Chapter 12 Sacrifice in
In response to the call of the red-robed high priest, in the endless darkness, a deep and distant voice sounded, "You have come to disturb our silence again. The light and the fresh blood, though **, are not enough to compensate for our dignity. Only the withering of illustrious lives can show respect for us. Now, then, where is the blood of the royal family you are talking about? ”
The garrison commander already knew his fate as a sacrifice, which was more frightening and desperate than mere death, and he struggled desperately, howling with all his might. Between life and death, his strength suddenly increased, and he actually escaped from the palms of the two executioners!
But the brief moment of freedom did not change his fate, and at the signal of the red-robed high priest, one of the executioners suddenly struck and slammed the garrison commander in the abdomen, causing him to curl up like a boiled shrimp. The other executioner slammed him in the back, the shock almost displacing all of his internal organs! The two executioners then grabbed the temporarily incapacitated garrison commander and threw him into the thick darkness behind the iron gate.
The garrison commander was not like the red-robed priest who could stand in the void, as soon as he crossed the iron gate, his body flying in mid-air violated the trajectory of ordinary physical movement, the speed slowed down, and the parabolic angle turned into translation, as if an invisible hand firmly grasped him and pulled him into the depths of darkness.
The darkness was like a thick liquid, engulfing him little by little. Only terrible screams kept coming from an unknown distance. Immediately, waves of scalp-tingling rustles sounded in the endless darkness, as if countless small things were chewing and devouring food with their thin and sharp mouths, and the screams of the garrison commander suddenly rose high and mournful, and continued, and after a full ten minutes, it gradually stopped.
During the whole process, even the two executioners, who were accustomed to seeing countless bloodsheds, changed color a little, and they could imagine the pain of the garrison commander in these ten minutes. Normally, this kind of pain lasts only a few seconds to break down a person's nerves. They simply can't imagine what happens in the dark to make one's extreme pain last so long!
And the red-robed priest stood steadily, the torch in his hand swaying.
The voice in the darkness sounded again: "It tastes good!" Although the bloodline is too thin, it is indeed the bloodline of the royal family. The taste is always nostalgic. Very well, this sacrifice shows your sincerity. ”
"So, how many can I take this time?" The red-robed priest asked.
The darkness was silent for a while, and then said, "Three, you can take three, including one of the superiors." ”
The darkness parted like water, and three coffins emerged from nothingness. Two of them are long black wooden coffins with little ornamentation on their own. In the center is a larger coffin made of yellow tung trees, and the coffin surface is outlined with intricate three-dimensional rose branches in black and red unknown metal, full of dark and decadent artistic atmosphere.
"The superior? What an unexpected gift. The red-robed priest grinned like a crow, revealing the few broken black teeth.
"Depart, greedy man." The sound of the darkness faded away, and it was about to fall into a deep sleep again.
"Thank you very much for your generosity." The red-robed High Priest bowed to the endless darkness and exited the iron gate. When he came out, the qiē inside the door was once again drenched in darkness, including the three coffins.
The High Priest struggled to close the iron door, twisted the key a few times, and locked it again. Then he took the torch and walked out along the passage. The two executioners felt a slight strangeness, as the High Priest had not brought anything out of the door. But they knew it wasn't a question to ask, and they just kept up with it.
The three of them climbed up in silence, one in front of the other and two behind. The passage was very quiet, except for the heavy breathing of the High Priest echoing back and forth over the walls of the cave. Not far away, the scene behind the two executioners suddenly distorted slightly, and two faint shadows appeared. Their faces suddenly showed a look of extreme horror and pain, and they opened their mouths wide and shouted desperately, but they couldn't make any sound! The whites of the two executioners' eyes quickly covered with bloodshots, and the blood vessels dilated to the extreme in an instant, and then burst. No liquid sprayed out, only a terrifying black spread in their wide-open eyes, and covered their pupils, and eventually their entire eyes turned black glazed!
The executioner fell, and two shadows so faint that they could barely be seen followed the high priest. The high priest seemed to have no idea what was happening behind him, and lowered his head and moved his steps lifelessly, climbing up step by step like a dying old man.
Behind them, the empty and damp corridor fell silent, and the iron gate was forgotten in the darkness.
Sue suddenly sat up from the bed!
