With the last cry of the woman on the altar, she knelt down, took a knife, and with a whoosh, plunged it into her own heart. Then, holding the knife in her chest with her right hand, she twisted it three hundred and sixty-five degrees before violently pulling it out.
On the tip of the pulled-out knife was a bloody lotus flower, a lotus flower carved from a heart.
The woman had a large hole in her chest, but a satisfied smile on her face, kneeling there upright, still maintaining the posture of looking up at the sky.
She sacrificed herself, along with the lotus heart, to that mass of blood-colored clouds.
At this moment, the blood-colored clouds in the sky were even darker, constantly churning and surging, like the prelude to an underwater volcanic eruption, or like the collapse of sunspots in nuclear fusion!
All the members of the Judge organization on the ground looked up, staring blankly at the blood-glowing clouds.
Finally, the rolling blood-colored clouds changed, changed, and gradually turned into the shape of a door.
The edges of the door were even thicker with blood, as if the blood-colored bubbles from the previous sacrifices were all trying to gather around this "door."
Seeing this, She Zhuyin raised her eyebrows.
Huo Yushen had already watched it once and seemed unmoved.
They quietly watched the video, seeing the door shadow formed by the blood-colored clouds trying very hard to take shape, but in the end, it disappeared with a "poof," like a bubble.
The shape of the door vanished without a trace, and the blood light was quickly evaporated like dew under the morning sun.
The huge blood-colored cloud convulsed for a while, and then gradually became transparent.
The sunlight reappeared from behind the blood-colored clouds, shining on the altar, illuminating all the blood and ugliness there.
The members of the Judge organization under the altar, seeing this scene, were extremely disappointed, beating their chests, stamping their feet, and wailing, as if the sunlight had taken away all their hope, wishing they could be at odds with the sunlight! The video ended there.
Huo Yushen turned off the video and said to She Zhuyin, "Mother, this is the Human Sacrifice Ceremony organized by the Judge organization three years ago. Like before, it failed again."
"According to the information I have, three years ago, after failing ninety-nine times, they finally summarized a rule, that is, their sacrifices have not been answered by the Lord of R'lyeh because the bloodline of the human sacrifices they offered was not noble enough."
"Therefore, they spent another three years collecting clues, and finally kidnapped twenty-four young men and women from the upper echelons of the Empire in one fell swoop."
"According to the information from the Judge organization, among the twenty-four people they kidnapped this time, three were from Baron families, and twenty-one were from upper-class citizen families."
"Among these twenty-four people, my sister was one of them. The family backgrounds of the twenty-three who died have been identified. The twenty-fourth, the family my sister came from, even my mole can't find any clues."
She Zhuyin sighed, "We already knew the origins of those twenty-three kidnapped young people. It's not a secret at all. But the only thing we want to know still has no clues. We probably have to find the Judge organization."
Huo Yushen said lightly, "This lead has also been followed up, but the Judge organization is too secretive. I only recently got this information, and the Special Security Bureau had to use its most secret mole. I woke him up once, and I can't wake him up again for the next ten years."
She Zhuyin smiled faintly, "...The Judge organization?"
As she spoke, she looked at her fair and tender palms, gently blowing on them, as if to blow away invisible dust.
Huo Yushen nodded, "Their families have already claimed the bodies of the twenty-three. The only one missing is my sister. On the bright side, it means that my sister's living environment these years has been pretty good, although I don't know where she is."
Otherwise, she wouldn't have become a target of the Judge organization this time.
She Zhuyin was silent for a while, and asked, "Then why does the Quan Family have this Face Mask? What are they going to do with it?"
Huo Yushen said, "This is the main point I want to talk about today. The Quan Family used this Face Mask as bait and actually lured out the Judge organization. They are still trying to kidnap the girl wearing this Face Mask."
She Zhuyin raised her eyebrows, "...They still haven't given up? They still want to kidnap your sister? I'm even more curious now, which family raised your sister? Why do they value your sister so much?"
She had missed her for nineteen years, waking up countless times in nightmares, worried that the child had met with an accident.
Now that she finally had news, although she still didn't know where she was, she could at least believe that she had been doing well these years.
For She Zhuyin, this was at least better than her painful imaginings.
Huo Yushen said coldly, "I don't care who raised my sister, but I really want to know why the Judge organization must capture her for sacrifice? They failed last time, why not change their target?"
"Also, why does the Quan Family know that using this Face Mask can lure out the Judge organization? And why they want to lure out this Judge organization are all questions."
She Zhuyin said, "Are you going to ask the Quan Family directly?"
Huo Yushen pondered, "If I ask, with Quan Yuxun's shrewdness, it might create unnecessary associations. I don't want anyone to notice that we are looking for my sister for the time being."
