The system always wants to send me to the heroine

I was lifted into the air with both hands, and waved my four little paws angrily.

After much persuasion, the elder sister shrine maiden finally accepted that her fox had a soft loli voice.

She seemed to think that I was a naughty fox, and even if I could speak, my voice shouldn't be so soft and cute.

It's obvious that I'm super obedient. I'm not allowed to go to the toilet around and I'm told to take a shower every day, and I do everything I'm told. Where can you find a fox as obedient as me?

Isn't it just bullying some annoying rabbit?

"Tell me, how did you learn to speak, and where is this place?"

For Yan Luoqing, there are more unsolved mysteries. The situation in this strange place has not been figured out yet, and her own fox actually started to talk.

How does a fox bark? It sounds like a loli!

Or is it another manifestation of illusion?

Yan Luoqing, holding her fox in both hands, secretly watched the movements of the spirit butterflies released nearby.

"Wow, I, I suddenly realized the inheritance, hehe, it's the inheritance of the Inari God, isn't it amazing!"

The little guy raised his head in his hands, trying to look proud and great.

"Heh, Inari God?"

When Yan Luoqing heard a taboo word, her eyes narrowed slightly.

Inari was once the god of harvest worshipped by shrine maidens, so she naturally knows more about it than anyone else.

It is true that the incarnation of the legendary Inari god is a fox, and his messenger is also a fox.

But have you ever seen an inheritor of the Inari God competing with an ordinary rabbit?

Since when did this God become so unpicky in choosing his successor?

Besides, the existence of God has long been denied. At least my mother never believed in God, but only believed in the spiritual blade in my hand.

Because Inari God is an evil god, at least, that's what the priestesses of their lineage think.

God is high above, so he doesn't care about the suffering of common people. If you want God to perform miracles, you have to pay the price.

This little fellow, who still doesn't know the true face of the Inari God, is so proud of himself.

But this little guy who claims to be the successor of the Inari God is the last thing his mother left him.

Oh, how ironic.

Well, my little guy has always been stupid, so I'll just treat it as his nonsense.

"If this place is not an illusion, how can we explain it?"

Yan Luoqing's eyes flickered, and she was unwilling to continue the previous topic, so she turned to ask me a question.

I quickly told the witch sister exactly what I had heard from little F.

It's just that, looking at her bitter and resentful expression, it seems that she can't accept the reality that this is another world for a while.

But the reality was still in her face, a world that was so real that it didn't seem like a fantasy, the villagers who repeated their daily conversations over and over again, and the scorching sun that would never set.

Broken space, torn space.

If someone else had said such a ridiculous statement, she would have certainly been skeptical, but it happened to be said by her own stupid fox.

Does she have the intelligence to make up such a lie?

Therefore, this is most likely the truth.

That rat demon must be hiding in this space.

Keeping cautious, Yan Luoqing led the fox slowly into the foggy village.

The people in the village did not respond to the outsiders at all, or rather, they were unable to respond and simply repeated their monotonous activities.

It was clearly noon, the time for cooking, and there were frequent pedestrians on the street, but there was not a single sign of life.

Under the tree at the entrance of the village, the two old men could only keep moving the chess pieces, placing them down and picking them up.

"Wugu, Sister Miko, do you think they can be saved?"

Although I know that these people are victims of the shattering of time and space, I still can't help but feel sad when I see such a scene.

"Hopeless."

Yan Luoqing shook her head slightly.

They cannot feel the flow of time in this space, but that does not mean their bodies can withstand the countless cycles of time. They can only live in the present, and once external forces intervene, they will cease to exist.

To verify what she was thinking, she reached out and gently touched the old man who was holding the chess piece and preparing to jump the horse.

Amid Loli's scream, the old man instantly fell to the ground, his entire body leaning backwards and turning into powder along the way.

That is the residue left after weathering.

"It's been too long. This place has been around for too long."

Yan Luoqing nodded slightly. This result also confirmed a previous doubt.

Why would the rat demon go to the village to attack humans instead of going there? If it needed blood for food, there are villagers everywhere here.

It seems that this is the reason.

But if I think this way, there is another question. Why are only the villagers in the space affected by this disaster, while the outsiders, whether the rat demon or myself, are not imprisoned by time?

What is the purpose of locking the internal time?

While Yan Luoqing was thinking, she expanded the search range of the spirit butterfly and gradually walked towards the center of the village.

There is a strange altar in the center of the village.

A man wearing a white ferocious fox demon mask was holding a long knife and dancing a strange dance while muttering to himself.

"Wow, what's going on? That dance looks a bit like the Kagura dance that the miko and Long Aotian did!"

Yan Luoqing nodded slightly, with a hint of anger between her brows.

"Yes, she is a former witch, and she is now offering tribute to the so-called gods."

"Tribute?"

The sister witch pointed her finger and saw a corpse at the feet of the masked witch that had weathered beyond recognition, which made me gasp.

"The tribute is the villagers? It looks like they are children?"

Yan Luoqing frowned. This piece of history that had been buried was not a glorious thing, but now it seemed that it had to be mentioned.

"Inari is the god of the harvest, whose duty is to bless the people with good weather and good harvests in the coming year, but such a miracle comes at a price."

Yan Luoqing stretched out her hand and pointed at the bones on the altar.

"Look, that's the sacrifice to the Inari God. Offering blood and flesh to pray for peace was one of the duties of the shrine maidens in the past."

Even though this kind of behavior was not what she wanted, nor was it the style of her own Jiangfeng Shrine, it was what the shrine maidens of the past should have done.

Serving the gods is our duty.

