"I heard it... The content is similar to what Major Ashkani described, but I also heard another voice mixed in with this voice." Victoria said in a deep voice, with a thoughtful look between her brows.

"The sound mixed in? What is that sound?" Ke Lan couldn't help but ask.

"It sounded like a deep male voice was reciting...but I couldn't hear clearly what he was reciting. It sounded like a long poem. I could feel the rhyme and rhythm, but I couldn't distinguish the specific words from the ambiguous pronunciation." Victoria said.

"Reciting... I think it's more like praying, although I can't hear clearly what he is saying." Ke Lan expressed his thoughts.

"Now that you put it that way, it does sound a bit like a prayer... So the source of this voice is the person who presided over this human sacrifice?"

"We can't be sure about this... After all, we don't know whether these sounds are from previous recordings... or..." He glanced at Major Ashkani, whose emotions had stabilized, and then said to Victoria using lip language: "... or what is happening now."

It was only a dozen seconds from the time these sounds started to the time they disappeared, but everyone in the team felt as if they had witnessed a massacre by a heretical sect. The ones in the worst condition even showed signs of collapse, and Ashkani's shirt on the front and back was completely soaked with cold sweat.

Ke Lan took out his mobile phone, and when the voice just sounded, he immediately turned on the recording function of the mobile phone.

The recording lasted a total of thirteen seconds. He turned up the volume on his phone and pressed the play button.

There was no sound. Apart from the voices of the team members, the phone did not record any sound. After using audio processing software to eliminate those voices, the entire recording was left with only thirteen seconds of silence.

"It seems that only we can hear these sounds, and what each person hears seems to be slightly different." Ke Lan said.

"It's possible that this is not a sound, but a special kind of radio wave..." Victoria pressed her fingers on her temple and closed her eyes. "It's not our ears that receive them, but our brain. It's just that the brain converts this radio wave into a nerve signal that acts on the auditory system, so I can 'hear' those sounds."

"As expected of a senior commissioner of the Security Bureau, you think exactly the same as I do." Ke Lan nodded repeatedly, but Victoria glared at him fiercely. Her eyes seemed to be questioning him: Are you praising me or yourself?

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The second destination of the reconnaissance team was the alley where the "mutant", or giant sumo wrestler, came out. There were many light boxes and vending machines at the entrance of the alley, but now these things have turned into fragments on the ground. Not only that, even the buildings on both sides of the street have been severely crushed and damaged.

This alley was only four or five meters wide, so it was somewhat unexpected that the meatball could squeeze through here.

"According to the map information, there is a sumo club owned by the Arasaka Group deep in this alley. The official registered name is 'Yoshida Sumo Stable', and the person in charge is Yoshida Yota, a senior employee of the Arasaka Group... This is the only sumo club on Kabukicho Ichibangai, so the mutants should have run out from this place." The person in charge of looking up the information happened to be the "talkative" agent. In the previous conversation, Ke Lan already knew his name - "Alyosha". Like Ivan, he is also of Russian descent, but he claims that he can't speak Russian at all, but he has a good command of Chinese and English.

"Sukable" and "Ura" are the only two Russian words he can speak.

"Pay attention to the buildings on both sides of the street. The terrain here is too complicated and it is easy to be ambushed." Victoria said, and asked the "Bloodhound" mecha of the garrison to enter the alley first. However, because the available road is too narrow, the original parallel formation of two mechas can only be changed to in-line. But in this way, if a sudden battle occurs, the firepower of several mechas will be difficult to take care of each other...

"I always feel like there's something wrong with this place..." Ke Lan said to Alyosha, "Your boss is right. This terrain is perfect for an ambush. If something unexpected happens, we won't be able to retreat even if we want to."

"The commander has cracked many traps set by heretical sects before. Since she thinks there is no problem, nothing should go wrong." Alyosha said. Not only him, but all the agents of the Security Bureau seemed to have an almost blind trust in Victoria. Ke Lan felt that if Victoria ordered them to die, they would do it without hesitation.

"There shouldn't be anyone in these houses." After what happened just now, Major Ashkani was obviously a little depressed. "I don't know if they are alive or dead..."

The performance of the garrison officers was far inferior to that of the special agents... Even though they were considered the elite among the elites in the garrison, they had experienced too little actual combat, and had never seen a scene of human sacrifice like the one just now... Ke Lan thought that instead of letting this kind of force be responsible for this matter, it would be better to transfer a field force over. Those soldiers who were accustomed to killing would have a strong psychological tolerance.

"Groups one and two, spread out, with three people in a unit, check the buildings on both sides one by one. If necessary, you are allowed to open fire freely. Groups three and four, pay attention to monitoring the surrounding environment." Victoria stood on top of the "Bloodhound" at the front of the team and gave orders to her subordinates.

Here, the electromagnetic interference is already very strong. Not only is the communication with the blockade line blocked, but even remote-controlled equipment such as drones have failed. They lost control after flying only a few meters and crashed into the roof.

"The smell of blood here seems to have become much lighter." Ke Lan sniffed. He began to miss the old dog. If he were here, the tracking mission would have gone much more smoothly.

"Yeah." Victoria responded coldly.

"This is a good thing, at least it means that there is no such cruel human sacrifice here." Alyosha said. Ke Lan noticed that when he mentioned the word human sacrifice, Major Ashkani's eyes twitched involuntarily - the scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood must have left an indelible shadow in the heart of this young officer...