The whole hall shook from the foundation.

Dean quickly put on a sportswear for his naked body, and mentally pulled out the most valuable scales, feathers, fangs, and venom glands in the corpse of the phantom snake, and put them into space.

Then he picked up Lena, who was unconscious in the corner, and rushed to the people wandering by the blood fountain.

Katie was staring heartbroken at Jacob, who was soaked in blood but unresponsive, tears hanging down her cheeks like broken pearls,

And Scott shouted frantically, "There must be a way to save him, guys, say something!" Please! ”

"Unfortunately, there is no cure," Dean looked down at Jacob's completely extinguished light of life, and picked up, "He's gone." ”

"But his death is worth it," Gonzalez's fierce rough face showed a rare look of tenderness, "and he protected the two of you who care most about it." And in the end, to find his own God, it can be said that he died without regrets. ”

For the first time, the Seth brothers nodded heavily in recognition of the patrolman, "I think he's been reunited with his wife in heaven." ”

Jacob found God.

When Katie heard this, she took a deep breath, wiped away her tears, and the greenness on her weak face faded to firmness, and she turned to hold her crying brother in her arms.

At this moment, a huge stone fell like a ceiling, smashing a large crater into the ground, and the wall next to it cracked into lightning-like cracks.

A passage appeared in the innermost stone wall of the hall, revealing a spiraling staircase.

"There's no time, come with me!"

Dean pulled out his telekinesis shield to block the falling rocks like rain, and led the group up the steps, soon entering a flat narrow path with a wall at the end.

"Fako! It's a dead end. Seth grumbled,

Dean took Lena from Shadow's arms, who raised her hand to stir up telekinesis, "I'll blast it away." ”

"You don't need to be hard... This inscription is the prologue of an ancient book, and I can unravel it. Aiden approached the stone gate and looked at the messy few pieces of tortoiseshell-like runes, "Quoting the creation myth from the Bobo Wu Sutra, perish... Back... See the dawn again. When the Phantasmal Serpent dies, it can be activated. ”

Aiden muttered to himself as he pressed a piece of "tortoise shell" with both hands and pressed it together in the middle.

Bang!

The stone gate trembled for a moment, and then automatically lifted upward, revealing a bright passageway.

Everyone rushed in, and they were shocked to find that they had returned to the "like waves" bar on the ground, standing on the stage in front of them.

The hall in front of the stage was filled with a pungent smell of blood, and dozens of corpses were added.

Unfortunately, the dozen or so people who had been left on the ground were bitten open in the neck, tearing out their arteries and trachea and dying.

Next to them lay another group of hideous-looking snake demon corpses, all of whom were killed by a blow to the back of the neck.

Even Carlos, the stage host with whom Dean had a previous relationship and the Goko brothers' 10 million bond deal, lay in the pile of corpses and swallowed his breath dumbfounded.

A silhouette stood among the corpses on the ground, red hair in a shawl, slender fingers dripping blood on the sides, and a frilly black bandeau dress dragged to the ground, revealing a perfect body and wheat-colored skin.

"Santanica, Queen of the Night... You've been waiting for us in the hall? Ricky's expression began to spiral out of control again, revealing a slight look of obsession behind his glasses,

Scott, Gonzalez, and Seth reached out their claws and bared their teeth at her, tensing their bodies vigilantly.

Dean looked over her shoulder, and the door to the bar entrance had opened, revealing the wide plaza outside, and the faint darkness of the sky before dawn broke.

"Warriors, don't be nervous, I have no ill intentions. I'm just here to welcome you back to the surface. The Queen of the Night, with her blood-red lips curled slightly, spitted at the crowd, "You killed the ancient monster that had tormented the Mexican people for hundreds of years, and saved them from the tyranny of the Phantom Serpent. ”

"I am grateful for saving me from this demon and its minions." Santanica moved her long legs, twisted her waist and approached the stage gracefully, pointing to the corpse of the basilisk on the ground, "As a sign of respect, I have cleaned up the remaining trash fish for you, and I promise that there are no more evil basilises affiliated with the Blood Sacrifice Gang in the temple now." ”

She deliberately accentuated her tone in evil, her eyes delicately swept over Seth's three-headed newborn basilis,

"You killed these vampire snake demons?" Dean let go of Lena in her arms, looked the Queen of the Night up and down, after losing the blessing of the Phantom Snake, she also lost the mysterious aura that made Dean jealous, judging from the white light around her, she only had a life strength of about level 4, far inferior to the Phantom Snake, and couldn't stop Dean a few times, "You are not in the same group as them?" ”

Santanica shook her head firmly, "On the contrary, I am mortal enemies with them, and I hate them to the core. ”

"Hundreds of years ago, the Phantom Serpent took a fancy to me and had his Blood Sacrifice kidnap me and transform me into a monster."

