Mysterious Hunting Ground

Chapter 273 263. Transformation, Mural

Faced with a choice, Katie and Ricky grabbed the fangs on the ground without hesitation.

"Don't think about it anymore?" Dean reminded with a serious face, "After becoming a snake demon, they may lose their past memories and their souls will also change."

"I just want him to live!" Ricky murmured, holding his fangs behind his back and stabbing into Seth's blackened neck. At the same time, he pressed the venom glands to transport the venom in, and then turned to look at Patrolman Gonzalez, who looked pale. , grabbed another fang and stabbed him.

Katie imitated his movements, injecting venom into Scott and Jacob.

Throughout the process, Dean and Professor Aiden observed the changes in the bodies of the four people with great interest. After all, they had rarely had the opportunity to witness the process of human beings transforming into monsters before.

There’s no reason to miss it this time.

From God's perspective.

Wisps of venom enter the heart through the blood vessels, and are instigated by the heart throughout the body.

The dense blood vessels in the four people's bodies glowed strangely, like red coral in the sun.

A strange energy began to transform their bodies. Their hearts moved toward their necks, a tough film grew under their skin, and their bone density increased abnormally.

One quarter of an hour.

Pfft!
Four hearts that had almost stopped beating violently.

Thousands of strands of bright red granulation sprouted from Jacob's missing arm, extending outward in a spiral shape and intertwining with each other, shaping bones, nerves, and blood vessels, and reconstructing a complete arm in the blink of an eye.

The bark-like wrinkles on Jacob's face also decreased rapidly, his rough and loose skin became firm and shiny, and his gray hair returned to dark brown. The whole person looked 20 years younger, returning from old age to middle age.

Seth's burnt body shed its skin like a snake, falling off pieces of black dead skin, revealing a large area of ​​regrown, tender and intact skin.

……

Under Dean's life perspective, the four people's life energy, which was as small as candlelight, increased at an alarming rate.

One time, two times... finally reached five times the strength of ordinary people, with vitality surging like a tide.

Dean's eyes shone strangely,

"The transformation from a human to a monster took just ten minutes to achieve the effect that I had worked hard for for more than half a year. The bloodline ability has made ordinary people reach the sky in one step."

When there was no longer a wound on the four people's bodies, and their whole bodies took on a new look, four pairs of dark brown vertical pupils opened in the dark secret room, with silver-white edges inlaid on the edges of the pupils, and black scales drilled out of the foreheads above them.

They sat up at the same time, their chests rising and falling violently, taking deep breaths, and looking around with a new-born joy.

"Woo, Jacob, Scott... you finally woke up, you scared me to death!" Katie hugged the two family members and pressed her wet face against them.
"Seth, you idiot, you owe me again!" Ricky punched his brother in the chest hard, but grinned happily,
"I, I seem to have had a long nightmare," Seth looked into the air with confused eyes. "In the dream, I went back to my childhood and broke into a fire to save my father. Then I was surrounded by a sea of ​​fire and had no way to escape."

"I also had a terrible dream." Scott pushed his sister's arm away, stood up, instinctively bent back, made a difficult iron bridge move, and looked at everyone through his crotch, "Countless The colorful poisonous snakes entangled me, got in through my nostrils, mouth, and ears, bit my internal organs, and tore me into pieces. Fortunately, it was just a nightmare!"

"That was not a simple dream, it was an illusion created by the phantom snake," Dean explained to the two of them, "it almost killed you."

"Then why am I getting stronger? I feel great," Gonzalez looked at his arms and suddenly clenched his fist. His muscles, which were far more developed than before, held up his denim jacket. He stood up again and twisted. He moved his neck and various joints and made a crackling sound like a firecracker. "I have never been so full of vitality and energy. What stimulants did you inject into me?"

Aiden and Dean looked at each other, the heat in their eyes flashing away.

The four performed better than they expected, retaining their human sanity.

At this time, the priest, who was silent in the illusion of despair, reached into his mouth and touched it. When he touched two conical teeth, his face turned pale.
"Dean, Katie, what's going on? Why did I become a snake demon? Tell me, how did I become a monster!"

Katie looked away guiltily.

The remaining three people who narrowly escaped death also noticed physical abnormalities and looked at Dean.

"You failed the test of the phantom snake and almost died. You survived by transforming into a snake demon. This is the price of resurrection."

cost…

The faces of the four parties involved became extremely exciting.

"Why are you all crying and sad? It's no big deal to become a snake demon!" Scott jumped up excitedly, easily touched the four-meter ceiling, then rolled his body sideways, stepped on the wall perpendicular to the ground, and escaped from gravity. Speeding forward, "Look, I've become Spider-Man. I can fly over walls and walls. If anyone dares to bully me again in school, I'll beat the shit out of him!"

