Chapter Twenty-Six: Integration
It was also the first time that the people at the gathering had seen the scene after the massacre with hot weapons.
Looking at the broken limbs and the blood covering the ground, a few members who were slightly less psychologically affected had begun to vomit.
Mamba and Lias watched the live broadcast, and they were so shocked by the bloody scene that they couldn't stand up.
Lias, in particular, was the one who had fought with a crawler robot and was almost sent away by a shuttle.
After seeing the terrifying power of the Gatling gun, Lias's only thought was that if it weren't for the blessing of the "Lord" on them, he would have died eight hundred times the last time he encountered the crawler robot.
After a while, everyone who had basically adapted to the bloody scene began to work separately again.
Mamba asks Fran to bring Catherine back for treatment, and she and the rest of the men start cleaning up the battlefield.
They soon discovered the "Divine Power Fragment" of the other party's leader, and then they realized that the other party was also a "capable person", and they had to take ordinary people in their eyes.
In addition to the "Divine Power Fragments", these intruders only carried a small amount of dry food and dozens of tokens, and they don't know how they met Catherine and chased them all the way here.
But Mamba is not in a hurry, these will be known when Catherine wakes up.
All that's left to do is dispose of the bodies and clean up the scene.
Speaking of which, the underground world has always preserved the custom of cannibalism, and it has been on the verge of life and death for a long time, and the moral bottom line or something basically does not exist.
If it were to be changed to a gathering place where hunger and cold were to suffer, these stumps and meat would inevitably become a supplementary meal.
However, the Mamba have gotten rid of the food dilemma, so naturally they will no longer be interested in it, and they still dispose of it as garbage.
After dealing with these things, I looked back, and Fran had already healed Catherine's injuries.
It's just that she is seriously injured and has been in a coma, and she has not woken up yet.
"Mamba, there's something we want to ask you for an idea." When Fran saw Mamba returning, she immediately got up and said.
Seeing that everyone was staring at him, Mamba asked with some surprise, "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong with this Catherine? ”
Fran nodded, "We never accept strangers in our gathering place, although this traveling vendor has been in contact with us before, but she is not our own after all. ”
The Mamba nodded, motioning for her to continue.
Because of her status as a "psychic doctor", Fran was already the second-in-command of the gathering place, she looked at Catherine in a coma and said, "Last time you told her the location of our gathering place, it was already very risky. ”
"This time, we are even more because of her, which led to an additional battle." Fran looked back at Mamba, "Her presence consumes too many of our resources. ”
Mamba thought for a moment and said, "We saved her life, so we naturally have the right to demand something in return from her." ”
Fran shook her head, "That's not enough, I think we should make her one of us, let her also believe in the Lord!" ”
The Mamba frowned: "You mean...... Perform a ritual on her? ”
Fran nodded and said, "That's right, only in this way will she be absolutely loyal to the Lord, so that she will not betray our gathering place, and this will be her reward for us." ”
"But," Mamba hesitated, "we have only used rituals on children born in our gathering place, and we have never used them on outsiders. ”
"Even if we use a ritual to make her a member of us, it is difficult to guarantee that she will die to worship the Lord."
Fran's reply was, "Even if she doesn't worship the Lord sincerely, the Lord will come upon her as soon as she completes the ritual, so she will never betray the Lord." ”
"Moreover, this is just the beginning, we are getting stronger and stronger now, it is definitely not enough to just stay here, sooner or later we will have to expand outward, and we may need to bring in more outsiders in the future."
"At that time, how to manage outsiders will take a lot of thought, and if there are some traitors and traitors mixed in, it will have a very bad impact on the gathering place."
"So I think that anyone who enters our gathering place must swear allegiance to the Lord and perform rituals, so that their absolute loyalty can be guaranteed."
Fran pointed at Catherine, "And this plan should start with her." ”
Mamba understands Fran's thoughts very well, and in the underground world, every gathering place is an island, and everyone is extremely xenophobic.
If it was before the "Lord" appeared, he believed that Fran would not have been able to treat Catherine at all, and it was even more likely that she would have made up for it.
The hearts of those who are not of my race must be different, which is the common sense of survival in the underground world.
In this case, individual will is a joke.
After some thought, Mamba agrees with Fran's decision.
As Fran said, they will definitely have to recruit more outsiders to their team in the future, and how to control and manage them will be a big problem.
With the technological level of the underground world, communication basically depends on roaring, transportation basically depends on walking, and manpower is relied on, and at most the scale of the primitive tribe is maintained.
Just like Torre's forces, hundreds of people is already the upper limit of the number of people he can manage.
And now, with the plug-in of the "Lord", theoretically speaking, there is no upper limit to the number of people in the Mamba team, as long as they pass the ritual and become a believer in the "Lord", then it is absolutely impossible to betray.
……
Watching Mamba and the others begin to prepare for the ceremony, Tang Hao's heart was also a little struggling.
As a contemporary promising young man, he originally had high moral requirements for himself, and the lowest bottom line was at least not to do to others what he did not want to be done.
As Fran said, forcibly using rituals to make Catherine his own disposable unit is tantamount to forcibly depriving the other party of their freedom against their will.
This is still a little difficult for Tang Hao to accept.
But then again, although the Mamba and the others volunteered to become his followers, when Tang Hao controlled them, it was somewhat compulsive.
In this way, his own thoughts seem to be a little appropriate and established, which is also the reason why Tang Hao has been entangled in his heart.
……
By this time, Mamba had already taken out the ritual dagger and began to suck Catherine's blood.
Catherine, who was unconscious, snorted a few times because of the pain, and soon the whole dagger was stained red with blood.
After taking the first step, Mamba walked to the room where the idol was located with the stamp and dagger, and he suddenly shook his whole body and froze in place.
When the few people around him stopped, thinking that he had something else in mind, Fran opened his mouth and asked, "Mamba, aren't you going to let her join us?" ”
As soon as she spoke, she realized that her whole body had lost control.
The "Lord" took over them all.