The extra ribbons on A Man's body were also three.
Si Yan turned back and glanced in the direction A Man had left. And sure enough, she found something.
He pointed out, "Someone is waving this way."
Seeing that they had finally attracted attention, several people dressed as tourists threw crumpled pieces of paper at Si Yan, nearly hitting him.
Jiang Nuo reached out and caught it, her expression puzzled.
"Come quickly, let's escape together. It's dangerous here. We've been here for a long time and know where the safest place is. If we can just survive today's final ritual, we can get out."
The writing on the crumpled paper was blurry and messy, clearly written with a stick dipped in blood.
Si Yan hissed.
Luckily, Nuonuo caught it; the paper was so dirty.
"Huh? Something's definitely fishy here! How did we end up bumping into these tourists so easily?"
I think we shouldn't be too conspiratorial. Those tourists looked disheveled; they'd probably been hiding for a long time.
Based on my experience watching so many horror movies, there's definitely a ghost! What a coincidence!
I bet five cents! God Nuo definitely won't go! This is obviously a scam!
Jiang Nuo: "Let's go take a look."
Zhou Ling disagreed, "It's too much of a coincidence; they probably have something going on."
It's not that they don't want to save ordinary people, but this tribe is strange, and they are all too busy taking care of themselves to do anything but protect themselves.
Jiang Nuo understood her hesitation, and pointed to the spot behind her with her finger.
The moment they looked over, the people observing them immediately looked away and began whispering amongst themselves, preparing for the sacrificial ceremony.
"They're spying on us!" Chu Xiu exclaimed softly.
Zhou Ling understood. "Let's see what kind of trouble they're up to."
The five of them moved into the haystacks where the tourists were hiding.
[Hahaha, thank goodness that girl only bet 50 cents!]
[Isn't God Nuo's motto simply to stir up trouble? Hahaha, the more chaotic the world is, the happier he is.]
"You're tourists too, right?"
The man in the lead asked them, then anxiously looked up at the sacrificial ceremony, "Hurry up and follow us, we're going to hide in a safe place."
Jiang Nuo: "Is there a safe place here?"
He looked at the five men, noting that their long sleeves and trousers covered their hands and feet, and that their attire was strikingly similar, though the small flags on their bodies were of different colors.
"We've waited here for many days, and finally found a safe place."
The man gestured for them to follow, then disappeared into the hole without looking back.
The others didn't move, clearly waiting for Jiang Nuo and the other three to go in first.
Jiang Nuo patted Chu Xiu on the shoulder, "Didn't you just say you lost something very important? Go back and look for it."
Chu Xiu: "Huh?... Ah! Yes! I'll go back and look for it...?"
Jiang Nuo nodded and smiled. "Go."
He took a half step back, blocking the tourist who wanted to reach out, turned around, and inexplicably snapped his fingers.
Let's go.
The tourist grabbed Jiang Nuo's hand, and Si Yan and Zhou Ling were also grabbed by the arms and shoved into the cave entrance. Ma Ye, who ran fast, was not spared.
"Catch!"
Finally, other tribespeople discovered the place, and they rushed over in a panic, dropping what they were carrying.
An old woman mingling in the crowd noticed, but because she was holding the deer head in her hand, she dared not put it down easily. In her haste, she forgot to speak Mandarin and repeated the warning in her tribal dialect.
"Don't believe what he says! Don't believe the lies of your own people in the woods!"
Jiang Nuo turned to look at her, a fleeting look of surprise on her face.
This was the original warning; I didn't understand it last time because the old lady's Mandarin was too broken...
Splash!
The grass covered the cave entrance again.
The pursuing tribesmen stopped there, as if they dared not, or as if they were reluctant to continue.
--
They ventured into a more secluded part of the woods, even bypassing the old woman's wooden house.
Tall trees lined both sides of the road, and at each roundabout stood a corpse, some belonging to tourists and others to members of the Bone Witch Tribe.
Just like the corpse that often appeared in Ma Ye, only human skin was standing there, facing the big tree and with its back to the intersection, like a guide.
Jiang Nuo didn't resist even when her hand was grabbed, and casually asked as if she were strolling through the streets, "Don't you guys think it's even more unsafe here?"
There's no safe place; it's full of mountains of corpses.
The leading man explained, "These are all people who were sacrificed. After their blood was offered to the gods, their skin was peeled off and placed here."
"They're all so pitiful, aren't they?"
Jiang Nuo exclaimed "Oh!" and shook her arm, "You tourists seem to know a lot."
Si Yan: "Self-deception."
The tourists seemed not to hear them, continuing to pull them forward on their own.
They had already strayed far from their tribe when the roads became increasingly damp and sticky, making it difficult to even lift their feet.
Ma Ye, who was being pulled along at the back of the group, seemed to finally lose his temper and shook off the hand of the person holding him.
Where exactly are you taking us?
Upon hearing this, all the tourists who had been walking forward with their heads down suddenly stopped, lowered their heads in silence, turned around, and remained expressionless.
"Wouldn't it be better to stay?"
The man's tone changed, becoming cold and chilling, "Stay..."
They all raised their hands simultaneously, their long sleeves sliding down, their reversed hands reaching out to grab the group, clearly intending to seize them, yet their palms were inside, their pupils constricting sharply, their voices cold and menacing.
"Stay... you can't escape..."
The sound was strange, like singing.
Jiang Nuo: "I knew I couldn't believe your lies."
The three of them stepped back, Si Yan took the opportunity to kick Ma Ye, making him a human cushion.
"A den of snakes and rats." Si Yan said coldly.
"You...!"
Ma Ye looked up in shock, trying to make a final attempt to protest, "What are you talking about!"
"Beneath that long robe, there must be two ghostly hands as well."
Jiang Nuo spoke softly, smiling at him, "Trying to look like a ghost, the more anxious you are, the more obvious it will be."
"Hmph... It's okay, there was a mistake."
Ma Ye's voice also became like theirs, but even colder.
He scrambled to his feet, his mouth agape. "Stay... you can't escape."
"You're just kidding," Jiang Nuo grabbed him and flicked him. "Those people here aren't human."
He snapped his fingers again.
Ma Ye's eyes widened as he watched the three of them turn into paper slices and slowly sway to the ground.
The three opened their eyes, their consciousness returned, and they woke up in a corner of a haystack.
Si Yan quickly jumped up, grabbed a wet wipe and started wiping herself, also helping Jiang Nuo wipe her clothes covered in grass clippings.
Zhou Ling her neck, took off the talisman, and asked with some worry, "Will they chase after us?"
"They could only have gone that far by flying."
Jiang Nuo patted her clothes and waved to Chu Xiu, who had no special abilities and could not use consciousness withdrawal, indicating that she could come back.
"Huh? What are you guys saying?"
[My God, I'm shocked! The tourists just left, and you guys lay down and fell asleep. What are you even talking about?]
I didn't even blink! What did I miss?
Jiang Nuo looked out over the haystack and exclaimed, "The sacrificial ceremony has begun! Let's hurry over!"
You can't miss out on something this fun!