Chapter 350 Why?
Meat sacrifice.
This is a celebration held by the Cajun royal family every few years.
The royal family traveled incognito and went to a randomly selected village to hold a banquet.
All the villagers in the selected village were divided into "ushers" and "others" on the spot.
Melena's mother was distinguished as an usher at a celebration.
In just a few days, she "entertained" the royal family without sleep, and eventually became a vegetative state.
And Melena was given birth to a vegetative mother in this way,
Children like her who were born during royal celebrations were collectively called celebration orphans, and were also taken into underground hospitals that processed or sold human tissues.
There, the person in charge used scientific means (genetic testing) to classify the celebration orphans into "second-tier people" and "meat".
The so-called second-tier people are the royal bloodline without inheritance rights.
They are born to be disfigured by blades in exchange for the qualification to survive.
At present, the heads of the two major Cajun gangs, Xiu Wu and Gasia, are both second-tier members.
The so-called meat is an existence that has been institutionally materialized.
In layman's terms,
Meat is nothing more than an item for human use.
So compared to "meat", the second-tier people are much luckier.
The orphans of the festival classified as "meat" must take on the mission of being "meat" if they want to survive.
Like those who are chosen as "ushers" in celebrations, Melena fulfilled this duty as "meat" for twenty years.
"Hurt me, doubt me, fear me and ask me to forgive everything"
"Creak, creak..." The sound of slender finger bones being chewed.
“Why—Kajin——·should be destroyed!”
“Gulu, Gulu——” The sound of wet meat sliding into the throat.
"This world is full of garbage—I hate you and curse you—!
Melena's eyes slowly opened wide, and no matter how fierce the roar in her heart was, it could only turn into a hoarse gasp like a broken bellows.
She won't feel any pain as her flesh and blood are eaten away inch by inch.
Because she has long been accustomed to torture that is more profound than this pain.
She was just unwilling.
I feel funny again.
Once, she thought that hatred and curses were just the incompetent whines of the weak.
She didn't want to just moan meaninglessly, so she was able to discover the power called "reading" in the sores all over her body without any guidance.
This is an opportunity!
The opportunity to destroy Cajin, the opportunity to destroy this shithole world.
It will come to an end.
The only thing we can do is hate and curse?
The luster of Melena's pupils gradually dimmed. No matter how unwilling she was, the breath of death would gradually cover up the light in her eyes like darkness.
Failed.
The last light in Melena's eyes gradually went out.
Before her consciousness completely dissipated, she could still hear the sound of her flesh being gnawed away.
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The death of one creature brings about the rebirth of another creature.
The liquid in the nutrition cabin was quickly dyed red.
Outside the cabin, there were several figures watching this scene quietly.
"Once a chimera ant recognizes the taste of a certain food, it will be difficult to accept other substitutes, so it is also called gourmet ant."
"It doesn't matter, anyway, the "operating system" can tamper with its cognition and mental abilities - it is such a convenient thing, isn't it? "
"Indeed."
In the scarlet liquid, Melena's remaining body had been almost eaten away.
Several people stared at the blood cabin, as if they could still see the broken body.
Melena will not understand what went wrong until her death.
After all, she does not have the intelligence advantage called "reader's perspective" that Moreau has from high latitudes.
So how could she have imagined that behind the descendants of the Cajin royal family, there stood a world-class powerful man who valued these existences more than the current Cajin king.
Happily, this world-class powerhouse obviously has great strength and a team that cannot be underestimated.
But he is still willing to lie dormant for so many years, and so forbearingly choose a long-term plan that is terrifyingly safe and never shows any signs or flaws.
In fact, Moreau only has one more intelligence advantage than Melena.
That is to say, he knows that Biyande attaches great importance to the succession battle that is about to happen in the future, because one of the princes with inheritance rights is very likely to be Biyande's heir. Based on this, even if the risk is minimal, Moreau will attach great importance to it.
This is also the fundamental reason why he avoids direct conflicts as much as possible.
Facts have proved that his decision was correct.
The "unknownness" of mental ability is too strong. At certain specific moments, you can never imagine where it will appear, and what value and effect it will have.
For example, Shahua's "Twin Flower Crossing" is a trait-based ability with a complex mechanism.
In the increasingly dark night, the roar of the high-speed engine sounded in the night.
Morrow almost stepped on the accelerator.
In the back seat, Kurapika's body leaned forward slightly. He noticed something unusual and couldn't help but look at Morrow in the driver's seat.
Morrow stared at the road ahead, illuminated by the car lights, and frowned slightly after feeling Kurapika's gaze.
"Melena is dead."
"Huh?"
Kurapika's eyes changed when he heard this.
They just stole some collectibles including the flaming eyes without any blood, and did not do anything extra.
As an intelligence provider, Melena has always adhered to the approach of preferring to spend more time rather than rushing to investigate clearly.
That's why after taking the position of the patriarch of the Ai family, he spent so much time investigating the location of Celidonich's collection room.
This is all to reduce the risk as much as possible,
To take a step back, even if Melena was discovered by Cheli Donich, she would not die in such a short period of time.
Kurapika looked forward with doubts as Moro looked ahead and said: "We cannot rule out the possibility that Melena would find a telepathic master to remove the "star mark". She is very ambitious and has a deep understanding of the telekinesis ability system. It is not surprising that there will be a telekinesis master in the team. 》
"There is indeed such a possibility, but it is very low."
Kurapika looked at Morrow's side face and speculated: "If Melena wants to remove the star mark, then unless necessary, she will not use a mind-killer, which is more or less a secret weapon, for a star mark that can be removed by you with just a few words." Luo Yiyi raised his eyes and looked at Kurapika through the rearview mirror of the car, with a hint of solemnity in his tone: "So it is more likely that Melena died, in such a short time -"
"Well, this is what I am most confused about."
