Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 28 Blood Sacrifice to the Blood God

With an explosion, all the water ghosts on the boat fell into the water.

There were two explosions, and the water ghost in the water turned over on its belly.

The Mechanicus crew on the steamship were stunned, and the Holy Blood Warriors who were swinging their swords and killing were speechless.

Lei Jie, who had thrown the grenade, stood innocently at the side of the ship, still holding a grenade with the pull ring unpulled.

"Throw it in the water!"

A crew member shouted at him, and Reggie paused, but still threw the grenade with the ring pulled onto the boat.

"boom!"

There was another loud noise, and the few remaining water ghosts were frightened and fled frantically. They jumped back into the water from the steamboat desperately, and then quickly dived away.

In a quick glance, Chen Jian saw the webbed feet between their fingers and the scaly skin on their bodies that had vaguely exploded.

The originally fierce battle ended at an incredible speed. The confused crew members all looked at Lei Jie, and it seemed that they didn't know how to treat him for a moment.

Shit, we're in the middle of a fight, and you come up with two grenades?
Throwing it over the side of the boat?
Where did this idiot come from? Aren't you afraid of sinking the ship?
But to be honest, the water ghost was indeed driven away, and he did have good intentions.

It's just... too reckless! ?

A captain-looking man with a hollow ship rudder hanging around his neck and a wasteland-style single-shot rifle in his hand walked up to Lei Jie and shouted with his eyes wide open:

"How could you do that?!"

"You nearly sank our ship!"

"For the sake of the Holy Trinity, please don't be so reckless, okay?!"

Lei Jie looked back at Chen Jian, who shrugged and said nothing.

So he could only answer perfunctorily:
"I didn't have time to think too much, I was terrified."

"How do you look scared? You look like an idiot! An idiot!"

The captain waved his rifle in frustration, and Reggie stepped back, fearing that his gun would go off accidentally.

"Get back to your cabin now!"

"And you! Xu Lie!"

"Keep an eye on your friends! Dealing with monsters is our job, so make them hide behind the road!"

".They just mean well."

Xu Lie coughed, stepped forward to block Lei Jie and said:
"All right, all right, Big Anchor, stop talking."

"I'll teach them a lesson, just keep sailing."

"We have to get rid of those water ghosts quickly, they might come back again."

"They won't come back!"

The captain, who was called the anchor, spat rudely into the water and then said:
"This is not your concern! We will check the damage to the ship after we get off the ship!"

"If the Machine Spirit of the Holy Steam is displeased by this, you must pay for the sacrifice!"

"Don't worry, don't worry, my friends are all reasonable people"

As he spoke, Xu Lie pulled Lei Jie and turned away.

He made a gesture to Chen Jian, and Chen Jian followed him back to the cabin.

After closing the hatch, Xu Lie said with amusement and helplessness:

"Chosen Ones, I know you have your own fighting style."

"But like I said, you really should leave some wiggle room."

"Didn't you notice? This boat is made of wood."

"If the grenade blows through the boat, we'll have no choice but to swim back."

Chen Jian laughed and replied:
"Don't worry, the grenades we throw won't damage the bulkheads. They're only effective against living things."

"Will it not damage the bulkhead? That sounds like some ridiculous Mechanicum magic."

Xu Lie frowned slightly and asked curiously:

“Why isn’t it damaged?”

“It’s just the truth given by God.”

Chen Jian answered casually.

He had no intention of explaining to Xu Lie why thermobaric grenades could not destroy fortifications. This kind of "knowledge from God" was not something that the other party might understand even if he could explain it clearly.

Instead of wasting time, I might as well ask him what these so-called water ghosts are.

"So where did these water ghosts come from? Why did they attack the transport ship?"

"Given the intelligence level displayed by these water ghosts, I don't think there is anything here that is valuable to them."

"You are as sharp as ever." Xu Lie sighed with emotion, and then said:

"Obviously, this is your first time seeing a water ghost, but after only a dozen minutes of contact, you have already figured out the nature of this attack."

“This is probably the true ‘truth given by God’.”

After a pause, Xu Lie continued:

"Yes, as you can see, these water ghosts' attack is not for any resources."

"Their attacks were simply motivated by their instinctive, perverted desires."

"They are obsessed with killing, blood, violence, and torture. All moving objects are their targets."

"Among these targets, the more similar the living creatures are to them, the more they can satisfy their desires."

"So, humans are always the first on their hunting list. Of course, they will kill each other."

"Even the nemesis of these water ghosts are the monsters called terror demons that are active on the shore."

"They have been fighting each other for decades, and sometimes I don't understand why they haven't died out in the midst of fighting each other."

"Demon Terror?"

Chen Jian noticed the new words Xu Lie said and asked:
"What's that?"

"It's the same thing as a water ghost, but the water ghost lives in the water, and the horror demon lives on the shore."

"Both of these monsters are the product of the same mutation. You may have noticed that the water ghost has a scar on its chest that looks like a skull. That is their symbol."

"I did see it."

Chen Jian nodded slowly, then asked doubtfully:

"But that doesn't make sense. If they've developed a totem of group cognition, why are they behaving so stupidly?"

"Because it is not a totem branded by humans."

Xu Lie explained patiently:
"Whether it's water ghosts, terror demons, or other 'ghouls' roaming most areas of this continent, they all have a common name."

"Blood skull."

"The name comes from the skull pattern on their chest."

"That pattern comes from some kind of mutation. When a blood skull is born, its chest will be covered with herpes. The color of the herpes is bright red, so it is called a blood skull."

"The herpes will fade as they grow and eventually form a skull-like scar."

“That’s where they come from.”

That sounds very reasonable.

The so-called blood skull is most likely some kind of genetic disease?

Chen Jian silently memorized the information about the water ghosts and bloody skeletons in his mind, but just as he was about to take out his PDA to update the information, he suddenly heard the shouts of the crew members outside the cabin.

"We've reached the Han River! We'll dock immediately!"

Chen Jian was cheered up and followed Xu Lie out of the cabin again.

The prosperous Hanshui city area in his memory was still far away, but the landmarks of Baishazhou and Jiayu Bridge were right in front of him.

But the bridge has collapsed.

Chen Jian stared at the broken bridge deck. As the steamship got closer, he noticed that something seemed to be moving on the bridge deck.

He calmly took out a telescope from his bosom and looked at the bridge, avoiding the sight of the Mechanicus crew.

That's a group of people.

To be precise, it was a group of bloody skeletons.

They were hoisting a mangled but still living body onto a shattered steel scaffold.

The person being hung struggled frantically, but the iron hooks through her wrists and ankles locked her tightly to the bracket.

Blood gushed out, and the bloody skeletons swarmed forward, licking the blood on the ground.

Then, someone came forward with a rusty piece of iron and scraped her skin.

The flesh and blood turned into pulp in an instant, as if the man was scraping fruit puree.
Chen Jian frowned and said nothing, forcing himself to continue reading.

The torture of the bloody skeletons finally ended when the steamship passed across the bridge.

The woman's body had already been torn into pieces, but her head had been carefully cut off and placed upright on a stone platform.

The head still retained the terrified expression of her painful struggle before death.

Xu Lie, who was next to Chen Jian, also saw this scene.

He held the pistol at his waist and said:
"This is the ritual of the blood skull."

"Blood sacrifice to the blood god, skull sacrifice to the skull throne!"

(End of this chapter)