Frank turned and asked, "Steven, do you smell something?"
After he finished speaking, he sniffed the air vigorously, but he didn't smell anything. He shook his head and said, "I didn't smell any unusual smell, not even the damp and moldy smell that is common in basements. You smell it."
What is it?" He asked several other police officers, who all shook their heads and said they didn't smell it.
Steven did not answer, but stood in the middle of the room, turned around slowly, and sniffed the smell in the air in all directions. Then he walked to the four walls of the room and sniffed on the walls. Finally, he came to
On the rock wall opposite the left side of the door, I sniffed carefully at the joints of the wall.
Finally, he raised his head and said to Frank and Kate: "I smelled a very faint smell of blood in the room. After comparison, the smell in this gap in the wall is the strongest!"
Frank walked to the wall and carefully observed the wall and the location of the joints. The joints were made of stone bricks and stone bricks. There was nothing special about it. Steven said from the side: "Frank,
I'm sure there's something wrong with this wall, let's try to push it together, starting from this gap."
Frank called the police officers at the back. Several people held down the wall and began to push hard. Everyone pushed together, and the wall gradually began to loosen. Then the stone wall made a rattling sound, and then it opened to the right.
Finally, after the stone wall opened a gap of about 2 meters, it could no longer be pushed, and a platform was exposed behind it. At this time, everyone smelled a strong smell of blood.
Steven walked in first. The platform was more than 2 meters wide, like a walkway. At the left end was a downward staircase. After walking along the staircase for less than 10 meters, he descended into an open space. Steven
Wen immediately saw several stone pillars.
Later, Frank, Kate and the police officers behind them walked down the stairs with kerosene lamps, which slightly illuminated part of the space. What was revealed in front of everyone was a huge circular space with a stone less than half a meter high in the middle.
The stone platform is set back about 2 meters and there are stone pillars distributed in a circle. There are 6 stone pillars in total, about 1 meter thick.
After lighting the torches on the stone pillars, everyone could clearly see the underground rotunda.
There is a straight wall behind the stone pillar on the right side after coming down the stairs. On the wall is a steel flat plate, perpendicular to the ground. The belt on the steel plate is binding a naked female corpse. She is tied to the steel plate with her head down.
, the artery in her neck was cut open with a sharp blade, and the blood had dried up. There was an iron bucket placed under her head, which seemed to be used to catch the blood flowing from her neck.
Opposite the straight wall where the female corpse was tied up, behind the stone pillars was also a straight rock wall, with a relief carving on it a statue of a woman with a deer head and a body two people tall.
"This is Sanita, the Mother of All Things! Damn it! It's actually the Evil Mother Cult that worships Sanita!" Frank said in disgust after seeing the relief.
Everyone has heard of the Evil Mother God Cult. This is one of several famous cults that originated in Grant Continent. They call themselves the Mother God Cult, worship Sanita, the mother of all things, and often use the blood of women in sacrifices.
Trying to summon Sanita's will to issue oracles to the believers, all past leaders have been women.
These cults have always been the key targets of the Glorious Holy Tribunal and were once on the verge of extinction. However, with the arrival of the immigration wave from the New World, local governments generally speculated that their headquarters had been moved to the New World along with the immigration wave. In recent decades, in
They are often found in the New World. After all, the power of the Holy Religion in the New World has not yet fully developed, which may give them a chance to breathe.
Everyone then came to the round rock platform in the middle of the hall, which should be an altar. A skewed six-pointed star array was carved on the stone platform. There were many extinguished candles placed on the edge of the platform, some of which were almost burning out.
After all, the lines of the six-pointed star array are composed of shallow grooves a few centimeters wide and deep. The grooves are filled with coagulated blood. The circle is surrounded by runes, and the two skewed vertices face the relief of the statue.
Frank looked at the magic circle and said: "This is a summoning magic circle. Through blood sacrifice and chanting, the will of Sanita is summoned. It has never been recorded before whether their summons was truly successful, but it is very likely that they were summoned not long ago.
That ritual really summoned something, but it was obviously not the result they wanted!"
"After the newspaper published the reward order, they felt that the matter had been exposed and noticed by the government, so they hurriedly moved the body. They might not even have time to dispose of the body, but one human body is probably not enough to fill the magic circle with blood.
, so I’m afraid more bodies have been disposed of before,” Kate said.
Frank nodded and said: "Maybe they are still lucky. The police may not be able to find anything in the manor. After all, this sacrificial hall is very secretive and is generally difficult to be discovered. But I didn't expect that Steven could smell such a subtle smell of blood!"
Steven said: "This may be their only flaw, the flaw that they were exposed to due to the lack of time."
Everyone searched the hall carefully again and found an iron door opposite the platform they entered. Behind the door was an upward slope. Everyone followed the slope to the end. At the top was a hole covered with a stone slab. After passing the police officer, they found a hole on the ground.
A search of the corresponding location revealed that the exit leads all the way to the stable next to the house at the back, which is located in the hay shed of the stable. At this time, there are still several hay blocks stacked on the exit cover, the exit cover and the rocks on the ground.
The bricks are identical and difficult to spot on the ground.
The matter was almost over at this point. Frank and other police officers stayed to take care of the aftermath, such as recording and drawing drawings. Steven, Kate and the mercenaries responsible for security withdrew from the manor and returned to their respective stations.
After a night, the two came to the police station the next morning. Together with Frank and the police officers from the homicide team, they participated in a case meeting organized by the detective. They reviewed the search in detail. After the meeting, the two took time to go to the college library.
After reading a book for a while, I continued training at the Misha Mercenary Group station in the afternoon.
A few days later, the two came to the police station again, and Frank informed them of the results of the entire case in his office.
So far, the New Westin serial disembowelment case has been closed, but several doubts about the case have not yet been concluded. How did the two men in black become like that? Are they possessed or what? If they were
If they were possessed, what were they possessed by? What happened to them after they left the cult manor? Did the cult members look for them, etc. It seems that some questions may never be solved.
According to Frank, the police have wanted the leader and followers of the Evil Mother Goddess Cult, and are investigating the origin of the female corpse in the sacrificial hall and other possible female corpses. These are considered another case about the Mother Goddess Cult.
Of course, the Evil Mother Cult has far more arrest warrants than this. In addition to the government, the Glory Holy Cult has much higher bounties. Frank suggested that the two of them should pay attention to relevant clues in the future.