Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 107 The Method of Sacrifice

"The natives of Ikham carry her bloodline and can hear her call... a bunch of ungrateful creatures who regard the instincts hidden in their veins as a curse."

These are the raven's words.

The Solomons were led by the girl into the depths of the desolate mountains, eventually arriving at a deep valley.

This is the mining area where the mining company first started excavating. However, due to an initial misjudgment of the geological rock structure, the entire underground three-dimensional mine framework collapsed.

The accident buried many miners, and their bodies have not yet been found.

Immediately after the collapse, many crystal orchids grew on this mine.

In the dark valley, ghostly white flowers are scattered and hidden in the shadows of the trees, very conspicuous and very eerie in the night.

……

While clearing the collapsed mine, the mining company discovered some strange underground caves that were not the mines they planned to excavate, but rather caves that existed before they arrived in Ikham.

As we continue to explore in greater depth.

The Solomon Mining Company discovered that it was a complex underground labyrinth.

Since the mine shafts and underground caverns were connected, miners have been going missing one after another during daily mining operations.

That's why the ravens came.

……

The Solomons lit torches and, dragged by the mad girl, entered the mine.

The mine they first entered was actually very narrow; the sloping shaft could only accommodate two adults walking side by side at most.

However, as they went deeper, the distance between the two rock walls continued to increase, and the color of the rock strata gradually darkened. No fresh carving marks could be seen on the rock walls.

The underground cave system is incredibly complex, with two or three forks appearing almost every ten meters or so.

As the girl dragged the chain ahead, leading the way, the group ventured deeper into the underground cave. The surrounding environment gradually widened until the light from their torches could no longer cover their entire field of vision…

Raven left Milo and the others at the back of the group.

Only a few armed men were left to guard them.

He wasn't worried about Milo and the others escaping. Even if they did manage to escape from the underground labyrinth, they wouldn't survive until tomorrow.

At the very front of the group, the ear-piercing sound of chains colliding with the rock face mingled with the girl's urgent and anxious screams, creating an unsettling atmosphere.

No one spoke throughout the entire journey. The Solomon gang members seemed to be very disciplined. No one stopped until the person at the front gave any instructions. Some even made marks on the stone walls along the way, recording the correct path at each fork in the road.

……

Finally, the group entered a vast and deep environment where the view ahead was completely obscured. The torchlight could only illuminate the stone steps about 5 meters away. The steps wound down the steep cliff, with a stone wall on one side and deep darkness on the other, like a lake filled with ink, or a gaping maw waiting for one of them to slip and fall.

Milo followed at the very end of the group, calmly observing everything around him.

He saw some strange totems and characters carved on the cliff face to the left of the stone steps. The winding and twisting lines seemed to be describing a story. The edges of the carving marks had lost their original sharpness, which indicated that the totems on the cliff face were quite old.

Milo couldn't understand what the totems and ancient writings on the cliff face were trying to express. He only vaguely remembered some simple diagrams that resembled fungi and human organs, but he had no time to pay attention to them because as the team went deeper into this huge underground cave, he began to hear some ghostly noises coming from the bottom of the stone steps.

The sounds were like someone dragging their legs and walking lazily on the ground.

……

Milo had expected to find tons of bones or corpses deep underground.

But no, the stone steps that spiraled down the cliff led to a wide, flat area. There was nothing nauseating about it; on the contrary, the soft soil was covered with crystal orchids and other unidentifiable herbaceous plants, creating a strangely tranquil scene.

The girl, who had been screaming and charging recklessly, gradually calmed down after setting foot on this land.

She did not return to normal. Instead, she stared wide-eyed at a certain direction in front of the open space, her face showing a devout and longing expression, her body in a prostrate kneeling posture.

Marshall, holding the chains, raised his fist as a gesture to stop.

He handed the chain to the person next to him, took the torch from the other person, drew a pistol from his waist with his other hand, and slowly moved forward.

The group followed closely behind.

They walked slowly forward, the soft soil beneath their feet turning into cold, hard stone walls, but the light from dozens of torches could never reach the end of their vision, as if the road had no end.

……

chi chi...

Thump, thump, thump...

Some eerie and frightening noises came from ahead.

