living in the world of reincarnation

Chapter 188 The Cult Ritual
Speaking of this, Officer Cole's expression was a little strange, and Mu Lan knew that the main event was coming.

The villagers disappeared one after another, and the others were terrified, but there were still people who wanted to find out, and the woman who reported the case was one of them.

The woman sneaked in, hoping to find her missing husband. After passing through the dense forest full of miasma and swamps, she saw her husband's body hanging upside down above the bonfire.

The corpse looked terrible, a large amount of blood flowed from his throat, like a live pig that had just been slaughtered, and the body was covered with deep visible bone cutting marks, and her husband's horrible death was not enough to shock She, she saw an even more astonishing sight, almost collapsed in fright.

The woman ran out of the dense forest in a daze, and ran all the way to the police station in Newport City.

The Newport Police Department took this situation very seriously, and Officer Cole immediately organized a group of people to rush to the village where the woman lived.

When the police arrived, it was already nightfall. They passed through the dark forest and swamp, and when they arrived at the place where the suspected pagan group was gathering, even with the information provided by the woman as a foreshadowing, the strange scene on the scene still shocked them. Unable to keep their mouths shut, some young police officers even paralyzed on the spot in fright.

Before the burning bonfire, there is a frenzied cult ritual.

The naked participants danced wildly with dull drumbeats. They chanted strange sentences in a loud voice, which seemed to be some kind of incantation or prayer, and dozens of corpses were hung upside down in the middle of the frantic scene. , are all incomplete, and the death is extremely bloody.

The attendees at the scene were like drug addicts who knew nothing about everything around them. They beat, danced, and chanted with all their strength, getting faster and faster, almost to the point of being hoarse. In those vague words, the police They vaguely heard a name.

"Saratos! Saratos!"

Someone was obviously terrified. I don't know who fired the first shot. Then some of the participants came to their senses. There was a big conflict at the scene. The enthusiastic crowd rushed to the police without fear of the guns in their hands.

But in the end, Officer Cole managed to control the situation. The conflict caused 13 casualties, a few people fled, and most of them were taken into the police station.

"Their organizers have all run away, and the rest are brainwashed fanatics, and they can't interrogate anything at all." Officer Cole said.

"After they were arrested, they kept chanting those meaningless words." Officer Cole was a little scared, he took a deep breath, and continued: "Saratos, this may be the evil god they believe in, today The security guard on the night shift who committed suicide also mentioned this name, but I checked historical materials and consulted experts, but I couldn’t find the source of this god at all, as if it appeared out of nowhere.”

"Cole consulted me before, but I don't know the origin of this name." Leonard frowned: "Maybe it is the language of the indigenous people of a certain South Pacific island? Or maybe we heard it wrong because of the pronunciation?"

Leonard considers himself an expert on these unpopular historical issues, but no matter the crown or Saratos, he has never heard of the origin of the two, and he has found nothing after consulting a large number of books. Going to the town of Hezros himself, in the bottom of his heart, it seemed that there was a voice calling him.

"In the end, this incident was characterized as a secret sacrificial activity by a cult group." Officer Cole said: "The bodies of the missing villagers were found on the grounds. They seemed to be performing some kind of blood sacrifice, and this crown appeared on their on the altar."

The four of them stared at the silver-white crown on the table. In this atmosphere, the twisted human figures on the shining texture revealed an unspeakable weirdness.

Due to the seriousness of the matter, the influence of public opinion is extremely bad. Although Britain is already a Puritan country, everyone is still disturbed by these disgusting worship of evil gods.

After bidding farewell to Police Officer Cole, Mu Lan and the others returned to the museum. Due to unexpected accidents, today's trip was postponed. It happened that Mu Lan was not in a hurry to rush to Hezros Town. She needed to check the information and understand More intelligence.

Arriving at the Municipal Library, Mu Lan found the history of Lanster County. There were only a few descriptions of the town of Herdsrose. If it had not been rich in fisheries, I am afraid that this sparsely populated and remote place would have been cancelled. .

The town of Hertzross is located in the northwest of Lanster County. It was founded in 1521. There was a small port there. Some ships bound for Greenland and the New World would sail from here, but that was already the end of the era of new sea routes. , the port was also abandoned, and the number of people who settled here began to decrease.

In addition to the traditional fishing industry that has been handed down from ancient times to the present, Hedros Town has no industry that can be sold. Coupled with the competition brought by large companies, the income from fishing has also deteriorated. Naturally, it cannot attract immigrants, and the place has gradually become closed. And decay.

But the strange thing is that Britain's offshore fishery has been in a state of depletion, while the fish population near the town of Hedros has not decreased. The local fishermen have relied on the meager profits brought by fishing to reproduce for generations.

In addition to the above, the county history mentioned that there was a plague and riot in the town of Hedros in 1860. Due to the age, the narration in the literature is vague, but it is mentioned that many people died, and it was quickly quelled.

Nowadays, very few people know about the remote place of Hezros Town, and the population is concentrating in London and other metropolises. If it wasn't for the high consultation fee, Dr. Byrne probably wouldn't agree to go there.

Mu Lan was also curious about that mysterious evil god worship group, but as Professor Leonard said, she couldn't find any information about them, nor the source of that god.

However, there is one thing worth noting. Officer Cole mentioned that there have been more and more cases of cult gatherings recently. These neurotic fanatics have sprung up like mushrooms, in the metropolis of London, or in major cities across the country, or even in continental Europe. This kind of thing happened in overseas colonies, accompanied by bloody sacrifices, absurd ravings, and strange behaviors, they seemed to be preparing for a big event.

Unfortunately, due to the untimely information, a lot of specific information could not be obtained, and no sober behind-the-scenes organizers were caught. Those arrested were all brainwashed fanatics. The only valuable information Officer Cole obtained from colleagues from various places, It's just that the calendar used by the cult is unusual.

They did not use a solar calendar based on the movement of the sun, nor a lunar calendar related to the moon, but based on a certain celestial body that had never been observed.

This kind of calendar has 13 months, 20 days in each month, 260 days in total in a year, and repeats one week every 1000 years. The cultists define 1000 years as an era.

According to their calendar, 1887, that is, this year, is the last year of this era.

(End of this chapter)