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Chapter 477 The Sacrifice Four Years Ago

Genos was the first witness to the incident at that time, according to his description in the dossier at the time.

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

He entered the underground garden, walked in, and was taken aback by his blood-covered father. His father was also surprised when he saw him, and then hurriedly pulled him to run outside. His father's blood splashed all over him.

After going out, his father hugged him directly, but his father fell to the ground before running a few steps, and died holding him.

In the file, there is the autopsy report left by the forensic doctor at that time.

Genos' father was stabbed to death in the front with a sharp weapon. The sharp weapon was also found in the corner of the underground garden. It was a sharp dagger without any fingerprints left on it.

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

The dossier also contains the FBI's occult experts' investigation report on this magic circle.

The first page of this report is a warning, indicating that the report contains mystical knowledge related to evil gods. Please read it carefully, and ordinary people try to avoid reading it.

Nock noted here that he took the report with his eyes closed, so the text may be a bit unclear.

Although this kid is reckless most of the time, his No. 1 grade is not for nothing. He still has a relatively clear understanding of the field of occultism, knowing what to see and what not to see.

Then there's the content of the report.

Although most of the entire magic circle was destroyed, the occult experts of the FBI still deduced that it was the 'Goulian sacrificial circle'.

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

However, this kind of sacrificial circle is different from ordinary communication rituals or sacrificial circles. The 'believers' who preside over this kind of circle are generally core believers who are relatively close to the gods, and they are 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, and these items generally come according to the evil god's preferences and attributes.

The author of the report here did not give specific examples. Maybe he didn't know the preferences of those evil gods, or maybe he was afraid that this kind of secret knowledge would be leaked and borrowed by interested people.

In short, the expert didn't know which evil god's hook-up sacrificial circle it belonged to.

However, according to his analysis, it is very likely that this magic circle has been activated, and most of the magic circle has been destroyed. It is possible that some kind of deviation occurred during the operation of the magic circle, which caused the magic circle to collapse.

Then the report came to an abrupt end.

Seeing this, He Ao paused for a moment.

In fact, the next thing is easy to infer. On the third basement floor that has to go through a lot of identity verification, 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 Undiscovered?
Moreover, this sacrificial ceremony does not seem to be arranged in a short time.

The answer is already on the horizon.

The senator himself makes sacrifices to evil gods in his own underground garden.

But can federal senators do such sacrifices to evil gods?
No.

So this report was not written down, and this case became a headless case.

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

The assassination of the senator had caused a great sensation at that time, and it was widely concerned by the entire federation.

Therefore, the investigation of this case could no longer be continued. The FBI at that time adopted a cold-handed delaying tactic.

People's patience is always limited, and new news full of gimmicks attracts people's attention every day. When this matter is forgotten by everyone, this case is equivalent to 'closed'.

He Ao flipped through the dossiers at the back, and the frequency of the subsequent case files became extremely low. Basically, a report was released every month or two.

In the end, after a year-long investigation, the case ended abruptly with the conclusion that the cultist had assassinated the senator.

Since then, the FBI has never investigated the case again. ,

He Ao turned the dossier to the front and asked Eve to create a virtual network address, and then logged into the FBI intranet with this address to access the online files.

In these online archives kept on the FBI cloud server, there are also a large number of on-site photos and videos from that year.

He Ao flipped through these live photos one by one.

The first photos were of the scene of the senator's death, mixed with the first video of the scene taken by the body camera at the time.

The video begins with violent shaking, then a hallway filled with FBI agents.

The scene quickly shifts to the child, who is trapped in a pool of blood, and several FBI agents are trying to get the child out.

The child appeared to be Genos Jr., who was only eight years old at the time. From the comments of the FBI agents in the video, it seems that Genos Jr. was the one who reported the crime.

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

Next is another video, shot from another perspective, 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, curled up in a corner, with a face full of fear.

Young Genos was covered with a red blanket, holding the water handed over by the FBI staff, trembling all over, eyes full of fear and confusion.

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

Other FBI agents were taking pictures and examining the scene.

This video is not long, only tens of seconds, and it will end soon.

