Chapter 107 Method of Sacrifice
“The natives of Ikem Town carry her blood and can hear her call... A group of ungrateful things, taking the blood hidden in their veins Instinctively recognize it as a curse.”
This is the raven’s original words.
Solomon's men were led deep into the barren mountains by the girl, and finally arrived at a deep valley.
This is the mining area where the mining company originally dug. However, due to an early misjudgment of the rock structure of the address, the entire underground three-dimensional mine frame collapsed.
The accident resulted in the burial of many mining workers, and their bodies have not yet been found.
Just after the collapse, many crystal orchids grew in this mine.
In the dark valley, ghost-like white flowers are scattered and hidden under the shadow of the trees. They are very conspicuous and weird in the night.
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While sorting out the collapsed mine, the mining company discovered some strange underground caves. Those caves were not the mines they planned to dig, but when they came to It existed before Ikem.
With continued in-depth exploration.
The people of Solomon Mining Company discovered that this is a complex underground maze.
Since the shafts and underground caves of the mine were opened, mining workers have disappeared one after another during daily mining operations.
That’s why the raven came.
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Solomon's people lit torches and were dragged into the mine by the crazy girl.
The mine they first entered was actually very narrow, and the downward-sloping shaft could only accommodate two adults walking side by side at most.
However, as we continue to go deeper, the distance between the stone walls on both sides continues to expand, and the color of the rock layers on the stone walls gradually becomes darker. No fresh excavation traces can be seen on the stone walls.
The path in the underground cave is extremely complicated, with two or three forks appearing almost every ten meters.
As the girl dragged the chain in front and continued to lead the way, everyone went deeper into the underground cave step by step, and the surrounding environment continued to become more spacious, so that the illumination of the torches in their hands had already Unable to cover the entire field of view...
Raven left Milo's men at the end of the team.
Only a few men with guns were left in charge of custody.
He is not worried about Milo and the others escaping, let alone whether they can escape from this underground maze. Even if they do escape, they will not survive tomorrow.
At the front of the team, the harsh sound of the iron chain colliding with the rock wall was mixed with the girl's urgent and anxious roar, making people uneasy.
But no one spoke during the whole process. The people in the Solomon Gang seemed to be very disciplined. No one stopped without any instructions from the people at the front, and there were still people walking along the way. There are marks on the stone wall, recording the correct path at each fork in the road.
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Finally, the team entered a vast and deep environment. Here, the scene directly in front of them could no longer be seen clearly. The light of the torch could only illuminate the stone steps about 5 meters away. The steps were along the The steep cliff continues to wind down. One side of the stone steps is a stone wall, and the other side is deep darkness, like a lake filled with ink, more like a huge open mouth waiting for any of them. Someone slipped and fell.
Milo followed at the end of the team, looking at everything around him calmly.
He saw some strange totems and words carved on the cliff on the left side of the stone steps. Those winding and twisted lines seemed to be describing a certain story. The edges of the carved marks no longer had the original traces. The sharp edges and corners indicate that the totems on the cliff are old.
Milo couldn't understand what the totems and ancient characters on the cliff wanted to express. He only vaguely remembered some simple diagrams similar to fungi and human organs, but he had no time to pay attention to them, because they happened to As the team continued deeper into this huge underground cave, he began to hear some sneaky sounds coming from the bottom of the stone steps.
The movements were like someone dragging their legs and walking on the ground in a very lazy way.
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Milo thought he would see tons of bones or corpses deep underground.
But no, the stone steps spiraling downwards against the cliff lead to a vast and flat ground. There are no disgusting pictures here. On the contrary, besides crystal orchids, there are other things on the soft land. Some unnamed herbal plants, there is a strange tranquility in the picture.
The girl who was roaring all the way slowly calmed down after setting foot on this land.
She did not return to normal, but stared blankly in a certain direction in front of the open space with her two penetrating eyes wide open, with a pious and yearning expression on her face, and her body was in a kneeling posture. .
Marshall, who was holding the chain, raised his fist to signal to stop.
He handed the chain to the person next to him, took the torch from the other person's hand, took out the pistol from his waist with his other hand, and moved forward slowly.
The team followed closely behind.
They moved forward slowly, and the soft soil under their feet began to turn into cold and hard stone walls, but the light from dozens of torches could never cover the end of the field of vision ahead, just like this road It's like never ending.
