Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 371 Sacrifice Ceremony (4000-word chapter)
At the beginning, the woman didn't realize that she was the one who was called. It wasn't until the two attendants walked up to her that she raised her head tremblingly, and carefully cast her eyes on the god standing not far away. servant.

"God, Servant of God, you, your chosen one...is, is it me?"

She was completely frightened, she bit her own tongue three times in a sentence of less than twenty words.

The god servant didn't speak, he just nodded his head very slightly, and then uttered the word "um" in a dull, nasal tone.

The woman's legs went limp in an instant, and she really wanted to get up from the bunk, but she failed after two attempts.Her legs and feet couldn't exert any strength at all, those tendons and bones didn't listen at all, and even her facial muscles began to twitch involuntarily.

The two attendants only waited for a few seconds, then impatiently pulled the woman off the scaffold, and dragged her to the servant of God like an animal waiting to be slaughtered.

With the "lessons learned from the past" of the man just now, the woman dared not resist at all, she did not even dare to say a word "no" - the corpse that was ravaged by "crushing" was not far away, The head of the corpse was tilted to one side, the cheek was pressed against the ground, the eyeballs that were almost squeezed out of the eye sockets and the extremely distorted expression seemed to be telling others the pain before death came.

The blood plasma splashed into the air gathered into round spherical droplets, floating around the corpse.The attendant who had just finished the torture stretched out his hand, and took several large drops of blood into his palm.He put his palm to his mouth, and immediately there was a creepy licking sound from under the cloak.

The woman covered her mouth with her hands, trying not to let her sobs leak out, because of fear, her legs were swinging all the time, and as soon as the two followers let go of her arms, she sat down directly on the ground.

"You should be honored to be the chosen ones." The servant of God glanced at the woman who fell on the ground, stepped forward, and threw out the things held in his right hand—these were two [-]mm thick The rough dagger made by rolling and polishing the carbon steel plate, not only the blade, but even the edge of the handle has a lot of burrs, the dark orange rust mixed with the dark brown dried blood, completely wrapping the blade In it, only a little metallic luster can be seen at the tip.

"Most of you are already familiar with the sacrificial sacrifice ceremony. However, in order to take care of the compatriots who are newcomers today, I am willing to waste more than ten seconds of your precious time and repeat the content and rules of the ceremony again. "The servant said, "One-to-one, fair and glorious fights, the winner who wins three consecutive times will be selected as the warrior of the great god; while the loser will become the sacrifice of the god and merge with the great god. as one."

He paused, and continued: "Whether you live or die, you will all receive the honor of dedicating everything to the great god..."

This passage is the longest passage spoken by the servant of God after he appeared. Ke Lan found that his tone was not only emotionless, but also the pauses and transitions between words were very stiff, and there seemed to be a trace of extreme in his voice. Indistinguishable electrical noise... It doesn't seem to be his original voice, but a sound made by some kind of electronic equipment.

None of the words he said came from the vocal organs in his body.

It is normal for the vocal organs of living organisms to be damaged by radiation, but what makes Ke Lan a little concerned is whether the person talking to them now is the servant of God himself, or someone else?
Is this a pre-set recording?Or some special way of long-distance sound transmission?
It's a pity that Akira Asano is not by Ke Lan's side now, otherwise with his hearing ability, he would definitely be able to hear more details.

Ke Lan couldn't help but start to doubt... Could this guy in the iron pot be just a puppet being manipulated?
"Okay, let's start."

The two crude daggers were still floating in the air. The daggers collided with each other for a while, and then floated away in the opposite direction.

The young woman glanced at the dagger first, then at Ke Lan, and then she suddenly climbed two or three meters forward, raised her head, and said to the servant: "My lord, there is one thing I want report to you—"

"Puchi-"

Before the word "report" of the "report" could be said, the rusted dagger had already plunged into her throat, and she fell into silence forever.

A second ago, when the woman looked away from Ke Lan, Ke Lan noticed the change in her eyes - she wanted to inform!This woman attempted to use this method in exchange for a chance of survival.There was no other way, Ke Lan could only stride forward, grab the dagger and kill her.

When this woman was chosen by the servant of the gods, she was already doomed to die—whether she chose to report Ke Lan, or challenged Ke Lan one-on-one according to the process of the sacrificial sacrifice ceremony... Both ways are dead ends.

The only way to survive is probably that Ke Lan does not hesitate to expose his identity and tear himself apart with the servants of God and others, but the consequence of doing so is to completely disrupt the original plan-and more people will die.

Ke Lan sighed silently in his heart, and pulled the dagger out of the woman's throat. Immediately, a large amount of blood poured out from the carotid artery that was cut off along with the trachea. Far away, its visual impact is even stronger than usual.

The woman stared, and unconsciously groped a few times with her hands in front of her.Then, he fell headfirst to the ground.

Ke Lan held the blood-stained dagger and looked directly at the mask of the servant. The monitor camera on the helmet of the other party turned a few times, and then locked on Ke Lan's face—as if they were looking at each other, the camera flashed inward. After a dark red light, the servant nodded and said to Ke Lan: "You passed the first round."

There were no extra words, no comments, and even half a sentence that the woman said before she died just now did not mention a single word, which made Ke Lan wonder whether this "God Servant" was like that woman. A low-cost smart home robot equipped with the lowest-grade garbage AI, which only speaks some set lines when triggering key dialogues.

If so, the program is clumsy enough to be written by anyone who has taken a crash course in programming for a few days.

