Chapter 597 The Flower of Blood and Bone·The Ceremony and the Joy of Disintegration
In a dark basement, dim light bulbs hung on the wall. The light flickered and seemed to go out at any time.
The whole room was filled with a strong smell of blood, which was nauseating.
“He ran really fast.”
Xia Xiu’s incarnation [Sisyphus] slowly floated behind him, his purple-gold body glowing strangely under the dim light. His body is as perfect as a sculpted David, with clear muscle lines and exuding a strong sense of strength.
The surrounding ground and walls were splattered with bright red blood, as if a blood rain had just ended.
The blood arrows produced by the explosion of the long-legged owl just now turned the entire basement into a mess, with dense potholes covering every corner.
These potholes are about ten centimeters deep, as if countless sharp arrows penetrated the concrete instantly, leaving tragic traces.
The ground was littered with gravel and cracked tiles, and there were dripping drops of blood hanging from the edges of the holes on the walls, forming pools of bright red blood on the ground.
The entire underground operating room looked eerie, the air was filled with the smell of corruption, and the surgical instruments scattered everywhere were stained with blood, reflecting the weak light coldly.
On the operating table nearby, there were various dissection tools and bottles and jars, many of which were stained red with blood, which looked particularly shocking.
Beside Xia Xiu, the female forensic doctor Lisa had already stood up. She looked carefully at the blond man wearing a mask in front of her.
After experiencing a series of beatings and life-and-death trials, Lisa became extremely cautious and fearful, and did not dare to play any more tricks or tricks in front of Xia Xiu.
Her eyes were filled with fear and awe, and her body was trembling slightly. She tried her best to stay calm, but she could not completely hide the tension in her heart.
Wearing a mask, Xia Xiu pulled the fishing rod bag behind his back, and his incarnations [Sisyphus] and [Vashak] sneaked into his body.
The whole process was silent, as if it had never happened.
This made Lisa, the female forensic doctor next to her, even more confused. She stood there and looked hesitantly at the place where [Sisyphus] and [Vashak] disappeared, and her heart was full of surprise and confusion. Confuse.
"How can one person have two incarnations..."
This thought flashed through her mind, but then, an inexplicable force began to erode her consciousness.
She felt dizzy, her vision began to distort, and everything around her seemed to be blurred and deformed.
The impressions of those two incarnations gradually collapsed in her memory and became blurry, like a ball of scattered ink, making it difficult to piece together a complete image.
Buzzing~
Then, a buzzing sound suddenly exploded in her ears, like a stinging pain like a thousand arrows piercing the heart, making her thoughts instantly confused.
Lisa covered her ears, trying to dispel the annoying noise, but to no avail.
Some "wrong impressions" began to emerge in her mind. These impressions were messy and illogical, like memory fragments that had been deliberately tampered with.
She saw in the blurry picture, the images of [Sisyphus] and [Vashak] were constantly changing. Sometimes they were tall purple-gold figures, and sometimes they turned into ordinary human beings.
These distorted memory fragments were tumbling in her mind, making it difficult for her to distinguish between reality and illusion.
Cold sweat ran down the forehead of the female forensic doctor.
She tried to recall the scene just now, but found that everything had become extremely blurry.
At this moment, Xia Xiu's plain voice sounded in her ears.
"Okay, now that the annoying flies have been temporarily driven away, it's time to continue talking about the topics we need to talk about."
This voice was like a shot in the arm, suddenly pulling the female forensic doctor back from the chaos. Reality.
Lisa felt a sense of clarity, and the confusion and distortion she had just felt instantly dissipated.
Her thoughts became clearer, and she naturally forgot the memory full of logical errors just now.
Lisa only remembers what Xia Xiu did to her, and that she was attacked by an avatar just now, and Xia Xiu's avatar defused and counterattacked the opponent's attack.
However, she knew nothing about Xia Xiu's incarnation ability, as if that part of her memory had been deliberately erased.
What’s even stranger is that she doesn’t feel anything unusual about this, as if this should be the case.
The female forensic doctor looked at Xia Xiu, her heart filled with awe and a little uneasiness.
Xia Xiu said in his usual gentle voice:
"Don't be too nervous. Can't you see that I won't kill you, otherwise you won't have the chance to stand in front of me."
