Chapter 477 The Sacrifice Forty Years Ago

Genos was the first witness to the incident, according to his description in the file.

He received a message from his father at that time, asking him to go down to the third floor and go to the underground garden to find his father.

He entered the underground garden, walked in, and was startled by his father who was covered in blood. His father was also surprised when he saw him, and then quickly pulled him out and ran out, with his father's blood splashing all over him.

After leaving the door, his father hugged him directly, but before he could run a few steps, he fell to the ground and died holding him.

In the file, there is the autopsy report left by the medical examiner at that time.

Genos's father was stabbed to death in the front with a sharp weapon. The sharp weapon used in the crime was also found in the corner of the underground garden. It was a sharp dagger, and no fingerprints were left on the dagger.

The investigation team discovered a destroyed magic circle in the underground garden that seemed to be some kind of strange ritual.

The file also contains an investigation report about this magic circle by the FBI's occult experts.

The first page of this report is a warning, indicating that the report contains occult knowledge involving evil gods. Please read it with caution. Ordinary people should try to avoid reading it.

Nock notes here that he took this report with his eyes closed, so the text may be a little unclear.

Although this kid is reckless most of the time, his first place result is not for nothing. He still has a relatively clear understanding of the field of mysticism and knows what can and cannot be seen.

Then the next step is the content of the report.

Although most of the entire magic circle was destroyed, the FBI's occult experts still deduced that it was a 'collusion and sacrifice magic circle'.

This is a magic circle used by cultists to please the evil gods they believe in.

However, this sacrificial array is different from ordinary communication rituals or sacrificial arrays. The 'believers' who preside over this array are usually core believers who are relatively close to the gods, or even church leaders themselves.

This kind of magic circle requires the sacrificer to sacrifice certain "special items" to gain the favor of the gods and deepen the connection with the gods.

Different evil gods have different requirements for special items. These items are generally based on the evil gods' preferences and attributes.

The author of the report here did not provide specific examples. Perhaps he does not know the preferences of those evil gods, or perhaps he is afraid that this secret knowledge will be leaked and used by interested people.

In short, the expert could not tell which evil god's sacrificial circle it belonged to.

However, he analyzed that this magic circle was most likely activated, and most of the magic circle was destroyed. It is possible that there was some deviation during the operation of the magic circle, causing the magic circle to collapse.

Then the report came to an abrupt end.

Seeing this, He Ao paused.

In fact, it is easy to infer what happens next. On the third underground floor, which requires numerous identity verifications, and in the deepest part of the entire senator's villa, who can safely arrange a sacrificial ceremony in the underground garden where the senator often comes, and Without being discovered?

Moreover, this sacrificial ceremony does not look like it can be arranged in a short time.

The answer is already there.

The senator himself performs evil sacrifices in his underground garden.

But can a federal senator do this kind of evil sacrifice?

cannot.

Therefore, the report was no longer written, and the case became unsolved.

The outline of the incident is actually very obvious. The senator himself performed a sacrifice to the evil god, but something went wrong in the sacrifice ceremony, leading to his accidental death.

The assassination of the senator caused a great sensation at the time and attracted widespread attention throughout the federation.

Therefore, this case could no longer be investigated. The FBI at that time adopted the delaying tactic of cold treatment.

People's patience is always limited. Every day there are new news full of gimmicks to attract people's attention. By the time this matter is forgotten by everyone, this case is equivalent to 'over'.

He Ao flipped through the later files, and the frequency of subsequent case documents became extremely low. Basically, a report was issued every month or two, which was indifferent.

Finally, after a year-long investigation, the case ended with the conclusion that cultists assassinated the senator.

After that, the FBI never investigated the case again. ,

Ho flipped the file to the front and asked Eve to create a virtual network address. He used this address to log into the FBI intranet and access the online files.

In these online files saved on the FBI cloud server, there are also a large number of photos and videos of the scene from that year.

He Ao flipped through these live photos one by one.

