Chapter 204 The Mystery Case of the Mining Area (2)
"Lord of Crows?"
Soshyan frowned, then turned to Sol beside him, obviously seeking advice.
Then, Thor stepped forward and asked through his helmet:
"I'd like to know more details."
The Arbitrator then recounted everything that happened to them underground.
After hearing this, Sol fell into silence.
"Could it be a Chaos cultist?"
Soshyan asked cautiously.
But the other party shook his head.
"Chaos followers will not take the initiative to expose themselves, let alone let a group of imperial law enforcement officers go."
"Who could that be?"
"I can't guess, but..."
Thor stopped mid-sentence, and then looked at the arbiter.
"Thank you very much for your help. Is there anything strange about the local state religion during this period?"
"Not yet. The local bishop is a stupid idiot. We don't expect him to be of any help."
"Is he a local?"
"Yes."
"Apart from this, are there any other strange things or unexplainable events worth mentioning recently?"
After hearing this, the arbitrator thought for a while, turned around and took a data pad with the golden emblem of the Legal Department from his assistant.
"The Mechanicus recently reported an attack. I have prepared a simple summary of the incident."
Soshyan took the data pad and slowly started reading from the beginning.
On the surface, this was a serious murder. An office of the Mechanicus in Mine No. 14 was attacked by unknown persons late at night. Four Mechanicus priests disappeared. Then in the evening of the next day, the Mechanicus found
Four priests were killed, but three of them died tragically, and only one survived.
The first thing Soshyan noticed was the No. 14 mining area.
Because it was also in this No. 14 mining area that the arbitrators encountered those heretical sects.
The four mechanical members are all the lowest apprentices, and they all come from Griffin IV, namely Baudry, Meadow, Durund, and Falla.
Their daily job is to maintain large equipment in the mining area, ensure their safe operation, and submit inspection reports regularly.
None of these four people seem to have anything special about them. Regardless of their origins or skills, they are just the most ordinary members of the thousands of mechanical cultists.
But they were all kidnapped and brutally murdered one night? Only a priest named Falla was the only survivor.
The other three were not so lucky.
Beaudry was discovered in a garbage dump by a cleaning machine slave doing daily cleaning? Someone tried to burn his body and throw the body into the ancient sewers of the city? But the modified part of the Mechanicus is very tough? It is not easy to destroy
——But overall, there are very few parts of his body left? It seems that the whole person has been torn into pieces.
Based on the information on the remains, it cannot be confirmed whether his missing body parts fell off due to decay and were washed away? But the traces remaining on his forearm bones seem to be convincingly confirmed to be something similar to the claws of a beast.
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When Meadow's body was found under the roof of a boiler room, law enforcement officials shed more light on the case.
Not only did the female Mechanicus suffer the same injuries as Beaudry, her brain, eyes, and heart were also removed.
These injuries were very horrific. The bloodless, dry bodies were directly dried by the smoke from the heating pipes - it could also be said to be smoked. They were also wrapped in dark green cloth? and were fixed to the rafters with industrial staple guns. below.
A cross-reference between her and Beaudry convinced the Justice Department that the latter had most likely also had her brainstem, eyes and heart removed.
Previously, they thought that the apparent absence of soft organs was due to corrosion from toxic-level organic matter in the waste liquid covering the mound.
Durand was the last victim to be discovered, presumed to have been the victim of some gang conflict when his remaining organic form was fished out of the sewers? That was until the discovery of Mechanicum gears and some Parts.
Due to the special circumstances of the place where the body was dumped, it is impossible to determine anatomically any exact date or time of death? But judging from the autopsy results of the first two victims, they should have died at the same time.
Is it around 12 o'clock on the night they were kidnapped? Falla also claimed to have escaped from the unidentified kidnappers at that time.
When he was injected with a large amount of sedatives and taken away from the dormitory in a sack, he was still very nervous. But then the emergency belt he modified himself injected a lot of adrenaline into him, which helped him wake up and used The stun bomb allowed him to escape.
It seemed that Priest Falla's vigilance and preparedness saved him, but Soshyan saw a lot of doubts in it.
Unless the priest knew that all this was going to happen and made corresponding preparations, his luck would have been too good.
"At first I thought we might have encountered a group of cultists."
The arbitrator then explained:
"But as the investigation deepened, I found that this killing pattern seemed to be more extreme. It was not a brutal murder or a simple act of destruction, but more like a specific and purposeful ritual."
"Why do you think so?"
The person asking the question was Thor next to Soshyan. He was wearing a helmet and looked like just an ordinary soldier.
The Arbitrator looked at him sideways, as if he was questioning her abilities.
"Based on my experience, if it is true that cultists are committing destructive acts, then they will definitely hope that these can be discovered, and those heretics will be excited by the fear and fear they have created... But the actual situation is that those corpses were spent A great deal of effort was put into hiding, which leads me to believe that the killer was more interested in death itself than in its effects."
"Is it possible that the murders were caused by genestealers?"
Saul's words made the atmosphere at the scene suddenly tense, because cult murders are usually hidden, so cultists can continue their work without being discovered.
"Murder by a Genestealer?"
The arbitrator thought for a while.
"Indeed, this possibility exists. Although based on my past experience, most of these aliens only resort to kidnapping or direct killing. They don't seem to like this kind of ritual slaughter. Only cultists tend to kill their victims. Cut off the hands and tongue because these are the organs used for communication.”
He began to describe the many horrific cases he had witnessed.
"I once came across a case where the brains of all the victims were dug out because the cultists wanted to ingest the spiritual substances, or as they would say...souls, of their prey. There are cultists in some other worlds as well.
Goug out the victim's eyes, because the eyes are the windows to the soul, in fact..."
"Everything you mentioned seems to have another relationship."
"What?"
"Psychic energy, these things are all related to psychic energy."
The arbitrator was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized something.
"You said they were looking for a psyker!"
Thor nodded.
"And it shouldn't be found."
"Because he ran away."
Soshyan then answered, and the arbitrator almost jumped up from the ground.
"Faya! Falla is a psyker! It's him that the gene stealers want to catch! No wonder the interrogators let him go so easily..."
"Very good, it seems that the Ministry of Justice has a new direction. Before the next action plan comes out, you should try your best to stabilize the situation during this period, and give priority to catching the Mechanicus priest... I have reason to believe
, he must have some connection with the Crow Bishop sect."
The arbitrator nodded vigorously.
"I will immediately organize personnel to control Faya first, and then interrogate him strictly."
Then, he stood up straight, crossed his hands and performed an eagle salute.