Chapter 435

After the royal boat left, the cabin returned to silence, only the frightened sobbing of children and the ignorant barking of kittens and dogs could be heard occasionally.

Cang Tai got a little black cat, and he stood quietly behind Bai Liu for a long time before opening his mouth, and asked in a trembling voice: "Bai Liu, can you see Xiao Kui? What's the matter? gone?"

With the help of the faint light, Bai Liu looked at Xiaokui on the bed. Xiaokui was lying on the bed with her hair disheveled, holding the bandage tied around her wrist, stroking her vigorously one by one. The voice of the kitten that was allotted to me was hoarse and weak: "Good cat, be good."

"[Xiao Kui] Be good."

Cang Tai heard Xiao Kui's voice, he was silent for a while, and looked at the little black cat in his arms with an almost indescribable gaze, and loosened his hands tremblingly.

The little black cat raised its head in confusion, looked at the boy who didn't hug him tightly, and let out a small meow.

Cang Tai turned around cruelly, and he closed his eyes short of breath.

...It turns out that this is why these sacrifices will get cats.

It is almost every child's dream to have a pet that has the same name as their own and is very close to them.

‌It can't be like this, it's too... painful.

This frightened him a hundred times more than letting Cang Tai do coolies.

Seeing the death of two kittens named Xiaokui and Shiba Inu, Sota, who huddled on the bed and dared not make a sound, listened to Xiaokui's heart-piercing screams, shivered, covered his ears and dared not Listen again.

The screams were so horrendous that Cang Tai almost thought that it was not Xiaodong who died, but Xiaokui herself.

He doesn't want to be a little sunflower, so it's best for him not to have feelings for these distributed pets, and it's best to separate now.

Then a wave hit again, the cabin was bumped up, everyone was knocked by the waves and slid to one side, the little black cat couldn't hold things steady with its paws, it just slid down the bed, panicked Called twice.

Cang Tai, who had passed away before, turned around in a panic: "Cang Tai!"

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he took the little black cat into his arms again and hugged it tightly.

When Cang Tai realized what he had done, he stared blankly at the little black cat tightly hugged by both hands, tears streaming down his face involuntarily.

...Why is this happening.

Even though it was the first time he had seen her, he couldn't help but watch [Cang Tai] die.

In the dark cabin, many children cried and hugged their pets tightly when the waves hit, sobbing and shouting that their pets had the same name as themselves.

In the vast sea, on the painful journey with uncertain paths, these children who are about to become sacrifices to evil gods try to get some kind of supportive warmth from this soft and close little animal , or domesticated by humans, and the love given to them the first time they meet.

"You can't let go of the pets they handed out." Lying on his bed, a child named Bai Liu said flatly, "Now that you know it's called you Once you get a name, you can’t let it go.”

Cang Tai hugged the little black cat, sobbing and asking: "Why?"

Bai Liu said calmly: "It's the same as you, it's an animal cub used by adults, it's an individual drifting alone in this sea after being abandoned and sold, it's all An instrument to be tortured to increase suffering."

"From various perspectives, you are all human beings who share a common destiny."

"In the human world, you should never meet a human being who is friendly to you. The human beings you meet, or the human beings you meet are all killing you, otherwise you would not be trafficked to this ship. , under such conditions, you have met a [category] who will like you after being carefully selected, and you also share the same name, it is difficult for you to empathize with this animal pup Cubs."

Bai Liu slightly turned to the side, opened his eyelids and looked at the dazed Cang Tai behind him: "——in other words, the cat in your hand is no longer a cat, but another yourself, another Cang Tai."

"You can't watch it die any more than you can watch yourself die."

Cang Tai stared blankly at Bai Liu's dark eyes, he suddenly remembered some rumors, trembled a bit, opened his mouth hesitantly, as if he wanted to ask something, but finally remained silent  to go.

Bai Liu said calmly: "Do you want to ask now, if people can empathize with another animal that is in the predicament of intercourse, why [I] in the orphanage would torture and kill animals? Yeah?"

After a long time, Cang Tai took a hesitant look at the little white cat curled up in Bai Liu's arms, sleeping soundly, with its belly turned upside down, and explained: "Actually, I don't think it's you. What, I just don't understand, I mean if, if there are rumors about you, why would he do this?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a while, then said: "There is one important point in empathy judgment, which is empathy."

"First of all, feel the emotional similarities between the other person and you. For example, when you and the black cat in your arms are in the same predicament, you have emotions such as pain, fear, fear, etc. At this time, you will feel that it is your kind, and then you will empathize, and then achieve the purpose of empathy."

"If a person suffers from any kind of event, the emotions he produces are not the same as those around him, or even the movement, and the emotions are not consistent. He will have no way to empathize, and naturally he will not be able to empathize. Possibly empathetic."

"Emotions have something in common, so he won't feel that he and the people around him are human. When people hurt non-human things, they won't feel pain."

"He is the same as us, he is a child who grew up in an orphanage." Cang Tai bowed to the side of the white willow, and asked from the bottom of his heart, "Why does he have a way to have a relationship? We have the same emotions? Is it because the brain is different from ours?"

"I personally don't think so." Bai Liu's tone was light, "Because most people with normal brains can empathize with others even if they have the ability to exploit others."