Of course, the lines are not the key, the key lies in the servant of God himself, whether all his actions come from his own will, or someone manipulating him behind the scenes... If it is the latter, then Ke Lan must be careful—— The woman's words just now, and her obvious behavior of trying to cover up, may have attracted the attention of the other party.

The servant of God turned around and pointed to another person.

This is still an "old man", but his physique is much bigger than the first guy who was "crushed". His height is more than 1.8 meters five, and his lean muscles make people unbelievable This is a man suffering from radiation sickness.On his shoulders, elbows and knees, etc., are covered with a thick layer of cuticle.His finger joints are abnormally thick, and his nails have even mutated into solid blunt claws, tightly wrapping the front ends of his fingers.

"...This guy seems to be a mutant." Ke Lan couldn't help but secretly sighed, how could such a low-probability thing happen to him.

Mutated people, this is a kind of human beings with benign mutations caused by radiation. Their status is between the "second generation people" in sick villages and completely mutated ghouls and radiation monsters. It's hard to say whether it's an "evolution" or "degeneration" change—the lifespan and physical functions of mutants will also be affected by radiation sickness, but unlike ordinary patients who are getting weaker and weaker, their physical fitness will not be weakened due to the progress of the disease, On the contrary, it will be greatly enhanced... The closer they are to death, the more powerful they will be able to gain.

Of course, this refers to being on the verge of death due to illness, and putting mutants on the verge of death through external factors cannot maximize their potential.

When mutants first appeared, it was also the time when the research institute was most interested in them—but soon, the research institute stopped taking the initiative to treat mutants, because they found that these mutants were almost irreproducible cases, Instead of wasting time and research funds on the subject of human body mutation, it is better to optimize the existing biochemical transformation techniques.

After all, the power obtained through the latter is stronger and more stable.

And these mutants are also a hot potato for their employers, those mining companies—they themselves are similar to the "second-generation people", and they are equivalent to a mobile strong radioactive source. People like this, according to According to the regulations, it is not allowed to stay inside the ark.

At the beginning, some mining companies tried to incorporate these powerful mutants into the mercenary team, but soon, they discovered that this approach was simply extremely stupid.

Not to mention that these mutants who are not liked by their teammates need to wear a lot of protective equipment all day long. The cost of extra equipment alone is enough to reach the last biochemical engineer with the same strength. The main problem of mutants is that The reason is that they are extremely easy to lose control.

In essence, they are still patients suffering from radiation sickness, and due to the strengthening of their bodies, the pain they endure is even several times that of ordinary radiation patients. Even if they take a large amount of painkillers every day, it is difficult to suppress this pain.

Because of the difference in body structure, the once-and-for-all nerve blocking surgery can easily cause these mutants to become paralyzed...

Under all kinds of torture, the mental state of mutants can be said to be on the verge of collapse all the time. Disobedience to orders is still a trivial matter, and they can do things like go crazy, smash the camp, and attack teammates.

It didn't take long for the person in charge of the mining company to discover that the best way to deal with these mutants is to send them to the "sick village" space station like other ordinary radiation patients, and let them fend for themselves.

But then again, even though mutants have been valued by the research institute from the beginning, they have become "losing goods" that everyone hates later, but their birth probability has never fluctuated significantly—— Only one mutant person with a "benign mutation" will appear among ten to twenty thousand patients with radiation sickness. According to this ratio, one mutant person may not be sent to the space station within a year... Today, Ke Lan met, and just happened to be selected as the opponent. The chances of this were simply lower than winning the first prize in a lottery.

Ke Lan suddenly had the urge to lift the soles of his shoes to take a look. His luck was so perverted that he probably just stepped on some kind of excrement.

After the mutant was selected, he didn't cry like the two before, but strode directly to Ke Lan's body less than ten steps away, and grabbed the remaining dagger.

At such a close distance, Ke Lan saw that the inner sides of the two arms of this mutant were densely packed with needle holes and patches of bluish-purple blood. On his belt, there were several one-time medications containing painkillers. Sexual syringes, these syringes are all labeled with the Mineral Development Alliance, which is obviously part of the supplies sent by the transport ship.

Ke Lan was basically sure that these painkillers were not his own, nor were they snatched from other people.

The people in the scaffolding residential area are all "outsiders" who have not yet been recognized by the locals and integrated into the special social system of the sick village. To put it in a more popular way, they are still in the "investigation period".

During this inspection period, the locals will not give them anything except some minimum food and water.Almost every patient in the "exploration period" was dying of poverty, otherwise, that woman would not have tried to rob Ke Lan for two painkillers.

The materials owned by this group of people can be said to be extremely scarce.

Even if this mutant robbed everyone in this residential area, he would definitely not be able to get so many painkillers.

Then there is only one answer. He obtained these painkillers from people of heretical sects, and it is even possible that they were sent to him by priests or servants.

This mutant was obviously "raised" here by a heretical sect.

The strength of a mutant may not matter much on the Ark, but for a sick village with an extremely single source of population, it is a rare combat force.

The young woman also said that when the priest found Marshall, the expression on his face could be described as "surprised", which showed that they were very eager for powerful fighters.

Even if he doesn't go through this sacrificial ritual, this mutant will be absorbed by them sooner or later... As for why the servant of the gods chose him as Ke Lan's opponent...

Cold sweat suddenly seeped from Ke Lan's back: Could it be that they have already noticed their abnormality... This mutant is used to test themselves?
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