"Don't you feel anything wrong?" Gonzalez looked at the humans present with a strange expression, took a deep breath, and showed a trace of intoxication and desire on his face, "I can actually hear the sound of blood flowing in the arteries. You guys exude Smells twice as delicious as the best street barbecue in San Antonio. Gulu…”

"This is the devil's desire! Basilisks are pagans who believe in phantom snakes, and they naturally have evil thoughts in their hearts." Jacob looked at Katie with bloodshot eyes, and his face showed deep pain, as if he was suffering tremendous torture. , "I believe in God, and I am the most devout believer in God. I cannot betray Him at the end of my life and switch to paganism. I must be loyal to my heart and make a choice."

Jacob suddenly grabbed a poison arrow on the ground and handed it to Katie. He begged with a trembling beard, "My baby girl, let me rest in peace again. You don't want to see me turn into a devil and attack innocent people, do you?"

As soon as the priest made this request, the expressions of the three people who were resurrected became stiff.

Although they rejected themselves as aliens in their hearts, the end was done and no one thought about committing suicide again.

"I won't do that!" The girl grabbed the poison arrow and threw it to the ground, wiping away her tears. "You are too selfish. You just want to go to heaven quickly to be with your mother and meet your God. You don't care about us at all. Feelings!”

The pastor smiled bitterly and shook his head, "No, Katie, it's not like that. I'm not even sure if Jennifer is in heaven. I never told you that she...she has tried to commit suicide many times. In the eyes of God, suicide is a Sin, a person who commits suicide cannot go to heaven, and I can’t see her.”

Katie wanted to retort, but the scene of her mother taking medicine that she saw in the vision suddenly flashed through her mind, and she froze in place.

"You regard the snake demon as a devil and want to die?" Scott angrily came over and sat next to his father, baring his two fangs and staring into his eyes, "Then I, the snake demon, should die too, I with you!"

"Scott, you are still young, you have hope for correction, you have to live."

...

"Enough!" Dean was fed up with their endless arguments and stared at Jacob and asked, "We haven't reached the end yet. Your children have not been able to escape from this temple. Are you sure you want to leave them behind?" A coward dying alone?"

Dean's words made the pastor silently raise his face and close his eyes. After a long time, he shook his head with difficulty.

"Then get up and keep walking. We are not far from the heart of the temple." Dean glanced at the system. After passing the illusion test, the progress jumped to 70.00%. "By the way, remember, although you have become a snake demon, Humanity still exists, don’t be swayed by bloodthirsty desires.”

The flashlight illuminated the tunnel ahead, and the terrain began to gradually rise again.

……

After all, Jacob could not make up his mind to commit suicide. He gritted his teeth and followed his children. Feeling the vitality in his body that he had not seen for 20 years, the expression on his face became very subtle.

And Ricky warned Seth next to him, "Don't keep staring at my neck, it's weird."

Seth said with a serious face, "How about I bite you and let the two of us become snake monsters together, so that you won't have to burp your shit if you encounter danger later."

Ricky curiously asked, "Is there really no side effects of becoming a snake demon?"

"It feels good. Even the old injury on my back from many years ago no longer hurts. Let me take a bite?"

"roll!"

……

Gonzalez and Aiden walked side by side, "Professor, you transformed me?"

Aiden shook his head, "It's Ricky."

The patrolman looked at the Goko brothers ahead with complicated eyes, "I'm fighting with them to the death, why did you save me?"

"Perhaps my conscience shows up and I want to resolve the grudge with you?" Aiden looked at his ferocious face, "Can you take back the teeth and scales?"

"Sorry, I'm not used to it yet and can't control it well."

"Understood. Let's talk about how it feels to be a stranger, and about this temple."

"Awe, I seem to have been sleeping here for many years. Every character on the wall is very kind." Gonzalez took a deep breath and said with a complex expression, "I have an intuition that we are walking in the direction of the heart of the temple. There is an incomparably noble being deep within.”

……

The rest of the journey went very smoothly. The four new-born snake monsters showed no inhuman abnormalities other than their thirst for blood.

Upon seeing this, Dean paid more attention to the poison glands and fangs collected in the space.

After half an hour, they walked out of this dim tunnel and entered another strange area, an irregularly shaped cave filled with dense tunnels and potholes. The rock walls were dotted with clusters of fluorescent green lights. Muciform lichen illuminates the surrounding jagged rocks.

Giant stalactites hang from the ceiling and face the stalactite peaks on the ground, forming an hourglass-shaped spectacle.

Dean rolled up a piece of mucus with his mind and smelled it. He looked into the distance and saw several huge murals.

"Let's go, everyone, go and have a look."

A group of people leaned over to take a closer look at the mural.