Milo was certain that the former was the sound of footsteps, and the latter was the sound of a slow heartbeat.

He didn't understand why there was such a loud heartbeat, nor did he know what kind of creature made such a sound that was several times slower than a normal human heartbeat. But he knew that if he went any further, something bad would definitely happen.

……

Stop here.

Suddenly, the raven spoke, signaling the group to stop moving forward.

He had the entire team step back, making room for Milo and the other "nourishers".

The nutrient plants were already delirious, with Milo being the most lucid. His left eyeball was infected by mycelium, blurring his vision, but even with only his right eye, he could see a white shadow pacing in the darkness ahead, and that white shadow wasn't a crystal orchid. "Let's get out of her sight and extinguish the torches."

Raven spoke calmly, but his hand holding the torch was visibly trembling.

He gazed into the darkness beyond the reach of the firelight and called out to the nourishment:
"The divine body needs to see the fusion and birth of new life. You have only one way to live: make that girl pregnant. Your blood already contains what the divine body has bestowed upon you. Now offer your sincerity and have intercourse with that girl in front of her. Believe me, this is your only way to live. Otherwise, her worshippers will devour you alive."

Soon, someone used chains to drag the girl kneeling behind them into the field.

……

"What are you talking about? You're crazy!"

The infected creature howled at the raven, but no one in the flock responded; they simply retreated in silence.

As the vast expanse of torches before them was extinguished one by one in the soil, the nutrients went into a state of frenzied excitement.

Some of them chased after them.

But the next second:
boom!
Gunfire rang out.

The man who caught up with him collapsed helplessly; he became the true nourishment.

At this moment, some people fled to the side.

He was probably trying to bypass Solomon's men and rush towards the stone steps. As he ran, mushroom fragments fell from his body with a whooshing sound...

But the footsteps stopped abruptly as soon as he left Milo's sight.

Instead, there were screams and the sounds of flesh being torn apart.

Finally, peace comes.

A pungent smell of blood permeated the darkness.

It looked like he had been torn apart alive by some creature.

……

"..."

Milo remained silent.

He hadn't expected that the raven's words about "offering the hope of new life to the divine body" actually referred to that girl... Ha...

Is this the only way to survive?

Milo glanced down at the girl.

The girl had returned to normal. The pulsating blood vessels in her body had receded, and she was curled up on the ground with her eyes closed, trembling even in her unconscious state.

Milo turned around and heard a noise coming from the depths of darkness behind him.

It was still that constant pacing back and forth, and the slow, deep heartbeat.

Plop…plop…

But he couldn't see what was hidden in the darkness at all.

At this moment, half of his face was covered with hideous mycelium, which burrowed back and forth in his flesh and blood, constantly causing pain that was unbearable for ordinary people.

With the mindset that he was going to die anyway, Milo calmly took a few steps into the darkness.

He wanted to see for himself what the Solomon people had dug up in this desolate mountain, and what that so-called decaying divine body was.

But before he could take two steps, Milo noticed that the few surviving creatures behind him were starting to become restless.

Their limbs were covered in large patches of fungus, much of their skin had peeled off, and their faces were grotesque.

To Milo's astonishment, in their desperate situation, these people actually had that strange thought, and one by one they began to slowly approach the spot where the unconscious girl was lying.

……

In the distance, the distant call of a raven drifted over:

"Only one of you will survive, the one who successfully gets the girl to conceive a new life."

His words seemed to urge something on. The nutrient plants, which had been slowly approaching the girl, went crazy after hearing his words and rushed forward in a frenzy!
Swish!
Just as those rotting limbs covered in fungi were about to touch the girl.

A cold light flashed in the darkness.

The body closest to the girl was dismembered.

His grotesque head, covered in fungi, rolled several meters away.

Before it had even stopped rolling, it was swiftly swept away by something and disappeared into the darkness.

Then, a series of crunching sounds came from behind the shadows, sending chills down one's spine.

……

Milo gripped the blade, not even glancing at the severed head he had just cut off; he had no time to consider what might be lurking in the shadows around him.

Because every movement he made caused him excruciating pain.

Even so, he had to kill these irrational creatures first to ensure that the most disgusting scene didn't unfold in front of him.

(End of this chapter)