Jinmo led the team members to camp outside the village as agreed. The boundary between inside and outside was very obvious, and there was a wooden fence to separate them.
Although such a fence cannot even withstand the most basic impact of strange beasts, it can still bring some psychological comfort to the people inside.
Time soon came to night. Everyone had agreed not to eat or drink in the swamp settlement today, and now they were hungry.
After using the nutritional paste with the same taste, the Jinmo team began to rest.
This was a very wonderful experience. On the one hand, everyone was wary of the possible strange beasts and the villagers inside. On the other hand, these people were human beings after all, and everyone inevitably developed some simple feelings of "meeting old friends in a foreign land".
It was a clear night, the bright moon hanging high in the sky made the fire look dim. In such silence, the ears of the superpower "Wind Whisper" who was keeping watch trembled slightly.
He was trying to distinguish the slight vibration in the air, trying to extract more information from it.
Driven by his muscles, his ears moved in ways that ordinary people could not imagine. After a while, his brows furrowed, as if he had discovered something.
"team leader."
He did not open his eyes, just sat there and spoke softly.
"I am here."
Jin Mo, who was lying flat in the sleeping bag, suddenly opened his eyes as if he was a machine that could start running at any time.
"Something doesn't seem right. Should we wake everyone up?"
"In the village?"
"right."
“Is it relevant to us?”
“Not at this time.”
"Call us and go together."
Jinmo didn't ask much, but she knew that something bad must have happened in the swamp settlement.
Maybe I am still too naive. I just don’t know what kind of problems this settlement has.
Fengyu woke up his teammates one by one, signaling them not to make any noise. The five of them dived into the not-so-deep darkness and approached the village in another direction little by little.
They opened the dilapidated wooden fence door and sneaked in.
Fengyu leads the way in front. He has the best hearing and can effectively avoid risks on the road.
Soon, they came to an area that they had some impression of.
This is the side of a house, one of the best houses in the entire swamp settlement. The fire and moonlight simultaneously formed overlapping shadows on its side, giving everyone the opportunity to sneak in.
"Uh, ah."
A short voice came from the front of the house, and an elderly man walked out, speaking incoherently.
Jinmo and others knew this person, although he might not know them, Zhang Tong had introduced him during the day. He was a surviving technician, and he was also one of the four superior people in Hope City.
Everyone watched the elderly man walk out of his house and head towards the square that Nick said would be used to divide the prey.
People began to come out of other houses one after another. Because many houses were built in a circular shape around the square, the sides of the houses could not be 100% hidden.
The moment before the door of the house opposite opened, Feng Yu asked everyone to lower their heads and hide. Only after almost all the villagers had left their homes did they raise their heads again and begin to observe secretly.
"What on earth did you hear?"
Amidst the rustling, Bipolar asked with obvious worry.
"I heard the sound of people getting up, and at some point, everyone started getting up."
Fengyu's tone was calm, but what he told sounded like a ghost story.
"They're making a move!"
Everyone quickly looked towards the center of the circular plaza, and saw that the villagers had already started moving after they all stood still.
Their steps seemed disorderly, but in fact they seemed to be controlled by something.
In an irregular pace, one or a few people gradually become synchronized, and then more people.
"I can't see clearly, what shape is this?"
Mercury muttered in the shadows.
"The roof."
Jin Mo gave a concise command.
In the shadow, Mercury's body continued to grow longer and taller, moving upwards little by little, like a piece of ramen that was constantly being stretched.
Soon he was able to keep an eye on the small square in the distance from the roof.
At this moment, the villagers' steps had become out of disorder, and Mercury, looking down from above, saw that they had formed strange concentric circles and began to rotate in different directions.
There are four concentric circles in total, the outermost one rotates clockwise, and the remaining three layers are opposite to the adjacent rings.
"Is this a sacrifice?"
Jin Mo, who was below, also discovered this phenomenon, but was unable to give an accurate definition.
She had learned the meaning of the word sacrifice from some documents from the old era, but she could not equate it with the behavior of the villagers in front of her.
The more crucial question is, if they are really offering sacrifices, what are they offering sacrifices to?
Just as she was filled with doubts, the villagers in the outermost circle had stopped their directional rotation.
They turned their bodies to face inward, then raised their arms and placed their hands on the shoulders of the two people beside them.
When their actions were finished, the villagers in the inner layer began the same action, but before forming a circle, they first stepped on the legs of the villagers in the outer circle and came to their shoulders.
It all looks like... stacking people up.
The second floor of the human-shaped tower was soon formed. Everyone watched in silence, and they all had a premonition that something was wrong.
The villagers who had already confirmed their location seemed to have infinite stamina. They completely ignored the increasing burden on their shoulders and remained motionless.
The third layer was quickly formed, and the people on the fourth layer began to climb up by stepping on the villagers on the first three layers.
At this time, everyone finally saw who the people on the fourth floor were. They were Zhang Tong and several other native residents of Hope City.
For no reason, Jinmo had a bad feeling - if the four of them were allowed to climb to the top, something very bad would definitely happen.
She thought for a moment and said:
"We need to stop this...ritual."
She thought for a long time before coming up with a more appropriate adjective.
"Bipolar disorder. Try to manipulate the hormone levels of those people at the bottom who are close to us and make them more manic."
After much deliberation, Jinmo finally chose the ability of this teammate.
The ability of bipolar disorder has great potential in interrogation or some covert sabotage. At the same time, her ability is secretive and unknown to Zhang Tong and others.
While others, such as the Beast Group, could do similar things, the man named Nick already knew of his abilities, which would inevitably arouse unnecessary suspicion.
"Watch me."
Bipolar disorder muttered to himself, looked at the three or four villagers closest to him with their backs turned, and silently extended his hand.
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