Alien Relic Hunter

Three hundred corpses were crammed into such a small space. The strong smell of blood and corpse odor even gave Ke Lan the illusion that even the air had become very viscous and difficult to flow. Every breath , you have to suppress the desire to vomit.

In such a scene opposite, the agents of the Security Bureau performed fairly well, but the non-commissioned officers of the garrison who came in with Major Ashkani were all pale, and some of them who had more serious reactions were already covering their heads. His mouth kept retching.

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Ten minutes later.

"Sir, no infection has been found...but, but..."

"But what?" Victoria glanced at him coldly and asked.

"When we conducted a sample autopsy... we found that the inside of the skull of the corpse was empty..." the agent said.

"Kongde...are you saying that the brain tissue of the corpse has disappeared?" Ke Lan asked quickly. He knew that there is an indigenous creature called "brain-eating worm", which especially likes to feed on the brain tissue of living things - of course, this This "brain-eating worm" has nothing to do with the amoeba on Earth named "Naegleria fowleri". This is a giant worm with a length of more than five meters and a bloated body. It will release a gas that puts the prey into a hallucinogenic state, and then use a sharp needle-like mouthpart to pierce the skull of the prey and suck out the brain...

However, brain-eating worms are almost considered a rare species on Alpha Planet, let alone on the Ark... they are hard to find even outside.

"Are there any signs of damage to the skull?" Victoria asked.

"No." The agent shook his head, "But after the autopsy, we found that there was a puncture wound on the top wall of the nasal cavity, and the brain tissue should have been removed from the nasal cavity."

Puncturing the nasal cavity to remove brain tissue... isn't this the method used by the ancient Egyptians in the old era when making mummies? Coupled with the posture of the arms of these corpses... Could it be that this heretical sect not only inherited the religion of the Alpha Civilization, but also absorbed part of the ancient Egyptian culture that was handed down?

But...what's the point of doing this?

"Has all the cadaver brain tissue been removed?" Victoria continued to ask.

"All sixteen corpses sampled were like this," the agent replied.

"..." Victoria fell into rare silence, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly became more solemn.

"Have you found these missing brains?" Ke Lan asked the agent.

"No..." He shook his head and held up a transparent ziplock bag. "We only found the chopped off fingers of the victims."

There were more than a dozen bloody fingers in the bag, and the cut section was not smooth... Obviously, the murderers first killed all the civilians who gathered here, and then cut them off with blunted samurai swords. The fingers came down one by one...

"This group of thugs..." Major Ashkani gritted his teeth and said angrily, "Their crimes are enough to be sent to the electric chair a dozen times!"

There are currently three main methods of execution in Ark: injection, shooting and electric chair. The electric chair can be regarded as the most painful one, and will cause the body of the death row prisoner to be severely burned, making the appearance of the death penalty extremely disgraceful... Generally speaking, It is said that only prisoners who have committed extremely serious crimes will be sentenced to death by electric chair.

Of course, since Ke Lan knew how the flesh-eating worms of the Security Bureau were cultivated, in his eyes, the electric chair was no longer the most cruel punishment.

"The electric chair is cheaper than these guys. I think it is more suitable to send it to a breeding ground for flesh-eating worms...at least it can be used as waste." Ke Lan glanced at the hands in the bags and said softly.

"...The people from the second group will stay and count the detailed numbers of the victims and their specific identities. The others will follow me." After Victoria finished speaking, she actually took the lead to walk up to the third floor.

The agent holding the shield tried to get in front of her, but she pushed him away.

"Based on my experience of following the commander for so many years, she should be in anger now." The talkative agent whispered to Ke Lan and Ashkani, "I suggest you not to go at this time. Provoke her."

Ke Lan nodded in agreement. During this period of time together, his view of these security agents had changed a lot... At least, they were not as unbearable as the rumors outside said. .

There is an attic on the third floor of the building, which is used as a warehouse by the operators of restaurants and izakayas. In addition to half a processed tuna and a dozen boxes of Japanese sake found in the freezer, they were piled here. The things inside were basically worthless debris, and as for things like corpses, not a single one was seen.

The massacre and sacrifice seemed to have been completed in the restaurant on the second floor. During the process, no one ran up to the attic.

After coming to this conclusion, the investigation team evacuated the building, but just as they were about to continue moving along the street, the voice that had disappeared for a while actually appeared again!

"I...I heard it clearly!" Major Ashkani shouted incoherently, "It was a scream! An extremely sharp scream! There seemed to be the sound of a blade piercing the flesh...and...wailing, Crying and roaring..."

He covered his head and squatted down, his lips trembling.

"This sound... these sounds... are like the scene of more than 300 people being killed replaying in my ears..." Ashkani murmured. He pulled off his general's hat and dug his fingers deeply into it. into the hair.

"You're too nervous...Breathe, take a deep breath..." Ke Lan grabbed the major's arm and lifted him up from the ground.

"The massacre...the massacre continues!" Ashkani's eyes widened, he grabbed Ke Lan's wrist tightly and shook it vigorously.

"The massacre is over." Ke Lan patted the other party's back gently. He naturally heard the voice, but it was completely different from what Major Ashkani heard. It seemed to be a long and heavy prayer. The prayer spit out every syllable from his lips and teeth in an extremely pious tone - Ke Lan could be sure that it was definitely not the language of the Alpha civilization, but it was also not any of the old era languages ​​used by the humans on the Ark.

Even he, the "successor", could not understand the content of this prayer at all.

Not only Ashkani, but several people in the investigation team also suffered from splitting headaches... They all heard similar sounds. The roars and screams of the victims seemed to be ringing in their ears, even The sound of flesh being penetrated by a sharp weapon is so real.

"Did you hear it too?" Ke Lan raised his head and looked at Victoria.