Chapter 728: Forbidden Ritual?
Actually, I'm not surprised by this, after all, I've dealt with Gu creatures many times, and I know that their habit is to avoid sunlight, and all research facilities related to Gu creatures will be built underground, at least most of them underground.
What really surprised me was the saint, I felt as if she really didn't know anything about the place, and the fact that she claimed to be a voodoo made all the more inexplicable.
This place is too close to the villa area, and the saint seems to have some kind of method of transmitting sound from thousands of miles in the air that I don't know, which means that her perception of things must be far beyond ordinary people, plus the moon spirit also said that the saint's people have investigated the terrain around the villa area, so the saint should not know anything about this place.
Thinking of this, I suddenly realized that I still seemed to trust the saint too much just now, so that I will do whatever she tells me to do, and I am afraid that I still have to pay attention now, at least I have to secretly observe and speculate what the purpose of the saint is at this time.
Also, after entering the underground level, I have to keep an eye on this saint's every move, if she is really a voodoo, then even if she is not completely familiar with this place, she should know quite a lot, although she has a mask face, I still think that the clues can be observed from her other manifestations.
Then the saint began to ask me what I had heard, and I got up and told her the faint cry I had just heard, and the saint nodded and said, "So it seems that the little girl is still underground. ”
"Hmm. I frowned and said, "She's definitely there, but I'm worried about ...... There will be no other children. ”
"Of course there is. The Holy Maiden immediately said: "The number of first-generation individuals cultivated by the Origin Project is quite large, if this little girl can survive, then there is no reason why other children will die for no reason, even if it is eliminated according to the maximum proportion, I feel that the number of individuals who are alive now must be at least fifty or more." ”
"There are so many?" I said, surprised.
"Yes, that's not excluding those I don't know. The saint said in an admonishing tone, "So you must not take it lightly now. ”
I said in my heart that the least likely thing I could think about now was to "take it lightly", and instead, I had taken those mysterious children as my number one threat.
And what I have to do now is to try to turn these "dangers" into my own "assistants".
Of course...... The premise is that the saint didn't lie to me just now.
I listened for a little more and noticed that the cry was still intermittent, but it didn't seem to change its position.
Besides, apart from this single cry, I couldn't hear the slightest movement.
Soon we came to the entrance where we had gone down through the Bloodmelt Stone, of course, the Bloodmelt Stone had closed again, but we had already prepared, I sprinkled some of the blood water that the Holy Maiden had prepared for me on the floor, and then I saw a dull rumbling sound from the floor, and then it cracked a narrow hole.
As soon as this mouth appeared, I could smell an even stronger smell of sulfur wafting up from the ground, and it seemed that our assumption was correct, that the explosion had indeed occurred from underground.
I still don't quite understand what the explosion is playing here, though.
You must know that in the face of Gu art, the so-called gunpowder blasting can actually be regarded as child's play.
In other words, if a person has mastered the skillful Gu technique, or the method of manipulating Gu objects, then he will definitely scoff at the hot weapon.
Like what...... I myself am a striking example of this.
And this underground level is full of bloodmelt stones, so there seems to be no possibility of blasting to open the way.
So...... There is only one possibility for this explosion, could it be that it is specifically to destroy those little black things?
After all, there are a lot of these little black things, and they like to act in groups, and if you want to eliminate them, the best way is indeed to use explosives to eliminate them intensively.
But this seems to be contrary to the saint's speculation just now, and the saint said that these people may also want to fight for "control", so since they have killed all those little black things...... What else to control?
Or is it ......
They just want to control the first individuals of the Origin Project, the few children like that weird little girl?
The Holy Maiden and I waited a little at the top of the crack, partly to let the pungent smell of sulfur dissipate further, and partly to hear if anything unusual could happen below.
But everything was quiet and terrible, nothing happened, not even the cry just now.
However, the more this happened, the more uneasy my heart became, if the cry existed, then even intermittently I could have had the opportunity to hear the specific location, but now this sound is an hour, and my tracking is completely bankrupt......
