Midnight Bookstore

Zhou Ze was shocked. This was too grand.

Even the Taoist priests in television dramas did not have such a big table. It was already considered good enough for normal temple priests to get some fruits and a pig head.

And here, it was a human sacrifice!

More than twenty living people.

That family…

It was placed here as a tribute to the sea god!

Zhou Ze had experienced something special and had been to hell before. In his two lifetimes, he had seen many people and ghosts. Logically speaking, there were not many things that could shock him.

However, the scene before him made Zhou Ze lose his composure.

One had to know that not only were there old women with white hair and wrinkled skin, there were also very young children. These people should have their own lives, should have their own laughter, but they were all trapped here. In fact, they could not even float freely like fish, and they could only follow the waves from one side of the cage to the other.

Even after they died, they were still kept in captivity!

The priest and the person who arranged all of this seemed to be afraid that the offerings that they had meticulously prepared would spill out and cause the Sea God to not be able to eat his fill. He was so considerate.

Gulp…

Her body was a little weak now, so she had to hold her breath for quite some time. Zhou Ze reached out and lifted Bai Yingying’s wrist that was hugging his waist, gesturing for her to bring him up for a breather.

However…

Bai Yingying remained unmoved, as if she did not feel anything.

Zhou Ze pinched her hand.

She did not move.

Zhou Ze grabbed her arm.

She was still oblivious.

Zhou Ze turned his head and glared at her.

In the end, he realized that Bai Yingying had her eyes closed!

“I can’t see. I can’t see, I can’t see.”

The fingernails on Zhou Ze’s right index finger grew out.

Bai Yingying’s body suddenly trembled.

She immediately carried Zhou Ze up and down.

“Hu… Hu… Hu… Hu…”

After taking a breather, Zhou Ze felt much better. He did not care about Bai Yingying’s thoughts and said directly, “Let’s go up.”

“Alright, Boss!”

Bai Yingying did not mention what had just happened. Then, like a mini diamond, she wrapped her right arm around Zhou Ze’s waist and picked him up like a doll. Her other hand grabbed the boat and climbed up.

Swift and simple.

Zhou Ze sat on the chair first. As he breathed, he waited for the water on his clothes to dry a little. Otherwise, his clothes would be too heavy and it would be difficult to wear them.

“Boss, what exactly happened down there?”

“You don’t know?”

“How would I know?”

“Didn’t your wife get caught cheating with a scholar in the past?”

“Er…”

“Someone used a living person as a sacrifice for the Sea God,” Zhou Ze said.

“Offerings? Offerings?” Bai Yingying was shocked. Even the zombies thought that this was too cruel and cruel.

“Then what is going on now? We’re here and there’s a cage filled with dead bodies. What are we doing?”

“I’m not sure, but I have a feeling that this has something to do with the old man or the woman. At the very least, the old man is involved.”

‘Why did the old man have a share? Could that vixen be an exception?’ Bai Yingying thought to herself.

At that moment, there was a wind. The wind was still strong, and the originally calm sea suddenly became turbulent. This caused the cruise ship to sway back and forth like it could capsize at any moment.

Zhou Ze continued to sit on the chair. To be honest, he was a little helpless right now. If he was a judge now, he might have the qualifications to communicate with the other party. However, the current him clearly did not care about the other party.

Of course, the most important question now was whether the Sea God was considered a good or bad person in the traditional sense.

Did he accept the sacrifice and give the Sacrificer the corresponding feedback, or did the Sacrificer’s actions make him feel anger and blasphemy, so he specially came to punish him?

At his level, the traditional concept of good and evil should not be able to restrain his actions, right?

Clang…

Waves of seawater rushed over, and the cruise ship was swaying more and more. Bai Yingying stood still and grabbed Zhou Ze’s shoulder with one hand, helping him stabilize himself on the deck.

“Boss, the ship is about to capsize.”

“I know.”

Zhou Ze supported Bai Yingying’s arm and stood up with difficulty. When he looked ahead, he realized that there seemed to be land ahead. No, to be exact, it should be an island. An island that was not small.

Splash!

An ear-piercing sound of machinery grinding could be heard. The cruise ship finally couldn’t take it anymore and flipped over. Bai Yingying reacted quickly and grabbed Zhou Ze before the cruise ship capsized and jumped into the sea.

Therefore, Zhou Ze was lucky. Many drowning people wished that they had a white oriole by their side before they drowned.

As the white oriole swam, it allowed Zhou Ze’s head to remain above the surface of the water to breathe in fresh air. Zhou Ze was like a little kangaroo in the bag in front of its mother’s chest, being cared for and cared for.

She could only raise her head and breathe while spitting out water that splashed into her mouth and nose.

On one side…

Finally, the whiteingale came ashore.

Zhou Ze lay on the beach and panted heavily.

“Boss, there’s another person lying there.” Bai Yingying suddenly pointed at the beach.

