"Just as I thought. A blood sacrifice."
Jiang Qiao strolled through the town, looking at the bone trees standing everywhere. Although he knew this was merely a record in the River of History and that the real people had all died long ago, he still felt a hint of desolation.
Overnight.
Tens of thousands of people had all turned into bone trees.
This reminded him of the blood sacrifices carried out by the "New Humans" in several cities during the early days of the Supernatural Revival.
The rituals of both sides were quite similar.
It was clear that this evil method had been passed down through the Evolvers.
"The Evolvers here were also survivors from the refugees' journey back then, yet they mastered a blood-sacrifice method not much different from those of Blue Star and the Supernatural World. What does that tell us?"
"It means this method had already been developed back in our homeland."
The first time he came into contact with a blood sacrifice was during a simulation.
At the time, he had left Bin City while inside the Simulator, hoping to find a route to An City. On the way, he encountered Evolvers cultivating Bone Trees. Those Bone Trees could even bear fruit.
That was also the first time he learned that beings neither human nor ghost, known as Evolvers, existed.
Later.
Still through the Simulator.
He learned about the "Lincheng Sacrifice" incident. A group of Evolvers from the "New Humans" had, under the guise of offering help, deceived the administrator Ma Baoguo into trusting them and gathered a large number of survivors.
In the end, they held a ritual.
They blood-sacrificed more than a hundred thousand people, turning them all into Blood Food.
And the New Humans' Supernatural Item, which was shaped like a Bone Tree,