Law Enforcer's Handbook

Chapter 698 Hogg's Bizarre Adventure

Hogg felt that Trian didn't intend to give him a chance to refuse. Although he didn't say it clearly, the vines had already blocked the way he came, and piranhas dripping with corrosive liquid poked their heads out from the stone pillars, staring at him. .

"how should I do?"

He quickly judged his situation - if he didn't follow the advice of the other party, he would become the nourishment of these piranhas. When Jock came, he specially reminded him that because the last sacrificial ceremony was interrupted, Their "god" is starving.

"No need to do anything, just stand in front of it."

Hogg walked towards the blood-red flower resignedly. He emptied his mind, tried not to think about anything, and touched the petals with his hands.

A soft touch came from between the fingers, and then his index finger seemed to be pricked, and the petals were attached to the wound, as if sucking his blood, and almost at the same time, Hogg's consciousness drifted away. To the distance.

When he came back to his senses, he was already in a barren world, and he was looking down at everything in this world from the perspective of God. Everything that came into view was in a state of acceleration. In just a few seconds, the sun had completed the rising of the east and the setting of the west. In the process, I don't know how long it took, a flower grew in this endless wilderness.

With the rapid passage of time, this growing flower has brought something different to the world. Its rhizomes continue to spread around. Under its influence, more and more plants appear. The shade gradually turned into a forest.

Hogg didn't know why he saw this, but it was a rather miraculous process.

For the first time, he looked at the world with the eyes of an observer.

Until, the harmonious scene in front of him was broken, and he saw the blood seeping into the world, and the blood that came from nowhere was absorbed by the plants, making them grow daunting eating organs, and making them become Fierce and brutal.

Hogg saw other creatures again.

At first it was animals, insects, and then people who strayed here.

The way they appeared was very strange. Some were spit out from the mouth of a man-eating plant, and some were suddenly teleported to a high altitude. They were already dying when they fell. Most of them were in suits and leather shoes. Staff.

But no matter what, those people can't stay in this world for too long.

Hogg seemed to understand the reason why they were sent alive - those man-eating plants kept them in this world as food reserves, just like the farms that existed before the third war.

Plants are the masters of this world, and all intruders are pigs in captivity.

They gained strength from eating, and eventually all the nutrients flowed to a tree, and the non-stop eating made it grow rapidly, until the branches and leaves passed through the clouds and enveloped the world like an umbrella.

This is the sacrifice that Jock mentioned.

Hogg witnessed the complete process of the sacrifice with his own eyes, and as long as he thought about it a little, it was not difficult to understand why those company people were sent to this world.

In recent years, the missing population rate in District [-] has been higher than that of border cities.

"You're feeding it other people."

When Hogg recovered from the miraculous state, he looked at Jock in shock.

It was hard for him to imagine using a living person as a tool for sacrifice.

He originally thought that these people just got together on weekdays to discuss how to influence the decisions of the council by controlling the number of votes, or to evade or even remove the chairman of the council who has a veto power, but what they did Much more evil than he imagined.

Hogg could immediately think of more than five crimes that could directly sentence Joker and others to death.

"Not 'you', but 'us'."

Joker said, "Although you became a member later, you can still catch up with the ceremony of becoming a god."

Another unintelligible noun.

Now Jock looks like a fanatical religious element, and it is completely impossible to see that he is a shrewd politician.

"It's just that if you want to complete the ceremony of becoming a god, you still need to go through an important step."

"You mean to say that I have passed the examination?"

Hogg asked.

He didn't seem to know what the content of the assessment was until now. He just watched a documentary about alien plants, and he couldn't make any judgments and choices during the period. Then he came back here. When he spoke, Jock seemed to regard him as a companion.

This made him a little panicked.

Could it be that some unknown changes have been completed?

Hogg sorted out his thoughts almost reflexively. He came here today to find out the details of the fishing boat club, and now he has confirmed that the act of using living people as sacrifices is enough to shoot them several times. Next, as long as enough evidence is collected...

His thoughts stopped abruptly.

When these thoughts flooded into his mind like a tide, he suddenly recalled that the girl named Trian seemed to be able to see through the hearts of others, but when he looked at the girl, he found that the other party was also looking at him .

"You've been approved and can go."

After a long time, she suddenly spoke.

Joker patted his old friend on the shoulder as before, "Hogg, I have to apologize to you, it seems that I was worrying too much, no one can hide their thoughts from Trian, you are indeed sincere come."

Immediately afterwards, Hogg discovered a sight that made him even more horrified.

