Volume 8: A Trip to the Sick Village Chapter 364: Crushing
"There has been a sticky wriggling sound coming from inside his armor, and a tiny sound like many small insect arthropods scratching the inner wall of the armor." Asano Akira said in Ke Lan's ear. For Ke Lan, these sounds would be completely inaudible unless he got close.
"This guy's mutation level is probably the highest among the locals we have seen." Ke Lan whispered, "How confident are you in fighting him alone?"
" Not sure, I can't feel its true strength." Asano Akira replied.
In addition to this heavily armored servant, his followers, judging from the outlines of their cloaks, also seemed to have many body parts that did not belong to humans. When this group of people approached the scaffolding, Ke Lan could clearly feel the "slight tingling sensation on the skin" that the woman had described before. The closer they got, the more frequent the tingling became, and the more intense the pain became.
These guys in cloaks should be the second generation of people born in the "sick village".
The "priest" who was in charge of welcoming the newcomers had only one subordinate who was suspected to be a "second-generation citizen", while the six followers of this "servant of God" were all highly mutated "second-generation citizens". The power of the two in this place was immediately contrasted.
"You are the new ones?" The servant of God looked at Ke Lan and others and asked.
Compared to the priest who spoke like a broken bellows , his voice was closer to that of a normal person, except that it felt a little sticky and unclear, as if there was a mouthful of phlegm in his throat.
In fact, his question was completely unnecessary - only the newly arrived sick miners dared to look directly at them, while the others did not even dare to raise their eyelids.
However, there were a few clever guys, although they were also newcomers, but when they saw everyone else kneeling down like that, they followed suit and knelt on the bed, sticking their buttocks out and pressing their heads tightly against the shelf.
"You, and you, come here." The servant looked around and pointed at two people at random.
The first person chosen was Ke Lan.
"No way, am I so unlucky?" Ke Lan sighed inwardly, crawled out from the bunk, and slowly landed on the aisle.
Asano Akira was ready to take action at any time, but in Ke Lan's opinion, conflict with these people was a last resort that would only be chosen when there was really no other way - unless it was a situation of life and death, otherwise, Ke Lan planned to pretend to be a good boy for a while.
According to the original plan, their group was going to follow the "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" approach. If a conflict really broke out, it would be better for them to enter the space station fully armed from the beginning.
What's more, Marshall was taken away by these people. If the place these people wanted to take him to was the place Marshall went to, then wouldn't it just verify the old saying "No matter how hard you try, you can't find it, but when you get it, it's effortless."
Even if I can't see Marshall in person, at least it's better than wasting time on the scaffolding.
Whether it is collecting intelligence or getting familiar with the space station, it is definitely impossible to do it without any risk.
As for the other person who was chosen, he was an "old man" - of course, old did not refer to age, but to the length of time he had lived in the sick village. This person was not one of the newcomers, and his bunk was far away from Ke Lan and the others.
It seems that in the eyes of this servant of God, there is no difference between "newcomers" and "old people". Ke Lan thought that it was a good thing that he did not follow others and kneel down, otherwise it would be in vain.
After discovering that he was called out by the servant of God, this man did not climb down the scaffolding directly like Ke Lan. Instead, he trembled violently at first, then lay down wailing, and refused to get down from his bunk no matter what.
The servant of God did not speak. He just stared at the man quietly through the helmet monitor of the power armor. Soon, the man was forcibly pulled down by two of the servant's followers.
As he was holding the shelf too tightly, the nails of several of his fingers were bent over, and blood continued to seep out from his fingertips. In the microgravity environment, the blood dispersed into small droplets of different sizes and floated in all directions.
"Please... don't... don't choose me..."
The man was still crying and shouting, but was stepped to the ground by one of his followers.
"This is defying the will of the great God and is a blasphemy against the great God. According to the law, the punishment is crushing." The servant of God said in an emotionless tone.
Crushing? Does it refer to the ancient Roman punishment of using heavy stone mills to crush people to death?
As soon as this thought popped up in Ke Lan's mind, his doubts were dispelled - he saw the follower who was stepping on the man suddenly exerted force, and with a crisp "crack" sound, a section of the man's spine was actually broken!
But he did not die immediately. His miserable screams echoed in the residential area. He slapped the ground with his hands desperately. His bloody fingers left shocking traces of blood on the ground. Compared with his twitching and struggling upper body, his legs did not even move - the nerves in his spine had been destroyed. Even if his life was saved at this time, there was no way to change the fact that he was paralyzed from the waist down.
But the "crushing punishment" mentioned by the servant of God did not end there. The follower moved the sole of his shoe two inches up along the spine and stomped down again.
"ah--!!"
The scream just sounded and then stopped abruptly. The kick was already above , not only crushing one section of the spine, but also breaking two pairs of ribs of the man. The broken ribs went straight into the lungs.
The attendant did not seem to notice that the person under his feet had stopped breathing. He continued to step up, one foot at a time, until the entire spine from the waist to the neck was completely crushed. The entire upper body of the victim was torn into pieces sticky blood continued to overflow from under him.
"You, come down." Seeing that this person was dead, the servant of God pointed at another person... and this person happened to be the young woman who had been "interrogated" by Ke Lan before!