Kurapika lowered his head slightly, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
He has worked with Melena for a short time, so he has some understanding of this woman's methods.
In his opinion, even if Melena was exposed due to this incident and broke with Celidonish, she would not die so easily.
With the lack of key information, Kurapika naturally couldn't come up with a specific direction no matter how much he thought about it.
But Moreau had some vague guesses in his mind.
Melena's death is probably related to Biyang De.
That's why his tone suddenly became serious.
"She————.may have done something unnecessary.""
Moreau's brows relaxed slightly, but the solemn look in his eyes did not diminish at all.
Kurapika felt comfortable hearing this.
Is it unnecessary?——
He knew nothing about what Melena was planning, and he really couldn't figure out what extraordinary behavior she would do in this operation, which would lead to death.
Although the reason was unknown, Kurapika was alert and quickly reminded: "If Melena really died because of this incident, then the connection between her and us may have been exposed."
"Yes."
Moro tightened his grip on the steering wheel and sighed softly: "If it is just torture, no matter how cruel the method is, Melena will not give in, but -"
Moro glanced at him and nodded: "Yes, this is the most difficult situation, but we move quickly. As long as we can successfully rendezvous with the Chimera, we can leave Cajin immediately."
Kurapika nodded.
Even if Melena was really tricked out of information related to them by the intelligence system user.
With the speed and efficiency of their actions, and the fact that Melena herself knew nothing about their specific route.
Even if the person who killed Melena mastered their identity, it would be impossible to lock their location and movements in such a short period of time.
The sound of wheels braking suddenly sounded in the night.
It was Moreau who stopped the car.
Shortly afterwards, Moro and Kurapika got out of the car one after another.
"Use "mind" to protect the eyes of your people. "
Morrow reminded him while condensing flying stars in his hand.
Melena's sudden death was a dangerous signal to him.
In order to get to the Chimera as quickly as possible, we can only rely on the guess that the identity may have been exposed, and then directly use the flying star that can easily reveal the identity and presence.
Hand, the Chimera's current height is uncertain. If it flies straight and straight, it is difficult to guarantee that it will encounter many obstacles on the way.
But in this situation, take action first!
In a certain suburb, everything is completely silent.
On a flat ground, many red petals like tentacles dissipated in the night wind.
Biyande watched the petals manifested by the mental energy gradually fade and disappear, and said: "The number of "event coordinates" in Shahua is limited,
It cannot be used continuously with high load. Just helping us shorten the distance and sending the woman away is already close to the limit. 》
Alita’s golden twin ponytails swayed gently in the wind.
She looked up at Biyang De's tall back. His big dark eyes were so hollow that they didn't look like a living person, but more like carefully crafted glass beads.
"Give me a little more time, and I'll be able to complete the positioning soon."
Her voice was even more weird, without any human touch, as if it was a voice made by software.
Biyang De did not speak any more.
Hences surged throughout Alita's body, and the moment she slowly raised her right hand, a picture of data flow suddenly appeared in her dark eyes, with dense lines passing rapidly like a blizzard.
The world she saw at this moment was a series of long and thin rays of light, densely shooting from the surface towards the sky, covering almost all of Alita's field of vision.
These lights are like a rainbow, with various colors,
They come from anything Alita can see.
Some emerge from a small stone on the roadside, some emerge from the canopy of a lush tree or even a green grass bud, and some emerge from a small insect flying in the night.
They come from different sources and have different colors.
The light of the stone is gray, the color of the plants is green, and the color of the small bugs is black.」
Hand in the distance, the two slender lights of her and Biyande are deep red.
It emerged from the top of the head, like a flashlight beam shining into the sky at night, straight but with a fixed end.
Alita searched for the slender rays of different colors that she could see. A storm-like data stream slid through her glass bead-like eyes. Countless colorful slender rays filled her field of vision, so dense that they almost blocked her normal visual function.
Due to capacity constraints, she was unable to temporarily block irrelevant light through color screening.
But it doesn’t matter.
Because the red light represents human beings, and as long as the color is darker, it can be determined to be a person with abilities.
In such a wild area, humans are already rare, let alone those with abilities.
So as long as the presence of red is found in the infinitely extending dense light -
it is basically possible to find the target.
Alita's right hand stretched forward, constantly moving to catch the light from farther away.
A long time has passed since she used her operating system ability to pry out the intelligence data from Melena, to informing Shahua to use her ability to send Melena to the secret research institute where the ant queen is.
During this period, she has retrieved an unknown amount of light.
The only good news is that the area radiated from the "retrieval starting point" is getting closer and closer to the rarely visited area.
This also means that the red light representing the ability person can be more easily revealed.
Finally—
Alita found two moving red lights among the countless green, gray, black, orange and other colors of light.
It fits the information that "the number of people is two" that was pried out of Melena's head.
That is.—·
Farther away, there is a line of extremely deep black.
The color black represents life forms other than humans.
Those with lighter colors may be bugs, while those with darker colors may be ferocious beasts that are listed as dangerous species and pose a threat to human life.
But this was the first time Alita saw such a deep black color.
Even the monsters with intelligence and special abilities are not so deep.
The most important thing is that the movement speed of the two red lines suddenly became extremely fast. Judging from the direction, they were actually moving closer to the extremely dark black light.
Alita informed Biande of the situation as quickly as possible.
"Have you realized it? It's amazing."
Biyande grinned and changed the subject: "Share the location to Shahua and ask her to determine the nearest coordinates."
"It has been shared."
Alita said calmly.