Mysterious Hunting Ground

Chapter 272 262. Illusion, Death and Choice
Dean walked forward, his vision getting brighter and brighter, as if a spotlight was shining down from above his head, and suddenly, the color of the world changed.

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

Standing in the bathroom was a man in his twenties with a round face and a hooked nose, wearing a black raincoat, humming a tune, swinging his wrist rhythmically like a conductor, and pouring a colorless and transparent liquid into a huge plastic bucket.

Sitting inside the barrel was a woman with long hair, big eyes, thick eyebrows, and pale skin.

The colorless liquid fell on her body, white smoke sizzling out, and the woman's skin and muscles corroded, peeled off, and rolled out inch by inch, revealing bright red flesh and oozing white bones.

Her gentle face became riddled with holes and looked like a ghost.

Dean's memory flashed back to a year and a half ago.

And the shadow automatically flew out of his body, watching this scene, the gorgeous aurora in his eyes solidified, shooting out anger and cold murderous intent!
The man in the raincoat suddenly turned towards the two of them and smiled proudly, "Dean, do you like it? Watch carefully. My art performance has just begun. I will make her into a beautiful skeleton specimen and give it to you to decorate. bedroom."

"Help...help..." A faint cry for help rang out, and the woman in the barrel stretched out her skeletal arms towards the two of them. Only one of her dark eyes was corroded with tears and sadness, "I have been waiting for you, I didn’t wait until the end, why didn’t you come to save me? Why?”

"I'm sorry I'm late." Ying grabbed the woman's arm, which was only a bone, and held her bloody face tenderly. Her body was instantly corroded and puffs of white smoke came out, "But we have already killed you for you. Bob Lowe, destroying his soul, then reuniting in Limbo..."

"We have sent the real Mona into the cycle gate to start the next phase of her life." Dean and Ying stared at the face in front of them and shook their heads calmly, "Stop insulting people with false illusions."

Ying threw out a bolt of lightning, and a silver-white electric ball lit up in the villa. It was the size of a fist at first, then expanded to the size of a bucket in the blink of an eye. It roared and ran over the bathroom, illuminating every detail of the surrounding walls!

Bob Lowe, Mona, and the villa were all turned into powder in the overwhelming current, and the tunnel became pitch black again.

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

Soon, the scenery in front of him changed again, and he entered a small town surrounded by greenery. Outside the small villas with red bricks and green tiles on both sides of the road, corpses were lying on the lawn.

Pale and shriveled, as if his body fluids had been sucked dry.

One of the mummies crawled over slowly on the ground, leaving a bloody trail behind him on the lawn. His skinny arms were raised in the air, "It was you who let the vampire Monica go. She and her children attacked the town and killed everyone." Kill the townspeople, you accomplice!"

He roared viciously, and the two bloody fang marks reflected red light on his neck.

boom!
Dean punched out like lightning, and the platinum flames washed away the man in front of him, the mummy behind him, and the small villas turned into ashes and disappeared.

"Monica is a good vampire. You must have offended her first by being so miserable."

Dean retracted his fist and exhaled. If only these illusions were left at the bottom of the temple.

So completely unable to shake his will.

……

the other side.

Katie was in a deep daze.

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

Inside the cave is a warmly decorated bedroom in bright yellow tones. Sitting on the bed with a blue blanket in the center is a listless middle-aged woman, whose eyes are obviously somewhat similar to Katie's.

Katie held her breath for a moment, her pale cheeks flushed with excitement due to excessive blood loss, and stammered, "Jennifer? No, this is not true, mom is dead."

The woman seemed not to notice her at all, and murmured to herself in a despairing tone, "I told the congregation that I became a good wife and mother under the teachings of God, and even my children believed it to be true, but the fact is just the opposite. I She’s a hopeless bitch and I don’t like God at all!”

"Katie, my good daughter." The woman looked up at the girl beside the cave and said with red eyes, "Without me, you and them will live a better and happier life."

After saying that, the woman picked up a small bottle of pills from the bedside, opened the cap and poured it directly into her mouth.
"No, don't commit suicide!" The panic ignited Katie's heart like a flame. She couldn't control herself and rushed into the bedroom and grabbed the woman's arm. Then the woman suddenly turned over and suppressed her, using an extraordinary force. He grabbed her chin, put the medicine bottle in his hand into her mouth, and poured it all in.

