Chapter 20 Trapped by a Beautiful Blade <TOC> Chapter 22 Psychic Energy Bias
Translator: SumTLMan
Various cults had been flourishing in human society even before the great disaster. They believed in certain bizarre existences in the sky and firmly believed that with constant devotion, they could gain the favor of the great existence and become descenders.
They lurked among humans, selling out the secrets of the United Forces, infiltrating and destroying supplies, transportation routes, and even conducting bloody sacrifices, all for the sake of gaining the attention of the great existence.
Even though the human alliance has repeatedly attacked these troublesome cults, it is only a matter of time before new cults revive. The desire for power and life allows the bizarre existences in the sky to easily lure a large number of humans to worship themselves.
The Soul Cult is an ancient cult and one of the few that have been active since before the great disaster.
“Since that’s the case, you’re of no use.”
Li Mu pulled out his saber. Since he might face the Soul Cult, he naturally wouldn’t miss any source essence that he could obtain by killing Kurana.
“No! No! Don’t kill me, I secretly hid a diary of Mahadev, there must be information you need in it.”
Seeing Li Mu’s menacing appearance, Kurana’s face turned pale and he quickly demonstrated his value.
“Where’s the book?”
“The book is hidden in the security office, only I can find it, you can’t kill me!”
Kurana spoke as quickly as possible.
But Li Mu’s saber was faster, and the sharp saber directly cut off his head. The head fell to the ground, and blood sprayed several meters high.
Kurana’s face still showed surprise.
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“Do we not need to get that diary?”
Li Mei was somewhat bewildered.
“If we proceed, we’ll be facing a group of soul cultists.” Li Mu said after wiping the blood off his blade.
“If the soul cult has set its sights on something within the jurisdiction, and a security officer has already died, they wouldn’t hesitate to kill another. Believe me, given the quality of security officers in the Xingdu Federation, Kurana would never dare to step into this jurisdiction alone.
They’re ferocious wolves when it comes to ordinary civilians, but when facing the cult and descenders, they’re meek sheep.” Li Mu said disdainfully.
“Even if Kurana wants to make money, he would join forces with other security officers from other jurisdictions rather than single-handedly leading a group of useless security personnel into the Orissa jurisdiction. That’s the only way to confront the soul cult.”
A single security officer can’t face such a formidable entity as the soul cult. Kurana’s recklessness could only mean one thing, he has already joined the soul cult.
The thought that the soul cult had infiltrated deep into the Orissa jurisdiction, and that the Orissa jurisdiction was even the old nest of the soul cult in the Avonigarda Province, gave Li Mu a headache. Now the position of the Orissa security officer was like sitting at the mouth of a volcano.
“Clean up the evidence and let’s leave here,” Li Mu said: “It seems that my appointment to the Orissa jurisdiction may not be simple. Someone important might be using me as a pawn to deal with the soul cult.”
Kurana is a member of the soul cult, and the deceased Mahadev probably had a good chance of being a member of the soul cult as well. The entire Avonigarda Province has been infiltrated by the soul cult like a sieve.
Li Mei’s head was a mess, she could only nod in agreement with Li Mu.
They piled up all the bodies and power armor, then completely detonated the nuclear fusion batteries inside the power armor, blasting a large pit over 20 meters in diameter on the riverbank, destroying all the evidence of the battle.
“Where do we go next?”
She found that she only needed to provide force, and Li Mu would handle the thinking.
“Back to the marsh, we’ll avoid Kurana’s death in the marsh and then go to Avonigarda City to report. Now the soul cult is in the open and we’re in the shadows, this is our advantage. Once we leave, no one will suspect that we killed Kurana.”
Li Mu said.
“Perfect, I can take this opportunity to instruct and improve your strength.”
Li Mei stiffened her face and tried to regain some dignity. She realized that she had recently been led around by Li Mu’s nose.
“But before returning to the swamp, we have to do something.”
“What?”
“Blow up the dam.”
Li Mu said.
“Since we don’t know the goal of the Soul Cult, we’ll work against them. Since they want to keep the dam, we’ll completely destroy it and give them something to do. I have no pattern in my moves, what can they catch?”
Soon, there was a deafening explosion at the upstream dam of the Mohanendi River. The concrete dam was blown with a huge gap, and the heavy gate fell directly to the riverbed.
The drunken farm manager, Lao, was frightened by the explosion and immediately sobered up. He ran out of the farm, crawling and rolling, and fell to the ground when he saw the rolling turbid currents.
This dam was not just about one farm’s water intake. In order to prevent damage from mutated creatures in the river, all the headwater farms were reinforced with reinforced concrete and had requirements for the water level of the river. If the water level was too low, water could not be taken.
Now that the dam has been blown up, the water level upstream cannot be guaranteed, and all farms are at risk of water shortage. This responsibility is difficult to bear even if he is shattered to pieces.
If it weren’t for the lack of information about the Soul Cult, Li Mu would have liked to ambush the Soul Cult’s missionaries here to investigate the situation.
Unfortunately, they only had two people, and the ambush failed, easily being counter-surrounded by the Soul Cult.
More than half an hour later, several mysterious people dressed in black robes silently appeared near the dam. Their bodies were thin, as if there were only skeletons under the robes, and they walked as if they were floating.
They stood on the riverbank, silently looking at the wreckage of the dam.
“What’s going on?”
The leader of the black-robed people spoke, his voice like the void trembling, sharp and hoarse.
Lao knelt on the ground, his eyes rolled up, his body like a beheaded snake, constantly convulsing.
“I don’t know, those lowly citizens had already been suppressed.”
“What about Kurana?”
“He left a half hour ago.”
The black-robed person pointed, and Lao stood up in extreme fear, walking towards the Mohanendi River. He was unable to control his body and could only watch as he was about to jump into the rolling river.
Another black-robed person snapped his fingers, and Lao’s body stopped.
“Lao can’t die yet. He still needs to organize manpower and repair the dam as soon as possible. If the plan fails, the bishop will sacrifice all of us to the Holy Lord.”
The remaining black-robed people slightly nodded, indicating their agreement.
The mission of the bishop was the most important.
“Send someone to notify Kurana to ensure that the dam is completed on time. Let the priests make those lowly citizens believe that it was the Healing Cult who destroyed the dam for the downstream followers.”
Chapter 20 Trapped by a Beautiful Blade <TOC> Chapter 22 Psychic Energy Bias