Volume 1 Glacial Relics Chapter 32: Dedication
No, I have to find a way to get out of this. I'll only get deeper and deeper like this.
Just when Ke Lan was thinking about how to get rid of this group of charlatans, the priestess suddenly climbed down from the bed and used her hands and feet to get to Ke Lan's feet.
"… Prophet, now that the oracle has been completed, can you ask the true God to grant me forgiveness?"
Why this set of rhetoric again... What does this granting of forgiveness mean?
Or is their doctrine like the Christianity of the old era, preaching that everyone is born with original sin and only by obtaining forgiveness from the so-called true God can one go to heaven?
Do you sell indulgences? Is the second one half price? Is there a discount for bulk purchases?
"Uh... then, on behalf of the true God, I will grant you forgiveness." Ke Lan felt like a ruthless repeater.
But the priestess's behavior was completely different from the previous black-clothed man. She did not stand up, but hugged Ke Lan's calf directly, and her tone suddenly showed a hint of fear: "No, it's not like that... Please grant me forgiveness!"
What is going on here?
Ke Lan looked at the somewhat out-of-control priestess in front of her with some doubt. Didn't she just "grant forgiveness"? Why was it like this?
Isn’t this “forgiveness” the same as that “forgiveness”?
Although he was wearing a protective suit on the outside of his pants, Ke Lan could still vaguely feel the soft touch... Combining it with some of the documents he had seen before related to , he couldn't help but immediately think of some scenes that were not suitable for children...
Many cult leaders will use excuses such as "atonement" and "forgiveness" to lure female believers into having sex with them. In the eyes of those brainwashed female believers, not only do they not feel violated, but they also have a grateful mentality...
Does this woman want to do that kind of thing with me?
“Does the true God want me to sacrifice myself?”
As expected... Ke Lan felt a little conflicted. Should he be a beast for once, or worse than a beast?
"No...it shouldn't be like this...I completed the oracle, I should be forgiven..."
The priestess suddenly let go of Ke Lan and fell backwards to the ground, completely ignoring the fact that her vital parts had been completely exposed.
She began to back away, increasing the distance between herself and Ke Lan.
What's going on? Ke Lan looked at this seemingly crazy woman in confusion. She had just shouted that she wanted to "sacrifice herself", so why did she look so reluctant now?
"no, do not want……"
The priestess's cry came to an abrupt end. Her body seemed frozen and could not move. The skin on her body quickly lost moisture and collapsed, revealing the shape of bones.
Her long, smooth black hair turned into a mottled gray-white color, her nails fell off one after another, and her ten slender jade fingers turned into two pairs of terrifying bone claws in the blink of an eye.
It was as if all the vitality was drained away in an instant. Within just a few seconds, the priestess's plump body had turned into a withered corpse.
However, her belly was getting bigger and bigger, like a bloated balloon, trembling slightly.
"Fuck!" Cursing inwardly, Ke Lan immediately threw all those fantasies behind his mind, raised his rifle, and aimed it at the belly of the mummy.
So this is what the woman meant by "dedication". No wonder she acted so desperate... However, the process of dedication was obviously not over yet. Her body must have been parasitized by something, which sucked all her flesh and blood. Now it has matured and is about to break out of her body!
Should we shoot? If we shoot, it will definitely alert the exiles in the entire settlement, and Ke Lan and his team will have less than a 30% chance of escaping unscathed... If we don't shoot, the thing in the mummy's stomach will soon come out...
"laugh--"
The sound of skin being torn was heard, and a cut appeared on the priestess's abdomen.
A monster of this size shouldn't be too strong, right?
Thinking of this, Ke Lan gritted his teeth, put down the gun, pulled out a straight-blade hunting knife and held it in his hand.
Sticky pus mixed with blood overflowed from the crack, and the thing inside squirmed a few times before finally poking its head out.
It was a fleshy worm as thick as a bowl. The front end of its body was split into four petals, which were covered with fine fangs. Mucus with a peculiar fishy smell kept dripping from the split flesh petals.
"Why are there so many disgusting things..."
The flesh worm's movements were a little slow. It did not dodge at all when Ke Lan stabbed it with the blade. It was not until the blade pierced through it that it began to twist and struggle violently.
It was screaming, the sound was very shrill, a bit like a baby crying with completely lost sound quality...
More mucus, pus and blood spurted out, and Ke Lan could only loosen the handle of the knife and dodge to the side.
"Although this thing looks disgusting, it is so weak... Could it be because it was just born?" Ke Lan looked at the dying flesh worm, full of doubts.
This thing looks very much like the larva of a giant worm that lives underground on the planet Alpha, but the question is how could it appear in the priestess's stomach?
Because they love to devour radioactive ores, the radiation content in this type of worm is much higher than that of most surface creatures. If a worm egg is placed in the human body, that person will die from acute radiation sickness within a few hours. However, this priestess did not show any symptoms of radiation sickness until she was sucked into a mummy.
Moreover, the alarm of the radiation detector carried by Ke Lan has never sounded, which means that there is no radiation in the flesh worm in front of him, or the radiation content is extremely low and has not reached the minimum threshold to trigger the alarm.
"This thing should have nothing to do with the underground worms..." Underground worms secrete a terrible strong acid. Even the hardest rock layer is like a piece of tofu in front of them. However, the mucus sprayed by the flesh worm in front of him did not corrode the body of the priestess. Although the smell is very unpleasant, the nature of these liquids is very stable. No matter what they come into contact with, the corpse, carpet, metal blade or the rubber surface of the protective clothing, they will not produce any reaction.
Judging from the priestess's behavior before her death, she should have known that there was such a thing in her body... The "forgiveness" she prayed to Ke Lan for at the beginning should have referred to taking the flesh worm out of her body.
Could this thing be one of the punishment methods used by this evil cult? Thinking of this, Ke Lan suddenly felt a chill.
The flesh worm has completely drilled out of the priestess's body. Its appearance is really creepy - the flesh worm is more than half a meter long, with a layer of light pink mucous membrane on its surface. There are many raised tumors under the mucosa, and the tumors are covered with tiny .
"This should be...death, right?"
Ke Lan tried to touch the fleshworm with her toes, and only the tentacles twitched reflexively.
In the past, Ke Lan would have found a container without hesitation to put the worms in and take them away. This thing could definitely be exchanged for a good price at the Institute of Biology, but now, he just hopes to get rid of these things as much as possible... If time could go back, he shouldn't have boarded that damn transport plane in the first place.
After cautiously exiting the inner room, two men in black who were waiting outside came up to him and asked respectfully, "Prophet...Priest, is she...ok?"
The screams that the flesh worm made before it died were probably heard by everyone in the room, but it seemed that they had not yet doubted Ke Lan's identity, otherwise they would have rushed in after hearing the strange noise inside.
"Uh... the priestess... is feeling a little unwell and is resting. Don't go in and disturb her." Ke Lan said in a deep voice.
It is indeed not very comfortable... After all, there is still such a big hole in my stomach...
“No, no... How could we dare to go in...” The man in black lowered his head even more, not daring to look directly at the “Lord Prophet”.
