Chapter 263: Humans Walking on All Fours as Sacrifices
A lifeless heart was exposed, its beating frequency extremely low.
Drip—drip—
Early morning.
Yae Sakura stood guard at the door. The plants in front of her were full of life.
Inside the room, the blood from his chest dripped onto the floor, making a sound identical to dewdrops falling from the tips of leaves.
Li Mo tore his heart from his chest, crushed it into residue, and dripped the blood into a cup. The raw meat was divided into many small pieces.
After finishing, Li Mo even considerately wiped the floor clean and "cleaned" the cup a little.
The last thing to do was to make Rin "willingly" swallow this thing.
The rule "Black Abyss" prevented Li Mo from actively saving people, but he could still exploit bugs, just like when he let Grandma Chiyo cut off his flesh and put it directly into little Chiyo's body.
He could let the person concerned or others do it.
Very reasonable.
If one only waited for others to save them, they didn't deserve salvation at all.
...
...
Half an hour later, Li Mo walked out of the room, holding a damp white cloth in his hand, soaked in blood, stained black and red.
Because the color was very dark, Yae Sakura did not associate it with blood after seeing it.
"How is Mo-kun! Is Rin... better..."
Yae Sakura actually didn't have much confidence. She didn't expect Li Mo to completely cure Rin, she only hoped that Rin's condition would be a little better, even if it was just for another year... no, half a year was also fine.
Therefore, she lowered her head even lower.
She was both eager for the answer and afraid of it.
Li Mo glanced sideways and sniffed lightly.
The fragrance of cherry blossoms covered the smell of blood, and there were no traces on the floor.
"A piece of good news, and a piece of bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"
Li Mo held the white cloth far away, trying to avoid Yae Sakura smelling it, lest there be some misunderstanding.
"As expected, then..."
"Wait, don't move. I'm going to wash my hands. I'll tell you when I get back."
Yae Sakura was about to speak but was interrupted by Li Mo. Li Mo took the white cloth and the cup and walked to a water vat a few hundred meters away.
He had to deal with the things that needed to be dealt with first.
The medium of blood and heart residue, before he was sure he could complete the ritual of the Bizarre source in a short time, it was best not to leave it in the bizarre shrine.
As Li Mo washed the props, he thought about what had just happened.
"Yae Rin was unusually well-behaved after she woke up."
"Perhaps because she has been taken care of for a long time, she didn't even doubt my identity. Even though I only mentioned that I was a doctor invited by Yae Sakura, she ate everything in the cup."
"Her heart is polluted. Unless someone helps to remove it, this disease cannot be cured."
"This pollution is like a parasite on the body, but it doesn't absorb the body's nutrients, but its vitality."
"All the ghosts in Yae Village have one thing in common: their rules are more or less related to vitality."
"I can't save her, at most, I can only delay the arrival of death. But the flesh and blood I provide are far more vigorous than my own vitality."
Li Mo murmured as he looked at the liver spots on his arm.
As long as he kept providing flesh and blood, Yae Rin would not die.
After dealing with the props, Li Mo returned to the door of the room and found that Yae Sakura had already entered the room, embracing Rin with tears in her eyes.
"Sister, I'm much better. Look, Rin doesn't have to sit in a chair all the time anymore. I can walk. The promise to see the cherry blossoms together, Rin can now fulfill it on her own."
Yae Rin's voice was gentle, smiling, and she walked carefully.
Although she stumbled, she was indeed relying on herself, not leaning on the wall or a cane.
"She's fine, of course, only temporarily."
Li Mo walked into the room and poured a basin of cold water on the joyful Yae sisters.
"Temporarily... what do you mean?" Yae Sakura's heart was uneasy.
Li Mo answered truthfully, "Literally, this is the bad news—I can't eradicate the disease in your sister's body. It's very special. Don't have any other expectations. Even if you leave Yae Village and go to the outside world, no doctor can cure this strange disease."
As soon as he said this, the smiles on Yae Sakura and Yae Rin's faces froze.
After a long while, Yae Rin weakly said, "It's okay, sister. Isn't there still good news? Even if that news isn't too good, at least now, Rin feels much better."
But it was clear that this pale comfort had no effect.
Yae Sakura was still worried. She turned to face Li Mo and said with a firm tone, "Mo-kun, please tell me the other piece of news!"
She was very brave. It would have been more convincing if her hand holding Rin's hadn't been trembling.
