Deities Are All Just My Food
Chapter 512 - 237: Death Incubation_1

Chapter 512: Chapter 237: Death Incubation_1

In the sky, dark clouds swirled tumultuously, as if it were about to rain.

The group hurried in front of the altar.

This altar wasn’t made of stone like the common ones, but was constructed from wood and straw, looking extremely crude, simply enclosing three concentric circles.

On the wood, congealed dark red bloodstains formed a series of strange symbols.

In the center of the concentric circles, there stood a wooden stake as thick as an arm, on which was tied a bird-like effigy made of straw.

The feathers on the effigy were identical to those of the giant birds they had just encountered, but due to neglect over the years and being battered by wind and rain, it appeared bedraggled, like a drenched chicken.

"What do we do now?"

The luxury-loving man looked at the straw bird: "Pray to it?"

Everyone kept a wary eye on the altar, their faces showing a hint of disappointment; they had hoped to find a portal that could take them out of there.

"Don’t touch anything recklessly!"

Lin Baici warned.

The wind picked up, and light rain began to fall from the sky, pitter-pattering on their faces, feeling somewhat refreshing.

"God Lin, it moved!"

Li Junsheng suddenly yelled, startling everyone.

"What moved?"

The luxury-loving man tensed up, looking anxious.

"The bird effigy’s eyelids seemed to twitch?"

Li Junsheng himself wasn’t sure.

"How could it move if its eyelids are sewn shut?"

Zeng Guoxue, appearing brave to contrast Li Junsheng’s apparent cowardice, scorned the idea.

This was a straw effigy with a humanoid torso and limbs but bird-like claws for feet, and it even had a pair of wings attached to its ribcage.

It had a bird’s head, round and small, with a beak long like a crow’s, shaped like a large hook, and its upper and lower eyelids were coarsely stitched together with twine.

In such circumstances, being cautious could never hurt, so everyone focused their attention on the straw bird.

"It moved!"

"I saw it too!"

"Fuck, this feels so sinister!"

The tension among the group shot up instantaneously.

"God Lin, should we... should we leave this place?"

Little Fairy was very scared.

Lin Baici, with a bird egg in her mouth, found it difficult to speak, and Xia Hongyao felt the same, so, irritated, she placed her right hand in front of her mouth, getting ready to spit out the egg.

"Don’t!"

Lin Baici mumbled, reacting quickly to cover High Ponytail’s mouth, worried that spitting out the bird egg might be considered a failure or lead to disqualification by the rules.

Gu Qingqiu immediately crouched down and started writing on the ground with the dagger Lin Baici had given her.

"Don’t spit out the bird egg, just observe for now!"

Gu Qingqiu didn’t let Xia Hongyao write down her findings because she thought that, given High Ponytail’s intelligence, there wouldn’t be any significant discoveries.

Following the direction indicated by the Fat Bird Monster, everyone had found this altar, which surely served some purpose.

Gu Qingqiu circled the altar, then bent down, passed through the railing, and moved toward the straw bird to take a closer look.

Her actions immediately drew everyone’s attention.

"So brave!"

The luxury-loving man exclaimed admiringly, certain he wouldn’t dare do the same.

Xia Hongyao, concerned for Gu Qingqiu’s safety, promptly followed.

The two stood in front of the straw bird, inspecting it, when suddenly, as Gu Qingqiu looked into the straw bird’s eyes, its stitched eyelids snapped apart, breaking the coarse thread, and opened to reveal a pair of rotting eyeballs with even maggots slowly crawling within.

"Watch out!"

Xia Hongyao instantly reached out, intending to pull Gu Qingqiu behind her, but Gu Qingqiu stood her ground, unfazed.

Swish! Swish!

The straw bird’s rotten eyeballs rolled erratically before settling on Gu Qingqiu.

Whoosh!

A semi-transparent bird-like spirit, as if shedding its soul from its straw body, suddenly emerged and floated in front of Gu Qingqiu, face to face with her.

"Don’t hit it!"

Gu Qingqiu leaned slightly backward, not out of fear, but because she was uncomfortable with someone so close.

Xia Hongyao was about to act but stopped at Gu Qingqiu’s words.

"Holy shit!"

"What the hell is this?"

"Run!"

The others lacked Gu Qingqiu’s courage; the moment they saw the ghostly bird spirit appear, they turned and fled, but after running about ten meters, they stopped.

Mainly because Lin Baici, Lin’s strong legs, didn’t run.

When the bird spirit saw these uninvited guests running away, it immediately opened its mouth and emitted an ultrasonic wave.

Like a stone thrown into a lake creating ripples, the air also rippled, expanding and spreading rapidly in all directions, sweeping over everyone.

Even though they heard no sound at all, their heads suddenly shook as if struck by a severe sonic assault, displaying expressions of pain, and they became unstable, screaming as they fell to the ground.

Little Fairy, terrified, collapsed beside Lin Baici, clinging desperately to his arm.

Several people seemed to have burst their eardrums with blood flowing from their ears.

However, a small number of people were unaffected; Lin Baici noticed that these were the ones with bird eggs in their mouths, having avoided the sonic attack.

"Thank the heavens!"

The luxury-loving man was so excited he almost cried, truly believing that faith in God Lin granted eternal life.

The bird spirit surveyed the crowd, glancing over those who hadn’t fallen, then continued to focus on Gu Qingqiu, reaching out and pinching her cheek.

Guessing what the creature intended, Gu Qingqiu simply opened her mouth.

