Volume 8: A Trip to the Sick Village Chapter 373: Wall of Flesh and Blood
Ke Lan thought about it and there were only two possibilities -
The first possibility:
The "great god" mentioned by the priests and servants was transformed from a highly mutated human being... Of course, there could be more than one person... The changes that have taken place in him or them have long surpassed the scope of conventional mutations, so that the final product has completely become a completely new species.
This is not something that can be explained by human beings' current level of technology, but it does happen.
Second possibility:
The "Great God" was born from an indigenous creature hiding in an abandoned laboratory. It was once a research subject and underwent various experiments, which more or less contributed to its current state... During these decades, it continued to evolve and eventually survived .
Of course, it is not ruled out that the first and second possibilities occur at the same time - humans and monsters merge with each other, mutation and evolution are intertwined... but compared with the first two possibilities, the probability of this third situation is lower.
If the first and second possibilities are likened to the first prizes of the Double Color Ball and the Super Lotto, then the third possibility is equivalent to you buying a Double Color Ball at a lottery shop, and then buying a Super Lotto at another lottery shop at the next intersection, and then a few days later when the prizes are drawn, both of them win the special prize.
This analogy may not be appropriate enough, because this level of evolution requires at least tens of thousands of mutations, and each mutation is a life-and-death situation - it is like a Gal game of hell difficulty, where most of the options are wrong, and if the wrong option is chosen any time among these tens of thousands of choices, it will directly lead to a "bad end".
For individual organisms, the so-called "bad end" naturally means complete extinction from this world.
If the direction of mutation is still controllable to a certain extent in the laboratory, then after this space station is abandoned, it will be completely "let nature take its course"... If this "great god" is really evolved from humans, then he is definitely a chosen one who has rolled the dice tens of thousands of times and each time it is "six".
"No one would believe if you say this dice is not filled with lead..." Ke Lan couldn't help but complain in his heart, and continued to move forward with the servant of God and others.
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Although he was mentally prepared, when Ke Lan really saw the true form of the "Great God", he was still deeply shocked - this was a wall of flesh and blood that was 150 meters high, extending from the ground to the top wall of the space station, completely separating Area E and Area F.
On this wall, there were dozens of huge eyeballs with a diameter of four or five meters. The size of these eyeballs was even more exaggerated than the big eyeball he had seen on the ice road in the glacial ruins. When they approached the wall of flesh and blood, these huge eyeballs began to move rapidly... Almost two-thirds of the eyeballs focused their sights on Ke Lan. Even though Ke Lan was used to seeing strange things, he still felt the hairs on his back stand up when he was stared at by so many huge eyeballs.
In addition to these huge eyeballs, in the middle of the wall of flesh and blood, there is a huge mouth that keeps moving slightly. From Ke Lan's perspective, the opening and closing of this huge mouth is like breathing...
As they got closer to the wall of flesh and blood, the addictive aroma became extremely strong.
"What you see is the true form of the 'Great God'. He is the origin of the world and will be the end of the world. He is the faith of all of us and the destination of all of us..." The servant of God stood less than ten steps in front of Ke Lan, as if he was talking to himself, or as if he was introducing him to him.
"Offer the sacrifice." said the servant of God again.
In the previous "sacrificial ceremony", in addition to the missionary who was parasitic with the seeds of erosion, a total of three people became "sacrifices to God" because of their defeat.
The miners who were unwilling to participate in the ceremony and were sentenced to be crushed; the young woman who Ke Lan had to kill in order to avoid exposing his identity; and the mutant who had brute force but no fighting skills... The bodies of these three people were also brought here by the servant's followers.
The one-third of eyeballs left on the wall of flesh and blood were now looking at the corpses wrapped in waterproof cloth, just like a diner checking whether the food on the table was fresh.
The followers carried the corpse to a place only ten meters away from the Wall of Flesh and Blood, and then two people worked together to throw the corpse forcefully towards the huge mouth on the Wall of Flesh and Blood.
The huge mouth of the wall of flesh and blood was more than ten stories above the ground. Fortunately, the gravity here was so small that it was almost negligible. The corpse flew up in a straight trajectory and flew to the side of the huge mouth, where it was captured by several black shadows that suddenly emerged from the huge mouth. In just a blink of an eye, the black shadows and the corpse disappeared into the depths of the huge mouth.
But Ke Lan, who had activated the "time stop" function, still managed to capture this brief frame of the picture. Those black shadows were actually a fleshy tentacle shaped like a centipede. The entire tentacle that stretched out of the huge mouth and could be observed had 29 segments. If the corpse was used as a reference, the length of each segment was about two meters. In other words, the length of the entire tentacle was enough to reach the servants of God standing on the ground.
It seems that this "great god" will not attack its "devout believers" but will only enjoy the sacrifices offered by these believers.
There are a total of four centipede-like tentacles sticking out of the huge mouth. Each of these tentacles is made up of sections of well-developed circular muscles. The surface of the muscles is covered with transparent fascia, and under the fascia, there are thick purple-blue blood vessels.
At the front end of these tentacles, there are densely packed white fangs. The corpses thrown into the air are hooked by these fangs and dragged into the huge mouth.
