Chapter 60: Blood Red Patterned Offering Table
Xu Xin had seen changes in the statues on these stone pillars before on the hills.
Is it because the needs of those "gods" are changing?
Xu Xin took his hand off the stone pillar.
He felt that the stone pillar was getting hot. This did not seem to be due to the sunlight, because Xu Xin's hand touched the backlit side of the stone pillar, not the side that was not illuminated by the sun.
He took a few steps back and looked at the stone pillar in front of him with some vigilance.
"Huh?" Coco on the shoulder was a little confused, but it didn't feel any danger.
Xu Xin looked at Yin Wang beside him and found that Yin Wang's body was shaking a little.
"What's wrong, Silver King, are you scared?"
"Ouch..." Silver King groaned weakly, his voice trembling a little.
Xu Xin touched King Silver's head: "You go outside the altar first."
"Ouch!" King Yin howled after receiving the order, and jumped three or four meters directly outside the altar.
Silver King's strong reaction made Xu Xin feel a little panicked.
Xu Xin glanced at Coco on her shoulder: "Aren't you scared, Coco?"
"Huh." Coco shook her head.
Xu Xin lowered his head and thought.
This is an altar for sacrificing wild beasts, and there is a statue of a wolf on one of the stone pillars. From this point of view, the Silver King is actually a kind of sacrifice. No wonder it is so scared.
Turning to look at the stone table in the center of the altar, Xu Xin decided to go and have a look at the stone table.
Xu Xin walked quickly to the stone table. He was always paying attention to the changes in the map, but nothing dangerous happened during the period, and no monsters suddenly emerged from the ground. He walked over safely.
This stone table is about half a meter high and very large, as big as a bed. It can easily accommodate several wild boars.
Xu Xin reached out and touched the stone table. Unlike the pillars, the stone table was still extremely cold even under the sun's rays, like ice cubes, which made Xu Xin's hands shrink from the ice.
[Altar Table (Blue): If you sacrifice enough sacrifices, you will get the attention of the "gods". 】
It’s this “god” in quotation marks again. What does this gaze mean?
Xu Xin looked at the statues on the surrounding stone pillars, weighed the pros and cons, and finally decided to sacrifice according to the requirements of the "gods".
He didn't know what this so-called "god" was, but since it was a sacrifice, he would naturally get something. Since ancient times, the purpose of offering sacrifices is to obtain something from the gods, and it is the same with this altar.
And the current task is hunting, which is just enough to complete the hunting activity while offering sacrifices to the altar.
The four statues are wild boars, wolves, wild cats and rabbits. Xu Xin hunted wild boars and many hares on the way here, but unfortunately, they have all been decomposed by him.
After thinking about it, Xu Xin took out more than ten kilograms of hare meat from her backpack and put it on the altar.
I don’t know if it’s feasible if it’s just hare meat.
Suddenly, Xu Xin felt the temperature in front of him drop. The stone table exuded a faint coolness. He subconsciously took a step back and clenched the stone spear in his hand.
There was a change in the stone table, which made Xu Xin's eyelids jump, and he watched everything that happened in front of him without blinking.
Under Xu Xin's gaze, the blood-red patterns on the sides of the stone table suddenly became more vivid. The blood-red patterns in the blood-red patterns that were originally only on the sides actually became active and spread towards the table.
"Hey!" Coco was startled, grabbed Xu Xin's shoulders and hid behind him, only showing his little head to look at the altar table.
The blood-red patterns did not spread very quickly, but there were many patterns, like countless blood-threaded insects crawling from all sides of the table towards the rabbit meat piled high in the middle of the table. Then, a surprising scene happened.
The blood-red patterns on the tabletop actually crawled directly onto the rabbit meat!
These bloodshot threads are actually alive!
The rabbit meat was slowly covered with blood-red patterns. Under Xu Xin's gaze, more than ten kilograms of rabbit meat were completely dyed with blood by the blood-red patterns. Then the bulging blood-red rabbit meat began to move at a speed visible to the naked eye. shrink.
