Chapter 177: Savage Sacrifice

Spent a peaceful night at the hotel.

The convoy continued its journey early the next morning.

They were not the only ones rushing on the road in the early morning, there were also adventurers, mercenaries, caravans, etc.

There are many people and the road is crowded.

The Soros family's motorcade was still running rampant, only slowing down slightly, squeezing all the people in front of them out of the way. Of course, no one dared to block it, and they all made way for the motorcade.

It wasn't until they saw the convoy disappearing from sight that some grumpy people finally began to curse.

The four carriages and the twelve Earth Fire soldiers guarding them drove non-stop for more than an hour, completely leaving the Campas Province and entering the Traolin District.

The speed of the carriage also slowed down.

An uneven gravel dirt path with only a faint trace of shape winding through the forest area.

Among the khaki mountains, carriage roads are like gray cotton threads, winding and paved between the yellow mountains.

Every few miles you walk, you will encounter green woods, sparsely distributed in the rolling mountainous areas, like a few drops of green ink accidentally splashed on a yellow canvas.

This small convoy of the Soros family is as inconspicuous as ants in this forest area.

The chirping of birds could be heard outside, and the increasingly hot afternoon sun made the interior of the carriage become stuffy.

Nicole opened the car curtain, and the dazzling sunlight hit her face along with a wave of heat, and Lu He frowned.

A wise man will make a mistake every time he thinks.

As a wise man, he was still inexperienced in traveling far away, so he did not install an automatic temperature control system on the carriage.

After thinking about it, I planned to get another one when I arrived at the Soros family's transfer station in this vast mountainous area at night.

In the evening, the sun sets.

Through the car window, I watched the yellow trees on both sides keep retreating, passing through this yellow forest.

Entering a basin surrounded by mountains, the towering mountain walls are covered with large and dense green woods. From a distance, they look like large moss covering the rock walls.

A cool mountain breeze blew from the narrow gap on the mountain wall. Lu He sniffed his nose and frowned.

In the wind, a faint smell of blood penetrated his nose.

"Mark, stop." Lu He said suddenly.

"Master, what's the matter?" Mark quickly grabbed the reins, turned around and asked in a low voice.

At this time, Jose, who was leading the way, also came over and asked respectfully: "Master, do you need to rest?"

Lu He shook his head. Their noses had no spirit of their own, and they did not smell the smell of human blood in the wind.

He pointed to the back of the gap: "There's something wrong over there, there might be something abnormal."

The head of the family's words made the two of them suddenly nervous.

Worried about an ambush, Mark picked up the knight's sword beside him and said, "I'll go take a look."

Seeing Lu He nod, Mark stood up and quickly rushed in the direction Lu He pointed.

Along the khaki and gray stone walls, Mark jumped up easily and quickly crossed over. After descending the mountain, he climbed up another small stone mountain. As soon as he stood on the top of the mountain, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

An area the size of a basketball court was littered with corpses, and the stench of blood was rising in the sky, giving people a feeling of chest tightness.

These corpses formed an ellipse about twenty meters in diameter in a strange posture.

Two meters apart on the periphery of the oval is a larger corpse circle formed by countless animal corpses. Looking from the top of the mountain, it looks like a huge eye.

The solidified black blood on the ground formed strange symbols, surrounded by groups of blowflies.

Even though he was more than a hundred meters away, Mark could still hear the disgusting buzzing sound of the flies.

After just standing for a while, Mark couldn't help but cover his mouth and retched.

He considered himself to be a well-tested knight and coachman, but the scene before him still made him shudder, and a great fear emerged in his heart.

"This should be some kind of sacrifice, but the method is very cruel and the method of sacrifice is very irregular."

Mark was startled by the sudden sound behind him, and almost pulled out his sword.

Lu He nodded, his expression unchanged. He could tell that the bloody components in the wind were very complicated, and there was far more than one kind.

So I came to take a look and see what was going on. I didn't expect it to be such a cruel sacrificial circle.

The runes composed of the solidified blood on the ground are communication runes, and the strange postures of the corpses are the unique marks of the sacrifice object. After being fully activated, they can be sensed by the sacrifice object, and the sacrifice should be the soul.

It is only inferred from the remaining soul power in the air that the sacrifice should not have been successful, or there should be no response.

"Soul sacrifice..." His heart moved.