Li Mo leaned against the door, his gaze fixed on the weak Yae Rin, carefully examining her.
"The good news is—as long as I treat her regularly, her body will get better day by day. Unless an accident happens, it will be very difficult for her to die."
"Really!?" Yae Sakura was overjoyed.
"Whether it's true or false, I personally suggest that you witness it with your own eyes. Words are always pale. No one can be sure that what the other person says is the truth."
If even the truth was not believable, let alone words of unknown truth or falsehood?
This was what Li Mo had learned from dealing with the notebook.
As for the treatment, it was by no means without a price.
The process of Li Mo recovering his body was through the rules of the Bizarre.
In other words, this process would absorb more pollution.
Just like in a closed, isolated system, the entropy of the system will not decrease, but will tend to increase until it reaches the most chaotic and disordered state.
This is called: entropy increase.
No matter how hard you try, the pollution is always increasing.
Li Mo's body repair would increase pollution, and Yae Rin would increase her own pollution by eating Li Mo's flesh and blood.
The only difference was that Li Mo's own vitality was decaying, until he completely fell into the Bizarre.
And Yae Rin's vitality was increasing.
"Whatever you two are going to do later, take me to see Kallen first. She should still be sleeping. Wake her up."
"As for Rin, lie down and let your body adapt to the 'medicine'."
Li Mo turned around and waved for Yae Sakura to lead the way.
Hearing this, Yae Sakura quickly ran to Li Mo's side after briefly giving some instructions.
Yae Rin continued to sleep on the bed, feeling a warm current moving in her body. Her cold body had become much warmer.
Yae Sakura led Li Mo to Kallen's room.
Sure enough, this white-haired girl was still sleeping. Still sleeping.
The blanket had been kicked to the side, and her upper body clothes were disheveled, revealing her concave white abdomen.
One leg was bent like a crab's leg, and her whole body was in a "big" shape, but that stroke was bent at a right angle, her sleeping posture was quite indecent.
"I'm sorry, I should have prepared two layers of blankets for Kallen. It was my lack of consideration..."
Yae Sakura wanted to explain something, but when she turned her head, she found that Li Mo's eyes were a little dazed.
"Mo-kun?"
"Mo-kun, are you listening?"
"Moshi moshi? Mo...kun?"
Yae Sakura was very confused. Li Mo stood there like a log, his eyes dull, staring blankly at Kallen's indecent sleeping posture on the bed.
Because she had washed her hair last night, Kallen's single braid had been undone, and her long hair was messily scattered on both sides of her shoulders.
As the light shone on it, the silver-white hair was like a stream under the sunlight, shimmering.
It wasn't until Yae Sakura waved her hand back and forth in front of Li Mo's eyes that he came back to his senses and pulled his thoughts out of his memories.
"Mmm... sorry, I was distracted just now. What did you say? Forget it, it's not important. Let's go."
Li Mo turned and prepared to leave.
Yae Sakura: "???"
"But didn't Mo-kun say he wanted to wake Kallen up?"
"No need. Let her sleep if she wants to. For people of her family... sleeping until you wake up naturally is a great happiness... As caregivers, we just need to offer them plenty of food when they wake up."
Li Mo said softly.
He had originally planned to check Kallen's mental state and cognitive level, but when he saw the familiar scene upon entering the room, his icy rationality warmed up a little.
His stubborn rationality suddenly softened.
Li Mo even felt a pang of hunger from his body.
This situation lasted for about ten seconds before his body returned to its state of two deaths.
To be able to sleep in such a state, she must be fine.
The most dangerous place is the safest place...
That's right. After all, Yae Sakura herself lived here. If the ghosts here were truly afraid of Yae Sakura, they wouldn't easily come to the shrine.
"Hmph hmph, oink oink..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a few pig squeals instantly aroused Li Mo's vigilance.
He turned around and saw a middle-aged couple on all fours, imitating livestock, circling under the cherry blossom tree in the shrine.
Circling?
Li Mo had an impression of this behavior. The rat swarm last night was also circling.
He hadn't paid much attention to that behavior at the time.
Thinking about it carefully, the size of the circle seemed to be...
Li Mo looked up towards the cherry blossom tree. It was about that big.
"Mo-kun, please step behind me."
"I will go fetch my blade."
Yae Sakura pulled Li Mo and ran quickly towards the room where Sakura Blizzard was stored.