Howo 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 the underground garden.

In the center of the photo, bloodstained flowers surround a small circular pool.

The clear pool has been stained red with blood. Among the blood-stained flowers around, a flower bush was pressed out of a clearing, and along this clearing, a blood-stained road was carved out of the flowers and extended to the garden gate. .

Genos' father seems to have struggled to run out of the garden from here.

It seems that this small circular pool is the place of '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, there should have been a small conflict by the pool at that time, but this conflict should not last long, and almost ended soon.

But He Ao's gaze stayed on the blood-stained pool.

The entire pool seemed to have nothing but blood, and some places 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 it wasn't for the fact that the Fountain of Youth would change color 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, it is impossible for the FBI agents on the scene not to have discovered it.

They may not have such a strong sense of life force, but they can still tell a transcendent item as big as the Fountain of Youth right in front of them.

He Ao put down the life potion and fell into short thoughts.

If it wasn't the fountain of youth, then where did the strong life force left over to this day come from?

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

"How could it be?" Roger looked at He Ao in surprise, "The goddess is very gentle, she usually doesn't use blood-seeing operations, she just directly sucks people up, and the whole process won't hurt. "

He Ao:······

For a moment, he didn't know where to start complaining.

But compared to those God's punishments that are easily crushed, the Goddess of Life seems to be quite 'gentle'.

He Ao thought for a while, and continued to ask, "Do you know what needs to be sacrificed in the Goulian Sacrificial Ceremony of the Goddess of Life?"

"What sacrificial ceremony?"

Roger raised his head and looked at He Ao.

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Ho sighed,

He shouldn't have any illusions about a priest who doesn't even read the 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 things with life. The stronger the vitality, the more pleasing she is. If you hold a sacrificial ceremony, choose vitality A sacrifice that is strong enough will do.”

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

He Ao originally thought that 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 often ignore life the most and do not please the goddess of life. Developing such core believers may be drawn by the goddess." Adults did it."

Goddess of Life doesn't like politicians.

Although the 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.

What you don't like is what you don't like.

That being the case, there is a high probability that Janos' father is not a member of the Church of the Goddess of Life, so the evil god he worshiped at that time should not be the Goddess of Life.

He Ao's thinking once again fell into a deadlock.

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

He proceeded to scroll through the archives of videos and photos taken at the time.

In the remaining images, there is almost no valid content, and most of them are repetitions of previous images.

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

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

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

This went on for more than ten seconds, and after flipping through countless photos, his hand suddenly stopped.

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

But it is different from the previous photos.

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

A red object was vaguely photographed under this head, which was a blanket draped over his body.

This little head belongs to little Genos.

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

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

But He Ao vaguely felt that something was wrong.

The expression on the old senator's death was not very 'friendly', that kind of distorted state was not within the range that an eight-year-old boy could bear.

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

That gaze is not pain and sorrow.

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

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

Then he found that in almost all the scenes where no one was watching, little Genos was staring at his father's body, but these photos were just a back view or profile, and there was no frontal expression of little Genos.

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

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

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

After the young Genos was rescued, the moment the camera turned to the body of the old senator, the face of the young Genos was briefly captured in the video.

He stared at his father's corpse 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 flash of light in his mind.

He hurriedly withdrew and looked through the files again.

In the end, he found a sentence in the final conclusion report, [The body of the senator was brought back by his family].

Genos retrieved his father's body.

Those jumbled threads seem to be pulled together by some sort of crochet hook.

But it's still a little short, and there's still a 'thread' that can connect all the clues in series.

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

Those agents didn't know the existence of the Fountain of Youth, so some of their judgments didn't necessarily correspond to the real situation.

Howe raised his head and looked at Roger again.

"what happened?"

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

He Ao quickly said, "Please help me and then ask your senior brother, if you connect the sacrificial circle, the object of the sacrifice is not an 'evil god', but some kind of high-ranking item without thinking, what needs to be sacrificed, and what kind of performance it can perform role?"

Living, thinking gods will choose what they like, and the fountain of immortality does not necessarily have thinking.

(End of this chapter)