Chapter 449: The Evil God Festival - The Boathouse

After testing all the offerings and attendants, Bai Liu was left alone by the imperial boat.

Cang Tai looked worriedly at Bai Liu's back as he stole a fearful glance at the imperial boat standing next to Bai Liu and retreated on his knees.

As he walked around Bai Liu, he tapped his fan thoughtfully against his lower lip, his eyes fell on Bai Liu, and he suddenly smiled: "If you are willing to cooperate with us by changing your surname and coming to the house as a sacrifice, I can guarantee that you will be given the highest rank of honour in the house after one successful sacrifice for the house. "

Bai Liu looked up at Mifune: "Can a sacrifice like me still have the right to change my own name?"

"Normally it is not possible." Gifune unfolded his fan to cover the lower half of his face, his eyes narrowing slightly with a smile, wrinkles overlapping at the corners, "Normally, it is impossible for a sacrifice that has been chosen by a large family to change its surname and then be passed on to another family."

"But if the sacrifice accidentally escapes and then is caught by another family and sacrificed first, that's not a good idea."

"After all, an offering during an exodus can be very unstable."

Bai Liu looked at Mifune with a shallow, level expression, "I don't seem to understand what Mifune is saying."

The grin on Mifune's face grew wry as he leaned over and sat down opposite Bai Liu: "As I'm sure you've discovered, Bai six, it's difficult to mass-produce offerings that meet the standards of divine suffering."

"Of the dozens and hundreds of sacrifices bought at great expense and effort each year, after six months of nurturing, less than one layer of sacrifices could produce a single thread of pain, and after a year only a quarter or a fifth of the sacrifices might be successfully sacrificed."

"No matter how tempting [bait] is used to catch these uninitiated sacrifices, no matter how twisted the way they are inspired to torture themselves, when these sacrifices know that they have to live their whole life for something like [pain], they will gradually become desperate and numb after a year."

Mifune looked obscure: "A numb sacrifice cannot produce quality [pain], so most of the sacrifices that cannot be sacrificed after a year are scrapped sacrifices and basically commit suicide."

"Then we gradually discovered that both the attendants and the sacrifices could only endure more torture and produce more pain when their hearts were filled with hope."

"Then we experimented many times and finally found a way to stimulate these numbing sacrifices - and that was to let them go."

"We will plant our people among the servants, suggesting that they can exfiltrate, and then after creating all sorts of mishaps, let them succeed in following our long-established path to exfiltrate out."

"But we won't capture them back immediately after the exodus, which doesn't produce enough bitterness and isn't the best time for this group of sacrifices to be appreciated."

The smile on Mifune's face widened to his cheeks and his eyes became twisted and wild as he looked at Bai Liu.

"We usually let them stay out long enough for six months before we capture them back."

"During this six-month period, we will place a variety of [well-wisher] roles around these offerings that have escaped out."

"From the smallest of things like the generous boss lady who eats a bowl of ramen and gives these hungry and penniless offerings a free bill, to the warm-hearted stranger who gives you an umbrella when it rains, to the larger of things like the good people who are willing to find you a job and adopt you for a short period of time so that they can reintegrate into this society and live a normal life, similar to the roles of [father], [mother], [friend], and [loving partner]. "

"It is difficult for these greatly tortured sacrifices to resist such good intentions." Mifune hummed a lazy laugh out of his nose as if he found it amusing, "It's like a dog that's been beaten with poison, even if it would be wary of people, it's hard not to bite the meat bones that are thrown at them."

"The moment when these desperate exiles, having enjoyed normal happiness, sluggishly adapt to their [new lives], slowly thinking that the world will be kind to them, with hope for all -"

Mikifune hooked one side of his mouth, "This time we will let the person they think they are closest to shatter their false happiness."

"-and the moment their happiness is shattered and they are dragged back to hell, these sacrifices burst into pain like never before."

Bai Liu's eyes twitched slightly: " Beiyuan Xiaokui was deliberately put out by you?"

Mikifune nodded arrogantly as he smiled up, "Smart man."

"Surely with your level of pain and intelligence, we have absolutely no need for such cheap tricks to be used on you to cause pain."

Mikifune withdrew his gaze as he flicked the right pan of the scales with the handle of his fan, his eyes heavy with concentration.

"Usually, we recycle the offerings that were put out on the day of the evil festival, which was six months ago, and put out the offerings that will be used for the next festival, which is six months later, which is why the offerings usually have a maturation period of one year."

