Chapter 453: Evil God Festival - Boathouse

The moon shines on the earth.

In the dark forest, the "Princess", who had escaped from a high attic, fell in a trance on the path down the mountain.

As she fully recalled everything, Xiao Kui couldn't help but plop down on the ground and frantically dry-heave, clasping the ground as tears were expelled from her body along with the acid in her stomach.

Bai Liu ......

Bai Liu!

The cowardly and self-doubting sacrifices become props in his hands, and the resulting pain is nothing more than a pastime he uses to get through the game.

"Xiao Kui!" said Apricot, kneeling on the ground and hugging Xiao Kui's head with tears in her eyes, she also remembered everything and sobbed sadly, "My poor sister."

"Tsk." A slightly derisive young male voice came from behind them, someone was walking out of the dark forest, the bright moonlight falling bit by bit on the face of this person who was walking out, he smiled, "What a lost cause, Sister Xiao Kui."

"Having played to this point, almost sacrificing the Evil God, I didn't expect ...... " Bai Liu leaned forward, he reached out and gently lifted Xiao Kui's chin, whose expression was blank and unable to move, he chuckled softly as he said. "There are actually other players who can lure the Evil God out of the shrine, triggering this special game path."

"Too funny."

Bai Liu's eyes half-lidded, "Do you think your pain will lure the evil god out of the shrine now?"

"If I can't, what am I supposed to do?"

Xiao Kui couldn't restrain herself from shaking, and her afterglow caught sight of Apricot raising a big stone and preparing to smash it fiercely at Bai Liu with a face full of despair: "You crazy person, you stay away from Xiao Kui!"

Bai Liu curled the corners of his mouth, and his hand slipped into a wide sleeve, a black bone whip looming.

"Sister don't!" Xiao Kui screamed out in a devastated voice, "Run!"

At the moment when the stone was about to hit Bai Liu's shoulder and back, without looking back, he drew out a blood-stained black bone whip from his sleeve, flung it out, shook it out, wound it up and wrapped it around Apricot's neck, and dragged Apricot over dryly, the whole process was only more than ten seconds, and Bai Liu didn't even move a single step under his feet, so he wrapped the whip around Apricot's neck and dragged the other party to his front.

Bai Liu held the whip with one hand and half lifted the apricot on the ground, her feet struggling on the ground, her hands grasping the bone whip stuck on her neck and pulling it outward, her face turning blue and purple.

"Ah." Bai Liu nodded in realization as if she had only just recalled something, "I almost forgot, Apricot Sister seems to be pregnant right now."

With a friendly smile on his face, he asked Xiao Kui in a pleasant tone, "How many minutes does a pregnant woman suffocate before the fetus in her belly dies from lack of oxygen?"

"I remember like, three minutes?"

Bai Liu In the process of speaking, the whip that strangled Apricot in his hand did not loosen at all, on the contrary, it was lifted tighter and tighter.

Apricot struggled frantically on the ground in her stirrups, her eyelids rolled up and her grip on the whip began to slowly slip as her face went from bruised to white and she struggled to hiss her last words at Xiao Kui, "...... Don't suffer because of your sister's death."

"Pain, that's what he wants."

Xiao Kui's eyes went completely slack.

The moment Apricot's hand slowly slipped to the ground, a white bone whip swept violently from Bai Liu's diagonal rear, Bai Liu keenly let go of the whip, and then sidestepped to hold a section with both hands, blocking back the incoming white bone whip.

The black and white whips met in the air, clanking against each other with a crisp buzzing sound.

The moment Apricot was released on the ground, she was caught by Xiao Kui rushing up to catch her.

Apricot covered her chest and weakly fell into Xiao Kui's arms choking and gasping for air, feeling Apricot's breath, Xiao Kui was frightened, as if she had escaped from death herself, she shed tears: "It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive!"

Bai Liu looked alertly in the direction where the white bone whip was being dragged back.

Under the bright moonlight like water, there is a person wearing a wide white hunting clothes, long red ribbon tied on the long hair slowly walked out of the forest, the hair ribbon fluttered over the corner of the eyes of this person, this person drooped his eyes, unhurriedly rolled the whip back into his hand, and then lifted up his black eyes to look at the opposite Bai Liu.

"Wow." Bai Liu couldn't help but whistle as he raised an eyebrow, "That's quite the outfit."

"This is the attire for the sacrifice about to be made, and I don't recall promising the Kitahara family that I would sacrifice myself?"

Bai Liu's eyes leveled lightly at Bai Liu : "Not the Kitahara family."

"It's the Gobunshi family."

Bai Liu.

Apricot's exclamation of surprise rang out at once, and she straightened up in amazement as she braced Xiao Kui's shoulders and looked down the mountain where the blazing fire was burning, asking incredulously and rhetorically, "What's going on here?!"

"Why is the Kitahara family burning?!"

The location of the blazing fire was the residence of the Kitahara family, which was built under the shrine, and at that moment, as if countless sparks had fallen from the sky, a huge fire had started out of nowhere, and quickly swept through the entire Kitahara family with the momentum of a prairie fire.

Even from standing on the hill, one could hear the panicked cries and screams of the servants of the Kitahara family:

"The altar and shrine side are burning!"

"Where are the canonical books and paintings in the master of the house's room! Quickly cover them with water to save them!"

"The attic where the sacrifices lived has collapsed!"

"Quickly stop the supply of warm water to the wigwam stones and divert the springs in the garden to put out the fire!"

"How can ......" Xiao Kui looked at all this down the mountain in a dazed and incredulous way, she had dreamed of the ugly and dirty Kitahara family being burned clean by a huge fire, but when it was really happening right here in front of her eyes, she felt it was so un real.