"It's so cruel, I have to take care of it."

A sneer appeared on Lu He's face, and he grasped the air with his right hand. A trace of black energy suddenly appeared, held in his hand, and slowly lingered on the tip of his index finger.

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This is the aura that remains in this sacrificial site.

Leave here and return to the convoy.

Lu He came to the fourth carriage, took out a small black bottle from the laboratory cabinet on the carriage, poured the black powder in it into the palm of his hand, and then closed his eyes slightly.

He gently stretched out his index finger and drew a black disk in the air, a disk composed entirely of black gas.

hiss……

The black triangle suddenly condensed and turned into a crystal-like solid material. The empty space in the center turned into a transparent compass with the directions of east, west, south and north.

Lu He smeared the black powder in his hand on the compass, and after a while, a black pointer slowly emerged.

The pointer pointed to the northwest.

Lu He looked up and saw a forked road in front of him. A one-meter-wide path was hidden in a forest.

"Master, it should be done by a primitive tribe in the Traorin area. Only they would have such a barbaric and inhumane bloody sacrifice."

After hearing Mark's story, Jose came to the carriage with a very heavy face.

"But they are usually active in the depths of the forest area and rarely appear in the marginal areas close to human society. I don't know why they suddenly appeared here this time."

Although the carriage was fast and had traveled for most of the day, it was still far from the center of the Traorin area.

Because the area of ​​the Traorin area is very large, it is as large as four or five Campas provinces.

"Master, these primitive tribes have their own survival rules and basically do not communicate with the outside world. They are very hostile to us, and they are very strong and have strange abilities. If we go there rashly..."

Lu He's eyes condensed, and he slowly asked: "Are there any Sky Knights in the Traorin District?"

"No, but..."

"I must seek justice for those innocent lives who died!"

Lu He interrupted José and shook his head firmly.

Just to confirm

He also felt that there must be no Sky Knights, after all, there was only one Sky Knight in the huge Crescent Empire.

So, he must enforce justice today.

No one can stop him.

"Master, you are right!" The little maid Nicole looked at him with reverence, her eyes full of little stars.

"Seek justice!" Sai Erya shouted.

Mark looked at the surrounding Earth Fire soldiers, his face trembled slightly, and he curled his lips silently.

After a while.

The convoy deviated from the original route and drove towards the trail.

...

Walked for about an hour.

The surrounding woods also began to become short and sparse. Not as dense as before, the sunset on the top of the mountain slowly sank, and the environment gradually became deep.

After walking a distance, the road became narrower and narrower, and it was difficult for the carriage to pass.

After walking a distance reluctantly, they finally stopped at a fork in the road. There were some dark red bloodstains sparsely scattered on the grass and branches on the left side of the road.

Without looking at the tracking compass, they knew where to go.

So everyone got off the car, leaving a few people to guard the carriage and continued to walk.

Without the carriage, the speed of progress was faster, and it didn't take long to pass through a jungle.

Going forward all the way, they came to a hillside when the sunset completely disappeared.

Lu He slowed down his pace.

He heard the sound and smelled a familiar smell.

Let the others wait, Lu He moved, and appeared on the hillside in a few flashes under the moonlight.

After hiding his body, he looked down and saw a long-abandoned camp below, with people crowded around the campfire.

The night sky was full of stars and the moonlight was extremely bright.

A group of people wearing black robes without any impurities sat around several campfires.

Meat of unknown animals was being roasted on the campfires.

There were more than 20 people in this group of black robes, most of whom had scimitars and long swords beside them.

I don’t know if it was carelessness or they didn’t care at all, but they didn’t set up any guard posts.

Lu He noticed that several of them were different, with black robes embroidered with red edges.

The most eye-catching thing was the black giant snake hanging on their shoulders.

At first glance, the giant snake looked like a thick black line, integrated with the black robe, and draped over the right shoulder of the black-robed man.

Only by looking closely could you find that the giant snake seemed to be similar to an ordinary snake, but it was thicker and bigger, and it actually had a third eye between its eyebrows, which was a dark green vertical pupil.

Three dark green eyes stared at everything around them coldly and cruelly, spitting out scarlet snake cores from time to time.

There were many firearms placed on the side far away from the fire, and the style looked a bit old.

Lu He smiled in surprise.

They were not the barbarians from the primitive tribe as imagined.

Instead, they were civilized humans.