Chapter 148

Not long after that, it was the day when those rich people came to the church and performed some very strange sacrifices.

Usually, the dean will call him to the church one day in advance, and then he will not go back to the normal bedroom to sleep that day, he will sleep in the church.

Bai Liu tossed and turned holding the "Slender Ghost Murder Record" that he had given him, and finally he got up and walked to the church carefully stepping on his shoes.

The church was locked by the dean, but Bai Liu had been in that church for a long time and knew some small passages that could sneak into the church, such as a small broken window blocked by a curtain.

Bai Liu climbed into the church through the window, and he used the moonlight to search for the other person on the bench, and finally Bai Liu found him behind the statue.

The moment she saw him, there was no emotion on Bai Liu's face.

He curled up in a bathtub that was slightly smaller than his body, and the bathtub was full of blood. His almost transparent face was half soaked in the blood, and he couldn't even feel breathing. There was even a layer of white flakes on his eyelashes. Frost, needle holes still oozing blood on hands, feet and forehead.

"Xieta." Bai Liu called his name for the first time.

Scheta woke up slowly in the bathtub. He opened his eyes and saw the white willow. He stretched out his hand as if he was going to touch the white willow, but something squirmed in the bathtub, a thorny vine full of mushrooms came out The blood protruded out of the water, tightly wrapped around Scheta's neck, wrists and ankles, and tightly surrounded and imprisoned him in the blood-colored baptismal pool a second before Scheta's fingertips touched the white willow.

"What are you doing?" Bai Liu asked calmly when she heard her own voice.

"Being baptized, this is the ritual before the blood is drawn," Scheta said.

"Those people are here to draw your blood, right? They need your blood to save them." Bai Liu continued to ask calmly, "You have been drained of so much blood, will you die?"

"No." Scheta looked at Bai Liu, "I'm a monster, so I won't die."

Scheta breathed out a breath of white air while speaking-this is enough to show how cold his body temperature is now.

"Then you fell asleep here, are you cold?" Bai Liu asked.

Scheta shook her head honestly: "I don't feel it."

Bai Liu stepped into the bloody water with one foot, he knelt down, forced himself into the space where Xieta curled up, Bai Liu's warm body temperature passed through the blood to Xieta, Xieta blinked slowly, he The frost on her eyelashes melted in Bai Liu's breath.

He could feel the cold now, because Bai Liu was so warm.

Then Bai Liu opened the book given to him by Xieta as if nothing had happened, and he brought it with him and asked him: "Do you want to read it together?"

They slept together in the baptism pool full of dirty blood, looking at the statue overlooking them, chatting aimlessly with no taboos.

"What's the point of being baptized?"

"Being baptized means that God bestows blessings on his most beloved, new believers."

"Is this considered a blessing for you?"

"...blessing themselves."

"You really believe in this? You don't really think there is a god, do you?"

"Um."

...

Bai Liu curled up on Xieta's cold arms and fell into a deep sleep. When he woke up the next day, he was on his own bed with no blood on his body.

Scheta came back in the afternoon, paler than before.

This time the needle holes spread to his face, and the backs of his hands and feet were shocking, bruises from repeated blood draws.

Bai Liu silently used the bandages he stole from the infirmary to wrap up the needles that were still bleeding.

And Scheta looked at him quietly, and suddenly said: "This bandage is removed, and your [Slender Ghost] doll will have a face."

Bai Liu's lips pursed into a straight line.

The group of rich people who drew blood came more and more frequently, and the time when Scheta appeared became less and less. Even if it appeared occasionally, the smell of blood and mushrooms on Scheta would make people feel unacceptable .

Once Scheta appeared, the children would stay away from Scheta, and they would keep flapping their hands at the tip of their noses in disgust, as if they wanted to blow away the strange smell and Scheta.

Xieta also seemed to know that the smell on his body was not good, he rarely appeared in front of Bai Liu, just looked at him from a distance, occasionally Bai Liu went to look for Xieta, and Xieta disappeared.

When he doesn't want to get in touch with people, it's as if he doesn't exist. No one can find him, including Bai Liu.

Bai Liu started to get in touch with adults outside, doing some gray area things suitable for children, he could use this to earn a lot of money.

As long as he has enough money and ability, and is prepared, he is sure to take Scheta away from the pursuit of these investors and run out of this orphanage—although it is a very immature and naive plan, but a faint The uneasiness made Bai Liu realize that if Xieta doesn't leave.

But Bai Liu's matter was still exposed.