He saw "enthusiastic citizens."

Wearing a black windbreaker and a mask, the nightmare who had been executing him in all kinds of strange ways in his nightmares recently appeared in the real world!
"There!"

He pointed behind the two of them, beside the blood-red flower, the "enthusiastic citizen" at this moment stretched his hand towards the petal just like he did just now.

"what happened?"

Joker was taken aback by Hogg, and looked in the direction of Hogg's finger but found nothing, "Are you okay today?"

The actions of Joker and Trian quickly made Hogg realize that they hadn't noticed the existence of "enthusiastic citizens" at all. He rubbed his eyes, cheered up, and said, "I haven't had a good rest these days. Dazzling."

"Let me guess, it's an 'enthusiastic citizen'?"

This is not Hogg's first "illness". Since more than a month ago, he has seen non-existent "evil spirits" in his daily life from time to time, at first in entertainment venues such as bars and clubs, and later It was so serious that he would hallucinate during the meeting.

Even his conservative colleagues could take it no longer when Hogg suddenly jumped up convulsively to call the guards in the middle of an important meeting.

The reformists made a lot of noise about his behavior, thinking he was a clown, but in fact everyone knew that Hogg was just suffering from a serious mental illness, and he and Richard had also suggested that this old friend should go to therapy , They will invite the best psychiatrists from the coalition government, but in the end they are all rejected by the face-saving Hogg.

It stands to reason that the judicial system controlled by the Foster family is an important part of the coalition government. The Fishing Boat Club had already planned to invite him to become a member, but because of Hogg's mental problems, he had to put it on hold temporarily.

They are not afraid of strong-willed people, but they are afraid of madmen.

Who can guarantee that Hogg will not suddenly announce what they did in the fishing boat club when he is in a state of madness one day?
Feeling Trian's suspicious eyes, Jock explained, "It's okay, this is his old problem, and we will cure him."

After that, he began to appease his old friend, "Don't worry, at least I can guarantee that the 'enthusiastic citizens' will never appear in this place... But when the party is over, you have to listen to me, I will find you a trustworthy psychiatrist, and guarantee that Qihe and the others will not know about it, nor will they make a big fuss about it."

Now they are all on the same boat.

Even for their future plans, Hogg had to be cured first.

"Ah."

This time, Hogg did not refuse.

His spirit is also reaching its limit. No one can bear a murderous maniac who appears in his dreams every time he falls asleep.

This is indeed his old problem, but this time the "enthusiastic citizens" have existed for much longer than in the past.

In the past, the appearance of the other party was more like he was dazzled, mistaking someone who was dressed or of a similar age as an "enthusiastic citizen", and the illusion usually did not last for too long.

"Let's go, don't affect the party because of me alone."

Hogg said drowsily that this series of events had put his brain into a state of overload, and he still hadn't figured out what the content of the membership assessment was, and how he passed the assessment—he obviously had something wrong with it. The teller's secret came, but Trian, who claimed to be able to see through the heart, found nothing.

He could only deliberately pretend to be cooperative, so that Jock believed that their "brainwashing" work was going very smoothly.

As for "enthusiastic citizens", he agrees with Jock.

It is absolutely impossible for him to appear in such a place.

It must be because I haven't slept well in the past few days, so the hallucinations have worsened.

In front of Jock, he took out the anti-fatigue medicine from his pocket, and doubled the dose for himself, which should be enough to keep the "enthusiastic citizens" from bothering him in a short time.

When Hogg entered the banquet hall, those familiar faces had already arrived, and now he finally understood why Richard and Jock were keen on parties.

The layout of the banquet hall seems to have returned to before the Middle Ages. They reproduced the scene of noble banquets—for a long time in the past, various families were committed to restoring the glory of the aristocratic system.

He felt that the designer must have done a lot of research on the architectural style of that period. When Joker arranged for Hogg, everyone present was a familiar face, and there would be no situation where newcomers would be isolated. As one of the initiators of the party, he Need to prepare for some more important work.

Watching Jock go away, Hogg didn't blend into the crowd immediately.

Because he found that the double dose of anti-fatigue medicine didn't seem to be working, the troublesome "evil spirit" followed and broke into the grand banquet.

"Warm citizens" do not exist.

All this is an illusion he saw.

Hogg kept repeating these in his heart, he picked up a goblet, trying to ease his mood with a glass of wine.

The sweet and mellow aroma calmed his emotions a little, but then, the unprecedented panic hit him again.

If the "evil spirit" does not exist here...

Just now, who poured the wine for him?
(End of this chapter)