Zhou Ze turned to look. Indeed, there was a young man lying there. He was wearing tattered clothes. If he was a salted fish before, then that person was a salted fish that was about to be roasted dry.

“I’ll go kill him,” Bai Yingying said with the intention of eliminating all signs of danger.

Zhou Ze reached out and pressed Bai Yingying down. He shook his head and said, “Don’t you think that fellow looks a little familiar?”

“Familiar?” Bai Yingying looked over with all her might. Finally, she seemed to have thought of something and said, “He looks like that old man. Is he that old man’s son? Oh no, perhaps his grandson.”

“No, and it shouldn’t be,” Zhou Ze denied.

At that moment, a python crawled out from the sea.

Zhou Ze found this python familiar as well. It really looked like the one he had fought with before. However, the snake looked smaller now, and the scales on its body were not as thick as before.

The snake slowly climbed onto the young man’s body. There was no killing intent or ferocity on its body. Furthermore, it did not seem to notice that Zhou Ze and Bai Yingying were beside it. It only stared at the person below it.

“Boss, this snake is about to turn into a spirit,” Bai Yingying suddenly said.

“I can tell.”

This python gave people a feeling that it was filled with intelligence and human-like emotions. It was a little like the monkey that Zhou Ze had first seen.

The python opened its mouth, but it did not bite the young man in front of it. Instead, it bit its own torso, creating a hole on its body. Then, the snake’s body climbed up the young man’s body, bringing the wound that it had bitten open to the man’s mouth.

At first, the blood of the python only slowly dripped into the man’s mouth. Soon, the man seemed to have regained some consciousness and started to suck the blood. The color on his face slowly returned.

Finally, the man released his grip and let out a long sigh. Then he opened his eyes. When he saw the python, the man shivered in fear.

The python did not stop. It swam back into the sea from the beach. There was still a pool of blood on the ground.

After the python disappeared into the sea, the man immediately got up. He kowtowed several times in the direction that the python had gone, mumbling something. Then, he reached out to pick up a piece of snake scale that had fallen to the ground.

“What is he shouting?” Bai Yingying asked. Because the man’s dialect was too heavy, Bai Yingying could not hear him clearly.

“He’s thanking the Sea God for saving him,” Zhou Ze replied.

The man walked into the forest and disappeared.

“Then here comes the question. Boss, how do we leave?” Bai Yingying tilted her head and asked. Then, she seemed to have thought of something and asked, “I think it’s pretty good for us to be Rubinsons here.”

There was Robinson Crusoe in the bookstore and Bai Yingying took the time to read it.

Zhou Ze felt that his maidservant had been acting a little abnormally recently. He felt like she had gone silly watching Korean dramas.

At that moment, the cruise ship that had just capsized appeared again.

“Wow, boss, the ship is back.”

“I can see.”

The cruise ship returned again, but this time, there were many people on it.

An old man was sitting in a wheelchair, and he was pushed down from the boat by an attendant. The attendant was a woman. Her face was covered with a white veil, but from her figure and presence, this woman looked familiar.

“Her breasts are a little lower, her butt is a little bigger, and her waist is a little thicker. Boss, can you reduce it back a little? Does it look like someone?”

It was that woman—the old man’s wife.

Many people came down from the ship. The old man was sitting in a wheelchair with a drip on it. Obviously, the old man did not have much time left.

At that moment, Zhou Ze’s gaze froze. He saw another priest walking down from the cruise ship. It was an Asian priest.

Yes, that’s right.

It was this fellow who stole his ashes!

However, this priest looked a little young. His skin was fairer, and his round face looked harmless.

He walked to the old man’s side, and the old man waved the woman away. The woman walked away. She walked very far away, and it was not convenient for her to know certain things. She was very self-aware and tactful.

The old man seemed to be talking to the priest, who nodded in agreement.

Then…

The old man took out a black scale from his pocket.

The priest looked at the scale, then lowered his head and said something in the old man’s ear.

When the old man heard that, shock first appeared on his face, then it turned into a struggle. He seemed to be hesitating and conflicted. In the end, the old man looked at the IV bottle that he was still hanging, and then at the charming woman standing far away.

His fingers gripped the scales tightly, his veins bulging.

He then gritted his teeth and revealed a ruthless expression.

At the same time, he nodded.

The priest bowed slightly.

“Boss, they spoke so softly that I couldn’t hear them.”

Bai Yingying said helplessly. She tried to move forward to get closer to the old man and the priest, but no matter how far she walked, the distance between the two of them would widen.

Zhou Ze waved his hand. “There’s no need to listen anymore.”

“Then how do we leave this place?” Bai Yingying was unsettled.

“We can leave.” Zhou Ze smiled. “Actually, there is no Sea God.”

Bai Yingying did not understand, but Zhou Ze did not. Yes, there was no Sea God.

“Huh?”