In the moment of sobriety, the panorama expanded at full speed, allowing Su to grasp the surrounding qiē in an instant. The night was still deep, hours before dawn, and the wind continued to blow in through one window and out from another. On the large bed lay three seductive bodies, Murray's daughter and two maids-in-waiting. Dozens of empty wine bottles were scattered on the table and beside the sofa, and the smell of wine in the air was still strong, and the Chinese people were drunk.
Outside the bedroom, two guards and four servants were waiting, ready to be ordered. Hundreds of kilograms of processed high-calorie food are laid out in the small dining room next to it, just in case Sue wants a late-night snack. In the kitchen on the lower floor, more than 10 chefs are busy all night preparing for the next day's breakfast.
In the entire Doge's Palace, there were nearly fifty people who were busy all night, serving only one person, and this was the life of the superiors.
Sue got out of bed and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling full-length mirror, staring at the perfect human male body in the mirror. The proportions of the body are slightly different from those of normal humans, but they are more in line with the beauty of the perspective of super life, which also means that they can exert much more powerful powers. In the past few days, Su has done everything that is no different from a man who is in a position of power and indulges in desires, overeating, craving, and a large number of women. He's doing his best to keep his sense of being human, and he seems to have had some sort of success.
He actually fell asleep just now, and he had a dream!
Since being able to control the body at the cellular level, sleeping is no longer necessary, and when the mental center begins to form, dreaming becomes even more impossible. The ability of each mind center can be compared to that of a human with a first-class IQ, requiring only a small one or two hours of rest per day, and this time can be divided into multiple times. That is, there will be a majority of minds that remain working at all times. Generally speaking, Sue's so-called sleep is actually to turn off unnecessary thoughts and let the thinking center fully handle the tasks in progress. Even if one or two of the centers of thought showed signs of dreaming during the rotation, it would not be possible to maintain this activity. The rest of the thinking centers correct this behavior that may affect the main consciousness.
But Sue did fall asleep, and did dream.
The dream was simple and monotonous, an iron door covered in rust and moss, with an old-fashioned keyhole with new scratches and a copper key stuck in the keyhole. When the dream began, the iron door was slowly closing. It was originally a silent dream, but when the iron door closed, there was a sudden loud bang! The sound shattered the dream and woke Sue from her sleep.
Sue stood in front of the mirror, constantly recalling the dream, trying to trace its source, and soon got the answer. This dream did not occur in any center of thought, it just appeared in Sue's main consciousness out of thin air.
Behind the iron gates, there was a deep darkness. Looking back at this moment, Su actually felt that the darkness seemed to have substance, which could flow and swallow it. Behind the darkness, he didn't know what was hidden, but it made him feel a real threat.
"Is this anything, a warning? Or is it misleading? Su pondered. He knew that, at least for now, there were many, many things he didn't know, such as the origin of the dream. It may be just a gut reaction to danger, but it also shows that the danger has reached a certain tipping point.
"Maybe those guys from Hirol have already been dispatched? It can be seen that the old guy is not telling the truth about everything, but it doesn't matter, and now it's time to act. ”
Su stood in front of the window, gently stroking the fist-sized lump at the junction of his chest and abdomen, and a sharp blade popped out from his fingertips, cutting the lump open. Where the finger blade slashed, the skin and muscles were turned over layer by layer, but not a drop of blood or body fluid flowed out. In the cracked gap, dozens of finger-sized flying swarms swarmed out, some of which could fly without Su's body, and some of which tumbled and fell to the ground, making a crackling sound of metal. The flying bee that fell turned over and got up, constantly vibrating the six wings on its back rapidly, making a buzzing sound. Their wings fluttered at high speed in the wind that swept into the room at high speed, and their bodies hovered steadily, quickly drying the mucus from their bodies, and then flew up one by one, all landing on the windowsill, in two neat rows.
The bees shimmer a faint black throughout, and their smooth surface constantly refracts the light around them, making them appear to disappear and change shape. The carapace covering their bodies is very hard, with two rows of tiny holes at the end of their abdomen in addition to the six wings on their backs. All the flying bees raised their heads and looked at Sue, the three pairs of compound eyes above their heads could actually emit a faint light, and those flashing lights were meaningful. And in their eyes, the deep and flowing halo of Sun's blue pupils also contained a lot of information, including the tasks assigned to each of them. After a few minutes, all the flying bees began to turn around and fly one by one, running into the distance in the vast night.
