Dean walked forward, his vision getting brighter and brighter, as if a spotlight was shining a beam of light overhead, and suddenly, the sky and the earth changed color.

Without warning, he entered the top floor of a luxurious villa through an old, narrow tunnel, facing the bathroom at the end of the hallway.

In the bathroom, a round-faced, hook-nosed, twenty-something man, dressed in a black raincoat and humming a little tune, swung his wrists rhythmically like a conductor and poured a colorless, transparent liquid into a large plastic bucket.

And in the barrel sat a woman, with long hair and a shawl, big eyes, thick eyebrows, and skin so pale that there was no blood.

The colorless liquid fell on her, and white smoke rose from it, and the woman's skin and muscles corroded, peeled off, and rolled out bright red flesh and white bones.

Her gentle face was riddled with holes and shaped like a demon.

Dean's memories flashback to a year and a half ago.

And the shadow automatically flew out of his body, staring at this scene, the brilliant aurora in his eyes froze, shooting out anger and cold murder!

The man in the raincoat suddenly turned his face towards the two of them and smiled smugly, "Dean, do you like it?" If you look closely, as soon as my art show begins, I'll make her into a beautiful skeleton specimen and give it to you to decorate your bedroom. ”

"Help... Help..."A faint cry for help sounded, and the woman in the bucket stretched out her bony arms to the two, and her dark eyes were filled with tears and grievances when only one was left, "I've been waiting for you, and I haven't waited until the end, why don't you come and save me?" Why? ”

"Sorry I'm late." Shadow grabbed the woman's boneless arm and gently held her bloody face, her body instantly corroded into puffs of white smoke, "But we have killed Bob Law for you, destroyed his soul, and then reunited in the Soul Prison..."

"We've sent the real Mona through the door of the cycle to start the next part of her life." Dean and Shadow stared at the face in front of him and shook her head calmly, "Stop insulting people with false illusions. ”

The shadow threw out a bolt of lightning, and a silver-white ball of electricity lit up in the villa, at first the size of a fist, but in the blink of an eye, it swelled to the size of a bucket, and it exploded through the bathroom, and the surrounding walls were illuminated in detail!

And Bob Lowe, Mona, and the villa all turned into powder in the overwhelming electricity, and the tunnel became dark again.

"A little illusion wants to shake my will?" Dean continued to rush forward at full speed.

Soon, the scenery changed again, and he entered a small town surrounded by greenery, and the lawn was littered with corpses outside the small red brick and green tiled cottages on both sides of the road.

Pale and shriveled, as if sucked dry.

One of the dried corpses crawled slowly on the ground, leaving a bloody trail on the lawn behind him, and his arm was raised in the air, "You let go of the vampire Monica, she and the child attacked the town and killed all the townspeople, you accomplice!" ”

He roared viciously, two bloody tooth marks reflecting red light on his neck.

Bang!

Dean threw a punch like lightning, and the platinum flames swept away, and the man in front of him, the dried corpse behind him, and the small villas turned into flying ashes and dissipated piece by piece.

"Monica is a good vampire, you must have offended her first."

Dean withdrew his fist and exhaled, if all that was left at the bottom of the temple were these illusions of pretending to be ghosts.

Then it was completely impossible to shake his will.

……

The other side.

Katie fell into a deep daze.

A second ago, she was supported by her father and brother, but the moment she passed through the door, she came to the outside of a strange cave.

Inside the cave was a warmly decorated bedroom in bright yellow tones, and in the center sat a listless middle-aged woman on a bed covered with a blue blanket, with a clear resemblance to Katie in her eyes.

Katie held her breath for a moment, flushed with excitement on her pale cheeks, from excessive blood loss, and stammered, "Jennifer? No, it's not true, mom is dead. ”

The woman seemed to be completely oblivious to her, and muttered to herself in a tone of utter despair, "I told the congregation that I had been a good wife and mother under God's teaching, and that even my children believed me, but the opposite was true, that I was a hopeless bitch, and that I didn't like God at all!" ”

"Katie, my good daughter." The woman looked up at the girl by the cave, her eyes reddened, and said, "Without me, you and they will live better and happier." ”

After speaking, the woman picked up a small bottle of pills from the side of the bed, opened the cap and poured it directly into her mouth.

"No, don't kill yourself!" The panic ignited Katie's heart like a flame, and she rushed into the bedroom uncontrollably and grabbed the woman's arm, and then the woman suddenly rolled over and pressed her, pinched her chin with unreasonable force, and shoved the hand medicine bottle into her mouth, pouring it all in.