“There is no Sea God, only a snake that is mistaken for one.”

Zhou Ze looked up at the sky and shouted, “You can’t beat me, and I’ve seriously injured you. This illusion won’t last long, right? Especially after I found out that you’re not the Sea God, your illusion has lost ninety-nine percent of its power. Do you think you still have a chance to kill me here?”

Hiss…

A snake head slowly emerged from the sand beside Zhou Ze.

All the illusions around him started to shatter.

Zhou Ze was currently sitting on the floor in the living room while Bai Yingying stood beside him. Everything around him had returned to normal.

“I don’t want to kill you with this…”

The python, which had been scratched by Zhou Ze’s nails, was actually speaking in human language, but his voice was a little shrill.

“Tsk tsk.” Zhou Ze reached out and patted the snake’s head. Then, he raised his head and said helplessly, “You actually wanted to kill me right from the start. You didn’t expect me to do this to you, so you changed your method and took a roundabout route.”

If the direct one didn’t work, it would go the indirect way.

“He deserves to die…” the python said.

“I have a monkey at home, so you two should have something in common. However, with you like this, it’s obvious that you won’t be able to survive for long. What a pity.”

“He deserves to die…” The python seemed to only know this sentence.

Zhou Ze did indeed think of the monkey. He thought of the time when he fought with the monkey in the hospital and the ending. Even his conscience was ‘eaten’ because of that incident.

It was the same choice, but this time, Zhou Ze’s choice was different. He raised his hand and said seriously, “That woman doesn’t deserve to die.”

The python hesitated for a moment before nodding slightly.

Then, Zhou Ze lowered his hand and looked elsewhere.

The python nodded at Zhou Ze and its tongue rubbed against Zhou Ze’s arm. Then, it wriggled its broken body and crawled toward the stairs.

Bai Yingying could not understand. She looked at Zhou Ze and asked, “Boss, didn’t that snake save him? It saved him back then. Why is it trying to kill him now?”

“It’s very simple. Sixty years ago, this python had just awakened and was cultivating to accumulate merit. Therefore, it took the initiative to save the young man who was about to die from the boat accident.

“The young man survived and became rich. He earned a lot of money and became rich and powerful. Then, the young man turned into an old man who was dying from illness.

“The old man did not want to die. He still had a lot of money, and he wanted to continue enjoying his life.

“For other people, other than medical treatment, it was basically impossible to extend their lives, but the old man was different. He had seen the Sea God when he was young and he treated the snake that saved him as the Sea God.

“Therefore, the old man planned to use this to extend his life. He felt that the Sea God had saved him sixty years ago, so sixty years later, the Sea God should be able to save him again. He even found a martial arts practitioner…”

Zhou Ze’s eyes flashed with murderous intent when he mentioned the Japanese priest.

‘That bastard! Once I recover from my injuries, I must kill him no matter what happens!’

“That priest gave him a method to sacrifice evil gods. He used the lives of his family members to extend his life.”

“Ah…” Bai Yingying exclaimed, “So the family that drowned on the cruise five years ago? ”

“Didn’t you see it? The old man specially arranged for the sacrifice. He treated his wife, son, daughter, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on as sacrifices to prolong his life.”

“Then?”

“He succeeded because he had that scale in his hand. Furthermore, the method given by the priest was not baseless, so he succeeded. Didn’t you see? Five years ago, the old man was sitting on the wheelchair and could fart at any time. Five years later, he could walk on his own and even live with his wife from time to time. He succeeded, he really succeeded. ”

“Does that mean that the python has reached an agreement with the old man?” Bai Yingying asked. “Then why did the python come to kill him five years later?”

Zhou Ze shook his head.

“There was no agreement. The python was tricked by the old man. It had been cultivating for many years, and it had taken the orthodox path. However, because of the sacrifice that the old man had made with its scales, it had been forced into the ranks of the evil gods. All of its previous hundred years of effort had been wasted. Like a mouthful of poisoned milk, the python was muddled and turned over.

“Perhaps something had happened to the python back then as well. It had taken five years to resolve a part of the problem. Then, at all costs, it had risked its own life to come to the land to take revenge on this old man!

“Back then, it saved him, but he ended up tricking it.”

Bai Yingying nodded thoughtfully. “So there’s no Sea God?”

“I’m not sure.”

“Boss, did you let it go for revenge this time?” Bai Yingying asked.

‘In other words, you didn’t do this to Monkey last time.’

“I’m seriously injured and can’t beat it. I don’t want to risk my life,” Zhou Ze explained.

Bai Yingying pouted and pointed at herself.

What he meant was, ‘I can deal with a snake that was almost destroyed by you.’

“You’re a little girl. You’re even afraid of rats and cockroaches. How can you stop it?”

Bai Yingying understood.

He immediately clenched his fists and held them to his chest, shaking them.

“Awww… Yes, I’m really scared. ”