The first quarter moon hangs in the air.

Oak District, a motel.

Dean looks at the record in the system - saving Mick is 100% complete.

Withdraw rewards.

Individual Level Lv5 (400→460/700).

Retracting his gaze, Dean looked at Mick, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed across from him, the girl gobbling up a bucket of family buckets, her movements as fierce and swift as if she were competing against someone.

Although the bruises and dust made her look more mature, her facial features could not be concealed, she should not be more than fourteen years old, and the exploding head, ripped jeans, and denim jacket gave her a touch of rebelliousness similar to Carly.

Dean smiled and said, "Eat slowly, don't choke yourself." ”

Mick wiped the corners of his oil-stained mouth casually, his cheeks bulged out like a squirrel, and he chewed the chicken leg in his mouth desperately, "If you eat too slowly, you won't have to eat." ”

"That's right, for people like us, if you have enough to eat, you have to open your belly and eat all at once, otherwise you will have to go hungry again soon after." On the side of the bed, Carly intimately handed Mick a glass of milk, and Fang nodded approvingly,

"What have you survived on for the past three years since you escaped?" Dean said, "I helped you get rid of the guy, give me a little more trust?" ”

Carly thought for a moment and nodded, "Our identities are not visible, I was hunted down by the laboratory, Fang avenged my family and killed several sons and brothers in Chicago and was wanted by the police..."

"The strips blocked me in an alley... If it weren't for Carly's help, I would have been shot into a sieve," Fang grateful,

Carly returned a tacit smile and continued, "And Mick accidentally killed his rotten father, who was drinking and smoking grass and continuously abused himself and his mother, and was put under house arrest by the police station..."

"You rescued me and set me free." Mick held up the chicken steak towards Carly, "I'll be your chauffeur from now on." ”

Carly reached out and took a small bite of the chicken cutlet, and then handed it to the big guy, "We are the rats in the sewers, we can only work in a chaotic and dark place like Indiana for a short time, or do some small business that is cheated and abducted, but don't worry, we don't touch ordinary people, and the objects we choose are generally gangsters with no background..."

"With your illusionary abilities, it shouldn't be difficult to make money, such as robbing a few smaller gangs..."Dean asked puzzled, he had never thought of working hard to make money, and as a result, he had saved a lot of money just by eating black.

"I'm still too weak now, and I've failed several robberies." Carly's eyes suddenly looked directly into Dean's eyes, and a hint of heat flashed, "Man, you are so powerful, if you join us, the team will definitely change guns!" ”

"I'm sorry, I'm used to going it alone." Dean shook his head regretfully, "And you haven't heard of the Law of Supernatural Convergence?" It's best not to get together for too long, as this will lead to unpredictable risks. ”

"Well, you're right."

"So let's get to the point?"

……

The dim lights of the hotel illuminated Carly's glowing face.

"In 1978, after Lena and Bright escaped from the lab with me, they fled all the way to Lafayette City, where they found an abandoned house in the suburbs and settled down."

"They didn't discriminate against me at all because of my skin color and ancestry, they worked hard outside during the day, and at night they brought home a good dinner, toys, played with me, and chatted. They are genuinely good people with a sense of justice and compassion. ”

Dean nodded, glanced at the "shadow" beside him with a moving expression, and continued to ask, "Did they mention me?" ”

"They mentioned that they had an ordinary son, but they didn't specify his name, and they didn't dare to go back to see you or contact you for fear of affecting you." Carly paused, looked at the strong Dean and sighed, "If they knew you were so powerful, they would have gone back and reunited with you." ”

"My strength has only awakened in the last two years." Dean looked at the gloomy shadow and sighed.

"I can't see you, they poured their love for their children into me, and they plan to change my appearance in a few years, when I grow up, and spend money to help me get a legal identity." A happy smile broke into the corners of Carly's mouth,

"It was a much worse time than in the lab, but it was the happiest time of my life, and I finally understood that the world was not all darkness and cruelty, but also love and warmth. It was also because of their influence that I saved Below and Mick. ”

When the black girl and the big black man with the exploding head heard this, their eyes softened when they looked at Dean.

And the "shadow" beside Dean had a trace of transparent crystal in his eyes.

"It's a pity that God is not willing to bless us as aliens. Just a year after our little family was founded, on August 1, 1979, something happened and everything fell apart. "Aunt Lena suddenly had a terrible vision that morning..."

The system shook, and Dean found that the progress of the long-term event "Bloodline", which had not moved for a long time, had jumped from 18 percent to 19 percent, "Wait, why can Lena see the illusion?" ”

"I forgot to tell you that Aunt Lena and Uncle Bright have undergone some benign changes in their bodies after years of torture in the Hawkins Laboratory... Well, they awakened superpowers. ”

Progress jumped to twenty percent.