She Zhuyin continued to ask, "Does that Xia Chujian know?"
Huo Yushen didn't care and said, "She doesn't know, and even if she did, it wouldn't matter. She has more secrets, and she is my subordinate now, and a sensible person. She won't, and doesn't dare to leak this matter."
She Zhuyin nodded slowly, "It's good that you know what you're doing. So, what's next?"
Huo Yushen looked at She Zhuyin and said, "Mother, I know that the Judge organization has an underground dark spot in the Imperial City of Beichen Star, a Black Market Bar. If Mother is interested, you can find a chance to take a look. After all, the only clue now is with the Judge organization."
She Zhuyin immediately said, "No problem, I'll find an opportunity to take a look right away."
Huo Yushen sent the address of the Black Market Bar to She Zhuyin, along with the internal organizational structure of the Judge organization, then ended the call and went offline.
He returned to his office, intending to reorganize the information about the Judge organization, when a dedicated channel on his Quantum Optical Brain suddenly popped up with a call reminder.
Huo Yushen immediately connected to the dedicated video call.
On the video appeared Emperor Tantai Hongyuan of the Beichen Empire.
He said to Huo Yushen with a serious expression, "Yushen, return to Beichen Star immediately. Princess Tantai Jing was just assassinated, and the Empress took a bullet for her. Both are in emergency care now. ...As for the defense of Beichen Star, besides you, I don't trust anyone now!"
"Yes, Your Majesty. I will return immediately."
Princess Tantai Jing is currently the first in line to the throne according to the law.
Her assassination is even more serious than the Empress's assassination.
It is also reasonable for the Empress to take a bullet for her.
Tantai Jing is her only child, and for both emotional and rational reasons, she would definitely not allow her to be harmed.
But who is so powerful that they can break through the Royal Family's defenses and injure both Tantai Jing and the Empress at the same time? While Huo Yushen pondered, he quickly dealt with his work, entrusting all affairs on Guiyuan Star to Kang Shanxing and Meng Guanghui. He then took other subordinates on a Bat-style Fighter Jet capable of space jumps, which would take only an hour to return to Beichen Star.
As a result, as soon as he walked out of his office, he saw Zong Ruoan walking towards him.
He was not wearing the Special Security Bureau uniform, but his own casual clothes, tailored to fit perfectly, and the fabric looked very high-end, but the color and style were surprisingly low-key.
He walked up to Huo Yushen and said with a smile, "Inspector Huo, I'm here to resign."
Huo Yushen raised an eyebrow: "I have to rush back to Beichen Star. Do you want to come with me? You have one hour to explain to me why you want to resign."
The Special Security Bureau is a place that is difficult to enter and not easy to leave.
As Huo Yushen said last time, the Special Security Bureau basically only accepts people and doesn't let them out, but some people are exceptions.
Zong Ruoan doesn't need to worry about these difficulties for ordinary people, because he is one of those exceptions.
He nodded: "Then I will go to Beichen Star with Inspector Huo."
While they were performing a space jump in the Bat-style Fighter Jet, Zong Ruoan explained his reasons for resigning to Huo Yushen.
"Inspector Huo, I have learned a lot during my three years in the Special Security Bureau, thanks to your care."
"But I still feel that this place is not suitable for me. It's not a problem with the Special Security Bureau, but with myself. My personality and way of dealing with people are not suitable for working in such a cold place where everyone is like a machine."
"I want to do something meaningful, I want to help those ordinary people at the bottom."
After Zong Ruoan finished speaking, he looked at Huo Yushen frankly: "If Inspector Huo disagrees, or wants to punish me, I will accept the punishment, but after the punishment, I will still leave."
Huo Yushen sat with his legs crossed in a single seat, his aura very cold.
He asked faintly, "Then what kind of work do you want to do after you leave the Special Security Bureau?"
Zong Ruoan didn't want to hide it, and when he started the election, the Special Security Bureau card would have to be played well.
He said with a smile: "I want to run for Senate Councilor. This year happens to be the election year that comes every seven years."
If Zong Ruoan went to any other department, Huo Yushen would not agree and would stop him, even if he detained him and prevented him from returning to the Zong Family.
Because Zong Ruoan has been in the Information Department of the Special Security Bureau for three years and has mastered a large amount of highly confidential information.
According to general regulations, even if he wants to leave the Special Security Bureau, he must be detained in a place for three years, and he can only be released after the declassification.
But if he is going to run for Senate Councilor, then it is not impossible to make an exception.
Huo Yushen said: "You know our rules, if you want to leave, you need three years of declassification time. What do you plan to do?"
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