Chapter 359 Evil Ritual
Hao Ren and Nangong Wuyue moved silently and quickly in this deep and long cave. They had already bypassed several intersections and relatively spacious caves. Judging from the direction and distance along the way, Hao Ren thought that he had entered Deep inside a peak on the south side of the Dragon's Back Mountain Range.
There are obvious traces of artificial excavation on the stone walls on both sides of the cave. Every once in a while, you can see torches or light boxes embedded in the stone walls. However, these flickering lights do not bring much light to the entire cave. On the contrary, it made the atmosphere inside even more gloomy and depressing. A kind of cold wind always blows out from the depths of the cave, sometimes strong and sometimes weak, as if to warn intruders not to approach. In the cave just past, Hao Ren and Nangong Wuyue saw some stone benches and tables placed in disorder. Those things looked quite ancient, and their style was different from the utensils Hao Ren saw in other places in Horleta. I don’t know what era it is from.
The further she walked, the more Nangong Wuyue felt an unsettling atmosphere gradually coming in. She couldn't help grabbing Hao Ren's arm and followed cautiously: This sea monster was so powerful. The female BOSS style, but at the critical moment, she was too timid to compete with the "get out" at home...
At this time, Hao Ren suddenly saw a half-opened iron door in front of him. The iron door suddenly appeared in the cave, causing him to stop subconsciously. Then he felt that there seemed to be a vague sound behind the door. A voice came: "Wait a minute, there is movement ahead!"
Nangong Wuyue lowered her body, followed Hao Ren and approached the iron door, looking through the crack in the door.
What is surprising is that behind the iron gate is a large and spacious stone room. This stone room is even spacious enough to be described as a hall. It was a square room, about tens of meters long and wide. The four stone walls were inlaid with crystals that emitted light red light. In addition, there were large braziers with varying brightness throughout the room, making the entire stone room filled with light. An unsettling red dim light. The four walls of the stone chamber are carved with grotesque reliefs and texts, depicting scenes of various strange creatures crawling on the ground. At each of the four corners of the stone chamber stands an obsidian statue standing with a sword. The statue has no face, instead of A large group of twisted symbols were painted on the original facial features, which looked terrifying but revealed a hint of madness. In the center of the room, there was an altar. A group of people wearing red and black robes were worshiping the altar. In front of the altar stood a tall, suspicious man with a black and red mask on his face. He was obviously is presiding over this mysterious and strange ceremony.
The shape of the altar was roughly circular, with a depression in the middle to form a bowl shape. There were curved indentations around the altar that extended all the way down to the ground. There were also weird patterns painted on the ground. Hao Ren looked carefully and found that dark red liquid was constantly seeping out of the stones in the patterns, flowing upstream in a way that defied gravity, and finally gathered in the "bowl" in the center of the altar. inside.
Nangong Wuyue tugged on his sleeve and made a gesture to the altar, indicating that the dark red liquid was the "signal" she was looking for.
Yes, those are the remains of those missing soldiers - transformed by some secret evil ritual, they have turned into pus and blood!
At this time, the worship ceremony of the people in black was almost over. The masked man standing in front of the altar raised his hands and preached in a low and magnetic voice: "Brothers and sisters! The goddess is staring at us, she has received We pray devoutly and get relief from our respectful offerings. We gather here to listen to the true teachings, open our dusty minds, look up from this world full of filth, and get one step closer to the majestic glory of the goddess again... …”
The men in black robes worshiping in front of the altar raised their heads one after another, but they still knelt on the ground respectfully. Hao Ren saw that there were men, women, and children among them. The little corners and decorations exposed under the black robes of some people even showed that they were The rich and the military. However, these people were all kneeling here with fanatical expressions, and they seemed to only have eyes for the masked man standing in front of the altar, with strange magic lingering all over his body.