Lisa listened to Xia Xiu's words and was silent for a while, with complex emotions surging in her heart.
She knew that her situation was vastly different from the opponent's strength. If Xia Xiuzhen wanted to take her life, she would have no room to resist.
After a moment of silence, Lisa bowed to Xia Xiu, still feeling a little uneasy.
"Your strength and wisdom are far above mine. It is my honor to stand in front of you."
According to the class classification of Sarkic cultists, she belongs to the sixth level of the pyramid The second class among them is [Zander], and the masked man in front of him is the third class – [Volutar], the so-called [Wise Man].
Sarkic believers of this class can already be called patriarchs or even patriarchs in the church, and they hold considerable power and knowledge.
Further up are the [Cassisters], these people are already the religious and secular leaders of the Sarkic organization.
They are called [Flesh Enemies/Flesh Sorcerers]. Most of these people already have various thaumaturgic methods to make them biologically immortal. They are more difficult to eliminate than the vampires hidden in the hub. .
And then up there are [Klavigar], also known as [High Warlocks], they are the top of the sarkic people who live under the great warlocks, they are the sarkic people and even Ion. "saint".
Currently, there are only four Sarkic people related to this class, and these four are the Four Sarkic Saints.
Lisa has the mark of one of the Four Saints, [Saan].
In response to the salute of the female forensic doctor, Xia Xiu nodded slightly without comment, and then turned his eyes to the monster [Behemoth] dormant in the corner.
He waved, summoning the creepy, deformed monster.
Female forensic doctor Lisa looked at the [Behemoth] that originally belonged to her and was transformed into this deformed and terrifying appearance. She didn't know how to express her inner emotions for a while.
Her heart was filled with complex emotions, including loss and helplessness, as well as a hint of fear.
The young female shepherd of flesh and blood has been broken by Iron Fist several times, and now she no longer expects to get her BIO seed back.
Facing the ferocious-looking monster, the blond masked man showed great disapproval. He stroked [Behemoth]'s temple hair that transformed into a lion's head like a dog, and the lion's head roared lowly. The mane trembled slightly between his fingers.
Xia Xiu's movements seemed gentle, but his powerful control made people shudder.
He turned his head and looked at Lisa, his voice still calm but with unquestionable majesty.
"What you said when you were controlled by that owl just now doesn't count. Now we are starting to talk again." Lisa stood in the dark basement, the weak light flickering, reflecting on her face, She looked paler and more nervous.
“In order to ensure the efficiency of the conversation,”
Xia Xiu continued, with a hint of unquestionable firmness in his tone.
"I will state my purpose directly first - I want to investigate the multiple steps and participants involved in the human body trade line behind you, including illegal acquisition, storage, transportation, trading and These details of using human organs.”
When Lisa heard these words, her heart was shocked and her eyebrows jumped involuntarily.
She subconsciously touched her neck where she had been stabbed by "suicide" after controlling her body. Although the wound had healed, the involuntary and terrifying feeling still lingered.
Her heart was full of fear and contradiction, and she had fallen into a dilemma.
Telling everything about the consortium and the human body trade line, what she will face is the never-ending weird persecution of having her body controlled like just now, and she will also offend a large number of powerful and dangerous people; instead of Telling the secrets about the human body trade line and the consortium, she will now face the persecution of this patriarch from the Sarkic Cult.
She was well aware of the dangerous situation she was in, but she still mustered up the courage and asked tentatively:
"Dear head, can you protect your colleagues from being implicated?" ”
Her voice trembled slightly, with a hint of begging and hope, as if she was grasping at the last straw.
Xia Xiu did not respond immediately when he heard Lisa's request. Instead, he looked at Lisa carefully, as if assessing her sincerity and value.
Xia Xiu was well aware of Lisa's little thoughts, but he did not show any impatience or disgust.
For him, this investigation is not only about the human body trade of [pseudohumans], but also involves the Sarkic Cult.
He was thinking about the complicated relationship.
The involvement of Sarkicism made this incident unexpectedly more complex and dangerous.
After the punch of [Sisyphus] just now, you can actually use elements to corrode and pollute the opponent's mind, but that will only scare the snake and make the consortium behind it run faster.
Obviously, the human body trade of [Puppet Humans] has been involved in the turbulent political struggle within the Edici Federation.