Therefore, it was understandable that the witch was suppressed by the Daliang court later, and it was even more reasonable that her mother did not believe in gods.

Since Inari God is an evil god, how can we believe in him?

Yan Luoqing's spiritual power burst out and pushed towards the dancing witch on the altar, instantly turning her into ashes.

Judging from the situation at the scene, a sacrifice ceremony was being held in the village at the time of the accident, with sacrifices being offered in the hope of good weather and a good harvest.

It was a time of extremely hot summer, so it was no wonder that the villagers resorted to this desperate measure.

The little guy lay on his shoulder, with his big tail drooping down.

Oh, now that you know how powerful you are, do you still dare to brag about being the successor of the Inari god?

Chapter 14: Fighting the Rat Demon

The witch sister was obviously extremely disgusted with the idea of ​​using living people as sacrifices. I whimpered twice and chose not to argue anymore.

This ritual is indeed cruel and barbaric, but from a modern perspective like me, perhaps it is not a bad solution.

If the weather were as hot and rainless as it is now, causing a drought disaster, who knows how many people would die. If sacrifice is effective, it might be a way to avoid mass deaths.

Gulu, of course, I personally totally disagree with this!

Even if this method is effective, the innocent children who are sacrificed will be so pitiful. He has no obligation to sacrifice himself to save others.

The value of life cannot be measured simply by quantity!

"It seems that you are still very unconvinced, Little Lizhi. Are you thinking that even if there is such a sacrifice, it cannot be despised by me?"

A big hand reached out and grabbed me directly in front of her and started playing with me.

"Seems like that, right?"

Even though I didn't guess it completely right, how did the witch sister know that I was not convinced? My tail was clearly drooping.

Of course I didn't know. Although I tried my best to appear obedient, my big ears were still standing up high and moving from time to time.

"You know, little Lizhi, whenever there is a deal with the gods, the initiative is never in the hands of mortals, and the sacrifices are far more than just a few children. When I saw this altar, I already had a guess."

The elder witch sister slowly stopped touching my hand, she raised her head and looked around the village in the distance, and at the same time, she lifted me up high so that I could look at it together.

"Look, this village has about a hundred households and about five hundred people, and they died inexplicably. Time just stopped at the time of the sacrifice, which means that the shattering of the space happened during the sacrifice. Ha, Xiao Lizhi, you also said that the formation of this space was caused by external forces, right?"

In a blink of an eye, I was caught in front of her again, meeting her dark and inexplicable gaze.

"Xiao Lizhi, who else could have done this?"

I gulped down a mouthful of saliva and felt completely wilted.

Having the power to tear apart the entire space, this power certainly cannot be possessed by mortals, and the information that the sacrifice is in progress shows that only the Inari God is participating.

"That means, uh, everyone in the entire village has become a sacrifice to the Inari God?"

I muttered stupidly.

This is probably the reality, and it really is hard for me to accept it for a while.

A population of five hundred, along with the entire village, was directly cut off from space.

Too much!

Inari is clearly the god of harvest, how could this happen!

I stared at the elder shrine maiden in a daze, and there was the same surprise in her eyes.

After all, this was the first time she had encountered such a scene.

Suddenly, the witch sister hugged me tightly, and I was caught off guard and was pressed against the chest by the elder sister.

This is the legendary realm of God in anime!

Before I could get excited, the elder sister hugged me with one hand and quickly drew out the magic sword with the other hand. A black sound came at me quickly, and a pair of sharp claws collided with the elder sister's long sword.

While my elder sister was fighting against it, I quickly jumped into her arms so as not to affect her fight.

Opposite was a giant rat as tall as a man, with a bloody mouth, a pair of scarlet eyes that glowed red, a pair of extremely sharp claws, and a pair of funny little round ears.

"Sacrifice..."

The big rat spoke in human language and stared at the witch.

The man and the demon confronted each other for a short while, and then suddenly they jumped back together. The witch held the knife in both hands, spread her legs, and instantly got into a posture to meet the enemy.

But the big rat took the first step, using its claws as knives and stabbing straight at Yan Luoqing's chest and abdomen. Yan Luoqing raised her knife to block it, but it missed. The big rat quickly retracted its claws and stabbed at her with the second claw.

"So fast!"

Yan Luoqing was secretly surprised and had to continue to block the fight with her sword. However, the big rat's eyes became more and more ferocious. The third claw, the fourth claw, grabbed from other directions. When Yan Luoqing hurriedly changed her moves, the fifth claw, the sixth claw became even more swift, and each move was faster than the last.

Yan Luoqing was secretly frightened in her heart. It was clearly a rat demon, but how could it be so swift and powerful? It could even suppress her with its swordsmanship. Its claws followed one after another, each faster than the last, and it kept on coming. She had no choice but to retreat step by step.

The opponent's claws were like two knives, using a quick knife technique for a fast attack. Originally, my swordsmanship was not necessarily weaker than the opponent's, but I was taken advantage of and was forced to retreat repeatedly in the fierce attack, without even a chance to fight back.

If she wants to use her spiritual power to turn it into fire, it will take time to infuse the spiritual power into the spiritual blade. The opponent obviously won't give her this opportunity. His claws are waving like a violent storm, and Yan Luoqing doesn't have any time to spare.

"Sacrifice... new sacrifice... all sacrifices..."

The rat demon's bean-sized eyes were red, and he was fighting fiercely, opening his mouth wide and staring straight at his opponent.

The situation is already extremely critical.

Suddenly, a gust of evil wind arose, and a huge white fox about three meters tall stood proudly beside the battlefield. The sudden appearance of a new monster startled Yan Luoqing so much that his blade slowed down a bit.