"From then until now, I have been compelled to maintain rituals for them, and every once in a while to perform blood sacrifices to the Phantasmal Serpent to fill its appetite... I have witnessed countless innocent people die in agony in the temple, and my heart has been tormented by it,"

Santanica's slender five fingers clutched her chest, and she said bitterly and resentfully, "While the Phantom Serpent is still around, I can't change the situation. Now that it's dead, I don't have to put up with this wicked and cruel soul anymore, so I sent them to hell! ”

Everyone looked at each other, and they didn't know whether the woman's words were true or false.

Especially the three snake demons, Seth and Scott, in the past, they firmly believed that the snake demon was an evil species, but now that they have become a snake demon themselves, their position has to be flexible.

"I believe in you." Ricky nodded, then looked at the unpredictable Dean, "Forgot the mural we found underground?" It clearly depicts Santanica as just an innocent girl being coerced. ”

"A girl of several hundred years?" Seth looked at his obsessed brother with a strange face.

Dean just looked at the corpse in the hall, "Who killed the humans who stayed here before?" ”

Santanica shook her red hair apologetically, "Carlos led his basilimen to kill them. Unfortunately, the Phantasmagoral Snake was still there, and I couldn't help it. ”

So it seems that those who remain and go into the earth are dead,

"If you're telling the truth, then without the shackles of the Phantom Snake, why don't you run away immediately, but wait here, don't you worry - I'll kill you directly?"

"Whether you are willing or forced, over the centuries, countless people have come to the temple to admire your beauty and dancing, and have become sacrifices because of you."

The cold questioning caused the temperature in the hall to plummet several degrees.

And Santanica lowered her head, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and her black jewel-like eyes were misty, looking pitiful, and people couldn't help but feel sympathy,

"In a way I am guilty, and I am willing to accept punishment. But I'm sure you're not indiscriminately yelling at the aliens to kill them, and I'm sure you can understand my struggles. ”

She looked well-behaved, her posture was very low, and there was no trace of the queen's arrogance in her words.

"Of course, the most important thing is that I am not free now, because I still cannot leave this temple even half a step without a crucial step."

"What steps?" Professor Aiden in the crowd rubbed his chin and asked curiously,

She looked around at the crowd with anticipation in her eyes, "After you killed the Phantom Snake, did you find a dark brown snake with a short arm?" ”

"That's what you're talking about?" Dean took out the loot from the space, and the snake head and snake body, which were originally divided into two parts, were unconsciously glued together, and when Dean held it in his hand, he instinctively wrapped his arm around it, hissing and spitting out letters, and his small and delicate head swayed from side to side, looking actually a little cute.

Dean had also determined that it had no offensive intent, no spirit or soul, and only a living shell that could be put into the fantasy space.

"Yes, that's it!" The Queen of the Night couldn't help but take another step closer to Dean, her fingers clasped in front of her lower abdomen, and pursed her lips, "If you give it to me, I can get the freedom I've been longing for for hundreds of years." ”

"What the hell is this?" Dean stared into her fiery eyes, "If you lie to me, it's destroying the model of getting along with each other on an equal footing, and I can only treat you as an 'enemy'." ”

Santanica's face showed obvious hesitation and fear, and she circled the stage and nodded, "This is the 'heart' of the snakes... The serpent of power, whoever wields it can command all the snake demons. ”

Seth's several snake demons showed surprise on their faces,

Even Katie and Scott temporarily recovered from the grief of losing their father, and their faces were shocked.

Control all the basilismites?

Dean recalled his previous experience in the battle, and after the Phantasmal Serpent lost it, it was no longer able to deter Seth and the others, so Santanica should not be lying.

He gently touched the cold snake head on his arm, "How to use it exactly?" ”

"Swallow it in your stomach. If it was originally a snake demon that would be strengthened, if it was a human, then it would be fused with the powerful snake and transformed into a snake demon. Become more like yourself, not afraid of ice and fire, day and night, through twilight and dawn. ”

Santanica's watery gaze swept over everyone's eyes, blooming with a strange light, "Healthy, strong, long..."

Professor Aiden was moved.

Dean furrowed his brow, he wasn't interested in being a basilisan.

"The situation of the Snake of Power aside, I still have some questions for you."

Dean moved Jacob's body to the front of the stage, "Can you save him?" ”

"No, his life has collapsed, and his soul has also..."