The sudden appearance of the unknown Hermes Consortium involves the Black Gold Empire and [Trust Giants] hidden in the shadow of the Federation.
The reason why the centralized political group of the federal government, headed by the Reserve Governor of the Second Bank, chose to cooperate with the Authority and itself - its purpose is to crack down on dissidents, strengthen the control of the federal government, and use the new alliance influence to clean up and correct gray and black areas.
As a bargaining chip, the fourth swordsman in heaven will form a political alliance with the second banker John K. Hanks, gain the political connections of Hanks' family, and at the same time, gain the support of the Federal Reserve Bank in the Ivy War.
What he needs to do is to deal with things that the interest groups represented by John K. Hanks cannot deal with openly, such as cleaning up the garbage.
Now, Xia Xiu is full of curiosity about the inner workings and involvement of the Sarkic Sect, and wants to know why they get involved in the murky waters of human body trade.
Lisa watched Xia Xiu remain silent, and the fear in her heart gradually deepened, but she knew that she had no way out and could only wait for his answer quietly.
There was a tense atmosphere in the air, and the dim lights cast swaying shadows on the walls, as if mocking the incompetence of the flesh-and-blood female shepherd in front of her.
But this silence did not last long.
Xia Xiu’s interesting words broke the silence in the room.
"Although I don't want to deviate from the topic, there are some things that really need to be asked in order to be more consistent with my consistent theme of promotion."
The golden eyes of the blond young man hidden behind the mask shine through Through the gap in the mask, he looked at Lisa sharply, as if he wanted to see through her heart.
Lisa felt the pressure of this gaze and felt a sense of panic in her heart, but she knew she had to face it.
Xia Xiu continued: "I have asked you before, whether you belong to the new Sarkic or the old Sarkic, or whether you are a leaper between the two factions - you have not answered me these questions yet."
Lisa took a deep breath and subconsciously thought about how to answer this question to cater to the "interest" of the elder in front of her.
She knew that the blond masked man did not ask this question unintentionally, but to fully understand her background and position.
New Sarkans advocate the combination of modern thaumaturgy technology and flesh manipulation to create more powerful flesh and blood creations. However, in terms of their manifestations, most of them are lunatics, anti-social elements and terrorists.
Old Sarkic people advocate tradition and believe that power comes from ancient rituals and taboo knowledge - they are relatively more homely and backward. Some are still tribal civilizations and retain the habit of cannibalism. Many cannibal legends on Terra actually come from the Old Sark.
And since the great warlock disappeared, the six commanders disappeared, and the four saints disappeared, the entire Sarkic Cult began to enter...
The rituals collapsed and the music collapsed!
Leaders and parents are supposed to love their fellow pedigrees like angels, support the pedigree program, and maintain the relationship between think tanks and pedigree holders.
However, the corrupted Sarkic intent on power is what has become the primary driving force for all members of the spectrum.
Individuals pursue to bring all things under their own control and exercise the direction of power (effectiveness). At the same time, other individuals are doing the same thing, and opposition often occurs.
The class system that maintains the circulation of talented people should work with think tanks to jointly define the respective rights, obligations, and well-being of the ruling class and the ruled class.
With the collapse of etiquette and the collapse of music, now there are only obligations, and those obligations are - sacrifice and suffering.
In the Proto-Sarkic cult, this manifests itself in sacrificing oneself for the good of the majority.
The Neo-Sarkic Cult is the complete opposite, they believe in sacrificing the majority for individual gain.
The muscles endure pain just to become stronger when they heal.
The same goes for the mind, by developing a tolerance for the conventionally unimaginable - the cycle of destruction and rebirth.
But no matter which one it is, it is a manifestation of the parents' abuse of power and indifference to the lower class. They have long stopped treating members of the sarkic spectrum as like-minded colleagues.
They have forgotten the teachings of the great warlock Heihe when he preached.
He said, I am here to liberate the people.
The Great Warlock liberated the land. Wherever he went, uprisings would ignite and the Daevite armies would collapse.
Whether by sword, whisper, or sheer force of will,
the Grand Warlock leads members of the Sarkic lineage through the lands of Daevite and returns those lands to its people.
He said, stand up, there is no need to bow down to ‘him’.
He said that struggle is the best teacher. Daeva's has been destroyed, and a new struggle will begin.
He leads,
Only those who love Him lead.