Seeing the saliva-coated bird egg inside Gu Qingqiu’s mouth, the spirit let go of her and floated towards a young man who had fallen to the ground.

"Why didn’t it look at me?"

Xia Hongyao was puzzled.

"Shh!"

Gu Qingqiu gestured for Xia Hongyao to keep quiet.

The ghostly bird creature floated in front of a young man with short hair and pinched his cheek, twisting it forcefully.

The young man opened his mouth.

When the ghostly bird creature didn’t see any bird eggs, it furrowed its brow and reached out, thrusting its hand forcefully into the young man’s mouth.

Crack!

Like a red-hot iron rod piercing into a piece of cheese, the ghostly bird creature’s arm easily slid into the young man’s esophagus, going more than a foot deep.

"Fuck!"

Everyone witnessing this brutal scene felt a chill from head to toe, breaking out in a cold sweat.

Ah!

The young man screamed miserably as his mouth was forcefully stretched open, blood spattering on the clothes over his chest. He struggled, but it was in vain.

The ghostly bird creature withdrew its hand.

The young man immediately fell to the ground, his face contorted with pain as he tried to crawl away.

The ghostly bird creature, not having found any bird eggs, called out to the young man.

Bang!

The young man’s head exploded, blood pouring out and soaking the fallen leaves and mud.

The drizzle from the sky hit everyone’s face, making them feel even colder.

Many people were shivering uncontrollably.

The ghostly bird creature floated towards the luxury lad and, upon seeing a bird egg in his mouth, spared him.

Everyone’s faces turned pale, some feeling relieved and others regretful, because the situation had become quite clear, as long as a bird egg was held in the mouth, that person would not be attacked by the ghostly bird creature.

"Thank God I listened to God Lin!"

Rocket Bro’s face was a picture of narrow escape, and not just him, everyone else who had taken a bird egg, at this moment, felt like bowing deeply to Lin Baici, with a resounding thud.

"My Little Linzi is the best in the world!"

Xia Hongyao shouted in her heart, not panicking at all.

Another unfortunate soul lay on the ground as the ghostly bird creature reached into his throat to check for bird eggs.

After confirming there were none, the ghostly bird creature called out and the poor man’s head immediately exploded, with his skull flying more than ten meters away.

"Run!"

Xia Hongyao yelled, now convinced; it was clear this was a situation where death was certain. Why wait?

Better to run and get a bird egg.

Some people didn’t want to wait for death. Enduring the pain of their eardrums rupturing, they got up and stumbled away.

The ghostly bird creature glanced at them but didn’t pursue, because no matter how far they ran, if they wanted to leave this forest alive, they would eventually have to come back.

The atmosphere around the altar was incredibly oppressive.

Everyone was like playing a live-action ghost game, daring not to move a muscle, waiting for the ghostly bird creature to call on them.

The ghostly bird creature floated in front of Rocket Bro.

Rocket Bro didn’t want to have the creature’s arm shoved down his esophagus, so he opened his mouth on his own, his plea muffled: "I have an egg!"

Crack!

He spoke too hastily. The shell of the bird egg was too fragile, and his teeth chipped a small hole in it.

Rocket Bro’s face instantly turned white as a sheet, his body trembling like a sieve. He looked towards Lin Baici for help.

The ghostly bird creature, having seen the cracked egg, screeched furiously at Rocket Bro.

Bang!

Rocket Bro’s head burst open like a rotten tomato, with blood spurting skyward, mixing with the fine rain, spraying everywhere.

Thud!

The headless body fell to the ground.

"So even a cracked egg won’t do!"

The crowd panicked, none of them sure whether the bird egg in their own mouth had any cracks.

The ghostly bird creature floated in front of Little Fairy.

Gulp!

Little Fairy swallowed hard, clinging tightly to Lin Baici’s arm.

Zeng Guoxue was so envious he felt like spitting blood. He wanted to stand in front of Little Fairy, but the sight of the deceased had thrown his mind into turmoil, and he couldn’t step forward.

Lin Baici patted Little Fairy’s shoulder, then hugged her, providing warmth and signaling her not to panic, but Little Fairy was still trembling.

Lin Baici reached out and gently tapped Little Fairy’s chin: "Open your mouth!"

Who knew how strong the ghostly bird creature’s grip was?

Better to let it pinch your cheeks than to risk it breaking the egg—better to open your mouth voluntarily.

Little Fairy, trembling, opened her mouth, praying that the egg was unharmed.

The ghostly bird creature looked for a few seconds and then drifted away.

Little Fairy’s legs gave out, and she fell toward the ground; it was only Lin Baici’s quick reflexes that caught her.

After going around the crowd checking everyone’s mouth for an egg and confirming that everyone had one and killing three people whose eggs were cracked, the ghostly bird creature returned to its straw bird form.

The huge weight on everyone’s hearts was lifted in an instant.

"What do we do next?"

Xia Hongyao looked at Lin Baici, waiting for an answer.

The others also gazed at Lin Baici hopefully; they hadn’t died, but they couldn’t just keep holding the bird egg in their mouths, lingering there indefinitely, could they?

Lin Baici also didn’t know what to do when suddenly, the egg in his mouth seemed to move.

What’s happening?

Could it be that the chick was about to hatch from the egg?

"Little Bai!"

Hua Yue Yu tugged at Lin Baici urgently, beckoning him to look quickly.

Lin Baici turned his head and saw that the young man in Nike shoes was starting to sprout feathers on his body.