Chapter Thirty-Seven: Hashihime

Sacrifices are performed all over the world, and there are many such things in Japan, and there are many legends about human pillars in many places. In the beginning, in order to ensure the safety of the towns and villages, living people were regularly offered to the gods as sacrifices, but gradually it evolved into the use of living sacrifices in construction projects. In ancient times, when building castles or carrying out civil engineering works, if it was not very smooth or accidents were frequent, it was believed that the local gods were haunted, and whenever people would sacrifice a living person, tie a person to a pillar on the foundation, and then bury him alive, which is called a human pillar. Japan's custom of human pillars has a long history, and in the 3rd year of Taisei and the 45th year of Showa, the bones of workers suspected of being human pillars were found at abandoned construction sites. For example, in some areas of the Taisho period, the human pillars were tied to wooden stakes and burned alive and then sprinkled with ashes, while in the Meiji period, ashes were mixed in concrete.

This bloody custom is excellently restored in "Qiankun". After the battle, Santu Ji took another piece of territory, and just needed a new bridge Ji, so he had to hold a living sacrifice ceremony, and the sword soldiers Wuji and Qingyi watched with great interest. I saw the poor human woman tied to the bridge pile and drowned alive, her eyes rolled white, and her hair fluttered like water and grass; And her flesh and blood were quickly washed away by the river as if they had encountered strong acid, and only a white skeleton remained.

"Tsk, that's cruel." Qingyi shook his head and sighed.

"The Japanese are uncivilized barbarians." Dao Bing Wuji agreed.

(Xue Duo: "You two are enough!") Who tortured and killed pregnant women, and who beheaded people to pile up in Jingguan! ”)

Dao Bing Wuji said: "In ancient Maya, India, and Egypt, there were living sacrifices, and speaking of which, we also have a lot of living sacrifices in China, such as the Xia and Shang periods. It seems that as long as it is the birthplace of ancient civilization, there will be this kind of bad habit. ”

"That's right." Qingyi nodded: "Ancient civilizations are generally in the period of slave society, slaves belong to the lowest level of society, have no human rights, and can be used as sacrifices. When serfdom was practiced in Tibet, the upper lamas of various sects used serfs to make various offerings. However, there is a difference between human sacrifice and human sacrifice, for example, the ancient Maya preferred to use noble sacrifices, because the priests believed that nobles were nobler than slaves and more suitable to be sacrificed to the gods. ”

"That's right, there was a great drought in the five years after Shang Tang extinguished the summer, so Shang Tang prepared to pray for rain with himself as a sacrifice, and it was also a reason to sacrifice with the Mayan nobles. Hey, you say, when the ancient monarch died, the concubines and tomb builders were buried together, is it considered a living sacrifice? ”

"Concubines are counted, tomb builders are not counted, the latter is purely killing people and killing people."

(Xue Duo: "Two murderers don't start a discussion with great interest!") Don't try to emulate! ”)

It would take about four hours for the dead woman to become the bridge girl, and her name would be engraved on the head of the bridge as the name of the bridge. The fish will gnaw on her entrails, and the green wattles will wrap around her bones...... She is one with the bridge, and it is difficult to get rid of it. There are 3,000 such bridges in the country of Asaka, which means that 3,000 women were drowned alive at the behest of Kagetsu Ringo.

Don't despise Kazuki Ringo just because she is a woman, she is the Necromantic King after all, and every Necromantic King steps on the corpse to the throne.

"Both." Kazuki Ringo approached and smiled, "We must completely take the area of Iga no Sato. The enemy has been informed of our arrival, and the battle will be filled with a number of watershed players. ”

"I understand."

Due to political needs, both sides have maintained excellent restraint in the vicinity of Iga no Sato, and Okami will not appear, but this does not mean that both sides have given up monitoring on this. When a character like the Necromantic King appears that surpasses the conventional combat power, the enemy eyeliner will definitely send the news back to the base camp. The enemy's main general, the great Onmyoji Abe Harumi, is likely to send Onmyoji troops to fight against him, and Iga no Sato is not allowed to lose.

Qingyi asked again: "According to your estimate, is the attendance rate of the enemy players high or low?" ”

"It's just high, not low." Kazuki Ringo put away his smile, a little dignified.

Japan's gaming industry is very developed, and big-budget games of all backgrounds abound, which has led to the creation of a large number of game fans. Unlike South Korea, which is also a big country in video games, South Korea has a strong gaming atmosphere, giving birth to industries such as e-sports, e-sports live broadcast, and e-sports commentary, while Japan is more about squatting at home. Strictly speaking, the emergence of this group of squatting at home also has reasons such as high employment pressure, high national treatment, young people's confusion about the future, and personal social barriers, but the "beautiful fantasy provided by the virtual world" cannot be ignored. Many young people don't go to school or work, spend their parents' money, and play games without leaving home, which eventually leads to a generally high level of playing games. They are the cowards of life, but they are the brave men of the game.

The three Necromantic Kings will land in Yuzhou, attracting such a group of brave men. Of course, the three of them who passed the anger had already been mentally prepared, after all, with such a big camp conflict, it was impossible to fight small fights all day long, and there was always no escape from the tough battles that should be fought.