--It was as if the gods had manifested themselves and given her a beautiful dream.

Xiao Kui turned his head sharply to Bai Liu: "Did you set the fire?!"

But instead of waiting for Bai Liu to reply to her, she nervously, self-consciously denied it, "How could there be such a huge fire out of the blue when the Kitahara family is so tightly guarded?!"

"This kind of fire will take at least thirty to forty ignition points to burn, and even if the fire can be set, the Kitahara family has spent a great deal of money to draw in so much mountain spring water that they will soon be able to contain the fire ......"

"The fire will soon be out."

The light in Xiao Kui's eyes seemed to go out the moment she spoke those words.

She'd experienced a fire in the Kitahara house once in her memory, and then she'd reacted to the fact that it was nothing more than a sacrifice trick they'd used on purpose, just to justify their exodus.

This fire won't even burn.

As expected, the steeply rising fire in the Kitahara house was quickly controlled, and the fire over in the southeast corner quickly went down, with many servants cursing ferociously:

"Catch the arsonist!"

"Mostly the sacrifices did it!"

"Bring them back and torture them hard!"

But before these people could get out of the Kitahara house, the fire started again.

The servant over in the southeast corner was burned with a heart-rending scream, "Come and put out the fire!"

"How could it burn again!"

"Didn't we already draw the mountain spring water over there?!"

Xiao Kui looked stunned.

"Interesting." Bai Liu leaned to the side as if he was watching a good show, he had a black whip curled in his hand and looked at Bai Liu with amusement, "You touched the Kitahara family's spring water supply system?"

Bai Liu swept him off his feet and didn't answer.

"Master Bai Liu!" A distant excited shout came from the top of the hill, a figure waved his hand desperately in the darkness, it was Cangta, he shouted, "I secretly took the key from the Kitahara's house and gave it to the Gobunshi's house as you ordered!"

"They said they were celebrating the summer festival and had a lot of sake carried through the shrine and up the hill!"

"Sake, mountain spring water, supply system ......" Xiao Kui muttered twice as she snapped to attention, "The Gobunshi's got the key to the shrine, so they can get to the top of the mountain where the Kitahara's draw the spring water, and they can cut off the spring and put it down with sake as spring water."

"To create the beauty of the garden's warm water and rocks, the Kitahara family still burns the fireplace even in June, and the spirits ignite as soon as they go down and meet the stove!"

"There are at least a hundred stoves in the Kitahara house, and that's over a hundred spots of fire ......"

Xiao Kui's eyes reflected the fire that was getting brighter and brighter down the mountain, she slowly hooked up the corners of her mouth, and finally couldn't control it, she covered her stomach and laughed so hard that tears came out of her eyes:

"These brutes who let so many squires freeze alive in winter!!!"

"Death is deserved!!!"

The people of the Kitahara family fled down the mountain in fear, but the mountain had long since been closed off by the Gobunshi family in the name of the [Summer Festival, do not enter the vicinity of the shrine at will].

This group of normally untouchable Northern Plains family people couldn't even escape when the fire catalyzed the mountain, and this group of people had to come towards the shrine on the mountain with a clear look of fear on their faces, as if they were more afraid of the [Evil God] that would turn people into monsters as soon as they got close to it than the fire that would burn people to death in this mountain.

Mountain fires and darkness mingled with each other, the moon hung down behind the shrine, and the hurried backs of the Gobune family members who had set down their bottles from the top of the mountain and then headed down could be seen.

Looking further into the distance, the seashore was full of bustling ritual scenes, with people dancing the Shinto ritual dance in the stands, while in the distant boathouse, due to the lack of supervision, the attendants and some of the sacrifices, as if they had finally gotten some kind of a signal, had broken out of their cages and shadowy Japanese chambers, and fled frantically off into the distance with the light on their backs, as if they had been detached from their cages as small animals.

Standing on the high bleachers, Gobune lowered his binoculars in satisfaction and instructed the servant next to him, "The new sacrifices have all been released, inform the [anchorites] of the new sacrifices to take up their positions everywhere ready to receive this new batch of sacrifices."

"Remember to give them the happiest six months of their lives."

The servant bowed and held up the box that held the binoculars, "Yes, Lord Gobune."

Mifune put the binoculars back into the box as he clapped his hands together and looked towards the Kitahara house, which was ablaze in the distance, and hooked the corners of his mouth, "Tonight is the eve of the Summer Festival, and it's about time for everyone to have a good time after being happy for half a year."

"The new sacrifices have all been released, let the old ones out for hunting and playing."

Gosun condescendingly looked down the stage toward the tourists of Kagome Prefecture, who were laughing and joking, and lifted his hand and waved it downward:

"Ship Palace Night Pleasure Festival, begin."

Hilltop.

"So it was this night." Bai Liu, as if he'd finally seen enough, stepped forward, a thin, opaque layer of a smile on his face, "The Kitahara house was on fire, the Gobunshi family attacked the Kitahara house, the new sacrifices fled, and the old sacrifices were hunted."

"If it was this night, it would be ...... at this point in time."

Bai Liu smiled, he looked intently at Bai Liu's face and began to count down softly, "5, 4, 3, 2, 1."

"Swoosh-bang-bang!!!"

A huge beam of light rushed up into the night sky from behind Bai Liu, exploding brightly in the dark curtain-like sky, shattering into thousands of points of light, and then falling down one after another.

Huge firework explosions were unceasingly heard, the white moonlight and the splendid fireworks intermingled and covered, the light and shadow sprinkled wrongly on the shrine that would be the highest place, illuminating the shrine in colorful and bright as day.

--like a game pool in general.

The smile at the corner of Bai Liu's mouth slowly increased as he hid the whip behind him, "The game has finally begun."