Chapter 63 Soul Worms <TOC> Chapter 65 Hidden Bone Energy
Translator: SumTLMan
The cultist suddenly heard a piercing electric arc sound and looked up in confusion, thinking that there was an electrical leak somewhere.
The next moment, he felt a terrifying threat and quickly dodged.
A sharp blade flashed, and a crescent-shaped arc light passed through the air.
The cultist first froze, then let out a shrill scream. His arm fell off directly to the ground.
Because the blade was too fast and too sharp, he didn’t even realize his arm had been cut off at first.
The stench of blood splattered out of the wound, directly onto the blackboard.
Li Mu appeared, his body covered in bloodstains, holding a Bloodthirsty Sword in his hand, like a demon crawling out of hell.
“Who… who are you?!”
The cultist forcefully pressed his left hand against the wound. The pain of losing his arm caused his whole body to convulse involuntarily and occasionally let out a scream.
The intense pain made him unable to mobilize his psychic energy, which he usually enjoyed.
Li Mu was filled with killing intent and grabbed the cultist’s collar, slamming him onto the desk.
The cultist’s head hit the desk, and he felt like his skull was about to be crushed. He let out a miserable scream, releasing his hand pressing against the wound, and blood gushed out of the wound like a fountain.
“Encountering me today is your retribution!”
Ignoring the cultist’s screams and struggles, he twisted the cultist’s face to one side, forcing him to stare directly at the drugged baby. Then, with one stroke of the blade, he severed the cultist’s head.
The headless body fell to the ground, still twitching unconsciously. There was a commotion in the cave, and the reserve cultists looked at Li Mu in fear and unease.
The two disciples guarding the gate raised their guns and attempted to shoot. Two bullet holes appeared in their foreheads, and they fell to the ground.
Li Mei put away her small revolver, dragged the two bodies into the cave, and closed the door.
The blood on the blade was wiped away, and Li Mu put the Bloodthirsty Sword back into its sheath.
“Before infiltrating, I was hesitant about how to deal with you reserve cultists. After all, some of you are still children. Perhaps you’ve just gone astray, and there’s still a chance for redemption.”
The reserve cultists, who were fearful and uneasy, breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that they might not have to die.
Some of the reserve cultists were already planning to inform the Blood Snake cultists as soon as Li Mu and his companions left, hoping to catch these bold invaders.
Competition among reserve cultists is extremely fierce. Only three to five people in each cohort can have the opportunity to be exposed to psychic radiation and become highly positioned cultists. The remaining reserve cultists can only be eliminated, and they don’t even have a chance to become ordinary disciples. Instead, they will be sent to the Source Blood Land and transformed into blood beasts.
The Soul Cult invests a lot of resources into the reserve cultists and naturally cannot waste them. The potential for transformation of these reserve cultists is far greater than that of ordinary people, and they can be transformed into even more powerful blood beasts.
Therefore, the relationships between these reserve cultists can even be described as life and death.
If they can catch these infiltrators and establish their credit, they can definitely stand out among the reserve cultists of the same cohort.
Li Mu scanned the expressions of all the reserve cultists and picked up the cultists’ notebook on the podium, which recorded the courses for these reserve cultists.
The cultists’ sketching skills were excellent, and they vividly depicted various distortions created by implanted soul worms, as well as various inhumane experiments. They recklessly toyed with human souls, transforming them into all kinds of strange and ugly monsters.
The notebook also recorded the trainees’ practical results, which involved assisting the cultists in creating blood beasts. Some of the materials for the blood beasts were even their predecessors, the reserve cultists of the previous cohort.
He closed the notebook, walked through the crowd, and went to the other side of the cave to a stone tablet with a handle.
According to the notebook, this leads directly to the lowest level of the entire temple.
The experimental subjects transformed by soul worms would soon die from organ failure due to their weak physique. Therefore, after the course ended, regardless of whether the experimental subjects were still alive or not, they would be thrown into the lowest level.
The blood beasts bred there would devour them, making use of the waste.
Some of the reserve cultists were uneasy, of course, they knew what was on the other side of the stone tablet.
Li Mu grabbed the iron ring and gently pulled it, lifting the stone tablet that required three or four people to move.
Underneath the stone tablet, the cave was pitch black, with faint rustling sounds of creatures crawling.
Li Mu pulled the hanging lamp off the wall and the wire fixed to the wall, throwing them into the cave.
A terrifying scene appeared in front of him. Below was a huge cave several tens of meters deep, horrifyingly piled up with all kinds of bones covered with gnaw marks.
These bones still had human traces, mostly slender and small, all baby skeletons. Among them were a few large bones, even more severely mutated, with very few human features left.
Sensing the light above, the blood beasts, which were usually only present in human nightmares, gathered greedily, waiting for food to arrive.
They emitted glowing eyes like fireflies in the darkness.
Li Mu broke the cable, then covered the stone tablet.
He was silent for a moment, reached out his hand and directly grabbed a assault rifle from the void, and then aimed at all the reserve cultists present.
“Thank you, thank you for helping me dispel this doubt.”
“No… No!”
He pulled the trigger directly, and the gun’s muzzle spewed flames. The whistling bullets scattered scraps of paper in the cave, and the violent sound of gunfire echoed in the cave.
The hot cartridge casings fell to the ground with a clattering sound, and only four people were standing in the cave.
Laji’s legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground. He didn’t expect that the usually powerful cultist was no different from cattle and sheep in front of the invaders, and could only wait to be slaughtered.
Li Mu awkwardly picked up the baby from the table and handed him to Laji.
“Hold him. If this baby survives in the end, I will spare your life.”
Laji carefully took the baby, nodding desperately. He knew this was his only chance to survive after betraying the Soul Sect.
After betraying the Soul Sect, they would not let him go.
“Let’s go, take us to find the rest of the cultists.”
Li Mu threw the rifle to Li Mei, his face not looking good. Although he thought he could handle it, that notebook showed him how low humanity can go.
His killing intent has never been so boiling.
“Kill all those bastards.”