In the first mural, a group of humans dressed in primitive animal skins and feathers, with red stripes all over their bodies, dragged a living person wearing a pointed headdress and his hands tied, and threw them into a huge hole in the ground as big as a basketball court.In the second picture, the entire pit turned into a terrifying blood lake soaked in blood. Broken arms and body fragments were floating on the surface of the blood lake like small boats.

In the third picture, under the vast starry sky, several sacrificial-looking humans with blue stripes on their faces, covered in bloody skins, held up fresh sacrificial objects, and danced around the blood lake.

In the fourth picture, beams of bright starlight descended from the night sky and fell into the center of the blood lake. A terrifying snake-like creature descended from the starlight, entrenched on the surface of the blood lake, and swallowed the sacrifice.

It has the long body and tail of a snake, with brightly colored scales and patches of colorful feathers growing between the gaps. The feathers are the most lush on the left and right sides of the body, forming a pair of beautiful and dreamy wings.

Further up, its head is not a snake head, but a fully human head - the expression is cold and numb, and under the eyebrows intertwined with scales and feathers, a pair of slit-like vertical pupils shine with a ferocious and bloodthirsty red color. His eyes, nose and ears were the same as those of ordinary people, and his big cracked mouth was inlaid with two fangs, dripping with blood.

Countless primitive people were prostrate on all sides of the blood lake, kneeling down and saluting the monster.

In the fifth painting, in an ancient temple palace, a monster with a human head and a snake body has its thick and powerful python body wrapped around a beautiful woman wearing a feather crown.

In the hall in front of them were countless broken eggshells covered in green mucus, as if something had come out of the eggshells.

……

After scanning several murals, Dean felt an indescribable nausea and discomfort, but the system progress jumped to 80.00%.

As soon as he turned his head, Jacob and Scott, the four snake monsters, looked up in reverence as if they were looking up to gods, while Katie, the three normal people, had distorted expressions and frowned, as if they were trapped in some illusion.

"Wake up, everyone, do you see anything?"

Dean snapped his fingers, and the stunned people were shocked and blinked as if they were waking up from a dream.

"Ah? Sorry, I was distracted." Aiden slapped himself hard and said with lingering fear, "The humans in the murals maintain their normal form, not snake monsters with fangs. So they are recorded in the murals. Before transforming into a snake demon, the first sacrifice... they used the blood sacrifice to summon an ancient being in the starry sky. After that, this ancient being lived in the heart of the temple."

"Ancient existence, you mean the legendary god, the phantom snake?" Dean pointed at the terrifying creature with a human head and a snake body, his face became solemn, "He lives in the temple?"

Aiden nodded, "Yes, but after reading this mural, I can't be sure whether the phantom snake belongs to the gods. The gods in my impression are much more powerful than him."

Dean breathed a sigh of relief. If the enemy was not at the level of a god, he would have to fight him. "Why is it different from the image of Quetzalcoatl? Isn't it the dark side of Quetzalcoatl?"

Aiden pondered, "I can't give a definite answer. The appearance of the phantom snake has never been described in the literature. It only says that everyone sees it differently."

"Whether it is a god or not, we can be sure that the woman in the last painting is the Queen of the Night, Santanica!" Ricky looked at the fifth mural, with a hint of pain behind his glasses frame, "This ugly snake demon He imprisoned her a long time ago and forced her to do things against her will. We must free Santanica!"

The four-headed snake demons exchanged glances upon hearing this, and they all saw the entanglement and struggle in each other's eyes. "The phantom snake is the top predator in this world. As newly transformed snake demons, we have an innate affinity for it." The fear of coming is engraved in our genes and instincts."

"Then you have to give it a try." Katie bit her lip and said crisply, "To leave the temple, you have to face the phantom snake. Professor Aiden, what are the weaknesses of this thing?"

Aiden shook his head, "There is no relevant record, but the phantom snake likes blood, death, desire, pain, despair and other negative emotions in human hearts, and hates positive and positive emotions."

Hate positive emotions?
Dean remembered these words in his heart, and suddenly his heart skipped a beat. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a strange little white snake on the stalactite beside the wall. It was as thin as a finger and less than twenty centimeters long. It was all white with a strange smell. Mucus, black bean-like eyes were staring at the back of Jacob's neck, and his body was coiled in a pounce.

Dean immediately used his telekinesis to grab it and hold it in front of him.

"Where did the snake in its normal form come from in the temple?"

"Be careful, Dean!" Jacob suddenly shouted uneasily,
The white snake wrapped in telekinesis opened its clamp-like mouth and sprayed out transparent venom from the tips of its two hollow front teeth.

sizzle...

The venom hit the invisible mental barrier and immediately corroded a big hole. The irritating aerosol passed by Dean's cheek and narrowly missed his skin, making his eyes tremble.