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Chichichi......
Thump, thump, thump...
Some sneaky and scary noises came from the front.
Milo was very sure that the former was the footsteps of something, and the latter was the sound of a slow heartbeat.
He didn't understand why there was such a loud heartbeat, let alone what kind of creature this kind of movement, which was several times slower than the normal human heartbeat rate, could belong to, but he knew that something would definitely happen if he went any further.
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"Stop here."
The raven suddenly spoke, signaling the team not to go any further.
He asked the entire team to retreat, creating a clear space and letting out the few "nutrients" including Milo.
The nourishers were already delirious at this time, and Milo was the most sober one. His left eyeball had been infected by hyphae, and his vision became blurry, but even if he only had his right eye left, he could still see what was ahead. There are white shadows walking around in the dark environment, and the white shadows are not crystal orchids. "Let's get out of her sight and put out the torch."
Raven's tone was calm, but his hand holding the torch was obviously trembling.
He stared at the dark depths ahead that the firelight could not reach, and shouted to the nutrients:
"The divine body needs to see the fusion and birth of new life. You have only one way to survive, let's The girl is pregnant with a child. Your blood already contains the things given by the divine body. Now offer your sincerity and have sex with the girl in front of her. Believe me, this is your only way to survive, otherwise she will worship her. They will eat you alive.”
Soon, someone used chains to drag the girl kneeling behind her into the venue.
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"What are you talking about? Madman!"
A fungus-infected nutrient shouted at the raven, but no one in the team responded , they just retreated silently.
Seeing the large torches in front of them being extinguished in the soil one by one, the nutrients fell into a state of madness and excitement.
Some of them chased after him directly.
But the next second:
Bang!
Gunshots sounded.
The man who caught up fell weakly, and he became the real nourishment.
At this time, another person fled to the side.
He probably wanted to bypass Solomon's people and rush towards the stone steps. As he ran, mushroom fragments fell from his body...
But as soon as he left Milo's sight, the footsteps stopped suddenly.
What was replaced was the sound of screams and the sound of flesh being torn apart.
Finally, calmness returned.
The pungent smell of blood spread from the darkness.
He seemed to have been torn alive by some creature.
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“…”
Milo said nothing.
He didn't expect that what the raven said about "offering the hope of new life to the divine body" actually meant to the girl... ha...
Is this the only way to survive?
Milo glanced down at the girl.
At this moment, the girl has returned to normal. The squirming blood vessels on her body have faded away, and she is curled up on the ground with her eyes closed, shivering even in a coma.
Milo turned around, and he heard the movement coming from the dark depths behind him.
There was still the constant pacing back and forth, and the deeper, slow heartbeat.
Plop...Plop...
But he couldn't see clearly what was hidden in the darkness.
At this time, half of his face was covered with ferocious hyphae. Those things were drilling back and forth in the flesh and blood under his skin, constantly causing pain that ordinary people could not bear.
With the mentality that he would not survive anyway, Milo calmly took a few steps into the darkness.
He wanted to see clearly with his own eyes what Solomon's people had dug up in this barren mountain, and what the so-called decayed divine body was.
But before taking two steps, Milo noticed that the few surviving nutrients behind him began to become restless.
Their limbs have been covered by large patches of fungus, and much of their skin has fallen off, making them look hideous.
What made Milo feel incredible was that in the desperate situation, these people really had strange thoughts, and one by one they began to slowly approach the place where the unconscious girl was lying.
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In the distance, the raven's voice came slowly:
"Only one of you can survive, the one who successfully gives birth to a new life in the girl."
His words seemed to be urging. No matter what, the feeders were just slowly approaching the girl. After hearing these words, they all went crazy and rushed towards her!
Whoosh!
Just when those rotting limbs covered with fungi were about to touch the girl.
A cold light flashed in the darkness.
The body of the nutrient closest to the girl was separated.
His ferocious head covered with fungi rolled down a few meters away.
Before it stopped rolling, something quickly swept away and disappeared into the darkness.
Subsequently, a series of chewing sounds came from behind the shadow, making one's scalp numb.
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Milo held the blade and didn't even look at the head he had chopped off. He had no time to care about what was hidden in the surrounding shadows.
Because every time he made a move, his body would feel terrible pain.
But even so, he had to kill these irrational nourishment first to ensure that the most disgusting scene would not happen in front of him.
(End of this chapter)