Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 198 Sacrifice
"You mean, the guests drinking in the private room are of unusual status?" Victoria immediately reacted.

"It's more than ordinary..." Ke Lan walked to the sliding door of the box. There were several obvious bump marks on the door frame about [-] centimeters from the ground. He squatted down and gently touched these marks with his fingers. Caressed, "Although there are many ways to create such marks, in this place, combined with the identity of the drinkers, these bumps should be caused by the samurai sword sheaths tied around their waists... Speaking of samurai Knife, Ms. Victoria, what have you thought of?"

"Arasaka Samurai Club." Victoria still had that expressionless expression, but there was a hint of bewilderment in her eyes.

"This izakaya is obviously one of the meeting places for members of the Samurai Club...and only people with the status of club members can enjoy the precious sashimi whose price is calculated by gram—not long ago, a group of members of the Arasaka Samurai Club They were sitting in this box drinking, and they knew in advance that a power outage was about to happen, so when all the lights went out, they didn't panic at all, and they even put their chopsticks on the chopstick rest in a calm manner. "

"Then what?" Victoria asked, staring at Ke Lan.

"These people should have been assigned corresponding tasks by the Arasaka Consortium...or heretical sects. I think that gathering people from the streets of the East Ninth District should be part of their tasks." Ke Lan said , "After all, this matter must have been premeditated by them for a long time, and it is actually quite normal to have such an arrangement."

"So, what purpose do they have in gathering civilians?"

"I don't know about that. Maybe those civilians are on it." Ke Lan raised his head, and a drop of half-coagulated blood fell from the ceiling, just landing on the plate of expensive sea bream in the middle of the table. On the fishbone body.

No body was found in the izakaya on the first floor. These bloodstains all leaked from the "Kyoto Style Teppanyaki Restaurant" on the second floor.

And the little girl who was made into a "container" also jumped out from the second floor.

"Go to the second floor." Victoria made a decision immediately.

The stairs leading to the second floor are located at the end of the aisle between the back kitchen and the bathroom. The stairs are also made of the kind of polymer imitating solid wood, covered with dark red carpets, and on the handrail of the stairs, there are There are quite a few scratches from the nails.

"It seems that those people were forcibly dragged up." Ke Lan whispered to Victoria, "As for the people who dragged them up, they should be those guys from the Samurai Club."

"Those people...shouldn't they be still upstairs?" Major Ashkani asked a little uneasily.

"Probably not." Victoria shook her head, "In order to absorb enough nutrients, the seed of erosion in the catastrophe period will indiscriminately attack all living creatures within the field of vision, if the 'container' has been on the second floor before If not, there should be no living people on the second floor."

"I, I think... it's better to be more careful." Major Ashkani held the pistol tightly in both hands, and put his thumb on the safety device above the grip, which made Ke Lan secretly complain in his heart: later If there is any unexpected situation, this guy should not be nervous and accidentally go off and hurt his own people...

Everyone in the team climbed up the steps, and just when the eye of the agent holding the shield at the front was level with the ground on the second floor, he suddenly raised his hand to signal the people behind him to stop.

"What's wrong?" Victoria asked immediately.

"... corpses, many corpses..." There was a tremor in the agent's voice.

"Did you find any threatening targets?" Victoria wasn't too surprised. She had already prepared for the worst for the situation on the second floor.

As for the corpses stuffed into an entire floor, this is actually not the worst case scenario.

At least, dead bodies pose no threat to the living.

"Not yet." The agent lowered his arm and continued to climb up the last few steps. He squatted down at the stairs on the second floor and put the pistol with the tactical flashlight on the shield.

The agent following him lit up two lighting sticks again and threw them into the distance.

"No threatening targets were found."

Victory and Ke Lan followed the leading agents and climbed to the second floor. Under the light of the lighting stick, hundreds of corpses could be vaguely seen piled up on the ground. These corpses all had an obvious Features: Their fingers have been shaved off at the root, their arms are crossed in front of their chests, and their bare palms are placed on their shoulders - this shape is similar to that of ancient Egyptian pharaohs in the old era. The posture is exactly the same.

"It's a sacrifice. These people are sacrifices." Victoria whispered.

"Sacrifice? What is a sacrifice? Are these corpses?" Major Ashkani couldn't help asking, his legs were shaking slightly, but fortunately the trembling wasn't that big, and the environment was very dark. , the people around did not notice.

"Hmm." Victoria pulled out a lighting stick and threw it towards the pile of corpses, "This is an extremely cruel ritual of heretical sects. They use living people as sacrifices to perform to the 'great god' they call Praying for the so-called protection and blessing of the 'gods'..."

"Living sacrifices..." Ke Lan repeated the word silently. He had read in books that it was very common to use humans as living sacrifices for sacrifices in the wild period on earth, but later with civilization With the development of the world, human sacrifice is gradually regarded as an extremely barbaric and bloody thing. Except for some uncivilized areas, most countries on the earth rarely practice human sacrifice after entering the feudal era.

But now, on the ark that symbolizes the pinnacle achievement of human civilization, human sacrifices have appeared again.

"I have also seen several prayer ceremonies performed by heretical sects using living people as sacrifices, but they were all outside the ark, and the sacrifices were all slaves who were dying..." said the previous one The agent who also heard the voice said to Ke Lan and Ashkani, "But I have never seen a living sacrifice of this scale... Generally speaking, the sacrifice required for this kind of prayer ceremony only needs two That's enough for three people..."

"The human sacrifice on the scale of 300 people...I think what they want to pray to that 'god' should be a very big event, right?" Ke Lan whispered.

"Let's not talk about this," Victoria waved her hand, "A group of corpses are tested to see if there are any corpses infected with the cells of the erosion seed. The 'container' jumped out of this place, and all the corpses here There is a high risk of infection."

(End of this chapter)