As the "sacrifice" of the three bodies was completed, a sound of sticky flesh and blood squirming came from inside the wall of flesh and blood. This made Ke Lan think of the scene in the stomach filled with acid, where the flesh was gradually crushed and dissolved...
"Is the sacrifice...completed like this?" Ke Lan asked softly.
"Yes," the servant of God replied, "Next, it is your baptism."
"Baptism?" Although the servant of God had mentioned this word before, Ke Lan had no idea what this "baptism" meant.
The word baptism comes from the Christian initiation ceremony. The allusion comes from the New Testament where "John the Baptist" baptized Jesus by the Jordan River. Later, it developed into a ceremony that new believers must go through when they convert to Christianity.
The Christian baptism ceremony is divided into two types: "sprinkling" and "immersion". One is that the presiding officer sprinkles water on the forehead of the person being baptized, and the other is to immerse the body of the person being baptized in water, symbolizing the washing away of the sins of the person being baptized and giving him the gift of God. After the baptism is completed, the person being baptized is officially considered a Christian.
However, in the eyes of Ke Lan, an atheist, the so-called baptism is nothing more than sprinkling water on the forehead and taking a bath. He does not think that taking a bath can wash away a person's sins - of course, it still has the effect of cleansing the body. If he can take a bath with clean water in this place, he probably will not refuse.
What is certain is that the "baptism ceremony" of the heretical sect - whether it is the heretical sect on the ground or the heretical sect in the "sick village", the "baptism" they mention is definitely not the same as Christian baptism.
“What…what should I do?”
"Dedicate a part of you to the 'Great God'. In the process, He will grant you divine blessing, which is the power from Him . This power will be at your disposal... This is the highest gift we can get as an insignificant individual before returning to His body." said the servant of God.
"Sacrificing a part of me to the 'great god'?" Ke Lan's heart skipped a beat. "This means... I want you to be like those sacrifices just now..."
"Yes, but not all of it, only a small part. Your mission is not over yet, and it is too early to return to the body of the 'Great God' now."
"A small part? Which part?" Ke Lan couldn't help but ask.
"The little finger of the right hand." said the servant of God.
It was only then that Ke Lan noticed that all the followers of the servant of God whose right hands were exposed had the farthest knuckle of their little fingers missing.
The places where their fingers were broken had long since healed and looked completely bare, with no signs of gangrene or infection.
Ke Lan glanced at the little finger of his right hand. This finger had grown out less than two months ago. Compared with the palm connected to it, the skin on the finger looked slightly pinker and tenderer. At the base of the finger, one could even see a faint dividing line.
"It just grew out, and now it has to be cut off again?" Ke Lan thought to himself, "Forget it, with my current self-healing ability, it will grow back in no time. Losing a finger shouldn't have a big impact on my combat effectiveness..."
He gritted his teeth and said to the servant of God, "...Do you have a knife? Give me a knife... Uh, it's better to have a sharp one. An axe would be fine too."
"You don't have to do it yourself." The servant said, slowly walked behind Ke Lan and pushed him on the back.
"The 'Great God' will help you complete the baptism, and you won't feel any pain during the whole process."
The gravity here is lower than that in the residential area. Ke Lan floated directly towards the huge mouth embedded in the wall of flesh and blood.
"Shit!" Ke Lan couldn't help but curse the female family member of the servant of God in his heart. He waved his limbs in vain, but he had no leverage in the floating state. He could only watch the bloody mouth continue to expand in his field of vision.
This familiar scene really made Ke Lan feel helpless - not long ago, he used similar means to kill a missionary of a heretical sect. Unexpectedly, not long after, he would be in the position of the "victim".
"I hope... I hope this thing will really only eat a piece of my finger..." Ke Lan reached his hand into the secret pocket inside his clothes and grasped the handle of the pocket pistol - although the power of the pocket pistol was very small, and the bullet, which was not much bigger than a grain of rice, could not cause any effective damage to the wall of flesh and blood, but it was a gunpowder weapon after all, and the recoil generated when shooting was enough to push Ke Lan in the opposite direction of the bullet.
If this wall of flesh and blood showed any sign of wanting to swallow him whole, he would pull the trigger without hesitation - even if his identity would be exposed.
If you really get swallowed by this thing, it will be too late to say anything.
The centipede-like tentacles had already stretched out from the huge mouth. Compared with the previous movements when it was preying on the "sacrifice", the speed of the tentacles this time was obviously much slower.
The tentacle moved to a place one meter away from Ke Lan and then stopped. At such a close distance, Ke Lan could clearly see the structure of the "teeth" at the front end of the tentacle - these fangs were not straight, but had a certain curvature. On the inside of the arc, there were extremely sharp blades. When the muscles at the front end of the tentacle contracted, these fangs would fit together and crush anything they touched.
Ke Lan tried to stretch his right hand forward, and just when his little finger was about to touch the fangs, an extremely thin flesh tube stretched out from the tentacle, and the sharp end like a needle quickly touched the back of Ke Lan's hand.
A tingling sensation suddenly came from the back of his hand, and the next second, Ke Lan felt that his entire right hand had lost consciousness.
"They actually give me an injection of anesthetic before the amputation surgery?... Is this 'great god' so humane?" Ke Lan realized that the servant of God was not lying when he said, "You won't feel any pain during the whole process."
After the injection of "anesthetic", you will not feel any pain...
