Chapter 205 Mystery in the Mining Area (Part 2)
“Lord of Crows?”
Soshiyang frowned, then turned to Thor beside him, obviously seeking advice.
Then, Thor stepped forward and asked through his helmet:
"I want to know more details."
The Arbitrator then recounted everything that happened to them underground.
After listening, Thor fell silent.
“Could it be a Chaos believer?”
Soshyan asked cautiously.
But the other party shook his head.
"Chaos followers will not take the initiative to expose themselves, let alone let go of a group of imperial law enforcement officers."
"Who could that be?"
"I can't guess, but... "
Saul stopped mid-sentence, and then he looked at the arbiter.
“Thank you very much for your help. Is there anything strange about the local state religion during this period?”
"No at the moment. The local bishop is a dizzy stupid pig. We don't expect him to be of much help."
"Is he a local?"
"Yes."< br>
“Apart from this, are there any other strange things worth mentioning recently, or unexplainable events?”
Hearing this sentence, the arbitrator thought for a while , turned around and took a data pad with the golden emblem of the Legal Department from his assistant.
"The Adeptus Mechanicus recently reported an attack. I have prepared a simple summary of the incident."
Soshiyan took the data pad and slowly started reading from the beginning.
On the surface, this is a serious murder case. An office of the Mechanicus in Mine No. 14 was attacked by unknown persons late at night. Four Mechanicus priests disappeared, and then on the second In the evening, the Adeptus Mechanicus found four priests, but three of them had died tragically, and only one survived.
The first thing Soshyan noticed was the No. 14 mining area.
Because the arbitrators encountered those heretical sects in mining area No. 14.
The members of the four mechanics are all the lowest apprentices, and they all come from Griffin IV, namely Baudry, Meadow, Durund, and Falla.
Their daily work is to maintain large-scale equipment in the mining area, ensure that they can operate safely, and submit inspection reports regularly.
None of these four people seem to have anything special. Regardless of their origins or skills, they are just the most ordinary members of the thousands of mechanical cultists.
But they were all kidnapped and brutally killed one night. Only a priest named Falla was the only survivor.
The other three were not so lucky.
Baudry was discovered in a garbage dump by a cleaning machine slave who was doing daily cleaning. Someone tried to burn his body and threw the body into the ancient sewers of the city, but the modified part of the Mechanicus was very tough and not easily destroyed. ——But overall, there are very few parts of his body left, and it seems that the whole person has been torn into pieces.
According to the information on the remains, it cannot be confirmed whether his missing body parts fell off due to decay and were washed away, but the traces remaining on his forearm bones seem to be convincingly confirmed to be an approximation What's left of the beast's claws.
When Meadow's body is found under the roof of a boiler room, law enforcement sheds more light on the case.
Not only did the female Mechanicum suffer the injuries suffered by Beaudry, her brain, eyes, and heart were also removed.
These injuries were very horrific. The bloodless dry bodies were dried directly by the smoke from the heating pipes - it could also be said to be smoked. They were also wrapped in dark green cloth and nailed with industrial nails. The gun was fastened to the underside of the rafters.
Cross comparisons between her and Beaudry convinced the Ministry of Justice that the latter had most likely also had her brainstem, eyes and heart removed.
Previously, they believed that the apparent absence of soft organs was caused by corrosion of nearly poisonous levels of organic matter in the waste liquid covering the mound.
Dulonde was the last victim to be discovered, and when his only remaining organism was fished out of the sewers, he was presumed to have been the victim of a gang conflict until the machine was discovered. Taught gears and certain parts.
Due to the special environment of the place where the bodies were dumped, it is impossible to determine anatomically any exact date or time of death, but judging from the autopsy results of the first two victims, they should have died at the same time. It was around 12 o'clock on the night they were kidnapped. Faya also claimed to have escaped from the unidentified kidnappers at that time.
When he was injected with a large amount of sedatives and taken away from the dormitory in a sack, he was still very nervous, but then the emergency belt he modified himself injected a large amount of adrenaline into him, helped him wake up, and used Stun bombs were used to escape.
It seemed that the vigilance and preparedness of the Falla priests saved him, but Soshyan saw a lot of doubts in it.
Unless the priest knew that all this would happen and made corresponding preparations, his luck would have been too good.
“At first I thought we might have encountered a group of cultists.”
The arbitrator then explained:
"But as the investigation deepened, I found that this killing pattern seemed to be more extreme. It was not a brutal murder or a simple act of destruction, but more like a specific and purposeful ritual."
"You Why do you look like that? "
The person asking the question was Thor next to Soshyan. He was wearing a helmet and looked like an ordinary soldier.
The Arbitrator looked at him sideways, as if he was questioning her abilities.
“From my experience, if the destructive acts of cultists are really carried out, then they will definitely hope that these can be discovered, and those heretics will be excited by the fear and fear they have created... But the actual situation is , the bodies were taken to great lengths to hide, which makes me think that the killer was more interested in the death itself than in its effects.”
"Is it possible that the murders were caused by gene stealers?"
Thor's words suddenly made the atmosphere at the scene tense, because murders by cults are usually hidden, so cultists can go without being discovered. continue their work.
"Murder by a Genestealer?"
The Arbiter pondered for a moment.
"Indeed, this possibility exists. Although according to my past experience, most of these aliens will only resort to kidnapping or direct killing. They don't seem to like this kind of ritual slaughter. They only Cultists tend to cut off their victims' hands and tongues because they are organs used for communication. ”
He began to describe the many horrific cases he had witnessed.
“I once came across a case where the brains of all the victims were dug out because the cultists wanted to ingest the psychoactive substances, or as they would say…souls, of their prey, among other things There are also cultists in some worlds who pluck out the eyes of their victims, because the eyes are the windows to the soul. In fact..."
"What you said seems to have another relationship."
"What?"
"Psychic energy, these things are related to psionic energy."
The arbitrator was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized something.
"You said they were looking for a psyker!"
Thor nodded.
“And it should not be found.”
“Because he ran away.”
Soshyan then added, and the arbitrator almost jumped up from the ground.
"Faya! Falla is a psyker! It's him that the gene stealers want to catch! No wonder the interrogators let him go so easily..."
"Very Okay, it seems that the Ministry of Justice has a new direction. Before the next action plan comes out, you should try your best to stabilize the situation during this period, and give priority to catching the Mechanicus priest... I have reason to believe that he There must be some connection with the Crow Bishop sect.”
The Arbitrator nodded vigorously.
“I will immediately organize people to control Faya first, and then interrogate her severely.”
Then, he stood up straight, crossed his hands and performed an eagle salute.
“For the emperor.”
Soshiyang also returned the gift.
“For the Emperor.”
(End of Chapter)