that they asked the people in the village, and someone pointed them to the north. This is obviously a task hint, which means that what we need is here. What do we need? Sacrifices, of course! And what is here? Only that corpse. The corpse can provide us with all the sacrifices we want. We must find a way to get it!"
"But those people are so fierce, what are we going to do?" Zhao Dan was very worried. "They have knives and tools in their hands. We are no match for them with bare hands."
"But we have more people," Zhou Bin gritted his teeth, "I have an idea."
Ke Xunweidong followed Mu Yiran around the top of the peak and carefully descended along a steep cliff.
After walking around among the rugged rocks for a while, we finally saw a valley.
"Boss, let's take a break. I'm really exhausted..." Wei Dong panted heavily and held his waist.
"Your body was hollowed out when you were eight years old and has never recovered since then," said Ke Xun.
"How can I compete with you? When I was in school, you guys carried the big guys who did triathlons around the playground every other day to run laps. I felt tired just carrying a head on my neck." Wei Dong said.
Mu Yiran ignored these two idiots who were never tired of being funny. He just said lightly, "Wait here," and continued walking forward.