The child who exposed Bai Liu shrank behind the dean, his face was full of fear and excitement, he swallowed several times, and then raised his hand tremblingly, pointing to Bai Liu who had no emotion on his face: "I saw him I'm doing... some weird deals with that lord! He helped some lords do bad things! I saw it! Those lords gave him money back!"

"Did you do such a thing! Bai Liu!" The dean looked at him sternly.

Bai Liu didn't say any words of denial, he just turned his face away and stared at Xieta sitting in the crowd indifferently, and remained silent in a trance.

He didn't explain what he did - because it didn't make sense.

These people didn't care what he did, and they didn't bother to ask what he did, so they pronounced him guilty.

Of course what he did was not a good thing.

These teachers are just afraid of him—fear of him, the weird kid who hangs out with Scheta all day long, becomes more and more eerie, likes to read bloody stories, and always looks at other people with the eyes of slaughtering animals.

So of course, he was going to be punished, but Bai Liu was still in a distracted mood to judge the punishment measures of these teachers - that's all, it wasn't the first time he was punished.

But when the teacher came over and grabbed Bai Liu's arm, trying to drag him away, Xieta put one hand on the back of the chair, and suddenly stood up unsteadily.

His face and tone remained unchanged for thousands of years: "I asked him to do it."

Now these teachers are completely blown away. Compared with Bai Liu, they are of course more afraid of the taciturn Xieta. They surrounded Xieta with a gap of one meter in between, forming a A vacuum surrounds.

The dean interrogated him cautiously, fearfully, and condescendingly: "Why did you let Bai Liu do such a thing?"

They never suspected that Xieta did not do this thing at all, just like the process of finding Bai Liu guilty before, they simply and firmly pronounced his crime.

Because he is a monster, and Bai Liu is a bad boy who works with monsters, and they take everything for granted.

Xieta glanced sideways at Bai Liu who was being lifted up by the teachers, he raised the corner of his mouth abruptly, very lightly, at the second when Xieta smiled, Bai Liu felt that his silver blue eyes would definitely It was very gentle and curved beautifully, but unfortunately it was blocked by the hair, so he couldn't see it.

Xieta pleaded guilty in the same gentle tone as when he gave the book to Bai Liu.

He said: "Because I want to contact people outside, and then run out with Bai Liu."

"How dare you run out!!" The dean screamed hysterically, "Do you know how much trouble you will cause us by running out! It's already entered the second round of screening! Those investors will die without your blood! No more money!"

The children scattered in panic, they were frightened, chattering and discussing:

"Blood?! What blood! The blood from his needle holes?!"

"He really is a monster!"

The dean subconsciously covered her mouth when she found out that she had slipped her tongue. The next second she looked at Scheta viciously, and she grabbed Scheta's slender wrist and walked towards the church.

"Everything you have is given by this orphanage, and you still want to escape!" The dean's anger overcame her fear, and she cruelly sentenced Xieta to the punishment, "I think we have given you too many privileges, It's time for you to get some education, I'm going to lock you up in church tonight and be baptized!"

After speaking, she dragged Sieta's wrist and left.

Bai Liu struggled over the noisy children and teachers, he chased after him from the crowd, stretched out his hands to grab Xieta who was taken away from him: "Xieta!"

Scheta looked back at him, the wind blew the curly hair on his forehead, revealing a pair of silver-blue eyes, as beautiful as a lake after melting snow.

Bai Liu stared blankly at Xieta's eyes, which were not sad at all, but calm, with silver-blue eyes that seemed to be full of emotional satisfaction, reflecting him wholeheartedly in the eyes.

Sieta also extended his hand to him, and held Bai Liucong's hand that was trying to catch him under the siege of the crowd, and interlocked his fingers.

The cold and warm touch can touch the bulging pinhole scars on the back of the hand.

"Bai Liu." He smiled lightly, and held Bai Liu's hand tightly, "Don't be afraid, I'm a monster, I won't die."

"Let go!" The dean violently tore away their clenched hands.

Bai Liu gritted her teeth and didn't want to let go, but Xieta let go of her hand quietly, and the tight grip broke away at the touch of a touch.

Scheta shook his head at Bai Liu, telling him not to chase after him, turned around and walked with the dean peacefully, as usual, to the church that he was already familiar with.

Bai Liu had never been a very obedient child, a few minutes after the dean took Scheta over, he sneaked into the church secretly and carefully through the broken window covered by the curtain, Bai Liu hid behind the curtain, He curled up into a small ball, peeking at Scheta and the dean standing under the statue from the edge.

