Volume 1 Faith Chapter 13 Ke Xun's Faith
Ke Xun hurriedly told Wei Dong to find a safe place to stay, and he followed Mu Yiran, walked forward for a while, and stood on a huge rock, so that he could take in the whole valley.
Then you can see wild flowers all over the hill, bright and eye-catching.
If it weren't for the fact that it was in a world in a painting, this place could really be considered a paradise on earth. Unfortunately, in Ke Xun's opinion, no matter how beautiful the scenery was, it had a particularly fake, lifeless and terrifying feeling here.
"These flowers are just like those mirabilis jalapas. They don't have any fragrance at all." Ke Xun sniffed.
"Let's go down and take a look." Mu said happily.
When he got down to the valley, Ke Xun discovered that there was a lot of vegetation here, including wild flowers, vines, and tree stems. It was colorful, yet still lacked vitality.
Mu Yiran walked among the flowers and plants, stopping from time to time to pull some grass, pick a few flowers, or even dig up some rhizomes.
"Can I know what your current thinking is?" Ke Xun asked.
"The arrival of these flowers and plants is strange," Mu Yiran mused, "Just like the Mirabilis jalapa before, it is not the flowering season for Mirabilis jalapa now, and many of these plants here are not seasonal for flowering and fruiting, and some should not grow in the Ganxiong Plateau, but now they are all growing together here."
"It's really strange," Ke Xun nodded. "There must be something wrong when things are out of the ordinary. Why don't we take a little of each of these things back and ask the people in the village? Even if we can't get anything out of them, we might be able to exchange these things for something useful."
Mu glanced at him with delight and had to admit that this guy could often come up with some unexpected and very unconventional ideas that others could not imagine.
For example, use these things to exchange for other things.
He had never really thought about it in this direction, so he didn't object.
When the two went back to look for Weidong, they discovered that the guy was no longer there and there was no trace of him anywhere.
Ke Xun was so furious that he cursed and rushed towards the sky burial platform.
When he was halfway through the charge, he saw Wei Dong running towards him with a pale face. Ke Xun rushed over and slapped him on the head: "Didn't I tell you to wait where you are? Why are you running around like that? You scared me so much that I almost had Alzheimer's!"
“Don’t even mention it,” Wei Dong waved his hands. “I almost got polio just now!”
He told Ke Xunmu everything with joy.
It turned out that he suddenly had to defecate, so he wanted to find a place away from people to do it. As he walked around, he suddenly saw Zhou Bin and a few others sneaking towards the sky burial platform.
Wei Dong felt that these people were courting death, so in order to avoid being implicated, he quickly found a temporary hiding place and hid himself.
Before he could hide for a moment, he heard Zhou Bin's loud shouting coming from the direction of the sky burial platform. But within a minute or two, Zhou Bin ran over quickly from the vicinity, followed by the people on the sky burial platform.
Wei Dong was worried that he would be discovered by those men, so he didn't dare to stay any longer. He quickly came out from his hiding place and ran back. However, he saw from afar that on the sky burial platform, Brother Sha Liugeng and his men were desperately trying to pick up the body that had been cut into pieces. Some of them even put the parts that were difficult to carry into their arms.
"I thought they were crazy," Weidong said. "I was so scared that I didn't dare to talk to them and ran back the same way I came."
"They are using a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain, just to get the body." Ke Xun also found it incredible and looked at Mu Yiran, "What do they want to do?"
Mu Yiran moved the corners of his lips and pulled a smile without any smile: "Collect the sacrifices and magic tools."
Ke Xun asked: "What about us? Are we still collecting magic tools?"
"If you want to take it, then take it." Mu Yiran glanced at him and walked away.
"It's already this late, why are we still distinguishing between you and me?" Ke Xun followed him, "If you accept it, I will accept it. If you don't accept it, I won't accept it either. Don't be so formal with me."
Weidong, who was walking at the end, said: ...It’s too shameful to watch.