I can only conclude from memory that the sound was at least at least a hundred meters or so parallel to the soles of our feet.
And this direction ...... It seems to be the same room where I "escaped and ascended" twice in a row, that is, the room full of stone platforms and children of different skin tones.
I began to march with the Holy Maiden as fast and vigilant as I could, and on the way I kept an eye on the signs I had made, and found that they were still well preserved, and that I had not seen much of anything unusual along the way, which seemed to indicate that the commotion had not reached this side at least.
I didn't think there would be any change on this floor, but as we approached the room we had before, I smelled a large and unusual smell of blood rushing towards me.
There are two things about the abnormal smell of blood, the first is that the concentration is extremely exaggerated, and I feel that it is very likely that the wall in front of me was collapsed by the impact of the explosion, so the thick blood that was originally on the inside of the wall gushed out.
The second is that the smell of blood is actually mixed with some herbs that I am familiar with, which is the smell that first appeared on me and Yueling, and then after the rest of us were injected with the so-called "Z-virus sample".
It's a light taste, but I capture it accurately.
I'm a little surprised, isn't there some people here who have the same physique as us?
I glanced at the saint again and saw that she didn't seem to react in any way.
I began to try to walk in line with her as much as possible, because only then could I "monitor" her every move.
After walking a short distance along the smell of blood, I saw that the ground under my feet began to appear crimson and dark red bloodstains, these blood were not normal animals at first glance, the consistency was much higher than normal blood, and there were actually some pimple stuff mixed in it, I couldn't see what it was, in short, it felt very disgusting.
The saint also seemed to be a little uncomfortable, she actually kept covering her mouth with her hands, and looked like she wanted to vomit.
The suspicion in my heart was even greater, since this saint was a voodoo herself, how could she be so sensitive to the smell of blood?
However, I remained silent, and walked a short distance like this, and sure enough, I saw that the walls on both sides showed signs of collapse, and a large number of tubes of different thicknesses were exposed on the inside of the walls, and the inner walls of these pipes were all thick blood scabs.
Damn, how many creatures does this have to kill to get enough blood?
At the same time, I also remembered the "sea of blood" on the other side of the reservoir castle, in fact, compared to that side, the amount of blood here is very small.
At the same time, I also noticed that there were special murals on the soles of my feet that I had mentioned earlier, that is, that they had not appeared anywhere else.
I pointed out to the Holy Maiden the fresco on one of the largest floor tiles, which showed a man with his hands and feet tied and hanging, with a long stick about his height on top of his head, and a faint black pattern at the bottom of the picture, at the bottom of the man's feet, which looked like a small stone platform, but I was not sure that it was because of the simplicity of the picture.
I pointed it to the saint and told her to analyze it and see what it represented.
In fact, on the previous road, I also asked her about the content of some of her other murals, and she told me that these are all narrative paintings of some voodoo members training or hunting Gu things, and there is nothing special.
I thought she would prevaricate me with a similar statement when she saw the painting, but I found that when she saw it, her whole body seemed to be stunned.
I called her several times in a row, and then she came back to her senses and said to me, "Xiao Chen...... This picture ......"
"What's wrong with the picture?" I saw that she looked like she was struggling, and hurriedly urged: "Hurry up!
The saint took a deep breath and said, "What does this picture express...... It is a taboo ritual of voodoo......"
"Forbidden rituals?what? Is it something like a blood sacrifice?" I asked.
The reason I guess this is because there is blood all around us now, and the man in the picture is indeed tied hand and foot, and it looks like he had to be bled before killing a pig.
However, the saint shook her head: "No...... Wrong...... This doesn't seem like a ritual I've ever seen......"
"Huh, what are you talking about?" I asked.
"No, no......" Then I saw the saint suddenly look up at me, although she had a masked face, but her eyes could still see clearly.
I saw a flash of blue light flash in her eyes, and then her hand grabbed the flashlight at my side.