Reconnaissance Enhanced Reguna (Micro): The standard body is 3 cm long, has 140 detection modes, and has a memory zone storage capacity of 10 days. omnivorous, air-dwelling, triple propulsion mode; Single combat effectiveness, weak. Special abilities, clan battle mode, neurotoxins. The mode of reproduction, autoviparous, the reproductive cycle is three days.
This is a new type of biochemical weapon created by the prototype Reguna combined with the genetic and structural characteristics of the local vampire mosquito, although it is very simple, it can be regarded as the first complete biological weapon explored by Su himself, and the significance is heavy. Whether it is mature or not needs to be further tested in actual combat.
Reguna bee colony was released, and the scary-looking crack in Sue's abdomen began to slowly close until there was no trace to be seen. He put on his clothes and walked out of the bedroom.
"Your Excellency!" The guard at the door of the bedroom was startled, he didn't expect Su to come out at this time. They immediately leaned forward with imperial courtesy and paid Sue the highest respect.
"Inform Kubire, and all the lords, and let them come to the war hall to gather, immediately."
"Yes!" The guards responded loudly and galloped away.
Murray's dedicated war room is more appropriately called the War Hall, in addition to the large space and luxurious decoration, the whole hall is associated with the word 'battle' is a ten-meter-long and five-meter-wide sand table in the northern region of the Solar Empire. The city of Hirol is located right on the edge of the sand table.
Sue pondered the vast and intricate terrain from Makka to Hiroel.
A few minutes later, the door to the war room was pushed open, and Kubire walked in softly and stood in front of the sand table. It was the first time he had seen such a huge combat sand table, and his eyes couldn't help but light up. After another two minutes, the second lord walked into the war room. Ten minutes later, all six lords had arrived, including one who had not yet recovered from his injuries.
Seeing Su staring at the sand table, all the lords were awe-inspiring in their hearts, knowing that the relaxed time of a few days had finally passed, and the next thing would be war again.
Seeing that all the lords had arrived, Su raised his head, reached out and took a bronze baton, pointed it on the city of Hiroel, and said, "The enemy is from here. ”
Then the brass indicator rod moved on the sand table, outlining a winding route according to the different terrain types, and then stopped not far from the city of Maca. "This is the most likely route of the enemy's march. And we're here to meet it. ”
"Lamar, you are here with a hundred warriors, Julio, you are stationed here, Salayes, you are guarding here with eighty men." Su named the three lords and used his baton to mark the three locations on the sand table for them to guard. Looking at the overall situation, the three lords formed an arc of defense, protecting one side of Maca City.
"The rest followed me. Now go back, gather all the warriors you can find, get ready, and set out at ten o'clock in the morning. ”
After this order, Su ended the military meeting, and did not give the lords a chance to speak or argue.
Soon after the lords departed, the city of Maca was filled with a loud noise, and the roars of the lords rang out from the barracks, pulling the soldiers out of their beds, stuffing them with a weapon, and then assembling the bewildered warriors in the square with leather shoes and whips. The adjutants were already waiting there, and a dozen large barrels of ice water could ensure that the warriors walked out of Maka City soberly.
Su remained alone in the war room, staring at the sand table as if she were a substance, and the focus of her gaze started from the city of Hiroel, gradually deviating from the original route and pointing to Maca along a more convenient route. Not far from Maca, the focus of the gaze circled, turned to the head, and then turned north, breaking into the city from the other side of Maca City. The path happens to pass through one of the lieges' quarters. However, how much of a role a lord can make, Su knows very well.
Just then, there was a soft, rhythmic knock at the door. The only one who could knock on the door like this was the old man who had been the steward of the governor's palace.
After the old man came in, he said in a calm and calm tone as usual: "My lord, the director of the cultivation base just came to report that all five cultivation tanks had been opened at some point, and all the creatures that had been cultivated inside had disappeared. ”
Su didn't raise his head and said, "Well, I know." Sue him and ask him to prepare the raw materials and cultivate them again according to the same recipe. ”
Seeing Su's indifferent attitude, the old man was thoughtful and quietly retreated. C