Eventually, all the rabbit meat disappeared, and the patterns on the rabbit meat also fell to the table, scattered around, returned to the patterns carved on the side, and dimmed.
During this process, Xu Xin did not dare to express his anger. He just held the stone spear in his hand. He wanted to stab the blood-red pattern on the table more than once, but in the end his reason defeated his impulse.
The abnormality on the stone table has stopped, and the temperature around Xu Xin has gradually risen under the sunlight,
"What the hell is this!" Xu Xin felt that this thing was too weird.
He waited for a long time, but the sacrificial table just swallowed his rabbit meat, and nothing else happened at all.
"What's going on? Could it be that there are not enough sacrifices?" Xu Xin remembered that the introduction said "enough sacrifices."
"Hey!" Coco tugged at the leather armor on Xu Xin's body.
Following the direction that Coco pointed, Xu Xin looked at the bottom of the stone pillar carved with a rabbit.
He was shocked to find that the patterned stone pillars, which were ten meters high, had a few centimeters of patterns at the bottom that were stained with blood red!
"What does this mean, is the progress of the sacrifice?" Xu Xin looked at the surrounding stone pillars and found that only the stone pillar under the hare statue was dyed red by blood for a few centimeters.
"Does this mean you want me to dye all four pillars red?" Xu Xin's eyelids twitched. This is a big project. The rabbit meat just obtained was all the meat Xu Xin got from hunting five rabbits, and it was only dyed. A few centimeters red.
Like dyeing an entire ten-meter-high pillar red, it would require too much rabbit meat!
This is just a pillar.
No, it shouldn't be that many. What he put on it was only rabbit meat, not the whole rabbit. If it were the whole rabbit...
etc!
Xu Xin suddenly felt that these statues had another meaning.
When Xu Xin first saw these statues, he felt that these statues were very exaggerated, because certain parts of the beast statues were enlarged to an absurd degree.
The tusks of the wild boar statue are extremely huge and curved, longer than the entire body of the pig. Does this mean that the tusks on the wild boar are the most suitable sacrifices?
Xu Xin walked to the stone pillar of the rabbit statue and felt a rush of hot air.
Opposite to the sacrificial table, this pillar actually radiates heat.
This statue is also very exaggerated. The originally cute rabbits look very ferocious on the statue, with their eyes wide open and their teeth sticking out, as if they are raising their heads and roaring to the sky. The two rabbits are supposed to have the cutest rabbit ears. It seemed like two sharp swords, stretched straight on the rabbit's back, longer than its body.
"Rabbit ears? Are the special parts on the rabbit statue the rabbit ears?"
Xu Xin looked at the statues of wolves and cats again. The exaggerated part of the wolf was the fangs. The fangs were even more exaggerated than those of a saber-toothed tiger and almost pierced his own feet. The cat had sharp claws on its front paws, two sharp ones. The long claws of the claws wrapped around one side of the stone pillar and even penetrated directly into the body of the stone pillar.
"The pig's tusks, the rabbit's ears, the wolf's fangs, and the cat's claws. These parts are the parts of the statue that look very exaggerated. Could it be that these parts are the real sacrifices?" Xu Xin murmured to himself.
But he has decomposed these four animals and has not obtained the materials for these parts.
"Do you use a normal knife to cut, or put the whole thing on?"
Xu Xin felt something was wrong. He thought there must be something he hadn't discovered, so he walked around the altar table and started searching for himself.
Sure enough, in the middle of the sacrificial table, under the edge of the table, there was a pattern that was out of place. Xu Xin poked it with a stone spear and actually pressed that piece down. After retracting the stone spear, the dented part immediately popped out, like a stone drawer.
Lying in the drawer was a small knife with a black body and a blood-red blade.
Xu Xin hesitated for a moment, then reached out and picked up the knife.
[Altar knife (blue): A knife needed to cut the sacrificial materials. Remember to put it back into the altar after use, otherwise the "gods" will be angry! 】
That’s it! Sure enough, his guess was right! (End of chapter)