Red Moon Returns

Chapter 37: The Flesh and Blood Workshop of the Devourer

The sky was filled with sand and wind, and countless shackled humans were carrying heavy objects, stumbling between a blurry group of buildings. A blood pool was built in the middle of the building complex, and the broken bodies rose and fell in the dark red blood, with a few bubbles occasionally appearing.

A human was hung upside down above the blood pool, and blood slowly dripped into the blood pool. There were many strange figures around him, leaving fresh wounds on his body from time to time. Every time a wound was left, there would be a burst of intense cheers.

[The Flesh and Blood Workshop of the Devourer, the slave workshop of Baron William, he would dedicate the souls and flesh of the slaves to the ancient devourer in exchange for the blessing of the evil god of the dreamland. ]

Lin Qi felt that he was somewhat accustomed to it, forcing himself to endure the fear and depression brought by the inevitable mental shock every time.

This is the end of a secret passage more than ten meters underground. There is a secret room of several dozen square meters. It may have been a steam engine room in the past, but now all the machines have been dismantled. Only a few gas lamps extend out of the wall, illuminating the desk in the middle of the secret room and a set plate spread out on it.

The set plate is densely packed with sets, but the sets are not houses and buildings, but models of production lines.

These production lines seem to be fixed on the set plate in an orderly manner. Lynch's heart moved, and he followed his memory to find the approximate location of the two workshops 8C and 10E. After careful identification, the set of the production line is almost completely consistent with the actual one.

"Two officers, this is the thing." Under the light, Manager Frank approached the set plate first, rubbed his arms and said puzzledly, "Why do I feel uncomfortable all over? I didn't feel this way before."

Nonsense, it would be strange if it didn't feel uncomfortable. The strange object has gone out of control.

Lynch and Officer Natalie glanced at Frank with strange eyes.

Out-of-control wonders will always radiate filth to the maximum extent. Close contact has a great impact on ordinary people and is likely to leave irreversible mental damage, but no one reminded him to avoid it.

Loss of control is also a major feature of wonders. You have to taste it. Since some people like to use wonders so much, let them enjoy it. There is no need to sympathize with them.

Therefore, Lynch just nodded to Frank, and his attention was all focused on the wonder. Since the wonder was obviously out of control, Lynch did not dare to touch it directly to read the detailed information, and asked directly: "In addition to feeding one person a day, tell us the other detailed information. We have to find a way to solve the problem."

Frank has completely believed in the identities of the two people, and said without concealment: "This thing is really useful. As long as it is still in operation, the workers who have been on the production line that day will become obedient. No one dares to be lazy. Everyone works hard, even if they are exhausted and collapse on the ground. And even the number of times to go to the bathroom has been reduced several times, and they will never leave their posts until they have to pee their pants."

Listening to Frank's explanation, Lynch has roughly outlined the effect of this wonder.

The models on the strange object were arranged exactly according to the real production line of the screw factory, so the screw factory conceptually became a flesh and blood workshop itself. After sacrificing a victim, all the workers on the production line were controlled to work tirelessly, just like in the memory just seen.

Seeing that Lynch did not interrupt, Frank continued to introduce: "The only disadvantage is that you become stiff and numb like a puppet when you start working, but anyway, a group of tools, knowing how to work is enough, and it doesn't matter if they don't have brains."

"Shouldn't the only disadvantage be that one person dies every day?" Officer Natalie couldn't help but asked with a straight face.

"No compensation is required, there will just be one more person on the list every day, which is not a disadvantage. And with it, the output can be increased by at least one third, which is worth it."

"Yeah, that's right, making money is the most important thing, but unfortunately something went wrong in the end." Lynch nodded with a smile, but stepped hard on the police officer's foot, "I heard that there was no one missing on the list on the day of the accident, right?"

"Yes, it seems that the Speaker mentioned it to the two superiors. In fact, we didn't handle it well. Before using it, the Speaker told us that if there was no one missing on the list on a certain day, it would be immediately suspended for 24 hours, but suspension would affect production, so we didn't want to stop using it. As a result, the extra names became two the next day, and one was added every few days afterwards. We were a little worried and quickly notified that gentleman."

"Yes, the notification was very timely." Lynch's fists had been clenched behind his back several times, and finally even He closed his eyes and barely suppressed his anger. He said calmly, "On the day when there were no extra names on the list, was there anything unusual in the factory?"

"We have also checked it out. There seems to be nothing unusual on that day. It's just that a female worker left early."

Lynch's heart moved. The time seems to be about the same. If the incident is linked to the abnormality of little Janet...

"Female worker? What's her name?"

"I don't know. I have to check the registration book to find out. I just remember that it was a child with half salary."

Lynch already had a preliminary guess in his mind and continued to ask, "After the accident, didn't you try to stop it?"

"It can't be stopped." Frank showed a distressed expression, "In the past, we only needed to remove the pool model in the middle to make it invalid, but when we wanted to stop it, we couldn't pull it out."

Lynch frowned and stepped back a few steps. He pushed the scenery on the strange object with his cane, and the feeling transmitted back was very strange.

There is no feeling of being fixed by nails or glue, but a feeling of being fixed to the space, without any room for deformation.

Officer Natalie whispered in Lynch's ear: "This is normal. The strange object is the embodiment of a memory in the dreamland. Interrupting the activity of the strange object is equivalent to stopping the operation of the memory. You can't interrupt the memory when it is out of control. You can only contain it again."

"I understand, Manager Frank, go and get the registration book now, we need to confirm it. By the way, please ask the other four to come down, you know who I am talking about, you are all the most important people in the factory, you must be protected."

As soon as Frank left, Officer Natalie couldn't help it and kicked the wall. Fortunately, Lynch activated his ability in time to block the sound.

"What do these bastards think of human life? I thought we Soul Forsaken were indifferent to the lives of ordinary people, but they are even worse." The muscles on the policewoman's face trembled and her eyes were red. "Hundreds of lives died without a sound, and they didn't even feel guilty. They only cared about the one-third of the output... If you hadn't stopped me, I really wanted to break his bones on the spot."

"I stopped you because they are still useful now. When all the problems are solved, they will pay the price."

"That's what you said. Everyone of them will pay the price."

"Of course, including Grant behind him, I will never let him have an easy time. I promise."

"Okay, then everything is up to you." Officer Natalie stared at Lynch for a few seconds, bit her lip and nodded "But no matter what we do, we must first contain the out-of-control wonders. Otherwise, it is too dangerous to let this kind of horror-level wonders be out of control, and someone will be harmed soon."

"Not for the time being?" Lin Qi smiled grimly, "The most important people in the factory haven't arrived yet, so we can't start now."

"Hiss, you don't want to..."

"Of course, we want them to experience the enjoyment of the wonder package in all aspects, so that they won't sabotage while we are containing the wonders. Don't worry, I think as long as we act quickly, their lives should not be in danger. Everything has just begun, and it would be too easy for them to die in there now."

As he was talking, under the leadership of Manager Frank, the other four men in formal clothes who had previously participated in reporting to Speaker Grant had entered the secret room.