Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 213 "Save Me"
"The patriarch mentioned in the suicide note should be the patriarch of the Arasaka family. It seems that the heretical sect has completely controlled the entire Arasaka Group and used the resources at its disposal to transform most of the residents in the residential area into 'containers' for the Corrosion Seeds... But the question is, what are they going to do by cultivating so many Corrosion Seeds?"
Ke Lan thought for a moment and listed the clues he had at hand one by one: "When you were at the blockade earlier, you used the pheromones of the flesh-eating worms to only lure out a few seeds of corrosion. This means that most of the seeds of corrosion containers in the East Nine District should be under the control of the heretic sect. At first I thought they were planning to concentrate the seeds of corrosion to attack the outer blockade , but obviously, they didn't do that."
If the outer blockade line was attacked by a large number of seeds of erosion, the garrison would definitely release flares. Now the power lines of the entire East District 9 have been cut off, and lighting can only rely on the lights refracted from several surrounding areas. In such a dim environment, the flares will become extremely eye-catching - but except for the one launched by Major Ashkani, Ke Lan and his team have never seen a flare explode above the East District 9 again.
This means that the blockade lines in all directions have not been attacked by a group of more than 30 people or by individuals with super strong strength like Arasaka Yui and Zanji.
"It doesn't look like it's for defense..." Ke Lan was playing with a bullet shell he picked up at random. "The enemies we encountered along the way, apart from the three boss-level units, Black Skeleton, Arasaka Yui and Zanji, were all small fry like mercenaries and radioactive monsters... If all these small fry were replaced with Corrosion Seeds, let alone the residential area, perhaps the reconnaissance team wouldn't even be able to get out of Kabukicho Ichibangai... So this speculation can basically be ruled out."
“……”Victoria lowered her head in silence, as if thinking about something.
"Hey... I've said so much, can't you just tell me what you think?" Ke Lan glanced at her with some dissatisfaction and threw the shell in his hand over.
"Snap." Victoria reached out and grabbed the bullet shell that was thrown to her. With a light squeeze of her fingers, the bullet shell turned into a thin piece of metal.
"...hiss...your analysis is correct...hiss...I agree with your point of view."
"It's really rare for you to say this..." Ke Lan sighed, "But I do have a bold guess... I'll put it here first, this is just a guess, there is no evidence."
"You can...hiss...tell me about it."
"First of all, it can be confirmed that the rituals of the heretical sect are related to the 'holy object' mentioned by Yui Arasaka, and this 'holy object' was taken out of Leviathan's body by Manstein. In other words, this object originally belonged to Leviathan... If we are bolder, then we can completely assume that it was because Manstein took this object out that Leviathan woke up prematurely without completing the resurrection progress..."
Ke Lan took a breath and continued, "The resurrection of Leviathan requires a large amount of flesh and blood. In order to achieve this goal, those red fleshworms devoured all the human corpses in various bases... If this factor is transferred to the matter of East District 9 , and the key word 'human flesh and blood' is replaced with the seeds of erosion..."
He lowered his voice slightly and said, "The 'holy object' from Leviathan, plus the large amount of flesh and blood of the Corrosion Seeds that serve as 'nutrients', these two things together... you can understand the seriousness of the problem just by thinking with your toes."
"Do you think...hiss...the heretical sect...hiss...is creating...the primitive species?"
"Yes, that's what I thought... Even if what they create is not as good as a prehistoric beast like Leviathan, it must be many times stronger than a loser like Arasaka Yui... Moreover, this is not in the wilderness, but inside the Ark... If we fight a prehistoric beast inside the Ark, even if we can win, our losses will be incalculable."
"If...hiss...that's really the case...then...we must stop it..."
"It may be difficult for the two of us alone... This is really strange, why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet?"
Since there was no flare and reinforcements had not arrived, Ke Lan really couldn't understand what was happening outside.
"We...hiss...have to go there..." Victoria raised her head and said while looking at the Arasaka Tower not far away.
"...How about we wait a while?" Strangely enough, since entering the industrial park, Ke Lan and Victoria have never heard those strange cries or screams again. Moreover, the voice that had been calling him deep in Ke Lan's mind suddenly fell silent.
Could it be another trap... Just as Ke Lan was thinking this, a circle of blinding light suddenly emanated from the top floor of Arasaka Tower. Then, the power was restored to the entire East 9th District, and large areas of lights lit up one by one from inside to outside!
"Has the power been restored?!" Ke Lan quickly took out her cell phone, but the signal bar still showed "Out of service area".
Victoria inserted a metal finger into the wired network port in Arasaka Ryoya's residence. After two seconds, she shook her head and said, "The wired network...hiss...is still disconnected..."
"It seems that the reserve energy in East District 9 has been activated, but the connection with the outside world has not been restored." Ke Lan said, "But I don't know what their intention is..."
If we really want to determine the purpose of the heretic sect, I'm afraid we can only find out by entering the Arasaka Tower as Victoria said...
At this moment, the sobbing sound that had disappeared for a long time rang in Ke Lan's ears again, but this time, Ke Lan clearly heard the words mixed in the crying!
“Save me…save me…”
This was a weak female voice, and she didn't sound very old... However, although she was speaking human language, for some reason, Ke Lan always felt that the creature that made this voice didn't seem to be human.
That kind of unclear and hoarse voice doesn't seem to be produced by human vocal organs. Even Victoria's electronic synthesized voice sounds more normal than this voice.
"Did you hear...that crying sound?" Ke Lan turned around and asked.
“…hiss…I heard it…wailing, screaming, wailing…hiss…” Victoria pointed at Arasaka Tower, “That’s where the sound comes from.”
