At home, Hal has always been a good child in the hearts of his parents.

Obedient, sensible, polite, and studious, these excellent qualities are concentrated in Hal.

Ever since Hal came back from a party, something had happened that gave his parents a big headache.

That is, Hal is constantly yelling in his sleep and saying crazy things that he can't understand.

His parents thought it might be a mental problem;

Hal's grandfather suffers from Alzheimer's disease, a mental illness that may be acquired through genetics.

However, the general incidence is concentrated in the elderly, and one of the symptoms of this disease is hallucinations, so Hal was sent to the hospital for diagnosis. ①

Under the doctor's observation, the doctor initially suspected that it was a neurasthenia that had onset in adolescence.

Both Howl's parents breathed a sigh of relief at this discovery.

Maybe it's just that the pressure of studying is too great, and they comfort themselves so much, so they are willing to agree to the doctor's suggestion to stay in the hospital for a week of observation.

The bell rang in the middle of the night, and Hal got up from his hospital bed with sleepy eyes.

This is Hal's third day in the hospital.

Lately, the strange scenes in Howl's dreams have begun to become less blurry, and some outlines can be seen.

It was a group of people worshipping a male-looking statue, and although they could not be seen, their madness could be seen in the kneeling posture.

"Tonight's dreams are clearer again." Hal thought to himself.

Young Hal didn't know it was an evil ritual, but was just curious about the statue.

At this time, there was a rumbling sound in Hal's stomach, accompanied by a bowel movement, and he realized that he was going to go to the toilet to squat for a while.

So I walked to the toilet alone in a daze.

As soon as he came out of the hospital room, he saw a suspicious figure scribbling on the wall in the corner of the corridor not far away.

Hal watched the man's grotesque behavior from the mirror around the corner.

The man lost his figure after smearing on the wall, leaving only the mark on the wall.

It was a bright red sigil, and the sigil writhed like a whirlpool.

Howl's spirit was corrupted by the power of the mark in an instant, and some disgusting little bugs appeared in Howl's head out of thin air, invading Howl's mind, and growing rapidly unconsciously with the help of the nutrients in Howl's body.

As he looked at the sigil, Hal felt a pain in his head, but the pain quickly vanished, along with some of the memories of seeing the person and the sigil.

He remembered that he was going to the toilet, so he went straight to the toilet.

"Bang la la"

Hal, who had solved the internal emergency, washed the filth away, and was about to leave the toilet cubicle.

Suddenly he felt a gaze in the sky staring at Howl, Hal looked up, and he saw a monster flapping a pair of huge bat wings staring at Hal from above the toilet cubicle.

There was a hint of surprise in the monster's eyes, and then the hideous head reached out to Howl's side and sniffed;

The tentacles on the monster's head emitted strange fluctuations that resonated with the image in Howl's soul, but Hal himself didn't know all this.

The monster seemed to lose interest in Hal and flapped its wings and left.

Out of fear, he curled up with his hands on his knees, and didn't dare to move.

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Hal looked at Verus with terrifying eyes, and while holding Verus's hand, he said something terrifying,

"So, can I eat you?"

Verus looked startled for a moment, and tried to withdraw his hand vigorously, but it didn't move as if it had been clamped by iron tongs.

Verus already knew that this was going to be bad, so he put the brass whistle hanging on his chest to his mouth with his right hand and blew it hard!

The sharp whistle echoed in the empty hospital, and the faces of Jobron and the others changed dramatically when they heard the sound!

Although the cautious Jobuterron had already tested the boy who called himself Hal with a cross, he did not expect that something had gone wrong.

The boy giggled, his head turning at an odd angle, the cross on his chest already glowing with a blinding glow, apparently suppressing Hal's mutation.

Verus couldn't escape at this time, and at the same time, the fallen corpses around him also gained mysterious power from the mutation of the boy Hal and slowly rose from the ground.

Hal tilted his head ninety degrees to the right, and many potholes slowly appeared on the young young Ai's face.

Verus could see countless tiny monster worms wriggling in the pit that suddenly appeared, and it was clear that Hal had taken over his body.

Earlier, in order to allow Hal to hold his sleeve, he could only use his left hand to pin the flintlock pistol issued by the Investigation Bureau to his waist, Verus gritted his teeth, pulled out the gun with his right hand, pressed the safety bolt with his thumb, and opened fire without hesitation.

An orange flame erupted from the muzzle of the gun, and a loud bang accompanied by the roar of gunfire.

The flintlock pistol was supposed to be a two-handed pistol for accurate shooting, but at this time, Verus didn't care so much, and he didn't need to aim at all in this close-range battle.

The powerful recoil force was applied to Verus's body, and the right hand with the gun bore the brunt.

The tiger's mouth in his right hand has been cracked, and the base of his thumb has also been fractured due to the impact of recoil, and what is even more helpless is that he has finished firing this shot, and now his left hand is clamped but Verus, whose right hand is injured and has no way to complete loading.

So this shot is the only hope that Verus has at the moment!

This shot was about to decide the fate of Verus, either Howl's head was mercilessly pierced by bullets, or Verus was eroded by the worms and turned into a living corpse of those evil beings.

Mithril's bullets swirled in the air and slammed into Howl's head in a straight trajectory, but the bugs leaped out of the pit and fused into a thick tentacle!

The thick tentacles were stained with disgusting slime and formed hard scales at the speed of electric flint.

The rapidly spinning Mithril bullet sparked on the scales, and as the bullet was about to be blocked by the abominable scales, the cross that had been hanging from Howl's chest shattered and burst into a blazing white light!

With the appearance of the light, the tentacles made of insects let out high-frequency screams, stinging Verus's ears;

And the bug could no longer maintain its tentacle form.

The screams of the bugs outweighed even the damage to Verus's ears from the noise of the muskets.

Mithril is a material that has been used by the Church since the Middle Ages and is a rare metal that has the ability to absorb the power of the Light.

After being carved with inscriptions by excellent craftsmen, it also needs to be infused with the power of the black-robed priest level to become a qualified demon-breaking bullet.

The light that bloomed from the cross left by Chobuterrand weakened the stability of the worm rooted in Howl's body, and the Mithril bullet pierced through the skull, which was no longer human, when the tentacles disintegrated!

The Mithril Bullet, born from the merging of technology and faith, gave Verus a glimmer of life!