"Just like Master Mifune just now, he should be the county magistrate of Luming County near Xiaokui's mouth. He sounds like a good person before, and he should treat Xiaokui well, but now he has no empathy for Xiaokui at all. , I don’t treat Xiaokui as a living person at all, but as a sacrifice.”

Cang Tai asked softly in a daze: "...Yes, why is it like this?"

"I think it's because of desire." Bai Liu continued to explain in a flat tone, "When a person desires too much, when he sees any living thing, the first thing he feels is not a sense of humanity, but a sense of exploitation."

"Extreme desires will make people imagine that they are in a huge social food chain, and other people are also in the food chain with them, so they will only have two judgments on the people around them, which can exploit them of, and what they can exploit.”

"What they can exploit are low-level animals like kittens and puppies, and what they can exploit is the infinite God."

"In their world, the weak prey on the strong, the fittest survive, and human nature is evil. People are born to cannibalize human beings from the food chain to increase assets and value. They take it for granted that empathy is a kind of weakness. Embody, because the beast has no empathy for the hunter."

Cang Tai asked weakly: "We are humans, we are not beasts."

Bai Liu paused: "If a person stays in the food chain of self-desire for a long time, he will turn from a human into a beast, even a monster."

"Humans with only desires can eat people."

Cang Tai fell into a creepy sluggishness, he suddenly repeated Bai Liu's words: "Cannibal...?"

From the shop, Xiaokui gave two nervous laughs, then murmured: "Xiaokui, Maomao, be good."

The wind and waves on the sea finally stopped, and the large ship carrying a boat of sacrifices from Bai Liu and the others docked at the port of Luming County on a sunny afternoon.

The imperial boat stood neatly at the port, holding a stick made of bamboo poles in his hand, and looked down at the lowered place in a short-sighted manner. His footsteps were weak, and he walked in line from the cabin with a weak complexion. sacrifices.

The sacrifices are all children under fifteen years old, just sensible and a little ignorant, which is Luming County's favorite age for sacrifices.

Bai Liu is really big here, almost seventeen, normally there shouldn't be such a big sacrifice, because it's not good, because he is thin and small, and his physical appearance only looks ten It was around five, so it was successfully sold here.

These sacrifices who have experienced the wind and waves are all hugging the little animals in their arms. Some children are still weak, so they don't care, and they just throw themselves into their arms, such weak little animals. Move your body.

They repeatedly checked the paws of puppies and kittens, put their faces on their bellies, and felt their breathing ups and downs. While checking, they burst into tears, not daring to say a word, nor He didn't dare to ask the people around him for help, but just kept crying in a low voice.

Yufune looked at the tearful sacrifices and nodded in satisfaction, then nodded sideways: "Go and help them heal their pets and send them to their houseboat."

Bai Liu looked around from the corner of his eye, and he saw that many children, even if they were afraid of Yufuan because of what happened to Xiaokui before, their eyes lit up because of Yufuan's order.

A few children whispered, "Thank you, Mifune-sama."

Fifteen years old is the age at which the concept of right and wrong has not yet formed. Many children seem to have grown up in a cramped and abnormal environment, and they probably have insufficient awareness of the world.

It's too easy to deceive.

Yu Chuan slowed down his expression: "You children are all good children, love animals, love relatives and friends, and have rich feelings. I am very satisfied."

"I know you were very scared when you saw me teaching Xiaokui on the boat, but what I have to say here is that Xiaokui is a bad boy!"

Yufuan's expression suddenly darkened, and he held his cane and slammed it heavily on the ground: "I don't like small animals, and after several years of sacrificial inspections, I have failed, and I'm still going to die." The squire and the dog who wounded her escaped from us, a very bad girl!"

"We will naturally not be friendly to such a bad child. I hope everyone will learn from Xiaokui and strive to be a good child. We will treat you well."

All the children turned to look at Xiao Kui standing motionless in front of the sacrifice, but they didn't seem to notice that the gazes of these children's eyes became repulsive and vigilant, and they still hugged the cat. Standing there numbly.

Mifune withdrew his gaze from Xiaokui, and then fell on the group of sacrificial children looking up at him:

"The place where you live is called a houseboat. It's on a coast not far from here. You can see the sea every day when you wake up. It's a very beautiful place."

"Before you arrive at the houseboat, there is one small thing you need to do."

Yufune said: "I need two of you to become good friends, and then one of you will be the attendant of the other, and the other will be the sacrificial offering."

His eyes became dark and dark:

"Children who become sacrifices, you can enjoy the best everything in Luming County, food, clothing, travel, education, and even your pets can enjoy the best treatment, no one else Dare to hurt them."

"We will choose for you the people from the most famous big family in Luming County to be your adoptive parents. You are the most precious existence in Luming County, above all ordinary people, and if you can fight against the evil god Sacrifice successfully provides a round of sacrificial pain, and after that, you will enjoy it forever."

The eyes of all the children couldn't help showing longing.

"Become a servant's child." Mifune's tone changed into a pity, "It's just a servant."

"——The same as the days you lived together, you are just a servant who will be abandoned at any time."

"If your good friends don't like you or don't need you someday." Mifune smiled kindly, "We will send you back."

"I will keep your pet here."