Alien Relic Hunter

"You mean, the guests drinking in the box have unusual identities?" Victoria reacted immediately.

"More than ordinary..." Ke Lan walked to the sliding door of the box. There were several obvious bump marks on the door frame about thirty centimeters from the ground. He squatted down and gently touched these marks with his fingers. Stroking it, "Although there are many ways to cause such marks, in this place, combined with the identity of the drinkers, these bumps should be caused by the katana scabbards they tied around their waists... Speaking of samurai Knife, Ms. Victoria, what did you think of?"

"Arasaka Samurai Club." Victoria still looked expressionless, but there was a hint of surprise in her eyes.

"This izakaya is obviously one of the gathering places for members of the Samurai Club... Only people with the status of club members can enjoy the precious fish that is priced by the gram - not long ago, a group of members of the Arasaka Samurai Club They were sitting in this box drinking, and they knew in advance that the power outage was about to happen, so when all the lights went out, they didn't panic at all, and they could even calmly place their chopsticks on the chopstick holder. "

"Then what?" Victoria stared at Ke Lan and asked.

"These people should have been assigned corresponding tasks by the Arasaka Consortium...or the heretical sect. I think gathering the people on the streets of East Ninth District should be part of these people's tasks." Ke Lan said , "After all, this matter must have been planned by them for a long time, and it is actually normal to have such an arrangement."

"So, what's their purpose in rounding up civilians?"

"I don't know. Maybe those civilians are up there." Ke Lan raised his head, and a drop of half-coagulated blood fell from the ceiling, landing on the valuable plate of sea bream in the middle of the table. Fish bone on the body.

No body was found in the izakaya on the first floor. The blood stains all leaked from the "Kyoto Style Teppanyaki Restaurant" on the second floor.

And the little girl who was made into a "container" also jumped out from the second floor.

"Go to the second floor." Victoria made a decision immediately.

The stairs leading to the second floor are located at the end of the aisle between the kitchen and the bathroom. The stairs are also made of the kind of polymer that imitates solid wood. They are covered with dark red carpets, and on the handrails of the stairs, There are quite a few nail scratches left.

"It seems that those people were dragged up by force." Ke Lan whispered to Victoria. "As for the people who dragged them up, they should be those guys from the Samurai Club."

"Those people... shouldn't be still upstairs, right?" Major Ashkani asked uneasily.

"Probably not." Victoria shook her head. "In order to absorb enough nutrients, the erosion seeds in the rapid transformation stage will attack all living creatures in sight without distinction. If the 'container' had been staying on the second floor before If so, there shouldn’t be anyone alive on the second floor.”

"I, I think... it's better to be careful." Major Ashkani held the pistol tightly with both hands, and put his thumb on the safety device above the grip. This made Ke Lan secretly complain: "Wait a minute." If there is an emergency, this guy shouldn't accidentally fire and injure one of his own...

The team climbed up the stairs. Just when the agent holding the shield at the front was eye level with the ground on the second floor, he suddenly raised his hand to signal the people behind him to stop.

"What's wrong?" Victoria asked immediately.

"...Corpses, so many corpses..." There was a tremor in the agent's voice.

"Have you found any threatening targets?" Victoria was not too surprised. She had already been mentally prepared for the worst situation on the second level.

And filling an entire floor with corpses is actually not the worst case scenario.

At least the corpse poses no threat to the living.

"Not yet." The agent put down his arm, continued to climb up, climbed the last few steps, squatted down at the entrance of the second floor, and put the pistol with a tactical flashlight on the shield.

The agent following him lit up the two lighting rods again and threw them into the distance.

"No threatening targets were found."

Victory, he and Ke Lan followed the leading agents and climbed to the second floor. Under the light of the lighting rod, hundreds of corpses could be vaguely seen stacked on the ground. These corpses all had an obvious sign. Features: Their fingers have all been cut off, their arms are crossed in front of their chests in a cross shape, and their bare palms are resting on their shoulders - this look is similar to the way the pharaohs of ancient Egypt were buried in the old era. The posture is exactly the same.

"It's a sacrifice, these people are sacrifices." Victoria whispered.

"Sacrifice? What are sacrifices? These corpses?" Major Ashkani on the side couldn't help but ask. His legs were shaking slightly. Fortunately, the trembling was not large, and the environment was very dark. , the people around did not notice.

"Well." Victoria pulled out a lighting rod and threw it towards the pile of corpses. "This is an extremely cruel ritual of the heretical sect. They use living people as sacrifices to the 'great god' they call them. Pray to seek the so-called protection and blessing of 'gods'..."

"Living sacrifices..." Ke Lan silently repeated the word. He had read in books that in the barbaric period on earth, it was very common to use humans as living sacrifices for sacrifices, but later with the advent of civilization, With the development of human civilization, human sacrifice has gradually been regarded as an extremely barbaric and bloody thing. Except for some uncivilized areas, most countries on the earth rarely perform human sacrifice after entering the feudal era.

But now, on this ark, which symbolizes the pinnacle achievement of human civilization, human sacrifice has appeared again.

"I have seen several heretical sects use living people as sacrifices for prayer ceremonies, but they were all outside the Ark, and the sacrifices were all slaves who were dying..." said the previous one. The agent who also heard the voice said to Ke Lan and Ashkani, "But I have never seen a human sacrifice on this scale... Generally speaking, this kind of prayer ceremony requires only two sacrifices. It’s enough for three people…”

"Three hundred human sacrifices... I think what they want to pray to that 'god' must be a very big event, right?" Ke Lan whispered.

"Let's not talk about it for now," Victoria waved her hand. "A group will test the corpses to see if there are any corpses infected with Seed of Corrosion cells. The 'container' jumped out from this place. All the corpses here are There is a high risk of infection.”