"...What we hear, say, do, and believe are all the true will of the goddess. We are pioneers awakening from ignorance, wise men and brave men awakening from lies..." The masked man kept his mouth open. With the gesture of his hands, he recited a sentence that was either a scripture or an impromptu statement, "...we act in accordance with the will of the goddess to save mortals from the hypocritical cult of glory..."
"We will take back the power of the gods from the villains who stole the goddess's power and dedicate it at the feet of the goddess. We will punish the sinners who blinded the goddess's sight and hearing, and make their sins known to the world. We will redeem the world who are deceived by illusions, and will They were led from the filthy world to the kingdom of God...
"We will repay everything to pay for the sins of thousands of years ago, and we will repay our flesh and blood to prove our piety..."
The masked man said these crazy words in a strange accent, and then suddenly took out a dagger from his arms!
Following his action, other people in black robes kneeling on the ground also took out the same knives from their arms. A large group of people raised their daggers as if they were possessed and shouted in unison: "We will repay our debts." Flesh and blood, to prove our piety..."
I only heard a series of "puff puff" sounds of knives piercing flesh. These cultists stabbed their daggers into their arms one after another, and blood immediately flowed out. However, everyone seemed to feel no pain and was still enthusiastic after pulling out the daggers. The earth cried out in unison: "We will pay with our flesh and blood to prove our piety!"
A group of people fell down in worship, and their blood flowed to the ground. It was immediately absorbed by the strange patterns on the floor, and flowed back to the altar to mix with the thick plasma. The latter began to emit blood as if it had truly received divine grace. When the bright golden-red light came, the believers immediately fell into greater fanaticism when they saw this scene, and some even began to commit more serious self-mutilation: "Repay us with our flesh and blood! Prove our piety!"
"The goddess has heard your voice! She will reward you!" The masked man shouted in an exciting tone, and then he inserted a long dark red staff into the altar, and the surging plasma immediately let out a roar. There was a hissing sound, and layers of red mist filled the air from the altar and penetrated into the bodies of all the black-robed people. They all excitedly thanked the goddess for her gift and opened their robe sleeves. The scars left by the previous knife stabs were all gone. Disappear.
The man in black robe nodded with satisfaction: "The healing of your wounds proves the goddess' recognition of you, and also proves the falsehood and deception of the Huiyao cult. They stole the power of the gods, and we are here to take it back. Now let us offer this night's sacrifice, returning the purest flesh and blood to our Lord, to cleanse the filth that dwells in this evil land."
After the masked man finished speaking, he saw two black-robed believers standing up from the crowd, running to the corner of the room and carrying out a wooden box.
The wooden box was opened and the moment the two believers took out the things in the box, Hao Ren's eyes were as sharp as a knife.
That's a sleeping child!
This is the purest flesh and blood, and they want to "return" it as a sacrifice to the goddess - these crazy people want to engage in human sacrifice!
The masked man placed the child who looked to be only three or four years old on the altar, raised the dagger and long staff in his hand high, and chanted loudly in an almost crazy tone: "Supreme Goddess of Creation, you You are the origin of life, you are the beginning of all things, you are the original blood and flesh of all living beings! You are the purest origin of chaos! Your loyal and humble servants offer pure flesh and blood here, so that this world has not been polluted by the mortal world. The clean things return to your arms! In the name of return, please give..."
A loud shout came from the side just as the dagger was about to fall: "I will give you the second uncle!!"
After this loud shout, the iron door of the secret room flew out like it was bombarded by heavy artillery. The twisted and heavy iron plate instantly smashed away several cultists who had not yet reacted, followed by a strange thing flashing blue light. Then it flew towards the masked man with a scream that cut through the air. The latter subconsciously raised his dagger to block, but the blue light directly bypassed the dagger with incredible agility and hit the cult leader with a bang. on the mask, instantly sending the latter flying at least ten meters away!
"Have you ever seen a brick with automatic navigation?" Hao Ren took out a giant alloy stick from his pocket (it was originally used as a building material) and walked towards the cultists with murderous intent, " I’ve been doing this for a long time and it’s you who have been causing trouble behind the scenes!”