When they returned to the big tent, it was almost dark. Zhou Bin and the others arrived about ten minutes later than Ke Xun and the other two. They all looked tired and ugly, but they were faintly excited in spirit.
After dinner, the middle-aged man came to arrange the tents as usual: "Tonight, there will be three people in one tent, two men and one woman. Remember, there must be three people in each tent, two men and one woman."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
There are eleven people in total, Ke Xun, Mu Yiran, Wei Dong, Qin Ci, Zhou Bin, Geng's father, Geng's children, and seven men.
There were only four women: Geng Ma, Zhao Dan, Sha Liu and Li Ziling.
If there are two men and one woman in each tent, it means that one man and one woman will be left out and the conditions cannot be met.
The three members of the Geng family hugged each other tightly, and it seemed that they could be "released on bail" in advance that night.
Zhou Bin tightly grasped Zhao Dan's hand and pointed at Qin Ci: "Doctor Qin, you will be in our group."
Qin Ci naturally would not refuse, and the only ones left were Ke Xun and his three companions and the two women, Sha Liu and Li Ziling.
Wei Dong looked at Ke Xun and Mu Yiran with a pale face.
He never expected that the axe of fate would fall on him and his good brother tonight.
He knew that Ke Xun had a crush on Mu Yiran, and he also knew that Ke Xun was definitely not the kind of person who would put love before friendship. However, the rules dictated that only two of the three of them would have a chance of survival. Any choice would be extremely cruel and tragic.
Without waiting for Ke Xun to speak, Li Ziling screamed and rushed towards Mu Yiran, kneeling down in front of him and kowtowed desperately, tears streaking down her face that hadn't been washed for days: "Little brother, please, please be in the same group with me, I don't want to die, I'm willing to do anything you ask me to do, please, choose me, choose me..."
As he spoke, he turned to Ke Xun who was beside Mu Yiran and said, "Brother, please, I'm willing to do anything you ask me to do. Really, anything is fine. I just ask that you two can be in a group with me. I beg you..."
Sha Liu stood there with a pale face, until Li Ziling's voice was hoarse from crying, Sha Liu raised his dazed eyes and looked at Ke Xun: "One of you three will die too, have you thought about it, who will you choose?"
Everyone's eyes suddenly focused on Ke Xun's face.
At this moment, no one noticed that Mu Yiran was the most important person in everyone's heart, but whenever faced with a choice, everyone inexplicably habitually went to Ke Xun for the answer.
Ke Xun unexpectedly turned his head to Qin Ci and said, "Doctor Qin, I have a question for you. Can you please talk to me for a moment?"
The two men went out of the tent and came back after a while. Li Ziling was still crying loudly, Wei Dong and Sha Liu were still in a daze, and the rest of the people were still silent.
"Have you made your choice? There's no time left. We need to go back to the tent." Zhou Bin said to Ke Xun.
"I've chosen it." Ke Xun said.
Everyone's eyes turned to him again. He looked at Mu Yiran and said, "I have a favor to ask of you." He pointed at Wei Dong and said, "Knock Dongzi unconscious."
Wei Dong was stunned. Before he could react, he saw Mu Yiran nodded slightly and walked towards him. "Wait——" Before he could finish his sentence, Mu Yiran grabbed his neck with his hand. In just two seconds, his eyes went dark and he fainted on the ground.
Everyone was shocked, but they were not shocked that Mu Yiran choked Wei Dong unconscious. They were shocked that when Mu Yiran walked towards Wei Dong, Ke Xun followed closely behind him. The moment Wei Dong fainted, Ke Xun raised his palm and hit Mu Yiran on the back of the neck lightly.
Mu Yiran tilted his head with difficulty, frowned, and looked at Ke Xun with annoyance, confusion and a hint of indescribable emotion in his eyes, and fell to the ground the next second.
Ke Xun put his arm around him, bent down and carried him on his shoulders. With his other hand, he grabbed the clothes of Wei Dong, who was unconscious on the ground. He turned around and smiled at Sha Liu: "When you two have made up your mind, come to the tent to find us. Time is running out."