"Soul?" Di'an moved his head, "I've never felt that the snake demon has a soul, including the phantom snake. ”

"Our souls are different from humans and most living things." Santanica gazed at him tenderly through her eyelashes, "It blends with the blood." When we suck blood, we also suck the soul. When we die, the blood begins to cool and the soul slowly precipitates back to its true destination. ”

Blood and soul merge.

Dean suddenly realized, no wonder he didn't collect a single bit of soul essence when he killed the snake demon in the first place.

But he can't suck the blood of the snake demon to extract the soul essence.

Seth Triple Snake Demon was lost in thought.

Aiden patted the two sad siblings on the shoulder, "Since Jacob's soul is still in his blood, let's find an opportunity to bring his body back to his hometown and bury it with your mother." ”

The siblings nodded sullenly.

"Have you thought about it, everyone, this temple won't last long." Santanica spun lightly, a light bulb falling from the ceiling as it shook and smashed around her snow-white bare feet, cracking the walls around her.

Dean couldn't trust the Queen of the Night in front of him, and shook his head, "I can't give you the Serpent of Power. ”

The woman pursed her bright lips when she heard this, climbed onto the stage, stared at Dean who was close at hand with black eyes, and pleaded, "Can you give me the least freedom to bite me with the snake of power, so that I can leave the temple too." ”

She deliberately glanced at the unconscious woman in Dean's arms, "Lena and I are sisters and have a good relationship, but we are all imprisoned in the temple, including the three newly converted companions around you, and there is no way to get out of the way." ”

Hear her say so.

Everyone was skeptical.

Aiden gave Seth the Basilisk a look, and he rushed unfaithfully towards the open bar door, only to "bang" so loudly that he seemed to hit a transparent wall of air and couldn't get out.

Seeing this, the queen continued to emphasize, "Only this powerful serpent can give us freedom. ”

Dean met the queen's hot gaze and pondered for two seconds, he couldn't just release the snake demon queen, otherwise God knows if the other party would set off a bloody storm in the human world.

"You have to promise me one condition first, and stay with us for the rest of the year." Dean swept Seth, Scott, and Gonzalez at the same time, "As an outlier, there are certain rules that must be followed to enter human society to survive. ”

"I'm not a cruel monster. I promise you, I swear to the great Quetzalcoatl. The queen nodded decisively,

"How do I release you?"

"Bite me with the snake of power and lift the bondage spell," Santanica resisted the urge to snatch, flicking the thick red hair on her chest behind her head, and bowing her head to the left, revealing her beautiful and delicate neck, as if she was coquettish to her lover.

Dean lifted the Snake of Power wrapped around his wrist, and as soon as the snake kissed Santanica's neck, it automatically pounced.

A small tooth mark blooms on the smooth skin, and then spreads out a complex black pattern in all directions.

Santanica hissed, grinning and revealing two fangs, her body trembling in place spasmodically as if in great pain, as a large translucent incantation appeared on her neck, and the incantation was eroded by black patterns, like patches of light through the cracks in the forest shattered and disappeared one by one.

Outside the hall, a sudden gust of wind poured in, and it blew strongly.

Tablecloths and chandeliers shook violently.

And a distant chant sounded in the wind, as if countless invisible ancient shamans were chanting in people's ears.

The night will pass.

The dawn is coming.

Liberate us.

Let us return to the earth,

The dawn is coming...

Liberate us...

Back to Earth...

An invisible force lifted Santanica into the air, grabbing her limbs and causing her to arch her body backwards in an effort that was almost folded.

Then wisps of pitch-black breath flew out of her body, through her thick red hair that hung like seaweed in the air, exuding a strange mellow fragrance.

Return to the Serpent of Power in Dean's hands.

The black vanished, and she fell lightly to the ground, her tense body relaxed, and her sweaty face nodded gratefully at everyone, her red lips pursed and smiled, as if she had unloaded the heavy burden of hundreds of years.

"Thank you..."

She opened her hands and spun lightly in place, her long skirt fluttering like petals,

"I'm free..."

"Finally able to get out of this damn prison!"

"Can I... Out and about? Santanica looked out the door with delight, her face having both the innocence of a girl and the charm of a mature woman.

"Come with us later, find a place to discuss the future arrangements." Dean said unquestioningly, looking at his companion again, "Seth, Scott, Gonzalez, you guys come too, one by one." ”

……

Dean then freed all his companions, including Lena, from their restraints and retracted the Serpent of Might.

Walked out of this temple full of blood and death.

Thundered!