Kazuki Ringo said again: "It takes four hours for Hashihime to take shape, and fifty percent of my ashigaru troops must be guarded here in case there are high-level ninjas from sneaking up. We only had about 220 ashigaru men on hand, and we had to rush to the next scheduled location and hold out for another four hours. ”

"Okay."

"Let's go!"

Neither guest objected to Kazuki Ringo's seemingly harsh decision. The sword soldier Wuji purely likes offense more than defense, and the battle just now can only be regarded as a warm-up game; Qingyi prefers to consider from the perspective of strategic initiative, and those who can fight a blitzkrieg should not fight a war of attrition. If you drag out a few more thousand days, will you spend your life in "Fuji" and don't have to go?

The three of them rode on the imperial court, surrounded by a group of stunned zombies, and marched towards the preset point of the bridge ten miles away. During this period, scouts kept sending back messages, and it was known that ten miles away had been completely occupied by living beings, and the other party's river god was about to suppress the tributaries of the Santu River. The enemy also sent a vanguard to stop the three Necromantic Kings, who were small in number but all players, presumably trying to sacrifice for time.

"It's funny, although there are quite a few birds in the Dusk Empire, I prefer to use ghost wolves and ghost hounds as scouts." Qingyi looked at the little finch squatting on his index finger and said with a smile.

This little finch is about the size of a goose egg, light as nothing, with smooth feathers, and its little head twists and twists restlessly, and looks very smart and cute, but the feathers are too dark, otherwise it can be regarded as an ornamental bird. It lays eggs in the human body, and the chicks gnaw on the host's internal organs after birth until they eat the empty cavity before flying out. Thanks to it, the enemy no longer dares to let any animal come close, no matter how harmless it may be.

"This shows that June-kun is a nostalgic person." Kazuki Ringo answered.

Qingyi smiled, released the inner finch, and said: "I've been to Dashu, where there are special canine classes such as black blood mastiffs, giant jawed jackals, and needle-clawed dogs, why don't you seem to see special canine troops here?" ”

Kazuki Ringo replied: "Yes, yes, either like the Inari fox and the Komachi dog stand on the side of the living beings, or like the sickle and the pipe fox stand in the neutral camp, they just don't stand by our side." It doesn't matter if you don't, necromantic beasts are different from necromantic soldiers, they only know how to rely on minions, but they don't know how to rely on armor. Ringo still likes to use ashigaru. ”

"Ashigaru is good, but you have too few samurai." The sword soldier Wuji jumped out and raised the bar: "A thousand troops are easy to get, a general is hard to find, a good warrior is better than you dozens of ashigaru!" ”

"No matter how powerful a high-level professional is, he can be besieged to death by a low-level and middle-level soldier." Qingyi objected: "You don't always build troops according to traditional Chinese thinking, the era when one person could crush the enemy army is long gone." We have to keep up with the times, you know? ”

"You and Yu Qingfeng said cut (go)! The higher the combat power, the easier it is to boost morale! ”

"What morale do necromantic creatures need?"

"Players need it!"

"Asaha Country doesn't need it. For example, in the next battle, no matter how well you, the Chinese, play, you can't boost the morale of Japanese players. ”

The debate reached this point, and the sword soldiers had no choice but to die down, and Kazuki Ringo always smiled and did not say anything. Although in terms of the national conditions of the Chaohua Kingdom, the military force is superior to the individual combat strength, but which side to tilt resources is still a difficult problem that is not publicly discussed in "Qiankun". Although Qingyi wanted to refer to the logistics strategy of Chaohua Kingdom, he had no choice but to give up after thinking about it - he didn't have enough money to arm the skeleton army!

The topic turned to "how the living beings suppressed the Santu River". The Santu River is a river in the underworld, and the river gods in the human world can purify it with divine power, but because the river gods cannot easily leave the river they live in, the living beings can only use the most stupid method - digging ditches, opening up rivers, and connecting the water veins where the river gods are located with the Santu River. This method is time-consuming and laborious, and it is easier to be taken advantage of by the enemy, but the advantage is that it works immediately, and it can purify from the connection point to the next bridge in one go, directly canceling the home advantage of the bridge hime.

As for the dragon that can also eliminate floods, it has not appeared yet, and Kazuki Ringo has only heard a few words from the guardian god Ebisu, and there is no way to deal with it at all.

Soon, the two sides engaged in battle. As soon as Qingyi's [Soul Vortex] opened, all the ashigaru around the emperor were invigorated, and a blue crown was lit on the top. Ashigaru, who was wielding the arquebus, immediately crouched down, and the soul fire burned extremely quickly at the end of the arquebus, and the barrel of the gun shot out a bullet that was wrapped in a spirit child. A warrior armed with a spear and a horse rode a long horse to die in the place of melee. A troop of 300 people instantly turned into 300 tigers.

In front of the living players, a beauty in a purple skirt greeted her with a moving smile.

"Qingming Gong's subordinate god honey worm, I came to see the teacher today."