There were victims on every continent, scattered seemingly at random. But when their locations were connected into a network, they formed an eerie symbol.
The symbol was still unclear, not even fully formed, but the S-Class members with exceptionally high Spiritual Perception sensed something wrong the moment they saw the image.
The S-Class members who had fought at sea suffered a traumatic stress response upon seeing it. Their heads ached slightly as they once again recalled the massive spear descending from the sky.
Ke Meng finished examining the mech's attributes. Its material was essentially indestructible.
After leaving the isolation room, Ke Meng received the latest news from the Investigation Bureau. Every victim's death was highly likely to have been planned by Shadow Stream, and a great secret lay behind them.
Ke Meng glanced at the world map on which the Network Divine Beast had connected the locations. The lines linked multiple points together, and his first impression was a strange sense of unfamiliar familiarity.
What was this feeling?
As the Network Divine Beast's successful searches increased, more and more victims were identified. The data on their current residences was updated again, now covering five hundred people.
By then, there were more connections across the globe, and Ke Meng finally recognized it. That strange sense of familiarity came from a Sacrifice Ritual.
This was not a ritual offering sacrifices to Cthulhu, but to someone whose identity was unknown.
Ke Meng privately suspected it might be the mastermind behind Shadow Stream. But the sacrificial diagram was still incomplete, and he had yet to sense that mastermind's presence in it.
"A Meng, what do you think?" someone asked.
"It made me think of a Sacrifice Ritual. The Shadow Stream Organization is probably trying to summon something through sacrifices," Ke Meng speculated.
"Sacrifices!" His