"Let these sacrifices be utterly desperate for six months, let them rekindle their hope for six months, and then sacrifice them, so that we use not the seasonal sacrifices for each sacrifice, but the six-month old sacrifices."

"In order to avoid new offerings probing the end, we will distinguish between old and new offerings that are captured and returned."

Bai Liu looked towards the imperial boat: "What about Beiyuan Xiaokui?"

The imperial ship's face sank instantly, " Beiyuan Xiaokui was an exception, she was taken back early."

"Originally she had four months left to mature, but after the Bei Yuan family got last year's tax first, they didn't want their sacrifice to be under the control of this [exodus program] of ours, and asked to have her back with them when they bought a new sacrifice, saying that she had almost three years of pain built up in her and didn't need to be conditioned by us, the Gifune family. "

Gifune slapped the tabletop in anger, "This arrogant attitude is a complete questioning of the Gifune family's education in sacrifice and a breaking of the entire [Exodus Project] rules!"

His chest rose and fell violently with anger, "The original [exodus plan] was to release the sacrifices again after they had all been captured and returned, so that these sacrifices in utter despair would exodus again."

"The eight families have priority in hunting these wildly fleeing sacrifices, a sort of divine mega-hunt before the summer festival arrives."

"The moment these sacrifices that have escaped again are caught, the pain in them will be at its peak, and this is the best time to appreciate the pain in them, so it is whoever catches the escaped sacrifice that can be immediately dragged to the shrine for sacrifice."

"It would have been a perfect plan, but the Bei Yuan family was disgruntled and unwilling to comply."

Gifune's face grew cold: "The hunt was originally random, but the Bei Yuan family believes that there must be something inside the fact that the Gifune family has hunted the most painful sacrifice two years in a row, made the most valuable wish, and then continued to be the number one family in taxation the following year, driven by that wish."

"Last year they used this as an excuse to force a reform of this sacrifice cultivation programme, to bring forward the distribution of sacrifices after which each of the great families would cultivate them on their own."

Mikifune looked scornful: "And this proposal by the Bei Yuan family was actually voted for by seven of the eight great families."

"But under this mode of cultivation, everyone gets sacrifices that are cultivated on their own that are far less painful than those cultivated under our [exodus program], so last year's Summer Festival didn't have many sacrifices at all that could be used to make a wish, and the ones that were bought back were basically scrapped."

"Except for the Bei Yuan family." Mikifune's expression twisted up, "The sacrifices they cultivated on their own offered up the deepest pain and allowed them to make the most valuable wish of last year, so they became the number one family in taxes this year."

"So this year, the six families have again fallen in line with the Gifune family, choosing to use the exodus program to breed their own offerings, but the Bei Yuan family is still hell-bent on carrying out their own breeding program."

Mikifune looked tabooly at Bai Liu: "- and, also, produced an even more painful sacrifice than last year."

"I'm not curious what the Bei Yuan family can do to make you all suffer like this, but I can tell you with certainty that the Gifune family can offer something higher than what the Bei Yuan family will give you."

"The summer festival exodus program, which the Bei Yuan family is participating in this year, is why your new batch of offerings will be released and sent to live in a new place for six months before being captured and returned."

"The specific programme for each sacrifice in the exodus programme is the responsibility of our house, the Gifune."

Gifune leaned forward as he gazed at Bai Liu: "If you want, I can rotate you out with a common sacrifice and send him to your rightful place of exile to be tortured, and you, just wait until after the summer festival this year, the Gifune family will send you whatever you want and then send you away from Luming County to start your new life exactly where you want to be. life."

Bai Liu lifted his eyes, "Anything I want?"

"Yes, anything." The attitude of the Gifune became rampant, " Luming County is under the rule of the Gifune family, anything from Luming County, you can take if you want."

Bai Liu gazed calmly at the imperial boat, "So what do I need to do?"

"Sacrifice once." Mikifune stared at Bai Liu, "On the day of the summer festival, you will be released as the new sacrifice, and the old sacrifice that was released and captured six months ago will be released again, with all eight families returning for the hunt."

"I will mix you in with the old sacrifices, you just have to make sure you are hunted by the Gifune family and then go to the shrine and sacrifice once."

Bai Liu was quiet for a moment, then he suddenly smiled a little, then looked at the imperial ship who was a little puzzled by his smile and spoke softly, "I agree to the deal with you."