Scheta was wearing pure white clothes, holding a flickering white candle in both hands, and standing barefoot in front of the statue. He raised his head and closed his eyes, reciting prayers at a leisurely pace.

The dean stood beside Scheta, holding a whip and looking at him coldly.

After reading the prayer, the dean stepped forward and stared at him: "The next step is to be baptized, but today you have the idea of ​​betraying God and fleeing, so today's baptism must be thorough, and you must completely cleanse your body. Evil and filth!"

Scheta lowered his eyelashes: "It can't be washed clean."

"I am the unseen evil itself," he said softly.

After the dean was taken aback for a moment, his expression became more and more gloomy.

She snatched the candle from Xieta's hand, and pushed Xieta into the baptism pool with swaying water. She held up the candle and smiled cruelly and triumphantly, as if she had finally defeated some demon she had feared for a long time , There is a sense of insanity for the rest of your life.

The dean breathed a sigh of relief and looked towards Sieta, who was submerged in the water waves to the north. She raised the candle and placed it flat on the baptismal pool, and said indifferently: "You can't get up until the candle burns out, understand?"

The wax tears fell drop by drop in the clear water, and condensed into small white flowers, just like some kind of sacrificial flowers, floating one by one directly above Sieta lying on the bottom of the water with his eyes closed.

The baptismal pool was like a coffin that was too small for him, binding him tightly and twistedly.

When no one was aware of it, the statue facing the baptism pool moved, and the expression on the face of the pure white marble statue of the god turned into a very human accusation, as if accusing the baptist Why are the children in the pool misbehaving and trying to escape from the place of God's protection.

【You are an evil thing, a fallen god, you cannot escape from the confinement of God, you should not think about escaping because of a child who is bewitched by you】

The idol condemned indifferently: [Tavier, you know that child was bewitched by your evil, he is not the new believer you are looking for]

Tavel's eyelids moved underwater.

[No, I did not consider him my new believer]

The idol asked coldly: [Then what do you take that child for? He has seen your eyes, he is not far from madness]

【You should kill him, otherwise he will turn into an evil monster like you and destroy this world. You know, everything you pollute will lead to this consequence. 】

Tavel's fingers folded on his chest moved slightly: [I treat him as... I want to read books with him forever]

[But you know you can't, Tavel, kill him, kill this child who was defiled by you! 】God so commanded.

[I can't do it] Tavier calmly refused, [You kill me, I can't kill him].

The expression of the god statue became angry: [... You dare to disobey God's order after being exiled here, you should indeed be punished and sleep forever! 】

It opened its hand directly above Tavel, and the water flow at the bottom of the baptismal pool still became heavy, viscous and cold, just like flowing ice turned into spikes flowing in Tavel's body, This made him frown, but he quickly let go.

Scheta at the bottom curled up and shook Bai Liu's hand, his trembling eyelids stopped moving.

The temperature of Bai Liu's palm still remained in his palm, but that temperature gradually dissipated under the cold water, and stopped together with his breathing.

The fingers he clenched tightly, wanting to keep the temperature slowly loosened, and Scheta's body was suspended at the bottom of the water.

"Thanks, Scheta?!" The dean took two steps back in panic, and then touched Sieta's breath. The fire of the candle also extinguished the only light in the church.

"It's over..." The dean fell to the ground in a trance, and she twitched her hair crazily, talking to herself in disbelief, "Isn't he a monster?! He's still alive after being drawn so much blood? !Being baptized so many times without dying, why did you drown this time!? ""

"It's only a few minutes?! The candles haven't even burned out!" The dean's expression became more frightened, and she kept shaking her head, as if Scheta would come back to life if she didn't admit it, "No. , Impossible! Impossible!"

"He is dead, what should I do?!" The dean collapsed and knelt in front of the baptismal pool.

She could not have imagined that the death of this child would bring such mortal fear to her.

The dean looked down at Sieta's flawless face in the baptism pool, and muttered to himself: "...If I drown Sieta by myself, those people will drain my blood, and I must find another child Come be his substitute!"

Bai Liu, who was hiding behind the curtain, looked at the dean's hysterical roar with an expressionless face.

There was a strange firmness that made Bai Liu wait and see quietly—Scheta said he was a monster, he would not die, he must be pretending to be dead to fool this idiot dean.