Katie's stomach was convulsing, her intestines seemed to be twisted into a ball, and she knelt on the ground with a distorted face. Foam came out of Yin Tao's mouth, and the light in front of her eyes flickered a few times and then went out.

……

Jacob Fuller sat in the back seat of a Ford driving on an empty, dark country road. The night moonlight illuminated the lonely telephone poles and bushes around him.

Amidst the crunching cicadas, he saw the familiar back of the yellow denim jacket on the driver's seat in front of him, "Jennifer, I will reduce the number of times I go to church and spend time with you. Your depression will definitely be cured."

The woman in the passenger seat said weakly, "I have betrayed you countless times, why do you still forgive me and treat me so well?"

Jacob looked through the rearview mirror and saw her face that he spent time with every day, and immediately covered his mouth.
The driver lowered his head, with a trace of fatigue on his face. "It's all my fault. If I hadn't been busy instructing other church members and ignoring your feelings, you wouldn't have made a mistake. Next, I plan to find a psychological solution for you." Look, doctor, let's get through this together."

The woman closed her eyes and shook her head. She seemed to have no strength to look at the man. "It didn't work. I looked for him."

The man gritted his teeth, turned to look at the woman and said, "I know you are tired of this parish. How about we leave? I quit my job as a priest and move to a new place. A change of environment will help your condition."

"Are you serious? Where to move?"

"How about going to Mexico?" The man tried to describe a bright future. "Our family climbed up the path to Mount Ajusco to watch the sunrise and have snowball fights in the winter? Do you still remember that we first met in Huahua, Mexico? Lacey City, you were having a snowball fight with your friends and accidentally swollen my eye, then you applied it on me all night."

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

The man held the steering wheel with his left hand, grabbed her hand with his right and kissed it, "That was our time, right? We can relive it every day when we move to Mexico. This is what we will do next, take Katie and Si Kurt, sell the house, pack your bags, and start over!”

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

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

God again?

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

"Jacob, there is something I haven't told you."

"what?"

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

"Jennifer! Don't disrespect God, please!" A trace of anger and fear flashed in the man's eyes.

"Listen to me, have you never realized? For many years, you have spent more time with it and the church members every day than with me and my children. It is as if you have a deeper relationship with it than we do. I have always thought that God has never We took you from our side.”

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

The woman showed a sad smile, "I can only keep betraying God and doing shameless things to attract your attention. I want you to understand that God cannot bless you, and he cannot give you a happy life." A harmonious family can only be achieved by your own care and love.”

"Shut up!"

"I'm not done yet, Scott is not your child."

The man held the steering wheel tightly, "We adopted him, and I have always treated him as my own."

"But I've been hiding it from you..." The woman said something that still makes Jacob's heart break. "Katie is not your daughter. She has no blood relationship with you."

The man was silent. The night wind blowing in from the car window was biting and cold, making the corners of his eyes and nose red and his lips trembling. He couldn't help but lean back against the headrest and murmur.
"Katie...Katie and I have had a father-daughter relationship for many years and believe in God. This connection is closer than blood ties."

"God, it's God again! To hell with God!" The woman unbuckled her seat belt, pushed open the door of the speeding car, and got out.

"Jennifer, no!" Jacob in the back seat and the driver reached out to stop him.

sizzle-

The tires scraped violently across the ground, making a screeching sound. The Ford spun out of control on the road, then hit a stone pier on the side of the road and rolled over down the hillside.

Jacob felt the world spin for a while, the seat under him moved to the top of his head, and a bloody arm flew in the car.

He lost consciousness in severe pain.

……

A room full of fire.

The pungent smell of lighter fluid filled the air.

Ricky dragged a little boy and fled. The carpet, coffee table, sofa, and TV set in the center of the hall in front of them were all ignited. The flames were licking all the living and dead things around them like a devil. A middle-aged man was covered in fire. The young man rolled on the carpet and wailed, his eyes and beard bursting with flames, "Ricky, Seth, help me, ah——"

"Don't pull me, Ricky, we have to save dad first! Go find the fire extinguisher!" "This alcoholic and domestically violent man is dead. Let's leave right away!" Ricky looked at the tortured man coldly, with a smile on his face. With a smile of pleasure,
"After all, he is the father, so we must save him!"