They carried and dragged one person after another and walked out of the big tent.
Qin Ci looked at Ke Xun's back with a complicated expression.
Hitting someone on the back of the neck is a very dangerous action. If the force is too light, it will be ineffective. If the force is too heavy, it may directly cripple or even kill the person. The success rate of knocking someone unconscious is extremely low, not to mention that he only taught him the technique, position and described the approximate force to be used.
This person is really bold and reckless. Once he makes a decision, he does it without hesitation.
But he is really a genius in some aspects. He has amazing control over his physical strength.
Qin Ci followed Zhou Bin and Zhao Dan out of the big tent, and the Geng family of three also went to their own tent. Only Li Ziling and Sha Liu, a pair of classmates and friends, were left in the big tent.
Ke Xun placed Mu Yiran and Weidong side by side in the tent, then looked down at Mu Yiran's frowning face. After a while, he stretched out his finger to smooth his brows and laughed: "Well, you've never seen a fool like me, have you? I was quite surprised too. After my dad stuffed himself in to save someone, I scolded him for being a fool. I didn't expect that this attribute of being a fool was hereditary."
As he spoke, his voice slowly lowered, his eyes fell on a certain point in the void, and after a long time, he said softly : "I don't want my father to feel ashamed of me."
Ke Xun returned to his tent, took out the sharp-edged stone he had picked up earlier from his arms, held it in his palm, and lay down with his hands behind his head.
My thoughts are sometimes clear and sometimes confused, sometimes tense and sometimes calm. Sometimes I feel regretful and sometimes I make up my mind to go all out.
I don’t know how much time passed in the chaos, but I vaguely heard a staggering sound coming from the direction of the big tent, heading towards Wei Dong and Mu Yiran’s tent.
Sha Liu and Li Ziling, I don’t know who is left.
However, after a long time, no one came to find him. It might be because he knew that even if he shared a tent with him, it would not meet the number requirement and he would not be able to escape sooner or later, so he just accepted his fate and stayed in the big tent.
Of course, there is another possibility, that the remaining one is no longer alive to come back.
As the night deepened, the snow shone palely, and a huge shadow slid down from the sky, with eight arms stretched out and twisted like a python.
Ke Xun held the stone across his throat and stared at the top of the tent.
The small tent seemed extremely empty at this moment. He was the only one there, feeling so lonely, small and helpless.
The giant shadow walked past the tent of the Geng family, passed by Weidong Mu Yiran's tent, and stopped beside his tent.
The overwhelming black shadow pressed down on the head and stuck tightly to the roof of the tent.
Ke Xun felt that the leather on the top of the tent seemed to have suddenly become thinner, so transparent that he could almost see the face of the giant figure pressing on it. Its features were bulging, and its huge eyes were blinking, observing everything in the tent.
Ke Xun stared at it, the stone in his hand pressed against the flesh at his throat.
The roof of the tent was getting thinner and thinner, and the facial features of the giant shadow were becoming clearer and clearer. Its face was as black as a rock, with huge blood-red eyeballs bulging outward, and four long sharp fangs sticking out of its bloody mouth. It was slowly pressing down and squeezing downward, and was about to break through the tent skin. Its long bloody tongue curled and twisted, and it couldn't wait to roll the tiny human in the tent into its mouth.
It’s here, it’s almost the end.
Ke Xun pressed the stone in his hand downwards, causing a dull pain as it cut into his fragile skin. At that moment, all his fear, regret, unwillingness, and resentment suddenly disappeared.
He even felt like laughing a little.
Is this thing above my head what some sects call God? What they call faith?
Why believe in it? Can it give people eternal life? Can it give people wealth? Can it keep people together and keep their families together, and keep the dead and the living together?
If he could, he would believe it.
But it can't. Then he might as well believe in himself, believe in freedom, believe in freedom, believe in following one's heart, believe in being happy or sad as one wishes.
Ke Xun raised his middle finger high, and with his other hand, holding a piece of stone, he was about to press down on the carotid artery in his neck and cut it hard.