The two people who were originally circling were immediately attracted by the running duo, and then they ran towards them at a normal speed.
Li Mo took out the Bizarre pistol from his waist.
Instantly, the two people's arms stretched very long, like gibbons, and they climbed onto the roof of the shrine to continue their pursuit.
Li Mo seemed unable to master marksmanship due to a certain special event.
Li Mo: "..."
In fact, he couldn't hit them from this distance either. He only took out the gun to see if the other party had human behavior patterns.
Now it seemed that they did, but not much.
They only knew that the dark weapon in his hand could bring a death threat, but they were unaware of the pistol's shooting range and his terrible marksmanship.
And...
It was obvious that these two people's rule was to hunt moving living beings.
In the end, they were just two living people who looked like ghosts.
Li Mo shook off Yae Sakura's hand and said, "You go get the blade. I'll hold them here."
"But..."
"There's no but. Hurry up."
Yae Sakura bit her lip and ran alone towards the storage place of Sakura Blizzard.
The two people on all fours soon came to Li Mo's side, circled the motionless Li Mo, and then, without looking back, chased after Yae Sakura.
The rule was indeed moving living things.
"Did you forget something?"
Li Mo took out his Bizarre pistol and shot them in their moving legs at close range.
To be on the safe side, he gave each of them two kicks to break their leg bones.
Surprisingly, these two people did not have bizarre recovery abilities, and the bullets fired from the Bizarre pistol did not ignite the nether fire, only leaving a small wound on their legs.
Even so, the two did not let out a single cry. Even with their legs broken, they still crawled with their hands, trying to catch up with Yae Sakura.
"I feel like I've seen your faces somewhere," Li Mo stared at the two people on all fours and fell into deep thought.
But what made him feel even stranger was that these two people were acting during the day. They were not Impostors, nor were they ghosts.
They were a bit like derivatives of ghosts, but they didn't have recovery abilities.
Most importantly, they were hunting Yae Sakura, not him.
Although Yae Sakura indeed had much more vitality than him now, the ghosts didn't dare to trouble her at night.
"Hmph oink..."
The two of them still let out indescribable low growls. Li Mo only remembered pigs making such sounds.
It wasn't a big problem. He just had to wait for Yae Sakura to get her blade.
Li Mo calmly watched the two of them crawl with difficulty.
Soon, Yae Sakura, sweating profusely, drew Sakura Blizzard and rushed over.
"Mo-kun, I'm late!"
With that, Yae Sakura raised Sakura Blizzard, ready to cut down the two, but was unexpectedly grabbed by the wrist by Li Mo, and Sakura Blizzard did not fall.
Seeing Yae Sakura being controlled, the two of them propped themselves up with their only two hands and opened their mouths to bite, but were kicked away by Li Mo, one person one kick.
"These two people are just a little mentally unstable. Let's not kill them for now and observe them for a while," Li Mo said.
But then, Yae Sakura looked at Li Mo with strange eyes, her pupils contracting. She pointed at the two people standing up behind Li Mo and said, "What are you talking about... Mo-kun. Those are clearly two demonic beasts. They actually stood up. They are... abominations that are not allowed to exist in Yae Village!"
Demonic beasts?
Li Mo noticed Yae Sakura's wording. That bear also belonged to the demonic beasts she mentioned.
But what he had just seen were just some strange people, right?
Wait a minute...
Li Mo immediately turned his gaze to the blade in Yae Sakura's hand. It was not the crimson Crimson-Dyed Sakura, but the spiritual blade, Sakura Blizzard.
What did this mean?
"I don't know what you're talking about, but I want to observe them for a short while. You just stand by and watch," Li Mo said.
"..."
"..."
Yae Sakura hesitated for a long time. She looked left and right, and after confirming that there was no one else around, she said seriously, "Abominations are sacrifices. When you see them, you must immediately extract their tendons, cut off their limbs, and hold a festival..."
Festival?
Catching the key information, Li Mo immediately asked, "Why? What is the relationship between the appearance of abominations and the festival?"
"Mo-kun... please don't make things difficult for me. I will explain everything to you one by one after I have finished these things."
Yae Sakura raised Sakura Blizzard again, her eyes sharp.
Li Mo suddenly remembered where he had seen the faces of these two people.
If he wasn't mistaken, they were little Chiyo's parents...
Li Mo stood between the two and Yae Sakura.
"Then what if I don't let you."