In just a few minutes, this modern and antique bar, along with the outer circle of squares, and the motorcycles and trucks parked in the square all sank into the ground with a thunderous noise, completely submerged and covered with mud and sand.

In the end, all that remained was a bare slope and a few broken rocks.

Phantom snakes, blood sacrifice gangs, cruel blood rituals... They all sank into the ground and were sealed.

Dean wondered if a few hundred years from now, some archaeological team would rediscover it by chance.

……

Leaving the temple, the group boarded Jacob's tour bus, which was driven by Professor Aiden to Ciudad Juarez.

There was so much going on tonight that everyone was exhausted, so we had to find a hotel to rest for the night and discuss the future direction and plans the next day.

For example, as a snake demon, how to survive in normal human society?

For example, how to find a new direction in life for the Queen of the Night, who has lived in the temple for hundreds of years.

……

Shadow supervised the Night Queen to heal Lena, while Dean sat in a chair in the middle of the station wagon, quickly nibbling on an energy bar to satisfy his hunger, staring out the window, just in time for the dawn to quietly tear open the veil of night and smear the sky with a layer of fish belly white.

Then the mind sank into the system and began to sort out the unimaginable harvest -

The first is the change in specialization:

Killing the Phantasmagoral Snake, combined with the accumulation of countless supernatural kills in the past, has finally advanced the specialty of the Supernatural Hunter to the intermediate level.

The effect of the boost is simple and brutal.

In the initial stage, you can only draw one attribute at random from the various attributes that are higher than your own, and no more than two points.

The intermediate stage became a random absorption of two attributes, which was also no more than two points, but doubled Dean's growth rate.

Moreover, after each kill, the absorbed vitality and spiritual power are doubled, which in disguise enhances Dean's endurance in group battles.

As long as you keep killing, you can keep fighting.

……

In addition, after breaking through 20 points, the specialty Iron Man is still intermediate, but the accompanying trait "Abnormal Self-Healing" has undergone a drastic change, which can almost be said to be advanced:

From now on, the upper limit of cell division will be increased, the life potential will be increased, and the life span will be increased slightly.

The crystallized energy storage organs in your chest are further expanded, storing more and more advanced energy, achieving the same self-healing effect as in the past with less consumption.

Your self-healing ability is further improved, and you can quickly heal yourself when you enter the stage of rebirth of a severed limb, and your heart, brain and other vital parts are also able to heal quickly.

You have your head decapitated, and as long as you allow the skull to fit the wound within a short period of time (10 seconds), you will survive and quickly return to normal.

……

Dean's eyes showed a look of satisfaction, this time he ventured into the belly of the snake to wreak havoc, and it was his strong self-healing ability that made him persist until the end.

Now, his self-healing ability has been further upgraded, and he no longer worries about being severely injured, even if he is beheaded, he has a chance to survive.

This perverted self-healing power has begun to develop towards the immortal body, greatly strengthening Dean's survivability, forgiveness, and expanding the combat mode!

Of course, if it weren't for the previous killing of Mushroom Head Anton, which caused the Imitation, Abyss, and Underworld summoning skills to all be on cooldown, especially the Underworld summoning, then Dean would at least be able to interrupt the Phantom Snake's covering attack with the Skeleton Chain and turn it into a target for a few seconds, and the battle process would be easier.

……

Finish sorting out the "appetizer dessert".

Dean finally set his sights on the "main course" - the event "Kill the Dawn", and found that the difficulty unconsciously changed from at least medium to high:

You entered the Waves Bar, survived the Blood Ritual Ritual, and slaughtered all the Basilisen in the Hall.

You follow the metal juicer to discover the ruins of the temple, kill dozens of Canaanites in the tunnels, and discover more historical information about the cult of the Phantasmal Serpent.

You pass the advanced test of the Phantasmagoral Serpent, and unscathed, you advance further into the heartland.

In the cave paintings, you have discovered the true identity of the Phantom Serpent, an extraterrestrial life summoned from the starry sky by the Blood Sacrifice Gang, bloodthirsty and familiar with the mysteries of the starry sky.

You enter the Heartland, fight the Phantom Serpent, and with the help of your companions, slay it, snatch the Basilis's Heart, and save the ultimate goal of your journey, Lena.

You use the Serpent of Power to free Santanica, the Queen of the Night, and use your power to convince her to follow you.

Thanks to your efforts, the Temple of the Phantom Serpent and the core members of the Blood Sacrifice Gang that have ravaged Mexico for hundreds of years have sunk into the ground, reduced to history, and the progress of the event has greatly improved!

The event completion rate is 200 percent.

You can withdraw your rewards at any time.

Extract!

(End of chapter)