A: We haven't asked the gods, but according to our analysis, it is very likely that they will.

Q: What is the argument for the analysis?

Answer: The information you got from those ancient books that you eavesdropped. History has been passed down for so long, and it has not been interrupted, but no matter whether it is a few decades or hundreds of years, there will always be new sacrificers. In this, it is unreasonable to say that there is no active guidance from the gods.

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Transcript of the interrogation, p. 13.

Q: How did you join Organization X?

A: I grew up in the church and was trained by the Church. Later, when I grew up, I went out on a mission.

Q: How does Organization X develop new members?

Answer: In Shang Jilong's time, in order to expand the strength of the Divine Cult and make it easier to obtain sacrifices, the sect leader absorbed some members through secret missions. But then, it hasn't been a long, long time since a new member has been recruited.

Question: How many of you went to the kingdom of God and sacrificed?

Answer: One person needs one sacrifice.

Q: Why were you abandoned?

A: I feel like it's because I don't have a family, I grew up in the church. They don't trust me. It may also be that because the number of sacrifices is not enough, some people must be abandoned.

Q: Are you not sure if the number of sacrifices is sufficient?

Answer: The Mugenshui Sect Master told me that it was enough, so I didn't pay attention.

Q: How did you get abandoned?

A: They told me to detain the waiters in the dormitory to prevent them from finding any clues. I took all the waiters to the dormitory, but the door was closed, and I was shut inside. After that, the oxygen supply and air circulation system also stopped. I thought you had come in and had an accident. Later, I felt suffocated, remembering that there might have been a little fresh air leaking out of the vents in the ceiling, so I hid there. Later, after a long time, I also fell into a coma.

Q: You actually knew at the time that it wasn't an accident, but that you were abandoned. It's just that you yourself don't want to believe it.

A: Perhaps.

Q: Is there anything else you can tell us about Organization X?

A: No.

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Vast sea of sand.

The field hospital, which was originally built to treat Lu Ming, has now been transformed into a supply point and logistics point for the soldiers and scientific researchers who are still stationed and working here. Lu Ming is still staying here at the moment, but compared to the past, he has gained a considerable degree of freedom.

Hardly anyone will come to limit his range of motion anymore.

At this moment, after dinner, Lu Ming returned to his room again, and once again picked up the thick stack of interrogation records passed to him by Zhang Dingshan.

He once again looked carefully, from beginning to end, carefully looking at one problem after another, thinking carefully about it, carefully analyzing the connections between different problems, and thinking about some deep meanings that may exist behind it.

He has found that many of these questions, although asked in different ways, are essentially repetitive. For example, "how did you join Organization X", "How long have you been a member of Organization X", etc.

He knew that it was an interrogation technique. By asking questions and getting answers to a question in different ways at different times, in different atmospheres and environments, it helps to verify the authenticity of the respondent's answer and obtain more and more details.

In addition, there may be more interrogation techniques in these interrogation records, but with Lu Ming's understanding of this, he can only see this.

One thing is certain, however, and that is that the answers in this transcript are highly credible.

In that case......

At least 90% of the mysteries that have happened to you have been solved.

For example, how they searched for the target, how they kidnapped the target, how they sacrificed, what the motive was, what the process was, and so on.

The few mysteries that have not been solved can be guessed quite plausibly based on this transcript.

For example, the case of the collapse of the Tang family, which has always puzzled Lu Ming and Huang Weimin.

How could the Tang family, which was so strong at the beginning, be wiped out because there were still a considerable number of "women, children, old and weak" bandits in a group of teams?

But through careful analysis of this transcript, Lu Ming gradually had some speculations in his heart.

Shang Yunsong, a descendant of Shang Jilong and the leader of this generation of Organization X, resolutely opposes the cultivation of a large number of sacrifices through cloning technology because of his adherence to traditional fundamentalism, and even opposes the raising of "human animals", and is only willing to capture sacrifices from the outside world.

It is precisely because of this that too many clues have been left in the outside world, laying the groundwork for the final destruction of the X organization.

Sun Yong believes that this is because Shang Yunsong is doing this for the right to speak and interpret the doctrine, and to ensure his family's status in the Divine Sect. Of course, there is a considerable possibility of this, but if you analyze it carefully, why is there a requirement in doctrine and tradition that "only sacrifices are allowed to be captured from outside"?

