Speaking of this, Officer Cole's expression was a little strange, and Mu Lan knew that the main event was coming.

The villagers disappeared one after another, and the others were terrified, but there were still people who wanted to continue to find out, and the woman who reported the crime was one of them.

The woman sneaks in, she wants to find her missing husband, and after making her way through a dense forest full of miasma and swamps, she sees her husband's body hanging upside down from the campfire.

The corpse had died horribly, a large amount of blood had flowed down his throat, like a freshly slaughtered live pig, and its body was covered with deep bone cuts, and the horrific death of her husband was not enough to shock her, and she saw an even more astonishing sight, almost collapsing to the ground in fright.

The woman ran out of the jungle in a daze, and then ran all the way to the police station in Newport.

The Newport Police Department took this situation very seriously, and Officer Cole immediately organized a group of people to rush to the woman's village.

When the police arrived, it was already nightfall, and they walked through the forests and swamps that did not see the light of day, and when they arrived at the place where the suspected pagan group was meeting, even if the information provided by the woman was used as a foreshadowing, the strange scene at the scene still made them unable to close their mouths in shock, and some young police officers even collapsed on the spot.

In front of the burning bonfire, there is a frenzied cult ritual.

Naked participants danced frantically to the beat of drums, chanting grotesque phrases in obscure tones like some kind of incantation or prayer, and in the center of the frenzied scene, dozens of corpses hung upside down in the air, mutilated and bloody.

The rally crowd was oblivious to everything around them like drug addicts, beating, dancing, chanting faster and faster with all their might, to the point of hoarseness, and in the muffled words, the policemen vaguely heard a name.

"Saratos! Saratos! ”

Someone was apparently frightened and who fired the first shot, and then some of the rally members came to their senses, and there was a great deal of clashes at the scene, with a frenzied crowd rushing at the police, unafraid of their guns.

But in the end, Officer Cole was able to control the situation, and the clash resulted in thirteen casualties, a few escaped, and most were taken into the police station.

"Their organizers have all run away, and the rest are brainwashed fanatics, and they can't interrogate anything at all." Officer Cole said.

"After being arrested, they still kept chanting those meaningless words." Officer Cole was a little scared, he took a deep breath, and continued: "Saratos, this may be the evil god they believe in, and the night guard who committed suicide today also said this name, but I checked the historical materials and consulted experts, and I couldn't find the source of this god at all, as if it came out of nowhere. ”

"Cole consulted me, but I don't know where the name came from." Leonard frowned, "Maybe it's the language of some South Pacific island native?" Or maybe we misheard the pronunciation? ”

Leonard considered himself an expert on these unpopular historical issues, but he had never heard of the origins of either Crown or Saratos, and he had been frustrated these days with nothing to find in the vast number of books, so he decided to go to Herzros himself, and in the back of his mind, it seemed that a voice was calling him.

"In the end, this incident was characterized as a secret sacrificial activity of a cult group." Officer Cole said: "The bodies of the missing villagers were found on the grounds, and they appeared to be performing some kind of blood sacrifice, and this tiara appeared on their altar. ”

The four of them stared at the silver-white crown on the table, and in this atmosphere, the shimmering textures, the twisted human figures revealed an indescribable weirdness.

Due to the seriousness of the situation and the extremely bad influence of public opinion, although Britain was already a Puritan country, everyone was still disturbed by these disgusting cults.

After saying goodbye to Officer Cole, Mu Lan and the others returned to the museum, because of the unexpected trip, today's trip was postponed, and it happened that Mu Lan was not in a hurry to rush to Herzros Town, she needed to check the information and learn more information.

Coming to the municipal library, Mu Lan found the history of the county of Randstershire, and there were only a few descriptions of the town of Herzross, if it were not for the fact that it was once rich in fishing, I am afraid that this sparsely populated and remote place would be canceled from the administrative plan.

The town of Herzross, located in the north-west of the Leinster county, was founded in 1521 and had a modest harbor from which some ships sailed to Greenland and the New World, but it was the end of the new shipping era, the port was abandoned, and the number of people settling here began to dwindle.

In addition to the traditional fishing industry, which has been passed down since ancient times, Herzros has not been able to take advantage of the industry, and the competition brought by large companies has also made fishing income worse, and naturally it cannot attract immigrants, and the area has gradually become closed and decayed.

Strangely enough, Britain's inshore fisheries have been depleted, while the fish stocks around the town of Herzros have been declining, and local fishermen have been thriving for generations on the small profits from fishing.

In addition to the above, the county history mentions the town of Herzros as having a plague and riot in 1860, but due to its age, the literature is vague, except that many people died, and it was quickly quelled.

Nowadays, few people know that Herzrose is a remote place where the population is concentrated in metropolises such as London, and it is estimated that Dr. Byrne would not have agreed to go there if it were not for the high cost of consultation.

Mu Lan was also curious about the mysterious cult group, but as Professor Leonard said, there was no information about them, nor could she find the source of the god.

It is worth noting, however, that Officer Cole has mentioned that these neurotic fanatics have sprung up in the recent days of more and more cases of cult gatherings, and that this is happening in metropolitan London, or in major cities across the country, and even in continental Europe and overseas colonies, as if they were preparing for a big event, accompanied by bloody sacrifices, absurd babble, and strange behavior.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of timely information, a lot of specific information could not be known, and the organizers behind the scenes who were more sober were not caught, and the arrests were all brainwashed fanatical believers, and the only valuable information that Officer Cole got from his counterparts in various places was that the calendar used by the cult group was very unusual.

They did not use a solar calendar based on the laws of the sun, nor a lunar calendar associated with the moon, but on a certain celestial body that had never been observed.

This calendar is 13 months a year, 20 days a month, a total of 260 days in a year, and the 1000 years are repeated for one week, and the cultists position the 1000 years as an epoch.

And according to their calendar, 1887, that is, this year, is the last year of this era.