Katie's stomach turned over like a spasm, her intestines seemed to be twisted into a ball, her face was distorted and she fell to the ground, white foam came out of Yin Tao's small mouth, and the light in front of her flickered a few times and went out.

……

Jacob Fuller sits in the back of a Ford driving down an empty, dim country road, the moonlight shining through the lonely telephone poles and bushes around him.

Amid the crunching of cicadas, he saw the familiar back of the yellow denim jacket in the driver's seat in front of him, "Jennifer, I will reduce the number of times I go to church, accompany you well, your depression will definitely be fine." ”

The woman in the passenger seat said in a weak tone, "I have betrayed you countless times, why do you forgive me and be so good to me?" ”

Jacob saw her face in the rearview mirror, and immediately covered his mouth,

And the driver lowered his head, and there was a trace of tiredness on his vicissitudes of life, "It's all my fault, if it weren't for me being busy enlightening other parishioners and ignoring your feelings, you wouldn't have made a mistake." I'm going to find you a psychiatrist and we'll get through it together. ”

The woman closed her eyes and shook her head, as if she didn't have the strength to look at the man, "It didn't work, I looked for it." ”

The man gritted his teeth, turned his head to look at the woman and said, "I know you're tired of this parish. How about we leave? I quit my job as a pastor and moved to a new place for a change of environment, which will help you with your condition. ”

"Are you serious? Where to move to? ”

"How about going to Mexico?" The man struggled to paint a bright future, "Our family climbed the Ahusco Mountains along the path to watch the sunrise and had a snowball fight in the winter? Remember, the first time we met was in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and you had a snowball fight with your friends, accidentally smashed my swollen eye, and then put me on a night. ”

The numbness on the woman's face disappeared, and a warm smile appeared in the corner of her eye.

The man held the steering wheel with his left hand, grabbed her hand with his right hand and kissed hers, "That's our time, right?" Moving to Mexico, we get to revisit every day. So let's do it, take Katie and Scott, sell the house, pack our bags, and start over! ”

The woman's smile grew brighter and brighter, and she couldn't help but nod.

The man said, "When we get there, God will guide us in the direction of our new life." ”

God again?

The smile on the woman's face darkened, and she let out a long sigh,

"Jacob, there's one thing I haven't told you."

"What?"

"The most annoying thing in my life is God!"

"Jennifer! Don't be disrespectful to God, please! A flash of annoyance and trepidation flashed in the man's eyes,

"Didn't you realize it when I heard me? For many years, you have been with it and the parishioners every day longer than with me and the children, as if you have a deeper relationship with it than we do, and I always thought that God had taken you away from us. ”

The man blushed and retorted, "No, God wants to teach us to be better." ”

The woman showed a poignant smile, "I can only keep rebelling against God and keep doing shameless things to get your attention." I want you to understand that God does not bless you, that He cannot allow you to have a happy and harmonious family, only your own care and love can. ”

"Shut up!"

"I'm not done, Scott isn't your child."

The man tightened his grip on the steering wheel, "We adopted him, and I've always treated him as my own." ”

"But I've been hiding it from you," the woman said, something that still breaks Jacob's heart, "Katie isn't your daughter either, she's not related to you in the slightest. ”

The man was silent, the night wind blowing in from the car window was cold and biting, blowing the corners of his eyes and nose red, his lips trembling, and he couldn't help leaning back against his headrest, snorting,

"Katie... Katie and I have had a father-daughter relationship for many years, and we believe in God, and this bond is closer than the blood bond. ”

"God, God again! To hell with God! The woman unbuckled her seatbelt, pushed open the door of the speeding car, and drilled out.

"Jennifer, don't!" Jacob in the back and the driver reached out together to block it.

Zizizi——

The tires screeched against the ground and the Ford spun out of control on the road, then crashed into a stone pier on the side of the road and rolled down the hill.

Jacob felt the world spin for a while, and the seat under him ran above his head, a blood-spurting arm flying through the carriage.

He lost consciousness in severe pain.

……

A room with a burst of fire.

The air smelled of pungent lighter oil.