"Without him, we two brothers will be better off depending on each other!" Ricky forced the boy to retreat outside.

Hula - the world changes before my eyes, and the scorching air cools down.

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

"I knew it was all fake. Damn Illusion Snake, you can't fool me! Wait, Seth, Seth, where are you?!"

He looked around, shrugged his nose, and suddenly his face changed drastically. In the far corner, a figure was lying motionless on the ground. The signature suit was burnt black by the flames, and there was green smoke and a strong smell of barbecue.

Do not!
He rushed over like crazy!

……

Lightning, fire, slashing with sharp blades.

Dean mercilessly crushed enemies, relatives and friends, ghosts, nocturnal species, vampires...all kinds of supernatural monsters that stood in his way.

Although he had long realized that all this was an illusion, his will still seemed to have been smelted by a furnace, eliminating distracting thoughts that affected him and disturbing him, and became more and more pure.

He strode to the end of the tunnel carrying a handaxe.

In the dim light, a woman squatted on the ground, wearing a gray coat stained with mud and blood. Her back was slender and graceful. She was whimpering like a sob. Her thick black hair was leaning on her shoulders, curling and rising with her movements. , reflecting luster like snake scales.

The hand ax held high by Dean suddenly hung motionless in the air, and the sizzling electric current in Shadow's hand also disappeared into the air.

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

She seemed to feel the gazes of the two people, and turned her head, revealing a charming face. Time had left a trace of wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and on both sides of the bridge of her nose, adding to the charm of a mature woman.

And her eyes, black eyes were filled with tears because of the reunion after a long separation, and every muscle on her face was trembling.

"Dean...my child...you have grown up..."

"Lena, I found you, I finally found you..." Shadow murmured and opened his arms to her. The woman hugged him back tightly, then quietly opened her mouth, revealing two conical horns dripping with thick blood. Teeth, aim at the shoulder and bite down!

Puchi!

An ax struck into the front of the woman's face, cutting open the skin and bones with its sharp edge, and penetrated deep into the brain. The splattered flesh and blood dyed the attacking Dean's hands red.

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

Boom!

A black door filled with red light and rotating like a whirlpool appeared in front of the two people.

Dean looked at the disappointed figure and patted his shoulder.

"It was just an illusion. The real Lena is waiting for us behind. Let's go."

"Well, man, what if Lena turns into the same as in the illusion..." There was a humanized fear on Ying's face.
"Then she's your mother too."

Dean stepped through the door.

With the subtle feeling of penetrating the water film, he entered another dark and silent passage. A reminder flashed in front of his eyes - you passed the advanced test of the phantom snake, Will +0.5: 22.6 → 23.1.

For the first time, his will surpassed his spirit, and his brain seemed to be covered with a layer of crushed ice. Dean felt that he was sober and calm as never before, and everything in front of him turned into a solemn and serious cold tone.

My heart seemed to be sinking into the sea, without any throbbing.

He strode forward along the corridor,
"Jacob, Katie...Seth, are you there?"

Not far away, Dean saw splatters of blood in his sight. A headless corpse with a high chest lay at the foot of the wall on the left. The crack in the neck was as smooth and flat as a knife cut. The head fell to the right, and the face looked straight. She is a fit blonde lady.

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

Dean summoned the poison arrows beside the corpse and continued walking forward.

He discovered four corpses one after another. Some seemed to have been crushed into meat patties by dozens of tons of weight, some were broken in half along the waist, and some fell to pieces from a height of hundreds of meters. The last one The whole body was soaked, there were water marks on the mouth and nose, the skin was blue-purple, the eyes were bulging... and he was drowned alive.

"All five gym goers died. Their deaths were all strange and strange. They didn't look like they were killed by a snake demon or died in a temple. It seems that the illusion is more than just an illusion." Dean's eyes darkened, "Once Get emotionally involved and subconsciously accept illusions as reality, and you will get hurt.”

The teammates he had been protecting for a long time suddenly died. Dean was a little disappointed. He recalled all the poisonous arrows and continued forward, his pupils condensed.

