latent syndrome.

Chapter 86 85. The End of Eden
Liberty City, Bay Villas, No. 101.

It was a slim and graceful figure from the back. After opening the package with a paper knife, she took out a beautifully crafted silver watch.

She fondled the characters on the back of the dial, then turned it over to look at the front, only to find that the pointer was broken.

Perhaps it was the bumps during transportation and the lack of any protective measures that caused damage to the movement.

Now, even it has already stopped.

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Colin had already forgotten how many meters he had climbed up, and he couldn't see the ground under his feet at all. The lingering black mist surrounded everything, like being in a terrifying altar of evil sacrifices.

Human bodies of various outlines and shapes are like ridge larvae in the bark, rolling and wriggling in dense layers, either curled up and twitching, or the limbs are twisted and convulsed, and there are net-like spikes in the bark. Under the penetration, there is an ineffective and hopeless escape struggle.

In order to find a point of leverage, Colin accidentally dug his fingers into a raised cyst on the bark, from which a strange juice between gray and red overflowed.

This weird tree has established a symbiotic state with the human body embedded in it, and has become a weird thing between creatures and plants. Just like every infected person, it is an existence beyond consciousness and matter.

All the way up, Colin couldn't count how many people were sucked into this big tree, thousands or even tens of thousands, just the side that he climbed up by himself.

Among them are the original residents of Baishi Town, as well as tourists and passers-by who have passed by here for a long time.

Whatever happy or unhappy lives they've had, they're now reduced to fetid, sloppy, protoplasmic succulent trees that no one has ever seen.

When Colin came to rescue Jessica, he heard Clay's evil whispers to her.

Longing for happiness is also an original sin.

Under this logic, no one is moral and everyone is guilty.

The most beautiful music is silence.

And the greatest illusion is innocence.

Colin didn't think so at all, it was just the crazy gibberish of a madman.

After finding a way to destroy this strange tree later, erasing its core, or killing some kind of monster residing in the tree's heart, these people may be able to peel it off.

Ke Lin accidentally stepped on the air and was about to fall into the cold abyss. He hurriedly gouged his hands into bone spurs and inserted them into the bark to stabilize his body. He continued to climb towards the top of the tree at a faster and faster speed, and soon reached the top peak.

The branches of this strange tree become more and more complicated as it goes up, no fewer than a few thousand, and like the main trunk, they are densely arranged and inlaid with shrinking objects like human-shaped cysts. Against the background of the skin, the facial features of the human body covered with a layer of thin film are more clearly visible. They all closed their eyes and fell into a special state of slumber, but the facial expressions revealed endless pain and despair. It was in the shape of vomiting, and it seemed to use this method to vomit out the pain that was constantly swelling and expanding in the body.

And these human-shaped objects are densely packed, and with the extension of the complex branches, they continue to bloom to the periphery in a three-dimensional manner.

Even Colin frowned tightly. He had never seen a more uncomfortable and creepy scene than this.

Along these branches, the texture underfoot becomes softer and more viscous, as if what is stepped on is not hard bark, but some kind of connective or skin tissue.

Ke Lin quickly came to the center of the tree from a branch. In the center of the giant tree, it was actually hollow, and there was a huge pothole of unknown depth.

The scene in front of him was so wonderful that it completely overturned Colin's cognition. The black mist of the entire forest overflowed from it, and in the deep pool with a diameter of no less than 20 meters filled with majestic black mist, there was a rolling scene. This illusory picture formed by the fusion and overflow of smoke is the karma and fate of countless people intertwined and mixed together, forming a horrific torment picture scroll, showing all kinds of unimaginable and mysterious scenes, or bloody and morbid. Or the scene of a holy kingdom of heaven like Eden, and countless elusive and confusing fantasy events.

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Colin unexpectedly found his own reflection, the black mist and misty space made up his face, rolling in it, glaring at him.

For some reason, Ke Lin was a little possessed all of a sudden, and couldn't help walking towards the pothole.

Suddenly.