Ricky dragged a little boy out of the way, and the carpet, coffee table, sofa, and TV in the center of the hall in front of them were all ignited, and the flames licked all the life and dead things around him like a devil, and a middle-aged man covered in fire rolled and wailed on the carpet, his eyes and beard spewed flames, "Ricky, Seth, help me, ah-"

"Don't pull me, Ricky, we're going to save Daddy first! Go find a fire extinguisher! ”

"It's just right that this alcoholic and violent man is dead, let's leave immediately!" Ricky looked at the tortured man coldly, and the corners of his mouth opened with a hint of pleasure,

"Anyway, he's a father, he must be saved!"

"Without him, our two brothers will live better together!" Ricky pulled the boy outside.

Hula——The world changed in front of me, and the scorching air cooled down.

Ricky suddenly returned to the dark tunnel, as if the scene of the fire house he had experienced there before was just a nightmare.

"I knew it was all fake, you can't fool me, damn phantom snake! Wait, Seth, Seth, where are you?! ”

He looked around, shrugged his nose, and suddenly his face changed drastically, and in the far corner, a figure lay motionless on the ground, his signature suit was charred black by the flames, emitting green smoke and a strong smell of barbecue.

No!

He rushed over in a frenzy!

……

Lightning, flames, blade slashes.

Dean mercilessly crushed enemies, relatives and friends, ghosts, nocturnal species, vampires... All kinds of supernatural monsters.

Although he realized that all this was an illusion, his will still seemed to be smelted by a furnace, eliminating the distractions that affected him, and became more and more pure.

He strode to the end of the tunnel with an axe.

In the faint light, a woman crouched on the ground, dressed in a gray coat stained with mud and blood, her back was slender and slender, she was sobbing and whining, her thick black hair slanted over her shoulders, curling and undulating with her movements, reflecting the luster like snake scales.

Dean's axe suddenly hung motionless in the air, and the electricity in the shadow's hand disappeared into the air.

The woman's back gave both of them a sense of familiarity and intimacy that went deep into their souls.

She seemed to feel the gaze of the two of them, and turned her head to reveal a charming face, the years had left a trace of wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and on the bridge of her nose, adding to the charm of a mature woman.

And her eyes, black eyes soaked with tears because of the reunion after a long absence, every muscle on her face was trembling.

"Dean... My baby... You've grown up..."

"Lena, I've found you, I've finally found you..."Shadow murmured and opened her arms to her, and the woman hugged him tightly, then quietly opened her mouth, revealing two conical fangs dripping thick with blood, and bit down on her shoulders!

Flutter!

A hand-axed axe slashed into the woman's face, slashing through the skin and bones, digging deep into the brain, and the splatters of flesh stained the attacking Dean's hands red.

But in the next second, the woman and all traces of her dissipated into the air like foam, as if nothing had ever existed.

Bang!

A swirling black door filled with red light appeared in front of them.

Dean looked at the stunned shadow and patted him on the shoulder,

"It's just an illusion, the real Lena is waiting for us in the back, let's go."

"Well, man, what if Lena becomes—" Shadow's face showed human trepidation,

"Then she's your mother too."

Dean stepped through the door.

In the subtlety of piercing through the water film, he entered another dark and dead passage, and a hint flashed in front of his eyes - you have passed the advanced test of the Phantom Snake, and your will is +0.5:22.6→23.1.

For the first time, the will surpassed the spirit, and the brain seemed to be wrapped in a layer of broken ice, and Dean only felt that he was more sober and calm than he had ever been, and everything in front of him had turned into a solemn and serious cold tone.

The heart seemed to sink into the sea without the slightest throbbing.

He strode along the road,

"Jacob, Katie... Seth, is it there? ”

Not far away, Dean's vision saw a splattered blood, a headless corpse with a towering chest lying at the foot of the wall on the left, the laceration in the neck as smooth and flat as a knife cut, and the head fell to the right, looking at the face of a well-built blonde lady.

"I have protected you for so long, but you have fallen into your own weak will."

Dean summoned the poisoned arrow next to the corpse and continued walking.

He found four corpses one after another, some seemed to have been crushed into meatloaf by dozens of tons of weight, some were broken in half along the waist, some fell from a height of hundreds of meters and fell into four pieces, and the last one was soaked, with water marks on his mouth and nose, blue and purple skin, and bulging eyes... Drowned alive.

"The five gym players all died, and the deaths were strange, not like they were killed by the snake demon, and it didn't look like they died in the temple. It seems that illusions are more than illusions," Dean looked at him, "once you are emotionally involved and subconsciously take illusions as real, then you will be hurt." ”

The teammate who had been protecting him for a long time suddenly died, Di An's head was a little disappointed, and he continued to move forward after recalling all the poisoned arrows, his pupils condensed.