Snapped!
Squeezing with the power of thought, the white snake turned into a ball of meat paste and fell to the ground. Then an astonishing scene appeared. The meat paste began to grow sprouts, reshaping the shape of the white snake.

And Dean's attack was like poking a hornet's nest.

There were loud hissing sounds in the air.

The ceiling, walls, floor, stalactites, and colorful snakes crawled out of the holes.

As if he had just woken up from hibernation, he was only as thick as a thumb, his body was slender, and his eyes glowed red from the long period of hunger.

They spit out snake messages with a rustling sound. Countless triangular snake heads are close together, like a layer of colorful moss covering the entire cave, squeezing towards Dean and others. Wherever they pass, it feels like they have been rolled by sulfuric acid. Smoke sizzles all over again.

puff--

A group of venomous snakes opened their mouths and sprayed out transparent venom at everyone, like shooting countless liquid arrows.

In an instant, Dean created several walls of telepathy and pushed them around. The venom in the sky hit the wall and was bounced away, corroding the surrounding rock walls and ground into pits. At the same time, his telepathy was also consumed.

Upon seeing this, Dean grabbed an MP5 submachine gun equipped with a drum magazine from the fantasy space, held the trigger and fired horizontally.

Perception suppression!

Da da da--

The muzzle flashed, and the bullet casings fell to the ground crazily with white smoke.

Under the precise action, none of the hundred bullets missed, and all hit the target. A group of snakes that rushed towards them were pierced by the bullets, their skin and flesh were torn, and some were directly broken into two pieces.

Under the influence of sensory suppression, their terrifying self-healing ability comes into play. After the wounds heal, their perceptions become chaotic, they turn around and bite their companions around them, and start killing each other.

But there were too many snakes, and Dean only affected a tiny area. An endless tide of snakes came up from behind to fill in the gap.

"It's a pity that the abyss has not completely cooled down."

……

Behind Dean.

The four people who turned into snake monsters spontaneously surrounded Katie and other humans in the center.

Jacob and Scott grinned and popped out ten awl-like nails, drawing silver light into the air in front of them. A bunch of venomous snakes were cut in half and thrown away like noodles.

But their broken bodies seem to have self-awareness. As soon as they hit the ground, they swing the tip of their whip-like tails and automatically find the other half of their bodies to fit back together.

Gonzalez used his elbow, aimed at the seven inches of a red snake, and swung out a claw in a short and powerful manner. Black blood spattered, and the sharp claw penetrated the vital part of the poisonous snake and pierced the heart.

But as soon as the stiffened venomous snake landed on the ground, its bloody wound immediately healed, and it spit out the snake's message and rushed towards Gonzalez.

"Damn it, vital points are useless, these snakes can't be killed! They are more difficult to deal with than snake monsters!"

Seth's scale-covered hands were crossed as a shield to block the spray of venom. Instantly, his forearms were smoking, and his skin and flesh scales were melting rapidly like a lit candle.

Seth growled and reluctantly took out a fist-sized chunk of melted flesh with his claws, barely stopping the corrosion.

But in the cave in front of me, there were hundreds of thousands of venomous snakes, and their ruby-like eyes were so desperate!

……

"Squat down!"

Dean yelled, and everyone subconsciously obeyed. Then their hair stood up uncontrollably, and there was a crackling sound in their ears!

The shadow that floated to the top of the cave opened its arms and legs, and endless electric light rushed to both sides with the square formation where the eight people were at the center, sweeping everything around it like a silver wave.

zizi——

Countless poisonous snakes crawling on the rock wall fell to the ground like rain, twitching, smoking, and carbonizing in the dazzling electric light...

Two seconds later, the silver current dissipated, and wisps of white smoke flew upwards in the air.

The shadow fell next to Dean again.

The terrifying tide of snakes piled high on the ground was like a dark carpet, exuding a strong aroma of barbecue, but these overripe corpses were shedding their dead skin and reborn at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Electricity cannot destroy them.

"Move forward!"

Dean led everyone to step on the snakes and rush deep into the cave. Shadow synchronization used his mind power to create clusters of snow-white ice crystals to freeze the poisonous snakes on the ground.

The snakes behind them chased after them again, forming a tsunami-like doomsday scene in the sky and on the ground, chasing them to the exit at the end of the cave.

Everyone rushed in.

Without warning, the snake tide suddenly stopped chasing and stood motionless outside the exit like a guard. Its ruby ​​eyes stared deeply behind everyone. They were obviously a group of beasts and monsters, but at this time they actually showed a kind of humanized worship and attachment.

"What happened? Why didn't they chase me?" Seth asked in shock.
"Powerful creatures have their own territories, and other creatures are prohibited from entering, so we are here," Dean and Professor Aiden spoke almost at the same time, looking up at the ancient hall ahead, "We have arrived at the heart of the temple."

(End of this chapter)