A familiar deaf-mute scream came from his ears, waking Colin out of a trance. The strange roar lacking vocal organs, followed the source of the sound, and it was the disabled man.

It is impossible to know what kind of painful way he got here. The useless cane has been abandoned, as if he climbed this tree with the determination of no return. The bones of one of his hands had been ground into spikes.

Colin couldn't imagine how a disabled person would climb this giant tree. It must be extremely difficult. From his tattered body like a martyr, it can be seen that the kind of powerful thoughts that are almost insane and cannot be consumed at all, even made He can ignore the interference of something indescribable.

And Colin has already learned his true identity, perhaps because of the man's sick will, he did not kill the sheriff of the small town, but carried out some kind of grotesque transformation, making him lame and unable to lift objects , and being unable to speak out, let him be in this kind of eternal pain.

At this moment, he was already on the verge of death, bleeding from his mouth and nose, and time was running out. He was holding something under him, and tried his best to move it out.

After seeing the object, Colin understood everything and could only do so. Just as Lister said, this terrifying confusion did not come from an individual, but from a collection of crazy consciousness. He also understood , Why when I first met him, he wanted to beat the man who melted into the tree with a wooden stick.

Colin picked up the flamethrower and held it in his hand, but he was too late to pull the trigger.

He can never start all over again, ever.

Every move you make, whatever you do, will become an established fact.

The disabled man let out a strange and ear-piercing cry, urging Colin.

at last.

Colin realized very deeply that this is indeed an abyss of madness beyond redemption, and everyone who draws water from this well of despair cannot know the depth of the well.

But he couldn't help hesitating, there was no time, and there was no way out.

With the crazy roar of the disabled man tearing his vocal cords.

Even Colin's forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat. He opened the pull bolt, and the raging flame snake began to sweep everything around. These dead bark beards were instantly ignited, and the raging fire burned those dirty Unclean and sinuous vine tendrils proliferated everywhere, and the soaring red light burst out countless sparks, burning endless crackling, cracking, cracking firewood, and the fire spread crazily to the surroundings.

Once it started, it couldn't stop anymore. Colin walked to the dense location of the treetops and sprayed out violent flames.

The disabled man convulsed all over his body, and uttered an extremely violent deaf-mute cry. The sound was too loud and violent, shaking his own lungs hoarsely, and he didn't know whether it was crying, laughing wildly, or a battle cry of relief.

At the same time, the flames burned away the films covering the human body, and they couldn't escape with the wooden thorns inserted into them. After being burned and wrapped, they were bloody and withered and inhuman, wriggling on the ground like crawling animals. When the whole body was ablated, it let out a miserable scream like a wailing ghost, and struggled to climb to the edge of the branch, but could not break the strange tree tendrils that wrapped around the whole body.

Ke Lin continued to burn the abyss of black mist, and sprayed flames on the path of those branches until the fuel was completely exhausted.

The sea of ​​fire completely submerged everything, and the whole tree, including the surrounding jungle, was swept away.

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Liszt fled with Eugene, whose power was exhausted, and Colin did it. As the tree burned, Clay also started to ignite spontaneously, his face distorted and painful.

Marsh culture, Carkosha, god of shepherds.

all of these.

It's all over.

Idealists are hopeless.

When he was thrown out of the ideal paradise.

He will also create an ideal hell.

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Colin froze completely, frozen in place, even though the fire had charred him.

Countless crawling and grabbing bodies screamed in despair as they burned, the inexhaustible fire made the crisp sound of burning bark, and the hiss of the countless cortical fat evaporating, and the sound of growing up. Thousands of stacked and staggered shouts that echoed from all directions seemed to come from the torture chamber.

Echoes, shouts, roars, and screams poured into Colin's mind layer by layer, and the karmic fire that was constantly consuming the sea of ​​people came into his eyes.

Colin didn't know.

Whether they will go to heaven or hell after going through such suffering.

Suddenly.

He had an epiphany.

There is no place in the world that can be called hell except here.

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(Volume II Crime and Punishment End)

(End of this chapter)