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Chapter 46 The First

  In a large underground base, in the huge control room, the two middle-aged men in charge of the sacrifice operation looked at the five people who walked into the cabin on the surveillance screen and smiled knowingly.

  They just received a call from a weird old man at the gas station. As usual, the old man said some obscure words, which seemed to indicate that mankind will eventually face destruction.

  The two people in charge of the sacrifice were dismissive of this, laughed at the old man, hung up the phone, and started to get busy in the control room.

  They brought out a large white board and markers.

  Colleagues from the Engineering Department, R&D Department, Electrical Department, Maintenance Department and other departments gathered here and raised the banknotes in their hands high towards the two people.

  This is a routine activity during the annual sacrifice. The secretive giant organization called "Administration" in the M country branch will let the employees of the bureau place bets at the beginning of each year's sacrifice.

  The object of their bet is which monster the chosen sacrifice will choose in the cabin in the woods every year!

  They seem cold-blooded and heartless as they take pleasure in taking human lives.

  But this kind of human sacrifice has existed since ancient times. If a few people did not die in an arranged way every year, the human world would be destroyed by the ancient gods.

  Therefore, the burden of human survival lies on the Authority, and these employees bear a lot of pressure and urgently need to release it in the unique form of betting monsters.

  All employees who wanted to place a bet had already done so, and the whiteboard was densely filled with the names of the monsters and the corresponding departments in a table.

  Among them are werewolves, aliens, perverted ogres, ghosts...

  The betting ended, and the person in charge of the sacrifice raised his fist high and shouted, "Let's start the party!"

  "Let's get the party started!"

  In the cabin in the woods, Thundergod was saying the same thing.

  The blonde girl turned on the music. It was already night outside. In the cabin in the woods with warm yellow light, five young men and women began a night party.

  Although the blonde was labeled a "slut" in the administration, she was actually very well-behaved and innocent. Recently, she even tried dyeing her hair for the first time.

  The Administration's chemical department mixed slow-acting chemicals into her hair dye, so that hormones would gradually change her mentality and make her psychology closer to the image in the positioning.

  So when Marty, the tobacco man, asked her to flirt with the stuffed wolf head on the wall during the truth or dare game, she took action and even got serious with the wolf head.

  Next, it was the turn of the red-haired girl Dana in the truth or dare game.

  The head of the administration also pressed the button at this time, and with a "bang", the door of the cellar in the forest cabin popped open by itself!

  The five young men were frightened at first, and then Dana was asked to take the adventure of going into the cellar to find out what was inside. She took a flashlight and walked down the dilapidated wooden stairs carefully.

  As she swept the light over the items in the cellar, her eyes widened.

  Dollhouses, music boxes, doll masks, mannequins, old family photos...

  There are all kinds of strange old objects, piled up in the cellar that never sees the sun.

  Everyone came down to check, but only the Tobacco Man felt something was wrong and disagreed with everyone looking at it any longer.

  But one person's reason cannot defeat the curiosity of a group of people. Everyone picked up the items they were interested in and examined them carefully.

  The blonde picked up the necklace hanging from the mannequin's neck and tried to put it on her own neck.

  Thor picked up a conch, thought about it, put it down, picked up a strange round Rubik's Cube next to it, and began to solve the puzzle.

  The black man opened a music box, and the little girl in the box began to dance and spin to the melodious music.

  The Tobacco Man looked at a huge projector and picked up the film to check it.

  The actions of several people were in progress, but they were interrupted by the voice of the red-haired woman Dana:

  "I found a diary, listen to this."  

  She began to talk about a diary written by a little girl. From the content, it can be seen that this girl was a member of the Buckner family, the original owner of the cottage.

  This is a family that believes in pain. They love torturing themselves and outsiders as a way to practice and test their beliefs.

  After a creepy first-person narrative, the heroine read out a prayer from the diary in Latin.

  She was the first to complete the "summoning" process, and the two persons in charge of the management bureau saw this and pressed the button.

  The monster for this sacrifice has been selected - the rural zombie killing family!

  On a wasteland outside the cabin in the woods, the Buckner family, who had turned into zombies, stretched out their hands from under the soil, just like the resurrection of zombies in traditional horror movies!

  While Dana summoned this year's monster, You Huan was exploring the unknown——

  There is a lake near the cabin in the woods. During the day, the protagonists came here to swim and vent their youthful energy.

  When the RV passed the lake, You Huan quietly left the car and dived into the lake.

  After all, this is the best place for him to hide in the lake.

  The cold lake water becomes deeper and deeper. In the dark waves, a cobra that is more than ten meters long is swimming quickly towards the bottom of the lake.

  Although the king cobra is not a water snake, most snakes are good at swimming.

  A huge black shadow passed through the lake. The fish swimming leisurely in the lake sensed the violent ripples in the water and swam away from him.

  On the seabed, water plants swayed and green algae covered large areas of lake mud, like an underwater grassland.

  A snake head poked out from the water plants and looked towards the bottom of the lake.

  The king cobra's excellent eyesight allowed You Huan to see clearly that under the green algae, there were some strange patterns on the bottom of the lake that did not seem to be something that grew naturally.

  The snake's tail created a black shadow in the lake, and the water plants and green algae at the bottom of the lake were brushed away by it, revealing the sunken lines.

  You Huan explored along these lines at the bottom of the lake and found that these lines covered the entire bottom of the lake!

  These curved or straight lines were deeply imprinted in the depths of the lake, forming an extremely complex and huge formation.

  According to traditional views, this is a magic circle.

  But You Huan felt that the lines of this formation gave him a sense of familiarity, a bit like the pattern on a circuit board: wires, electronic components...

  However, this huge pattern is much more complex than the patterns on ordinary circuit boards and also has a symmetrical beauty.

  You Huan looked at the entire bottom of the lake and came to the conclusion that this part of the pattern on the bottom of the lake was only a part of the entire formation.

  I'm afraid that this formation covers a large forest area centered on the cabin in the woods!

  Is this a sacrificial array?

  The king cobra stood at the bottom of the lake with its upper body erected, as if in deep thought.

  While he was deep in thought, dark clouds covered the moon outside. Suddenly, the entire bottom of the lake shook strangely, and the lush scenery of the lake water, aquatic plants, and green algae were distorted for a moment!

  All the creatures in the lake were affected. The freshwater fish lost their direction and turned upside down in a daze.

  There was a buzzing sound in You Huan's head, and his snake body shuddered. Then he endured this strange vibration and looked at the bottom of the lake.

  This formation emitted... energy waves?

  At the same time as the formation was making movement, in the woods near the cabin, the blonde girl Julie let out screams!

  Under the influence of the aphrodisiac ingredients in the hair dye, she and the Thunder God were planning to do some kind of exercise in the wild, but were beheaded by the zombies of the Buckner family.

  The first sacrifice has been completed!

  (End of this chapter)