Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 361 New arrival
"He, they... what are they doing?!" Standing in the distance, Layton watched this scene in shock, and subconsciously took two steps back.

"Those people they killed were critically ill patients whose time was running out. Perhaps, they were trying to help them end their pain?" Ivan said in a deep voice.

After a while, the number of corpses on the ground increased from three to eight. Ke Lan noticed that after the locals killed the seriously ill, they would pull out a few teeth of the deceased and put them in their pockets. The face was smashed into a bloody mess, and some corpses even had their entire jaws pried off by steel pipes. Those people used concrete blocks to knock out the teeth on the gum bed one by one, and then put them in their pockets like a treasure. .

"Collecting the teeth of the dead, why do you do this? Is this some kind of custom in the 'sick village'?" Ke Lan was very puzzled. These people who were killed were all seriously ill patients with radiation sickness. It is a high-intensity radiation pollution source, and the radiation intensity of the bones and teeth on the corpse is no less than those dangerous high-purity radioactive ores.

In the old era, some man-made radiation pollution accidents often occurred: due to work negligence, some highly radioactive metal waste or raw ore were sent to the garbage disposal plant as ordinary garbage, and were regarded as "treasures" by scavengers. "After picking it up at home, within a few days, the scavengers and his family began to experience dizziness, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, followed by anemia and skin ulcers... When they realized something was wrong and rushed to the hospital , with the medical technology of that era, it is already impossible to recover.

The actions of these sick village residents are almost the same as the "suicide behavior" of scavengers in the old era. Ke Lan really can't understand their purpose.
But after thinking about it, since these people can live in the "sick village" for a long time, their body structure must have undergone indescribable mutations. Maybe they, like themselves, are not afraid of this little radiation?

Or in other words, not only will the radiation not cause harm to them, but it can also become a source of their strength?
Although the second guess is exaggerated, it is not unreasonable. The essence of radiation is a kind of energy, but human beings cannot accept this form of energy for their own use due to their physiological structure... But this is only for human beings. Word.

For example, there are many kinds of indigenous creatures on Planet Alpha, and they prefer to stay in areas with strong radiation. For them, radiation is not a threat, but an extremely valuable "nutrient". The more radiation they absorb, the stronger their own strength will be. Also stronger.

If the human body has mutated into this appearance, then it is not difficult to explain the strange behavior of these people.

But when I think about it carefully, it doesn't seem quite right. If it is to obtain radioactive materials, why not take the complete skeleton and collect a few teeth at the expense of everything?
Is this really just a custom and has no practical significance?
At this time, those people had already lined up the corpses, and the guy with a huge tumor on his back and using his hands and feet slowly crawled up to the corpses in a row, stretched out his withered palms, and touched the heads of each corpse. Caressed gently.

"This person seems to be the leader of this group of guys?" Ke Lan stood behind the other miners, observing all this silently.

"My fellow citizens, this is the end of your miserable life, you will no longer suffer, and you will no longer feel hungry. This is the end and the beginning..."

Ke Lan was slightly taken aback, which one was this acting on?Read a eulogy?
His voice was as hoarse as a bellows with a hole in it, and it was as harsh as two pieces of rusty iron rubbing against each other, but no matter how unpleasant the voice was, Ke Lan could feel the piety in it... This kind of emotion is difficult to forge. A pretender and a fanatical and devout believer, even if they recite the same prayer, the listener will have completely different feelings.

"Your flesh and blood will return to the body of the great god and become a part of his body. This is a great honor..."

Hearing the words "Great God" come out of that guy's mouth, Ke Lan's eyelids couldn't help but twitch, and when he focused on the two "missionaries" with emblems tattooed on their bodies, But he found that these two people were also staring at this muttering guy with strange faces.

"Great God", this is the unique name for the "God" that the heretics believe in. It is obvious that this guy with the tumor on his back should also be a member of the heretics.

Moreover, it seems that he should at least be a "priest" type of role.

The "sick village" is completely under the control of heretical sects?But if this is the case, why didn't the two "missionaries" who sneaked into the miners' ranks not identify them?

Moreover, judging from the facial expressions of these two people, it seems that they do not understand the local people's approach.

Is there also a split within the heretical sect?Just like Christianity in the old era, although they all believed in God, there were great differences between Catholicism and Protestantism. Not only were the hierarchy and titles of clergy completely different, but even the doctrines, ideas, and some religious ceremonies were very different. big discrepancy.

In the early years when Protestantism was separated, not only did the two parties not recognize each other, bloody conflicts often occurred between believers, quarrels, fights and even vendettas were not uncommon, and many religious wars broke out between countries of different beliefs.It was not until after the twentieth century that the conflicts between them gradually eased.

Then the "heretical sect" in this sick village and the "heretical sect" on Alpha Planet, will it be the same kind of relationship?
They both believe in the "great god", but they don't regard each other as "one of their own", and because of this, the two "missionaries" choose to hide themselves in the same way as Ke Lan and the others. Among the miners?
Ke Lan felt that he should be very close to the correct answer, even if he was not all right, at least he had guessed most of it right.

The entire "mourning ceremony" lasted almost 10 minutes. After the last eulogy was finished, the "priest" who was carrying a huge sarcoma raised his head with some difficulty, and looked at Ke Lan and the newcomers.

His face is very old, and there is almost no fat or muscle under the skin of his cheeks. At first glance, he looks like a skinny skeleton. On the top of his bare head, there are scabies that can drive a secret panic patient crazy. The gray-yellow eyeballs are embedded in the deeply sunken eye sockets, and the edges of the eye sockets are covered with cracked lines like dried bark.

He doesn't look like a human at all, but more like a ghost - this is Ke Lan's first impression of this "priest".

(End of this chapter)