Son of the Stars

Chapter 17 Risk

Slowly waking up from the daze, Lu Chen felt himself wet from the corner of his mouth to his chest.It seems to be caused by the outflow of saliva caused by his opening his mouth slightly just now.

His mind was still buzzing, and Lu Chen's strongest feeling right now was thirst—it's normal to have a dry mouth after drooling so much.

The surrounding environment should be relatively dark, and it seems that something is being burned.Lu Chen smelled a smell like burning leaves, but it was mixed with some strange... smell.It seemed to be the smoke of some kind of wood being set on fire.

There are also mixed, humming human voices around.At first, Lu Chen thought there was something wrong with his ears, but after listening to it for a long time, he was able to confirm it—these voices seemed to be in a language that Lu Chen had never heard before, and they sounded quite rhyming.

"Faithful believers!" A voice shouted, and the humming spell stopped abruptly.

"The Lord has given us divine revelation. He said: 'I give the life of this world.' The Lord has also given us instructions: 'But I am omnipotent and omniscient.'" The voice of the voice began to be almost excited. The tone of voice shouted a bunch of inexplicable lines, and after each line, it can trigger the whispering repetition of the surrounding crowd.

Lu Chen's blood turned cold when he heard this—isn't this a fucking gathering of extremist religious elements!How did I get here?I am dreaming?

When Lu Chen rejected the reality, the rally was still in progress.I just heard the voice say loudly, "The Lord has called, we are about to leave the world and enter His kingdom. We will meet those who have ascended to the kingdom of heaven—to share eternal life under the glory of the Lord!"

"Share eternal life!" Fanatical shouts echoed in the space, Lu Chen took the opportunity to rub on the ground, and the black cloth covering his eyes was wiped off a little.

A woman with her hands tied was dragged into the center of the crowd.The crowd gathered around a mound, and on the top of the mound stood the burly camp administrator.

Now, the camp managers are shirtless and painted with strange red and blue stripes.His expression was fanatical, his eyes were red, and his voice was extremely loud.And the woman who was dragged onto the stage... had a dull expression, and seemed to have almost completely given up the idea of ​​living.

"Those damned unbelievers, they rejected His calling and His grace. But the Lord is still merciful - He has given all people the opportunity to enter His Kingdom." The administrator spread his arms, "Now, bring unbelievers Those who come up!"

Lu Chen, who was lying on the ground, was dragged to the slope just like that. Mu Zhiran and a dozen other strangers were dragged up the slope with him.

"Probate them." Although the camp administrator said "probation" to the woman with her hands tied, what he did had nothing to do with "probation".

The camp administrator raised his foot and kicked the woman hard in the face.Like a rag doll, she was kicked onto the body of an unknown middle-aged man whose face was covered with a black cloth like Lu Chen.

The middle-aged man who was hit on the face obviously wanted to struggle, but Naihe's hands and feet were all tied tightly - he struggled several times and did not escape.

"Produce him." The bald head raised his voice, stepped on the woman's face, and shouted down hard, "Produce him!"

The people around the mound shouted together, and their voices became louder and louder.And the woman who was trampled under her feet suddenly began to tremble.

She seemed to be epileptic, the trembling became more intense, and the trembling frequency became faster.

The believers stopped shouting, and the administrator let go of his feet—he took a few steps back, then raised his hands suddenly, and the surrounding believers shouted again.

Seizures come and go quickly and slowly, and it doesn't look like the woman's seizures lasted too long...she gradually stopped convulsing.

Several big men who were also shirtless grabbed the iron chain around the woman's neck and dragged her down from the mound like a dog.The administrator strode up to the middle-aged man, and then tore off the black cloth from his face.

Lu Chen couldn't see the specific picture, but... the man who was still struggling just now had obviously undergone some drastic changes.

The administrator laughed and untied the rope on the middle-aged man.And, handed him a sharp kitchen knife.

The middle-aged man holding a sharp weapon looked a little confused. He looked at the knife in his hand, and then looked down the slope—his relatives seemed to be among those tied up.

"Run!" Suddenly, there was a hoarse shout from the bottom of the slope, which sounded like a woman's voice, "Master, run!"

The middle-aged man froze for a moment, then looked in the direction of the voice.

The woman who yelled was right next to Lu Chen. When she yelled, the middle-aged man on the stage looked in Lu Chen's direction - showing a face with a dull expression and dull eyes.

Lu Chen watched with his own eyes that the eldest brother slowly raised the knife in his hand, and then slowly and resolutely cut his own neck with the knife in front of his wife.

Cut horizontally, from left to right, without hesitation with the knife.The force was so great that it even cut directly to the bone.

Then, like a towering tree that has been felled, it fell straight to the ground.

The eldest sister who was shouting loudly at the beginning didn't say a word, but Lu Chen could see out of the corner of her eye that her eyes suddenly turned red as if by magic.

"The unbeliever has already been converted. His sinful soul will ascend to the kingdom of the Lord and be arranged after paying for his sins." The administrator continued his "sermon", "The Lord said: 'Whoever believes in me will be rewarded Eternal life. Those who do not believe will fall into nothingness forever!'”

The administrator continued to shout, while Lu Chen, who was lying on the ground, fell into a shock that he couldn't help himself.

Is this a controlled crash contagion? !That tied up woman, is she the source of infection?
Lu Chen is still limp and weak, almost completely unable to move.According to his recollection, what was covering his mouth and nose at that time was probably some kind of anesthetic mixed with sevoflurane and several other volatile anesthetics.

Now the effect of sevoflurane has passed, and other types of anesthetics have not been completely metabolized.It was almost impossible to move - Lu Chen couldn't even keep his eyes squinted.

"You unbelievers, repent!" the steward began his sermon loudly again. "The Lord is merciful—bring his companions to the altar!"

The two young men dragged the red-eyed elder sister beside Lu Chen to the mound, and the surrounding believers sent "blessings" to the elder sister one after another.

One of the aunts even happily patted the elder sister's leg and said, "You and your man will meet again in the kingdom of the Lord soon! Be happy!"

The woman with a large bruise on her kicked face was dragged up to the "altar" like a dog again, and the administrator raised her hands again, "Go influence her!"

"Boom!" A dull gunshot completely broke the sound of the surrounding believers repeating "probation".The administrator's head disappeared—a dozen meters behind him, red and white liquid was everywhere.

Those believers were shot and killed by bullets drawn from the horizon. There was no warning, no arrest warrant, and the attackers did not even accept surrender.Lu Chen saw with his own eyes a young believer who raised his hands and shouted "I surrender" was shot into a hornet's nest by bullets.

As for the elder sister who was dragged onto the "altar", she directly broke her wrist, and then untied herself.

With all her strength, she crawled to the side of the still twitching Headless Manager, and then used her teeth to tear the flesh from the corpse piece by piece.

The scene looked... like hell.

(End of this chapter)