Dean listened with a strange light, and his dark body began to squirm restlessly, their parents, who had been looking for so long, actually became superpowers, "The experiments in the Hawkins lab are so effective, they can already stably create superpowers?" ”

"No, the success rate is less than one percent, in fact, uncles and aunts themselves have the potential to become outliers." Carly rubbed her fingers and said, "Uncle Bright has taken an overdose of special LSD, and has been induced to have a magical self-healing ability, and a broken finger or even a broken leg can grow back in the blink of an eye. ”

"And Aunt Lena will uncontrollably see all kinds of future clips, to be precise, a possibility of the future, most of which are closely related to herself, such as seeing what she ate for breakfast the next day, and a certain news reported on the morning news the next week, if she doesn't deliberately interfere and change, then this possibility will become a reality."

Dean's eyes were even more surprised, "So the light is self-healing, and Lena is the prophetic power?" ”

"Well, I'm more impressed with the ability to prophecy, more powerful than telekinesis and sixth sense, and it was because of this ability that we were able to escape from the laboratory in the first place, but unfortunately it didn't work." Carly continued, "And Aunt Lena was there that day... I saw the image of the three of us being disemboweled, lying in a pool of blood. ”

Progress jumped to 22 percent.

"What killed you?" Dean looked cold and clenched his fists,

She couldn't tell who the killer was, but she was sure it was some kind of powerful outlier. We were terrified, and in order to change the outcome, Lena constantly stimulated herself with pain to create premonitions, and all the clips she saw since then were images of our deaths, as if our lives and superpowers ended at that moment. ”

"We started trying to move, buying a lot of weapons and equipment, quitting our jobs and locking ourselves in the basement, praying for God's blessing... Unfortunately, no matter how hard we tried, the premonition of death kept popping up in Lena's mind, and it was inevitable. ”

"Until one chance upon time, Aunt Lena finally got an answer when she prayed to the Ancestral Spirit Quetzalcoatl, and saw the picture beyond death, the dawn of our survival!"

Pray to Quetzalcoatl? Dean suddenly remembered that Lena was of Indian descent and believed in some strange gods, "What did she see?" ”

Carly stroked her long slanted punk hair, a flash of memory flashing in her eyes, "That's what Lena described to me at the time—a young woman in the mist, wearing only three-point underwear on top of her smooth silky light brown skin, with a bumpy figure, reddish-brown hair, red lips like blood, eyes like brown gems, a golden python wrapped around her neck, and a traditional Indian feather crown on her head, writhing her body weakly and bonelessly, exuding evil, incomparable bewitchment. ”

Dean and Ying exchanged glances when they heard this, and a strong sense of familiarity came to him.

He immediately turned to the "record" function of God's perspective, and looked at a description of Jane's search in the sensory deprivation sink (Chapter 182)

"Sure enough, this guy is the woman who communicates with Lena in a supernatural striptease club!"

However, the outfit with a feather crown and a golden python wrapped around its neck is very weird, and it feels like there is a certain sense of faith and religion.

Indians, could it be that they are believers and priests of Quetzalcoatl?

……

"This mysterious woman claims to be able to offer refuge and break the fate of death caused by the law of supernatural convergence, as long as Lena travels to the southwest alone to meet her...", Carly reluctantly, "Lena believed in the prophecy, arranged everything, and said goodbye to us and set out on a journey." ”

Dean nodded, the southwest is also the direction to Texas, which is in line with Jane's description again, and Lena has found the right master!

"Lena didn't reveal the exact location of the meeting for fear that we would come and ruin the arrangement," Carly said, "but the prophecy proved to work, and she managed to help us avoid death." ”

There was a moment of silence in the bedroom.

Fang and Mick sat at the head of the bed, listening to the story with relish.

Dean groaned, digesting the information in his mind, at present, Lena's information is relatively clear, as long as he goes southwest to find the believers of Quetzalcoatl and the corresponding strip club in the future, then another goal-

"Lena went to find a bewitching woman, so where did the light go?"

Carly lowered her head a little depressed, "Less than half a month after Lena left, he disappeared inexplicably while working in the Oak District. ”

Dean's eyelids jumped, "An alien with super self-healing abilities has disappeared, are you sure he didn't leave on his own initiative?" ”

"Uncle Guangming would have informed me in advance, but no, so he must be missing." Carly said firmly, "I stayed in Faraille for the past two years and was reluctant to leave, but also to find him. ”

"We can prove that we have been helping Carly find people through various channels." Fang escaped from his arms and handed a photo of Lu Guangming to Dean.

Dean looked over, and Shadow craned her neck.

After so many years, Lu Guangming's Guozi face has a little more white temples, and the wrinkles between his foreheads are obvious, which is more vicissitudes and majesty than in his impression, but his body has also become stronger, the muscles on his arms are distinct, and his superpowers seem to strengthen his physical fitness.