Katie curled up her limbs and fainted on her back on the cold ground. She closed her eyes tightly and her whole body was stiff and tense. The foam coming out of the corner of her mouth slid down her chin to the side of her face. Her breath was so weak that it was about to disappear.

Dean dodged and flew over to rescue him. He saw the inside of the body from God's perspective, and used water and mind power to wash his stomach.

Soon, a large pile of filthy stuff appeared on the ground... Katie woke up from her coma with a retching sound, touched a circle of sticky stuff around her mouth, and frowned in disgust, "Where is this place? What's wrong with me? What smells so bad?”

Dean helped Katie up, "The stuff you think smells bad is the vomit in your stomach."

Katie looked horrified, "Vomiting? Yes, I, I seemed to have a dream. I dreamed about my mother. She was very sad and swallowed a large bottle of pills."

She never knew that her mother, who had always been smiling and caring to her, was suicidal.

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

……

Dean took Katie along the tunnel and soon saw Aiden checking Patrolman Gonzalez lying on the ground.

"Professor, are you okay?"

"I'm lucky that I wasn't injured." Aiden let out a long sigh of relief when he saw the two of them. "My mind is still clear, and I saw through the illusion and broke free. The patrolman was not very lucky. He was shot in the chest. I don't know if he had any injuries." It hurts the internal organs.”

Dean checked it from a God's perspective. His fingers touched the wound on his chest with life energy. A bullet flew out. The oozing wound quickly stopped bleeding and began to heal. "The bullet shattered his spleen and pancreas, and the belly The inside is rotten and you won’t have long to live.”

"Can't you save him like you saved me?" Katie asked sadly.
"No, he was too seriously injured." Dean shook his head. After all, it was his own life energy, not the injured person's. He could at most treat their mild and moderate injuries inside and outside the body, but he could not heal multiple serious injuries with broken internal organs. .

Dean asked again, "Where are the rest of them?"

Aiden shook his head sadly, "They're all over there, almost completely wiped out."

Dean met the Goko brothers, the priest and his son at the end of the tunnel.

Only Ricky saw through the illusion and was unscathed, while Scott suffered a severe blow to his head, bleeding, damage, and fell into a coma. Jacob's right hand disappeared directly from his shoulder, and several broken ribs pierced the lungs, trachea and other important organs. The organs, the worst of which was Seth, whose once handsome face was burned and covered with blood blisters and charred flesh, leaving only one breath left.

"Dean, Professor Aiden, please think of a way to save my brother." Ricky grabbed their hands and begged, "As long as he is saved, I will agree to any conditions! I will help you exchange that box of bonds for Money, I don’t want a cent of 1000 million, I just want Seth’s life!”

"Not enough? When I go out, we two brothers will continue to rob rich people. All the money we robbed will be given to you. 2000 million, [-] million is enough!"

"Can I give you my life?"

Katie lay next to her relatives, touching their bloody faces gently, calling their names, tears dripping, "Jacob, Scott, wake up, you can't leave me so cruelly, don't leave me Alone! Dean, please, save them."

"I'm not a god, I can't snatch their lives back from the God of Death." Dean shook his head, "The most I can do is take their souls out of this temple and let them enter heaven or Limbo to reunite with their relatives. "

Aiden next to him glanced at Dean and hesitated to speak.

"Faco! Faco! Bastard, wake up. I saved you a dozen times, and you owed a dozen lives, so you just left!" Unable to accept the reality, Ricky collapsed and shouted at Seth's black face. Yelling, he smashed his fist wildly against the ground, causing bloody pieces and exposing the white bones on his knuckles.

Katie wiped the tears on her face and turned her eyes to the opposite wall. A trace of trance flashed in her eyes, and then determination.

When Dean saw the two people's heartbroken performance, he couldn't help but think of Ying and Lena, and his heart moved slightly.

"Okay, I'll give you an extra option," Dean took out four fangs from Canaan connected to poison glands from the space, threw them to Katie and Ricky, and looked directly into their eyes. , the words he spoke were like the devil's temptation, "Let your loved ones keep their human bodies in peace, or transform them into snake monsters that eat flesh and drink blood with your own hands, and survive through self-healing."

"You choose."

(End of this chapter)