Volume 8: A Trip to the Sick Village Chapter 356: Priest
"When you come here, first of all, you need to learn our rules." He said word by word.
"If anyone violates the rules set by the great god." He widened his eyes and swept his cold gaze over each miner, "He will personally punish you."
Personally impose the criminal law? Another question mark popped up in Ke Lan's mind. As far as he knew, the great god worshipped by the "heretic sect" on the ground was an invisible and intangible existence. Except when using the "holy words", in most cases, the great god was just a symbolic symbol.
But in the mouth of this "priest", this great god seemed like a real creature.
Could this be just a metaphor? Ke Lan couldn't help but think of a joke she had seen before. A criminal was about to be sent to the execution ground. He claimed that he was a devout believer and that only God was qualified to judge him. However, the person in charge of the execution only said one sentence to him: "Okay, now you can think about it. When you see God later, how are you going to argue for your crime in front of him?"
This joke is similar to a more famous line from a movie: "It is God's business to forgive them, and my mission is to send them to see God."
This priest said that the great god would personally punish the violators... probably means just killing them directly, right?
However, the priest's next sentence instantly made Ke Lan realize that things did not seem that simple.
The priest turned around and said to those who had just killed the seriously ill patients, "Take their flesh and blood to the great gods and let them become the nourishment of the great gods... This is the end of their old lives, and it will also be the beginning of their new lives."
"Take it to the great god?!"
Could it be that the great god they believed in was on this space station? !
Ke Lan felt his heartbeat quicken. He clenched his fists tightly and glanced at Layton and Ivan who were far away from the crowd. The equipment they carried had eavesdropping devices, so they could naturally hear what the "priest" said.
Both of them seemed a little nervous. Layton even took out a Gauss assault rifle from his backpack and held it in his hand, ready to fight at any time.
His actions naturally attracted the attention of the locals. The priest looked at Leighton and the other man with extremely disgusted eyes and muttered a few words in a low voice.
"He said, 'Those are not our compatriots,'" Asano Akira said in Ke Lan's ear.
Ke Lan was not surprised by this. The records of previous groups of explorers mentioned that the residents of the sick village were extremely xenophobic. If one entered the space station as an investigator, there would be no way to communicate with the locals.
"They... they have guns, should we take action?" Another tall man wearing a cloak and holding a steel pipe asked the "priest". Ke Lan noticed that although this man was nearly two meters tall, he was not strong and had few muscles on his body. The reason why he looked very burly was entirely due to his highly deformed skeleton - if Ke Lan hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would have been hard for him to imagine how such a skeleton could perform those movements similar to those of humans. In comparison, the skeleton of primates is much closer to humans than this guy.
"Don't provoke them for now," said the priest. "Let them do whatever they want, but never let them get close to the residence of the great god."
"Yes." The deformed giant answered very respectfully.
The abode of the great gods...
So, does this thing really live on the space station?
It is no wonder that there are differences between this group of people and the heretical sects on the ground. Although the gods they believe in are both called "great gods", they are actually not the same thing at all.
Could the "great god" these people believe in be a monster with powerful strength?
But the problem is that this space station is isolated from the rest of the world, and the native creatures on Planet Alpha cannot enter it at all. Even if there are monsters...
There is only one possibility.
It was transformed by humans.
"You guys." The priest looked at Ke Lan and the others, "Follow me."
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Under his leadership, a dozen people including Ke Lan, Asano Akira and the two "missionaries" walked towards the exit of the unloading area.
The deformed giant took out several bundles of cables made of copper-core wires, tied the two bodies together, and carried them on his back. The other few people also carried the remaining bodies without saying a word and followed him to another exit.
Layton and Ivan followed immediately. They did not choose to follow those people carrying the corpses, but followed behind Ke Lan and the others. In order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, they also deliberately kept a distance of more than 50 meters from the miners' team.
The crane on top of the unloading area made a sharp "creaking" sound, and the huge metal hook lowered down, lifting the cargo boxes filled with supplies into the air. But before Ke Lan could see where these cargo boxes were sent, the priest had already led them through a low metal door and into a narrow and dim space.
Ke Lan recalled the structural diagram of the space station in his mind. If the structure of the space station had not been changed since then, then these should be the only two places where people live.
Area B.