"And Meek has been getting an important clue lately," Carly said, "that gang you broke in today is secretly kidnapping, mainly against people passing by Lafayette from out of town, and has been going on for years, and no one has ever been able to escape. ”

"I suspected that the disappearance of the light had something to do with them, so I planned to eat the black, catch their leader and torture them slowly, and grab some money by the way, but failed... So you didn't kill them all, did you? ”

Dean shook his head.

Unfortunately, the souls of the two leaders and eight of their subordinates were still in the board, and they didn't have time to torture them, so they would be entertained later.

"Tell me all the clues you've found about the Light..."

……

The three of them talked until midnight.

Bloodline progress has reached twenty-five percent and is no longer moving.

"Rest well." Dean's gaze swept over the tired trio, handing over a small note with a number. "Tomorrow morning, you drive to Blue Town next door to Hawkins, and my companion will pick you up to meet 11 and Tyree, his pager number. Come back to me when you're done, and I'll support you with a sum of money. ”

Carly and her companions met their eyes and nodded,

"Dean, do you think you'll still be able to find Lena and Light?"

Dean nodded, "Of course, I'll bring them back to see you, but now that this task is up to me, you don't have to worry about it, and you can chase your dreams to your heart's content in the future." ”

Dream?

Carly's eyes were confused for a moment, and then her face showed a wolf-like ferocity, "Then I want revenge and kill the researchers who tortured me and other children in the Hawkins lab in the past, is that okay?" ”

"You don't need to ask me, as long as you don't kill indiscriminately, no one will stop you."

……

Dean pushed the door and left, rushed to another room near the motel in the dim moonlight, closed the door and closed the curtains, sat cross-legged on the bed, looked at the newly obtained photos of his parents, and tried to search the dark area of his mind.

It's a pity that Jane saw the sporadic picture with the help of the sensory deprivation sink.

Dean, a newcomer, has inferior search ability, and he can't see the picture at all.

He reluctantly gave up the idea of searching for people in the dark area of his mind, and took out the divination suit.

The cold aura flew out of the board, and in front of him condensed a strong man with a beard, who was the gang leader who died in the red house before,

"What does the name, identity, have to do with the American Army?"

"Marine Corps Sergeant Retirement, Gracie Johnson." The ghost's face was stiff, his eyes were cold,

"You brothers are all retired from the Marine Corps?"

"Yes."

"Did you set up a gang in Lafayette out of your own free will, or was it a mission?"

"We've been re-indicted on a secret mission."

"Who is the sign of you."

"Captain Kelly Stoke in the Marine Corps."

"What task? Robbing, blackmailing, accumulating wealth, poisoning Purdue University students? ”

"This is just a superficial camouflage, our main task is to arrest six people every half a month, send them to the abandoned factory in the Oak District, and hand them over to the connectors."

"Why are you arresting?"

"It's not clear, we don't ask about the purpose, we just carry out the task rigorously."

"What are the requirements of these six goals?"

"Three men and three women, in good health, preferably all passing by Lafayette from other places, people with simple backgrounds and ordinary social status, the disappearance will not attract much attention."

Dean frowned when he heard this, but the dignified and beautiful army disguised itself as a gangster and mysteriously kidnapped his own people, what did he want to do?

"Who do you connect with when you catch someone?"

"Code name technician, about fifty years old, white male, height... Weight..."

Dean secretly kept this man's characteristics in mind,

"The time and place of the next transaction."

"Tomorrow night at nine o'clock, southeast of Oak District, abandoned factory 018..."

……

"In '79, was he among the victims of your kidnapping?" Dean shows the ghost a picture of Lu Guangming,

"Our kidnapping lasted three years, and there were 430 kidnappers, 38 Asian men," the ghost recounted his soul's memories in a sluggish voice, "but I don't have this man in my mind's memory." ”

Dean frowned, didn't Bright's disappearance have anything to do with them?

"In addition to the thirty-two members of your gang, are there any other kidnapping squads operating around Farayeh City?"

"I don't know."

"Okay," a cold glint flashed in Dean's eyes, and he clenched his grip and poked forward, "You can die." ”

Hmmm-

"You eliminated Gracie's ghost, +1 proficiency..."

Next, Dean summoned all the remaining nine souls out and tortured them, confirmed that the confessions were consistent, and sent them away one by one.

You destroyed... Mastery +9, Combat lv3 (230→240/400)

Dean then turns his gaze to the system, and you trigger a new event - a secret mission

A group of retired Marines are re-enlisted on a secret mission in Farraille, delivering six captives to an abandoned factory in the Oak District every half month.

You suspect that Lu Guangming, who is missing, was also captured by them.

Now find out the truth behind the secret, and find out or rule out their connection with Lu Guangming.

Event difficulty: Unknown

Progress: (5/100)

Duration: three days

Reward: At least 60 XP...

Failure Penalty: None

……

(End of chapter)