There is reason to believe that Shang Jilong was influenced by Tang Yuanhai to a considerable extent in the matter of sacrificing to the mountain gods. Because this matter was passed on to him by Tang Yuanhai.

So, as a descendant of the Tang family and the inheritor of the mountain god sacrifice, why did he set the rule that "sacrifices are only allowed to be captured from the outside world"?

The answer is clearly stated in ancient records.

Because the Tang family perished from the human animals they raised. From this, Tang Yuanhai learned a lesson and formulated the rule that "sacrifices are only allowed to be captured from the outside world".

Why was the Tang family wiped out by humans and animals?

The answer may be found in the changes in the organizational form of the mountain god worshippers.

Since the Tang family, the organizational form of the mountain god worshippers has evolved from a family to a family plus religion.

What will the introduction of religion bring?

The answer is obvious, it will bring about the improvement of cohesion, and it will be more convenient to absorb excellent external personnel to improve the quality of the organization. From this, in turn, we can know what kind of predicament the Tang family faced at that time.

Family cohesion decreases, and the quality of family personnel decreases.

Religion was introduced to solve these two problems.

So, why such a powerful Tang family was wiped out by human sacrifices, there is a more reasonable guess.

Because the cohesion of the Tang family was reduced at that time, and the quality of personnel was reduced - in layman's terms, there were many unscrupulous descendants, and there were often infighting. It is very likely that these animals were actually implicated, and perhaps some unscrupulous descendant planned to introduce this force to achieve some kind of political goal within the family, but as a result, the whole family perished.

Tang Yuanhai, the surviving descendant, learned this lesson, and in order to avoid this problem, he patched it - only sacrifices were allowed to be captured from the outside world, and a religious model was introduced to absorb outstanding people from outside the family.

This was inherited by Shang Jilong, and then passed on to Shang Yunsong. However, with the change of times, this rule no longer applies. However, Shang Yunsong may have chosen to become a fundamentalist for reasons of doctrinal interpretation and to ensure the particularity and dominance of his family, and still had to stick to this outdated rule, so he ......

Lu Ming "died". And because of an accident, he was alive again.

That's what happened next.

Of course, Lu Ming didn't know whether his guesses were true or false, but based on the existing information, he could only understand it this way. So he once again felt more deeply that perhaps, his fate had been doomed as early as the collapse of the Tang family.

Those events that have been buried in the dust of history have profoundly affected their fate with the passage of time.

Closing the transcript, Lu Ming looked out the window.

At this moment, the night is like water, and there is silence on the desert except for the sound of wind and sand.

He basically had no doubts about Organization X.

Most of the questions were answered. But the core issues are still shrouded in fog.

What does the Hag.1 gene mean to the mountain god?

This is the most central of all issues.

All problems arise because of this problem.

But......

Lu Ming didn't know how to figure out the answer to this question. Perhaps, with the core members of Organization X going to the "Kingdom of God", they may never return to Earth, and they may not be able to find the answer to this question in their lives.

How should the follow-up things progress, and whether the investigation should continue further, although Zhang Dingshan and He Wei did not inform Lu Ming, he could also make some guesses.

Perhaps, this time, the investigation into the kidnapping case of the X organization is really going to be closed.

After all, Organization X is gone.

No matter where those core members go, for the earthlings, they are equivalent to "dead".

At least in the short term, no one will be kidnapped for having the Hag.1 gene.

According to historical records, even if the mountain god is still on earth, it should be dormant for at least a few decades. It may be a few decades before a new "X organization" emerges.

But by that time, he might have died. None of this has anything to do with me.

In this case, perhaps, I should really put an end to all this, and through the endorsement of the government department, I will declare my return on the grounds of "participating in a secret mission", and return to normal society in a reasonable way.

This period of magical experience, let's think of it as a dream.

But, I don't know why, although reason told him that it was best for him to do this, but he still didn't feel good in his heart.

It was as if there was always a pair of eyes hidden in the dark, staring at him coldly. This feeling made him feel restless on his back, and made him confused, and his heart was always like pressing a big stone, and he couldn't be at peace for a moment.

He turned off the lights and lay down on the bed.

It was already late at night. But he tossed and turned, and couldn't sleep anyway.