Wait a minute, after the dean has left, Bai Liu will go up, and Scheta will stand up from the baptismal pool, show him that rare smile, and maybe even brush his wet forehead hair , looked at him intently with those silver-blue eyes, and asked him why he came here.

The association of these scenes made Bai Liu's heart beat slightly faster.

The dean didn't dare to let the investors know that she had killed Scheta. She carried Scheta's body out of the baptismal pool, secretly carried it out from the back door of the church, and tied stones on Scheta's hands and feet. , and then threw it into a small lake in the barren grass behind the church-that lake is connected to a river outside.

After several times of circulation, Xieta's body will flow into the river with the lake water, and then flow into the sea with the river water.

But Bai Liu would not let Xieta go that far.

Bai Liu silently followed the dean who destroyed the corpses all the way without making a sound. The dean seemed to be going crazy. If he appeared now, it seemed that the hysterical dean didn't mind disposing of an extra child's corpse.

After she fled hastily, Bai Liu came out. He buried his face in the small lake covered with emerald green duckweed, dived into the bottom of the water, and stretched out his hands to reach the Sieta, which was gradually sinking with the sand at the bottom of the lake.

The lake is deep, the duckweed is green, and Scheta sinks quickly.

The black sand was like some kind of creature devouring human corpses, and soon covered Scheta's body, greedily dragging him into hell.

But Bai Liu resisted the dirty lake water pouring into his mouth, nose and ears and the desire to choke, he gritted his teeth and grabbed the one-armed Scheta that was engulfed in the mud, and pulled it out with all his strength until he was exhausted. Taking the last breath of air in his lungs, Bai Liu felt that his brain was going to burn due to lack of oxygen.

But he finally pulled out Xieta, Bai Liu tore away the heavy stones and ropes tied to Xieta's body, hugged him and went upstream.

After landing on the shore, Bai Liu propped his hands back on the ground, looked up at the starless sky, panting heavily, there were duckweed hanging on his face and under his eyelids, his body was also completely soaked, and there were still leaves in the surrounding grass. The sound of cicadas is really a very embarrassing scene.

But Bai Liu didn't know why he suddenly snorted happily, he kicked Xieta who was quietly closing his eyes, lying on the ground without waking up, and asked him: "How do you know, I'm going to take you away What if I work for those grown-ups and earn money just to spend it for myself?"

Bai Liu's face was a little uncomfortable, and she looked at Xieta sideways with a slightly undisciplined smile: "Are you a little bit self-indulgent, Xieta?"

Scheta's face was covered with duckweed, he still didn't wake up, Bai Liu sat up first, and then changed into a squatting position, he looked down at the motionless Scheta, then stretched out his hand to push away the wet skin The hair on Scheta's forehead.

This person is really beautiful.

Bai Liu's fingertips slid from Scheta's slender eyelashes with drops of water all the way down, across the tip of his straight nose, and finally landed on his incredibly white lips, and the most beautiful pair, silver blue Her dark eyes seemed to have only been seen by him, and only by him.

"Xieta." Bai Liu's voice was very soft, he bent down and put his ears on Xieta's chest, and opened his eyes straight, "If you don't wake up, I will give you artificial respiration, and I will bite you to death of."

——no heartbeat, no breathing, no body temperature, no sign that Scheta would wake up.

"I'm serious." Bai Liu buried his head in Xieta's embrace, his fists gradually clenched until his fingertips turned white.

Bai Liu could smell the thick, familiar smell of blood mixed with the smell of the bottom of this person, it was an aura of approaching death.

Bai Liu hugged Xieta's shoulders more and more tightly, and tightly folded his arms to hug Xieta, the drops of water dripping from the two people's bodies merged together.

"I don't think you are pretending to be affectionate." Bai Liu leaned her head on Sieta's shoulder and said softly.

He rested his forehead on Scheta's heart, lowered his head and blinked, a drop of water dripped from the duckweed-stained eyelashes.

Scheta's head leaned against Bai Liu's shoulder without any strength, he didn't answer Bai Liu's painting, and his eyes still didn't open, only the cold water from his hair fell into Bai Liu's lapel, reminding him that he was still alive. .

They embraced and leaned on each other, their fingers intertwined, Bai Liu leaned on Xieta's shoulder, his voice was very calm, so quiet that there was no ups and downs:

"Didn't you say that you are a monster? If you live like a monster, I will admit that you are a monster."

"You are like this, it makes me feel terrible, Scheta."

A drop of water slipped from Scheta's eyelashes, like a drop of tear hitting the back of Bai Liu's hand.