The first photos were from the scene of the senator's death. These photos were also mixed with the first scene video captured by the law enforcement recorder at the time.

The video begins with violent shaking, then FBI agents filling the hallway.

The scene quickly moves to the child who is pinned in a pool of blood, and several FBI agents are trying to rescue the child.

This child seems to be little Genos who was only eight years old at the time. From the discussion of the FBI agents in the video, it can be seen that it seems that little Genos was the one who reported the crime at that time.

At the other end of the screen, the senator's corpse lay on the ground with an expression of anger and disbelief on his face. His eyes were wide open and covered with bright red bloodshot eyes, as if he was unwilling to die like this.

Next is another video, shot from another perspective, and it seems that the timeline is behind the video just now.

The senator was still lying on the ground, and next to him was little Genos, covered in blood, huddled in the corner with a look of fear on his face.

Little Genos was covered in a red blanket and holding the water handed to him by the FBI staff. His whole body was shaking, and his eyes were full of fear and confusion.

He was put on a stretcher by some FBI agents and wheeled out of the scene.

While other FBI agents were taking photos and examining the scene.

This video is not long, only a few dozen seconds, and it ends quickly.

He Ao looked at the other photos.

Perhaps because of the evil gods involved, there are not many photos of the underground gardens.

However, He Ao still found what he wanted in these few photos.

A photo of standing inside an underground garden.

In the center of the photo, blood-stained flowers surround a small, circular pool.

The clear pool has been stained red with blood. Among the blood-stained flowers around it, a flower bush has been pressed out into a clearing. Then along this clearing, a blood-covered path was dug out of the flowers and extends to the entrance of the garden. .

Genos's father seemed to be struggling from here and ran out of the garden.

It seems that this small circular pool is the location of the 'sacrifice', and this pool should be the dry pool near the midpoint that He Ao saw when he went there today.

Judging from the fallen flowers around, a small conflict should have occurred next to the pool, but this conflict probably did not last long and ended almost quickly.

And He Ao's eyes stayed on the pool covered with blood.

There seemed to be nothing in the entire pool except blood, and some areas that were not stained red by blood remained clear and transparent.

He Ao took out a life potion and stared at the milky white translucent liquid.

If the color of the Fountain of Youth were not changed after dilution, then the original liquid of the Fountain of Youth should also be milky white, rather than transparent like the pool in the photo.

And if there was a fountain of youth in the pool at that time, there was no way the FBI agents on the scene hadn't discovered it.

They may not have such a strong sense of life force, but they can still distinguish an extraordinary object as big as the Fountain of Youth when it is placed in front of them.

He Ao put down the life potion and fell into a brief thought.

If it is not the Fountain of Youth, where does the rich life force that remains to this day come from?

He Ao raised his head and looked at Roger, who was still studying grassroots. "Roger, if the sacrifice ceremony of the Goddess of Life Church fails, will the goddess send down some kind of monster to kill the person who presided over the ceremony?"

"How is that possible?" Roger looked at He Ao in surprise, "The goddess is very gentle. She usually doesn't use bloody operations. She sucks people directly and fucks them. The whole process is painless. "

He Ao:······

He didn't know where to start complaining.

But compared to those divine punishments that break bones and turn into ashes at every turn, the goddess of life does seem to be quite 'gentle'.

He Ao thought for a moment and continued to ask, "Do you know what needs to be sacrificed in the Goddess of Life's Hook-up Sacrifice Ceremony?"

"What kind of sacrificial ceremony?"

Roger raised his head and looked at He Ao.

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He Ao sighed,

He shouldn't have any illusions about a priest who didn't even read the Holy Scriptures.

He shrugged and asked, "Can you ask your senior brother for me?"

"Okay," Roger put down the grass root in his hand, raised his bracelet to input information, and said casually, "The goddess likes all living things. The stronger the vitality, the more pleasing she will be. If you want to engage in a sacrificial ceremony, choose vitality. Just a strong enough sacrifice will do.”

"What do you think..." He Ao glanced at the dossier displayed on the bracelet, thought for a moment and asked, "Does the Church of the Goddess of Life have senator-level core believers?"