Katie curled up on her back and fainted on the cold ground, her eyes closed, her whole body stiff and tight, the white foam from the corners of her mouth slid down her chin to the side of her face, and her breath was so weak that it was about to disappear.

Dean dodged and flew over to rescue, God's perspective saw the inside of the body, and the water cooperated with the mind to wash the stomach.

Soon, a large mess of filthy filth appeared on the ground... Katie woke up from her coma retching, touched the gooey thing around her mouth, and frowned in disgust, "Where is this, what's wrong with me?" What stinks? ”

Dean helped Katie up, "What you think stinks is the vomit in your stomach." ”

Katie looked horrified, "Vomit? yes, I, I seem to have a dream, I dreamed of my mother, she was very sad and swallowed a big bottle of pills. ”

She never knew that the mother who had always greeted her with a smile and cared for her gently had suicidal tendencies.

"You said it was a dream, don't take it seriously. Let's go, your family is still waiting for you ahead. ”

……

Dean led Katie down the tunnel, and soon saw Aiden checking on Patrolman Gonzalez lying on the ground.

"Professor, are you alright?"

"I'm lucky I wasn't hurt." Aiden breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the two of them, "I'm still quite clear-headed, and I've broken free from the illusion." The patrolman was not very lucky, he was shot in the chest, and I don't know if he hurt his internal organs. ”

Dean examined it with God's perspective, his fingers wiped the wound on his chest with life energy, and a warhead flew out, and the oozing wound quickly stopped bleeding and began to heal, "The bullet shattered his spleen and pancreas, and it was not long before he lived." ”

"Can't you save him like you saved me?" Katie asked with a sad face,

"No, he's hurt too badly." Dean shook his head, after all, it was his own life energy, not the injured, at most he treated them for minor and moderate injuries inside and outside the body, and there was no way to heal the serious injuries of multiple broken internal organs.

Dean asked, "What about the rest?" ”

Aiden shook his head gloomily, "It's all over there, almost all of them are wiped out." ”

At the end of the tunnel, Dean meets the Goko brothers, the priest and the father.

Only Ricky saw through the illusion unharmed, while Scott's skull was hit hard and bleeding and fell into a coma, Jacob's right hand disappeared directly from his shoulder, several broken ribs pierced the lungs, trachea and other vital organs, and the worst was Seth, whose once handsome face was burned with blood blisters and charred flesh, and only one breath remained.

"Dean, Professor Aiden, please find a way to save my brother." Ricky grabbed the hands of the two and begged, "As long as you save him, I will agree to any conditions!" I'll help you convert that box of bonds into money, I don't want a penny for 10 million, I just want Seth's life! ”

"Not enough? When I go out, our two brothers will continue to rob the rich, and all the money we have robbed will be given to you, 20 million, 100 million is not enough! ”

"My life will not work for you!"

Katie lay beside her loved ones, gently caressing their bloody faces, calling their names, tears streaming down her face, "Jacob, Scott, wake up, you can't just leave me so ruthlessly, don't leave me alone!" Dean, please, save them. ”

"I'm not a god, and I can't take their lives back from death." Dean shook his head, "At most, I'll leave this temple with their souls, so that they can go to Heaven or Hellland to reunite with their loved ones in the future." ”

Aiden, who was next to him, glanced at Dean and stopped talking.

"Fako! Fako! Bastard, wake me up, I've saved you a dozen times, you owe a dozen lives, and you're gone! Unable to accept the reality, Ricky broke down and yelled at Seth's black face, smashing one fist into the ground wildly, smashing into a blur of flesh and blood, revealing the white bones on his knuckles,

And Katie wiped the tears from her face, turned her gaze to the opposite wall, a trace of trance flashed in her eyes, and then a decision.

And when Dean saw the heartbroken performance of the two, he couldn't help but think of Ei and Lena, and his heart moved slightly.

"Okay, I'll give you extra options," Dean took out four fangs from Canaan connected to the venom glands from the space, threw them beside Katie and Ricky, and looked them in the eyes with a burning eye, and said the words like the devil's bewitchment, "Let your loved ones rest in human bodies, or transform them into flesh-eating and blood-drinking basilismen with your own hands, and survive by healing themselves." ”

"The choice is yours."

(End of chapter)