He Ao originally thought he would get an ambiguous result, but unexpectedly Roger shook his head firmly.

"We never develop politicians as core believers. They are the most treacherous and cunning. They can betray the church at any time for profit. Moreover, they are often the most indifferent to life and do not please the goddess of life. If you develop such core believers, you may be beaten by the goddess. Adults did it.”

The Goddess of Life does not like politicians.

Although evil gods are basically crazy and chaotic, they often have clear and extreme likes and dislikes.

It's just that most of the time, humans can't understand their thinking.

If you don't like it, you don't like it.

In this case, Genos's father was most likely not from the Church of the Goddess of Life, so the evil god he was worshiping at that time should not be the Goddess of Life.

He Ao's thinking once again reached an impasse.

He came back to his senses and decided not to think about this problem for the time being, but to see if there were any other clues.

He continued to scroll through the videos and photos taken at that time in the archive.

The remaining images have almost no valid content and most are repetitions of previous images.

The photos appear to be from different photographers and are not entirely in chronological order.

When He Ao turned to the back, the scene when he first discovered the body even began to appear.

These repeated scenes didn't make much sense, so he quickly turned over the photos.

This continued for more than ten seconds, and after flipping through an unknown number of photos, his hand suddenly stopped.

This is a photo similar to the previous scene. A group of people are examining the body, surrounded by traces of the scene.

But it's different from the previous photo.

On the lower left side of the photo, there is a small half of the back of the head exposed.

There was also a faint red object under the head, which was a blanket draped around the body.

This little head belongs to little Genos.

At this moment, when everyone was looking at his father's body, little Genos was also looking at his father's body.

Normally, it is normal for a child to look at his father after his death.

But He Ao vaguely felt that something was wrong.

The old senator's expression when he died was not very 'friendly', and that twisted state was beyond the range that an eight-year-old boy could bear.

Moreover, He Ao felt that the state of young Genos looking at his father's body was wrong.

That gaze is not one of pain and sadness.

In the photo, the little boy's back is slightly straightened, and his muscles seem to be in a tense state. It is more like a kind of 'alertness' than sadness.

He Ao frowned slightly and began to look back at all the previous videos and photos.

Then he discovered that in almost all scenes where no one was watching, little Genos was staring at his father's body. However, these photos were only from the back or side, and there was no frontal expression of little Genos.

If there are only one or two photos without front faces, it can only be said that there is something wrong with the capture, but if all the photos have no front faces.

It proved that little Genos, who was only eight years old at the time, was deliberately avoiding the camera.

Finally, He Ao clicked on the first video he watched again. This time, he set the double speed and turned on super memory.

After little Genos was rescued, the moment the camera turned to the old senator's body, little Genos' face was briefly captured in the video.

He stared at his father's body like a warrior guarding against wild beasts, as if the next second, the corpse would stand up from the ground and return from death.

At this moment, He Ao felt a light flashing through his mind.

He hurriedly retreated and looked through the files again.

Finally, he came across a sentence in his final conclusion report, [The senator's body was collected by his family].

Janos claimed his father's body.

The jumbled threads seemed to be pulled together by some sort of crochet hook.

But there is still something missing, and there is still a 'thread' that can connect all the clues.

Ho realized that he must have fallen into some kind of misunderstanding, the same misunderstanding as the FBI agents back then.

Those detectives did not know the existence of the Fountain of Youth, so some of their judgments did not necessarily correspond to the real situation.

He Ao raised his head and looked at Roger again.

"What's wrong?"

Roger, who was looking at a certain research report on his bracelet, raised his head and stared at him.

He Ao said quickly, "Help me ask your senior brother again. If the sacrifice circle is connected, the object of sacrifice is not the 'evil god', but some kind of high-level object without thinking. What needs to be sacrificed and what kind of performance it can achieve?" role?"

Only living, thinking gods will choose what they like, but the Fountain of Youth may not necessarily have thinking.